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1. Grease (1978)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway

Votes: 300,810 | Gross: $188.76M

2. Annie (1982)

PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking

Votes: 49,552 | Gross: $57.06M

3. Wedding Crashers (2005)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Romance

John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.

Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, Christopher Walken

Votes: 375,967 | Gross: $209.22M

4. The Way We Were (1973)

PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance

During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles

Votes: 27,495

5. Bros (I) (2022)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Romance

Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.

Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Guy Branum, Miss Lawrence

Votes: 35,129

6. Class (1983)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young man in private school spends one crazy night out, and only later does he learn more about the woman who enlivened his night.

Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Cliff Robertson

Votes: 12,080

7. Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

PG | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels

Votes: 101,324 | Gross: $31.56M

8. Baby Boom (1987)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Kristina Kennedy

Votes: 19,172 | Gross: $26.71M

9. The Prom (2020)

PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high-school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Kerry Washington

Votes: 29,263

10. J. Edgar (2011)

R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Hamilton

Votes: 133,673 | Gross: $37.31M

11. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 37,244 | Gross: $29.55M

12. Man Down (I) (2015)

R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller, War

In a post-apocalyptic America, former U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his son, accompanied by his best friend and a survivor.

Director: Dito Montiel | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara

Votes: 11,107

13. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

R | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.

Director: Dick Richards | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles

Votes: 9,614 | Gross: $4.36M

14. Grease Live! (2016 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 140 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

After enjoying a summer romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High. There Sandy must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies in attempt to win Danny's heart again.

Directors: Thomas Kail, Alex Rudzinski | Stars: Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Vanessa Hudgens, Keke Palmer

Votes: 9,945

15. Dogfight (1991)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.

Director: Nancy Savoca | Stars: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark

Votes: 10,040 | Gross: $0.39M

16. Hopscotch (1980)

R | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy

Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty

Votes: 8,971

17. Haven (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

A U.S. official escorts Holocaust refugees from 1940s war-torn Europe to temporary shelter in America.

Director: John Gray | Stars: Natasha Richardson, Colm Feore, Henry Czerny, Sheila McCarthy

Votes: 531

18. Ithaca (2015)

PG | 96 min | Drama, War

With his older brother off to war, fourteen-year-old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.

Director: Meg Ryan | Stars: Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater

Votes: 3,114

19. Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller

Votes: 19,198 | Gross: $7.92M

20. Amelia (2009)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston

Votes: 13,627 | Gross: $14.24M

21. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Greg Stebner, Woody Allen, John Tormey, John Schuck

Votes: 42,445 | Gross: $7.50M

22. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf

Votes: 16,871 | Gross: $11.80M

23. Moon Over Parador (1988)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters

Votes: 6,751 | Gross: $11.44M

24. Bloody Mama (1970)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A psychologically disturbed matriarch presides over her damaged family of bank-robbing misfits.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Shelley Winters, Don Stroud, Pat Hingle, Diane Varsi

Votes: 3,730

25. Wild River (1960)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance

A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi

Votes: 6,186

26. An American Rhapsody (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama

A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

Director: Éva Gárdos | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson, Raffaella Bánsági, Tony Goldwyn

Votes: 4,597 | Gross: $0.85M

27. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis

Votes: 8,976

28. The Member of the Wedding (1952)

TV-G | 93 min | Drama, Family

Her older brother's wedding forces preteen tomboy Frankie to face her own immaturity.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz

Votes: 1,585

29. Dear Eleanor (2016)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two teenage girls travel across the U.S. in 1962, during the chaos of the Cuban missile crisis, in search of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Director: Kevin Connolly | Stars: Liana Liberato, Isabelle Fuhrman, Josh Lucas, Luke Wilson

Votes: 2,050

30. Babes in Arms (1939)

Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Musical

A group of vaudevillians struggling to compete with talkies hits the road hoping for a comeback. Frustrated to be left behind, all of their kids put on a show themselves to raise money for the families and to prove they've got talent, too.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 2,849

31. The Best Man (1964)

Approved | 102 min | Drama

The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former president's endorsement.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton

Votes: 3,732

32. The Great Smokey Roadblock (1977)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

After his rig is repossessed, an aging trucker by the name of Elegant John Howard decides he and his truck have one more good run in them, and with the help of a hitchhiker and a few others he will make it happen.

