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1. Dances with Wolves (1990)
PG-13 | 181 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant
Votes: 291,050 | Gross: $184.21M
2. The Bodyguard (1992)
R | 129 min | Action, Drama, Music
A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs
Votes: 147,853 | Gross: $121.95M
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, the Federation space station Deep Space Nine guards the opening of a stable wormhole to the far side of the galaxy.
Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Cirroc Lofton, Alexander Siddig
Votes: 70,900
4. Cheers (1982–1993)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama
The regulars of the Boston bar "Cheers" share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name.
Stars: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt
Votes: 62,154
5. Up in Smoke (1978)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Music
Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.
Directors: Lou Adler, Tommy Chong | Stars: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Edie Adams
Votes: 40,947 | Gross: $44.36M
6. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During an experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, "leaping" into the lives of different people, sorting out their problems and changing history in hopes of getting back to his own life in the present.
Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt, Dennis Wolfberg
Votes: 36,522
7. The China Syndrome (1979)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Votes: 33,075 | Gross: $51.72M
8. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.
Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Rachel Lindsay Greenbush
Votes: 26,943
9. Brainstorm (1983)
PG | 106 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly.
Director: Douglas Trumbull | Stars: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 13,135 | Gross: $8.90M
10. 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: 13,108
11. Invaders from Mars (1986)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman
Votes: 10,601 | Gross: $4.88M
12. The Waltons (1972–1981)
TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The life and trials of a 1930s and 1940s Virginia mountain family through financial depression and World War II.
Stars: Jon Walmsley, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, Kami Cotler
Votes: 9,069
13. Soul Man (1986)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones
Votes: 9,050 | Gross: $27.82M
14. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
TV-PG | 46 min | Drama
The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm.
Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker
Votes: 6,481
15. Alien Nation (1989–1990)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, a human cop and his alien partner fight crime and discrimination in Los Angeles.
Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland
Votes: 5,516
16. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences.
Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Alexandra Isles, Nancy Barrett
Votes: 5,439
17. Buried Alive (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A husband finds out that his wife and her lover are trying to kill him.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 5,144
18.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Episode:
Emissary
(1993)
TV-PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the troubled Commander Sisko takes command of a surrendered space station, he learns that it borders a unique stable wormhole.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Avery Brooks, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell
Votes: 4,613
19. Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the vineyards of California, this prime-time soap opera presented the conflict in the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery.
Stars: Jane Wyman, Lorenzo Lamas, Chao Li Chi, David Selby
Votes: 4,275
20. One Dark Night (1982)
PG | 89 min | Horror
As part of an initiation into a club called the Sisters, a young girl must spend the night in a mausoleum.
Directors: Tom McLoughlin, Michael Schroeder | Stars: Meg Tilly, Melissa Newman, Robin Evans, Leslie Speights
Votes: 3,760
21. Hot to Trot (1988)
PG | 83 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An insecure stockbroker teams up with Don the Talking Horse, a chatty four-legged financial advisor.
Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Bobcat Goldthwait, Dabney Coleman, John Candy, Virginia Madsen
Votes: 3,586 | Gross: $6.44M
22. Rampage (1987)
R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
Alex is an outwardly normal man who goes on killing and mutilating sprees. When he is finally captured and brought to trial, the district attorney is torn between his own liberal ideals on guilt and the crimes the accused is being tried.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Michael Biehn, Alex McArthur, Nicholas Campbell, Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Votes: 2,586 | Gross: $0.80M
23. The Hearse (1980)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt's home in a small town, only to find herself plagued by supernatural occurrences and unexplained hostility from the local townspeople connected to her aunt's past.
Director: George Bowers | Stars: Trish Van Devere, Joseph Cotten, David Gautreaux, Donald Hotton
Votes: 2,376
24. Late for Dinner (1991)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two young men evading the police for a crime they didn't commit are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
Director: W.D. Richter | Stars: Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer, Marcia Gay Harden, Cassy Friel
Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $8.91M
25. Nightwing (1979)
PG | 105 min | Horror
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Stephen Macht
Votes: 1,732
26. The Paper Chase (1978–1986)
60 min | Drama
The trials of a group of law students under the tutelage of a strict professor.
Stars: John Houseman, James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane
Votes: 1,088
27. Calendar Girl Murders (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Media mogul Richard Trainor is celebrating the success of his nude modeling business, and introducing the newest class of calendar models to the adoring public. The party is ruined when one of his models is murdered.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Stone, Barbara Bosson, Robert Beltran
Votes: 959
28. The Runestone (1991)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A Norse runestone is discovered in Western Pennsylvania. The prophecy upon it tells of the Norse great wolf Fenrir (Fenris), and that its release from the stone will bring about Ragnarok --... See full summary »
Director: Willard Carroll | Stars: Peter Riegert, Joan Severance, William Hickey, Tim Ryan
Votes: 873
29.
Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
Episode:
The Boogieman - October 31, 1964
(1990)
TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Everything goes wrong when Sam leaps into a Gothic horror novelist on Halloween.
