50's Movie Remakes
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1. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,991 | Gross: $13.78M
2. War of the Worlds (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Votes: 475,460 | Gross: $234.28M
3. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
Votes: 178,585 | Gross: $79.37M
4. Rear Window (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Modern remake of Rear Window in which the lead character is paralyzed and lives in a high-tech home filled with assistive technology.
Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Daryl Hannah, Robert Forster, Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Votes: 4,479
5. The Bad Seed (1985 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A freak fatal accident forces a widow to realize that her 9-year-old daughter was born to kill.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Carrie Wells
Votes: 534
6. The Bad Seed (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A father is forced to question everything he thought he knew about his daughter when he believes that she might have played a role in the tragic death of one of her classmates.
Director: Rob Lowe | Stars: Rob Lowe, Mckenna Grace, Sarah Dugdale, Marci T. House
Votes: 3,683
7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 69,905 | Gross: $24.95M
8. Body Snatchers (1993)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.
Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Terry Kinney, Reilly Murphy
Votes: 21,263 | Gross: $0.43M
9. The Invasion (I) (2007)
PG-13 | 99 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
As a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond
Votes: 82,707 | Gross: $15.07M
10. A Perfect Murder (1998)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wealthy Wall Street speculator discovers that his wife has a lover. He investigates him and uses the carrot and stick to make him murder his wife. Planned to detail, it seems like a perfect murder.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet
Votes: 92,255 | Gross: $67.64M
11. A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.
Director: James Dearden | Stars: Matt Dillon, Sean Young, James Bonfanti, Sarah Keller
Votes: 5,950 | Gross: $15.43M
12. 12 Angry Men (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 117 min | Crime, Drama
Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Ossie Davis
Votes: 17,084
13. We're No Angels (1989)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
Two fugitives pass themselves off as priests in the hope of evading capture and passing the police blockade at the border with Canada.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Hoyt Axton
Votes: 24,679 | Gross: $10.56M
14. The Fly (1986)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel
Votes: 202,040 | Gross: $40.46M
15. Separate Tables (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
The arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles; secrets, infatuations, and lies emerge.
Directors: John Schlesinger, Ken Price | Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Irene Worth
Votes: 220
16. The Diary of Anne Frank (1980 TV Movie)
109 min | Biography, Drama
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Joan Plowright, James Coco, Doris Roberts
Votes: 634
17. The Diary of Anne Frank (2009)
30 min | Biography, Drama, History
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Stars: Kate Ashfield, Geoffrey Breton, Ron Cook, Tim Dantay
Votes: 3,421
18. The Honeymooners (2005)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Working class New York bus driver Ralph Kramden is always coming up with get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, who's always around to help him get in (and out of) trouble.
Director: John Schultz | Stars: Cedric The Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall
Votes: 7,577 | Gross: $12.83M
19. Leave It to Beaver (1997)
PG | 84 min | Comedy, Family
Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, age 8, has misadventures and learns life lessons in this entertaining, hilarious tale of a small-town Ohio family and the daily trials of life.
Director: Andy Cadiff | Stars: Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik von Detten
Votes: 4,556 | Gross: $10.71M
20. Maverick (1994)
PG | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene
Votes: 119,108 | Gross: $101.63M
21. The Untouchables (1987)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 330,949 | Gross: $76.27M
22. Ben Hur (2010)
180 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Jewish prince seeks revenge after an old friend wrongly imprisons him and his family.
Stars: Joseph Morgan, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily VanCamp, Kristin Kreuk
Votes: 2,211
23. Ben-Hur (2016)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi
Votes: 46,870 | Gross: $26.41M
24. The Prince of Egypt (1998)
PG | 99 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Egyptian Prince Moses learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.
Directors: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells | Stars: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock
Votes: 146,481 | Gross: $101.22M
25. The Ten Commandments (2005–2006)
PG-13 | 167 min | Drama
A telling of the biblical tale, where Moses returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery.
Stars: Dougray Scott, Linus Roache, Naveen Andrews, Mía Maestro
Votes: 1,390
26. The Long Hot Summer (1985)
200 min | Drama, Romance
A loner arrives in a small town only to be condemned for the sins of his father.
Stars: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Judith Ivey, Cybill Shepherd
Votes: 971
27. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.
Director: Robert Moore | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Hedley, Robert Wagner
Votes: 351
28. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama
An alcoholic and femme fatale face troubles before a family reunion.
Director: Jack Hofsiss | Stars: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley
Votes: 591
29. A Streetcar Named Desire (1984 TV Movie)
119 min | Drama
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he knows was left to ... See full summary »
Director: John Erman | Stars: Ann-Margret, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid
Votes: 492
30. A Streetcar Named Desire (1995 TV Movie)
156 min | Drama
Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Jessica Lange) lives in New Orleans with her sister, Stella, and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Alec Baldwin).
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin, John Goodman, Diane Lane
Votes: 1,289
31. Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Musical
A contemporary, urban retelling of the classic story, Carmen: A Hip Hopera follows the life of a police sergeant whose world is turned upside down when an irresistible woman enters his life.
