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1. The Fabelmans (2022)

PG-13 | 151 min | Drama

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch

Votes: 117,311

2. Echo (2023–2024)

TV-MA | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Maya Lopez must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots, and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward.

Stars: Alaqua Cox, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene

Votes: 36,418

3. Ice Age (2002)

PG | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat.

Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Goran Visnjic

Votes: 519,991 | Gross: $176.39M

4. Random Harvest (1942)

Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters

Votes: 8,434 | Gross: $10.14M

5. About a Boy (2002)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Will, who attends single parent meetings to woo women, meets Marcus, a troubled 12-year-old boy. As they become friends, Will learns to be responsible while he helps Marcus with his studies.

Directors: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz | Stars: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Sharon Small

Votes: 191,809 | Gross: $41.39M

6. The Tin Drum (1979)

R | 142 min | Drama, War

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach

Votes: 25,786

7. 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: 10,462 | Gross: $1.14M

8. Adam (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

Director: Max Mayer | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving

Votes: 35,795 | Gross: $2.28M

9. Endless Night (I) (1972)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson

Votes: 2,417

10. A Home at the End of the World (2004)

R | 97 min | Drama, Romance

A boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend.

Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts, Robin Wright, Sissy Spacek

Votes: 14,008 | Gross: $1.03M

11. The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)

PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

12-year-old wisecracking Gilly Hopkins finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home until she meets Maime Trotter.

Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Octavia Spencer

Votes: 5,312

12. The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

R | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.

Director: Niels Mueller | Stars: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson

Votes: 26,121 | Gross: $0.70M

13. Ten Thousand Saints (2015)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Set in the 1980s, a teenager from Vermont moves to New York City to live with his father in East Village.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 6,021 | Gross: $0.06M

14. Al Capone (1959)

Approved | 104 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.

Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory

Votes: 1,911

15. Augustus: The First Emperor (2003 TV Movie)

R | 178 min | Drama, History, Romance

Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Charlotte Rampling, Vittoria Belvedere, Benjamin Sadler

Votes: 1,456

16. Johnny in the Clouds (1945)

87 min | Drama, Romance, War

The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery

Votes: 1,648

17. Partisan (2015)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

Alexander, a boy who has been raised in a sequestered commune, finds that his increasing unwillingness to fall in line puts him on a collision course with Gregori, the society's charismatic and domineering leader.

Director: Ariel Kleiman | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, Florence Mezzara, Esther Blaser-Tokarev

Votes: 4,181

18. Girl in the Cadillac (1995)

R | 89 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Mandy, a modern teenage "Lolita" with a wild sense of adventure and a burning desire to taste life, buys a ticket out of her one-horse town of Paint Rock, Texas, hitting the road to love, life and self-discovery.

Director: Lucas Platt | Stars: Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Bud Cort

Votes: 263

19. Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin (2002)

PG | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, War

Documentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.

Directors: André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer | Star: Traudl Junge

Votes: 1,814 | Gross: $0.38M

20. Healing Hands (2010 TV Movie)

90 min | Family

A near death experience gives a young man, engaged to be married, the ability to heal people.

Director: Bradford May | Stars: Eddie Cibrian, Patrick Duffy, Lisa Sheridan, Meagen Fay

Votes: 362

21. Sam the Man (2001)

TV-MA | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A writer having difficulty completing his second novel goes on a journey of self-discovery.

Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Fisher Stevens, Annabella Sciorra, Alex Porter, John Slattery

Votes: 246

22. Stickin' Together (1978 TV Movie)

73 min | Adventure, Drama

Cuda Weber is a Hawaii beach bum who finds himself the surrogate uncle to five orphaned children and tries to keep them together as a group.

Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Clu Gulager, Sean Roche, Lory Walsh, Sean Marshall

Votes: 24

23. My Favorite Martian (1963–1966)
Episode: My Favorite Martin (1963)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Reporter Tim O'Hara, while covering a flight of the Air Force X-15, finds a spaceship that contains a genuine martian. The martian is a professor who specializes in the planet Earth and now has to repair his spaceship before he can go home.

Director: Sheldon Leonard | Stars: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, Ina Victor

Votes: 179

24. The Public Space (2018– )
Just How Creepy Is Uncle Joe? (Podcast Episode)

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