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1. Zapped! (1982)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A high school science nerd gains telekinetic powers after a laboratory accident and uses them for revenge upon bullies.
Director: Robert J. Rosenthal | Stars: Scott Baio, Willie Aames, Robert Mandan, Felice Schachter
Votes: 7,631 | Gross: $16.90M
2. Brazil (1985)
R | 132 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 211,364 | Gross: $9.93M
3. Somewhere in Time (1980)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright
Votes: 32,574 | Gross: $9.71M
4. Age of Consent (1969)
R | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glynn
Votes: 3,726
5. The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Sport
A college journalist infiltrates the campus' cheerleading squad to write an piece on female exploitation, but instead makes unlikely friendships and uncovers a conspiracy involving the football team's coach.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Jo Johnston, Cheryl Smith, Colleen Camp, Rosanne Katon
Votes: 1,295
6. Miracle Beach (1992)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A down-on-his luck beach bum asks a cute female genie to help him seduce the woman of his dreams only to realize that he might be looking in the wrong place.
Director: Skott Snider | Stars: Dean Cameron, Ami Dolenz, Felicity Waterman, Brian Perry
Votes: 1,918
7. Waking the Dead (2000)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Billy Crudup, Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll
Votes: 7,636 | Gross: $0.33M
8. Mannequin: On the Move (1991)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young department store intern falls in love with a female store mannequin who is really a peasant girl fallen under a thousand year spell. She comes to life whenever he removes the cursed necklace from her.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Kristy Swanson, William Ragsdale, Meshach Taylor, Terry Kiser
Votes: 6,883 | Gross: $3.75M
9. Skipped Parts (2000)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ungrounded young mother and her thoughtful teenage son are banished to a remote provincial town by her domineering father.
Director: Tamra Davis | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mischa Barton, Bug Hall
Votes: 3,682
10. Baby It's You (1983)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson
Votes: 2,157 | Gross: $1.87M
11. Liberty Heights (1999)
R | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Adrien Brody, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Ben Foster
Votes: 7,048 | Gross: $3.73M
12. Mystery Date (1991)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Tom's in love with the cute house sitter next door. He's too shy but his older brother visits and helps Tom with the first date. Things don't go as planned.
Director: Jonathan Wacks | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens
Votes: 3,355 | Gross: $6.17M
13. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,346
14. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.
Directors: Norman Taurog, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart
Votes: 2,608
15. Can It Be Love (1992)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Tim and David want to have fun during vacation so they join a private detective agency. Their first job is to find a delta girl who has inherited a fortune. But the job seems easier than it turned out to be...
Director: Peter Maris | Stars: Charles Klausmeyer, Richard Beaumont, Mary Ann Mixon, Jennifer Langdon
Votes: 198
16. Julie and Jack (2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A computer chip salesman dates a software designer in a virtual reality program.
Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Jenn Gotzon, Tippi Hedren, Justin Kunkle, Patsy van Ettinger
Votes: 733
17. Ted & Venus (1991)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ted Whitley is a poet who is stalking the woman of his dreams, Linda Turner. She was volunteering at a community resource project when he came in to find out about low cost housing.
Director: Bud Cort | Stars: Bud Cort, James Brolin, Kim Adams, Carol Kane
Votes: 318
18. Surrender Dorothy (1998)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lahn is a heroin addict who will do anything for his dose. He robs a dealer and bumps into Trevor, who works at a restaurant. He gives him shelter, but for that turns him into his slave, makes him dress in drag, and names him Dorothy.
Director: Kevin DiNovis | Stars: Peter Pryor, Kevin DiNovis, Jason Centeno, Elizabeth Banks
Votes: 398
19. Heavy Petting (2007)
R | 94 min | Comedy
When Charlie meets Daphne, he never expected that he would have to battle her dog to woo her. But something unexpected happens: he begins to fall in love with the dog, realizing he never really needed a girlfriend in the first place.
Director: Marcel Sarmiento | Stars: Malin Akerman, Brendan Hines, Mike Doyle, Juan Carlos Hernández
Votes: 1,134
20. Dream Trap (1990)
90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
This boisterous comedy, set against the backdrop of college life, proves that every fantasy has a catch.
Directors: Tom Logan, Hugh Parks | Stars: Kristy Swanson, Sasha Jenson, Jeanie Moore, Michael T. Kelly
Votes: 312
21. Wishful Thinking (I) (1990)
94 min | Comedy
A screenwriter rescues a gnome. When the gnome tells him he will grant him a wish, he uses it to get the girl of his dreams.
Director: Murray Langston | Stars: Murray Langston, Michelle Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Billy Barty
Votes: 48
22. My Man Adam (1985)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A pizza delivery lad, who fantasises about his dream girl and what heroic deed he can perform to make her notice him, gets involved in a murder.
Director: Roger L. Simon | Stars: Raphael Sbarge, Page Hannah, Veronica Cartwright, Larry B. Scott
Votes: 180 | Gross: $0.09M
23. Miss Right (1982)
R | 87 min | Comedy
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome, Italy, must dump his numerous female lovers one by one, but not all of them take it well.
Director: Paul Williams | Stars: William Tepper, Margot Kidder, Karen Black, Virna Lisi
Votes: 110
24. The Love Goddesses (1965)
87 min | Documentary
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry changed its depiction of sex and actresses' ... See full summary »
Director: Saul J. Turell | Stars: Carl King, Agnes Ayres, Theda Bara, Brigitte Bardot
Votes: 724
25. Me Two (2008)
84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Ranu, a shy accountant, suddenly discovers a completely opposite personality living in his head: 80's singer Gilles Gabriel.
Directors: Nicolas Charlet, Bruno Lavaine | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Alain Chabat, Marina Foïs, François Damiens
Votes: 1,103
26. There Goes the Bride (1980)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
A nervous ad executive (Tom Smothers) creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl (Twiggy) he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.
Director: Terry Marcel | Stars: Tom Smothers, Twiggy, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Syms
Votes: 152
27. Fate (1990)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy, Romance
Writer Jake Blackburn and his model girlfriend Chelly, are a new-age couple living together in Los Angeles. When Chelly's tragic past begins to catch up with her, she and Jake will need ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Paul | Stars: Stuart Paul, Cheryl M. Lynn, Yehuda Barkan, Kaye Ballard
Votes: 68
28. The 'Imp'probable Mr. Wee Gee (1966)
75 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Famed crime photographer Arthur Fellig, nicknamed Mr. Wee Gee, stars as himself in this pseudo-documentary that begins when he falls in love with a store window dummy and tracks "her" to ... See full summary »
Director: Sherman Price | Stars: Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig, Ray Christian, Monica Davis, Hella Grondahl
Votes: 29
29. Daymaker (2007)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
A day of non-coincidental coincidences and revelations in the lives of about twenty people; normal people with drug and relationship problems despite their intelligence and awareness. Today... See full summary »
Director: Joe LiTrenta | Stars: Michael Nathanson, Cristina Marie Proctor, Myla Pitt, Alexander Hayes
Votes: 457
30. Madison Class of '64 (2006)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Features the coming of age of classmate teenagers on their last night before college. Those boys and girls are scheduled to leave Madison High School. That night, each has his own doubts ... See full summary »
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Alba Madriles, Jaume Madaula, Gara Roda, Gerard Ballester
Votes: 23