Director: Robert Townsend | Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Beyoncé, Yasiin Bey, Rah Digga
Votes: 1,556
32. Cinderella (I) (2015)
PG | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her scheming stepsisters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 190,825 | Gross: $201.15M
33. The King and I (1999)
G | 88 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Traveling to the exotic kingdom of Siam, English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens soon discovers that her most difficult challenge is the stubborn, imperious King himself.
Director: Richard Rich | Stars: Miranda Richardson, Martin Vidnovic, Christiane Noll, Ian Richardson
Votes: 4,309 | Gross: $11.96M
34. House on Haunted Hill (1999)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Director: William Malone | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher
Votes: 60,160 | Gross: $40.85M
35. House of Wax (2005)
R | 113 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of teens are unwittingly stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Chad Michael Murray, Paris Hilton, Elisha Cuthbert, Brian Van Holt
Votes: 134,059 | Gross: $32.06M
36. Creature from the Black Lagoon
79 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | Announced
A scientific expedition discovers a prehistoric amphibious creature.
37. 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Ben Foster, Logan Lerman
Votes: 331,196 | Gross: $53.61M
38. East of Eden (1981)
480 min | Drama
Screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel which begins in the years after the American Civil War and, through the story of the Trask family, brings to light a struggle and conflict inherent in the human condition.
Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour, Bruce Boxleitner, Soon-Tek Oh
Votes: 830
39. Sabrina (1995)
PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Nancy Marchand
Votes: 44,461 | Gross: $53.67M
40. Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family
With his wife on a book tour, Tom Baker finds his life turned upside down when he agrees to care for his twelve children while simultaneously also coaching his new football team.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Piper Perabo
Votes: 108,986 | Gross: $138.61M
41. Strangers (I)
Drama, Thriller | Announced
A murder plot hatched by two men who meet on a train is considered to be a joke by one of them, and a dangerously real plan by the other.
Director: David Fincher
42. Once You Kiss a Stranger... (1969)
M | 106 min | Thriller
A woman seduces a professional golfer, then offers to kill his opponent if the golfer will kill her psychiatrist, who wants her committed.
Director: Robert Sparr | Stars: Paul Burke, Carol Lynley, Martha Hyer, Peter Lind Hayes
Votes: 455
43. Father of the Bride (1991)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
With his oldest daughter's wedding approaching, a father finds himself reluctant to let go.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Votes: 84,292 | Gross: $89.33M
44. Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
George Banks must deal not only with his daughter's pregnancy, but also with his wife's.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Votes: 41,695 | Gross: $76.59M
45. I Want to Live (1983 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Lindsay Wagner, Martin Balsam, Pamela Reed, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 205
46. Ivanhoe (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 142 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Camfield | Stars: James Mason, Anthony Andrews, Sam Neill, Michael Hordern
Votes: 5,585
47. Ivanhoe (1997)
270 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After returning from the Third Crusade in the Holy Land, Ivanhoe discovers that England is under the rule of the corrupt Prince John.
Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Susan Lynch, Victoria Smurfit, Steven Waddington
Votes: 1,210
48. Night of the Hunter (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Thriller
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Diana Scarwid, Amy Bebout, Reid Binion
Votes: 344
49. Not of This Earth (1988)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask
Votes: 2,737 | Gross: $0.11M
50. Not of This Earth (1995 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
Director: Terence H. Winkless | Stars: Michael York, Parker Stevenson, Elizabeth Barondes, Richard Belzer
Votes: 492
51. The Shaggy Dog (1994 TV Movie)
96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Preteen Moochie Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Ron, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the shabby sheep dog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihill who secretly trained his pet to help him... See full summary »
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Sharon Lawrence, Jon Polito, James Cromwell
Votes: 399
52. The Shaggy Dog (2006)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.
Director: Brian Robbins | Stars: Tim Allen, Kristin Davis, Craig Kilborn, Zena Grey
Votes: 20,176 | Gross: $61.12M
53. The Ladykillers (2004)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a classical ensemble in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting but sharp old landlady.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall, J.K. Simmons
Votes: 108,943 | Gross: $39.80M
54. Picnic (2000 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance
The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but then she meets an interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Josh Brolin, Ben Caswell, JD Evermore
Votes: 253
55. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Unrated | 94 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
Stars: Treat Williams, Jeremy London, Tushka Bergen, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Votes: 2,802
56. Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Family
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Director: Eric Brevig | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Aníta Briem, Seth Meyers
Votes: 131,859 | Gross: $101.70M
57. Harvey (1996 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Harry Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Swoosie Kurtz, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 416
58. Desperate Hours (1990)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse
Votes: 8,445 | Gross: $2.74M
59. Diabolique (1996)
R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife and mistress of the sadistic dean of an exclusive prep school conspire to murder him.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates
Votes: 15,380 | Gross: $17.10M
60. D.O.A. (1988)
R | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time?
Directors: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling, Daniel Stern
Votes: 10,968 | Gross: $12.71M
61. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach
Votes: 102,592 | Gross: $4.91M
62. The Magnificent Seven (2016)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 228,319 | Gross: $93.43M
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