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1. Joy (I) (2015)

PG-13 | 124 min | Biography, Drama

Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramírez

Votes: 145,137 | Gross: $56.45M

2. Body Heat (1981)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson

Votes: 40,128 | Gross: $24.06M

3. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Approved | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker

Votes: 17,204 | Gross: $13.90M

4. Pal Joey (1957)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Joey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols

Votes: 5,857

5. Fascination (2004)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A young man becomes suspicious when his recently widowed mother decides to re-marry soon after his stepfather's death.

Director: Klaus Menzel | Stars: James Naughton, Jacqueline Bisset, Adam Garcia, Stuart Wilson

Votes: 1,593 | Gross: $0.02M

6. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,826

7. Sanford (1980–1981)

30 min | Comedy

The further adventures of Fred Sanford, featuring the old cast, except for Lamont; Fred has a new partner and a new girlfriend.

Stars: Redd Foxx, Dennis Burkley, Marguerite Ray, Clinton Derricks-Carroll

Votes: 417

8. Night of the Ghouls (1959)

Unrated | 69 min | Horror

A phony spiritualist raises the dead.

Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Kenne Duncan, Duke Moore, Tor Johnson, Valda Hansen

Votes: 2,658

9. The Merry Widow (1934)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée

Votes: 3,258

10. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)

G | 105 min | Family, Drama, Comedy

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Sally Prager, Johnny Doran, George Rose

Votes: 816 | Gross: $0.11M

11. Diplomatic Courier (1952)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A US State Department courier tangles with Soviet agents and seductive women in post WW2 Europe.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal, Stephen McNally, Hildegard Knef

Votes: 1,424

12. Colonel Chabert (1994)

110 min | Drama, History, Romance

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory... See full summary »

Director: Yves Angelo | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier

Votes: 2,075 | Gross: $0.73M

13. Della (1965)

Approved | 65 min | Drama

A man trying to negotiate a property deal with a wealthy but reclusive widow becomes romantically involved with the woman's unhinged daughter.

Director: Robert Gist | Stars: Paul Burke, Charles Bickford, Joan Crawford, Richard Carlson

Votes: 618

14. She Devil (1957)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

Doctors Scott and Bach inject the dying Kyra Zelas with a formula which saves her life - but also renders her almost immortal and wickedly evil.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, Albert Dekker, John Archer

Votes: 490

15. The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Votes: 1,136

16. Aqui, Tarados! (1981)

81 min | Comedy, Horror

An anthology in three episodes, all involving some prohibited sexual perversion. In the first episode, "A Tia de André", a teenage boy gets sexually involved with his Balzakian aunt. In the... See full summary »

Directors: David Cardoso, John Doo, Ody Fraga | Stars: John Doo, Sonia Garcia, Alvamar Taddei, Zaira Bueno

Votes: 41

17. Villa des roses (2002)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Romance, War

Louise Créteur's husband dies on the Titanic trying to emigrate, so she must leave their boy Lucien with her old dad in Honfleur and leave the Normandy countryside for greater Paris. She ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Van Passel | Stars: Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall, Harriet Walter, Shirley Henderson

Votes: 478

18. El misterio de los almendros (2004)

Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Mystery

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Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: María Rojo, Alejandro Tommasi, José Juan Meraz, Manuel Medina

Votes: 69

19. Strange Journey (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote ... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Paul Kelly, Osa Massen, Hillary Brooke, Lee Patrick

Votes: 45

20. Tonight or Never (1941)

85 min | Comedy

A famous crime novelist checks in at a hotel in the mountains under false identity.

Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Åke Söderblom, Thor Modéen, Sickan Carlsson, Barbro Kollberg

Votes: 51

21. A Taste of Money (1970)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short

Tired of being poor, Ratfink marries a widow for her money. But the situation may be more than he can handle, when he has to put up with her bossiness and the non-stop chatter of her gargantuan son.

