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1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama
A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 667,617 | Gross: $42.34M
2. Shallow Hal (2001)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A shallow man falls in love with a 300-pound woman because of her inner beauty.
Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli
Votes: 145,105 | Gross: $70.84M
3. Raging Bull (1980)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Votes: 381,148 | Gross: $23.38M
4. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Votes: 96,314 | Gross: $0.60M
5. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
PG | 122 min | Drama
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Votes: 114,557 | Gross: $8.00M
6. Ordinary People (1980)
R | 124 min | Drama
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 56,828 | Gross: $54.80M
7. Pleasantville (1998)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves transported to a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that colorless, complacent world.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy
Votes: 136,570 | Gross: $40.57M
8. Man Up (I) (2015)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A single woman takes the place of a stranger's blind date and finds the perfect man for her.
Director: Ben Palmer | Stars: Lake Bell, Rory Kinnear, Ken Stott, Harriet Walter
Votes: 56,616
9. East of Eden (1955)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris, Burl Ives
Votes: 48,894
10. Days of Being Wild (1990)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau
Votes: 25,592 | Gross: $0.14M
11. Eros (2004)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin, Gong Li, Chang Chen
Votes: 7,349 | Gross: $0.19M
12. Red Desert (1964)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi
Votes: 17,697
13. Alone Together (I) (2018)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
Two not-so-young socially-awkward Millennials--rich, self-conscious, unmotivated Benji and his poor, freeloading, self-centered, strictly-platonic best friend Esther--try to fit in with L.A.'s vain, status-obsessed elite.
Stars: Esther Povitsky, Benji Aflalo, Edgar Blackmon, Chris D'Elia
Votes: 2,155
14. Rock'n Roll (2017)
Not Rated | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Guillaume Canet is told by a young co-star that he's no longer Rock'n' Roll and can't sell films anymore. He then tries to prove her wrong and gets help from his girlfriend, Marion Cotillard.
Director: Guillaume Canet | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche, Philippe Lefebvre
Votes: 4,949
15. Good Hair (2009)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Comedy
Chris Rock explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles.
Director: Jeff Stilson | Stars: Chris Rock, Maya Angelou, Al Sharpton, Tanya Crumel
Votes: 6,220 | Gross: $4.16M
16. Getting Physical (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Chubby Kendall's weight causes her to suffer from self-esteem issues. She decides to take up female bodybuilding and ends up competing with the pros for the championship. However, her boyfriend and dad don't like her new tough look.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Alexandra Paul, Sandahl Bergman, David Naughton, John Aprea
Votes: 115
17. French film
90 min | Drama, Romance | Post-production
Sam and Léna, two actors, are in love. Sam wants to completely possess Léna. She gives herself entirely to him. Yet their relationship deteriorates to the point of disaster.
Director: Claude Chamis | Stars: Luca Colucci, Pauline Miocekovitz, Augustin De Winter, Nathan Moreira
18. Johnny Lingo (1969)
Not Rated | 25 min | Drama, Family, Short
Johnny Lingo, one of the sharpest traders in the south pacific islands decides to bargain for a wife, and offers a record price of eight cows for Mahana, a plain girl who shuns contact. ... See full summary »
Director: Judge Whitaker | Stars: Makee K. Blaisdell, Naomi Kahoilua, Francis L. Urry, Joseph R. TeNgaio
Votes: 280
19. Memoir of War (2017)
127 min | Biography, Drama, War
Marguerite must navigate through the hardships of the Liberation after losing her husband and starting a relationship with the enemy during the War.
Director: Emmanuel Finkiel | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Votes: 1,386 | Gross: $0.10M
20. Candy Mountain (1987)
R | 91 min | Drama
A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.
Directors: Robert Frank, Rudy Wurlitzer | Stars: Kevin J. O'Connor, Eric Mitchell, Mary Joy, Robert Joy
Votes: 403
21. Downhearted Duckling (1954)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A depressed baby duck thinks he is ugly after reading "The Ugly Duckling" and wants Tom to eat him but Jerry keeps preventing that.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Red Coffey, June Foray, William Hanna
Votes: 807
22. Doctor Yes: The Hyannis Affair (1983)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A man falls for his nubile stepdaughter. When his hot wife founds out about this, she is furious. Murder ensues. It's obvious who's the guilty party. Or is it?
Director: Jack Nixon-Browne | Stars: Britt Ekland, Jack Messinger, Stephanie Grant, Patricia Moffatt
Votes: 74
23. Naisenkaari (1997)
52 min | Documentary
A fluid documentary in which director Luostarinen interviews fifty women on birth, body image, and the harshness of contemporary attitudes toward physicality, aging, and inevitable death. ... See full summary »
Director: Kiti Luostarinen | Stars: Eeva-Maija Haukinen, Diana Webster, Kiti Luostarinen, Maire Dammert
Votes: 92
24. Lazare (2020)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek
Votes: 11
25. Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
110 min | Drama
Margot Santorini is an aristocratic woman in 1936 in Greece, who amuses herself pursuing a shallow loveless affair with a nobleman, but unexpectedly falls in love with a political activist.
Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux, Umberto Orsini
Votes: 646
26. Round Numbers (1992)
R | 98 min | Comedy
A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find ... See full summary »
Director: Nancy Zala | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Samantha Eggar, Shani Wallis, Natalie Barish
Votes: 105
27. Mass (2020)
12 min | Short, Drama
A short film about feeling small and getting BIG.
Director: Linus Ignatius | Stars: Hassan Farrow, Blake French, Kenneth Hayes, Linus Ignatius
Votes: 72
28. Line fikser kroppen (2017– )
25 min | Documentary
Line Elvsåshagen meets inspirational body positivists, explores bodies of all kinds and seeks out challenging situations to be happy with herself.
