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1. Darkest Hour (2017)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, War

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn

Votes: 221,194 | Gross: $56.47M

2. The Highwaymen (2019)

R | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The untold true story of the legendary detectives who brought down Bonnie and Clyde.

Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson, Kathy Bates, John Carroll Lynch

Votes: 103,818

3. Inland Empire (2006)

R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern

Votes: 62,513 | Gross: $0.75M

4. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 100,101 | Gross: $0.06M

5. Vinyl (2016)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Music

Richie Finestra, a shrewd record executive from New York, tries to promote American Century, his music label, amidst the changing music scene in the 1970s.

Stars: Bobby Cannavale, Paul Ben-Victor, P.J. Byrne, Max Casella

Votes: 24,952

6. Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story (2020)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Thriller

Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story offers a glimpse into the lives of women involved in the sex industry through the interconnected stories of a teen runaway, single mother and two career escorts.

Director: Robin Bain | Stars: Dominique Swain, Cody Renee Cameron, Michelle Maylene, Moxie Owens

Votes: 9,618

7. Blind Date (1934)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly, Jane Darwell

Votes: 263

8. One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski

Votes: 1,240 | Gross: $2.27M

9. Welcome to Hard Times (1967)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, Western

A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: Henry Fonda, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, Janis Paige

Votes: 1,697

10. Ten Cents a Dance (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.

Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Edward Buzzell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane

Votes: 906

11. Toxikoma (2021)

124 min | Biography, Drama

The film deals with the chapter of Gyozo Szabo's book of the same title, which is about the actor's toughest period, the drug crash that lasts for years, as Gyozo falls on the atoms of his ... See full summary »

Director: Gábor Herendi | Stars: Áron Molnár, Barna Bányai Kelemen, Fanni Csuja, Orsolya Török-Illyés

Votes: 2,787

12. Blues in the Night (1941)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Music

"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 1,307

13. Give Us This Day (1949)

Passed | 120 min | Drama

One of the few (if any at the time this film was made) films shot in England with New York City's 'Little Italy" as the locale. This was Edward Dmytryk's first film after he had refused to ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Bonar Colleano

Votes: 391

14. Broadway Bad (1933)

Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music

Showgirl Joan Blondell, supported by her friend Ginger Rogers, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ricardo Cortez, Ginger Rogers, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 232

15. Kick In (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Ex-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Clara Bow, Regis Toomey, Wynne Gibson, Juliette Compton

Votes: 71

16. Cheating Blondes (1933)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A reporter sets out to prove that the woman who rejected his marriage proposal is a murderer. Meanwhile, she's hiding in plain sight: posing as her missing twin sister.

Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Thelma Todd, Ralf Harolde, Inez Courtney, Milton Wallis

Votes: 77

17. Paradise Island (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Music

Ellen Bradford comes to the South Sea Island of Tonga to marry her fiancé and finds out that he is a drunk. She also finds out that she is the only white woman on the island and, as such, ... See full summary »

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Marceline Day, Tom Santschi, Paul Hurst

Votes: 150

18. Panama Flo (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A New York chorus girl is coerced into keeping house for an oil man in South America to pay off a debt. Her boyfriend comes to get her but she finds out that he is only out for the oil man's money.

Directors: Ralph Murphy, Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Armstrong, Charles Bickford, Marjorie Peterson

Votes: 211

19. Wake Up and Dream (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Music, Romance

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Russ Columbo, Roger Pryor, June Knight, Catherine Doucet

Votes: 69

20. I Promise to Pay (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Eddie Lang (Chester Morris), a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra (Leo Carrillo) in order to take his wife, Mary (Helen Mack) and two small ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 187

21. The Naked Hills (1956)

Approved | 72 min | Western

In 1849, an Indiana farmer develops a life-long gold fever and an obsession with finding the 'mother lode' in the Californian hills.

