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1. Jack Reacher (2012)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper responsible for a mass shooting.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, Werner Herzog
Votes: 365,082 | Gross: $80.07M
2. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson
Votes: 572,676 | Gross: $118.50M
3. Blazing Saddles (1974)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Western
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Votes: 152,516 | Gross: $119.50M
4. T2 Trainspotting (2017)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle
Votes: 132,965 | Gross: $2.40M
5. Murder by Contract (1958)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.
Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel
Votes: 4,367
6. House of Games (1987)
R | 102 min | Crime, Thriller
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala
Votes: 24,039 | Gross: $2.59M
7. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Votes: 16,862 | Gross: $11.80M
8. Impact (1949)
Passed | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker
Votes: 4,720
9. Executive Suite (1954)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance
When the head of a large manufacturing firm dies suddenly from a stroke, his vice presidents vie to see who will replace him.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, June Allyson, Fredric March
Votes: 4,586
10. The Josephine Baker Story (1991 TV Movie)
R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Louis Gossett Jr.
Votes: 1,587
11. Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
G | 76 min | Comedy
On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall
Votes: 1,505
12. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas
Votes: 2,136
13. The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a German spy ring.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 3,295
14. Scrapper (2021)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ex-con turned "scrapper" Jake leads a quiet life caring for his family until he is pursued by violent Punjabi and Mexican criminals following a botched robbery.
Director: Bari Kang | Stars: Craig muMs Grant, Myles Clohessy, Anil Kumar, Samrat Chakrabarti
Votes: 1,461
15. The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Don Ameche, Loretta Young, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,194
16. Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The daughter of iconic actor John Barrymore becomes reunited with her father after a ten year estrangement and engages in his self-destructive lifestyle.
Director: Art Napoleon | Stars: Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ray Danton
Votes: 767
17. Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Scott Brady
Votes: 652
18. Union Station (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A sharp-eyed woman spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger
Votes: 2,726
19. Happy Land (1943)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, War
In a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who... See full summary »
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Don Ameche, Frances Dee, Harry Carey, Ann Rutherford
Votes: 380
20. Land of Liberty (1939)
Approved | 138 min | History
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gayne Whitman, Erville Alderson, Don Ameche, Heather Angel
Votes: 353
21. Cody of the Pony Express (1950)
Approved | 270 min | Western
An Eastern syndicate, plotting to gain control of the western frontier, hires a gang led by Mort Black to drive out the settlers. Army undercover agent Lt. Jim Archer and young Pony Express... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett
Votes: 41
22. I'll Remember April (1945)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Gloria Jean, Kirby Grant, Milburn Stone, Edward Brophy
Votes: 45
23. Dr. Broadway (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York City physician, Dr. Timothy Kane, knows Broadway, the Great White Way and all of its characters thoroughly, as does his receptionist, Connie Madigan. A man Kane had sent to prison ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Jean Phillips, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Lane
Votes: 132
24. Top Speed (1930)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An order clerk poses as a millionaire.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Bernice Claire, Jack Whiting, Frank McHugh
Votes: 259
25. Deadline (1948)
Approved | 57 min | Western
A Pony Express rider discovers some mysterious goings-on during the construction of a telegraph line. When a murder is committed, he is blamed for it.
Director: Oliver Drake | Stars: Sunset Carson, Al Terry, Pat Starling, Pat Gleason
Votes: 30
26. Daring Daughters (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Romance
A savvy city girl tries to protect her naive sister, who has just moved from the country, from the temptations--and men--of big-city life.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Marian Marsh, Kenneth Thomson, Joan Marsh, Bert Roach
Votes: 44
27. Croon Crazy (1933)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
An Oil-can-Harry radio announcer presents Cubby Bear the Crooner as the star of his own radio program over station R-K-O and, while Cubby is crooning away, Slick also advises that Kitty ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Muffati | Star: Red McKenzie
Votes: 67
28. Colorum (2009)
109 min | Drama
Director: Jobin Ballesteros | Stars: Alfred Vargas, Lou Veloso, Joe Mari Avellana, Andoy Ranay
Votes: 19
29. Money in Minutes (2014 TV Movie)
96 min | Documentary
Migrant workers around the globe send money home to support their families, but there is a dark side to international cash transfers.
Directors: Matthias Heeder, Monika Hielscher | Stars: Brando Alvarenga, Augustin Alvarenga, Luis Pelayo, Ilshwar Lai Giri
Votes: 8
30. Telegram for America (1956)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Marvin Rothenberg | Star: Ralph Paul
31.
The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode:
Flight from the Final Demon
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A man helps Kimble escapes from a Sheriff and is wounded. As he nurses him, he discovers the man is tortured by a very guilty conscience in connection with a murder rap he was acquitted of months before.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: David Janssen, Ed Nelson, Carroll O'Connor, Ellen Madison
Votes: 207
32.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Cautious Coquette
(1958)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elaine is being threatened and blackmailed by her husband, Harry Pitkin, so she consults Perry. In a complex series of moves, Perry is sent on a wild goose chase to Elaine's apartment, Harry ends up dead, and Elaine is charged with murder.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 418
33.
State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode:
The Doll Who Couldn't Sleep
(1958)
30 min | Drama
Blake learns of the upcoming robbery of a Las Vegas Western Union branch.
Director: Stanley Shpetner | Stars: Rod Cameron, Harry Landers, Susan Morrow, Tom Greenway
Votes: 9
34.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Bart's in Jail!
(2021)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
When Grandpa falls victim to a phone scam, the Simpsons set out to get his money back.
Directors: Mike B. Anderson, Steven Dean Moore | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 986
35.
Half as Interesting (2017– )
Episode:
Why 17 Million Telegrams Are Still Sent Every Year
(2021)
6 min | Documentary, Comedy, Talk-Show
For many decades the telegraph was the only means of rapid, reliable long distance communications. As a result it became deeply integrated in the operational procedures of every large ... See full summary »
Star: Sam Denby
36.
The Tom Woods Show (2013– )
How to Change the World, for Real
(2022 Podcast Episode)
News
37.
Blood & Money (2023– )
Episode:
A College Kingpin's Greed
(2023)
Crime, Documentary
Multiple jurisdictions work together when a mysterious disappearance of two cellphone salesmen in Southern California spirals into an interstate conspiracy fueled by extortion and murder.
Stars: James Cook, Tay Dicker, Gary Friedman, Jeff Lancaster
Votes: 13
38.
The Forsaken Westerns (2017– )
Episode:
Western Union
(2017)
Western
A Western Union engineer encounters difficulty with a town boss when he needs to hire men to set up 62 miles worth of telegraph posts.
Directors: Franklin Adreon, Bob Terry | Star: Bob Terry
Votes: 8
39.
The Deuce (2017–2019)
Episode:
That's a Wrap
(2019)
TV-MA | 65 min | Drama
A struggling Lori turns to Candy for help before revisiting The Deuce; Candy makes a deal to secure funding for her film; Abby takes a stand against the latest phase of Midtown redevelopment; Tommy explains the new world order to Vincent.
Director: Alex Hall | Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Chris Bauer, Chris Coy
Votes: 711