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1. The Aviator (2004)
PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Votes: 384,341 | Gross: $102.61M
2. Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon
Votes: 4,282
3. Changeling (2008)
R | 141 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After Christine's son goes missing, she reaches out to the LAPD to find him. But when they try to pass off an impostor as her son to quieten public protests, she refuses to accept him or give up hope.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith
Votes: 265,379 | Gross: $35.74M
4. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie
Votes: 22,653 | Gross: $8.72M
5. The Painted Bird (2019)
Unrated | 169 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Director: Václav Marhoul | Stars: Petr Kotlár, Nina Sunevic, Alla Sokolova, Stanislav Bilyi
Votes: 7,640
6. Never Look Away (2018)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl
Votes: 25,392 | Gross: $1.30M
7. Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker
Votes: 17,233 | Gross: $13.90M
8. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans
Votes: 13,919 | Gross: $0.57M
9. Cracks (I) (2009)
R | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.
Director: Jordan Scott | Stars: Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, Imogen Poots
Votes: 21,117 | Gross: $0.02M
10. Aria (1987)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
10 short films by 10 different directors, set to arias by different composers.
Directors: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple | Stars: John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Stephanie Lane, Roy Hyatt
Votes: 3,105 | Gross: $1.03M
11. Frances (1982)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jessica Lange, Jonathan Banks, Bonnie Bartlett, James Brodhead
Votes: 8,584 | Gross: $5.00M
12. Bright Young Things (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
An adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies", is a look into the lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and a host of young people who beautified London in the 1930s.
Director: Stephen Fry | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Dan Aykroyd, Simon McBurney
Votes: 6,324 | Gross: $0.93M
13. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,427 | Gross: $10.14M
14. Blonde (2001)
TV-14 | 165 min | Biography, Drama
A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Dempsey, Wallace Shawn
Votes: 1,241
15. Baccano! (2007–2008)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A crazy fantasy caper involving alchemists, immortals, gangsters, outlaws and an elixir of immortality, spread over several decades.
Stars: Michael C. Pizzuto, J. Michael Tatum, Caitlin Glass, Akemi Kanda
Votes: 12,670
16. Mirror Mirror (I) (1990)
R | 104 min | Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.
Director: Marina Sargenti | Stars: Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo, William Sanderson, Rainbow Harvest
Votes: 2,202
17. The Other (1972)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky
Votes: 6,990 | Gross: $0.48M
18. The Whole Wide World (1996)
PG | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.
Director: Dan Ireland | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell
Votes: 4,033 | Gross: $0.14M
19. What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
R | 101 min | Crime, Horror, Musical
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Micheál MacLiammóir
Votes: 2,304
20. Dancing on the Edge (2013)
TV-MA | 75 min | Drama
Set in the 1930s, a black Jazz band rises in fame and popularity while becoming entangled in an intricate web of intrigue, mystery and suspense with the elite of London society.
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthew Goode, Joanna Vanderham, Wunmi Mosaku
Votes: 2,846
21. The Goddess (1958)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Betty Lou Holland
Votes: 1,138
22. The Soul Keeper (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Seduced by Jung, killed by hate, redeemed by history. In 1905 a 19-year-old Russian girl suffering from severe hysteria is admitted into a psychiatric hospital in Zurich. A young doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Iain Glen, Emilia Fox, Craig Ferguson, Caroline Ducey
Votes: 1,812
23. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh
Votes: 3,489 | Gross: $7.70M
24. The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
108 min | Drama
A mentally challenged man escapes from his tyrannical master and finds happiness when a poor family takes him in.
Director: Hans Alfredson | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Johansson, Hans Alfredson, Per Myrberg
Votes: 3,713
25. Vincere (2009)
Unrated | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon
Votes: 5,915 | Gross: $0.62M
26. The Locket (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond
Votes: 3,064
27. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)
R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.
Director: Tim Metcalfe | Stars: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono
Votes: 2,408 | Gross: $0.07M
28. Dillinger and Capone (1995 Video)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dillinger survived assassination and is living a quiet farm life with his family in 1940, but Al Capone, recently freed from prison, need his help for one last score.
Director: Jon Purdy | Stars: Martin Sheen, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Davies, Catherine Hicks
Votes: 690
29. Help (2023)
80 min | Horror
Emilia is sent to a convent where paranormal forces start to manifest among the holy and the tortured.
