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1. Peacock (2010)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's bank clerk.
Director: Michael Lander | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas
Votes: 12,250
2. The Midnight Man (1974)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An ex-con, once a cop, now working as security in a college, decides to investigate the murder of one of the students, a daughter of a senator.
Directors: Roland Kibbee, Burt Lancaster | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward
Votes: 1,328
3. Road House (1948)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Film-Noir
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark
Votes: 3,160
4. The Talk of the Town (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 9,115
5. 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: 1,777
6. Sitting Pretty (1948)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Family
A family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Clifton Webb, Richard Haydn
Votes: 2,725
7. Chrystal (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama
Twenty years after the accident that claimed his son's life and permanently injured his wife, a man returns to his home in search of redemption.
Director: Ray McKinnon | Stars: Lisa Blount, Billy Bob Thornton, Kamron Ross Stacey, David Rhodes
Votes: 1,687 | Gross: $0.08M
8. Inherit the Wind (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History
A biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, John Harkins
Votes: 613
9. Whistle Stop (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When beautiful Mary returns home to her "whistle stop" home town, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,329
10. The Long Night (1947)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 2,011
11. No Man of Her Own (1932)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 1,688
12. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal
Votes: 1,263
13. Tom (II) (2022)
85 min | Horror
A small town with secrets is terrorized by a demonic entity. As madness reigns, questions are answered.
Director: Don Tjernagel | Stars: Jordan Abbe, J. Maxwell Bash, MaKayla Beineke, Dee Dee Benton
Votes: 1,885
14. True Heart Susie (1919)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor
Votes: 1,990
15. Red Garters (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, Musical
A man visits a frontier town seeking to avenge his brother's murder.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Rosemary Clooney, Jack Carson, Guy Mitchell, Pat Crowley
Votes: 450 | Gross: $1.30M
16. The Plastic Age (1925)
Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Donald Keith, Clara Bow, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 374
17. Lazybones (1925)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he discovers that he loves the grown-up girl.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Buck Jones, Madge Bellamy, Virginia Marshall, Edythe Chapman
Votes: 573
18. The Young Guns (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Western
The son of a feared Wyoming gunslinger struggles with the decision of whether to follow in his dead father footsteps--as everyone assumes he will--or fight against the pressure of the ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Band | Stars: Russ Tamblyn, Gloria Talbott, Perry Lopez, Scott Marlowe
Votes: 145
19. Over the Hill (1931)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Mae Marsh stars as the mother of two children. Marsh gives her boys everything they desire, at great cost to herself. She is forced to work in one menial job after another so that her children will never go without.
Director: Henry King | Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Mae Marsh, James Kirkwood
Votes: 143
20. Jesse & Lester - Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity (1972)
97 min | Comedy, Western
After inheriting a land plot in a dusty place called Trinity, the antagonistic half-brothers, Lester and Jesse, reunite to pursue different aspirations, only to find themselves neck-deep in trouble. Will they ever fulfil their dreams?
Directors: Renzo Genta, Richard Harrison | Stars: Richard Harrison, Donald O'Brien, Anna Zinnemann, George Wang
Votes: 176
21. That's My Boy (1932)
71 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Tommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Dorothy Jordan, Mae Marsh, Arthur Stone
Votes: 154
22. A Roman Scandal (1919)
24 min | Short, Comedy
A company of barnstormers goes on strike in the middle of a performance and a number of local amateurs are prevailed upon to furnish the show, which they do in more ways than one.
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Colleen Moore, Earle Rodney, Eddie Barry, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 28
23. June Falling Down (2016)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman returns home to Wisconsin for her best friend's wedding and the one year anniversary of her father's death.
Director: Rebecca Weaver | Stars: Rebecca Weaver, Nick Hoover, Claire Morkin, Justin Pahnturat
Votes: 57
24. Un hombre vino a matar (1967)
83 min | Western
Falsely convicted for robbing an army treasury Tony Garrett manages to escape and looks for the real culprits to take revenge.
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Richard Stapley, Jesús Puente, Brad Harris, Aurora de Alba
Votes: 155
25. The Eyes of Julia Deep (1918)
57 min | Comedy, Drama
Julia Deep works at the exchange desk of Timothy Black's department store by day, but her evenings are spent in the library of Terry Hartridge, a fellow resident in Mrs. Turner's ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mary Miles Minter, Allan Forrest, Alice Wilson, George Periolat
Votes: 51
26. Talent Scout (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A Hollywood playboy helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Donald Woods, Jeanne Madden, Fred Lawrence, Rosalind Marquis
Votes: 109
27. One Man Law (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Western
Streetor is pulling off a land swindle and wants Thompson on his side. He does him a favor and then makes him Sheriff. But as Streetor evicts the ranchers, Thompson and Judge Cooper look for a legal device to stop him.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Buck Jones, Shirley Grey, Robert Ellis, Murdock MacQuarrie
Votes: 55
28. Love Never Dies (1921)
64 min | Drama
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him,... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 128
29. Her Indiscretion (1927)
64 min
After Trueman Tisdale, a young officer in the Coast Guard, marries Martha, a pretty young woman, he discovers that her previous relationship with a ne'er-do-well named Nate Sanderson has ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth O'Hara | Stars: Mahlon Hamilton, May Allison, Lawford Davidson, Fay Marbe
30. Is Money Everything? (1923)
58 min | Drama
A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become successful, but that success brings other, unforeseen problems into their lives.
Director: Glen Lyons | Stars: Norman Kerry, Miriam Cooper, Andrew Hicks, John Sylvester
Votes: 37
31. Mustang Magic: When Every Friday Night Mattered (2013)
96 min | Documentary, Sport
Mustang Magic is not simply a basketball story of wins and losses, but a small community finding it's identity through their local basketball program. With this look into the impact high ... See full summary »
Stars: John Avery Jr., Matt Behnke, Andrew Benjamin, Mike Briggs
32. The Eye of Envy (1917)
Not Rated | 73 min | Drama
In Sleepy Hollow dwells a young blacksmith who, when not happily making horseshoes, is courting a village maiden.
Director: Harrish Ingraham | Stars: Crane Wilbur, Jode Mullally, Gene Crosby, Frederick A. Thomson
Votes: 37
33. Stranded (1925)
Comedy, Short
Rival bus drivers vie with each other over getting a theatrical troupe, stranded at the depot, into their conveyances. The girl wins and takes the troupe to the hotel where she works as ... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Edna Marion, Hilliard Karr, Century Follies Girls
34.
Jericho (2006–2008)
Episode:
Semper Fidelis
(2007)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
The marines come to town, offering Anderson an easy way out of hard decisions, but their behavior raises Jake's and Johnston's suspicions.
Director: James Whitmore Jr. | Stars: Skeet Ulrich, Ashley Scott, Lennie James, Brad Beyer
Votes: 756