Director: Joe Napolitano | Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Valerie Mahaffey, Paul Linke
Votes: 628
30. Brothers (1984–1989)
22 min | Comedy
When their youngest brother comes out as gay, two conservative men support him and help him navigate being openly gay in 1980s Philadelphia.
Stars: Robert Walden, Paul Regina, Brandon Maggart, Hallie Todd
Votes: 421
31.
Cheers (1982–1993)
Episode:
I'm Okay, You're Defective
(1991)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
Everyone isn't loving Norm, but rather trying to gross him out. They're trying to see what gross things they can think of that would be so off-putting as to make him stop drinking beer. It ... See full summary »
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger
Votes: 401
32. Deadly Lessons (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Horror, Thriller
A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Donna Reed, Larry Wilcox, David Ackroyd, Diane Franklin
Votes: 304
33. Mae West (1982 TV Movie)
95 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Ann Jillian, James Brolin, Piper Laurie, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 289
34. The Freeway Maniac (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
A crazed killer sneaks onto the set of a sci-fi film and begins murdering the cast and crew.
Director: Paul Winters | Stars: Kathryn Hauber, George Nicholas, Kevyn Shihadeh, Ronny Kenney
Votes: 256
35.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
To See the Light (Part Two)
(1980)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Mary grows increasingly afraid that Adam's newfound freedom is pushing them apart.
Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 253
36. Bud and Lou (1978 TV Movie)
98 min | Biography, Drama
The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.
Director: Robert C. Thompson | Stars: Harvey Korman, Buddy Hackett, Michele Lee, Arte Johnson
Votes: 251
37. Tucker's Witch (1982–1983)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Tim Matheson and Catherine Hicks star as married couple and private-detective duo Rick and Amanda Tucker. Amanda's psychic abilities prove vital to cracking cases, yet also have a tendency to get the couple into trouble.
Stars: Bill Morey, Alfre Woodard, Barbara Barrie, Tim Matheson
Votes: 236
38. Children of the Night (1985 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
Fact-based drama about a sociology graduate (Kathleen Quinlan) who starts working with teen prostitutes in Hollywood. The film does not draw back on its depiction of the brutality that the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, Nicholas Campbell, Mario Van Peebles, Lar Park-Lincoln
Votes: 175
39. A Question of Love (1978 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
A woman fights her ex-husband for custody of her children when he sues for custody after learning that she is living in a relationship with another woman.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Jane Alexander, Ned Beatty, Clu Gulager
Votes: 172
40.
Airwolf (1984–1986)
Episode:
Moffett's Ghost
(1984)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Firm asks String to covertly shuttle a renowned researcher and diplomat, Dr. Roger Burton, to Russia for a secret meeting since Airwolf can get past the Russian defenses without being ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Baer | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, Jean Bruce Scott, Ernest Borgnine
Votes: 160
41.
The Waltons (1972–1981)
Episode:
The Career Girl
(1977)
TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Erin graduates from high school still having no direction for her life. She gets a job as a switchboard operator to buy a typewriter for John-Boy. Family members sneak a look at John-Boy's novel about them and the community.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby
Votes: 139
42. Settle the Score (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
In this suspenseful drama, a Chicago policewoman remains haunted by the memory of the man who raped her two decades before and decides to return to her hometown to find him.
Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Jeffrey DeMunn, Louise Latham, Howard Duff
Votes: 125
43. The Night the City Screamed (1980 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama
A big-city blackout brings out looters, an ambitious politician, a police squad, and a young woman stranded after a party. An all-star cast.
Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Raymond Burr, David Cassidy, Robert Culp
Votes: 106
44. The Hollywood Detective (1989 TV Movie)
PG | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Telly Savalas, Helene Udy, George Coe, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 75
45.
Alien Nation (1989–1990)
Episode:
Contact
(1989)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
The murder of an astronomer leads Sikes and Francisco to the discovery of an extra-terrestrial probe passing through the solar system. But is it friend or foe? Sikes' relations with his ... See full summary »
Director: John McPherson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland
Votes: 73
46. Triplecross (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Thriller
Three cops (Ted Wass, Markie Post, Gary Swanson) become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private ... See full summary »
Director: David Greene | Stars: Ted Wass, Markie Post, Gary Swanson, Shannon Wilcox
Votes: 70
47.
Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
Episode:
The Arrival
(1982)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Chase fights for the rights of growers, using his position on the county board of directors. Angela confronts Richard at The Globe.
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Jane Wyman, Robert Foxworth, Lorenzo Lamas, David Selby
Votes: 51
48. If Things Were Different (1980 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A wife and mother tries to cope with her husband's emotional problems while trying to balance her new job as an assistant director on a local children's TV show and caring for her family.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Tony Roberts, Arte Johnson, Chuck McCann
Votes: 41
49.
L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode:
Ex-Wives and Videotape
(1990)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama
A desperate Kuzak sweats out of preparations for his appeal before the California Supreme Court in a final attempt to overturn the conviction on Earl Williams on a technicality. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Miles Watkins | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry
Votes: 36
50. Lifestories (1990–1991)
60 min | Drama
This series was a dramatic anthology realistically portraying the medical problems and crises of ordinary people.
Stars: Robert Prosky, Joe Howard, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 29