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1. Seinfeld (1989–1998)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.
Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander
Votes: 351,191
2. Mindhunter (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the late 1970s, two FBI agents broaden the realm of criminal science by investigating the psychology behind murder and end up getting too close to real-life monsters.
Stars: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Hannah Gross
Votes: 335,465
3. Little Women (2019)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Votes: 245,333 | Gross: $108.10M
4. Godless (2017)
TV-MA | 65 min | Action, Drama, Western
In the 1880s American West, murderous outlaw gang leader Frank Griffin hunts for ex-protege Roy Goode. Frank's chase leads him to La Belle, New Mexico--a town inhabited, after a mining disaster, almost entirely by women.
Stars: Jack O'Connell, Michelle Dockery, Scoot McNairy, Merritt Wever
Votes: 78,481
5. GLOW (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 35 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A look at the personal and professional lives of a group of women who perform for a wrestling organization in Los Angeles during the 1980s.
Stars: Alison Brie, Marc Maron, Betty Gilpin, Britt Baron
Votes: 50,552
6. Out of Africa (1985)
PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 86,315 | Gross: $87.10M
7. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History
A female sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne in the late 1920s, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.
Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings
Votes: 17,713
8. In Plain Sight (2008–2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon must hunt down witnesses for federal cases in the witness protection program while also managing a rather dysfunctional family and her own personal life.
Stars: Mary McCormack, Frederick Weller, Paul Ben-Victor, Nichole Hiltz
Votes: 12,815
9. Call My Agent! (2015–2020)
TV-MA | 52 min | Comedy, Drama
French serial about the lives and jobs of people working at a talent agency in Paris.
Stars: Camille Cottin, Thibault de Montalembert, Grégory Montel, Liliane Rovère
Votes: 16,717
10. Agora (2009)
R | 127 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom
Votes: 73,030 | Gross: $0.62M
11. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton
Votes: 28,638 | Gross: $1.59M
12. Best Choice Ever (2024– )
Drama
Mai Chenghuan, is Urged to marry boyfriend Xin Jialiang but their families economic differences imbalances relationship. Chenghuan's transformation is recognized by her step-grandmother, who gives her important hotel responsibilities.
Stars: Kai Xu, Zi Yang, Saifei He, Yanshu Wu
Votes: 60
13. From Straight A's to XXX (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Biography, Drama
In order to pay her college tuition, a young woman turns to the adult film industry and must balance her personal life with a new life as porn star Belle Knox.
Director: Vanessa Parise | Stars: Haley Pullos, Sasha Clements, Judd Nelson, Jessica Lu
Votes: 1,824
14. Ten Percent (2022)
TV-MA | 49 min | Comedy
The series takes place at a London talent agency where agents scramble to keep their star clients happy and their business afloat after the sudden death of their founder.
Stars: Jack Davenport, Lydia Leonard, Maggie Steed, Prasanna Puwanarajah
Votes: 2,667
15. Bonding (2018–2021)
TV-MA | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A New York City grad student moonlighting as a dominatrix enlists her gay BFF from high school to be her assistant.
Stars: Zoe Levin, Brendan Scannell, Micah Stock, Theo Stockman
Votes: 17,890
16. Hot Girls Wanted (2015)
TV-MA | 84 min | Documentary
A documentary about young women who have been drawn into the sex trade - and how easy it is for a web-savvy generation to end up making porn.
Directors: Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus | Stars: Tressa Silguero, Riley Reynolds, Rachel Bernard, John Anthony
Votes: 18,480
17. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
53 min | Drama
An adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel; a young widow takes her son and moves to Yorkshire.
Stars: Toby Stephens, Tara Fitzgerald, Rupert Graves, Sarah Badel
Votes: 3,006
18. Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
Director: Paul Johansson | Stars: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi
Votes: 14,315 | Gross: $4.75M
19. The Bookshop (2017)
PG | 113 min | Drama
England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne, Honor Kneafsey
Votes: 17,445 | Gross: $1.33M
20. Tracks (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 112 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl, Philip Dodd
Votes: 31,722 | Gross: $0.51M
21. The World Unseen (2007)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Director: Shamim Sarif | Stars: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Parvin Dabas, Nandana Sen
Votes: 4,681 | Gross: $0.02M
22. Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano
Votes: 11,032
23. Crossing Delancey (1988)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A Manhattan single meets a man through her Jewish grandmother's matchmaker.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 4,968 | Gross: $16.26M
24. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
Director: John Putch | Stars: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Esai Morales, Patrick Fabian
Votes: 7,638 | Gross: $3.34M
25. Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On (2017)
TV-MA | 280 min | Documentary
Personal stories reveal how the intersection of sex, technology and intimate relationships is rewiring us in fundamental ways.
Stars: James Rhine, Lauren Phillips, Kylie Quinn, Kleio Valentien
Votes: 2,376
26. My Brilliant Career (1979)
G | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb
Votes: 4,799
27. Fidelio: Alice's Odyssey (2014)
97 min | Drama, Romance
Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a ... See full summary »
Director: Lucie Borleteau | Stars: Ariane Labed, Melvil Poupaud, Anders Danielsen Lie, Pascal Tagnati
Votes: 904 | Gross: $0.00M
28. The King of Algiers (2023)
92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Omar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.
