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1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 499,617
2. Billy Elliot (2000)
R | 110 min | Drama, Music
A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven
Votes: 142,963 | Gross: $22.00M
3. The Pagemaster (1994)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life.
Directors: Pixote Hunt, Joe Johnston | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Kanin Howell, Alexis Kirschner
Votes: 25,598 | Gross: $13.67M
4. The Station Agent (2003)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Benjamin
Votes: 73,488 | Gross: $5.74M
5. The Last American Virgin (1982)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pizza delivery boy Gary, loudmouth David and hunky Rick are three high school students out to lose their virginity any way they can. Gary falls for transfer student Karen, who gets involved with Rick.
Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo
Votes: 9,794 | Gross: $5.83M
6. UHF (1989)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
An unemployed visionary becomes the manager of a local television station. The station becomes a success, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor.
Director: Jay Levey | Stars: 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards
Votes: 31,556 | Gross: $6.16M
7. A Simple Plan (1998)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three blue-collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash and make a plan to keep their find from the authorities, but it isn't long before complications and mistrust weave their way into the plan.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe
Votes: 76,219 | Gross: $16.31M
8. Screwballs (1983)
R | 80 min | Comedy
Frolicking youth comedy about zany high school students set in the 1960s.
Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Peter Keleghan, Kent Deuters, Linda Speciale, Alan Deveau
Votes: 3,671 | Gross: $2.08M
9. Party Girl (1995)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 20-something, irresponsible party girl is bailed out of jail by her librarian godmother. To repay the loan, she starts working at the library and gradually turns her life around.
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Stars: Parker Posey, Omar Townsend, The Lady Bunny, Lum Chang Pang
Votes: 6,774 | Gross: $0.47M
10. Cry Wolf (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Julian Morris, Lindy Booth, Jared Padalecki, Erica Yates
Votes: 28,535 | Gross: $10.05M
11. The Double (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A retired CIA operative is paired with a young FBI agent to unravel the mystery of a senator's murder, with all signs pointing to a Soviet assassin.
Director: Michael Brandt | Stars: Richard Gere, Topher Grace, Martin Sheen, Tamer Hassan
Votes: 31,565
12. Teen Wolf Too (1987)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Todd Howard is a struggling college student. Nothing seems to be going very well for him, until he turns into a wolf.
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand
Votes: 12,464 | Gross: $7.89M
13. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 18,833
14. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
The next great killer and psychopath has given a documentary film crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the quiet town of Glen Echo.
Director: Scott Glosserman | Stars: Nathan Baesel, Angela Goethals, Zelda Rubinstein, Robert Englund
Votes: 25,469 | Gross: $0.07M
15. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
R | 90 min | Horror
Wilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner
Votes: 5,188 | Gross: $0.45M
16. Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Thriller
The story of a girl who is willing to do anything to become Valedictorian, even if it means murdering the teacher that stands in her way.
Director: Kevin Williamson | Stars: Helen Mirren, Marisa Coughlan, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor
Votes: 21,728 | Gross: $8.95M
17. This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman who dreams of becoming a children's book author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
Director: Simon Aboud | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 13,238 | Gross: $0.04M
18. The Pit (1981)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery
A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
Director: Lew Lehman | Stars: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth
Votes: 3,523
19. The Incubus (1981)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A small town's doctor takes matters into his own hands after a series of gruesome and bizarre rape crimes perplex the clueless authorities.
Director: John Hough | Stars: John Cassavetes, John Ireland, Kerrie Keane, Helen Hughes
Votes: 2,960
20. Goodbye, Columbus (1969)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An intelligent graduate and working-class Army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman who cares not for birth control or the use of any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin
Votes: 2,326 | Gross: $22.94M
21. Master (I) (2022)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Three women strive to find their place at an elite Northeastern university. When anonymous racist attacks target a Black freshman, who insists she is being haunted by ghosts, each woman must determine where the real menace lies.
Director: Mariama Diallo | Stars: Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Julia Nightingale, Talia Ryder
Votes: 5,931
22. Ode to Joy (I) (2019)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Charlie has a neurological disorder in which strong emotions, especially joy, make him faint. He lives with his brother. Working as librarian gives him a quiet environment, but then Francesca enters the library and his life.
Director: Jason Winer | Stars: Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Jake Lacy, Melissa Rauch
Votes: 6,733 | Gross: $0.02M
23. Clean, Shaven (1993)
Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family.
Director: Lodge Kerrigan | Stars: Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald
Votes: 6,034
24. From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror
In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.
Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar
Votes: 2,990 | Gross: $1.36M
25. Last Life in the Universe (2003)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A suicidal, obsessively compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to lie low in Thailand with a pot-smoking woman coping with the recent loss of her sister.
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Takashi Miike, Laila Boonyasak
Votes: 11,562 | Gross: $0.03M
26. The Naked Witch (1961)
M | 59 min | Horror
A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch rises from her grave nude and embarks on a campaign of seduction and murder against the descendants of her persecutors.
Directors: Claude Alexander, Larry Buchanan | Stars: Denis Adams, Charles West, Howard Ware, Jack Herman
Votes: 564
27. Wacko (1982)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy, Julia Duffy
Votes: 1,435
28. Death Defying Acts (2007)
PG | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him.
