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1. Wild at Heart (1990)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, J.E. Freeman

Votes: 101,068 | Gross: $14.56M

2. ALF (1986–1990)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

When an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.

Stars: Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros, Paul Fusco, Max Wright, Anne Schedeen

Votes: 39,174

3. Knight Rider (1982–1986)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A lone crimefighter battles the forces of evil with the help of a virtually indestructible and artificially intelligent supercar.

Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Richard Basehart, Patricia McPherson

Votes: 37,638

4. Eraserhead (1977)

Not Rated | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 127,618 | Gross: $7.00M

5. The Virginian (1962–1971)

TV-PG | 75 min | Western

Personable Western series based in Wyoming from the 1890s onward.

Stars: Doug McClure, James Drury, Lee J. Cobb, Sara Lane

Votes: 3,165

6. Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, War

The misadventures of a bumbling U.S. Marine named Gomer Pyle.

Stars: Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Ronnie Schell, Roy Stuart

Votes: 4,176

7. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.

Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, James Sikking

Votes: 10,579

8. The Fog (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman

Votes: 83,079 | Gross: $21.38M

9. Airwolf (1984–1986)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

As part of a deal with an intelligence agency to look for his missing brother, a renegade pilot goes on missions with an advanced battle helicopter.

Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, Ernest Borgnine, Jean Bruce Scott

Votes: 13,101

10. McCloud (1970–1977)

TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A New Mexico deputy marshal gets assigned to Manhattan's 27th Precinct.

Stars: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Ken Lynch

Votes: 3,776

11. Remington Steele (1982–1987)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The cases of a female private detective partnered with a former thief who assumes the role of a fictitious detective in the business.

Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, James Read

Votes: 9,989

12. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West

Votes: 55,691

13. The American President (1995)

PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox

Votes: 60,669 | Gross: $65.00M

14. La Bamba (1987)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña

Votes: 36,466 | Gross: $54.22M

15. Ironside (1967–1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Wheelchair-using, crime-fighting detective Robert T. Ironside battles the bad guys on the streets of San Francisco.

Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Barbara Anderson

Votes: 4,103

16. Lassie (1954–1974)

TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The ongoing saga of the Martin family and their beloved collie, Lassie.

Stars: Lassie, Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly

Votes: 3,811

17. The Rat Patrol (1966–1968)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The World War II North African missions of an Allied commando patrol squad of the Long Range Desert Group.

Stars: Christopher George, Gary Raymond, Eric Braeden, Lawrence P. Casey

Votes: 2,003

18. The Rookies (1972–1976)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

The trials and adventures of three young police officers.

Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Kate Jackson

Votes: 1,233

19. The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

PG | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis

Votes: 9,995 | Gross: $14.36M

20. 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: 20,229 | Gross: $62.13M

21. Back to the Beach (1987)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Musical

Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.

Director: Lyndall Hobbs | Stars: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Lori Loughlin, Tommy Hinkley

Votes: 3,398 | Gross: $13.11M

22. The Night Before (1988)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.

Director: Thom Eberhardt | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Lori Loughlin, Theresa Saldana, Trinidad Silva

Votes: 3,644

23. Shazam! (1974–1977)

TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Action, Family, Fantasy

A young boy, able to transform into the superhero Captain Marvel, travels the country fighting evil and helping people.

Stars: Michael Gray, Les Tremayne, Jackson Bostwick, John Davey

Votes: 1,665

24. Circle of Fear (1972–1973)

60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An anthology of suspense dramas concentrating on individuals confronted with supernatural occurrences.

Stars: Sebastian Cabot, Sheila Larken, Meg Foster, Don 'Red' Barry

Votes: 557

25. Everybody's All-American (1988)

R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A Louisiana football legend struggles to deal with life's complexities after his college career is over.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman

Votes: 3,457 | Gross: $12.64M

26. Longstreet (1971–1972)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The cases of a blind insurance investigator.

Stars: James Franciscus, Marlyn Mason, Peter Mark Richman, Ann Doran

Votes: 627

27. Time Walker (1982)

PG | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An alien, buried in King Tut's tomb, terrorizes a college campus.

Director: Tom Kennedy | Stars: Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy, Robert Random

Votes: 2,198 | Gross: $0.43M

28. Rattlers (1976)

PG | 82 min | Horror

A herpetologist investigating a series of fatal rattlesnake attacks discovers that the creatures have been infected by a mysterious nerve gas disposed of in the desert by the military.

Director: John McCauley | Stars: Sam Chew Jr., Elisabeth Chauvet, Dan Priest, Ronald Gold

Votes: 1,021

29. The Ladies Club (1985)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A raped policewoman forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men whom have committed repeated violations of women, and got away with it through legal technicalities.

Director: Janet Greek | Stars: Karen Austin, Diana Scarwid, Christine Belford, Bruce Davison

Votes: 319 | Gross: $0.24M

30. Coast to Coast (1980)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum, and hitches a ride back to California with a moody down-on-his-luck cowboy trucker. They fall in love with each other while on the run from bounty hunters and a repo man.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner

Votes: 483

31. Spencer (1984–1985)

30 min | Comedy

Spencer Winger is coping with dealing with his nemesis Mr. Beanley. His bemused parents are supportive, but in a format change, his dad has run off and his grandparents have taken over his room.

Stars: Ronny Cox, Richard Sanders, Amy Locane, Mimi Kennedy

Votes: 94

32. Framed (1990 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Crime

A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.

Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Kristin Scott Thomas, Todd Graff, Michael Lerner

Votes: 449

33. Cain's Cutthroats (1970)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Following the Civil War, Confederate Captain Justice Cain has retired to a quiet life with his young son and black wife. However, the men of his old outfit, known as Cain's Cutthroats, have... See full summary »

Director: Ken Osborne | Stars: John Carradine, Scott Brady, Robert Dix, Don Epperson

Votes: 175

34. The Check Is in the Mail... (1986)

R | 91 min | Comedy

Frustrated with all the minor irritants of the rat-race Richard Jackson decides to buy a goat, disconnect the electricity and become self-sufficient. But will this life be any less annoying?

Directors: Joan Darling, Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Anne Archer, Hallie Todd, Michael Bowen

Votes: 207

35. Eye on the Sparrow (1987 TV Movie)

PG | 94 min | Drama

A blind couple's long and tiresome legal battle to be allowed to adopt a child.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Mare Winningham, Keith Carradine, Sandy McPeak, Kaaren Lee

Votes: 71

36. Ruby and Oswald (1978 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, History

A docudrama about the events surrounding the assassination of the 35th United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, in 1963, based on eyewitness and other testimonies.

Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Michael Lerner, Frederic Forrest, Doris Roberts, Lou Frizzell

Votes: 144

37. Washingtoon (1985– )

Comedy

Idealistic Bob Forehead is a new congressman who moves to DC with wife Ginger and his two children. Initially he relies heavily on his staff and tries to avoid falling under the shady influence of Senator Bunky Muntner.

Stars: Barry Corbin, Christina Applegate, Beverly Archer, Hilarie Thompson

Votes: 15

38. Norman and the Killer (1991)

30 min | Horror, Short

About a long and fateful night that unfolds when Norman, a man haunted by the memory of his slain brother, recognizes a gas station attendant as the man who murdered his brother sixteen years earlier.

Director: Bob Graham | Stars: Richard L. Hawkins, John Durren, Jane Marla Robbins, Brett Nelson

Votes: 35

39. The Pleasure Machines (1969)

70 min | Sci-Fi

They could do anything people could. Only longer and better. Turn on your pleasure machine. We know where the switch is.

Director: Ronald Víctor García | Stars: Frederick Norseman, Barbara Lynn, Dick Hardman, Beverly Walker

40. Gunmen's Blues (1981)

27 min | Short

A mysterious, middle-aged man wearing a dark suit and black leather gloves is the only customer in a Hoboken, New Jersey bar. He looks longingly at a picture of a woman that he keeps in his... See full synopsis »

Director: Eric Red | Stars: Darwin Joston, Konrad Sheehan, Edgard Mourino, Frank Ferrara

Votes: 34

41. ALF (1986–1990)
Episode: Looking for Lucky (1986)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Lucky is missing and the evidence suggests that ALF ate Lucky, although he claims to be innocent.

Director: Peter Bonerz | Stars: Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory

Votes: 501

42. Airwolf (1984–1986)
Episode: Flight #093 Is Missing (1984)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Caitlin plans to fly home to attend her sister's wedding but her plane is hijacked and crashed into the sea and a ransom demand is issued to the airline. Meanwhile, String and Dom mount ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott, Ernest Borgnine

Votes: 128

43. Circle of Fear (1972–1973)
Episode: The Ghost of Potter's Field (1973)

60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

While at Potter's Field cemetery doing research for a story, reporter Bob Herrick sees a ghost that resembles him. He shakes the matter off, assuming that he's seeing things because he's ... See full summary »

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Tab Hunter, Louise Sorel, Gary Conway, Pat Harrington Jr.

Votes: 86

44. Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964–1969)
Episode: Gomer and the Card Shark (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, War

Gomer finds himself caught in the middle between his buddies and a card shark. Gomer is used as a patsy so show that you can win and he wins big.

Director: Coby Ruskin | Stars: Jim Nabors, Frank Sutton, Ronnie Schell, Roy Stuart

Votes: 58

45. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode: Grin and Bear It (1985)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Garibaldi's legal efforts to quash the drug test screenings are successful. Belker's undercover investigation nets Detective Phil Dugan and Captain Joe Keenan. Hill and Renko are in charge ... See full summary »

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, Robert Prosky

Votes: 83

46. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: Cross Doublecross (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Fran's boyfriend, a San Francisco police detective, is accused of killing an unarmed man that was supposedly trying to kill him.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Baur

Votes: 43

47. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: The Target (1971)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ironside and crew assist an ex-convict whose son has been kidnapped by a militant group so the ex-convict will supply them with explosives from the construction company at which the man has been employed.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell

Votes: 48

48. Ironside (1967–1975)
Episode: Warrior's Return (1970)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Native American parolee for whom Ironside arranged a job in a jewelry store is suspected of burglarizing it. He was last seen with his cousin, who had just dropped out of school. Ironside and Mark search for both men.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Raymond Burr, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson, Don Mitchell

Votes: 51

49. Knight Rider (1982–1986)
Episode: Ten Wheel Trouble (1985)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Michael joins a small trucking company family business after 15 year old computer whiz Sally Flynn breaks into the FLAG computer to ask for help.

Director: Bob Bralver | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Robert Hogan

Votes: 247

50. Lassie (1954–1974)
Episode: A Time for Courage (1966)

TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Lassie and Corey travel to a forest fire to observe new technology. The paratroopers are using a new infrared tracker. When Corey is lost in the fire area, Lassie carries the tracking device and a radio into the fire.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Robert Bray, Robert Brubaker, Bart Burns, Dale Johnson