Star: Line Elvsåshagen
Votes: 9
29. The Self Image Film (If Mirrors Could Speak) (1976)
11 min | Short
A group of misbehaving children come across a magic mirror that, when they look into it, shows them as clowns and tries to convince them to change their disruptive behavior.
Director: Ted Zarpas
Votes: 72
30. Crowbar (2018)
28 min | Short, Drama
Director: Lee Ryan Coston | Stars: Liisa Kaufman, David S. Hogan, Francheasca Roberson, Thurman Kellogg
Votes: 7
31. The Butch Factor (2009)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A multicultural examination of modern gay male society and how masculinity is expected, defined, accepted, and expanded.
Director: Christopher Hines | Stars: Christopher Hines, Jason Hefley, H.T. Bennett, Junior Buendia
Votes: 256
32. Killing Us Softly (1979)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Jean Kilbourne lectures an audience about the misogynistic portrayal of women in advertising and its role in shaping women's self-image.
Directors: Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich | Star: Jean Kilbourne
Votes: 66
33. Rules of the Game (2014)
106 min | Documentary
As unemployment rises, a busy human resources agency teaches clients, mostly inexperienced young people, how to become more appealing to potential employers. Some accept this as necessary evil, others condemn it as excessive conformism.
Directors: Claudine Bories, Patrice Chagnard
Votes: 59
34. Muodonmuutoksia (2017)
75 min | Documentary, Sport
The documentary centers around four young, ambitious women living a highly disciplined and structured life to achieve the desired Bikini Fitness competition body. For these women their body... See full summary »
Director: Kati Juurus | Stars: Linda Paldanius, Jutta Kärri, Johanna Pöllänen, Aino Still
Votes: 49
35. Head to Head (2020)
83 min | Documentary
The Film follows women experiencing traumatic blows to their self-image after unexpectedly losing their hair because of Alopecia, Lupus or chemotherapy. Cancer and autoimmune ... See full summary »
Director: Andrea A. Alberti
36. F.A.T. (2003)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
Director: Matt Hunt | Stars: Charley Allen, Celeste Arms, Nathan Bacon, Blossom Ballmer
37. Transgendered & Pregnant (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary
The real life story of trans-gendered couple Emily and Cai. Emily (born male) impregnates her husband Cai (born female).
Director: Suzanne Ali
Votes: 20
38. true_self.exe (2023)
4 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A young woman becomes obsessed with the perfect alter ego living inside of her computer, and must embrace her insecurities in order to free herself from the ego's overbearing pull.
Director: Victoria Cruell | Star: Victoria Cruell
39. Three Scenes with Ingmar Bergman (1975)
92 min | Documentary, Biography
The original interview was broadcasted in three parts, edited from 13 hours of conversations between Bergman and Donner.
Director: Jörn Donner | Stars: Jörn Donner, Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist
Votes: 47
40. Beautiful Women Wake Up Early (2012)
Short, Drama
Director: Keith D. Bracker | Stars: Aija Terauda, Raimonda Skeryte, Connie Romano, Sarah Himadeh
41. Faceology (2012)
4 min | Short
This experimental art film explores a woman's choices in life, the faces she dons in public, the place she needs to make for herself in the world, how she struggles to fit in, the labels she feels forced into, and how she resents them.
Director: Francesco Giannini | Star: Mikaela Lily Davies
42. Keith D. Bracker's I am me (2006)
Short
Independent director Keith D. Bracker depicts a honest examination of himself in this award winning experimental movie.
Director: Keith D. Bracker | Star: Keith D. Bracker
43. The Bald World (2013)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Men of the bald world discuss the anxieties that come with the balding process and reveal their vigorous rise above societal stigma associated with it.
Director: Johnny Brew | Stars: George Bracebridge, Brian Fortune, Peter Meighan
44. Thomas Blir Mann (2014– )
Documentary, Comedy, Reality-TV
Thomas is a 23 year old, self-proclaimed boy. To become what he defines as a real man, he undertakes a series of tough, painful and humiliating challenges. All this is far outside his comfort zone.
Stars: Thomas Høie Haugland, Eivind Rath Ilebekk, Kevin Andreas Smilden, Johan Martin Søbstad
Votes: 5
45. Self Image (2016)
6 min | Short, Drama
A young woman struggles with self-image issues and decides to take action.
Director: Joshua Rodriguez
46. Kake 40 v. (1994 TV Movie)
54 min | Comedy
Director: Anssi Mänttäri | Stars: Tiina Harpf, Juhani Laitala, Ilkka Merivaara, Tarja Omenainen
47. Project Ion (2008)
PG-13 | 11 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
A famous Hollywood filmmaker guards his darkest secrets by projecting them onto others.
Director: Dawn Westlake | Stars: Johnny Cross, David Razowsky, Dawn Westlake
48. God Knows I Tried (2019)
12 min | Short, Drama
In a new society which condemns all forms of sexual relations considered abnormal, Charles, a young homosexual enters of his own free will in a sect, which seeks to cure deviants, in order to survive the dictatorship.
Director: Julien Capdegel | Stars: Antoine Grenier, Olivia Devlo, Laura Delebarre, Alexandra Hökenschnieder
49. Never Perfect (2007)
64 min | Documentary
Explores the complex journey of a young Vietnamese-American woman's struggle with popular perceptions of beauty and body image as she fights the stigma of racial self-hatred in her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery.
Director: Regina Park | Star: Mai-Anh Tran
Votes: 14
50. Lucky Day (2019)
6 min | Short, Comedy
The ordinary day of Antoine Miller, a dynamic young man, who does not allow himself to be defeated by the vagaries of his existence.
Director: Eddy Juillerat | Stars: Luca Colucci, Olivier Guibert