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1. The Hiding Place (1975)

PG | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History

During WWII, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.

Director: James F. Collier | Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty

Votes: 2,389

2. Hearts Down Under (2020)

TV-G | 85 min | Romance

When New York restaurateur, Caroline Wilson inherits a café in Lemon Myrtle Cove, Australia, she begins to fall in love with the place and its people, in particular, the cafe's charming local chef, Simon Cook.

Director: Rosie Lourde | Stars: Joey Vieira, Barbara Bingham, Cindy Busby, Perry Mooney

Votes: 1,100

3. Baran (2001)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Turkish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. The revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.

Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Mahjoub

Votes: 8,954 | Gross: $0.13M

4. Russell Madness (2015)

PG | 92 min | Family, Sport

When a man inherits his grandfather's arena, he and his family try to restore the family wrestling business with the help of a talking monkey, and their star attraction, a wrestling dog.

Director: Robert Vince | Stars: Sean Giambrone, David Milchard, Steve Richmond, Jesse Reid

Votes: 718

5. Hotel Paradiso (1966)

98 min | Comedy

Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris, Monsieur Boniface with a domineering wife, and the ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Peggy Mount

Votes: 872

6. Whirlpool of Fate (1925)

TV-PG | 71 min | Drama, Romance

After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne, Maurice Touzé

Votes: 692

7. The Renovation (2020)

89 min | Comedy

A couple inherits an old mansion and start renovating it, but nothing goes according to plan.

Director: Taneli Mustonen | Stars: Sami Hedberg, Kiti Kokkonen, Rea Mauranen, Kari Ketonen

Votes: 637

8. Moving Vanities (1939)

Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short

Errol moves out of his apartment when the landlord raises the rent, but encounters the usual headaches and difficulties in finding a new place.

Director: Lou Brock | Stars: Leon Errol, Barbara Jo Allen, Eddie Gribbon, Bud Jamison

Votes: 12

9. What Price Safety! (1938)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Royce, George Houston, John Wray, John Butler

Votes: 88

10. Last Free Ride (1974)

84 min | Comedy, History, Music

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Director: Roy Nolan | Stars: Saul Rouda, Joe Tate

11. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: Honesty (1985)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Mary regrets her offer to pay for the damage to a car she dented.

Director: Ellen Gittelsohn | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 64

12. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Rain (1975)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama

The squad must work through the precinct roof threatening to collapse from the rain and a nightclub comic's Bicentennial jokes.

Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail

Votes: 142

13. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: The Phantom Fifth Floor (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

With the Clampetts established "in business" in Jethro's vacated office space, a building inspector visits to find out about their business operations on the 5th floor.

Director: Joseph Depew | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 68

14. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode: Digging for Dirt (1998)

TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An elderly woman ignores eviction notices for the condemned apartment building she lives in as she hopes to prove that it was not built to code.

Director: Mike Vardy | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Suzanne Maddock

Votes: 88

15. Just Cause (2001–2003)
Episode: Dream House (2003)

Crime, Drama

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Director: Rob W. King | Stars: Elizabeth Lackey, Shaun Benson, Richard Thomas, Mark Hildreth

Votes: 13

16. MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode: Live and Learn (1990)

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

MacGyver is mentoring a troubled high school student who drops out of school to work at a construction site with his dad. While there, the kid discovers that the site may be unsafe when he witnesses a safety inspector being bribed.

Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, James Sloyan, Glenn Scarpelli

Votes: 274

17. Newhart (1982–1990)
Episode: This Probably Is Condemned (1982)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy

The staff of the Stratford Inn pitch together to help Kirk get his café up to code after a surprise visit from the health inspector.

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Steven Kampmann, Jennifer Holmes

Votes: 132

18. Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode: The Puerto Ricans Are Coming! (1972)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Fred's fighting mad to find that his new neighbor is a Puerto Rican man with a goat.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gregory Sierra, Slappy White

Votes: 163

19. Three's Company (1976–1984)
Episode: Going to Pot (1983)

TV-PG | Comedy

A building inspector claims that there's a minor infraction at Jack's restaurant which gives him cause to have it closed unless Jack pays him off. The girls tell him to record the man ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Priscilla Barnes, Richard Kline

Votes: 172

20. Good Girls (2018–2021)
Episode: One Night in Bangkok (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The pressure is on after Lucy's body is discovered in a graveyard. Beth and Dean do everything they can to get Boland's Bubbles up and running but encounter red tape. Harry gets in trouble ... See full summary »

Director: Eric Tignini | Stars: Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Reno Wilson

Votes: 444

21. Law & Order: UK (2009–2014)
Episode: Care (2009)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A baby's corpse is found in a bag at the local hospital, poisoned by gas fumes from a faulty heater in his mother's flat. A fellow tenant, Mike Turner, has been bribed by the landlady, ... See full summary »

Director: Omar Madha | Stars: Bradley Walsh, Jamie Bamber, Harriet Walter, Ben Daniels

Votes: 245

22. Grand Jury (1959– )
Episode: Condemned (1960)

30 min | Drama

The grand jury orders an investigation when a fire destroys a tenement building resulting in the death of many residents. Driscoll and Kennedy probe the records of building inspections for the slum area and discover gross negligence.

