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1. American Psycho (2000)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.

Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage

Votes: 717,006 | Gross: $15.07M

2. New York, I Love You (2008)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.

Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Hayden Christensen

Votes: 47,880 | Gross: $1.59M

3. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

Approved | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of motorists witnesses a car crash in the California desert, and after the driver's dying words indicate the location of a hidden stash of loot, they turn against each in a race across the state to get to it.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 46,176 | Gross: $46.30M

4. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 69,968 | Gross: $24.95M

5. Bugsy Malone (1976)

G | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florence Garland, John Cassisi

Votes: 19,483 | Gross: $2.78M

6. 16 Blocks (2006)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Bruce Willis, Yasiin Bey, David Morse, Jenna Stern

Votes: 134,853 | Gross: $36.90M

7. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

G | 138 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In New York City during the Roaring Twenties, would-be flapper Millie Dillmount's self-appointed mission to marry her boss is complicated by white slavers and true love.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing

Votes: 7,044 | Gross: $34.34M

8. Kuffs (1992)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

George Kuffs, 21, leaves a pregnant girlfriend. He visits his brother Brad to bum money off him. Brad's shot and George IDs the killer at SFPD but to no avail. He inherits Brad's patrol district. He keeps it to get the killer.

Director: Bruce A. Evans | Stars: Christian Slater, Milla Jovovich, Ric Roman Waugh, Steve Holladay

Votes: 11,532 | Gross: $21.14M

9. Gunless (2010)

89 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A hardened American gunslinger is repeatedly thwarted in his attempts to mount a showdown in a friendly town in Canada where no one seems to understand or appreciate the brutal code of the American Wild West.

Director: William Phillips | Stars: Paul Gross, Sienna Guillory, Dustin Milligan, Melody B. Choi

Votes: 3,975

10. Manhandled (1949)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The secretary to a psychiatrist finds herself caught up in the murder of a patient's wife and realizes that her life is also in danger.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Dan Duryea, Dorothy Lamour, Sterling Hayden, Irene Hervey

Votes: 921

11. The Bowery (1933)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray

Votes: 615 | Gross: $4.36M

12. Query (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Thriller

Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley, Chili Bouchier, John Slater

Votes: 268

13. The Iron Sheriff (1957)

Passed | 73 min | Mystery, Western

When the sheriff's son is placed on trial for murdering a stagecoach driver, the sheriff desperately searches for the real killer - and finds the trail leads back to his boy.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor

Votes: 436

14. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Short

A bumbling detective comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress when a drug smuggler wants to force her to marry him.

Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Allan Sears, Tom Wilson

Votes: 1,005

15. Guns for Dollars (1971)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Western

General Ramirez is fighting for the revolution of Mexico against European domination. He hires Hallelujah, a mysterious gunfighter, take down European emperor Maximilian by seizing a purse ... See full summary »

Director: Giuliano Carnimeo | Stars: George Hilton, Charles Southwood, Agata Flori, Roberto Camardiel

Votes: 467

16. Badlands of Dakota (1941)

Approved | 74 min | Western

Indian raids are being perpetrated by an outlaw gang in disguise.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Robert Stack, Ann Rutherford, Richard Dix, Frances Farmer

Votes: 267

17. Blondes at Work (1938)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Steve promises his captain not to favor Torchy with stories over other papers but becomes frustrated as to how she continues to scoop her rivals.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, Rosella Towne

Votes: 505

18. Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)

Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Chester Morris, Maylia, Richard Lane, Don McGuire

Votes: 350

19. Shadows (1922)

Passed | 70 min | Drama

A dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.

Director: Tom Forman | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison Ford, John St. Polis

Votes: 490

20. The Good Fellows (1943)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forgets to pay the family's bills, nearly ... See full summary »

Director: Jo Graham | Stars: Cecil Kellaway, Helen Walker, Mabel Paige, James Brown

Votes: 41

21. Washee Ironee (1934)

Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Family, Short

Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help him clean up.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Wally Albright, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Scotty Beckett, Tommy Bond

Votes: 195

22. Captured in Chinatown (1935)

Approved | 54 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A feud between two gangs in Chinatown breaks out into a tong war.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Tarzan, Marion Shilling, Charles Delaney, Philo McCullough

Votes: 89

23. China Jones (1959)

6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Daffy Duck is China Jones, a fortune-seeking Irish private eye working in the Far East. He finds a call for help in a Chinese fortune cookie and decides to investigate. Acting on a tip ... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray

Votes: 200

24. Chop Suey (1930)

6 min | Animation, Short

A Terrytoons animated short. Cats play Chinese laundromat owners and operators who demonstrate the cleaning process until one of the cats kidnaps a female mouse. It dramatically changes into a rescue mission.

Director: Frank Moser

Votes: 60

25. Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)

TV-G | 13 min | Comedy, Short

Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Al St. John, Frank Hayes

Votes: 270

26. Boomerang Bill (1922)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When New York City police officer O'Malley learns of a young man who is about to embark on a life of crime by taking part in a robbery, he takes the boy aside and tells him the story of ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Terriss | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Marguerite Marsh, Margaret Seddon, Frank Shannon

Votes: 21

27. A Mandarin Mixup (1924)

20 min | Short, Comedy

An employee at a commercial laundry mistakenly thinks he's Chinese. Complications ensue.

Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard

Votes: 65

28. Off to China (1936)

7 min | Animation, Short

Uncle Sam personally sends off a cat pilot for a flight to the Orient, to much crowd acclaim. Along the way he drops a heavy mailbag that nearly sinks Hawaii, and when he arrives in China, he has bags of laundry for them to wash.

Directors: Frank Moser, Paul Terry

Votes: 17

29. The Tragedie of Admiral Cigarette (2006)

13 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Admiral Cigarette lies betwixt life and eternity...can his soul be saved even as hordes of international miscreants attempt to damn him to hell?

Director: Sean Gill | Stars: Sean Gill, John Gill, Adam Vogel, Jacob Ruhe

Votes: 6

30. One Stormy Orphan (1922)

Short, Comedy

"One Stormy Orphan" concerns the adventures of a child abandoned by its mother on the steps of a church on Christmas Eve. She leaves the baby in a basket and the scene fades out with the ... See full summary »

Director: Eugene De Rue | Star: Bobby Dunn

31. Chinaman's Chance (1933)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Flip the Frog is a police officer on the trail of the notorious Chinese criminal, Chow Mein.

Director: Ub Iwerks

Votes: 79

32. Luke's Washful Waiting (1916)

10 min | Comedy, Short

Hi-jinx at a fire in a Chinese laundry.

Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard

33. The Winning Wash (1915)

15 min | Comedy, Short

Two nitwits get jobs in a Chinese laundry, and while washing a pair of pants they discover some money.

Director: Rube Miller | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Bud Duncan, Jack Clifford, Harry Griffith

34. Baby Blues (1941)

10 min | Family, Comedy, Short

Mickey's mother is about to deliver her fourth child. But Mickey, after reading in the almanac that one out of every four children born into the world is Chinese, is afraid the baby will be... See full summary »

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Our Gang, Margaret Bert, Robert Blake, Janet Burston

Votes: 80

35. The Lone Ranger (1949–1957)
Episode: The Letter Bride (1956)

TV-G | 23 min | Western

A Chinese laundryman who is a friend of the Ranger's, is expecting his bride from China who is arriving. But she's taken by some men in masks. Later the Ranger and Tonto arrive and learn ... See full summary »

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Victor Sen Yung, Joseph Vitale

Votes: 55

36. The Rifleman (1958–1963)
Episode: The Queue (1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Family, Western

The efforts of a Chinese man and his son to establish a laundry are hindered by two louts who resent foreigners in North Fork.

Director: James Clavell | Stars: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, Joan Taylor

Votes: 118

37. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Red Tentacles (1956)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

When several local Chinese residents are beaten and refuse to tell why, Sky intervenes.

Director: Clark L. Paylow | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, James Hong, Sammee Tong

38. The Lawbreakers (1963– )
Episode: Boston, Massachusetts: December 30 - Double Shooting, Single Murder (1963)

30 min | Documentary, Crime

A youthful gang of criminals goes on a crime spree throughout the metropolitan Boston area, leaving two men dead while committing numerous robberies and car heists. The various police ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Gilbert | Stars: Lee Marvin, Daniel Colella, Les Kretman, Bill Miller

39. Two and a Half Men (2003–2015)
Episode: Arguments for the Quickie (2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Mia comes back and asks Charlie to donate his sperm. He agrees to, but for some unknown reason he can't deliver.

Director: James Widdoes | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones, Conchata Ferrell

Votes: 1,234

40. Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1978)
Episode: Mystery Mask Mix-Up (1970)

TV-G | 21 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Two zombies want the golden mask Daphne has just bought from a Chinese curio shop.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Nicole Jaffe, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Heather North

Votes: 564

41. Billy the Kid (2022– )
Episode: Antrim (2022)

TV-MA | 54 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Antrim, Kathleen and the two boys relocate to Silver City, trying to start a new life. But all their dreams are shattered - and Billy loses everything.

Director: Rachel Leiterman | Stars: Tom Blyth, Daniel Webber, Eileen O'Higgins, Jamie Beamish

Votes: 335

42. Family Guy (1999– )
Episode: Tiegs for Two (2011)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

Brian enlists Quagmire's help to score a date with a new friend, but things get nasty when they start to compete for the affections of each other's old flames, Cheryl Tiegs and Jillian.

Directors: Jerry Langford, James Purdum, Peter Shin | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis

Votes: 1,451

43. American Experience (1987– )
Episode: Billy the Kid (2011)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Biography, History

On April 28, 1881, just days from being hanged for murder, 21-year-old Henry McCarty, alias Billy the Kid, outfoxed his jailors and electrified the nation with the last in a long line of daring escapes.

Director: John Maggio | Stars: Michael Murphy, Hampton Sides, Denise Chávez, Michael Wallis

Votes: 105

44. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner: Parts 1-2 (1963)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner" Part 1 of 6, Aesop and Son "The Vain Crow", Peabody's Improbable History "Annie Oakley", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner" Part 2 of 6.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 21

45. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner: Parts 5-6 (1963)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner" Part 5 of 6, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Goose and the Golden Egg", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "Snidely Mounted Police", Rocky and... See full summary »

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 20

46. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner: Parts 3-4 (1963)

TV-G | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner" Part 3 of 6, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Ugly Duckling", Peabody's Improbable History "Don Juan", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bullwinkle's Testimonial Dinner" Part 4 of 6.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 15