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1. Lolita (1997)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella
Votes: 66,505 | Gross: $1.40M
2. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 437,367 | Gross: $435.11M
3. Major League (1989)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Sport
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton
Votes: 76,410 | Gross: $49.80M
4. Caroline in the City (1995–1999)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Romance
Caroline Duffy is a successful cartoonist in Manhattan, whose eclectic friends are sometimes the subjects of her comic strip.
Stars: Lea Thompson, Malcolm Gets, Amy Pietz, Eric Lutes
Votes: 4,380
5. Their Finest (2016)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 21,288 | Gross: $3.60M
6. CBGB (2013)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A look at the New York City punk-rock scene and the venerable nightclub, CBGB.
Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Alan Rickman, Malin Akerman, Justin Bartha, Richard de Klerk
Votes: 11,215 | Gross: $0.04M
7. How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Approved | 118 min | Comedy
A dedicated bachelor drunkenly marries a young woman and immediately lives to regret it.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff
Votes: 6,946 | Gross: $12.47M
8. My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A teenage boy comes back from the dead because he is determined to win the most beautiful girl in school.
Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Danny Zorn, Edward Herrmann
Votes: 5,024 | Gross: $3.34M
9. The Hand (1981)
R | 104 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A comic book artist loses his hand, which in turn takes on a murderous life of its own.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie McEnroe, Bruce McGill
Votes: 6,704 | Gross: $2.45M
10. When Father Was Away on Business (1985)
R | 136 min | Drama
A family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Moreno De Bartoli, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Mustafa Nadarevic
Votes: 10,097 | Gross: $0.02M
11. Dennis the Menace Strikes Again! (1998 Video)
G | 75 min | Comedy, Family
After a failed attempt to find the perfect birthday present for Mr Wilson, the mischievous little terror, Dennis, tries to save him from a pair of swindlers and their bogus youth remedies. Will he manage to keep their friendship strong?
Director: Charles T. Kanganis | Stars: Don Rickles, George Kennedy, Justin Cooper, Betty White
Votes: 4,942
12. Tove (2020)
103 min | Biography, Drama
Depiction on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.
Director: Zaida Bergroth | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Shanti Roney, Joanna Haartti
Votes: 3,792
13. KaBlam! (1996–2000)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
An animated anthology show hosted by two kids who live in a comic book.
Stars: Noah Segan, Julia McIlvaine, Bert Pence, Scott Paulsen
Votes: 2,945
14. Our Man in Havana (1959)
Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, Ernie Kovacs
Votes: 6,098
15. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,128
16. Brenda Starr (1989)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves the strip.
Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck, Diana Scarwid
Votes: 1,259 | Gross: $0.07M
17. Garfield Gets Real (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Follow Garfield behind the scenes in Cartoon World where he grows bored with his life as a comic strip star.
Directors: Mark A.Z. Dippé, Kyung Ho Lee | Stars: Frank Welker, Rajia Baroudi, Gregg Berger, Jennifer Darling
Votes: 2,686
18. Girl Fever (2002)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Sam is a dexterity-challenged art student having the worst day of his life when a streak of fate, and a gust of wind, blows a woman named Hope across his path.
Director: Michael Davis | Stars: Chad Donella, Jennifer Morrison, Erinn Bartlett, Steve Monroe
Votes: 2,657
19. Piccadilly Jim (1936)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
In London, an American street caricaturist falls in love with a young woman who suddenly disappears, prompting him to develop a comic strip based on a "From Rags to Riches" family, that he does not know is hers, causing her embarrassment.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Eric Blore
Votes: 448
20. Mifune (1999)
R | 98 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
Kresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.
Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Stars: Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt, Emil Tarding
Votes: 8,050 | Gross: $0.59M
21. The Birth of the Tramp (2013 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular "Little Tramp" character.
Directors: Serge Bromberg, Eric Lange | Stars: Peter Hudson, Kate Guyonvarch, Kevin Brownlow, David Robinson
Votes: 355
22. Hum Tum (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A novel look at the eternal battle of the sexes and the trials and tribulations of Karan and Rhea and their attempts to understand each other.
Director: Kunal Kohli | Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kirron Kher, Rati Agnihotri
Votes: 15,101 | Gross: $0.35M
23. A Summer Tale (2000)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two kids move in with a lonely undertaker who is secretly in love with the town's school teacher.
Director: Ulf Malmros | Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Rebecca Scheja, Cecilia Nilsson
Votes: 4,479
24. Dear Mr. Watterson (2013)
TV-PG | 89 min | Documentary
A documentary about the impact of the newspaper comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes," created by Bill Watterson.
Director: Joel Allen Schroeder | Stars: Berkeley Breathed, Jef Mallett, Stephan Pastis, Seth Green
Votes: 2,032 | Gross: $0.01M
25. She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with war veterans, building their self-esteem,... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Lee Bowman, Adele Jergens, Charles Winninger
Votes: 577
26. Killer Toon (2013)
104 min | Horror, Thriller
Popular horror web-comic artist Ji Yoon finds life imitating her own work when her publisher turns up dead in a way, precisely mirrors the images in her latest comic.
Director: Yong-gyun Kim | Stars: Lee Si-young, Uhm Ki-joon, Lee Do-yeop, Oh Gwang-Rok
Votes: 2,259
27. T Is for Turbo (2011)
6 min | Short, Action, Comedy
From the ashes of a true hero--the technologically-advanced, Turbo Rider--a modern defender shall rise in a post-apocalyptic 1997, when Kid, a die-hard comic aficionado, stumbles upon his beloved idol's high-tech justice-enforcing gear.
