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1. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 2,013,017 | Gross: $134.97M

2. Back to the Future (1985)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover

Votes: 1,307,174 | Gross: $210.61M

3. 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: 300,642 | Gross: $188.76M

4. Battleship (2012)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna

Votes: 257,394 | Gross: $65.42M

5. Remember the Titans (2000)

PG | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

In 1971 Virginia high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the school board was forced to integrate an all-black school with an all-white one, the very foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.

Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst

Votes: 231,972 | Gross: $115.65M

6. Aladdin (1992)

G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman

Votes: 467,000 | Gross: $217.35M

7. Four Rooms (1995)

R | 98 min | Comedy

Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.

Directors: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Chuck Jones | Stars: Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Sammi Davis, Amanda De Cadenet

Votes: 111,104 | Gross: $4.30M

8. Poison Ivy (1992)

R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.

Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd

Votes: 20,160 | Gross: $1.83M

9. Sisters (III) (2015)

R | 118 min | Comedy

Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.

Director: Jason Moore | Stars: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz

Votes: 69,369 | Gross: $87.04M

10. Big Eyes (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter

Votes: 99,124 | Gross: $14.48M

11. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey

Votes: 76,793 | Gross: $40.08M

12. Once Bitten (1985)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror

A vampire Countess needs to drink the blood of a virgin in order to keep her eternal beauty. It seems that all is hopeless, until she bumps into Mark Kendall.

Director: Howard Storm | Stars: Lauren Hutton, Jim Carrey, Karen Kopins, Cleavon Little

Votes: 16,825 | Gross: $10.00M

13. Slacker (1990)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A day in the life of Austin, Texas as the camera roams from place to place and provides a brief look at the overeducated, the social misfits, the outcasts and the oddballs.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey

Votes: 23,478 | Gross: $1.23M

14. Hitchcock (2012)

PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.

Director: Sacha Gervasi | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston

Votes: 79,229 | Gross: $6.01M

15. Trees Lounge (1996)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, "If only X then I could stop drinking".

Director: Steve Buscemi | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Bronson Dudley

Votes: 17,594 | Gross: $0.70M

16. The Pest (1997)

PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy

A Miami con man agrees to be the human target for a Neo-Nazi manhunter in order to collect $50,000 if he survives.

Director: Paul Miller | Stars: John Leguizamo, Jeffrey Jones, Edoardo Ballerini, Freddy Rodríguez

Votes: 9,234 | Gross: $3.60M

17. Pretty Persuasion (2005)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

Director: Marcos Siega | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Ron Livingston, James Woods, David Wagner

Votes: 10,821 | Gross: $0.31M

18. Superman/Doomsday (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When LexCorps accidentally unleash a murderous creature, Doomsday, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.

Directors: Lauren Montgomery, Bruce Timm, Brandon Vietti | Stars: Adam Baldwin, Anne Heche, James Marsters, John DiMaggio

Votes: 23,520

19. Godard Mon Amour (2017)

R | 107 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.

Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Micha Lescot

Votes: 6,005 | Gross: $0.08M

20. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama

A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Votes: 4,740

21. King of Cool (2021)

107 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The story of Dean Martin.

Director: Tom Donahue | Stars: Dean Martin, Frankie Avalon, Jerry Blavat, Bill Boggs

Votes: 886

22. Pyrates (1991)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

Ari (Kevin Bacon) and Sam (Kyra Sedgwick), have incendiary sex a lot and burn down apartment blocks, wig-wams, etc...

Director: Noah Stern | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, Bruce Payne, Kristin Dattilo

Votes: 733

23. Suffering Man's Charity (2007)

93 min | Comedy, Horror

Jonathan Vandermark is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a pot to piss in. When Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John's charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.

Director: Alan Cumming | Stars: Alan Cumming, Alison Guh, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche

Votes: 896

24. McCanick (2013)

R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Set over the course of one day, a narcotics detective hunts for a seemingly harmless young criminal who knows a truth about the cop's past.

Director: Josh C. Waller | Stars: David Morse, Mike Vogel, Cory Monteith, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 1,743

25. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita

Votes: 2,619

26. Bianca (1984)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

Michele is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele meets beautiful ... See full summary »

Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Roberto Vezzosi, Remo Remotti

Votes: 3,587

27. Lakeboat (2000)

R | 98 min | Drama

Film adaptation of David Mamet's comic play Lakeboat about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.

Director: Joe Mantegna | Stars: Charles Durning, Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Robert Forster

Votes: 746

28. The Sunshine Boys (1996 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.

Director: John Erman | Stars: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 1,379

29. John Leguizamo: Freak (1998 TV Special)

Not Rated | 89 min | Biography, Comedy

John Leguizamo's semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as...himself. This is his autobiographical story, about his life growing up, and his journey to try to be accepted by his ... See full summary »

Director: Spike Lee | Star: John Leguizamo

Votes: 1,211

30. Benny Hill's World Tour: New York! (1991 TV Special)

TV-PG | 46 min | Comedy

Mr. Hill's last TV work, taped and aired before his death, with outdoor scenes taped in New York City. Highlights of this show include "A Streetcar Named Desirée" (a Tennessee Williams ... See full summary »

Director: Dennis Kirkland | Stars: Benny Hill, Henry McGee, Bob Todd, Anna Dawson

Votes: 352

31. Chaos on the Bridge (2014 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The story of the struggle to create the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).

