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1. Aquaman (2006 TV Movie)

42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe underwater.

Director: Greg Beeman | Stars: Justin Hartley, Lou Diamond Phillips, Denise Quiñones, Rick Peters

Votes: 2,253

2. L.A. Takedown (1989 TV Movie)

97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Tough Los Angeles cop Vincent Hanna takes on a gang of professional bank robbers led by the precise, enigmatic Patrick McLaren.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Scott Plank, Alex McArthur, Michael Rooker, Ely Pouget

Votes: 2,581

3. Bates Motel (1987 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum, inherits the legendary Bates Motel after the death of Norman and tries to fix it up to make it a respectable business.

Director: Richard Rothstein | Stars: Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn, Gregg Henry

Votes: 1,777

4. Unaired Game of Thrones Prequel Pilot (2019 TV Movie)

Fantasy

Plot unknown. Prequel to 'Game of Thrones' set 5,000 years before the events depicted in the series, centering on an unconstructed era in a land divided into a hundred kingdoms.

Director: S.J. Clarkson | Stars: Naomi Watts, Alex Sharp, Jamie Campbell Bower, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 149

5. The IT Crowd (2006 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy

Follows the story of two computer geeks who work in the I.T. department of a major company, and their female supervisor who's actually a grifter.

Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Rocky Carroll, Shea Curry, Jessica St. Clair, Joel McHale

Votes: 2,064

6. Blackjack (1998 TV Movie)

R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Dolph Lundgren plays Jack Devlin, a U.S Marshal who protects high-profile clients when it comes to a matter of security.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip MacKenzie, Kam Heskin

Votes: 4,531

7. Zombieland (2013 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 28 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Four survivors are killin' zombies and searching for a place to call home. At least they have each other.

Director: Eli Craig | Stars: Kirk Ward, Tyler Ross, Maiara Walsh, Izabela Vidovic

Votes: 8,198

8. The Ranch (2004 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

They're young, beautiful and every man's fantasy. Join the women of Diamond Ranch as they release unbridled passions in this seductive and unflinching look behind the doors of a private club that's based on a real-life brothel.

Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Jennifer Aspen, Jessica Collins, Samantha Ferris, Nicki Micheaux

Votes: 685

9. Locke & Key (2011 TV Movie)

48 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

An adventure story centered around three children who become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.

Director: Mark Romanek | Stars: Sarah Bolger, Mark Pellegrino, Miranda Otto, Nick Stahl

Votes: 8,657

10. The Brotherhood of Justice (1986 TV Movie)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, and Billy Zane star as high-school students who start a vigilante group to combat crime in their neighborhood.

Director: Charles Braverman | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Kiefer Sutherland, Lori Loughlin, Joe Spano

Votes: 2,363

11. Mockingbird Lane (2012 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 40 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vampiress. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Portia de Rossi, Charity Wakefield, Mason Cook

Votes: 4,335

12. Delirium (2014 TV Movie)

52 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable: she falls in love.

Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Emma Roberts, Billy Campbell, Corey Reynolds, Erin Cahill

Votes: 2,005

13. Heat Vision and Jack (1999 TV Movie)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Astronaut on the run with special powers and his talking motorcycle must deal with a malevolent artificial life form that's possessing people and turning them into dust, as well as NASA's hitman and real life actor Ron Silver.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Ron Silver, Christine Taylor

Votes: 1,784

14. Red Dwarf (1992 TV Movie)

26 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The adventures of the last human on earth, an evolved cat, a hologram and a senile computer stuck three million years in deep space.

Director: Jeff Melman | Stars: Craig Bierko, Chris Eigeman, Jane Leeves, Hinton Battle

Votes: 964

15. Korgoth of Barbaria (2006 TV Short)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Short, Action

Unsold TV pilot and a dark, violent and gory sword and sorcery spoof set in a postapocalyptic new dark age about a Conan-like barbarian warrior hired to steal a golden goblin from a dangerous wizard who lives in a tower in the sky.

Directors: Aaron Springer, Genndy Tartakovsky | Stars: Diedrich Bader, Corey Burton, John DiMaggio, Tom Kenny

Votes: 3,749

16. Alive (TV Movie)

Drama | Completed

It centers on a San Francisco homicide detective who's mysteriously brought back to life after being killed in the line of duty.

Stars: Katrina Law, Ryan Phillippe, Ken Leung, Mageina Tovah

17. The Questor Tapes (1974 TV Movie)

96 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Project Questor is the brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik, who developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he has disappeared and half of the programming tape was erased in... See full summary »

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Lew Ayres

Votes: 846

18. Dark Shadows (2005 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Horror

In this unaired pilot, Victoria Winters arrives at Collinwood on Halloween night. What better way to celebrate than to wake a family member who has been asleep for 200 years? Attempted reboot of this horror classic.