Directors: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Stars: François Gadbois, Yves Corbeil, Lauren Ashley Jiles, Jeanbart
Votes: 745
28. ZZZap! (1993–2001)
Animation, Comedy, Family
A children's TV sketch show using the premise of comic book with iconic characters such as Daisy Dares you, the hands and more!
Stars: Richard Waites, Sarah Pickthall, Deborah McCallum, Neil Buchanan
Votes: 313
29. Questo e quello (1983)
119 min | Comedy
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a ... See full summary »
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Renato Pozzetto, Janet Agren, Désirée Nosbusch
Votes: 268
30. Sexy Cat (1973)
87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A Spanish television crew shooting a pilot for a show about the hit female comic-book character Sexy Cat finds itself stalked by a serial killer dressed as the character.
Director: Julio Pérez Tabernero | Stars: Germán Cobos, Dyanik Zurakowska, Lone Fleming, María Villa
Votes: 161
31. Judge Priest (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 2,521
32. The Abrafaxe: Under the Black Flag (2001)
TV-G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Three boys visit a museum and discover a golden bowl - part of a legendary Aztec treasure. While looking at the treasure they set off the secret of time traveling before they know it they ... See full summary »
Directors: Gerhard Hahn, Anthony Power | Stars: Kim Hasper, David Turba, Ilona Schulz, Nena
Votes: 285
33. That Certain Feeling (1956)
103 min | Comedy
Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan is hired as a ghost-writer by pompous client Larry Larkin who happens to be the fiancé of Dignan's ex-wife.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, Pearl Bailey
Votes: 419
34. The Girl Next Door (1953)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Dan Dailey, June Haver, Dennis Day, Billy Gray
Votes: 307
35. Dick Tracy Special (2010 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Warren Beatty, in character as Dick Tracy (1990), is interviewed by Leonard Maltin.
Directors: Warren Beatty, Chris Merrill | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leonard Maltin, Kevin Berntson, Steve Monroe
Votes: 165
36. Mr. Freedom (1968)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime
Mr. Freedom is an all-American superhero that destroys everyone who even remotely disagrees with imperialism. The film accounts his latest assignment to save France from being taken over by the commies.
Director: William Klein | Stars: John Abbey, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence, Jean-Claude Drouot
Votes: 1,260
37. Wishbone's Dog Days of the West (1998 TV Movie)
95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
In the dusty town of Chaparosa, Texas, one one knows how to tame the land better than Long Bill Longley and his best friend Tom Merwin. But, can our two heroes tame the resident bad guy, ... See full summary »
Directors: Rick Duffield, Caris Palm Turpen | Stars: Soccer the Dog, Larry Brantley, Brent Anderson, Sally Vahle
Votes: 132
38. The Killing Game (1967)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it... See full summary »
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claudine Auger, Michel Duchaussoy, Eléonore Hirt
Votes: 307
39. Bad Behaviour (1993)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The McAllister family home is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children, and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard ... See full summary »
Director: Les Blair | Stars: Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Philip Jackson, Clare Higgins
Votes: 227 | Gross: $0.26M
40. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 406
41. Releyendo Mafalda (2023)
23 min | Documentary, Animation
We'll take a different look at Mafalda, diving deep into her story to reveal how a comic strip from the 60's could get so relevant culturally and how and why impacted everyone's lives around the world.
Stars: Maitena, Claire Laxtague, Rep, Isabella Cosse
Votes: 99
42. Stripped (2014)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Comic strip artists discuss the state and future of the artform with the decline of the newspaper medium.
Directors: Dave Kellett, Frederick Schroeder | Stars: Lalo Alcaraz, Gene Ambaum, Bill Amend, Bill Barnes
Votes: 436
43. Frazetta: Painting with Fire (2003)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary
For over 50 years, Frank Frazetta dominated the art world with his images of fierce warriors, helpless princesses, and fantastical creatures set in the most lavish landscapes. His impact ... See full summary »
Director: Lance Laspina | Stars: Eleanor Frazetta, Frank Frazetta, Heidi Frazetta, Forrest J. Ackerman
Votes: 402
44. The Rebel (2016– )
40 min | Comedy
A comedy series adapted from the comic-strip of the same name appearing in "The Oldie" magazine. Simon Callow stars as rebellious pensioner Henry Palmer.
Stars: Simon Callow, Bill Paterson, Anita Dobson, Anna Crilly
Votes: 146
45. Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Levitz, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid
Votes: 1,328
46. Ziggy's Gift (1982 TV Short)
Unrated | 24 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Ziggy gets a job to be a street Santa on Christmas Eve from a crooked boss, but the magic of the season allows the lovable loser to do more good than anyone expects.
Director: Richard Williams | Stars: David Arias, Perry Botkin Jr., Katrina Fried, Natasha Tabori Fried
Votes: 369
47. Troldspejlet (1989– )
25 min | News
Jakob Stegelmann reviews upcoming movies, video and DVD releases, video games, comic books, and role-playing games.
Stars: Jakob Stegelmann, Tore Bahnson, Christopher Hedegaard Andersen, Anna Sofie Gjerluf Mikkelsen
Votes: 434
48. The Fantastic Funnies (1980 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Animation
Interviews and a behind the scenes look at famous comic strips.
Directors: Lee Mendelson, Rod Daniel, Bill Melendez, Phil Roman | Stars: Brad Anderson, Loni Anderson, Dik Browne, Keene Curtis
Votes: 22
49. Harold Teen (1934)
66 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Harold seems to flop at everything he tries: his schoolwork, his newspaper job--even his car is repossessed. It even looks like his girlfriend is losing interest in him, until a school ... See full summary »
Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Patricia Ellis, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 141
50. Radio Patrol (1937)
Passed | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: Grant Withers, Adrian Morris, Kay Hughes, Mickey Rentschler
Votes: 63