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1. My Girl (1991)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Vada is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, and begins to fall in love, Vada is outraged and does everything in her power to split them up.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis

Votes: 88,967 | Gross: $59.85M

2. Burlesque (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Music, Musical

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.

Director: Steve Antin | Stars: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming, Eric Dane

Votes: 93,213 | Gross: $39.44M

3. The Skeleton Key (2005)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Gena Rowlands

Votes: 123,058 | Gross: $47.81M

4. Fish Tank (2009)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths

Votes: 65,062 | Gross: $0.37M

5. To Sir, with Love (1967)

Approved | 105 min | Drama

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

Director: James Clavell | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall

Votes: 20,435 | Gross: $42.43M

6. In Her Shoes (2005)

PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine, Anson Mount

Votes: 65,097 | Gross: $32.88M

7. Girl 6 (1996)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis

Votes: 6,628 | Gross: $4.90M

8. The Invisible Woman (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 3,358

9. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Grand Deceptions (1989)

TV-PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After the head of a private paramilitary think tank who is embezzling funds murders a blackmailer, he has to match wits with the persistent Lieutenant Columbo.

Director: Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Peter Falk, Robert Foxworth, Andy Romano, Janet Eilber

Votes: 1,776

10. The Hillside Strangler (2004)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Kenneth is obsessed with the police, he moves to LA with his cousin, Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business. Frustrated decide on revenge, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted to death.

Director: Chuck Parello | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Nicholas Turturro, Allison Lange, Marisol Padilla Sánchez

Votes: 1,982 | Gross: $0.00M

11. These Foolish Things (2006)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A struggling young actress, a fledgling director and an ambitious playwright become embroiled in an emotional love triangle as they strive for recognition, fame and fortune in a world on the brink of World War II.

Director: Julia Taylor-Stanley | Stars: Charlotte Lucas, Craig Rooke, Julia McKenzie, Roisin Goodall

Votes: 590

12. Morning Glory (1993)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama

An ex-convict on parole is accused of murdering a loose woman in the town where he works.

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Deborah Raffin, Lloyd Bochner, Nina Foch

Votes: 556 | Gross: $0.02M

13. Four Days in September (1997)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, History

Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.

Director: Bruno Barreto | Stars: Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres, Luiz Fernando Guimarães

Votes: 5,372 | Gross: $0.31M

14. Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Approved | 79 min | Sci-Fi, Horror

Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney, Michael Mark

Votes: 2,889

15. The Cook (I) (2008)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has ... See full summary »

Director: Gregg Simon | Stars: Penny Vital, Nina Fehren, Mark Hengst, Noelle Kenney

Votes: 1,314

16. Bartleby (2001)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.

Director: Jonathan Parker | Stars: David Paymer, Crispin Glover, Glenne Headly, Maury Chaykin

Votes: 2,196 | Gross: $0.15M

17. An Innocent Love (1982 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Romance

A gifted 14-year-old junior at the University of Washington replies to an ad of a 19-year-old freshman to be her maths tutor, paving the way for a friendship and a silent first crush. Will the kind genius master the lessons of the heart?

Director: Roger Young | Stars: Melissa Sue Anderson, Doug McKeon, Steven Bauer, Kristoff St. John

Votes: 118

18. Julie Johnson (2001)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.

Director: Bob Gosse | Stars: Lili Taylor, Courtney Love, Noah Emmerich, Mischa Barton

Votes: 720

19. Schultze Gets the Blues (2003)

PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes unexpectedly.

Director: Michael Schorr | Stars: Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl-Fred Müller, Ursula Schucht

Votes: 3,770 | Gross: $0.59M

20. The Flying Sorceress (1956)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Tom steals a witch's flying broom so he can scare the wits out of Jerry.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: June Foray, William Hanna

Votes: 758

21. Désiré (1937)

92 min | Comedy

Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who's now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister ... See full summary »

Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac, Jacques Baumer, Saturnin Fabre

Votes: 447

22. Pups Is Pups (1930)

Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Family, Short

The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.

Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy DeBorba, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Votes: 375

23. Egghead Rides Again (1937)

Approved | 7 min | Western, Family, Animation

City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout ... See full summary »

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher, Sons of the Pioneers

Votes: 269

24. His Bitter Half (1950)

8 min | Family, Animation, Short

Daffy Duck marries for money, but the bossy wife and her raucous, trouble-making little son soon have him filing for divorce.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Martha Wentworth

Votes: 278

25. Raise the Rent (1920)

11 min | Short, Comedy

Snub and his wife give up their bungalow and allow another couple to move in. Then it develops that they can't find another home, and must live in an improvised tent.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: 'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, Eddie Baker, William Gillespie

Votes: 18

26. Kings for a Day (2017)

84 min | Drama

A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.

Director: Xabi Molia | Stars: Kad Merad, Kacey Mottet Klein, Sylvie Testud, Lucie Bourdeu

Votes: 192

27. One of the Family (1924)

10 min | Short, Comedy

Jimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous. The lady gets him various costumes and takes him around wherever her husband will see them. The husband ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Charley Chase, Blanche Mehaffey, Billy Engle, Patrick Kelly

Votes: 33

28. Young Ironsides (1932)

20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Harry is hired by a rich family to stop their daughter from entering a beauty contest.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Charley Chase, Muriel Evans, Clarence Wilson, Heinie Conklin

Votes: 83

29. The City Slicker (1918)

Not Rated | 12 min | Comedy, Short

Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.

Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Helen Gilmore

Votes: 260

30. The Kwan Jai Guy

Adventure, Comedy, Drama | Announced

Plot under wraps

Director: Ileana D. Vasquez

31. The Boudoir Butler (1932)

22 min | Short, Comedy

A woman pretends to be a widow to get a job, with her husband posing as her butler. Little do they know that the potential employer they have over to dinner is a wanted bunco artist.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: Andy Clyde, Irene Thompson, Joe Donahue, Tom Kennedy

Votes: 12

32. Catherine the Great (2011)

5 min | Animation, Short

Catherine the Great is a story, one of thousands each year, of women trafficking for prostitution in Israel.

Director: Anna Kuntsman | Stars: Alena Yiv, Herzl Tobey

Votes: 15

33. The Addams Family (1964–1966)
Episode: Crisis in the Addams Family (1965)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

Once again, Fester's cannon has wrecked the plumbing. The Arthur J. Henson Insurance Agency, subsidiary of Excelso Fidelity Insurance, is outraged by yet another in a series of payouts on ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Jackie Coogan, Ted Cassidy

Votes: 251

34. Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode: The Duplicates (1952)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The government discovers a parallel world inhabited by duplicates of humanity and sends an engineer, Bruce Calvin, to that world to kill his counterpart before the two planets destroy each other.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Darren McGavin, Cameron Prud'Homme, Patricia Ferris, Alexander Lockwood

Votes: 77

35. The Great Gildersleeve (1954–1956)
Episode: Gildy Stews About a Cook (1955)

26 min | Comedy

Gildy desperately searches for a fiancée so that Birdie, his housekeeper, won't break off her marriage plans in order to care for his family.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph, Doris Singleton, Alix Talton

36. Taz-Mania (1991–1995)
Episode: A Devil of a Job (1991)

TV-Y7-FV | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Taz gets a job at the Tazmanian hotel to earn the money for a motorcycle.

Director: Douglas McCarthy | Stars: Jim Cummings, Dan Castellaneta, Debi Derryberry, Miriam Flynn

Votes: 45

37. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Lazy Jay Ranch: Parts 1-2 (1961)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Lazy Jay Ranch" Part 1, Fractured Fairy Tales "Hans Clinker", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "Flicker Rock", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Lazy Jay Ranch" Part 2.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, Sal Faillace, William T. Hurtz, Lew Keller, Ted Parmelee, George Singer | Stars: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried

Votes: 21

38. Green Eggs and Ham (2019–2022)
Episode: Car (2019)

TV-Y7 | 28 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Guy shows up to return Sam's briefcase only to learn he has company. Meanwhile, the mother-daughter duo begins their slow journey through the desert.

Directors: Cody Cameron, Aurian Redson, Piero Piluso | Stars: Michael Douglas, Adam Devine, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer

Votes: 172