Director: Elias Belkeddar | Stars: Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel, Meriem Amiar, Haroun Attalah
Votes: 659
29. Worlds Apart (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance
In modern Greece, while socioeconomic turmoil ravages Southern Europe, three distinct stories unfold, each representing a different generation of Greeks in love with a foreigner, each story coming together in the end to form a whole.
Director: Christopher Papakaliatis | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Maria Kavoyianni, Andrea Osvárt, Christopher Papakaliatis
Votes: 9,198
30. Trucker (2008)
R | 90 min | Drama
A trucker, leading a life free of depth and on the way to nowhere, is forced to make a decision about her aggressive loner 11-year-old son whom she openly deserted ten years previously.
Director: James Mottern | Stars: Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Joey Lauren Adams
Votes: 3,592 | Gross: $0.05M
31. The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda
Votes: 1,651
32. A Very Curious Girl (1969)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.
Director: Nelly Kaplan | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Georges Géret, Henri Czarniak, Claire Maurier
Votes: 988
33. Full Moon in Paris (1984)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Louise is a suburban young interior decorator divided between a boyfriend, a lover (who is married) and the wish of having some fulfillment and some balance in her life. A change to reach ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet
Votes: 5,390 | Gross: $0.01M
34. Stella (1955)
90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Proud, independent Stella, an unconventional Rebetico singer who cherishes her freedom, finds herself in an intense whirlwind romance. Everything points to a tragic ending, and in the aftermath of passion, there can be no winners.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Giorgos Foundas, Alekos Alexandrakis, Hristina Kalogerikou
Votes: 2,962
35. The Barbarian and the Troll (2021)
TV-G | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Follows Evan, a bridge troll in search of adventure and Brendar, a fierce female warrior, on a quest to defeat the evil demon who has imprisoned her brother.
Stars: Spencer Grammer, Drew Massey, Colleen Smith, Allan Trautman
Votes: 378
36. Circle of Danger (1951)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 989
37. I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A touching love story that challenges stereotypes about the courage it takes to face the stranger, to take risks and to accept challenges.
Director: Ilker Çatak | Stars: Anne Ratte-Polle, Ogulcan Arman Uslu, Godehard Giese, Jörg Schüttauf
Votes: 1,017
38. She makes my heart flutter (2022– )
Short, Romance
The extroverted Gang Seol is hired by her aunt Jung at her only-women bar "Dickinson's Room". Although they have differences because of the generational gap, they both have something in ... See full summary »
Stars: Byun Ji Hyun, Park So Mi, Ahn Sun-yeong, Kang Na Young
Votes: 97
39. Closeness (2017)
118 min | Drama
In the late-1990s squalid town of Nalchik, a poor young Jewish couple is kidnapped and a grievous ransom is demanded, as bitter resentments and cruel dilemmas come to light, magnifying the small community's grave predicament.
Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Darya Zhovner, Atrem Cipin, Nazir Zhukov, Veniamin Kac
Votes: 3,291
40. Nevada (1997)
R | 108 min | Drama
In the small town of Silver City, Nevada, daily life is very routine. The men work at a dam away from home and the women run the town. That is, until Chrysty, a mysterious beauty arrive to stir things up.
Director: Gary Tieche | Stars: Amy Brenneman, Ben Browder, James Wilder, Keith Anthony Bennett
Votes: 468
41. December Bride (1990)
88 min | Drama
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 365 | Gross: $0.07M
42. My Granny the Escort (2014 TV Movie)
Documentary
A portrait of three of the UK's mature prostitutes who sell sex in hotel rooms and their homes.
Director: Charlie Russell | Stars: Beverly Merrindempse, Sheila Vogel-Coupe
Votes: 53
43. Roughly Speaking (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan
Votes: 880
44. Le altre (1969)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A modern lesbian couple decides to have a baby, but first they need to find a man to impregnate one of them. They also deal with social pressure and a journalist who wants to expose their unusual story even though they insist on privacy.
Director: Alessandro Fallay | Stars: Erna Schurer, Monica Strebel, Raul Lovecchio, Giuliano Esperati
Votes: 53
45. Novel Romance (2006)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A successful female editor whose biological clock is ticking and and a struggling writer make a deal to realize her dreams of motherhood and his dreams of literary stardom. But once they get everything they want, are they really happy?
Director: Emily Skopov | Stars: Traci Lords, Paul Johansson, Sherilyn Fenn, Mariette Hartley
Votes: 284
46. Mantrap (1926)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 433
47. Patti Rocks (1988)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
It's Christmas time in the twin cities. Billy's working a lot of overtime, running barges on the Mississippi. He calls his friend Eddie, whom he hasn't seen in six months, and asks a favor:... See full summary »
Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Chris Mulkey, John Jenkins, Karen Landry, David Turk
Votes: 345 | Gross: $0.35M
48. The Adult Entertainment Expo (2007 TV Movie)
Documentary, Action
Coverage of the 2007 Adult Entertainment Exposition, a convention for the adult entertainment industry.
Director: Jesse Selwyn | Stars: Kami Andrews, Lisa Ann, Cody Bangs, Cynthia Boris
Votes: 14
49. Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
89 min | Comedy
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she... See full summary »
Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Yumiko Nogawa, Kôji Wada, Tamio Kawaji, Chikako Miyagi
Votes: 179
50. Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953)
86 min | Drama
In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruse's adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, ... See full summary »
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Yûji Hori
Votes: 486