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1. 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
2. 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
3. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 75,957 | Gross: $6.17M
4. Captain America (1990)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Frozen in the ice for decades, Captain America is freed to battle against archcriminal The Red Skull.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin
Votes: 15,127 | Gross: $0.01M
5. The Quiet American (2002)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 29,746 | Gross: $12.99M
6. American Dreams (2002–2005)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, History
In the 1960s, a family experiences life and the struggles of the era, accompanied by the well-known pop songs of the period.
Stars: Gail O'Grady, Tom Verica, Brittany Snow, Jonathan Adams
Votes: 3,254
7. The Brand New Testament (2015)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, François Damiens
Votes: 35,007 | Gross: $0.09M
8. Homefront (1991–1993)
60 min | Drama, History, Romance
World War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.
Stars: Kyle Chandler, Sammi Davis, Ken Jenkins, Mimi Kennedy
Votes: 1,405
9. The Other Side of the Mountain (1975)
PG | 102 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Belinda Montgomery, Nan Martin
Votes: 1,312 | Gross: $34.67M
10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney, Karen Wheeling Reynolds
Votes: 3,989
11. Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
R | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West
Votes: 12,366 | Gross: $6.37M
12. Crip Camp (2020)
R | 106 min | Documentary, History
Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.
Directors: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham | Stars: James Lebrecht, Lionel Je'Woodyard, Joseph O'Conor, Ann Cupolo Freeman
Votes: 8,235
13. What They Had (2018)
R | 101 min | Drama
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Director: Elizabeth Chomko | Stars: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner
Votes: 4,745 | Gross: $0.26M
14. End of the Spear (2005)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Two people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not real.
Director: Jim Hanon | Stars: Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman, Christina Souza
Votes: 5,503 | Gross: $11.97M
15. 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
16. Warm Springs (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama
The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Tim Blake Nelson
Votes: 3,325
17. The Final Inch (2009)
38 min | Documentary, Short
Fifty years after the development of the polio vaccine in the United States, the potentially crippling polio virus still finds refuge in some of the world's most vulnerable places, poised ... See full summary »
Director: Irene Taylor | Stars: Ashfaq Bhat, Mikail Davenport, Munzareen Fatima, Michael Galway
Votes: 74
18. The Walking Stick (1970)
GP | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar, Emlyn Williams, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 563
19. I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
Passed | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Susan Hayward stars as singer-actress Lillian Roth, whose rise to stardom was nearly destroyed by alcoholism.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet
Votes: 2,489
20. FDR: American Badass! (2012)
R | 93 min | Action, Comedy
An outrageous, over-the-top spoof, FDR: American Badass is the untold true story of our country's greatest monster-hunting president!
Director: Garrett Brawith | Stars: Barry Bostwick, Lin Shaye, Bruce McGill, Ray Wise
Votes: 2,110
21. Mama's Boy (2022)
TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, Biography
Centers around the upbringing of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and how his close relationship with his mother led to and inspired his activism.
Director: Laurent Bouzereau | Stars: Paris Barclay, Dustin Lance Black, Tom Daley, Troy Williams
Votes: 488
22. Freakonomics (2010)
PG-13 | 85 min | Documentary
A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.
Directors: Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Seth Gordon, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki, Morgan Spurlock | Stars: James Ransone, Tempestt Bledsoe, Morgan Spurlock, Melvin Van Peebles
Votes: 7,738 | Gross: $0.10M
23. Eleanor and Franklin (1976)
203 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of the United States, as told from Eleanor's point of view.
Stars: David Huffman, Mackenzie Phillips, Lilia Skala, Ed Flanders
Votes: 387
24. All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
During a Day of the Dead celebration, the dead come to life to prey upon the living.
Director: Jeremy Kasten | Stars: Marisa Ramirez, Travis Wester, Nichole Hiltz, Laz Alonso
Votes: 1,551
25. War Bride (2001)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In London during World War II, Lily marries a Canadian soldier who immediately goes off to war. She and her newborn daughter are invited to come and live with his family in Canada, where ... See full summary »
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck | Stars: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean
Votes: 1,548
26. Puppet Master: Axis of Evil (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 83 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
During the Second World War, a young man, with the help of some animated puppets, must stop the Nazis who attacked his family and kidnapped his girlfriend.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Levi Fiehler, Jenna Gallaher, Taylor M. Graham, Tom Sandoval
Votes: 1,852
27. Hammers Over the Anvil (1993)
Not Rated | 97 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Set in 1910 in Australia, the film follows the story of a 14 year old motherless youth, stricken with Polio and entering the forbidding world of adults.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Russell Crowe, Alexander Outhred, Frankie J. Holden
Votes: 648
28. The Pale Horse (1997 TV Movie)
120 min | Mystery
When Mark Easterbrook finds himself in the frame for the murder of a priest, there seems no way to prove his innocence other than solving the mystery himself.
Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris, Leslie Phillips
Votes: 427
29. The Oily Maniac (1976)
88 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.
Director: Meng-Hua Ho | Stars: Danny Lee, Ping Chen, Lily Li, Lun Hua
Votes: 979
30. 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
31. Interrupted Melody (1955)
Passed | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This movie chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 1,189
32. Murderball (2005)
R | 88 min | Documentary, Sport
Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
Directors: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro | Stars: Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Robert Soares
Votes: 10,458 | Gross: $1.52M
33. 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: 916
34. The Affair (1973 TV Movie)
PG | 74 min | Drama, Romance
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison, Jamie Smith-Jackson
Votes: 297
35. My Favorite Season (1993)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, Romance
Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites ... See full summary »
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier
Votes: 2,232 | Gross: $0.76M
36. Never Fear (1950)
Passed | 82 min | Drama
A dancer who has just gotten engaged to her partner and choreographer and is about to embark on a major career is devastated to learn that she has contracted polio.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Hugh O'Brian, Eve Miller
Votes: 804
37. Sister Kenny (1946)
Approved | 116 min | Biography, Drama
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale
Votes: 1,263
38. George Carlin: You Are All Diseased (1999 TV Special)
TV-MA | 65 min | Documentary, Comedy
Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities.
Director: Rocco Urbisci | Star: George Carlin
Votes: 4,700
39. Roughly Speaking (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan
Votes: 880
40. Lantern Hill (1989 TV Movie)
111 min | Drama, Family
Jane, a young Toronto girl, tries to reunite her estranged parents during the 1930's, sick of her strict private school and abusive, nasty grandmother.
Director: Kevin Sullivan | Stars: Mairon Bennett, Sam Waterston, Patricia Phillips, Zoe Caldwell
Votes: 323
41. Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Biography, Drama
After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
Director: Vincent J. Donehue | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Votes: 1,509
42. Sexy Cat (1973)
87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A Spanish television crew shooting a pilot for a show about the hit female comic-book character Sexy Cat finds itself stalked by a serial killer dressed as the character.
Director: Julio Pérez Tabernero | Stars: Germán Cobos, Dyanik Zurakowska, Lone Fleming, María Villa
Votes: 161
43. Paperback Romance (1994)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Putting your best foot forward has never been so sexy - or so deliciously funny - as in this entertaining, oddball comedy that proves that it's worth it to go to outrageous lengths for the one you love.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Gia Carides, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Gibney, Robyn Nevin
Votes: 408 | Gross: $0.12M
44. The Fireball (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Sport
An orphanage runaway becomes a roller-skating champion but gets sick with polio.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Pat O'Brien, Beverly Tyler, James Brown
Votes: 373
45. Kunwara Baap (1974)
137 min | Comedy, Drama
A poor rickshaw-puller adopts an abandoned child and brings him up as his son but tragedy strikes when the boy becomes crippled as a result of polio infection.
Director: Mehmood | Stars: Mehmood, Bharathi, Aachi Manorama, Bhushan Tiwari
Votes: 441
46. Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 TV Movie)
155 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jane Alexander, Edward Herrmann, Priscilla Pointer, Walter McGinn
Votes: 344
47. Jungle Jim (1948)
Passed | 71 min | Adventure, Family
Lady scientist, Hilary Parker is searching for a rare drug to help combat polio. Opportunist Bruce Edwards joins the quest but is actually after gold and buried treasure.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Virginia Grey, George Reeves, Lita Baron
Votes: 811
48. The Goddess Bunny (1994 Video)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography
A tour of Los Angeles, California's underground gay, lesbian, and transgender nightclub scene, as hosted by Goddess Bunny, a disabled, tap dancing artist.
Director: Nick Bougas | Stars: Goddess Bunny, John Aes-Nihil, Glen Meadmore
Votes: 122
49. Christmas for a Dollar (2013)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family
A family struggling to get by during the Depression expects another presentless Christmas until the father brings home a dollar for them to spend on presents.
Director: John Lyde | Stars: Brian Krause, Nancy Stafford, Danielle C. Ryan, Heather Beers
Votes: 707
50. Ride a Wild Pony (1975)
G | 91 min | Adventure, Family
A young teenage boy in Australia finds himself at odds with a crippled teenage girl over the ownership of a beloved pony.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Michael Craig, John Meillon, Robert Bettles, Eva Griffith
Votes: 238