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1. Atonement (2007)
R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan
Votes: 300,697 | Gross: $50.93M
2. The Father (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Director: Florian Zeller | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams
Votes: 194,490
3. Adoration (2013)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville
Votes: 36,774 | Gross: $0.32M
4. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,531 | Gross: $5.70M
5. The Son (I) (2022)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
Peter has his busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into disarray when his ex-wife Kate turns up with their teenage son, Nicholas.
Director: Florian Zeller | Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Shin-Fei Chen
Votes: 16,069
6. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz
Votes: 75,309 | Gross: $34.70M
7. Emily (2022)
R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
"Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.
Director: Frances O'Connor | Stars: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling
Votes: 8,226
8. Total Eclipse (1995)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc
Votes: 16,804 | Gross: $0.34M
9. The Quiet American (2002)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Votes: 29,789 | Gross: $12.99M
10. Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
R | 60 min | Drama, History
A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction.
Stars: Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Kosar Ali, Nathanael Saleh
Votes: 1,027
11. Chéri (2009)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Frances Tomelty
Votes: 11,696 | Gross: $2.71M
12. Screen Two (1985–1998)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama
In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.
Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones
Votes: 248
13. Beyond the Limit (1983)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. When the consul is mistakenly kidnapped by the rebels, he must pick a side.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 1,549 | Gross: $6.00M
14. The Thirteenth Tale (2013 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
Follows aging novelist Vida Winter, who enlists a young writer to finally tell the story of her life including her mysterious childhood spent in Angelfield House, which burned to the ground when she was a teenager.
Director: James Kent | Stars: Janet Amsden, Alice Barlow, Isabel Barlow, Emily Beecham
Votes: 3,075
15. Mary Reilly (1996)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon
Votes: 15,836 | Gross: $5.71M
16. Wilder & Me
Adventure, Comedy, Drama | Pre-production
In 1977 a young musician begins working for director Billy Wilder and his screenwriter Iz Diamond during the filming of "Fedora". When the shoot moves to Munich, she follows Wilder on a journey into the dark heart of his family history.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Jon Hamm, Maya Hawke, Christoph Waltz, John Turturro
17. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 322
18. Carrington (1995)
R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.
Director: Christopher Hampton | Stars: Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington, Samuel West
Votes: 5,786 | Gross: $3.24M
19. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
20. Sunset Boulevard
Drama, Musical | Pre-production
A struggling screenwriter develops an unusual relationship with a reclusive former movie star who still lives in the past, harboring dreams of reviving her faded glory.
Star: Glenn Close
21. The Secret Agent (1996)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
Verloc lives in London 1886 with a pretty wife and her retarded brother. He's an agent for the Russian embassy. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.
Director: Christopher Hampton | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 2,569 | Gross: $0.11M
22. Ali and Nino (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War
Love story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Adam Bakri, María Valverde, Mandy Patinkin, Riccardo Scamarcio
Votes: 5,553
23. The Noise of Time
Pre-production
Follows Soviet composer Shostakovich navigating Stalin's regime. His opera condemned, he narrowly escapes persecution. For decades, he grapples with appeasing authorities while preserving artistic integrity amidst political pressures.
Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, August Diehl
24. A Doll's House (I) (1973)
G | 105 min | Drama
Years ago, Nora Helmer (Claire Bloom) committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald (Sir Anthony Hopkins). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Garland | Stars: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 1,402 | Gross: $0.31M
25. Performance (1991–1998)
180 min | Drama
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Stars: Ian Holm, Elizabeth McGovern, Ronald Pickup, Jane Horrocks
Votes: 93
26. The Singapore Grip (2020)
271 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a British family living in South East Asia becomes involved in a love triangle.
Stars: Luke Treadaway, David Morrissey, Elizabeth Tan, Colm Meaney
Votes: 1,012
27. The Good Father (1985)
R | 90 min | Drama
Bill (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife, so that she can ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Harriet Walter, Frances Viner
Votes: 676 | Gross: $0.42M
28. A German Life
Biography, Drama | Announced
Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Director: Jonathan Kent | Star: Maggie Smith
29. Television Theater (1953– )
Drama
Series of television plays.
Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert
Votes: 92
30. The Oscars (2021 TV Special)
TV-14 | 150 min | Music
The top movies of the past year are honored at the 93rd Academy Awards, with Mank (2020), in the lead with 10 nominations, as well as The Father (2020), Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), Nomadland (2020) and Sound of Metal (2019).
Director: Glenn Weiss | Stars: Zendaya, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, Vanessa Kirby
Votes: 1,228
31. Imagining Argentina (2003)
R | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A man has the power to see the fate of missing people - with the exception of his own beloved wife.
