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1. The Favourite (2018)

R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult

Votes: 233,403 | Gross: $34.37M

2. A Simple Favor (2018)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells

Votes: 162,599 | Gross: $53.55M

3. Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month.

Director: Steve Rash | Stars: Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Tina Caspary

Votes: 41,979 | Gross: $31.62M

4. Jerry Maguire (1996)

R | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston

Votes: 287,005 | Gross: $153.95M

5. The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.

Director: Dan O'Bannon | Stars: Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews

Votes: 68,897 | Gross: $14.24M

6. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean

Votes: 160,232 | Gross: $49.53M

7. Maid in Manhattan (2002)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite, when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 96,185 | Gross: $94.01M

8. Pay It Forward (2000)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama

A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Jay Mohr

Votes: 123,884 | Gross: $33.52M

9. Support the Girls (2018)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith in her girls, her customers and herself tested over the course of a long, strange day.

Director: Andrew Bujalski | Stars: Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham

Votes: 8,313 | Gross: $0.13M

10. The Yakuza (1974)

R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Drama

American private-eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the clutches of the Yakuza.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Eiji Okada, Herb Edelman

Votes: 10,445

11. Seeking Justice (2011)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Harold Perrineau

Votes: 47,990 | Gross: $0.04M

12. Stingray (1986–1987)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

"Ray", a man of mystery, gets people out of trouble, asking for favors in return.

Stars: Nick Mancuso, James Handy, Barbara Williams, William S. Taylor

Votes: 922

13. Firepower (1979)

R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A merc is hired by the F.B.I. to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Sophia Loren, James Coburn, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach

Votes: 1,134

14. The Naughty Room (2012)

Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama

Child abuse, drug abuse, adolescent masturbation, self pity, heartache, redemption and how to dispose of a soiled sock if you happen to be locked inside of a bathroom.

Director: Cosmo Jarvis | Stars: David Egan, Cosmo Jarvis, Tom Hannaford, Anita Scrivener

Votes: 311

15. A Company Man (2012)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a change of heart moves a well-trained hitman to tender his resignation to his employers, no good comes of it for anyone.

Directors: Sang-yoon Lim, Im Sang Yoon | Stars: So Ji-seob, Lee Mi-yeon, Kwak Do-won, Kim Dong-jun

Votes: 6,462

16. Ridicule (1996)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, History

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche

Votes: 8,182 | Gross: $2.50M

17. Trading Favors (1997)

R | 103 min | Crime, Drama

Alex, a seductive woman with a violent boyfriend steals a car and entices a teenager boy Lincoln to join her in robbery and more.

Director: Sondra Locke | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, George Dzundza, Devon Gummersall, Julie Ariola

Votes: 439

18. Mughal-E-Azam (1960)

Not Rated | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War

A 16th century prince falls in love with a court dancer and battles with his emperor father.

Director: K. Asif | Stars: Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar, Durga Khote

Votes: 8,826 | Gross: $0.16M

19. Mamaboy (2016)

PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A high school student must hide the fact that he has become pregnant from his family, friends and the school faculty!

Director: Aaron Leong | Stars: Gary Busey, Stephen Tobolowsky, Alexandria DeBerry, Dylan Riley Snyder

Votes: 306

20. Mafioso (1962)

Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio

Votes: 2,966 | Gross: $0.40M

21. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)

122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.

Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni

Votes: 3,053

22. Hello, She Lied (1996 TV Movie)

R | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A woman uses her smarts, charm and beauty as part of a scheme to settle her long-lost brother's debt that a sleazy lawyer wants settled right now.

Director: Lawrence Lanoff | Stars: Kathy Ireland, John Enos III, Audie England, Richard C. Sarafian

Votes: 218

23. Tehran Taboo (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Animation, Drama

In their desperate search for freedom and happiness, four young people from Tehran, Iran are forced to break the taboos of a restrictive, islamic society.

