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1. Jumanji (1995)

PG | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Hyde

Votes: 377,454 | Gross: $100.48M

2. Tropic Thunder (2008)

R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, War

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Kahn

Votes: 448,594 | Gross: $110.52M

3. The Last Airbender (2010)

PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel

Votes: 175,012 | Gross: $131.56M

4. Carrie (1976)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta

Votes: 206,917 | Gross: $33.80M

5. Contagion (2011)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow

Votes: 316,263 | Gross: $75.66M

6. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.

Director: Nora Ephron | Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger, Rita Wilson

Votes: 191,063 | Gross: $126.53M

7. Mulan (2020)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

To keep her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man and battles northern invaders in China.

Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li

Votes: 159,193

8. The Fountain (2006)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn

Votes: 248,900 | Gross: $10.14M

9. The Jerk (1979)

R | 94 min | Comedy

A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.

Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King

Votes: 64,268 | Gross: $73.69M

10. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

PG-13 | 108 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox

Votes: 487,286 | Gross: $176.24M

11. The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The wanted criminal Richard Bruno Riddick arrives on a planet called Helion Prime and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.

Director: David Twohy | Stars: Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Thandiwe Newton

Votes: 242,042 | Gross: $57.76M

12. Ghost in the Shell (2017)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

Director: Rupert Sanders | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche

Votes: 228,096 | Gross: $40.56M

13. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure

Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen

Votes: 491,823 | Gross: $317.10M

14. Arachnophobia (1990)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A new species of South American killer spider hitches a lift to a small California town in a coffin and starts to breed, leaving a trail of deaths that puzzle and terrify the young doctor newly arrived in town with his family.

Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak

Votes: 75,895 | Gross: $53.21M

15. Barnaby Jones (1973–1980)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Private eye Barnaby Jones works with his widowed daughter-in-law to solve cases.

Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Mark Shera, John Carter

Votes: 3,150

16. Mission to Mars (2000)

PG | 114 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 76,531 | Gross: $60.88M

17. Alive (1993)

R | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.

Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay

Votes: 64,502 | Gross: $36.73M

18. Beethoven (1992)

PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A slobbering St. Bernard becomes the center of attention for a loving family, but must contend with a dog-napping veterinarian and his henchmen.

Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Nicholle Tom

Votes: 76,556 | Gross: $57.11M

19. Crimson Tide (1995)

R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza

Votes: 123,487 | Gross: $91.40M

20. Dinosaur (2000)

PG | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 67,306 | Gross: $137.75M

21. The Bourne Legacy (2012)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.

Director: Tony Gilroy | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Scott Glenn

Votes: 315,776 | Gross: $113.20M

22. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

R | 114 min | Comedy, Musical

A town's Sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a television reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Director: Colin Higgins | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning

Votes: 13,407 | Gross: $69.70M

23. The Color of Money (1986)

R | 119 min | Drama, Sport

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver

Votes: 93,366 | Gross: $52.29M

24. Explorers (1985)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Bobby Fite, Bradley Gregg

Votes: 23,751 | Gross: $9.87M

25. Troop Beverly Hills (1989)

PG | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy

A soon to be divorced Beverly Hills socialite is determined to prove to her husband and herself that she can finish what she starts out to do, by becoming a den mother to a troop of Beverly Hills Girl Scouts.

Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Shelley Long, Craig T. Nelson, Betty Thomas, Mary Gross

Votes: 11,443 | Gross: $8.51M

26. And Justice for All (1979)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg

Votes: 39,734

27. After Earth (2013)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Jaden Smith, David Denman, Will Smith, Sophie Okonedo

Votes: 209,043 | Gross: $60.52M

28. Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family

A man learns he has a thirteen-year-old son who was raised in the jungle and brings the boy to New York City, turning his life upside down in the process.