Director: P.J. Hogan | Stars: Alec Newman, Marley Shelton, Jessica Chastain, Alexander Gould

Votes: 187

19. Genesis II (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodrigues

Votes: 1,124

20. Pretty/Handsome (2008 TV Movie)

67 min | Drama

A married father of two tells his wife and teenage sons that he is transsexual.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Carrie-Anne Moss, Blythe Danner, Robert Wagner

Votes: 455

21. Get Christie Love (2018 TV Movie)

Drama

An attractive and charismatic CIA agent with the ability to adapt to different situations leads an elite ops unit. An updated version of the 1970s TV show.

Stars: Lisseth Chavez, Steven Weber, Camille Guaty, Kylie Bunbury

Votes: 45

22. Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World (1987 TV Movie)

25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Rock sensation Barbie and her band The Rockers, beloved by everyone all around the world, decide to do something no band has ever done before - preform a charity rock concert in outer space.

Director: Bernard Deyriès | Stars: Sharon Lewis, Debbie Lick, Viktoria Langton, Veena Sood

Votes: 395

23. K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend (1981 TV Movie)

50 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

One time companion of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith returns to Earth and carries on with her journalist career. Now, in 1981, she has managed to rebuild her career and has come, a matter of ... See full summary »

Director: John Black | Stars: Elisabeth Sladen, John Leeson, Bill Fraser, Ian Sears

Votes: 670

24. The Sixth Gun (2013 TV Movie)

60 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Failed pilot adaptation of an eponymous comic book set in the old west about six cursed guns that give dark powers and are tied to its owners until their deaths. A heroine and an antihero are after the sixth gun that grants visions.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Michiel Huisman, Graham McTavish, James Le Gros

Votes: 58

25. Semper Fi (2001 TV Movie)

120 min | Action, Drama

Cliff Truckee refuses a privileged start in life at a top college while other young men are enlisting. On the bus out of Chicago he meets a girl on her way to join the Marines, falls in ... See full summary »

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Scott Bairstow, Steve Burton, Vicellous Shannon, Alex Burns

Votes: 483

26. Once Upon a Spy (1980 TV Movie)

91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Ted Danson plays a computer genius who gets involved in the theft of an important N.A.S.A. computer, then thrust into the world of espionage with Sir Christopher Lee.

Director: Ivan Nagy | Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Louise Weller, Christopher Lee, Eleanor Parker

Votes: 290

27. Life Interrupted (2017 TV Movie)

Comedy

Mason Bell lives in the East Village of NYC in a studio apartment over a bar he owns with his ex-wife who is now married to another woman. His mother-in-law is his landlady. Mason's feels the walls closing in.

Director: Steven Wishnoff | Stars: Mason Reese, Alison Arngrim, Dawn Wells, Erin Murphy

Votes: 33

28. Avalon (2022 TV Movie)

Drama

A sheriff detective in the small town of Avalon on Catalina Island is drawn into a career-defining mystery.

Director: Kate Dennis | Stars: Neve Campbell, Alexa Mansour, Steven Pasquale, Demetrius Grosse

29. Kook's Tour (1970)

Not Rated | 53 min | Comedy, Family

After nearly 50 years of eye-poking and face-slapping, the Stooges decide to retire and tour the world with their dog, Moose. They start by touring America's national parks, however, with ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Maurer | Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Norman Maurer

Votes: 239

30. This Is How the World Ends (2000 TV Movie)

45 min | Comedy, Drama

This Is How The World Ends was a TV Pilot episode for a series that was to be presented on MTV.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Alan Simpson, Michael J. Anderson, Lucas Babin, Molly Brenner

Votes: 409

31. Everyday People (2004)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery.

Director: Jim McKay | Stars: Nathan De'Shon Myers, Jordan Gelber, Bridget Barkan, Stephen McKinley Henderson

Votes: 1,307

32. The Fog of Courage (2014)

TV-Y7 | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Proposed CGI pilot for a revival of Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999) show. Courage unearths a cursed amulet which unleashes the furious spirit of a dead man who wants it back in order to be reunited with his lost love once again.

Director: John Dilworth | Stars: Wallace Shawn, Marty Grabstein, Thea White, Paul Schoeffler

Votes: 296

33. The Omen (1995 TV Movie)

45 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Epidemiologist Dr. Linus, A.P. photojournalist Jack Mann and E.R. nurse Annalisse try to stop a demonic entity that's possessing people from unleashing a biological weapon during the Saint Patrick's Day parade.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Brett Cullen, Chelsea Field, William Sadler, Norman Lloyd

Votes: 165

34. What's Alan Watching? (1989 TV Special)

60 min | Comedy

Seventeen-year-old Alan is a couch potato who views life, and his family, as if they were on television. Libby and Leo are his parents, Gail is his sister (who's engaged to Lenny Kling the ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Corin Nemec, Barbara Barrie, Peter Michael Goetz, Fran Drescher

Votes: 129

35. Reckless (2013 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama

Centers on a resourceful problem solver who, when his wife is unjustly imprisoned during a political uprising overseas, resorts to entering a world of political intrigue, dangerous ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Stephen Lang, Patrick Fugit, Ernie Hudson, Parminder Nagra

Votes: 40

36. Space Police (1986 TV Movie)

52 min | Action, Crime, Family

A New York cop is put in charge of a space police precinct and charged with the duty of protecting alien worlds from the evils of organised crime.

