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1. Click (2006)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff
Votes: 356,294 | Gross: $137.36M
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: 571,857 | Gross: $118.50M
3. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 498,668
4. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.
Directors: Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 153,777 | Gross: $63.49M
5. Laugh-In (1967–1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Music
The original rapid fire sketch comedy show.
Stars: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Gary Owens, Ruth Buzzi
Votes: 3,647
6. Flubber (1997)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
An absent-minded professor discovers "flubber," a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Ted Levine
Votes: 94,572 | Gross: $92.98M
7. Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves! (1997 TV Movie)
PG | 74 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
This time, the adults have shrunk themselves, and the kids need to fix it.
Director: Dean Cundey | Stars: Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon, Bug Hall, Robin Bartlett
Votes: 16,917
8. Death of a Salesman (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Drama
An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang
Votes: 11,702
9. Battle in Heaven (2005)
Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
Marcos lusts after his boss's promiscuous daughter, but after botching an extortion scheme, he becomes wracked with guilt.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Marcos Hernández, Anapola Mushkadiz, Bertha Ruiz, David Bornstein
Votes: 6,631 | Gross: $0.07M
10. The Nutty Professor (1963)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A timid chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome womanizer.
Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman
Votes: 19,408 | Gross: $7.63M
11. The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk
Votes: 9,269 | Gross: $25.38M
12. Dr. T & the Women (2000)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wealthy gynecologist's ideal life is thrown into turmoil when the women closest to him begin to affect his life in unexpecting ways.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern
Votes: 20,263 | Gross: $13.11M
13. The Girl Most Likely to... (1973 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After an accident causes an ugly duckling girl to undergo reconstructive surgery, she emerges from behind the bandages a ravishing beauty. It's payback time when she uses her new attractiveness to exact revenge on those who wronged her.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Stockard Channing, Edward Asner, Jim Backus, Joe Flynn
Votes: 1,551
14. Monkey Business (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Votes: 15,555
15. Folks! (1992)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life fall apart soon after.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 2,815 | Gross: $6.13M
16. Son of Flubber (1962)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
When Professor Brainard experiments further on Flubber derivatives, he gets in trouble and only his students can help.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk
Votes: 3,207 | Gross: $22.13M
17. 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: 3,349
18. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
830 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
Votes: 4,962
19. 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
Director: Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Allan Jeayes, Mary Morris
Votes: 1,846
20. Five Came Back (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine
Votes: 2,357
21. Dear Brigitte (1965)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Family
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy who is as colorblind as he's in love with Brigitte Bardot, the French bombshell.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Fabian, Glynis Johns, Cindy Carol
Votes: 1,791
22. WataMote: No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular! (2013)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Kuroki Tomoko is a super popular female schoolgirl, with 50 years experience in dating and more than 100 boys - but just in the dating video games. In real life is a closed and shy person ... See full summary »
Stars: Izumi Kitta, Ayaka Asai, Monica Rial, Yûko Kurose
Votes: 2,436
23. Bibi Blocksberg (2002)
102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An evil witch tries to take possession of a crystal ball from the hands of a young and benevolent witch.
Director: Hermine Huntgeburth | Stars: Sidonie von Krosigk, Katja Riemann, Corinna Harfouch, Max Befort
Votes: 1,008
24. The War Is Over (1966)
121 min | Drama, War
A middle-aged political activist tries to dissuade his young followers from taking radical action.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Yves Montand, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Bujold, Jean Dasté
Votes: 2,435
25. Men in War (1957)
Approved | 102 min | Action, Drama, War
During the Korean War, a battle-worn lieutenant and his platoon are behind enemy lines, and have orders to march to Hill 465 for possible relief.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine
Votes: 2,986
26. Zotz! (1962)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A professor comes into possession of an amulet with magical powers.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Tom Poston, Julia Meade, Jim Backus, Fred Clark
Votes: 923
27. The Inside Story (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick
Votes: 299
28. Black Friday (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel
Votes: 2,875
29. Santa Claus (1959)
G | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
With Merlin's aid, Santa Claus must defeat the evil machinations of the devil Pitch to ruin Christmas.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: José Elías Moreno, Cesáreo Quezadas 'Pulgarcito', José Luis Aguirre 'Trotsky', Armando Arriola
Votes: 5,161
30. Convicts (1991)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Western
Horton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.
Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois
Votes: 731
31. Please Tell Me! Galko-chan (2016–2017)
TV-14 | 8 min | Animation, Comedy
Three teenage girls discuss subjects that are usually of an embarrassing nature. Their interactions are gently humorous and often informative.
