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1. My Fair Lady (1964)

G | 170 min | Drama, Family, Musical

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 101,793 | Gross: $72.00M

2. S1m0ne (2002)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Rachel Roberts, Benjamin Salisbury

Votes: 62,455 | Gross: $9.68M

3. Stage Door (1937)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick

Votes: 9,016

4. Born Yesterday (1950)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Howard St. John

Votes: 12,411

5. The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)

104 min | Drama

His own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.

Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Stars: Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koen De Bouw, Darina Al Joundi

Votes: 7,098

6. Garden of Eden (1954)

67 min | Drama

War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist camp.

Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Mickey Knox, Jamie O'Hara, Karen Sue Trent, R.G. Armstrong

Votes: 150

7. Never on Sunday (1960)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Jules Dassin, Giorgos Foundas, Titos Vandis

Votes: 6,148

8. Touki Bouki (1973)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty | Stars: Magaye Niang, Myriam Niang, Christoph Colomb, Mustapha Ture

Votes: 4,103

9. The Makeover (2013 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 93 min | Comedy

After losing election for US Congress, the well spoken Hannah coaches a beer vendor for the position as he, contrary to Hannah, has a likable personality. Can they learn from each other?

Director: John Gray | Stars: Julia Stiles, David Walton, Camryn Manheim, Georgia Lyman

Votes: 3,325

10. The Private Lesson (1975)

95 min | Comedy

A sexy piano teacher is the object of desire of one of the young boys in her class. One of his classmates finds out where she lives and hides outside her place, taking pictures of her ... See full summary »

Director: Vittorio De Sisti | Stars: Carroll Baker, Rosalino Cellamare, Leonora Fani, Carlo Giuffrè

Votes: 452

11. Karaoke (1996)

63 min | Drama

Daniel Feeld is a screenwriter with pains in his gut and a new screenplay called "Karaoke", about a girl named Sandra who works in a seedy Karaoke bar and is murdered by a lowlife named ... See full summary »

Stars: Albert Finney, Roy Hudd, Richard E. Grant, Keeley Hawes

Votes: 620

12. Miss Annie Rooney (1942)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Shirley Temple, William Gargan, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore

Votes: 597

13. Christmas on the Coast (2017)

TV-G | 92 min | Drama, Romance

Cynical novelist Dru Cassadine, known for her romance stories, is desperate for a breakthrough after a string of flops. Spurred by brutal reviews and a threat by her publisher to drop her, she is given just weeks to turn out a best seller.

Director: Gary Wheeler | Stars: Julie Ann Emery, Burgess Jenkins, Bonnie Bedelia, Cait Pool

Votes: 440

14. Cannes Man (1996)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

The Cannes Film Festival. It's where deals get made, producers get laid, and stars get paid. It's where all the movie industry meets to buy and sell all the movies on the planet. And it's ... See full summary »

Directors: Richard Martini, Susan Shapiro | Stars: François Petit, Robert Hockley, Luana Anders, Jack Ong

Votes: 749

15. The Divine Lady (1928)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith

Votes: 935

16. Släpp fångarne loss - det är vår! (1975)

97 min | Comedy, Family

Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own ... See full summary »

Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Lena Nyman, Tage Danielsson, Georg Årlin, Margaretha Krook

Votes: 1,293

17. Ain't Misbehavin' (1955)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

A rowdy young girl crashes high society when a wealthy older man falls for her.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carson, Mamie Van Doren

Votes: 169

18. I Live My Life (1935)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece, where she meets Terry, an archaeologist. She flirts with him and he falls for her. She heads back to New York and he follows... See full summary »

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon

Votes: 769

19. The Projectionist (2019)

94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.

Director: José María Cabral | Stars: Félix Germán, Cindy Galán, Lia Briones, Ana Maria Arias

Votes: 215

20. Ghost Chasers (1951)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Lela Bliss

Votes: 494

21. From the Four Corners (1942)

15 min | Drama, Short

Members of three Commonwealth armies, an Aussie, a Canadian, and a New Zealander meet actor Leslie Howard who buys them a beer and makes them understand why they're fighting.

Director: Anthony Havelock-Allan | Stars: J. Johnston, W. Atkinson, R. Gilbert, Leslie Howard

Votes: 120

22. Five Million Witnesses (1965)

93 min | Crime, Mystery

During the TV premiere of the detective story by Petr Tarantík (Miroslav Machácek) called Case for Three Murderers, a popular actor dies in the midst of live broadcasting, in front of the ... See full summary »

Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Jan Tríska, Miroslav Machácek, Rudolf Hrusínský

Votes: 28

23. Falesná kocicka (1937)

107 min | Comedy

A fortune-teller forecasts for Dr. Prelouc that he will marry the third poverty-stricken little girl he meets. Míla, the daughter of factory owner Janota, likes the doctor and with the aid ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimír Slavínský | Stars: Vera Ferbasová, Karel Jicínský, Oldrich Nový, Antonie Nedosinská

Votes: 72

24. Are You Being Served? (1972–1985)
Episode: New Look (1975)

TV-G | 28 min | Comedy

The department staff decide to kick the scenery up with new background music and store announcement voices. They all compete to be the voice on the loudspeakers, as a cash prize is being offered.

Director: Ray Butt | Stars: Mollie Sugden, Trevor Bannister, Frank Thornton, John Inman

Votes: 203

25. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: The Ugliest Dog in the World (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Rob brings the ugliest dog anyone's ever seen to the studio for a dog sketch. No one stops to consider what becomes of the poor pooch once he's no longer needed.

Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 248

26. Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963)
Episode: The Return of the Lady (1959)

Not Rated | 26 min | Western

The Honourable Diana Coulter writes Paladin to ask that he give her away at the upcoming wedding to a proud Confederate general.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Richard Boone, Patricia Medina, Gene Nelson, Theodore Marcuse

Votes: 95

27. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Great Barrier (2004)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Goren has to interrogate his chameleon-like nemesis, Nicole Wallace, when she becomes a suspect in the slaying of a jewelry thief.

Director: Frank Prinzi | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 350

28. Miracles (2003)
Episode: Saint Debbie (2003)

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After a small town woman survives getting her throat slit in a failed diner robbery, the group investigates whether a miracle has occurred.

Director: Lawrence Trilling | Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Angus Macfadyen, Marisa Ramirez, Hector Elizondo

Votes: 58

29. The Muppet Show (1976–1981)
Episode: Roger Moore (1980)

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

Kermit has hired several spies for Roger Moore's closing number, but Moore wants to do a wholesome song instead. The spies disguise themselves as fluffy animals in order to get him.

Director: Peter Harris | Stars: Roger Moore, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt

Votes: 134

30. Newhart (1982–1990)
Episode: The Girl from Manhattan (1983)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy

Joanna convinces Dick to direct a play for the town but is angry when he refuses to cast her in the lead.

Director: Linda Day | Stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Steven Kampmann, Julia Duffy

Votes: 95

31. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: The Bolter (1973)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

Hazel's first substantial encounter with fashionable society causes her great humiliation, marital distress and a near-fatal accident, when she and James visit Lord and Lady Newbury at Sommerby Park.

Director: Cyril Coke | Stars: Meg Wynn Owen, David Langton, Jean Marsh, Simon Williams

Votes: 99

32. Will & Grace (1998–2020)
Episode: The Young and the Tactless (2001)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Romance

Grace's (Debra Messing) new neighbor, guest star Woody Harrelson, is a slovenly lout whose disheveled lifestyle and grungy habits put him at odds with her well-ordered world.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes

Votes: 317

33. The Lucy Show (1962–1968)
Episode: My Fair Lucy (1965)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

To get the financing to open a charm school, the Countess seeks to impress the snobbish Mrs. Dunbar and her henpecked husband. Lucy masquerades as a ratty scrub woman whom she molds into a ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Ann Sothern, Reta Shaw

Votes: 54

34. Timon & Pumbaa (1995–1999)
Episode: Pig-Malion/Why No Rhino (1999)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

After Timon's new bug-catching invention fails, a seemingly well-meaning hedgehog, Dr. Exceter, offers to give him and Pumbaa general education. / Timon tries to swindle a rich tourist couple who wish to photograph the elusive blue rhino.

Director: Brad Neave | Stars: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Valery Pappas, Billy West

Votes: 45

35. Clouds of Witness (1972)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (1972)

45 min | Drama, Mystery

Lord Peter almost loses his life in the bog but is rescued and recovers in Grimthorpe farmhouse, where he stumbles onto some crucial evidence.

Director: Hugh David | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden, Rachel Herbert

Votes: 32

36. Lillie (1978)
Episode: America (1978)

52 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Lillie stages an American tour, marred by hostile American critics and newspaper accusations of an illicit romance with American millionaire Freddie Gebhard. Returning to England leads to ... See full summary »

Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Francesca Annis, Denis Lill, Peter Egan, Annette Crosbie

Votes: 22

37. Cracked (2013–2014)
Episode: Cherry Blossoms (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Psych Crimes and Crises is sent to investigate a crazed gun-wielding woman. It turns out that woman is Beth Croxton, a police officer, who is mourning the just occurred suicide death of her... See full summary »

Director: Jim Donovan | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Stefanie von Pfetten, Luisa d'Oliveira, Dayo Ade

Votes: 49

38. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
Episode: Unnatural Habits (2013)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, History

When the death of a teenager leads Jack and Phryne to investigate a halfway house for pregnant and wayward girls, they find their investigation blocked at every turn. With Jack's job in jeopardy, solving this case just got personal.

Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings

Votes: 408

39. Show Jana Krause (2010– )
Episode: Episode dated 10 February 2016 (2016)

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Stars: Jan Kraus, Zdenka Procházková, Tomás Cupr, David Hurka

40. Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017)
Episode: Child's Play (2017)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Molly's childhood imaginary friend reappears as a monster. Molly visits The Vault for the first time.

Director: Michael Goi | Stars: Tom Mison, Janina Gavankar, Lyndie Greenwood, Jerry MacKinnon

Votes: 306

41. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Pandora's Box, Part I (2017)

TV-PG | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Abby's homeland security think tank is compromised, the team realizes that a theoretical terror playbook has been stolen.

Director: Alrick Riley | Stars: Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama

Votes: 553

42. Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011– )
Episode: Episode #7.5 (2017)

59 min | Reality-TV

Travel through the Cotswalds to Brighton with Sharon Maughan and Tina Hobley as they search for antique bargains.

Stars: Tim Wonnacott, Raj Bisram, James Braxton, Tina Hobley

43. New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
Episode: Pigmallian/Bugs the Gladiator (2018)

TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Mall cop Porky Pig tries catching Daffy Duck before he makes a mess out of the mall. / On his way to the Roman baths, Bugs gets lost and ends up in the Colosseum fighting its champion gladiator.

Director: Erik Knutson | Stars: Dee Bradley Baker, Eric Bauza, Jeff Bennett, Bob Bergen

Votes: 12