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1. CollegeHumor Originals (2006–2023)
Episode: Precious Plum: Honey Boo Boo Parody Series (2013)

TV-MA | 3 min | Comedy

9.7
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The Very Mary-Kate team presents a look into the lives of a less-than-perfect pageant family.

Director: Sam Reich | Stars: Amir Blumenfeld, Elaine Carroll, Pat Cassels, Dan Gurewitch

Votes: 78

2. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

8.7
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A chronicle of the lives of a dysfunctional family who run an independent funeral home in Los Angeles.

Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose

Votes: 149,693

3. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)
Episode: Singing for Our Lives (2005)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

8.7
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Pilar Sandoval attempts to Rollerblade a steep hill while walking her dogs but literally doesn't make it when she loses control and is hit by a car. Brenda is upset with Nate's fists-up ... See full summary »

Director: Matt Shakman | Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose

Votes: 1,764

4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

8.6
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75 Metascore

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Votes: 1,175,661 | Gross: $204.84M

5. Back to the Future (1985)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

8.5
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87 Metascore

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover

Votes: 1,308,751 | Gross: $210.61M

6. CollegeHumor Originals (2006–2023)
Episode: Precious Plum: Tow Truck (2013)

TV-MA | 3 min | Comedy

8.5
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The one where Mama and Plum almost get crushed.

Director: Sam Reich | Stars: Amir Blumenfeld, Elaine Carroll, Pat Cassels, Eric Edelstein

Votes: 9

7. John Fogerty: Mystic Highway (2013 Music Video)

4 min | Music

8.2
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Director: Bill Fishman | Stars: John Fogerty, Kash Hovey, Lyndsay Lebiedzinski, Via Ray Marie Lewis

Votes: 7

8. Stand by Me (1986)

R | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

8.1
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75 Metascore

A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell

Votes: 442,269 | Gross: $52.29M

9. Magnolia (1999)

R | 188 min | Drama

8.0
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78 Metascore

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Votes: 328,843 | Gross: $22.46M

10. Robbery Homicide Division (2002–2003)

60 min | Crime, Drama

8.0
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Drama centers on Lt. Sam Cole and his team of cops in the elite robbery/homicide division of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Stars: Tom Sizemore, David Cubitt, Klea Scott, Barry Shabaka Henley

Votes: 416

11. Mulholland Drive (2001)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

7.9
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86 Metascore

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 384,355 | Gross: $7.22M

12. Son of the Morning Star (1991)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1991)

PG-13 | Biography, History, Western

7.9
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Director: Mike Robe | Stars: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford

Votes: 14

13. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

7.8
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80 Metascore

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 518,697 | Gross: $59.89M

14. Serenity (2005)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.8
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74 Metascore

The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture telepath River.

Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alan Tudyk

Votes: 305,877 | Gross: $25.51M

15. Crash (I) (2004)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

7.7
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66 Metascore

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton, Karina Arroyave

Votes: 449,231 | Gross: $54.58M

16. CollegeHumor Originals (2006–2023)

TV-14 | Comedy

7.7
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Funny sketches with crude, adult, and undeniably hilarious comedy.

Stars: Mike Trapp, Grant O'Brien, Katie Marovitch, Zac Oyama

Votes: 1,592

17. Son of the Morning Star (1991)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (1991)

PG-13 | Biography, History, Western

7.7
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Director: Mike Robe | Stars: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford

Votes: 16

18. Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

R | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

7.6
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58 Metascore

John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene

Votes: 408,571 | Gross: $100.01M

19. T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996 Video)

Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi

7.6
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Three freedom fighters attack a large corporation to prevent a future apocalypse.

Directors: John Bruno, James Cameron, Keith Melton, Stan Winston | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick

Votes: 8,500

20. Collateral (2004)

R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.5
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71 Metascore

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo

Votes: 433,599 | Gross: $101.01M

21. Grindhouse (2007)

R | 191 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

7.5
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77 Metascore

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.

Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie | Stars: Kurt Russell, Rose McGowan, Danny Trejo, Zoë Bell

Votes: 191,284 | Gross: $25.04M

22. Police Story (1973–1980)

120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.5
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Detective Cheng is commissioned by Interpol to destroy the "Empire of Chaiba", a worldwide criminal organization based in Southeast Asia, he initiates an undercover operation to infiltrate the organization.

Stars: Scott Brady, Mel Scott, Don Meredith, Joe Santos

Votes: 1,183

23. Spider-Man (2002)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.4
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73 Metascore

After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe, James Franco

Votes: 881,168 | Gross: $403.71M

24. Erin Brockovich (2000)

R | 131 min | Biography, Drama

7.4
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73 Metascore

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick

Votes: 221,772 | Gross: $125.60M

25. Get Real (1999–2000)

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.4
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Follow the dysfunctional Green family as the parents face a midlife crisis and the kids go through their teenage years.