Stars: Azumi Waki, Miyu Tomita, Minami Takahashi, Mamiko Noto
Votes: 337
32. Mammoth (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater, Louisiana locals exiting a retro-fitted theater excitedly watch as a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof ... See full summary »
Director: Abram Cox | Stars: Vincent Ventresca, Constantin Draganescu, Summer Glau, Tom Skerritt
Votes: 2,455
33. Distracted (1970)
85 min | Comedy
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company. He topples from one problem to another.
Director: Pierre Richard | Stars: Pierre Richard, Marie-Christine Barrault, Maria Pacôme, Catherine Samie
Votes: 1,670
34. Lucky Jim (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy
Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get ... See full summary »
Director: John Boulting | Stars: John Welsh, Ronald Cardew, Hugh Griffith, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 775
35. The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977)
G | 7 min | Comedy, Short
Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill.
Director: Carl Gottlieb | Stars: Steve Martin, Buck Henry, Teri Garr, Ivor Barry
Votes: 798
36. Shaadi Ke Side Effects (2014)
Not Rated | 145 min | Comedy, Romance
A complicated relationship develops between a man and woman after getting married and having a baby.
Director: Saket Chaudhary | Stars: Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan, Vir Das, Ram Kapoor
Votes: 4,213 | Gross: $0.58M
37. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
178 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his ... See full summary »
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt
Votes: 1,703
38. Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert
Votes: 336 | Gross: $0.12M
39. A Dispatch from Reuters (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Biography, Drama
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons, nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europe's most respected news wire service.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Edna Best, Eddie Albert, Albert Bassermann
Votes: 664
40. The Cockeyed Miracle (1946)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Man returns from heaven to make up for financial errors he made that caused harm to his family.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Frank Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Audrey Totter
Votes: 434
41. Chess Fever (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Comedy, Short
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his ... See full summary »
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mykola Shpykovskyi | Stars: José Raúl Capablanca, Vladimir Fogel, Anna Zemtsova, Natalya Glan
Votes: 1,475
42. Párpados azules (2007)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
Director: Ernesto Contreras | Stars: Cecilia Suárez, Enrique Arreola, Magali Boysselle, Armando Casas
Votes: 850
43. The Garden of Sinners: Oblivion Recording (2008)
59 min | Animation, Action, Drama
January 1999: Meet Azaka Kokuto. She plans to win Mikiya over as her lover despite the presence of a dangerous woman named Shiki Ryogi. There is only one problem - Azaka is his sister. And ... See full summary »
Director: Takahiro Miura | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura
Votes: 1,571
44. Nims Bond (2008)
115 min | Comedy, Romance
A clumsy police officer who is a huge fan of the James Bond movies finds himself assigned to solve a murder.
Directors: Ahmad El-Badri, Umar Gabr | Stars: Hani Ramzi, Ahmed Rateb, Lotfy Labib, Dolli Shahin
Votes: 553
45. Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)
Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A scared horror writer is sent to what he believes is a sanatorium to treat him for his fears, but it turns out to be a haunted castle where he becomes embroiled in a rich family's internal battles for a coveted inheritance.
Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Enrique Herrera, Joaquín Pardavé, Gloria Marín, Antonio R. Frausto
Votes: 82
46. Hare-Less Wolf (1958)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
An absent-minded wolf sets out to catch Bugs for dinner but keeps forgetting what he was heading out to shoot in the first place.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray
Votes: 354
47. Viu-hah hah-taja (1974)
83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Invisible spacemen, a scatterbrained professor and the National Conciliator of Finland all come together in this screwball comedy.
Director: Ere Kokkonen | Stars: Leo Lastumäki, Jyrki Kovaleff, Seppo Laine, Pentti Siimes
Votes: 305
48. Kuriton sukupolvi (1957)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
An aging professor of mathematics completes his life's work, a research project that has taken him decades, and climbs up from the boiler room (his study) and back to real life. He can ... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Tauno Palo, Irma Seikkula, Maikki Länsiö, Kaija Siikala
Votes: 171
49. Un adulterio decente (1969)
95 min | Comedy
Fernanda and Eduardo's marriage is going through a rough patch because Eduardo is a famous composer who only cares about himself, so she poses as a widow and has a relationship with young ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Carmen Sevilla, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Manolo Gómez Bur, Don Jaime de Mora y Aragón
Votes: 44
50. Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
Dizzy Carmelita and Uncle Matt inadvertently become involved with thieves smuggling jewels inside a ceramic elephant.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Walter Reed, Elisabeth Risdon
Votes: 225