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1. Footloose (1984)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 91,579 | Gross: $80.04M
2. Blue Streak (1999)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A former convict poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle
Votes: 88,570 | Gross: $68.52M
3. Straw Dogs (1971)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 64,367
4. Roxanne (1987)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Rick Rossovich, Shelley Duvall
Votes: 47,567 | Gross: $40.05M
5. Altered States (1980)
R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Votes: 38,510 | Gross: $19.85M
6. All That Jazz (1979)
R | 123 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer
Votes: 35,234 | Gross: $37.82M
7. L.A. Story (1991)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a wacky weatherman tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early 1990s Los Angeles.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker
Votes: 34,312 | Gross: $28.86M
8. Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
R | 83 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The "universal soldiers" must fight the whole army, when the military's supercomputer S.E.T.H gets out of control.
Director: Mic Rodgers | Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bill Goldberg, Heidi Schanz, Michael Jai White
Votes: 30,729 | Gross: $10.43M
9. Air America (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Comedy, War
A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins
Votes: 30,449 | Gross: $31.05M
10. Smoke Signals (1998)
PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer
Votes: 12,573 | Gross: $6.72M
11. Punchline (1988)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A medical school dropout and a housewife/mom try to make it as stand-up comedians. They become friends and help each other out at an NYC comedy club.
Director: David Seltzer | Stars: Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, Mark Rydell
Votes: 9,238 | Gross: $21.03M
12. The Celluloid Closet (1995)
R | 102 min | Documentary, History
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents
Votes: 7,487 | Gross: $1.51M
13. That's Entertainment! (1974)
G | 135 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.
Director: Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Peter Lawford
Votes: 5,401 | Gross: $26.89M
14. Quicksilver (1986)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jack was doing great trading shares until he wasn't. He gets a job on a bike at Quicksilver speed delivery. There he befriends Hector and the cute Terri. Jack gets an enemy in the criminal Gypsy.
Director: Thomas Michael Donnelly | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos
Votes: 5,275 | Gross: $7.63M
15. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
Unrated | 99 min | Documentary, Crime
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary filmmaker Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
Director: Marina Zenovich | Stars: Andrew Braunsberg, Richard Brenneman, Douglas Dalton, Marilyn Beck
Votes: 5,199 | Gross: $0.06M
16. Mountains of the Moon (1990)
R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History
The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.
Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw
Votes: 4,240 | Gross: $4.01M
17. Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A composer who suspects his wife of cheating plots to kill her and frame her lover.
Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Albert Brooks
Votes: 3,155 | Gross: $19.93M
18. Making Love (1982)
R | 113 min | Drama
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller
Votes: 2,951 | Gross: $11.90M
19. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
G | 133 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 2,430 | Gross: $6.54M
20. Get Smart, Again! (1989 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Smart is called back to duty as KAOS is back causing trouble again with a 'weather machine'.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Bernie Kopell, Dick Gautier
Votes: 1,513
21. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,162
22. Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
53 min | Documentary
Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company" opened on Broadway in the Spring of 1970, and tradition dictates that the cast recording is done on the first Sunday after opening night. D.A. ... See full summary »
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Barbara Barrie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, George Coe
Votes: 1,018
23. First Family (1980)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Bob Newhart stars as President Manfred Link in this zany, wonderfully-cast comedy from veteran funnyman Buck Henry ("Heaven Can Wait", "The Graduate").
Director: Buck Henry | Stars: Bob Newhart, Gilda Radner, Madeline Kahn, Richard Benjamin
Votes: 725 | Gross: $15.20M
24. Death of a Salesman (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, James Farentino, Albert Dekker
Votes: 678
25.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
(2004)
TV-MA | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
American Masters explores the life and career of Cary Grant (born Archie Leach) with celebrity interviews.
Director: Robert Trachtenberg | Stars: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Cary Grant, Barbara Harris
Votes: 580
26. The Mike Douglas Show (1961–1982)
Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Mike Douglas, aided by a different celebrity co-host every week, interviews a variety of figures from the world of entertainment.
Stars: Mike Douglas, Ellie Frankel, Ellie Frankel Sextet, Stan Kann
Votes: 579
27. N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969)
30 min | Crime, Drama
The three detectives fight every kind of criminal all over New York City. The show featured many actual New York City locations, as well as episodes based on real New York City police cases.
Stars: Jack Warden, Robert Hooks, Frank Converse, Ted Beniades
Votes: 339
28. He & She (1967–1968)
30 min | Comedy, Romance
Dick and Paula Hollister are a couple living in New York. Dick is a comic-book artist who has become famous for creating a superhero called Jetman, which has been turned into a TV show starring egocentric actor Oscar North.
Stars: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars
Votes: 312
29. Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography
Spattered with blood and controversy, Sam Peckinpah's Westerns revolutionized their genre. SAM PECKINPAH'S WEST: LEGACY OF A HOLLYWOOD RENEGADE goes in search of the man behind these ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Thurman | Stars: Sam Peckinpah, Kris Kristofferson, Fern Lea Peter, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 295
30. East Side/West Side (1963–1964)
60 min | Drama
In this weekly drama show, George C. Scott plays a dedicated social worker trying to solve the problems of his clients in the fascinating mix of cultures that makes up New York City.
