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1. Batman Forever (1995)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman

Votes: 266,619 | Gross: $184.03M

2. The Piano (1993)

R | 121 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin

Votes: 95,176 | Gross: $40.16M

3. Cure (1997)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa

Votes: 23,067 | Gross: $0.09M

4. Batman: The Movie (1966)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Dynamic Duo faces four supervillains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero

Votes: 35,802

5. Barefoot in the Park (1967)

G | 106 min | Comedy, Romance

Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.

Director: Gene Saks | Stars: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer, Mildred Natwick

Votes: 20,495 | Gross: $19.99M

6. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee

Votes: 9,609

7. The Last Circus (2010)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Carlos Areces, Antonio de la Torre, Carolina Bang, Manuel Tallafé

Votes: 15,232 | Gross: $0.04M

8. The Dinner Party (2020)

116 min | Horror, Thriller

A budding playwright and his wife attend a dinner party hosted by wealthy, cultural elites, who have promised to bankroll the writer's latest play to Broadway, but, in fact, have darker designs in mind for the couple.

Director: Miles Doleac | Stars: Jeremy London, Bill Sage, Sherri Eakin, Alli Hart

Votes: 7,796

9. Satanik (1968)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a youth formula.

Director: Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Magda Konopka, Julio Peña, Umberto Raho, Luigi Montini

Votes: 426

10. The Skull (1965)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror, Thriller

A collector comes into possession of the skull of the Marquis de Sade and learns it is possessed by an evil spirit.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Peter Cushing, Patrick Wymark, Christopher Lee, Jill Bennett

Votes: 3,581

11. The Saviour (1971)

105 min | Drama, War

In 1943, rural French teenager Nanette meets an injured British airman and decides to give him shelter at her family's farm after falling in-love with him.

Director: Michel Mardore | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Muriel Catalá, Hélène Vallier, Roger Lumont

Votes: 278

12. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison

Votes: 3,123

13. Port of Shadows (1938)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.

Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur

Votes: 9,963 | Gross: $0.03M

14. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

After learning her multi-millionaire fiancé has already been married seven times, the daughter of a penniless marquis decides to tame him.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven

Votes: 4,543

15. Ferpect Crime (2004)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An ambitious salesman will do anything for that big promotion he's been chasing, but inevitably, he will learn that there is no such thing as the perfect crime.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Enrique Villén, Luis Varela

Votes: 12,988

16. The Leopard Man (1943)

Approved | 66 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller

A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell

Votes: 5,961

17. Follow Me Quietly (1949)

Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An obsessed cop tracks an elusive serial killer who strangles his victims on rainy nights.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, Nestor Paiva

Votes: 1,744

18. Horror Island (1941)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A down-on-his-luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Dick Foran, Leo Carrillo, Peggy Moran, Fuzzy Knight

Votes: 988

19. The Lady in Question (1940)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted defendant and invites her to move into his family's home and his son soon falls in love with her.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Irene Rich

Votes: 933

20. In Search of Gregory (1969)

M/PG | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Young Catherine Morelli (Julie Christie), who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a nearly nymphomaniacal pursuit of a mystery-fantasy man called Gregory (Michael Sarrazin).

Director: Peter Wood | Stars: Julie Christie, John Hurt, Michael Sarrazin, Paola Pitagora

Votes: 286

21. Lucky Me (1954)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr.

Votes: 895

22. The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)

106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Charles Vanel, Claude Dauphin

Votes: 864

23. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold

Votes: 1,167

24. Chickens Come Home (1931)

Passed | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Baldwin Cooke

Votes: 1,682

25. Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Harry Baur, Renée Faure, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Raymond Rouleau

Votes: 691

26. Critic's Choice (1963)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy

Parker Ballantine is a New York theater critic and his wife writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Parker must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell, Rip Torn

Votes: 1,117

27. Borrowed Wives (1930)

62 min | Comedy

Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds, Paul Hurst, Sam Hardy

Votes: 183

28. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)

Passed | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland

Votes: 1,249

29. The Eye of the Monocle (1962)

105 min | Comedy, Thriller

In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen, Gaia Germani, Charles Millot

Votes: 286

30. The Phantom Baron (1943)

99 min | Drama, Romance

Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The... See full summary »

Director: Serge de Poligny | Stars: André Lefaur, Odette Joyeux, Jany Holt, Alain Cuny

Votes: 141

31. The Other Woman's Story (1925)

60 min | Drama

Alice sues husband Robert for divorce for adultery. When her lawyer is murdered, her husband is charged. At the murder trial, as each witness speaks, we see the events they describe. A new witness pops up.

Director: B.F. Stanley | Stars: Alice Calhoun, Robert Frazer, Helen Lee Worthing, David Torrence

Votes: 25

32. Due mogli sono troppe (1951)

79 min | Comedy

After World War 2, a newly married couple travel to Italy on their honeymoon and visit the town where he fought. The town, however, holds some secrets.

Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Kieron Moore, Griffith Jones, Lea Padovani, Sally Ann Howes

Votes: 40

33. Boys Will Murder Their Fathers and Sleep with Their Mothers: Rebutted! (2017 Video)

48 min | News

Stefan Molyneux responds to a New York Times article by Stephen Marche called "If You Let Boys Be Boys, They Will Murder Their Fathers and Sleep with Their Mothers".

Star: Stefan Molyneux

34. Sittin' Pretty (1924)

14 min | Short, Comedy

When Charlie borrows the policeman's uniform of his girl's father and captures a lunatic, his prospective father-in-law dons the uniform just in time to receive the reward of $1,000.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Beth Darlington, Leo Willis, Earl Mohan

Votes: 59

35. Pink Goes to Hollywood (1993 Video Game)

GA | Animation, Action, Adventure

A 2D platform game very loosely based on the Pink Panther cartoon show. To become a Hollywood star, Pink must beat seven levels: the pirate ship, Sherwood Forest, western town, the fridge, haunted house, skyline and jungle temple.

Votes: 15

36. Zastrený hlas (2006 TV Movie)

91 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Viktor Polesný | Stars: Vilma Cibulková, Miroslav Etzler, Aneta Krejcíková, Robert Jasków

Votes: 14

37. Melánie, Melánie (1993 TV Movie)

85 min | Drama, Thriller

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Director: Vladimír Drha | Stars: Eliska Balzerová, Jirí Zahajský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Kveta Fialová

38. Drobné neznosti (1991 TV Movie)

65 min | Drama

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Director: Dusan Klein | Stars: Jan Stastný, Gabriela Filippi, Ondrej Vetchý, Ivan Rezác

39. The Addams Family (1964–1966)
Episode: Morticia, the Sculptress (1965)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

When Morticia declares she's bored and needs an outlet for her creativity, Gomez suggests several possibilities, including sculpting. This strikes a chord in her and immediately she throws ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy

Votes: 202

40. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Thanks to Endora's spell, everyone takes an instant dislike to Darrin.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy

Votes: 340

41. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: That Was My Wife (1965)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

When Samantha and Darrin spend the night at a hotel and Samantha wears a dark wig, Larry spots them and thinks Darrin is having an affair.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, George Tobias

Votes: 377

42. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: To Twitch or Not to Twitch (1968)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

In an argument about witchcraft after they get a flat tire, Samantha takes Tabitha and leaves.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy

Votes: 277

43. The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
Episode: One Night's Grace (1976)

TV-PG | 52 min | Drama

All are intrigued when an attractive young lady asks to see Lord Haslemere -- who is she, what does she want, and more to the point, what is she after?

Director: Cyril Coke | Stars: Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove, Sally Osborne, John Welsh

Votes: 32

44. Everglades! (1961–1962)
Episode: Black Honeymoon (1962)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A bride is horrified when her husband changes their honeymoon plans at the last minute and takes them into the Everglades to camp. The groom's jealously and desire for secrecy makes her ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Herzberg | Stars: Ron Hayes, Mala Powers, Jack Cassidy, Charles G. Martin

Votes: 8

45. Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996–2000)
Episode: Tarzan and the Moon God (1997)

TV-G | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Pirates raid Tasi's village and steal the totem of the Moon God that the villagers need to elect their new chieftain. Themba is blamed, so he vows to bring it back. Tarzan realizes that the pirate girl who led the raid somehow knows him.

Director: William Tannen | Stars: Lindelani Buthelezi, Tony Caprari, Simon Jones, Joe Lara

Votes: 14

46. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: Man of Mystery (1962)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A public relations man writes a book exposing an ex-client, a secretive international financier, is murdered when it's finished. A reporter investigates, but everyone he tries to interview,... See full summary »

Director: John Newland | Stars: Boris Karloff, Mary Tyler Moore, John van Dreelen, William Windom

Votes: 114

47. Timon & Pumbaa (1995–1999)
Episode: One Tough Bug/Pirates of Pumbzance (1999)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Timon and Pumbaa face the legendary indestructible superstrong bug. / Timon and Pumbaa join the pirates but when the captain orders them to attack another ship, they turn on him.

Director: Brad Neave | Stars: Paddi Edwards, Jess Harnell, Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon

Votes: 47

48. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Subterraneans: Part 1 (2005)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd and the team discover that two decomposed bodies -- one a suicide and the other a murder victim -- are linked to the same man, a medical researcher.

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall

Votes: 152

49. Amour fou (2020)
Episode: Épisode 3 (2020)

56 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Four years after Mickaël's death, Romain still remains vulnerable. He and Rebecca now have a little girl, Emma. One day, when their daughter is hospitalised, Romain discovers that their ... See full summary »

Director: Mathias Gokalp | Stars: Clotilde Hesme, Jérémie Renier, Majda Abdelmalek, Finnegan Oldfield

Votes: 15

50. Five Red Herrings (1975)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (1975)

50 min | Crime, Mystery

Some of Wimsey's five red herrings who were formerly missing surface and a key witness comes forward,

Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, John Junkin, Clive Graham

Votes: 31