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1. Perfect Days (2023)

PG | 124 min | Drama

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Miyako Tanaka

Votes: 36,053

2. 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: 39,377

3. Burning (2018)

Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung

Votes: 76,317 | Gross: $0.72M

4. Breathless (1960)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard

Votes: 87,917 | Gross: $0.34M

5. Whatever Works (2009)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A middle-aged, misanthropic divorcé from New York City surprisingly enters a fulfilling, Pygmalion-type relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated Southern girl.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David, Henry Cavill, Adam Brooks

Votes: 76,893 | Gross: $5.31M

6. Breathless (1983)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Romance

When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?

Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan

Votes: 10,435 | Gross: $19.91M

7. 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: 45,415

8. Everyone Says I Love You (1996)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts, Edward Norton

Votes: 39,408 | Gross: $9.71M

9. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,800

10. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

R | 106 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone

Votes: 56,155 | Gross: $8.80M

11. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)

Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm

Votes: 8,710

12. Orange County (2002)

PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama

A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.

Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison

Votes: 51,939 | Gross: $41.03M

13. Some Girls (1988)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Michael flies up to French Canada to visit his girlfriend and her wacky family. She doesn't love him anymore, the grandma mistakes him for her late husband, the sister appears naked and makes advances, the dad likes to be naked as well.

Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards

Votes: 3,863 | Gross: $0.40M

14. Office Uprising (2018)

TV-MA | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

An employee at a weapons factory discovers that an energy drink turns his co-workers into zombies.

Director: Lin Oeding | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Jane Levy, Karan Soni, Zachary Levi

Votes: 17,759

15. Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: James Franco, Peter Miller, Gilbert Wahiakeron, Claude Chamberlain

Votes: 6,453

16. The Leisure Seeker (2017)

R | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker".

Director: Paolo Virzì | Stars: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney

Votes: 9,708 | Gross: $3.23M

17. Rebel in the Rye (2017)

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

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".

Director: Danny Strong | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Victor Garber, Hope Davis

Votes: 10,789 | Gross: $0.38M

18. Wild Reeds (1994)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

The fates of two partners are divided.

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Gaël Morel, Stéphane Rideau, Frédéric Gorny

Votes: 6,642 | Gross: $0.92M

19. The Prize (1963)

Approved | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer, Diane Baker

Votes: 5,278 | Gross: $7.70M

20. Getting Straight (1970)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.

Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey

Votes: 1,644 | Gross: $3.86M

21. Strange Weather (2016)

R | 92 min | Drama

in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, a Georgia mother travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.

Director: Katherine Dieckmann | Stars: Holly Hunter, Carrie Coon, Kim Coates, Choppy Guillotte

Votes: 1,890

22. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)

Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography

Agnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier

Votes: 4,784 | Gross: $0.24M

23. Purple Violets (2007)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Patti Petalson (Blair) struggles with the pressure of becoming the next important American writer.

Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Annette Arnold, Max Baker, Selma Blair, James Biberi

Votes: 3,466

24. Winter Bay (1996)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old ... See full summary »

Director: Harald Hamrell | Stars: David Tainton, Lina Englund, Martin Iliou, Peter Haber

Votes: 1,948

25. Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022)

91 min | Documentary, History

Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.

Director: Sierra Pettengill | Stars: Charlene Modeste, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Kerner, Edward P. Morgan

Votes: 382

26. It's Christmas, Carol! (2012 TV Movie)

TV-G | 87 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

On Christmas Eve in Chicago, heartless publishing-exec tyrant Carol is haunted by her dead ex-boss--who is the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future.

Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Carrie Fisher, Olivia Cheng, Tygh Runyan

Votes: 1,069

27. Hawaiian Gardens (2001)

Not Rated | 110 min

A seductive 17-year-old temptress who loves to read finds herself in an unusual triangle between her mother's lover--a 70-year-old writer--and a German copyright pirate.

Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Tzi Ma, Richard Roundtree, Rodney Rincon, Joseph Anthony

Votes: 65

28. River Made to Drown In (1997)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama

When Thaddeus, a wealthy, bigger-than-life lawyer, suddenly learns he is dying, he sells all his worldly possessions and embarks on a final quest to find a young hustler that he once tried to rescue.

Director: James Merendino | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Michael Imperioli, Ute Lemper, James Duval

Votes: 387

29. A House Is Not A Home: Wright or Wrong (2020)

73 min | Documentary

"This intimate saga links the filmmaker's long-lost family home in Tehran, a historic Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama, and the formative years of renowned film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum... See full summary »

Director: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa | Stars: Alvin Rosenbaum, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Michael Rosenbaum

Votes: 26

30. Currency (2011)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Several lives are witnessed over the course of 80 years. Currency is a simple story about the complex questions we all ask.

Director: Brad Rosier | Stars: Nora Batteast, Brittany Baughman, John Coffman, Jim Coppens

Votes: 22

31. A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not' (2003 Video)

11 min | Documentary, Short

In the 40's Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules... See full summary »

Stars: Leonard Maltin, Eric Lax, Robert Osborne, Lauren Bacall

Votes: 65

32. Rozprávky z Hollywoodu (1992 TV Movie)

Biography, Drama

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Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Emil Horváth, Milan Bahúl, Jela Buckova, Vladimir Cerny

Votes: 16

33. Jan Novák, 14.12. 1992 (2017 Video)

34 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Ales Záboj | Stars: Jan Novák, Hana Zlatusková, Milan Uhde

34. AFI Life Achievement Award (1973– )
Episode: AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Henry Fonda (1978)

120 min | Documentary

Henry Fonda is honored for his career in theater, television and film by friends, family, and co-workers.

