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1. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
TV-14 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay, Michiel Huisman, Katherine Parkinson
Votes: 52,611
2. Gargoyles (1994–1997)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A clan of heroic night creatures pledge to protect modern New York City as they did in Scotland one thousand years earlier.
Stars: Keith David, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Jeff Bennett, Thom Adcox-Hernandez
Votes: 18,530
3. Better Watch Out (II) (2016)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.
Director: Chris Peckover | Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, Aleks Mikic
Votes: 46,221 | Gross: $0.02M
4. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.
Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside
Votes: 48,082 | Gross: $15.56M
5. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
PG-13 | 133 min | Drama
Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Douglas, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin
Votes: 106,606 | Gross: $52.47M
6. Firebird (I) (2021)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Firebird follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine sexual affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on a Soviet Air Force Base at the height of 1970's Communist rule.
Director: Peeter Rebane | Stars: Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Diana Pozharskaya, Jake Henderson
Votes: 12,740
7. The Madness of King George (1994)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe
Votes: 18,377 | Gross: $15.24M
8. The Rewrite (2014)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.
Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Hugh Grant, Whit Baldwin, Vanessa Wasche, Enid Graham
Votes: 22,227
9. In the House (2012)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 34,291 | Gross: $0.35M
10. Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater
Votes: 70,855 | Gross: $10.51M
11. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom
Votes: 60,764 | Gross: $18.25M
12. The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
G | 88 min | Horror
A scientist genetically engineers a creature that transforms between a Death's-head moth and a woman. The creature poses as the scientist's daughter to lure victims when in human form, then feeds on their blood as a moth.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham, Vanessa Howard
Votes: 1,947
13. Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004 Video)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A prequel to Tremors (1990), this movie tells us about how the town of Perfection, Nevada became founded and how they defended it against the Graboids with the help of Burt Gummer's ancestor, Hiram.
Director: S.S. Wilson | Stars: Michael Gross, Sara Botsford, Billy Drago, Brent Roam
Votes: 14,083
14. Educating Rita (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman
Votes: 14,912 | Gross: $14.65M
15. Pygmalion (1938)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr
Votes: 9,657 | Gross: $3.05M
16. Harry and Tonto (1974)
R | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof
Votes: 6,214 | Gross: $1.26M
17. Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan and Jane go to New York to rescue Boy after he is kidnapped into a circus.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Virginia Grey
Votes: 3,583
18. Garden of Eden (1954)
67 min | Drama
War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist camp.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Mickey Knox, Jamie O'Hara, Karen Sue Trent, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 150
19. The Comedy of Terrors (1963)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Joyce Jameson
Votes: 7,024
20. Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Horror, Thriller
A college girl introduces her mother to her girlfriend... who happens to be a vampire.
Director: Melanie Aitkenhead | Stars: Emily Meade, Leila George, Nick Eversman, Ivan Sergei
Votes: 1,171
21. The Hoax (2006)
R | 116 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, David Aaron Baker, John Carter
Votes: 17,184 | Gross: $7.16M
22. The Wrong Teacher (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Thriller
Charlotte has a night of passion with a younger guy and the next day discovers that he is a new pupil at the high school where she teaches.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Vivica A. Fox, Jessica Morris, Eric Roberts, Jason-Shane Scott
Votes: 451
23. 1 Mile to You (2017)
TV-14 | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Director: Leif Tilden | Stars: Graham Rogers, Tim Roth, Stefanie Scott, Thomas Cocquerel
Votes: 2,805
24. The Nutcracker Prince (1990)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
An adaption of the classic tale of a girl's dreams turned reality when her new toy turns out to be a young man placed under a curse.
Director: Paul Schibli | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Megan Follows, Peter O'Toole, Mike MacDonald
Votes: 2,660 | Gross: $1.78M
25. A Raunchy Christmas Story (2018)
TV-MA | 72 min | Comedy
A group of pre millennials arrange a secluded Christmas party to put the romance back into a friend's life. Unbeknownst to them an investigative journalist and a soviet spy are among the guests.
Directors: Maria Biltz, Monica Biltz | Stars: Chris Andersen, Tanya Anderson, Jeremy Biltz, Maria Biltz
Votes: 143
26. Ride (III) (2018)
Unrated | 79 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A cautionary tale aimed at a technology-obsessed society.
Director: Jeremy Ungar | Stars: Bella Thorne, Jessie T. Usher, Will Brill, Chris Gouchoe
Votes: 2,426
27. Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Truth Be Told (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
The POstables are on a mission to deliver a soldier's letter from Afghanistan to a teenager who's being relentlessly bullied, while Oliver's estranged father surprises him with news that shakes him to his core.
Director: Kevin Fair | Stars: Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Geoff Gustafson
Votes: 1,089
28. Measure for Measure (I) (2019)
107 min | Drama
The lives of inhabitants of a housing commission tower whose paths cross after a shocking event occurs on their front doorstep.
Director: Paul Ireland | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Fayssal Bazzi, Harrison Gilbertson, Daniel Henshall
Votes: 379
29. Secret Men's Business (1999 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
A group of school friends are re-united after a death.
