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1. The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell

Votes: 58,760 | Gross: $5.13M

2. Giant (1956)

G | 201 min | Drama, Western

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker

Votes: 42,332

3. The Butler (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 132 min | Biography, Drama

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda

Votes: 119,857 | Gross: $116.63M

4. Secret Window (2004)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro, Timothy Hutton

Votes: 209,885 | Gross: $48.02M

5. Days of Being Wild (1990)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau

Votes: 25,591 | Gross: $0.14M

6. Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest

Votes: 28,583

7. Lilies of the Field (1963)

Unrated | 94 min | Drama

A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Isa Crino

Votes: 13,649

8. Moonlight Mile (2002)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

As he copes with the death of his fiancée, a young man befriends her parents and must figure out what he wants out of life.

Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Alexia Landeau

Votes: 14,703 | Gross: $6.84M

9. Taking Woodstock (2009)

R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert, Imelda Staunton

Votes: 30,037 | Gross: $7.44M

10. The Whole Wide World (1996)

PG | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.

Director: Dan Ireland | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell

Votes: 4,044 | Gross: $0.14M

11. 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: 849

12. Babes on Broadway (1941)

Approved | 118 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in a musical directed by Busby Berkeley as two talented teenagers dreaming of success as Babes on Broadway.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Bainter, Virginia Weidler

Votes: 1,654 | Gross: $3.85M

13. Heat Lightning (1934)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 1,035

14. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty, Bob Haymes

Votes: 2,403

15. Star Dust (1940)

Approved | 90 min | Drama

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 385

16. Angels Over Broadway (1940)

Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.

Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen

Votes: 1,347

17. High Powered (1945)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Two women towing a lunch wagon on their way to a construction site. pick up a male hitchhiker, and the adventure begins. Some comic relief.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Treen, Joe Sawyer

Votes: 104

18. 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

19. Manhattan Moon (1935)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Dorothy Page, Henry Mollison, Hugh O'Connell

20. Square Shooter (1935)

Passed | 57 min | Western

Having been framed for murder, Tim returns from prison to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will. He finds the real will but his friend Johnny becomes... See full summary »

Director: David Selman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Julie Bishop, Erville Alderson, John Darrow

Votes: 63

21. Mr. Flip (1909)

4 min | Comedy, Short

Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.

Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Star: Ben Turpin

Votes: 241

22. We Shall Not Be Moved: The Nashville Sit-Ins (2010)

11 min | Short, History

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Director: Dave Porfiri | Stars: Etienne Easley, Darius Wallace

23. A Thrilling Romance (1926)

20 min | Comedy, Short

An aspiring writer chases after a pair of crooks when her handbag is taken.

Director: Jess Robbins | Stars: Wanda Wiley, Earl McCarthy, Joe Bonner, Al Hallett

Votes: 25

24. An Hour for Lunch (1939)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Comedy

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Benchley, John Butler, Don Castle, Jules Cowles

Votes: 151

25. Alibi Mark (1937)

Approved | 13 min | Short, Drama, Crime

When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Floyd Gibbons, Dennis Moore, Cliff Storey, Fred Whitehouse

Votes: 90

26. Sock and Run (1929)

20 min | Short, Comedy

A French cousin arrives in America, causing chaos everywhere he goes. On a visit to Coney Island, the cousin claims to be a prizefighter and enters a high-stakes boxing match.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marvin Loback, Jack Grant, Roger Moore

Votes: 12

27. Custard's Last Stand (1927)

14 min | Comedy, Short

An offensive and dated short featuring white actors in blackface portraying African-American characters. Custard operates a lunch stand while his flirty wife attracts customers to the establishment who want off-menu items and freeloaders.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Billy Franey, Tiny Ward, Bobby Yale

28. Penny Wise (1935)

17 min | Short, Comedy

When the owner of a department store is about to go on vacation, he tells his children that any idiot could run the store. So, he leaves Joe Cook in charge, since he meets those qualifications.

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Joe Cook, Charles Olcott, Earle Gilbert, Ann Thomas

Votes: 11

29. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Cool Winter Blues (1992)

Drama

Lilly decides to change her pastor to one who believe in integration of black and white people. Nathan develops a crush on Diane.

Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

30. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode: The Color of Truth - August 8, 1955 (1989)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

As the black chauffeur of an elderly southern woman, Sam must overcome prejudice to prevent the death of a black woman.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Susan French, Royce D. Applegate

Votes: 808

31. Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1988)
Episode: Pecos Bill (1986)

Not Rated | 49 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

In 19th century Texas, a man raised by coyotes turns an uptight settlement town upside down and teaches them the Cowboy way of life.

Director: Howard Storm | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Mull, Peter Billingsley

Votes: 27

32. The Trials of O'Brien (1965–1966)
Episode: Picture Me a Murder (1965)

60 min | Drama

Glen Daley Claude Akins arrives from Oklahoma at Port Authority Terminal in New York City. He meets film maker Nick Staphos Alan Alda and agrees to have his life filmed for a week.

Director: Lawrence Dobkin | Stars: Peter Falk, Joanna Barnes, David Burns, Elaine Stritch

33. Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1978)
Episode: Foul Play in Funland (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An amusement park comes to life on its own, while a "man from Mars" destroys the place; Scooby and the gang investigate.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Nicole Jaffe, Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Vic Perrin

Votes: 657

34. Pirjo (2018– )
Episode: Lounasuskollisuus (2019)

5 min | Comedy

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Director: Lauri Nurkse | Stars: Pirjo Heikkilä, Marja Myllylä

35. Trail of History (2016– )
Episode: Rock Hill's Friendship Nine (2018)

27 min | History

The Friendship Nine was a group of African American men who staged a civil rights sit-in at a Rock Hill lunch counter. Hear from a pastor who guided the local protest, meet a children's ... See full summary »

Stars: Danielle Kosir, W.T. 'Dub' Massey, Willie McCleod, Phyllis Hyatt

36. Antiques Roadshow (1997– )
Episode: Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Hour 1 (2023)

TV-G | Reality-TV

Watch charming appraisals at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens, like one valued up to $80,000.

Stars: Aaron Bastian, Ken Farmer, James A. Ffrench, Eric Hanks