Director: Gillian Armstrong | Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan
Votes: 10,502 | Gross: $0.00M
29. Movie Movie (1978)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Eli Wallach
Votes: 1,282
30. Wetherby (1985)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Director: David Hare | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench, Marjorie Yates
Votes: 1,769 | Gross: $1.30M
31. Hysterical (1982)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror
A burned out writer retreats to a northwest town called Hellview to write the great American novel. Unfortunately for him, the lighthouse he is renting is inhabited by the spirit of a woman... See full summary »
Director: Chris Bearde | Stars: Bill Hudson, Mark Hudson, Brett Hudson, Cindy Pickett
Votes: 917
32. The Killing Kind (1973)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A young Terry Lambert returns home after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Luana Anders
Votes: 1,264
33. Elsewhere (2009)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.
Director: Nathan Hope | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Jon Gries, Tania Raymonde, Paul Wesley
Votes: 3,504
34. All the Queen's Men (2001)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Eddie Izzard, Matt LeBlanc, Udo Kier, James Cosmo
Votes: 2,731 | Gross: $0.02M
35. Borstal Boy (2000)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Director: Peter Sheridan | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $0.09M
36. The Attic (1980)
PG | 101 min | Horror, Thriller
A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at the altar. She fantasizes about causing deaths of the men who most wronged her and ... See full summary »
Directors: George Edwards, Gary Graver | Stars: Carrie Snodgress, Ray Milland, Ruth Cox, Rosemary Murphy
Votes: 869
37. Maxie (1985)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A 1920s flapper who haunts her old house possesses a reserved housewife who just moved in. However, she cannot leave before she receives her massive audition for a Hollywood studio.
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes
Votes: 1,178 | Gross: $2.56M
38. Ever After High: Way Too Wonderland (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
With the Storybook of Legends still in Wonderland, Raven attempts to teleport her friends there despite still getting the hand of her powers. Apple, Raven, Briar, Lizzie, Kitty and Maddie ... See full summary »
Directors: Mike Csunyoscka, Dan Fraga | Stars: Robbie Daymond, Jonquil Goode, Kate Higgins, Delaney Moline
Votes: 493
39. Cupid (1997)
R | 95 min | Horror, Thriller
A brother and sister with a past incestuous relationship have a current murderous relationship. He murders the women who reject him and she murders the women who get too close to him.
Director: Doug Campbell | Stars: Zach Galligan, Ashley Laurence, Mary Crosby, Joseph Kell
Votes: 417
40. Caged Men (1971)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
Elliot is a loser who robbed a bank and landed in jail after being setup by his girlfriend. As the new guy, Elliot is considered fresh meat and encounters inmates trying to make him their own at every turn.
Director: Ed Forsyth | Stars: Ross Stephenson, Maureen McGill, Jeremy Hart, Edward Blessington
Votes: 93
41. Only Two Can Play (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 1,418
42. Slow Learners (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
Jeff and Anne, two close friends and co-workers, are embarrassingly unlucky at love. They hatch a plan to transform themselves over the course of a sex-and-alcohol-fueled summer.
Directors: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce | Stars: Adam Pally, Megan Neuringer, Bobby Spears Jr., Peter Grosz
Votes: 2,867 | Gross: $0.02M
43. Salmonberries (1991)
R | 95 min | Drama
A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on it... See full summary »
Director: Percy Adlon | Stars: Rosel Zech, k.d. lang, Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, Eugene Omiak
Votes: 757 | Gross: $0.10M
44. We of the Never Never (1982)
G | 134 min | Biography, Drama
Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.
Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Votes: 470
45. December (1991)
PG | 92 min | Drama, War
Set in a New England prep school on the day after Pearl Harbor, five close friends must choose whether to stay in school or go to war. Their decisions shock themselves and each other as they must grow up faster than they ever imagined.
Director: Gabe Torres | Stars: Balthazar Getty, Jason London, Brian Krause, Wil Wheaton
Votes: 357
46. The Cursed (I) (2010)
88 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller
A supernatural thriller set in a cozy Tennessee town where Sheriff Jimmy Muldoon and younger brother, Deputy Lloyd Muldoon, have a firm grasp of law and order until a stranger, Denny White,... See full summary »
Director: Joel Bender | Stars: Louis Mandylor, Brad Thornton, Costas Mandylor, Francesca Cecil
Votes: 2,114
47. Blood Cult (1985 Video)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror
Female students on a college campus are being killed and their body parts used for blood sacrifices.
Director: Christopher Lewis | Stars: Juli Andelman, Charles Ellis, James Vance, Bennie Lee McGowan
Votes: 558
48. Fast Food Fast Women (2000)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Anna Thomson, Jamie Harris, Louise Lasser, Robert Modica
Votes: 2,147 | Gross: $0.19M
49. Mindkiller (1987)
R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A lonely library clerk stumbles across a manuscript that he uses to develop psychic powers, which make him irresistible to women. Soon, his powers get out of control, just as they start showing up in his friends.
Director: Michael Krueger | Stars: Joe McDonald, Wade Kelley, Shirley Ross, Kevin Hart
Votes: 299
50. Shadows in the Storm (1988)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.
Director: Terrell Tannen | Stars: Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell
Votes: 253