Director: Ken Cameron | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Marcus Graham, Simon Baker, Jeremy Sims
Votes: 270
30. Evil Obsession (1996)
R | 95 min | Thriller
As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the morgue. Is it the obsessed fan?
Director: Richard W. Munchkin | Stars: Corey Feldman, Kimberly Stevens, Mark Derwin, Brion James
Votes: 141
31. Brothers of War (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, War
With the world on the brink of WWII, a violent rivalry over the same woman tears two brothers apart. Seeking redemption, the younger brother escapes to the front lines of battle.
Director: Mike Carter | Stars: Rory Finn, Daniel Attwell, Fiona Bruce, Gordon Winter
Votes: 317
32. Lizzie (1957)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
During the 1950s, a Los Angeles psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25-year-old woman who's suffering from multiple personality disorder.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Richard Boone, Joan Blondell, Hugo Haas
Votes: 689
33. Confidentially Connie (1953)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Family
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Calhern) comes to Maine to visit his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college poetry instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Walter Slezak
Votes: 405
34. Very Cool Christmas (2004 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Adventure
16 year-old Lindsay decides to give Santa Claus an extreme makeover.
Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: George Hamilton, Brooke Nevin, Donna Mills, Adrienne Carter
Votes: 525
35. To the Marriage of True Minds (2010)
11 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Two young men have escaped persecution in Baghdad. Now separated in the United Kingdom their reunion is dependent upon the remembrance of a sonnet by Shakespeare and a paper boat.
Director: Andrew Steggall | Stars: Waleed Elgadi, Amir Boutrous, Jane Bertish, Raad Rawi
Votes: 40
36. Shadow Man (1999 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Cryptic action adventure about the undead voodoo warrior known as the Shadow Man who must stop Jack the Ripper and the biblical demon called Legion who plan to bring about the apocalypse using the souls of five notorious serial killers.
Stars: Redd Pepper, Barry Meade, Lani Minella, Travis
Votes: 289
37. Fol-de-Rol (1972 TV Movie)
60 min | Family
A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair.
Director: Tony Charmoli | Stars: Cyd Charisse, Howard Cosell, Totie Fields, Milt Kamen
Votes: 15
38. Forgotten Legacy (2022)
101 min | Crime, Horror
When legendary serial killer Micah Anders dies in prison, a sudden and renewed interest arises in the crimes he committed 10 years prior in an isolated area of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Director: B. Luciano Barsuglia | Stars: Daron McFarland, Tasha Tacosa, Bobby Field, Rachel Riley
Votes: 19
39. Kurosawa's Way (2011)
52 min | Documentary
Eleven major filmmakers from Europe, Asia and America talk about Akira Kurosawa and explore some ways on which he influenced their own work.
Director: Catherine Cadou | Stars: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Bernardo Bertolucci, Clint Eastwood, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Votes: 152
40. Hello Sister (1930)
80 min | Drama
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Olive Borden, Lloyd Hughes, George Fawcett, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 32
41. The Bridges That Built London (2012 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary
Presented by Dan Cruickshank: Between Richmond and the North Sea, thirty bridges cross the Thames. They carry people across a stretch of river 35 miles long, bringing together a population ... See full summary »
Director: David Wilson | Stars: Dan Cruickshank, Gustav Milne, Nicholas Bateman, Robert Crouch
Votes: 23
42. Every Saturday Night (1936)
58 min | Comedy
First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: June Lang, Thomas Beck, Jed Prouty, Spring Byington
Votes: 37
43. Bromo and Juliet (1926)
Passed | 23 min | Comedy, Short
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Corliss Palmer, William Orlamond
Votes: 297
44. One Live Ghost (1936)
Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Short
An unappreciated man fakes his own death and returns with his cousin disguised as a butler. His cousin then holds a seance to let the dead confront his ungrateful wife and children.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Leon Errol, Lucille Ball, Vivien Oakland, Robert Graves
Votes: 71
46. IE Shakespeare
Drama | Pre-production
The world of the master storyteller is about to be turned on its head with Picasso Mendez's "IE Shakespeare" - a 20-part web series where an array of the Bards characters mingle together ... See full summary »
47. Travesty (2007)
23 min | Short, Drama
A brilliant but unhinged man holds a young woman hostage to force a confrontation with her father.
Director: Sarju Patel | Stars: Duncan Garrow, Scout Raskin, Grinnell Morris, Stephen Mendel
Votes: 10
48. The Heart of England (1954)
20 min | Documentary, Short
The Cotswolds are the largest areas of Britain, stretching over a hundred miles from Chipping Camden to the city of Bath.
Director: Michael Clarke | Star: Stephen Murray
Votes: 13
49. I Stem the Tide (2019)
19 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A director of a failing theatre company finds himself in a quandary after he uncovers a sinister plot.
Director: Faisal Al-Jadir | Stars: Danielle Arden, Ashley William Griffiths, Fiona Kerley, Greg Lunn
50. Big Red Riding Hood (1925)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Jimmy is asked by the Swedish Government to translate for educational purpose "Little Red Riding Hood", but he can't afford to buy the book, so he tries reading it at the book shop, ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Martha Sleeper, Helen Gilmore, Richard Daniels
Votes: 63