Director: William Shatner | Stars: William Shatner, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Maurice Hurley

Votes: 1,353

32. Without You I'm Nothing (1990)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Musical

Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.

Director: John Boskovich | Stars: Sandra Bernhard, John Doe, Steve Antin, Lu Leonard

Votes: 664 | Gross: $1.22M

33. Divine Madness (1980)

R | 95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music

Movie comedy queen Bette Midler reigns supreme in this rocking, rolling concert movie bash. The Divine Miss M at her trashiest, flashiest, heavenly best!

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Bette Midler, Jocelyn Brown, Ula Hedwig, Diva Gray

Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.77M

34. Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History

The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Levitz, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid

Votes: 1,330

35. The Cinema Snob Movie (2012 Video)

Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

When an exploitation filmmaker goes undercover as a pretentious film snob to obtain proper filming permits, he is thrust into a strange mystery surrounding the very secretive film commission.

Director: Ryan Mitchelle | Stars: Brad Jones, Jake Norvell, Jillian Zurawski, Ryan Mitchelle

Votes: 482

36. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.

Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Dan Butler, Don Ameche, Johnny Arthur, Lucille Ball

Votes: 322

37. The Compleat Al (1985 Video)

TV-PG | 102 min | Comedy, Music

Fact and fiction are mingled in this mockumentary about the career of music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic. In retelling his life story, the film includes several of his music videos, ... See full summary »

Directors: Jay Levey, Robert K. Weiss | Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Wally Burns, Billy Selby, Jane Campbell

Votes: 477

38. Meet the Morecocks (2015 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 34 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

In July of 2012, burgeoning art-house porn studio CockyBoys was pushed to the forefront of the mainstream when its trio of owners/boyfriends -- 25-year-old tech wiz Benny Morecock, CEO and ... See full summary »

Directors: Jake Jaxson, R.J. Sebastian | Stars: Benny Morecock, Cj Kut, R.J. Sebastian, Jake Jaxson

Votes: 24

39. Maltin on Movies (2014 Podcast Series)

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Stars: Leonard Maltin, Jessie Maltin, Ron Perlman, Julie Hagerty

Votes: 7

40. Popeye's 20th Anniversary (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films at a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like 'Jimmy Durante', 'Bing Crosby', 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin... See full summary »

Directors: Izzy Sparber, Al Eugster, Nick Tafuri, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Sid Raymond

Votes: 188

41. Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018)

109 min | Drama

A film buff learns something new about her family and encounters noir-like situations in Hollywood.

Director: Jordan Mohr | Stars: Heidi Appe, Anastasia Art, Barbara Bologna, Angelica Coralvine

42. Superstar in a Housedress (2004)

Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

"Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite ... See full summary »

Director: Craig Highberger | Stars: Peter Allen, Paul Ambrose, Michael André, Penny Arcade

Votes: 171 | Gross: $0.03M

43. Der Clown (2016 TV Movie)

115 min | Documentary

Myths and legends about the origin and the reasons for the disappearance of the film "The Day The Clown Cried" by Hollywood star Jerry Lewis.

Director: Eric Friedler | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Pierre Étaix, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Harry Shearer

Votes: 85

44. Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016 TV Movie)

61 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown chronicles the remarkable life and genius work of one of the most iconic and incomparable comic performers and filmmakers of our time.

Director: Gregory Monro | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Frank Krutnik, Tony Lewis Comedian, Ted Okuda

Votes: 901

45. Cinematic Titanic: The Oozing Skull (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy

Cinematic Titanic dissects The Oozing Skull, aka _Brain of Blood (1972)_.

Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Joel Hodgson, Mary Jo Pehl

Votes: 308

46. #MakeMoreMST3K Livestream V: WEREWOLF (2021 Video)

127 min | Comedy

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Stars: Nate Begle, Bill Corbett, Humphrey the Dog, Joel Hodgson

47. The Story of... The Day the Clown Cried (2016 TV Movie)

28 min | Documentary

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Director: Pete Doherty | Stars: Devorah Baum, Jan Goransson, Jerry Lewis, Jan Lumholdt

Votes: 10

48. The Errand Boy (2013 Video)

3 min | Short, Comedy

In this recreation of a classic Jerry Lewis routine, an errand boy pretends to be the boss, as his actions complement a jazz song.

Stars: Alex Farnham, Peter Gilroy

49. Century of Cinema (1995–1998)
Episode: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

225 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.

Directors: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson | Stars: Martin Scorsese, Allison Anders, Kathryn Bigelow, Francis Ford Coppola

Votes: 5,141

50. Animaniacs (1993–1998)
Episode: Taming of the Screwy (1993)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Mr. Plotz tasks Scratchansniff with bringing the Warners in line so they might appear at a huge gala to schmooze some Japanese investors.

Director: Alfred Gimeno | Stars: Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker

Votes: 252