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1. John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
R | 169 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Director: Chad Stahelski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou, Lance Reddick
Votes: 334,999 | Gross: $187.13M
2. Tron: Legacy (2010)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner
Votes: 356,198 | Gross: $172.06M
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen
Votes: 687,562 | Gross: $532.18M
4. Valkyrie (2008)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 259,525 | Gross: $83.08M
5. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 16,218 | Gross: $1.04M
6. The Way We Were (1973)
PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance
During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Votes: 27,507
7. The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An elderly woman battling Alzheimer's disease agrees to let a film crew document her condition, but what they discover is something far more sinister going on.
Director: Adam Robitel | Stars: Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, Michelle Ang, Brett Gentile
Votes: 40,303
8. Touch of Evil (1958)
PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping and police corruption in a Mexican border town.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 109,882 | Gross: $2.24M
9. The Vast of Night (2019)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
One night in New Mexico, in the late 1950s, a switchboard operator and radio DJ discover a strange audio frequency which could change the future forever.
Director: Andrew Patterson | Stars: Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Gail Cronauer, Bruce Davis
Votes: 45,009
10. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
R | 88 min | Comedy
Seven stories are trying to answer the question: what is sex? Or maybe they are not trying.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Gene Wilder, Louise Lasser, John Carradine
Votes: 41,837
11. Parkland (2013)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Director: Peter Landesman | Stars: Zac Efron, Tom Welling, Billy Bob Thornton, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 17,494 | Gross: $0.65M
12. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 28,025
13. Money Train (1995)
R | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Blake
Votes: 43,212 | Gross: $35.32M
14. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 20,893 | Gross: $2.69M
15. Under Suspicion (1991)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Disgraced detective Tony fakes evidence in divorce cases, implicates wife in Stasio affair. Stasio and wife shot dead in hotel. Tony's ex-partner Frank investigates, suspects inheritance-seeking mistress Angeline and inconsistent Tony.
Director: Simon Moore | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill
Votes: 5,081 | Gross: $0.22M
16. Save the Tiger (1973)
R | 100 min | Drama
A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton
Votes: 5,613 | Gross: $2.33M
17. Call Northside 777 (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb, Helen Walker
Votes: 10,261
18. Namak Halaal (1982)
171 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Brought up by his grandfather, Arjun Singh moves to the city in search of a new job and life. While in the city he meets Bhairon, who helps him find a job as a singer in a 5-star hotel owned by Raja.
Director: Prakash Mehra | Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Smita Patil
Votes: 2,822
19. Parts Per Billion (2014)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In the midst of a manmade biological disaster and a terrible fate, three couples try to find meaning in their lives.
Director: Brian Horiuchi | Stars: Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett
Votes: 2,173
20. F.A.R.T. The Movie (1991 Video)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
Russell has two passions: watching television and farting! He also loves Heather. Heather HATES farting. The eternal triangle! One day she warns him, "if they ever allow farting on ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Etheridge | Stars: Joel Weiss, Shannandoah Sorin, Jeff Olsen, Issac Clay
Votes: 234
21. Happy New Year (1973)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian, Charles Gérard, André Falcon
Votes: 1,993 | Gross: $0.16M
22. You're Never Too Young (1955)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical
When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch
Votes: 1,688 | Gross: $7.48M
23. The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend's kit without permission and her attempts at selling cosmetics ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Gale Robbins
Votes: 1,072
24. Hot Saturday (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods
Votes: 1,375
25. Cry 'Havoc' (1943)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, War
A chronicle of the experiences of a mixed group of Army hospital volunteers stationed in Bataan during World War II.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter
Votes: 1,219
26. Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
Passed | 267 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A mad scientist plots the domination of America and only the masked hero, The Copperhead, can stop him.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Eduardo Ciannelli, Robert Wilcox, William Newell, C. Montague Shaw
Votes: 278
27. The Purple Gang (1959)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
The story of the infamous Purple Gang, a ring of bootleggers, hijackers and killers in 1920s' Detroit.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards, Marc Cavell
Votes: 337
28. Blind Fear (1989)
R | 87 min | Crime, Thriller
Alone, unarmed, and blind, a beautiful young woman awakes to a deadly terror. The abandoned country inn where she is spending the night has become a way station for three psychopathic killers.