Director: Josef Shaftel | Stars: David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, Marcia Henderson

Votes: 242

22. The Rugged O'Riordans (1949)

Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country. In addition to being beset with the obstacles and difficulties with the... See full summary »

Director: Charles Chauvel | Stars: Michael Pate, Ken Wayne, Tommy Burns, John Unicomb

Votes: 92

23. The Fighting Heart (1925)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Sport

A town outcast, mistrusted by his sweetheart enters the ring and eventually wins the fight and his girl.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Billie Dove, J. Farrell MacDonald, Victor McLaglen

Votes: 56

24. Handle with Care (1932)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: James Dunn, Boots Mallory, El Brendel, Victor Jory

Votes: 18

25. Girls of the Road (1940)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane, Ann Doran

Votes: 173

26. The Wrong Way Out (1938)

Passed | 17 min | Crime, Short, Drama

In this entry in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series, young Ann Stevens and "Windy" Brown, against the advice of both sets of parents, run away and get married as they yearn for "independence."... See full summary »

Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Kenneth Howell, Linda Perry, William Bailey, Robert Elliott

Votes: 164

27. Cold Bloom (2012)

120 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman Shiori faces an accidental death of her beloved husband at a local industrial town, recovering from the 3.11 Tsunami disaster. Once detesting, Shiori is hesitant to admit her ... See full summary »

Director: Atsushi Funahashi | Stars: Asami Usuda, Takahiro Miura, Yô Takahashi, Mari Hayashida

Votes: 78

28. Chain Gang (1950)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crusading newspaperman Cliff Roberts (Douglas Kennedy), masquerades as a prison guard and gets a job attached to the chain gang. Using a tiny camera in the shape of a cigarette lighter, he ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Douglas Kennedy, Marjorie Lord, Emory Parnell, William 'Bill' Phillips

Votes: 110

29. The Big Timer (1932)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

An up-and-coming boxer (Ben Lyon) runs into problems when he takes on a female fight manager (Constance Cummings). Ben Lyon is once again playing with Tom Dugan; they co-starred in "The Hot... See full summary »

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings, Thelma Todd, Tom Dugan

Votes: 268

30. Bigfoot (I) (2018)

Action, Horror

Horror Flick Produced By Jared Show.

Director: David Heavener

Votes: 15

31. Cordelia the Magnificent (1923)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cordelia Marlowe comes from a society family that has lost its fortune. She falls into the clutches of D.K. Franklin, a crooked lawyer who specializes in blackmail, and finds herself ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Huntley Gordon, Carol Holloway, Lloyd Whitlock

32. Mutt (2008)

7 min | Animation, Short

A simple game of 'fetch' is Mutt's only desire in exchange for his loyalty and hard work, but the harsh taskmaster, Mac, is too busy to play - obsessing over the meager income from the milk... See full summary »

Director: Glen Hunwick | Stars: Mac, Matilda, Mutt

33. A Few Tales of Hard Times: Chapter 4 - The Name (2011)

15 min | Short, Crime

Based on the spaghetti westerns of the 70's and Film Noir of the 50's but set in today's times, Virgil is a gun for hire for the mysterious Boss. He visits The Man to collect information ... See full summary »

Director: Samuel R. Barrera | Stars: Brian Villalobos, Jacob Figueroa, Akasha Villalobos, Seth Lee

Votes: 11

34. Midnight Morals (1932)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.

Directors: B. Reeves Eason, E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Alberta Vaughn, Rex Lease, Charles Delaney, Beryl Mercer

35. Hockshop Blues (1938)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.

Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Brad Reynolds, Brad Reynolds and His Whispering Rhythm Orchestra, Carolyn Marsh, Ver'dyn Stapleton

Votes: 19

36. Clatterford (2006–2009)
Episode: Wedding (2008)

Comedy

After several setbacks and second thoughts Tash finally marries Spike in an open air ceremony in a field by the river. The wedding is organized by the Guild and Tash and some of the other ... See full summary »

Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Sue Johnston, Simon Farnaby, Sally Phillips, Thomas Assafuah

Votes: 27

37. The Century: America's Time (1999– )
Episode: 1929-1936: Stormy Weather (1999)

Not Rated | Documentary

The Great Depression rocks America.

Director: Roger Goodman | Stars: Peter Jennings, Bill Bailey, Marvin Belli, Smedley Butler

Votes: 12

38. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
The Reparations Grift Is Finally Collapsing (2024 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

Add a Plot

Director: Mark Jones | Star: Matt Walsh

Votes: 10

39. When They See Us (2019)
Episode: Part Four (2019)

TV-MA | 88 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Korey is in adult prison and struggles with it. Eventually, the real truth comes out about what really happened. Events that had been ignored finally come to light.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse, Jharrel Jerome

Votes: 7,044