Director: Tony Bell | Stars: Shane Rimmer, Catherine Chevalier, Desirée Erasmus, Jeff Harding

Votes: 54

37. This Girl for Hire (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Mystery

A private investigator (Bess Armstrong) is hired to protect a mystery writer, but when the writer is murdered, her suspects include a former agent, lover, and chauffeur.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Bess Armstrong, Celeste Holm, Cliff De Young, Hermione Baddeley

Votes: 169

38. Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions (1991 TV Short)

6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Nightmarish pilot about Robert Potemkin, a man with deformed back, who lives in the attic of his family's house. One night, his siamese sisters plan a prank on him, but sentient lizards send him to a parallel world to save photo-people.

Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Hannah Sim, Mark Steger

Votes: 288

39. Barbie and the Sensations: Rockin' Back to Earth (1987 Video)

22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

In this sequel to Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World (1987) (TV), worldwide rock sensation Barbie and her band return from space only to end up in 1950s America. Their music knocks the socks off everyone there as well.

Director: Bernard Deyriès | Stars: Sharon Lewis, John Stocker, John Payne, Veena Sood

Votes: 89

40. Alien Tracker (2003 Video)

PG-13 | 103 min | Sci-Fi

In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's one place to go: through a wormhole ... See full summary »

Directors: Ken Girotti, Bruce Pittman | Stars: Adrian Paul, Amy Price-Francis, Leanne Wilson, Geraint Wyn Davies

Votes: 188

41. Arwin! (2007 TV Movie)

22 min | Comedy, Family

Centers on the character of Arwin the handyman, who moves in with his sister to take care of her kids.

Director: Richard Correll | Stars: Chad Broskey, Samantha Droke, Selena Gomez, Logan Grove

Votes: 153

42. Island Sons (1987 TV Movie)

100 min | Crime, Drama

A successful businessman in Hawaii disappears amid allegations of illegal activities. Years later his four sons bear the burden and repercussions of these allegations as well taking care of... See full summary »

Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Henry Bal, Ben Bottoms, Joseph Bottoms, Sam Bottoms

Votes: 18

43. Back to Norm (2005 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

A series of comedy sketches featuring comedian Norm Macdonald, including a Jihadist negotiating for 72 virgins with Rob Schneider.

Directors: Michael Dimich, Bruce McCulloch | Stars: Norm MacDonald, Rob Schneider, John Farley, Kevin P. Farley

Votes: 172

44. Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (2003)

TV-PG | 90 min | Animation, Sci-Fi

The Doctor, a time-travelling alien explorer, is sent by his people, the Time Lords, to liberate a small town in England from the tyrannical rule of a race of alien lava creatures called ... See full summary »

Stars: Richard E. Grant, Sophie Okonedo, Derek Jacobi, Diana Quick

Votes: 443

45. Mamma Dallas (2016 TV Movie)

Comedy

A Texas couple hire a drag queen as their live-in nanny.

Director: Mike White | Stars: Augustus Prew, Mike White, Nico Tortorella, Talitha Eliana Bateman

Votes: 23

46. The Witches of Eastwick (1992 TV Movie)

30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man". One day, their wish comes true when a seemingly perfect man named... See full summary »

Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Julia Campbell, Catherine Mary Stewart, Ally Walker, Michael Siberry

Votes: 66

47. The Chadwick Family (1974 TV Movie)

113 min | Drama

A father finds himself taking care of a "family" that in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Kathleen Maguire, Darleen Carr, Jane Actman

Votes: 49

48. The Underworld (1997 TV Movie)

86 min | Crime, Drama

The head of an organized crime family hounds an ex-con who only wants to go straight.

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Kevin Pollak, Josh Charles, Felicity Huffman, Geoffrey Lewis

Votes: 80

49. Taste (2004 TV Movie)

Comedy

A fresh culinary graduate gets a first job.

Director: Andy Cadiff | Stars: Lombardo Boyar, Lola Glaudini, Jane Krakowski, Alexander Leeb

Votes: 24

50. Beane's of Boston (1979 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

To keep from being fired by his uncle, Franklin Beane has a bright idea for a theme week for the Men's and Ladies' Wear department of Beane's of Boston department store.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: John Hillerman, Charlotte Rae, Alan Sues, George O'Hanlon Jr.

Votes: 47