Director: Marty Pasetta | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Alexander, Lucille Ball, Richard Burton

Votes: 274

35. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Revenge (1985)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Unstable, mousy wife of a good, caring man becomes the victim of an unsolved assault. His blind outrage over this leads to a bizarre tragedy.

Director: R.E. Young | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Linda Purl, David Clennon, Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Votes: 137

36. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: A Little Murder (2002)

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

A dwarf is found dead, hanged in an auditorium during an annual convention for little people. Working on a case of murder during a home invasion, Catherine is attacked by the perpetrator while processing the scene.

Director: Tucker Gates | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 860

37. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: A Crane's Critique (1996)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Frasier and Niles are thrilled to catch sight of T.H. Houghton, a reclusive author from their youth. They are aggravated, however, when Martin forms a friendship with the man but they are consistently unable to meet him.

Director: Jeff Melman | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 928

38. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Genius (2003)

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

A promising young writer confesses to the murder and robbery of a cabbie and demands that he receive the death penalty.

Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 297

39. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode: Eegah (1993)

TV-PG | 92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A teenage girl, her dorky boyfriend, and her scientist father discover a caveman in the desert in Eegah (1962). Joel and the Bots discuss 60s sitcoms and the subtler forms of hell.

Director: Joel Hodgson | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Joel Hodgson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy

Votes: 808

40. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999)
Episode: The Wild World of Batwoman (1993)

TV-PG | 92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Mike and the Bots watch a high school student fall into the depths of despair because he got caught Cheating (1952). Later, the guys try to make sense of The Wild World of Batwoman (1966) ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Mallon | Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy

Votes: 610

41. The Civil War (1990)
Episode: The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) (1990)

TV-PG | 68 min | Documentary, History, War

The North celebrated Lee's surrender and the end of the war. On April 14, Good Friday, John Wilkes Booth learned that President Lincoln, General Grant and others were to attend a play at ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Burns | Stars: David McCullough, Barbara Fields, Shelby Foote, James Symington

Votes: 349

42. Mad Men (2007–2015)
Episode: The Jet Set (2008)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

Don blows off the convention in Los Angeles when he meets a beautiful, exotic woman. Back at Sterling Cooper, a member of the creative staff comes out of the closet, and Duck falls off the wagon and initiates his power play.

Director: Phil Abraham | Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones

Votes: 2,823

43. The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode: Vatos (2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Rick, Glenn, Daryl and T-Dog come across a group of seemingly hostile survivors whilst searching for Merle. Back at camp, Jim begins behaving erratically.

Director: Johan Renck | Stars: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden

Votes: 16,844

44. Veep (2012–2019)
Episode: Catherine (2012)

TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy

Faced with a trumped-up story of a rift between the Veep and the First Lady, Selina quells accusations that everything is about her--even though it is. Gary selects candidates for the VP ... See full summary »

Director: Tristram Shapeero | Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Reid Scott

Votes: 1,450

45. American Horror Story (2011– )
Episode: The Dead (2013)

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Fiona finds new purpose in a dangerous love affair. A night out with LaLaurie leads Queenie to question her place in the Coven. Cordelia makes a fateful decision about her mother.

Director: Bradley Buecker | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Frances Conroy, Evan Peters

Votes: 4,323

46. Sleepy Hollow (2013–2017)
Episode: Necromancer (2013)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Ichabod, Abbie, Captain Irving and Jenny Mills join forces and face the Headless Horseman. While staring down this nemesis, Ichabod is shocked by game-changing information about the Horseman's true motive.

Director: Paul A. Edwards | Stars: Tom Mison, Nicole Beharie, Orlando Jones, Katia Winter

Votes: 1,023

47. Great Artists with Tim Marlow (2001– )
Episode: Turner (2001)

23 min | Documentary

The most famous of all British painters, J. M. W. Turner was a visionary and a maverick, whose landscape paintings both astounded and antagonized those that saw them.

Directors: Phil Grabsky, Ali Ray, Mehreen Saigol | Star: Tim Marlow

Votes: 6

48. Quarry (2016)
Episode: You Don't Miss Your Water (2016)

TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Coming back home from Vietnam, two soldiers, struggling to find jobs and getting back to normal life, are approached by the mysterious 'Broker' with an interesting offer.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman, Edoardo Ballerini

Votes: 977

49. Quarry (2016)
Episode: Nuoc Chay Da Mon (2016)

TV-MA | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Mac (Logan Marshall-Green) confronts his war demons and settles a score with an old adversary.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman, Edoardo Ballerini

Votes: 713

50. NCIS: New Orleans (2014–2021)
Episode: Father's Day (2016)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Pride and Mayor Douglas are abducted from their respective Mardi Gras events and held captive by a mysterious assailant.

Director: Dennis Smith | Stars: Scott Bakula, Lucas Black, Zoe McLellan, Rob Kerkovich

Votes: 309