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1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
R | 133 min | Drama
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Votes: 1,071,236 | Gross: $112.00M
2. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 437,085 | Gross: $435.11M
3. Star Trek (2009)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 619,977 | Gross: $257.73M
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones
Votes: 386,007 | Gross: $70.14M
5. Fatal Attraction (1987)
R | 119 min | Drama, Thriller
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Latzen
Votes: 96,964 | Gross: $156.65M
6. My Girl (1991)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, and begins to fall in love, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.
Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
Votes: 88,773 | Gross: $59.85M
7. Jarhead (2005)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, War
A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black, Scott MacDonald
Votes: 206,233 | Gross: $62.66M
8. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller
Votes: 312,925 | Gross: $52.36M
9. The Boss Baby (2017)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying baby pairs up with his 7-year old brother to stop the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co.
Director: Tom McGrath | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Lisa Kudrow
Votes: 141,007 | Gross: $175.00M
10. Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two ambitious girls, despite their parents' wishes, have their hearts set on careers in professional football.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher
Votes: 116,404 | Gross: $32.54M
11. Shut In (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widowed child psychologist lives an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Director: Farren Blackburn | Stars: Naomi Watts, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Oliver Platt
Votes: 14,867 | Gross: $6.88M
12. Nanny McPhee (2005)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A governess uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge.
Director: Kirk Jones | Stars: Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Angela Lansbury, Kelly Macdonald
Votes: 85,414 | Gross: $47.14M
13. Colonia (2015)
R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey
Votes: 57,136
14. The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.
Director: Jim Fall | Stars: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Clayton Snyder, Hallie Todd
Votes: 42,043 | Gross: $42.73M
15. The Politician (2019–2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Drama
Payton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.
Stars: Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Julia Schlaepfer
Votes: 24,538
16. Everything, Everything (2017)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A teenager who's spent her whole life confined to her home falls for the boy next door.
Director: Stella Meghie | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Ana de la Reguera
Votes: 42,443 | Gross: $34.00M
17. Official Competition (2021)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez, José Luis Gómez
Votes: 14,664
18. Mister Roberts (1955)
Passed | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.
Directors: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan | Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon
Votes: 18,220 | Gross: $21.20M
19. Horsemen (2009)
R | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between a serial killing spree and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Director: Jonas Åkerlund | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr.
Votes: 24,157
20. I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman
Votes: 5,612
21. A Long Way Down (2014)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives.
Director: Pascal Chaumeil | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul
Votes: 34,626 | Gross: $0.01M
22. The Ten (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
10 stories, each inspired by one of the 10 Commandments.
Director: David Wain | Stars: Paul Rudd, Jessica Alba, Winona Ryder, Adam Brody
Votes: 16,969 | Gross: $0.77M
23. Sunflower (1970)
G | 107 min | Drama, War
An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Galina Andreeva
Votes: 4,486
24. Shock Corridor (1963)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Votes: 13,041
25. Skidoo (1968)
R | 98 min | Comedy
Infamous psychedelic all-star comedy about ex-gangster Tony Banks, who's called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,915
26. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,249
27. Sons of the Desert (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family
When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase, Mae Busch
Votes: 9,577
28. Pickup (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain
Votes: 836
29. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart
Votes: 9,210
30. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly sets it up for her to become a radio broadcaster.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 1,918
31. Vivacious Lady (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 4,178
32. The Raven (1943)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Votes: 10,885 | Gross: $0.03M
33. The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Mira Banjac, Mija Aleksic
Votes: 6,060
34. Driving Lessons (2006)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A coming of age story about a shy teenage boy trying to escape from the influence of his domineering mother. His world changes when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Director: Jeremy Brock | Stars: Rupert Grint, Laura Linney, Julie Walters, Fay Cohen
Votes: 11,030 | Gross: $0.24M
35. Gypsy's Revenge (2018 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
The story of the mother and daughter relationship of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard.
Director: Jesse Vile | Stars: Dee Dee Blanchard, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Rod Blanchard, Rhys Hughes
Votes: 429
36. Hlidac c.47 (2008)
108 min | Drama, Thriller
A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.
Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposová, Václav Jirácek, Vladimír Dlouhý
Votes: 293
37. The Janky Promoters (2009)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Two shady concert promoters (Cube and Epps) get into hot water when their chance to book a superstar rapper goes awry.
Director: Marcus Raboy | Stars: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Jeezy, Lahmard J. Tate
Votes: 1,724
38. Sacrifice (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After digging up a bizarrely mutilated corpse on her land, physician Tora Hamilton uncovers a lethal connection to ancient pagan rituals.
Director: Peter A. Dowling | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves, Ian McElhinney, Joanne Crawford
Votes: 4,828
39. Turn the River (2007)
R | 92 min | Drama
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Director: Chris Eigeman | Stars: Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Rip Torn, Matt Ross
Votes: 1,923
40. Seven and a Half (2006)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Everyday lives of people in Belgrade who are obsessed with their weaknesses and led by their passions. Seven independent stories on 7 deadly sins are told in a comical tone.
Director: Miroslav Momcilovic | Stars: Branislav Trifunovic, Nikola Vujovic, Milos Timotijevic, Marija Karan
Votes: 4,867
41. The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of death rumoured to be caused by a vampire.
Director: Rodney Gibbons | Stars: Matt Frewer, Kenneth Welsh, Shawn Lawrence, Neville Edwards
Votes: 1,074
42. Art of Seduction (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Min-jun and Ji-won are first-rate "players" who are used to getting their way in the field of love and sex, until they run into each other. Let the games begin.
Director: Ki-hwan Oh | Stars: Son Ye-jin, Song Il-guk, Geum Bo-ra, Seong-cheol Ha
Votes: 1,527
43. Don McKay (2009)
R | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Don McKay, a high school janitor who leaves his hometown after a tragedy, returns 25 years later to rekindle a romance with his old flame, who is dying, but this homecoming brings McKay more than he bargained for.
Director: Jake Goldberger | Stars: Thomas Haden Church, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo, Rachel Harker
Votes: 2,476
44. The Mad Monster (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange
Votes: 1,938
45. Shopworn (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 879
46. Parvarish (1977)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.
Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh
Votes: 1,063
47. Time Table (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Arizona, a train's baggage car is robbed of a large payroll, prompting an investigation led by a railroad official-insurance investigator team.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart
Votes: 914
48. The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping (1973 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 73 min | Sci-Fi
A criminal organization, known as "O.S.O.", specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Colonel Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Alan Oppenheimer, Elizabeth Ashley
Votes: 735
49. Singam (2010)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Honest police officer Durai Singam locks horns with big-time extortionist Mayil Vaaganam.
Director: Hari | Stars: Suriya, Anushka Shetty, Prakash Raj, Vivek
Votes: 7,638
50. Deadly Revenge (2013 TV Movie)
92 min | Thriller
Charming LA architect Harrison, also a great cook and lover, gets engaged to Cate, a San Francisco landscape architect he meets while collaborating on a major project, after they get locked... See full summary »
Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Alicia Ziegler, Mark Hapka, Donna Mills, Constance Wu
Votes: 361