Director: John Pasquin | Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich

Votes: 25,884 | Gross: $59.93M

29. The Promise (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, Daniel Giménez Cacho

Votes: 178,621

30. Always (1989)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman

Votes: 32,830 | Gross: $43.86M

31. Caveman (1981)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.

Director: Carl Gottlieb | Stars: Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Jack Gilford

Votes: 8,623 | Gross: $15.97M

32. On Deadly Ground (1994)

R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.

Director: Steven Seagal | Stars: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley

Votes: 25,499 | Gross: $38.59M

33. Curly Sue (1991)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A homeless man and his young companion, who survive by conning people, meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Jim Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz

Votes: 23,250 | Gross: $33.69M

34. She's Having a Baby (1988)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Young newlyweds find out just how unprepared they are for their future together.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, James Ray

Votes: 13,896 | Gross: $16.03M

35. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime

Cheech and Chong live in a decrepit old house and drive their neighbour crazy with their loud music, weed smoking and general anarchy and slacker view on life. Then Chong meets Cheech's Texan cousin Red and things kick up a notch.

Director: Tommy Chong | Stars: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Evelyn Guerrero, Betty Kennedy

Votes: 14,974 | Gross: $41.68M

36. Proof of Life (2000)

R | 135 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed

Votes: 58,932 | Gross: $32.60M

37. Moving Violations (1985)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

The goofy students of a remedial drivers education class find themselves butting heads with their abusive police instructors.

Director: Neal Israel | Stars: John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, Brian Backer

Votes: 4,351 | Gross: $10.60M

38. Clean and Sober (1988)

R | 124 min | Drama

A hustling drug addict checks himself into rehabilitation to escape trouble with the law and realizes that it's exactly what he needs.

Director: Glenn Gordon Caron | Stars: Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, Tate Donovan

Votes: 7,244 | Gross: $8.67M

39. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

R | 103 min | Comedy

A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss, Little Richard

Votes: 20,231 | Gross: $62.13M

40. Born in East L.A. (1987)

R | 85 min | Comedy

When an L.A. born American citizen is mistaken for a Mexican illegal alien and deported to Mexico, he has to do everything he can to get across the border.

Director: Cheech Marin | Stars: Cheech Marin, Daniel Stern, Paul Rodriguez, Kamala Lopez

Votes: 6,575 | Gross: $17.36M

41. Dutch (1991)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from his prep school, only to learn that he isn't the nicest young man.

Director: Peter Faiman | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, JoBeth Williams, Christopher McDonald

Votes: 14,381 | Gross: $4.60M

42. Tough Guys (1986)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Crime

Two elderly gangsters are released from prison only to find they have trouble fitting in as old men who still take no guff from anyone.

Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Alexis Smith

Votes: 7,860 | Gross: $21.46M

43. F.I.S.T. (1978)

PG | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 8,748 | Gross: $20.39M

44. The Onion Field (1979)

R | 126 min | Crime, Drama

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.

Director: Harold Becker | Stars: John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson

Votes: 5,767 | Gross: $9.89M

45. Out on a Limb (1992)

PG | 93 min | Comedy

A financial whiz takes a wild detour to come to the aid of his kid sister in the small logging town of 'Buzzsaw'.

Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jeffrey Jones, Heidi Kling, John C. Reilly

Votes: 2,052 | Gross: $1.66M

46. Moon Over Parador (1988)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A U.S. actor gets a gig in South American Parador. When the dictator dies, he's forced to play him for real and gets his mistress. Can they change Parador?

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters

Votes: 6,750 | Gross: $11.44M

47. Continental Divide (1981)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn

Votes: 5,648 | Gross: $15.58M

48. The Tiger

Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Pre-production

A Siberian tiger attacks encroaching humans in its habitat. A conservationist game warden confronts the supernaturally powerful tiger in a fight only one can survive.

Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Dane DeHaan

49. Best Friends (1982)

PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After five successful years of living and working together, a couple decide to get married. But what they don't count on is how to survive the honeymoon.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes

Votes: 3,219 | Gross: $36.82M

50. Old Boyfriends (1979)

R | 103 min | Drama

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.

Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine

Votes: 602