Director: John Leone | Stars: Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Austin Pendleton, Robert Englund

Votes: 607

33. Bye Bye Germany (2017)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, War

David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.

Director: Sam Garbarski | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir

Votes: 1,769 | Gross: $0.07M

34. Love (1971)

88 min | Drama

The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.

Director: Károly Makk | Stars: Lili Darvas, Mari Törőcsik, Iván Darvas, Erzsi Orsolya

Votes: 2,180

35. Broadway Rhythm (1944)

Passed | 115 min | Music, Romance

A reluctantly-retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son, who thinks his father's entertainment is passe'--audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile, the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own show.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven

Votes: 341

36. Stand-ins (1997)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

A group of dysfunctional, disappointed actresses congregate in a Hollywood bar circa 1937.

Director: Harvey Keith | Stars: Katherine Morris, Costas Mandylor, Jordan Ladd, Daphne Zuniga

Votes: 198

37. John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1988)

126 min | Documentary, Biography

Biography of risk-taker and raconteur John Huston from his childhood to become one of the most highly respected filmmakers in the world.

Director: Frank Martin | Stars: John Huston, Robert Mitchum, Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall

Votes: 331

38. The Doughgirls (1944)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy

While sharing a hotel suite during the World War II housing shortage in Washington, D.C., three friends discover that their respective marriages are not legally valid.

Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Jane Wyman

Votes: 775

39. Booby Hatched (1944)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Winter. A duck struggles mightily, and finally hatches her eggs in the bitter cold, after candling them and seeing the chicks skiing, skating, and otherwise enjoying winter inside the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc

Votes: 420

40. Great Day (1945)

62 min | Drama

An impending Eleanor Roosevelt visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans

Votes: 230

41. Cinematic Titanic: Legacy of Blood (2008 Video)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy

The Dean family patriarch has died and left a fortune to his children and servants. The occasion soon turns grim when they discover they must all must spend an entire week at the family ... See full summary »

Directors: Tim Ford, Stoney Sharp | Stars: Grant Baciocco, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson

Votes: 243

42. The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Richard Kaplan documents the life of one of America's most influential first ladies. Orphaned at age 10, Eleanor Roosevelt marries her fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1905. His ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Kaplan | Stars: Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid, Corinne Alsop Cole, Hillary Clinton

Votes: 208

43. Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, Biography

The story of the actress, writer, and broadcasting pioneer Gertrude Berg.

Director: Aviva Kempner | Stars: Gertrude Berg, Lewis Berg, Sara Chase, Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Votes: 246 | Gross: $1.13M

44. The Gay Rub: A Documentary (2018)

Not Rated | 16 min | Documentary, Short, History

This documentary chronicles the project by Steven Reigns devoted to collecting rubbings from LGBTQ historical markers, signs, tombstones, cenotaphs, plaques, and monuments.

Director: Michael J. Saul | Stars: Lillian Faderman, David K. Johnson, Steven Reigns, Jacob Soboroff

Votes: 7

45. Entities: The Unveiling (2016 Video)

143 min | Documentary

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Director: Trey Smith | Stars: Marcello Bacci, Randy Clark, Bill Clinton, Merv Griffin

Votes: 9

46. Paternal Instinct (2004)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Romance

Two boys in search of a surrogate mother for their child.

Director: Murray Nossel | Stars: Erik, Mark Eisenhardt, Barbara Eisenhardt, Larry

Votes: 93

47. Hillary (2016 Video)

30 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Trey Smith | Stars: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Trey Smith, Donald Trump

Votes: 7

48. FDR at Hyde Park (1952)

Approved | 16 min | Documentary, Short

THe life and work of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelty are vividly recalled in this Pictorial Films production through a moving photographic study of his home. All the things and places... See full summary »

Director: Julian Roffman | Star: Norman Rose

49. The Democrats Realize They Can't Impeach Trump So They're Begging Him to Resign (2017 Video)

18 min | Short, News

The Democrats get rid of Al Franken and John Conyers and now demand that Trump play fair and step down himself.

Star: Styxhexenhammer666

50. 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001)
Episode: Sex and the Sally (1999)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Dick learns about tipping while Sally learns sex can lead to pregnancy.

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Votes: 287