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51. Gardens of the Night (2008)
R | 110 min | Drama
After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Director: Damian Harris | Stars: Gillian Jacobs, John Malkovich, Ryan Simpkins, Tom Arnold
Votes: 4,715
52. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973–1975)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Two boys try to maintain normal lives while secretly having adventures with families of sea monsters and genies.
Stars: Johnny Whitaker, Scott C. Kolden, Billy Barty, The Krofft Puppets
Votes: 965
53. Flight Command (1940)
Passed | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly
Votes: 894
54. Flirting with Disaster (1996)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore
Votes: 20,028 | Gross: $14.89M
55. Terriers (2010)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business.
Stars: Donal Logue, Michael Raymond-James, Laura Allen, Kimberly Quinn
Votes: 11,278
56. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Directors: George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Votes: 9,457
57. A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Betty torments her husband with childish vandalism and verbal threats after he leaves her for another woman, but nobody anticipates what ends up happening as the games escalate.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Stephen Collins, Michelle Johnson, Kelli Williams
Votes: 1,485
58. Scavenger Hunt (1979)
PG | 116 min | Comedy
To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Ruth Gordon
Votes: 2,968
59. The Candidate (1972)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, Don Porter
Votes: 11,946 | Gross: $0.12M
60. The Cat's Meow (2001)
PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard
Votes: 8,989 | Gross: $3.21M
61. Val (I) (2021)
R | 109 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary centering on the daily life of actor Val Kilmer, featuring never-before-seen footage spanning 40 years.
Directors: Ting Poo, Leo Scott | Stars: Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Mercedes Kilmer, Joanne Whalley
Votes: 14,422
62. John from Cincinnati (2007)
TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In Imperial Beach, California, the dysfunctional Yost family intersects with two new arrivals to the community: a dim-but-wealthy surfing enthusiast, and a man spurned by the Yosts years ago.
Stars: Rebecca De Mornay, Greyson Fletcher, Willie Garson, Bruce Greenwood
Votes: 5,037
63. Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
Director: John De Bello | Stars: Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen M. Waldron, Steve Lundquist
Votes: 7,682
64. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Udo Kier
Votes: 10,727
65. The Breaking Point (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 4,447
66. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A mob bagman finds that his luggage, containing the proof of his gang's latest hit, has been switched.
Director: Tom Schulman | Stars: Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson, George Hamilton
Votes: 11,134 | Gross: $3.56M
67. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Approved | 135 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Votes: 8,630
68. Spasms (1983)
R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation. A British millionaire and an American scientist must pursue the beast when it escapes and starts to kill innocent people.
Director: William Fruet | Stars: Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,311
69. El Norte (1983)
R | 141 min | Adventure, Drama
After their family is killed in a government massacre, siblings Enrique and Rosa flee Guatemala and embark on a perilous journey to "El Norte": the United States.
Director: Gregory Nava | Stars: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, David Villalpando, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Alicia del Lago
Votes: 5,613
70. Bobby Z (2007)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord.
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Paul Walker, Laurence Fishburne, Olivia Wilde, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 15,272
71. To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, War
Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly
Votes: 991 | Gross: $2.30M
72. Hamlet 2 (2008)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Music
In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Steve Coogan, Elisabeth Shue, Catherine Keener, J.J. Soria
Votes: 17,370 | Gross: $4.88M
73. The Red Pill (2016)
TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary
The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"
Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay
Votes: 12,062
74. Top Dog (1995)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
With his cop companion shot and killed by terrorists, Reno The Dog pairs up with tough cop Jake in thwarting the criminal organization.
Director: Aaron Norris | Stars: Chuck Norris, Michele Lamar Richards, Erik von Detten, Carmine Caridi
Votes: 3,860 | Gross: $5.09M
75. Little Nikita (1988)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Kava
Votes: 6,034 | Gross: $1.73M
76. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011)
PG-13 | 88 min | Documentary
A behind-the-scenes look at the fans who gather by the thousands each year in San Diego, California to attend Comic-Con, the world's largest comic book convention.
Director: Morgan Spurlock | Stars: Kevin Smith, Stan Lee, Eli Roth, Seth Rogen
Votes: 2,864 | Gross: $0.03M
77. Battle Cry (1955)
Approved | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Marines have adventures in love and war.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson
Votes: 2,633 | Gross: $17.44M
78. $ (1971)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob three safety deposit boxes containing $1.5 million in cash belonging to three very different criminals from a high-tech security bank in Hamburg, Germany.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber
Votes: 2,899 | Gross: $4.40M
79. 2012: Doomsday (2008 Video)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Four strangers on a journey of faith are drawn to a temple in the heart of Mexico on December 21, 2012. For the Mayans it is the last recorded day. For NASA scientists it is a cataclysmic polar shift. For the rest of us, it is Doomsday.
Director: Nick Everhart | Stars: Cliff De Young, Dale Midkiff, Ami Dolenz, Danae Nason
Votes: 7,623
80. 2010: Moby Dick (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A modern-day adaptation of the classic novel featuring the captain of a high tech submarine and his obsessive quest to destroy the enormous prehistoric whale that maimed him.
