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1. The Sting (1973)

PG | 129 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning

Votes: 279,984 | Gross: $159.60M

2. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman

Votes: 331,152 | Gross: $53.61M

3. Back to the Future Part III (1990)

PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is murdered.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Tom Wilson

Votes: 481,009 | Gross: $87.73M

4. High Noon (1952)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 110,208 | Gross: $9.45M

5. Lady and the Tramp (1955)

G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting | Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson

Votes: 148,513 | Gross: $93.60M

6. Dead Man (1995)

R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange Native American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 103,104 | Gross: $1.04M

7. Sometimes They Come Back (1991 TV Movie)

R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A man and his family return to his hometown, where he is then harassed by teenagers who died when he was a kid.

Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, Robert Rusler, Chris Demetral

Votes: 12,029

8. The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty

Votes: 57,174

9. Mr. Jones (2019)

119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle

Votes: 16,253

10. Red River (1948)

Passed | 133 min | Drama, Western

Dunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son.

Directors: Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Stars: John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan

Votes: 34,404

11. Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

PG | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The relationship between writer AA Milne and his son, Christopher Robin, and how this became the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh.

Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Vicki Pepperdine

Votes: 29,860 | Gross: $1.74M

12. The Ladykillers (1955)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom

Votes: 31,408

13. Pather Panchali (1955)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi

Votes: 38,562 | Gross: $0.54M

14. A Special Day (1977)

Approved | 106 min | Drama

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd

Votes: 15,842

15. 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: 10,242

16. In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (2016)

PG-13 | 129 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A spirited 18-year-old woman is married off to a man she barely knows as she combats the daily struggles of living in Hiroshima during World War II.

Director: Sunao Katabuchi | Stars: Non, Ava Pickard, Kenna Pickard, Karen Strassman

Votes: 12,455 | Gross: $0.17M

17. Flamingo Road (1949)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian

Votes: 3,624 | Gross: $2.26M

18. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis

Votes: 14,438 | Gross: $1.42M

19. Holy Matrimony (1994)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tate Donovan

Votes: 1,654 | Gross: $0.71M

20. Mine 9 (2019)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller

Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

Director: Eddie Mensore | Stars: Terry Serpico, Mark Ashworth, Kevin Sizemore, Clint James

Votes: 11,901 | Gross: $0.23M

21. Number 17 (1932)

TV-PG | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop

Votes: 5,439

22. La Bête Humaine (1938)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux

Votes: 8,424

23. The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Family

During the Civil War Union spy Andrews and his men volunteer to steal a Confederate train and drive it to Union territory while destroying the Confederate railway system along the way.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton

Votes: 1,374

24. To the Lighthouse (1983 TV Movie)

115 min | Drama

A family spends their last summer at the seashore, before personal tragedy and the outbreak of World War I destroy their world.

Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Suzanne Bertish, Lynsey Baxter

Votes: 230

25. Orphan Train (1979 TV Movie)

143 min | Adventure, Drama

In 1854, there were over 10,000 abandoned, orphaned children living on the streets of New York City. Out of this desperate situation was born the orphan Train. This is a fictionalized account, based on actual events.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Jill Eikenberry, Kevin Dobson, Linda Manz, Graham Fletcher-Cook

Votes: 265

26. Time Table (1956)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In Arizona, a train's baggage car is robbed of a large payroll, prompting an investigation led by a railroad official-insurance investigator team.

Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart

Votes: 916

27. Funny Boy (2020)

109 min | Drama

Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.

Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Agam Darshi, Nimmi Harasgama, Ali Kazmi, Seema Biswas

Votes: 991

28. Off the Black (2006)

R | 90 min | Drama

An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nolte) gets a younger friend (Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.

Director: James Ponsoldt | Stars: Nick Nolte, Trevor Morgan, Timothy Hutton, Rosemarie DeWitt

Votes: 1,506 | Gross: $0.02M

29. Pakeezah (1972)

147 min | Musical, Romance, Drama

In Lucknow at the turn of the century, a dancer and courtesan believes that her pure soul and body will enable her to find true love and honor.

Director: Kamal Amrohi | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Veena

Votes: 1,809

30. 300 Miles to Heaven (1989)

105 min | Biography, Drama

Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden under a truck. In the movie, their destination has been changed to Denmark.

Director: Maciej Dejczer | Stars: Wojciech Klata, Rafal Zimowski, Kama Kowalewska, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak

Votes: 1,083

31. Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which runs through the breathtaking scenery and stunning vistas of the Merced River Canyon to its terminus at El Portal outside Yosemite National Park, is on ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Munch | Stars: Peter Alexander, Jeri Arredondo, Henry Gibson, Michael Stipe

Votes: 178 | Gross: $0.02M

32. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Philip Dorn, Phil Brown

Votes: 470

33. Cat and Dupli-cat (1967)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

On a wharf, an opera singing Tom Cat and a feline rival compete for Jerry Mouse.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dal McKennon, Terence Monk

Votes: 448

34. The Mystery Train (1931)

Passed | 62 min | Mystery

A group of passengers is trapped in a runaway Pullman car.

Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Hedda Hopper, Marceline Day, Nick Stuart, Bryant Washburn

Votes: 149

35. Leave Me Alone (1978)

75 min | Drama

A merry christening celebration in a big garden has a tragic epilogue. One of the invited families is returning home in their car and the euphoric father collides with a train at a crossing... See full summary »

Director: Ota Koval | Stars: Filip Renc, Dagmar Bláhová, Vlastimil Brodský, Jana Brejchová

Votes: 17

36. Hobo Gadget Band (1939)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

At the hobo hotel, it's morning. One hobo awakens, and carefully avoids the shower, except for a drop on each eye. He stops at the medicine cabinet for some "soda fizz" which jets about, ... See full summary »

Directors: Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig

Votes: 106

37. Bosko and Bruno (1932)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bosko and Bruno escape from a speeding train via a handcar; make a failed attempt to steal a chicken; and end up on a runaway boxcar.

Director: Hugh Harman | Star: Johnny Murray

Votes: 181

38. When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam' (1926)

7 min | Animation, Short, Music

A scene at a train station leads to a sing-along of the title song, followed by an amusing cartoon sing-along of humorous new lyrics about spotting a "married man".

Director: Dave Fleischer

Votes: 25

39. Droga na zachód (1961)

79 min | Action, War

During the last days of WWII, an old railroad worker and his assistant guide a train loaded with explosives to the Western front. The journey is a perilous trek through rough terrain, ... See full summary »

Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Kazimierz Opalinski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Ryszard Pietruski, Elzbieta Kepinska

Votes: 68

40. Nachthexen (2017)

8 min | Animation, Short, War

An elderly woman, a war veteran, recalls her experiences as a member of the all-female bombing squad nicknamed 'Nachtexen' (Night Witches) during World War II .

Director: Julie Herdichek Baltzer | Stars: Liga Jensen, Bente Jepsen, Nataliia Kiriushina, August Lindemer

Votes: 24

41. Norfolk & Western Articulated Steam Locomotives in the 1940s and 1950s (2019 Video)

31 min | Documentary, Short

Mostly track-side footage of Class A 2-6-6-4 and Class Y 2-8-8-2 articulated steam locomotives of the Norfolk and Western railroad, taken during the last decades of steam power in the 1940s... See full summary »

42. Trolley Ahoy (1936)

8 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Mr. Bang bets the Skipper ten dollars he can't get the trolley to arrive at the train station on time.

Director: Tom Palmer

Votes: 107

43. Rhapsody of the Rails (1933)

9 min | Documentary, Short

This documentary shows what passengers see while riding on the New York Central Railroad.

44. Goofy Movies Number Four (1934)

Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short

In the fourth entry of this short film series, producer Pete Smith makes comedic "explanatory remarks" over random film clips to create a "Wotaphony Newsreel" and then spoofs an unidentified silent film in "Passions of Horse-Pistol Pete".

Star: Pete Smith

Votes: 109

45. NKP 765 Autumn Spectacular (2009 Video)

81 min | Documentary

Spectacular track-side footage of Nickel Plate Road (NKP) 2-8-4 steam locomotive number 765 as it pulls excursion trains in the fall of 1985 and 1986 in West Virginia and northern Kentucky.

Star: John Hingsbergen

46. Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973)
Episode: Alias Smith and Jones (1971)

PG | 74 min | Western

A pair of outlaws seeking amnesty from the Governor must stay incognito and out of trouble in a town while a friend pleads their case. The wait is complicated by a lovely bank manager and the arrival of members of their former gang.

Director: Gene Levitt | Stars: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Forrest Tucker, Susan Saint James

Votes: 529

47. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: De Mortuis (1956)

TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery

Professor Rankin's buddies Wally and Bud stop by to take him fishing. They find him in his cellar, filling in a hole with cement. They suspect he may have also filled it with his wife.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Emhardt, Cara Williams, Henry Jones

Votes: 771

48. Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973)
Episode: Exit from Wickenburg (1971)

TV-PG | 50 min | Western

Hannibal and the Kid have finally found good jobs in a town where they can really fit in. So why is everyone trying to convince them to get out of town? And more to the point; why are they ... See full summary »

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Pete Duel, Ben Murphy, Susan Strasberg, Slim Pickens

Votes: 131

49. The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode: Opie's Hobo Friend (1961)

TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, Family

Andy must put away the welcome mat when a likable drifter, passing through Mayberry, starts putting Artful Dodger-ish notions into Opie's head.

Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier

Votes: 415

50. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Crane vs. Crane (1996)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Niles announces that he has been retained to testify in a high-profile legal action to be broadcast on TV; local millionaire Harlow Safford is, at age 78, showing signs of senility, so his son is trying to get him committed.

Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 913