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1. The Tender Bar (2021)

R | 106 min | Biography, Drama

A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Daniel Ranieri, Lily Rabe

Votes: 33,893

2. The Equalizer (2016 TV Movie)

Documentary, Sport

What if the greatest high-performance athletes - present and past - could compete against each other on a level playing field?

Director: Rebecca Snow | Star: Maria Vasallo

Votes: 19

3. Antiques Roadshow (1997– )
Episode: Vintage Boston (2016)

TV-G | 55 min | Reality-TV

Learn how the antiques market has evolved in the last 15 years, including a $124,000 value increase.

Director: John Boyle | Stars: Noel Barrett, Nan Chisholm, H. Douglas Deihl, Nancy Druckman

4. Antiques Roadshow (1997– )
Episode: Mansion Masterpieces (2016)

TV-G | 55 min | Reality-TV

History meets fantasy with treasures fit for a period costume drama, plus a $500,000-$700,000 find.

Director: John Boyle | Star: Mark L. Walberg

5. Ted 2 (2015)

R | 115 min | Comedy

Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.

Director: Seth MacFarlane | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth

Votes: 234,103 | Gross: $81.48M

6. The Heat (I) (2013)

R | 117 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Michael McDonald, Melissa McCarthy, Demián Bichir

Votes: 181,400 | Gross: $159.58M

7. Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)

G | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Family

Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship unfolds.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Sarah Roemer

Votes: 311,763

8. Bride Wars (2009)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

Two best friends become rivals when they schedule their respective weddings on the same day.

Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Kate Hudson, Anne Hathaway, Candice Bergen, Bryan Greenberg

Votes: 115,652 | Gross: $58.72M

9. Synecdoche, New York (2008)

R | 124 min | Drama

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener

Votes: 98,308 | Gross: $3.08M

10. Ghost Town (I) (2008)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Bertram Pincus is a man whose people skills leave much to be desired. When Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Jordan Carlos

Votes: 77,931 | Gross: $13.21M

11. The Accidental Husband (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

When talk-radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge.

Director: Griffin Dunne | Stars: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Justina Machado, Colin Firth

Votes: 25,568

12. Enchanted (2007)

PG | 107 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

Director: Kevin Lima | Stars: Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey

Votes: 217,489 | Gross: $127.81M

13. The Life Before Her Eyes (2007)

R | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event 15 years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart.

Director: Vadim Perelman | Stars: Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri, Gabrielle Brennan

Votes: 14,901 | Gross: $0.30M

14. The Departed (2006)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 1,423,820 | Gross: $132.38M

15. All the King's Men (2006)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, Thriller

Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.

Director: Steven Zaillian | Stars: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 25,614 | Gross: $7.22M

16. My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson

Votes: 67,045 | Gross: $22.53M

17. The Hoax (2006)

R | 116 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina, David Aaron Baker, John Carter

Votes: 17,187 | Gross: $7.16M

18. The Squid and the Whale (2005)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama

Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg

Votes: 90,515 | Gross: $7.36M

19. Broken Flowers (2005)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Julie Delpy

Votes: 106,864 | Gross: $13.74M

20. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne

Votes: 1,079,290 | Gross: $34.40M

21. Kinsey (2004)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard

Votes: 50,979 | Gross: $10.21M

22. Beacon Hill (2004)

Romance, Thriller

The late Irish hero fireman's (Lefty) charming son William M. "Billy" Dylan (25) is elected as independent, youngest Massachusettes state representative. He joins the Democrats, Congress ... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Connolly, John Stimpson | Stars: Michael Landes, Wendy Benson-Landes, Francis X. McCarthy, Grainger Hines

Votes: 93

23. In the Cut (2003)

R | 119 min | Mystery, Thriller

New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Nuccio

Votes: 26,489 | Gross: $4.75M

24. The Human Stain (2003)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise

Votes: 32,281 | Gross: $5.38M

25. 25th Hour (2002)

R | 135 min | Drama

Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson

Votes: 184,728 | Gross: $13.06M

26. The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama

An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary, Robin Tunney

Votes: 3,529 | Gross: $3.71M

27. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller

Votes: 313,434 | Gross: $52.36M

28. Love the Hard Way (2001)

R | 104 min | Drama, Crime, Romance

The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.

Director: Peter Sehr | Stars: Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, August Diehl

Votes: 2,575 | Gross: $0.04M

29. Center Stage (2000)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A group of teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky, Christine Dunham

Votes: 22,808 | Gross: $17.17M

30. The Cider House Rules (1999)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Romance

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo

Votes: 104,880 | Gross: $57.55M

31. Message in a Bottle (1999)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Romance

A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.

Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright, Paul Newman, John Savage

Votes: 40,393 | Gross: $52.88M

32. In Dreams (1999)

R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Annette Bening, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Sagona, Aidan Quinn

Votes: 13,644 | Gross: $12.02M

33. Outside Providence (1999)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After one too many run ins with the law, a punk teenager from a working class background is sent to prep school by his frustrated dad, and learns a thing or two.

Director: Michael Corrente | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Amy Smart, Alec Baldwin, Tommy Bone

Votes: 9,330 | Gross: $7.29M

34. The Love Letter (1999)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The life of a provincial town becomes stormy after the appearance of an anonymous love letter.

Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan | Stars: Kate Capshaw, Tom Everett Scott, Tom Selleck, Blythe Danner

Votes: 4,692 | Gross: $8.28M

35. Antiques Roadshow (1997– )

TV-G | Reality-TV

Collectors discover that they can turn trash into treasure, thanks to the appraisal skills of the show's specialists in antiques and fine art; Mark L. Walberg hosts.

Stars: Mark L. Walberg, Simeon Lipman, Nicholas D. Lowry, Coral Peña

Votes: 1,343

36. Floating (1997)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A young man struggle to come of age during a violent period of emotional and financial instability.

Director: William Roth | Stars: Norman Reedus, Chad Lowe, Will Lyman, Sybil Darrow

Votes: 758 | Gross: $0.01M

37. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

PG | 80 min | Documentary

An exploration of the careers of four unrelated professionals: a lion tamer, a robotics expert, a topiary gardener, and a naked mole rat specialist.

Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Dave Hoover, George Mendonça, Rodney Brooks, Raymond A. Mendez

Votes: 3,986 | Gross: $0.83M

38. The Crucible (1996)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen

Votes: 40,213 | Gross: $7.34M

39. Reckless (1995)

PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

On Christmas Eve, a regretful husband admits to his high-spirited wife that he has hired a contract killer to take her out. She immediately flees. A nice couple offers her shelter, but everyone have dark secrets in this wacky movie.

Director: Norman René | Stars: Mia Farrow, Tony Goldwyn, Juana Barrios, Mike Heibeck

Votes: 520 | Gross: $0.10M

40. Blown Away (1994)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 33,724 | Gross: $30.16M

41. Oleanna (1994)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

When a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Diego Pineda, Scott Zigler

Votes: 3,619 | Gross: $0.12M