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1. The Big Lebowski (1998)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 860,525 | Gross: $17.50M
2. Space Jam (1996)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.
Director: Joe Pytka | Stars: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Manner Washington
Votes: 213,526 | Gross: $90.46M
3. A Cure for Wellness (2016)
R | 146 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa's treatments are not what they seem.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Jason Isaacs, Mia Goth, Ivo Nandi
Votes: 109,647 | Gross: $8.11M
4. Breathe (I) (2017)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease.
Director: Andy Serkis | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers
Votes: 24,681 | Gross: $0.49M
5. The Sessions (2012)
R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood
Votes: 43,986 | Gross: $6.00M
6. Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
When residents of their nursing home start dying of dubious causes, an aged Elvis and an African-American senior who claims to be President John F. Kennedy discover that the perpetrator is an Egyptian mummy with murderous intentions.
Director: Don Coscarelli | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Bob Ivy, Ella Joyce
Votes: 51,502 | Gross: $2.00M
7. In a Glass Cage (1986)
Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Horror
A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría
Votes: 5,048
8. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
PG-13 | 99 min | Biography, Drama
In order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters a commercial jingle-writing contest.
Director: Jane Anderson | Stars: Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Trevor Morgan
Votes: 8,145 | Gross: $0.63M
9. The Big Bus (1976)
PG | 88 min | Action, Comedy
A nuclear powered bus driving cross-country, from New York City to Colorado, is destined for disaster due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 3,711 | Gross: $3.54M
10. Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
105 min | Drama, Film-Noir
While awaiting a delayed flight, a lawyer who has left his unfaithful wife, befriends three fellow passengers. After the plane crashes and he is among the few to survive, he feels compelled to contact the families of his dead friends.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Bette Davis, Shelley Winters, Gary Merrill, Michael Rennie
Votes: 3,008
11. Billy Liar (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Mona Washbourne
Votes: 7,101 | Gross: $0.04M
12. The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
Director: John Sherwood | Stars: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette
Votes: 3,880
13. The Five Pennies (1959)
Approved | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino
Votes: 2,120
14. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)
TV-MA | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.
Director: Mat Whitecross | Stars: Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy
Votes: 4,422
15. The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)
124 min | Drama
In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.
Director: Craig Pryce | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Hannah Vandenbygaart, Daniel DeSanto, Craig Burnatowski
Votes: 205
16. The Magnet (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 611
17. Little 'Tinker (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
B.O. Skunk tries desperately to win the love of a girl, any girl, and goes to such lengths as imitating Frank Sinatra, vintage 1948.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Walter Craig, June Foray
Votes: 521
18. Death Mask (1984)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Based on a true criminal case, Farley Granger stars as an investigator who recently lost his ten year old daughter. Just days after the death of his daughter, the investigator is given a task to solve the murder of a ten year old boy.
Director: Richard Friedman | Stars: Farley Granger, Lee Bryant, John McCurry, Arch Johnson
Votes: 139
19. The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An heiress seems to be cursed as each of her intended grooms meets with a horrible end.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale
Votes: 803
20. The Daffy Doc (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Doctor Quack is doing an operation, and Daffy is his assistant. Things start out sedately enough, with Daffy asking for quiet in various ways. Then the operation starts, and after handing ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Sara Berner
Votes: 618
21. Dark Delusion (1947)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Mystery
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. ... See full summary »
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, James Craig, Lucille Bremer, Jayne Meadows
Votes: 273
22. Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien (1996)
Not Rated | 35 min | Documentary, Short
Portrait of writer Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung.
Director: Jessica Yu | Stars: Mark O'Brien, Elizabeth Duvall, Ian Berzon
Votes: 163
23. The Leather Saint (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college-days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelly. Gil declines when fight manager Gus MacAuliffe offers to ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero
Votes: 79
24. Broken Journey (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Drama
A plane crashes on a Swiss glacier. With the radio broken and food limited, the survivors debate whether to stay put and await uncertain rescue or embark into harsh conditions toward civilization.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Michael C. Chorlton | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Margot Grahame, James Donald, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 283
25. Blood Jungle ...or Eviva il Coltello! (2011)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A bit of godless jungle exploration and deadpan homo-eroticism explode deep in the tropics with Thomas Nola's fourth full length film 'Blood Jungle' ...or 'Eviva il Coltello!' Stars Jim ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Nöla | Stars: Jim Ether, Thomas Nöla, Dave DiLillo, David Ewing
Votes: 10
26. Lost/Found (2022)
Comedy, Horror
After a storm wreaks havoc over a small town in Georgia, a writer on a deadline makes an ominous discovery in the backyard of his rural vacation rental.
Director: Brian Christopher White | Stars: Teance Blackburn, Bradley Campbell, Langley Cornwell, Leia Fénix
27. Love for Life (1988 TV Movie)
64 min | Drama
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Carol Alt, Andrea Occhipinti, William Berger, Pino Quartullo
Votes: 21
28. Night in the City (1957 TV Movie)
Documentary
A look at Manchester from evening until dawn, and some of the people caught up in the restlessness and loneliness of the city night.
Director: Denis Mitchell
Votes: 8
29.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
No Pain
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman reveals to her rich husband who's confined to an iron lung that she's planning to painlessly murder him, but he may have a surprise for her.
Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, Joanna Moore, Yale Wexler
Votes: 497
30.
CHiPs (1977–1983)
Episode:
Return of the Turks
(1978)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ponch and Jon each experience unsettling encounters with past acquaintances. A reckless driver plays bumper cars on the freeway.
Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Robert Pine, Kaz Garas
Votes: 94
31.
Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode:
Return to Summer Grove
(1969)
TV-PG | 52 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jean McBride, an old flame of Joe Mannix' who still lives in his hometown of Summer Grove, appears in his office one evening. Jean is married to Troy McBride, who once quarterbacked the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, Victor Jory, Vera Miles
Votes: 140
32.
Millennium (1996–1999)
Episode:
Force Majeure
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The Group investigates the suicides of identical twin girls born seven years apart in different families. Dennis Hoffman, a noisy man obsessed with the apocalyptic planetary alignment prophesied to occur in 2000, helps Frank on the case.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Megan Gallagher, Terry O'Quinn, Brittany Tiplady
Votes: 385
33.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
Mastermind
(1969)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The team is sent to stop a criminal who has obtained information on high ranking government officials that the Syndicate can use to coerce them. So they use the man's eagerness to be the ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus
Votes: 173
34.
Rocko's Modern Life (1993–1996)
Episode:
No Pain, No Gain/Who Gives a Buck?
(1993)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Rocko and Heffer join a health club. Rocko goes shopping to the mall with his new credit card.
Directors: Joe Murray, Timothy Björklund, Roger Chiasson, Don Spencer | Stars: Carlos Alazraqui, Tom Kenny, Charlie Adler, Linda Wallem
Votes: 187
35.
Telephone Time (1956–1958)
Episode:
Bullet Lou Kirn
(1957)
30 min | Drama
Lou Kirn, a Navy football star in 1931 and a Squadron Commander during WW2, is faced with his biggest challenge in 1954 - a dreaded form of paralysis. During this personal battle he reaches out to save a paralyzed boy.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: John Nesbitt, Alan Baxter, Harold J. Stone, Herbert Rudley
Votes: 7
36.
Cannonball (1958–1959)
Episode:
The Iron Lung
(1958)
Adventure, Drama
Mike and Jerry are contracted to deliver a desperately needed iron lung to a polio patient.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Paul Birch, William Campbell, Beth Lockerbie, Howard Milsom
37.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode:
Handicap Parking
(2007)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy, Documentary
Penn and Teller argue that the Americans with Disabilities Act goes too far, and that the government, should not tell business how it should treat people.
Directors: Star Price, Scott Firestone, Tom Greenhut, Chip Selby | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, George Bush, Lawrence Carter-Long
Votes: 118
38.
Charité (2017– )
Episode:
Eiserne Lunge
(2021)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, History, Sci-Fi
East Berlin in the summer of 1961: Dr. Ella Wendt is transferred from Senftenberg to the Charité to ensure health care. Doctors and nursing staff are leaving the GDR en masse for West Berlin.
Director: Christine Hartmann | Stars: Nina Gummich, Nina Kunzendorf, Philipp Hochmair, Franz Hartwig
Votes: 86
39.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Polio Crusade
(2009)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease
Director: Sarah Colt | Stars: Samuel L. Katz, Kathryn Black, Julius Youngner, David Oshinsky
Votes: 111
40.
Chicago Med (2015– )
Episode:
All the Things That Could Have Been
(2022)
TV-14 | Drama
Goodwin assigns Med's new compliance officer to a patient with a long-hauler COVID condition. Maggie helps Halstead treat a patient who's been in an iron lung for 60 years.
Director: Jonathan Brown | Stars: Nick Gehlfuss, Dominic Rains, Marlyne Barrett, Kristen Hager
Votes: 221
41.
The Good Doctor (2017–2024)
Episode:
My Way
(2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama
Dr. Andrews treats a foster kid for injuries from a fight in the group home. Shaun and his team look to Lea for expertise with cars and auto repair for a patient whose iron lung broke.
Director: Aaron Rottinghaus | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Fiona Gubelmann, Will Yun Lee, Christina Chang
Votes: 611
42.
Call the Midwife (2012– )
Episode:
Christmas Special
(2013)
TV-14 | 78 min | Drama, History
Nonnatus House and the surrounding area is evacuated when an unexploded bomb is found nearby. Meanwhile, Shelagh has doubts about her wedding to Patrick, and Jenny and Trixie help a man who is suffering from shell shock.
Director: Thea Sharrock | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Cliff Parisi, Jessica Raine, Ben Caplan
Votes: 517
43.
Doom Patrol (2019–2023)
Episode:
Puppet Patrol
(2019)
TV-MA | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Doom Patrol set out for Paraguay where they discover the Nazi doctor who created Mr. Nobody and the connection between the Chief and the two villains.
Director: Rachel Talalay | Stars: Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, Joivan Wade, Alan Tudyk
Votes: 3,111
44.
The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode:
Lady Luck (No. 69)
(2019)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Liz and Ressler investigate a Blacklister who offers to erase gambling debts - at a deceptively high price; Dembe grows concerned as Red tests loyalties of their business associates in search of the person who turned him in to the police.
Director: Bill Roe | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Amir Arison
Votes: 1,196