Stars: Jon Tenney, Debrah Farentino, Eric Christian Olsen, Christina Pickles

Votes: 643

26. Fastlane (2002–2003)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

7.4
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Two hotshot undercover cops and their equally tough female handler take down the highest and lowest criminals in L.A. in this pop-culture-heavy, dark, flashy, over-the-top action crime dramedy inspired by Bad Boys and Miami Vice.

Stars: Peter Facinelli, Bill Bellamy, Tiffani Thiessen, Big Boy

Votes: 3,730

27. Starship Troopers (1997)

R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.3
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52 Metascore

Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey

Votes: 321,750 | Gross: $54.81M

28. True Lies (1994)

R | 141 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

7.3
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63 Metascore

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton

Votes: 281,365 | Gross: $146.28M

29. The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

7.3
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63 Metascore

A lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime.

Director: Brad Furman | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy

Votes: 254,030 | Gross: $58.01M

30. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

7.3
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78 Metascore

Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews

Votes: 177,748 | Gross: $17.84M

31. Enemy of the State (1998)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

7.3
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67 Metascore

A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet

Votes: 259,183 | Gross: $111.55M

32. To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

R | 116 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.3
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81 Metascore

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, Jane Leeves, Cherise Bates

Votes: 39,445 | Gross: $17.31M

33. Son of the Morning Star (1991)

PG-13 | 187 min | Biography, History, Western

7.3
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The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.

Stars: Gary Cole, Rosanna Arquette, Stanley Anderson, Edward Blatchford

Votes: 1,060

34. Topa Topa Bluffs (2002)

83 min

7.3
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Struggling writer Frank decides to go backpacking with his playwright friend Henry, heading deep into the Topa Topa Bluffs outside of Los Angeles. There, Henry concocts a plan that might literally be to die for.

Director: Eric Simonson | Stars: Kayren Butler, Kristin Chenoweth, Evan Gore, Robert Knepper

Votes: 39

35. The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978)
Episode: The Bionic Woman (1975)

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

7.3
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Steve Austin reunites with his childhood sweetheart only to have her suffer a crippling accident which can only be rectified with bionic implants.

Director: Dick Moder | Stars: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Lindsay Wagner, Malachi Throne

Votes: 495

36. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

R | 138 min | Action, Sci-Fi

7.2
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62 Metascore

Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.

Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Votes: 631,386 | Gross: $281.49M

37. Manhunter (1986)

R | 120 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

7.2
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75 Metascore

Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox

Votes: 81,048 | Gross: $8.62M

38. Love & Basketball (2000)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

7.2
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72 Metascore

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Glenndon Chatman, Jess Willard

Votes: 24,359 | Gross: $27.44M

39. Without Limits (1998)

PG-13 | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

7.2
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71 Metascore

The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.

Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto

Votes: 7,537 | Gross: $0.78M

40. The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978)

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

7.1
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After a severely injured test pilot is rebuilt with nuclear-powered bionic limbs and implants, he serves as an intelligence agent.

Stars: Lee Majors, Richard Anderson, Martin E. Brooks, Lindsay Wagner

Votes: 12,996

41. The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Comedy

7.1
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The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County.

Stars: Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle

Votes: 15,737

42. Chasing Mavericks (2012)

PG | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Sport

7.1
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45 Metascore

When young Jay Moriarity discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists just miles from his Santa Cruz home, he enlists the help of local legend Frosty Hesson to train him to survive it.

Directors: Michael Apted, Curtis Hanson | Stars: Jonny Weston, Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer

Votes: 34,555 | Gross: $6.00M

43. Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.0
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50 Metascore

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.

Director: Hal Needham | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry

Votes: 57,029 | Gross: $126.74M

44. The Italian Job (2003)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

7.0
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68 Metascore

After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron

Votes: 388,856 | Gross: $106.13M

45. Without a Trace (2002–2009)

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

7.0
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Series about the special FBI Missing Persons Squad that finds missing people by applying advanced psychological profiling to reveal the victims' lives.

Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Enrique Murciano, Eric Close

Votes: 21,719

46. Maverick (1994)

PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.0
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62 Metascore

Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene

Votes: 119,176 | Gross: $101.63M

47. The Kingdom (2007)

R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

7.0
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56 Metascore

A team of U.S. government agents are sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman

Votes: 132,349 | Gross: $47.54M

48. Heart and Souls (1993)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

7.0
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56 Metascore

An unhappy businessman finds a new sense of purpose after he's tasked with helping a quartet of ghosts fulfill their last wishes before moving on to the afterlife.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick

Votes: 18,963 | Gross: $16.58M

49. Amish Grace (2010 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 89 min | Biography, Drama

7.0
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When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the ... See full summary »

Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tammy Blanchard, Fay Masterson, Madison Mason

Votes: 2,093

50. Liar Liar (1997)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Fantasy

6.9
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70 Metascore

A pathological liar-lawyer finds his career turned upside down when he inexplicably cannot physically lie for 24 whole hours.

Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Amanda Donohoe, Jennifer Tilly

Votes: 333,948 | Gross: $181.41M



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