Stars: Lyle Bettger, Harold J. Stone, Wendell Holmes, Jack Orrison

23. Good Girls (2018–2021)
Episode: Family First (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A frustrated Rio takes matters into his own hands. More complications arise as the strip club undertakes some trouble. Dean forges an unexpected alliance with Stan.

Director: Eric Tignini | Stars: Christina Hendricks, Retta, Mae Whitman, Reno Wilson

Votes: 303

24. Chicago Med (2015– )
Episode: (Caught Between) The Wrecking Ball and the Butterfly (2021)

TV-14 | Drama

Supply chain disruptions dramatically impact Med causing Crockett and Kai, a new surgical resident, to clash with other doctors.

Director: Nicole Rubio | Stars: Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee, Dominic Rains, Marlyne Barrett

Votes: 190

25. Blue Bloods (2010–2024)
Episode: Some Kind of Hero (2012)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jamie saves a baby from an apartment fire but Renzulli gets the credit so that his cover remains intact. A fireman's 11-year-old son, a school friend of Danny's son, feels that his father did not commit suicide. Danny investigates.

Director: Alex Zakrzewski | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, Will Estes, Len Cariou

Votes: 463

26. The Lincoln Lawyer (2022– )
Episode: The Fifth Witness (2023)

TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After an unexpected witness gives emotional testimony on the stand, Mickey and Lorna hatch a clever plan to cast doubt on the prosecution's case.

Director: Ted Humphrey | Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Becki Newton, Angus Sampson, Jazz Raycole

Votes: 651

27. The Lincoln Lawyer (2022– )
Episode: Discovery (2023)

TV-MA | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As his team hunts for a needle in a haystack to clear Lisa's name, Mickey comes up with a creative solution for a teenager accused of vandalism.

Director: Kate Woods | Stars: Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Becki Newton, Angus Sampson, Jazz Raycole

Votes: 709

28. Sesame Street (1969– )
Episode: Exercising Does Your Body Good (1979)

TV-Y | 55 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

While exercising on the roof, Buffy, David, Gordon, and Luis find the door to the building locked. Worse yet, it has begun to rain. So they're trapped on the roof getting wetter by the minute, trying to get someone to come open the door.

Director: Robert Myhrum | Stars: Linda Bove, Northern Calloway, Emilio Delgado, Jack Dodson

Votes: 20

29. Brändärit (2014)
Episode: Tarkastus (2014)

30 min | Comedy

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Director: Rike Jokela | Stars: Matleena Kuusniemi, Ville Myllyrinne, Santtu Karvonen, Samuli Niittymäki

30. The Affair (2014–2019)
Episode: Episode #3.8 (2017)

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama

An unexpected cause to celebrate provokes a sobering realization in Alison. Soon after, a startling warning leaves her pondering the unthinkable. Cole's frustrations with Alison come to a head, revealing a radical truth.

Director: John Dahl | Stars: Dominic West, Ruth Wilson, Maura Tierney, Joshua Jackson

Votes: 530

31. Infinity Limited (1984– )
Episode: Waste High (1984)

20 min | Family

During a garbage strike there are protests outside a factory. Kris and Rick think of ways to safely dispose of the factory's waste paint which is diluted in hazardous solvent. Vortex plans to sell the waste at a profit.

Director: Rod Rees | Stars: Kim Trengove, Stefan Dennis, Ross Williams, Ian Scott

32. Hunter Street (2017–2021)
Episode: Cassandra's Map (2017)

TV-G | 22 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When the discovery of an old map points the kids' towards the red diamond, Max makes a secret deal with a nemesis.

Director: Erwin van den Eshof | Stars: Stony Blyden, Maemae Renfrow, Kyra Isako Smith, Thomas Jansen

Votes: 20

33. Red Oaks (2014–2017)
Episode: Paroled (2017)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

A newly-paroled Getty makes a last-ditch effort to save Red Oaks from the wrecking ball. Sam's side business is dealt a major setback. Misty and Wheeler separately fend off unwanted ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Craig Roberts, Ennis Esmer, Oliver Cooper, Alexandra Turshen

Votes: 153