Director: Trey Stokes | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Renée O'Connor, Matt Lagan, Adam Grimes
Votes: 2,973
81. Wake Up, Ron Burgundy (2004 Video)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
While Ron Burgundy's rivalry with Veronica Corningstone persists, a group of unprofessional thieves endeavor to make "the truth" known.
Director: Adam McKay | Stars: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell
Votes: 6,629
82. Lucky Lady (1975)
PG | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 1,326 | Gross: $24.44M
83. Sleight (2016)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young street magician is left to care for his little sister after their parents' death, and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets in too deep, his ... See full summary »
Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel, Storm Reid, Donzaleigh Abernathy
Votes: 9,277 | Gross: $3.85M
84. Tumbleweeds (1999)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A woman and her daughter have been constantly moving from town to town for years, but their newest home might be different from all the others.
Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O. Sanders, Gavin O'Connor
Votes: 3,662 | Gross: $1.28M
85. Sólo Dios sabe (2006)
115 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual heritage, they struggle with ever more costly choices.
Director: Carlos Bolado | Stars: Diego Luna, Alice Braga, Damián Alcázar, Maria Alves
Votes: 867
86. Seven Cities of Gold (1955)
Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Biography, History
In 1769, a Spanish expedition to California seeks to conquer the land and discover its famed gold treasures while missionaries aim to gain new converts and establish a network of Catholic missions.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Richard Egan, Anthony Quinn, Michael Rennie, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 589
87. Oh Lucy! (2017)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class, where she discovers her alter-ego, Lucy.
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi | Stars: Shinobu Terajima, Soseki Yamatoya, Miyu Yagyu, Kayano Masuyama
Votes: 3,369 | Gross: $0.38M
88. Up Periscope (1959)
Approved | 112 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1942, Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Braden from the underwater demolition team is sent to a Japanese island to photograph secret radio codes.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 2,260
89. Cloudy with a Chance of Love (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
An academic in meteorology must decide between her new job as a popular weather girl and her pursuit of her PhD and fellowship. Is her handsome boss interested in her true self or just as a ticket to a network job in New York?
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Katie Leclerc, Michael Rady, Ben Begley, Floriana Lima
Votes: 1,301
90. Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Follows the abduction of 16 year old girl in California in 2013.
Director: Peter Sullivan | Stars: Jessica Amlee, Scott Patterson, Brian McNamara, Jay Pickett
Votes: 755
91. Dangerous Curves (1988)
PG | 93 min | Comedy
A college graduate is offered a deal of a lifetime - deliver a Porsche for a client and join the company of your dreams in return. When the car gets stolen, he and his friend must go to a beauty pageant run by the thief to get it back.
Director: David Lewis | Stars: Tate Donovan, Grant Heslov, Danielle von Zerneck, Valerie Breiman
Votes: 557
92. Megalodon Rising (2021)
Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When history's greatest aquatic predator returns, the armada of modern warships sent to destroy it has no chance at all.
Director: Brian Nowak | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Wynter Eddins, O'Shay Neal, Isidoro Perez
Votes: 897
93. Digging to China (1997)
PG | 98 min | Drama
10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, disabled son who befriends Harriet.
Director: Timothy Hutton | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Kevin Bacon, Mary Stuart Masterson, Marian Seldes
Votes: 2,987 | Gross: $0.03M
94. 1 Night in San Diego (2020)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
A former reality star and her best friend are invited to San Diego for a weekend getaway.
Director: Penelope Lawson | Stars: Jenna Ushkowitz, Donna Pieroni, Laura Ashley Samuels, Brian Borello
Votes: 575
95. Slipaway (2017)
89 min | Drama
When a spirited elderly widow invites a homeless, drug-addicted musician to stay with her on her vintage sailboat, the two must overcome their differences and haunting pasts to realize that each holds the key to the other's life dream.
Directors: Julia Butler, Daniel Mentz | Stars: Elaine Partnow, Jesse Pepe, Hossein Mardani, Alain Ali Washnevsky
Votes: 305
96. Till the End of Time (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War
Drama about former WW2 Marines readjusting to civilian life and dealing with their mental and physical traumas.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Robert Mitchum, Guy Madison, Bill Williams
Votes: 1,607
97. Blue State (2007)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
BLUE STATE is a romantic comedy about a disgruntled Democrat who actually follows through on a drunken campaign promise to move to Canada if George "Dubya" Bush gets re-elected.
Director: Marshall Lewy | Stars: Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, Joyce Krenz, Richard Blackburn
Votes: 2,453
98. Off the Map (2003)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
An eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss.
Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Valentina de Angelis, Joan Allen, Sam Elliott, Amy Brenneman
Votes: 3,439 | Gross: $1.31M
99. When Billie Beat Bobby (2001 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs (Ron Silver) and young feminist Billie Jean King (Holly Hunter).
Director: Jane Anderson | Stars: Holly Hunter, Ron Silver, Matt Letscher, Bob Gunton
Votes: 647
100. Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
Betty Broderick stands trial for shooting her ex husband and his new bride.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Judith Ivey, Ray Baker, Kelli Williams
Votes: 675