Director: Ali Soozandeh | Stars: Jasmina Ali, Hasan Ali Mete, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Milinko Ametovic Beganovic

Votes: 4,978 | Gross: $0.07M

24. Stingray (1985 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Mystery

A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known ... See full summary »

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Susan Blakely, Robyn Douglass, Gregory Sierra

Votes: 234

25. A Matter of Dignity (1958)

112 min | Drama

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.

Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Ellie Lambeti, Athena Michaelidou, Eleni Zafeiriou, Giorgos Pappas

Votes: 689

26. The Politician's Wife (1995)

185 min | Drama

A woman's life is turned upside down when it is revealed that her husband, a member of the British Parliament, has been having an affair with a former prostitute.

Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Anton Lesser, Trevor Eve, Frederick Treves

Votes: 552

27. The Bodyguard (1944)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Spike the bulldog, grateful to Jerry for getting him out of the dogcatcher's van, offers to help the little mouse any time he whistles. Tom, Jerry's feline tormentor, seeks to overcome this new disadvantage.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Billy Bletcher, William Hanna, Harry Lang

Votes: 1,444

28. Lupin the Third: The Legend of Twilight Gemini (1996 TV Movie)

Unrated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Animation

Lupin comes into the possession of half a diamond containing half a map, and goes in search of the other half so that he can obtain the map's treasure.

Director: Gisaburô Sugii | Stars: Kan'ichi Kurita, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Eiko Masuyama, Makio Inoue

Votes: 519

29. Mr. Thank You (1936)

76 min | Comedy, Drama

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka, Michiko Kuwano

Votes: 1,274

30. Looking for Hortense (2012)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

A wife pressures her husband to solicit work papers from his civil servant father.

Director: Pascal Bonitzer | Stars: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Kristin Scott Thomas, Marin Orcand Tourrès

Votes: 943

31. Apo pou pane gia ti havouza (1978)

94 min | Comedy

A tanker driver, works hard to study his sister. He believes that this will restore her and then he could finally marry. His efforts are becoming futile as it is confronted with a corrupt bourgeois regime and the political situation.

Director: Thodoros Maragos | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Anna Vagena, Takis Miliadis, Anna Matzourani

Votes: 162

32. Guru, the Mad Monk (1970)

62 min | Horror

A deranged 15th Century prison colony chaplain exploits his power to get money for his church including murder and grave robbing committed by his vampire mistress and one-eyed hunchback assistant.

Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Neil Flanagan, Jaqueline Webb, Judith Israel, Jack Spencer

Votes: 671

33. Really Rosie (1975 TV Movie)

27 min | Animation, Family, Musical

Rosie entertains the neighborhood kids, by telling an exaggerated movie version of her life.

Director: Maurice Sendak | Stars: Carole King, Dale Soules, Alice Playten, Baillie Gerstein

Votes: 172

34. Chocolate (1980)

Drama

Two adolescent drug dealers smuggle marijuana from Morocco and start selling it in Madrid. Reinvesting profits in harder drugs, their criminal activities escalate as one becomes a heroin addict. Relationships strained amid the turmoil.

Director: Gil Carretero | Stars: Manuel de Benito, Ángel Alcázar, Paloma Gil, Agustín González

Votes: 58

35. Thicker Than Water (1935)

Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short

After an endless cycle of dish washing, Ollie makes a withdrawal, ending up in the hospital after buying a grandfather clock. Only a generous blood transfusion can help him bounce back; however, is modern medicine prepared for the outcome?

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Daphne Pollard, James Finlayson

Votes: 1,580

36. Hard Knuckle (1988 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport

In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Australia, the most popular sport is Hard Knuckle, a bloodier form of pool. Steve Bisley (Goose from Mad Max) is Harry, a pool hustler, who wants to beat Knuckle champ Top Dog, to get his bike back.

Director: Lex Marinos | Stars: Steve Bisley, Gary Day, David Jay, Richard Moir

Votes: 45

37. Fit to Be Tied (1952)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Jerry removes a tack from Spike's paw. In gratitude, Spike gives Jerry a bell to ring when he's in trouble. Soon, Tom is acting as Jerry's servant. But then the city passes a leash law, and... See full summary »

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Daws Butler, William Hanna, Bob Shamrock

Votes: 991

38. Enas ippotis gia ti Vasoula (1968)

94 min | Comedy, Musical

Vasoula stays under the same roof and works for an old and rich lady as a secretary and companion. One day the old lady leaves for a trip and a girlfiend of Vasoula brings her boyfriend at home... Then the trouble begins..