Director: Tom Berry | Stars: Shelley Hack, Jack Langedijk, Kim Coates, Heidi von Palleske
Votes: 214
29. Three Sappy People (1939)
18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are phone repairmen who are mistaken for the psychiatrists in whose office they are working. A rich man hires them to treat his impetuous young wife who is always running of for... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Lorna Gray
Votes: 640
30. The Cars: Hello Again (1984 Music Video)
5 min | Short, Music
Directors: Don Munroe, Andy Warhol | Stars: Dianne Brill, The Cars, Gina Gershon, Ric Ocasek
Votes: 39
31. Double Alibi (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 63
32. I've Got Your Number (1934)
Unrated | 69 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jenkins, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 519
33. Pacific Blackout (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Mystery
While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor
Votes: 78
34. Catch-As Catch-Can (1931)
TV-G | 20 min | Short, Comedy
ZaSu falls for a wrestler and drags Thelma to his next fight.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Reed Howes
Votes: 131
35. By Appointment Only (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
When a mother dies of heart failure in a doctor's office, the physician--feeling somewhat guilty because he couldn't save her--takes an interest in the woman's young daughter.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Lew Cody, Aileen Pringle, Sally O'Neil, Edward Morgan
Votes: 128
36. How 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Filmed This Long Scene in One Shot (2019 Video)
6 min | Documentary, Short
The Director of Photography of Amazon's hit comedy "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" breaks down the innovative opening shot from the show's second season. We watch Midge as she answers phones ... See full summary »
Star: M. David Mullen
37. Switchboard (2021)
8 min | Short, Drama
A young switchboard operator must focus on her job as she overhears an unexpected event unfold.
Director: Nathan Cragun | Stars: Karissa Cragun, Jack Bell, Jessica N Johnson, Dylan Wood
Votes: 5
38. Foolproof (1936)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Starts with "Anderson Family" court trial where wife testifies on the murder of her husband, while the police investigation finds some interesting twists to the crime.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Niles Welch, Alonzo Price, John Marsden, Stanley Andrews
Votes: 25
39. Going to Blazes! (1948)
Approved | 21 min | Documentary, Short
This Theatre of Life series short, produced with the cooperation of the Los Angeles Fire Department, emphasizes fire safety and fire prevention. It gives a behind-the-scenes look at the ... See full summary »
Director: Gunther von Fritsch
Votes: 118
40. You Can't Get Away with It (1936)
Approved | 30 min | Crime, Short, Documentary
A documentary-style short showing the inner-workings of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented with The Permission of the Hon. Homer S. Cummings, Attorney General of the U. S., and ... See full summary »
Director: Charles E. Ford | Stars: Lowell Thomas, J. Edgar Hoover, John Dillinger, George Kelly
Votes: 7
41. Framing Youth (1937)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Family, Short
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Darla Hood, Eugene 'Porky' Lee, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer
Votes: 121
42. Doll's Eye (1983)
75 min | Drama
The stories of three women: a researcher, a prostitute and a part-time switchboard operator.
Director: Jan Worth | Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Paul Copley, Bernice Stegers, Lynne Worth
Votes: 25
43. That Little Big Fellow (1927)
11 min | Animation, Short
Telephone current (personified as an animated messenger boy) travels to and fro across telephone wires to demonstrate what happens when a call is made through the late-1920s telephone system.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Dave Fleischer
Votes: 5
44. Switchboards, Old and New (1932)
11 min | Short
Traces the development of voice switching methods from the first system that utilized the wires of a burglar alarm unit in Boston in 1877, to the "latest type" of switching in central ... See full summary »
46. Recording Modern Science (1938)
10 min | Short
Taken from newsreel recordings. Picard's balloon for stratosphere flight and the accident in which it was destroyed by fire are shown here. Next are modern developments in glass, such as : ... See full summary »
47. Wires (2017)
9 min | Short, Drama
Director: Thomas Morelli | Stars: Nicholas Anscombe, Lizzie Davies, Ingrid Evans, Lisa Ronaghan
48.
The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode:
Landscape with Running Figures: Part 2
(1965)
TV-PG | 50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Stranded in an abandoned town and awaiting help, the blind Mrs. Gerard (Barbara Rush) realizes she is with Kimble (David Janssen). With her husband on the way, she delays Kimble's departure, hoping his capture will end her husband's obsession and save her marriage.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Herschel Bernardi, Jud Taylor
Votes: 190
49.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
Operation Hannibal
(1969)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
The Heroes enlist the daughter of a German general to get to photograph his secret plans.
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 176
50.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Pursued
(1968)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An alien woman contacts David hoping he can save her. She a mutant alien, who has uncontrolled emotions, and they want to kill her before she contacts Vincent. David is dubious, but he desperately wants her to testify at a special hearing.
Director: William Hale | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Suzanne Pleshette, Will Geer, Kent Smith
Votes: 183