Director: Arthur Davis | Stars: Lennie Weinrib, Athena Lorde, Peter Halton

Votes: 40

22. Sängkammartjuven (1959)

93 min | Comedy

Rich socialite are falsely rumored to have an affair with an author. Meanwhile, the police is searching for a cat burglar.

Director: Göran Gentele | Stars: Jarl Kulle, Gaby Stenberg, Lena Söderblom, Holger Löwenadler

Votes: 51

23. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Out There - Darkness (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Miss Fox is a rich old widow who falsely identifies one of the building's employees as the guy who robbed her, and later she wants to help him but it may be too late.

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, James Congdon, Frank Albertson

Votes: 920

24. Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode: The Seance (1976)

Not Rated | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Rich widows and widowers are hypnotized into thinking their deceased spouses still manage their business affairs from the 'other side.

Director: George W. Brooks | Stars: Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle

Votes: 291

25. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: The Dead Wives Club (2004)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.

Director: David Platt | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 296

26. The Lucy Show (1962–1968)
Episode: Lucy's Substitute Secretary (1967)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy

Lucy is preparing to go on vacation, but she has a change of heart when her substitute secretary turns out to be an attractive blonde who Mr. Mooney really likes. Lucy secretly doesn't go ... See full summary »

Director: Maury Thompson | Stars: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Ruta Lee, Mary Jane Croft

Votes: 61

27. Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode: Sugar Mama (1979)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Alex befriends a wealthy elderly lady who pays him to take her around the city.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner

Votes: 208

28. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
Episode: An Affair with a Married Woman (1983)

TV-MA | 79 min | Crime, Drama

A Russian born Jew, recruited by British Intelligence in 1901 to obtain intelligence on Russian oil fields, is detained in a provincial town under suspicion.

Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sam Neill, Leo McKern, Norman Rodway, Peter Egan

Votes: 108

29. Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)
Episode: Grace (1974)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mr. Prodmore owns the mortgage to the Yule family estate. He will forgive the vast debt if Yule will marry his daughter. The enchanting Grace has other ideas.

Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Diana Rigg, George Cole, Jeremy Brett, Celia Bannerman

Votes: 32

30. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Jacoby (2021)

44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel.

Directors: James Pearson, Clare Wales | Stars: Tony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass, David Radford

31. Blood & Money (2023– )
Episode: High Society Schemers (2023)

Crime, Documentary

New York, 1998: Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old widow, was an eccentric New York socialite and philanthropist. She disappeared on July 5, 1998 from her Manhattan town house on East 65th ... See full summary »

Stars: Christine Cornell, Michael Hardy, Thomas Hovagim, Kenneth Kimes

Votes: 15

32. The Musketeers (2014–2016)
Episode: The Challenge (2014)

TV-14 | 56 min | Adventure, Drama

LaBarge, regional superintendent in Gascony, is arrested for killing two musketeers. Our friends are tasked to bring him safely to Paris. The Red Guards, who are tired of the Musketeers' ... See full summary »

Director: Farren Blackburn | Stars: Vinnie Jones, Howard Charles, Santiago Cabrera, Luke Pasqualino

Votes: 479

33. Decline and Fall (2017)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2017)

58 min | Comedy

Paul's plans to become a priest are shattered when he is expelled from university after falling victim to a prank. Forced to take up a teaching post at a dismal school he is attracted to the mother of one of his pupils.

Director: Guillem Morales | Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Nickolas Grace, Tom Stourton, Matthew Beard

Votes: 102

34. QE2: The World's Greatest Cruise Ship (2018)
Episode: End of an Era (2018)

60 min | Documentary, History

To keep the QE2 afloat financially its owners came up with an innovative way to keep passengers spending, by installing a casino and shops. The company also hired male dance hosts to entertain wealthy widows.

Director: Andy Robbins | Stars: Tracy-Ann Oberman, Queen Elizabeth II, Nick Bates, Victor Blank