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1. The Notebook (2004)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Romance
An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.
Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling
Votes: 620,801 | Gross: $81.00M
2. The Marvels (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Carol Danvers gets her powers entangled with those of Kamala Khan and Monica Rambeau, forcing them to work together to save the universe.
Director: Nia DaCosta | Stars: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Samuel L. Jackson
Votes: 125,173
3. The Whale (2022)
R | 117 min | Drama
A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Hong Chau
Votes: 211,663
4. Collateral Beauty (2016)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time, and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Director: David Frankel | Stars: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña
Votes: 105,041 | Gross: $31.02M
5. Little Women (1994)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes
Votes: 63,627 | Gross: $50.08M
6. Your Place or Mine (2023)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Two long-distance best friends change each other's lives when she decides to pursue a lifelong dream and he volunteers to keep an eye on her teenage son.
Director: Aline Brosh McKenna | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Zoë Chao, Jesse Williams
Votes: 39,489
7. Wild (I) (2014)
R | 115 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A chronicle of one woman's 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman
Votes: 138,949 | Gross: $37.88M
8. Patch Adams (1998)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The true story of a heroic man, Hunter "Patch" Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.
Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Votes: 122,376 | Gross: $135.03M
9. The Man from Toronto (2022)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Jasmine Mathews, Kaley Cuoco
Votes: 59,773
10. Doc Hollywood (1991)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young doctor on his way across the country to a job interview crashes his car in a small town and is sentenced to work for several days at the town hospital.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Barnard Hughes, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 40,319 | Gross: $54.83M
11. Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring
Votes: 45,443
12. Kill Your Darlings (2013)
R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster
Votes: 41,261 | Gross: $1.03M
13. Reds (1981)
PG | 195 min | Biography, Drama, History
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Director: Warren Beatty | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski
Votes: 24,724 | Gross: $40.38M
14. Nine Days (2020)
R | 124 min | Drama, Fantasy
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
Director: Edson Oda | Stars: Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Benedict Wong
Votes: 11,827
15. The Object of My Affection (1998)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A pregnant New York City social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Kali Rocha, Lena Cardwell
Votes: 21,533 | Gross: $29.11M
16. Dead Again (1991)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Lois Hall
Votes: 30,395 | Gross: $38.02M
17. Down by Law (1986)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
Votes: 55,327 | Gross: $1.44M
18. Bounce (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A man switches plane tickets with another man who dies in that plane in a crash. The man falls in love with the deceased one's wife.
Director: Don Roos | Stars: Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natasha Henstridge, Edward Edwards
Votes: 21,745 | Gross: $36.81M
19. Now, Voyager (1942)
Passed | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 19,027
20. L.I.E. (2001)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay
Votes: 10,456 | Gross: $1.14M
21. Sssssss (1973)
PG | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A college student becomes lab assistant to a scientist who is working on a serum that can transform humans into snakes.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies-Urich, Richard B. Shull
Votes: 3,973
22. The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
Director: Maria Maggenti | Stars: Laurel Holloman, Nicole Ari Parker, Maggie Moore, Kate Stafford
Votes: 5,087 | Gross: $1.98M
23. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,618
24. Black Roses (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror, Music
Demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band.
Director: John Fasano | Stars: John Martin, Ken Swofford, Sal Viviano, Julie Adams
Votes: 2,645
25. Town & Country (2001)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Two loving middle aged couples get caught in a series of marital misadventures over reasons of fidelity.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Nastassja Kinski, Goldie Hawn
Votes: 5,255 | Gross: $6.72M
26. Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An uptight New York City lawyer takes her two teenagers to her hippie mother's farmhouse upstate for a family vacation.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Jane Fonda, Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Nat Wolff
Votes: 8,783 | Gross: $0.54M
27. Words and Pictures (2013)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Bruce Davison, Amy Brenneman
Votes: 11,417 | Gross: $2.17M
28. Vampire Hookers (1978)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror
Carradine is an aged vampire who has a bevy of vampiric beauties who lure many of their customers back to his lair. A pair of virile young Navy sailors get mixed up in their shenanigans.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: John Carradine, Bruce Fairbairn, Trey Wilson, Karen Stride
Votes: 1,070
29. C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Director: Kevin Willmott | Stars: Greg Kirsch, Renee Patrick, Molly Graham, William Willmott
Votes: 5,162 | Gross: $0.67M
30. The Trouble with Girls (1969)
G | 97 min | Comedy, History, Musical
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small-town America.
Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North
Votes: 1,779
31. Two of Us (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 89 min | Biography, Drama, Music
In 1976, John Lennon and Paul McCartney have a chat about their lives and discuss whether The Beatles will ever reunite.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Jared Harris, Ric Reid, Martin Martinuzzi
Votes: 1,124
32. Leonie (2010)
PG-13 | 102 min | Biography, Drama
A film about the life and relationships of the early 20th century American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.
Director: Hisako Matsui | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Shidô Nakamura, Christina Hendricks
Votes: 607
33. Howl (2010)
R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott, Aaron Tveit
Votes: 13,411 | Gross: $0.62M
34. Imaginaerum (2012)
86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A coma sends an old man into his childhood's sinister fantasy world, where he must fight dementia and gain back his memories before it's too late.
Directors: Stobe Harju, Mark Roper | Stars: Francis X. McCarthy, Glenda Braganza, Helene Robbie, Ilkka Villi
Votes: 6,658
35. Sorry Angel (2018)
Not Rated | 132 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jacques is an older writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they'll have to face rejection and sickness to keep it that way.
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès, Adèle Wismes
Votes: 4,181 | Gross: $0.03M
36. Manifesto (III) (2015)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Cate Blanchett performs manifestos as a series of striking monologues.
Director: Julian Rosefeldt | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Erika Bauer, Ruby Bustamante, Carl Dietrich
Votes: 7,248 | Gross: $0.14M
37. Lymelife (2008)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A family unit begins to bow under the pressure of a failing marriage.
Director: Derick Martini | Stars: Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Emma Roberts
Votes: 14,615 | Gross: $0.43M
38. I'm with Lucy (2002)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman experiences five blind dates in one year, but only one of them is "Mr. Right".
Director: Jon Sherman | Stars: Monica Potter, Craig Bierko, Linda Halaska, Julianne Nicholson
Votes: 3,577
39. Test (I) (2013)
TV-MA | 89 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1985, a gay dance understudy hopes for his on-stage chance while fearing the growing AIDS epidemic.
Director: Chris Mason Johnson | Stars: Scott Marlowe, Matthew Risch, Evan Boomer, Kevin Clarke
Votes: 1,732 | Gross: $0.02M
40. Liberty's Secret (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The squeaky-clean daughter of a "family values" preacher becomes a national political sensation and falls in love with her spin doctor -- another woman.
Directors: Andy Kirshner, Debbie Williams | Stars: Jaclene Wilk, Cara AnnMarie, Alfrelynn J. Roberts, Chris Lutkin
Votes: 496
41. Stonewall (1995)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.
Director: Nigel Finch | Stars: Guillermo Diaz, Frederick Weller, Brendan Corbalis, Duane Boutte
Votes: 1,740 | Gross: $0.62M
42. Fightville (2011)
85 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary that focuses on a group of young athletes in southern Louisiana as they work toward achieving their goals of becoming professional mixed martial arts fighters.
Directors: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker | Stars: 'Bad' Chad Broussard, Jere' Folley Chaisson, Tim Credeur, Derek Gauthier
Votes: 917
43. Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman ... See full summary »
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy
Votes: 209
44. The Conrad Boys (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Charlie Conrad is ready for college, but the sudden death of his mother and his long-absent father leave him saddled with the adult responsibility of raising his 9-year-old brother.
Director: Justin Lo | Stars: Justin Lo, Booboo Stewart, Nick Bartzen, Barry Shay
Votes: 957
45. The Disco Years (1991)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama
Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out girls. She also drags him to her ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Lee King | Stars: Matt Nolan, Gwen Welles, Dennis Christopher, Russell Scott Lewis
Votes: 431
46. Disputed Passage (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett
Votes: 161
47. Hazard (2005)
103 min | Crime, Drama
Faced by a society of criminals, these three youths avenge their rights.
Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Joe Odagiri, Jai West, Motoki Fukami, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Votes: 844
48. Messengers (2004)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The death of her estranged father forces a Manhattan doctor back to her small-town roots, where she uncovers a dark secret.
Director: Philip Farha | Stars: Michele Hicks, Erik Jensen, Frankie Faison, Amy Wright
Votes: 130
49. Vzkrísení (2018 TV Movie)
125 min | Comedy, Drama
Strange things are happening at a small publishing house that publishes a popular contemporary author. It all starts when a famous author, who the publisher lives off of, comes in and ... See full summary »
Directors: Ondrej Kepka, Michal Vajdicka | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Václav Neuzil, Matej Hádek, Veronika Khek Kubarová
Votes: 13
50. The Prequels Strike Back: A Fan's Journey (2016)
80 min | Documentary
A documentary about the controversial Star Wars prequel trilogy.
Director: Bradley Weatherholt | Stars: Doug Adams, Michael Barryte, James Berardinelli, Tim Blank
Votes: 114