Director: Tamae Garateguy | Stars: Marcela Benjumea, Germán Baudino, Gerardo Romano, Cumelen Sanz
Votes: 49
30. Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980 TV Movie)
156 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom, to her marriages and untimely death.
Directors: Jack Arnold, John Flynn, Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Catherine Hicks, Richard Basehart, Frank Converse, John Ireland
Votes: 271
31. Murderous Maids (2000)
94 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter.
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Julie-Marie Parmentier, Isabelle Renauld, Dominique Labourier
Votes: 1,316 | Gross: $0.23M
32. Stompin' at the Savoy (1992 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama
Four young black women are trying to achieve their dreams of success in the 1930s Harlem.
Director: Debbie Allen | Stars: Lynn Whitfield, Vanessa Williams, Jasmine Guy, Mario Van Peebles
Votes: 327
33. Rule of Rose (2006 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1930's England, a young woman enters an abandoned manor while looking for someone and becomes imprisoned by a cult of young girls who live on a strange airship. They force her to work for them. She must get her bearings and escape.
Director: Shuji Ishikawa | Stars: Jo Wyatt, Teresa Gallagher, Christopher Fairbank, Joanna Hall
Votes: 302
34. Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Biography, Drama
This biopic depicts troubled actress Frances Farmer's Seattle childhood, college years, political involvement, show business success, doomed love affair with playwright Clifford Odets, and her eventual mental breakdown.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Susan Blakely, Lee Grant, Royal Dano, Joe Lambie
Votes: 128
35. Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
R | 110 min | Drama
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to ... See full summary »
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Marthe Keller, Barbara Bouchet
Votes: 414
36. The 7th Guest (1993 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
An unidentified man finds himself in the foyer of an old mansion that was once the property of a well known toy maker, a Mr. Stauf. As the man explores the mansion, he discovers that the mansion is haunted by six ghosts.
Director: Joe McDermott | Stars: Robert Hirschboeck, Douglas Knapp, Michael Pocaro, Larry Roher
Votes: 272
37. Inspector Palmu's Error (1960)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Riuttu
Votes: 2,100
38. Shining Victory (1941)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
In a Scottish sanitarium, a brilliant research psychiatrist works on a treatment for dementia precox. He falls for his altruistic female lab assistant and they begin a passionate, tragic relationship.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 815
39. Wuthering Heights (1985)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Romance, Mystery
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Fabienne Babe, Lucas Belvaux, Sandra Montaigu, Alice de Poncheville
Votes: 401 | Gross: $0.62M
40. Oficio de tinieblas (1981)
105 min | Drama
Set in 1934 and meant to dramatize social injustices, this melodrama examines an official's attempt at land reform. The landowners are against any reform and are also not interested in ... See full summary »
Directors: Archibaldo Burns, José Luis Urquieta | Stars: Enrique Lizalde, Julissa, Manuel Ojeda, Monica Miguel
Votes: 26
41. O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
A one-armed circus animal tamer regains his son and the confidence he lost along with his wife.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 211
42. Elämän vonkamies (1986)
142 min | Drama
A curious and stubborn boy Kalle has to grow up fast in northern Finland in the 1920s. When his lumberjack father gets ill, Kalle has to take his place as a provider for the family.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Martti Kainulainen, Pirjo Leppänen, Teuvo Remes, Tapio Remes
Votes: 269
43. Lumberjacking (1988)
165 min | Drama
Lumberjacking is a second part of saga about young author, Kalle Päätalo. It's a story about growing up and becoming a storyteller in hard times when their father was in the forced labour camp. He was a lunatic.
Director: Mikko Niskanen | Stars: Ari-Kyösti Seppo, Pirjo Leppänen, Martti Kainulainen, Leena Hyttinen
Votes: 281
44. Huojuva talo (1990)
310 min | Drama
Stars: Sara Paavolainen, Kari Heiskanen, Raimo Grönberg, Jaana Järvinen
Votes: 27
45. Historic Mexico City (1935)
9 min | Documentary, Short, History
Mexico City, the capital of the Republic of Mexico, has perhaps the most colorful history of any major metropolis. It was once the center of the Aztec Empire ruled by Montezuma. The ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lewyn | Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 60