Stars: George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, Linden Chiles
Votes: 204
31. Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron (1993 TV Movie)
95 min | Documentary, Biography
This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs had a telling effect on the cinema... See full summary »
Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: Sam Peckinpah, Alan Sharp, Katherine Haber, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 200
32.
ABC Stage 67 (1966–1967)
Episode:
Noon Wine
(1966)
51 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Rough dairy farmer Royal Earle Thompson is trapped in a loveless marriage and tries to make amends for a past mistake.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Jason Robards, Olivia de Havilland, Theodore Bikel, Per Oscarsson
Votes: 198
33. The DuPont Show of the Week (1961–1964)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An anthology weekly drama series.
Stars: Walter Matthau, Frank McGee, Art Carney, Gene Wilder
Votes: 183
34. Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
115 min | Documentary
The life and times of maverick filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (1925 - 1984)
Director: Mike Siegel | Stars: Mario Adorf, R.G. Armstrong, Senta Berger, Ernest Borgnine
Votes: 123
35. The Lion Roars Again (1975)
17 min | Documentary, Short
This MGM documentary records a two day open house the studio held for the international media in 1975. They visit the set of Logan's Run (1976), meeting the producer and wardrobe designers. ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Michael Anderson, Army Archerd, Fred Astaire, Richard Benjamin
Votes: 114
36. ABC Stage 67 (1966–1967)
51 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A weekly anthology of one-hour plays, both original and adapted from literary sources.
Stars: Lee Grant, Arthur Kennedy, The Doodletown Pipers, Diahann Carroll
Votes: 107
37. Special Collector's Edition (2010–2015)
9 min | Comedy, History
A Special Collector's Edition.
Stars: David Díaz, Luis Rodrigo, Gabriel Fernández-Gil, Daniel Retuerta
Votes: 106
38. Run Buddy Run (1966–1967)
30 min | Comedy
Buddy Overstreet was an everyday, ordinary sort of guy... until the one day he overheard a member of "The Syndicate" (a crime organization) say the words "Chicken Little!" Now The Syndicate... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Sheldon, Bruce Gordon, Nicholas Georgiade, Jim Connell
Votes: 90
39. Brilliant But Cancelled (2002 TV Movie)
79 min | Documentary
This documentary looks at the difficult creative struggle to get -- and keep -- sophisticated programs on television.
Director: Daniel Snyder | Stars: Judd Apatow, Rosanna Arquette, Scott Bakula, Meredith Baxter
Votes: 85
40. Just One More Time (1974)
9 min | Short, Musical
A short promotional film for the feature That's Entertainment (1974).
Director: Michael J. Shapiro | Stars: Jack Haley Jr., Daniel Melnick, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby
Votes: 69
41. Mr. Broadway (1964)
60 min | Drama
Life and times of a press agent and man-about-town.
Stars: Craig Stevens, Lani Miyazaki, Horace McMahon, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 52
42. Hootenanny (1963–1964)
30 min | Music
Musical variety show, originating from a different college campus each week, featuring various pop-folk groups of the period. Unfortunately, a combination of blacklisting certain ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Linkletter, The Chad Mitchell Trio, The Serendipity Singers, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 46
43.
N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969)
Episode:
Deadly Circle of Violence
(1968)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Militant students blame a southerner for the bombing of a black church
Director: David Pressman | Stars: Jack Warden, Robert Hooks, Frank Converse, Al Pacino
Votes: 46
44.
Inside TV Land (2000–2005)
Episode:
Inside TV Land: Get Smart
(2001)
60 min
A one-hour documentary about the comedian Don Adams and his landmark television show Get Smart.
Director: Daniel Snyder | Stars: Don Adams, Stacey Adams, Steve Allen, Nancy E. Barr
Votes: 42
45. Ages of Man (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
Performance of extracts from Shakespeare's plays.
Director: Paul Bogart | Star: John Gielgud
Votes: 37
46. The Perfect Pitch (2002 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel Snyder | Stars: Andy Richter, Sarah Silverman, Judd Apatow, David Birney
Votes: 36
47. Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs (2007 Video)
38 min | Documentary, Short
A look behind the scenes of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film STRAW DOGS.
Director: Mike Siegel | Stars: R.G. Armstrong, Ernest Borgnine, Susan George, Katherine Haber
Votes: 31
48. Mantrap: Straw Dogs - The Final Cut (2003 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Documentary about the making of the film "Straw Dogs" (1971), directed by Sam Peckinpah.
Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: Martin Baum, Peter Brayham, David Zelag Goodman, Katherine Haber
Votes: 27
49. The Desperate Hours (1967 TV Movie)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilllards plus his meek brother Hank. Sadistic Robish is also present.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Michael Conrad, Arthur Hill, Mart Hulswit, Graham Jarvis
Votes: 21
50.
N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969)
Episode:
Fast Gun
(1967)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A veteran who likes to draw his weapon on cops has robbed a bank. Instead of fleeing with his loot, he ambushes Corso and another officer, and then decides to attract police to a local bar so that he can kill as many of them as possible.
Director: Alex March | Stars: Jack Warden, Robert Hooks, Frank Converse, Kathleen Maguire
Votes: 21