Director: Christopher Hampton | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Rubén Blades, Irene Escolar
Votes: 3,551
32. Oviri (1986)
R | 90 min | Biography, Drama
This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland), follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
Director: Henning Carlsen | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne, Sofie Gråbøl
Votes: 470 | Gross: $0.58M
33. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas, Chiara Mastroianni
Votes: 120
34. Joe Orton Laid Bare (2017 TV Movie)
80 min | Biography
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
Director: Richard Curson Smith | Stars: Leonie Orton Barnett, John Lahr, Kenneth Cranham, Joe Orton
Votes: 34
35. The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008 TV Special)
TV-14 | 197 min | Comedy, Music
In the annual awards presentation, the nominated films include Atonement (2007), Juno (2007), Michael Clayton (2007), No Country for Old Men (2007), and There Will Be Blood (2007).
Directors: Louis J. Horvitz, Joseph Takats | Stars: Jon Stewart, Jan Aaris, Amy Adams, Casey Affleck
Votes: 1,667
36. BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Stars: Judi Dench, Richard O'Callaghan, Frederick Treves, Clive Swift
Votes: 47
37. The Ginger Tree (1989– )
240 min | Drama
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married ... See full summary »
Stars: Samantha Bond, Daisuke Ryû, Fumi Dan, Joanna McCallum
Votes: 154
38. The History Man (1981– )
206 min | Drama
Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk (Antony Sher) subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.
Stars: Antony Sher, Geraldine James, Isla Blair, Laura Davenport
Votes: 111
39. The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989 TV Special)
137 min | News
Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Margolis | Stars: James Acheson, Harry Andrews, Anne Archer, Army Archerd
Votes: 288
40. 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (2003 TV Movie)
180 min | Documentary
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments, topped by Ursula Andress emerging from the ocean in the James Bond film "Dr. No" (1962), followed at #2 ... See full summary »
Director: Suzy Ratner | Stars: Anna Chancellor, Thelma Adams, Gerry Agar, Ursula Andress
Votes: 53
41. The Philanthropist (1975 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A philologist at a British university finds his small world coming apart just as catastrophic things seem to be happening in the big world outside.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Ronald Pickup, Helen Mirren, James Bolam, Charles Gray
Votes: 63
42. National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016)
210 min | Romance
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
Directors: Josie Rourke, Tony Grech-Smith | Stars: Janet McTeer, Morfydd Clark, Adjoa Andoh, Dominic West
Votes: 126
43. Pan (1995)
115 min | Drama
Lt. Thomas Glahn and Edvarda fall in love, but love can turn to hate.
Director: Henning Carlsen | Stars: Lasse Kolsrud, Sofie Gråbøl, Bjørn Sundquist, Anneke von der Lippe
Votes: 273
44. Untitled Leonardo Da Vinci Biography Project
Announced
Drawing from thousands of pages from the painter and inventor's notebooks and insights into his life and work, it is based on Walter Isaacson's book and tells a story that links Leonardo Da Vinci's art to his science.
Director: Andrew Haigh
45. 2021 Golden Globe Awards (2021 TV Special)
TV-14 | 128 min | Comedy
Awards ceremony celebrating the best in TV and film; Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host, while Jane Fonda and Norman Lear are honored.
Director: Louis J. Horvitz | Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Daniels
Votes: 350
46. Nostromo: El sueño imposible de David Lean (2017)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary that focuses on the figure of the director of 'Doctor Zhivago' and 'Lawrence of Arabia' and his struggle to shoot an adaptation of 'Nostromo', the novel by Joseph Conrad.
Director: Pedro González Bermúdez | Stars: Georges Corraface, Christopher Hampton, Sandra Lean, Anthony Reeves
Votes: 99
47. Glass (2007)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hicks ("Shine") documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Philip Glass, Holly Critchlow, Chuck Close, JoAnne Akalaitis
Votes: 777 | Gross: $0.02M
48. Anatomy of a Scene (2001–2004)
30 min | Documentary
This monthly series examines the creation of a scene from a new feature film from the point of view of the director and other key collaborators.
Stars: Tim Hopper, Edward Burns, James Lyons, Ryan Gosling
Votes: 73
49. Sunset Boulevard (2016 Video)
148 min | Musical
This appears to be a vido of Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of "Sunset Boulevard"
Director: Lieven Debrauwer | Stars: Daniëlle Martin, Jonas Jacques, Bruno De Vel, Sara Van Keer
50. Theater Talk (1996– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: Susan Haskins, Michael Riedel, Jesse Green, Michael Musto
Votes: 38