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Faidon Georgitsis, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Giorgos Mihalakopoulos

Votes: 514

39. The Bloody Vampire (1962)

110 min | Horror

Count Cagliostro, whose family has tried for generations to rid the world of vampires, instructs his daughter and her fiance to protect several valuable documents.

Director: Miguel Morayta | Stars: Begoña Palacios, Erna Martha Bauman, Raúl Farell, Bertha Moss

Votes: 265

40. Androcles and the Lion (1967 TV Movie)

150 min | Musical

The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.

Director: Joe Layton | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Noël Coward, Ed Ames, Brian Bedford

Votes: 25

41. Roda, tsanta & kopana no 3 (1984)

94 min | Comedy

Bilias and his band of misfits who have finally graduated, decide to retake the final year to finish school without fear or favour, much to the dismay of their poor instructors.

Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Mimis Fotopoulos, Giannis Gionakis, Nikos Rizos, Giannis Vogiatzis

Votes: 348

42. Leghorn Swoggled (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Henery Hawk does favors for different denizens of the barnyard in order to catch Foghorn Leghorn.

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 333

43. I Do (1921)

Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Comedy

Comic adventures of newlyweds and children.

Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Jack Morgan

Votes: 831

44. I komissa tis fabrikas (1969)

88 min | Comedy, Romance

A beautiful young woman is arrested by a wonderful policeman, due to her effort to steal letters from a gigolo's house.

Director: Dimis Dadiras | Stars: Anna Fonsou, Stefanos Linaios, Nikos Rizos, Marika Krevata

Votes: 150

45. Sotiris o Krokodeilakias (1987 Video)

70 min | Comedy

Bored to death working as a living mannequin, a down-on-his-luck man who juggles two jobs, strikes up an acquaintance with a sad eleven-year-old Karate ace who yearns for attention and a father figure. Is he the perfect friend?

Director: Antonis Tempos | Stars: Sotiris Moustakas, Errikos Briollas, Chris Sfetas, Erika Broyer

Votes: 12

46. To ergostasio (1981)

101 min | Drama

In high hopes of getting a loan to update his antiquated machinery, a financially hard-pressed owner of an old tannery turns to a well-to-do migrant who wants to marry his young daughter. Could he be the solution to the family's problems?

Director: Tasos Psarras | Stars: Vasilis Kolovos, Vana Fitsori, Dimitra Hatoupi, Dimitris Spyrou

Votes: 90

47. Pinkadilly Circus (1968)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A little, pointy-nosed playboy coming out of a nightclub does a good deed for the Pink Panther by pulling a nail out of the panther's foot, and the grateful panther becomes slave to the ... See full summary »

Director: Hawley Pratt

Votes: 199

48. The Debt of Maximillian (2019)

83 min | Drama, Thriller

Max is a family man who's addiction begins to pull him under. His younger brother may be his only hope, but luck plays a wicked game.

Director: Saxon Moen | Stars: Travis Lee Eller, Mark Valeriano, Angelica Briones, Kate Prendergast

49. Gia mia houfta touristries (1971)

80 min | Comedy

In search of the perfect location to start a camping business, a lovely investor visits a sun-kissed Greek island, only to get caught in the middle of a long-standing feud between two antagonistic villages. Can they let bygones be bygones?

Director: Errikos Thalassinos | Stars: Alekos Alexandrakis, Ketty Papanika, Katerina Gioulaki, Sotiris Moustakas

Votes: 71

50. Peekers (2008)

8 min | Short, Horror

Is it just a hunch, or is there something weird going on with the next-door neighbours?

Director: Mark Steensland | Stars: Mike Lechner, Albert Braun, June Braun, Brian Sheridan

Votes: 221