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1. The Color Purple (1985)

PG-13 | 154 min | Drama

A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery

Votes: 97,610 | Gross: $98.47M

2. Love, Rosie (2014)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, so they couldn't possibly be right for one another...or could they? When it comes to love, life and making the right choices, these two are their own worst enemies.

Director: Christian Ditter | Stars: Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Christian Cooke, Jaime Winstone

Votes: 156,011 | Gross: $0.02M

3. Persona (1966)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand

Votes: 131,261

4. Emily (2022)

R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History

"Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.

Director: Frances O'Connor | Stars: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead, Alexandra Dowling

Votes: 8,218

5. Invisible Life (2019)

R | 139 min | Drama

In 1950s Rio de Janeiro, two sisters live restricted lives with their conservative parents. After they are separated and forced to live apart, they take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.

Director: Karim Aïnouz | Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flávia Gusmão, António Fonseca

Votes: 9,702

6. The Beautiful Person (2008)

Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

Cute Junie starts at her cousin Matthias' high school and class after her mom's death. She meets his friends. The boys want to date her - even her handsome, young Italian teacher.

Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Esteban Carvajal-Alegria

Votes: 7,991

7. A Farewell to Arms (1932)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips

Votes: 6,843

8. Fedora (1978)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Romance

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer

Votes: 5,206 | Gross: $2.20M

9. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp

Votes: 6,178

10. Children of the Century (1999)

135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.

Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci

Votes: 2,022 | Gross: $0.05M

11. The Devil's Playground (1976)

107 min | Drama

Fred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate

Votes: 1,318

12. Safe in Hell (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray

Votes: 2,051

13. Destiny (1921)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg

Votes: 6,714 | Gross: $0.01M

14. Mädchen in Uniform (1931)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance

At an all-girls boarding school, Manuela falls in love with a teacher, to terrific consequences.

Directors: Leontine Sagan, Carl Froelich | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Emilia Unda, Hedy Krilla

Votes: 3,755

15. The Big Lift (1950)

Approved | 120 min | Drama, War

Experiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel

Votes: 1,736

16. Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1960)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Family

Taken in by distant members of his family after being orphaned, Toby Tyler runs away to join the circus.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, Bob Sweeney

Votes: 1,058

17. The Haunted Airman (2006 TV Movie)

R | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A wounded RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair, is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Julian Sands, Rachael Stirling, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Ainsleigh

Votes: 2,133

18. Mesmerized (1985)

PG | 94 min | Drama

An orphaned New Zealand girl married to an older, wealthy businessman learns to deal with his strange sexual desires.

Director: Michael Laughlin | Stars: Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Dan Shor

Votes: 1,022

19. Crisis (1950)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso

Votes: 1,929

20. Thérèse (2012)

110 min | Drama

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.

Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi

Votes: 3,905

21. I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, William Henry

Votes: 231

22. The Turn of the Screw (1999 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.

Director: Ben Bolt | Stars: Caroline Pegg, Jodhi May, Colin Firth, Pam Ferris

Votes: 1,009

23. Lucrèce Borgia (1953)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama, History

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrètè. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband ... See full summary »

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Martine Carol, Pedro Armendáriz, Valentine Tessier, Arnoldo Foà

Votes: 205

24. The Conquering Power (1921)

TV-G | 89 min | Drama, Romance

After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Rudolph Valentino, Eric Mayne, Ralph Lewis

Votes: 541

25. The Desperado (1954)

Approved | 80 min | Western

From 1870 to 1873, Texas suffered under the carpetbag administration of Reconstructionist Governor E. J. Davis (the name and the stated conditions were about the only things authentic in ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Wayne Morris, Jimmy Lydon, Beverly Garland, Rayford Barnes

Votes: 194

26. The Younger Generation (1929)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Lina Basquette, Ricardo Cortez, Rex Lease

Votes: 338

27. Husband Hunters (1927)

Passed | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two gold-diggers befriend a country girl who comes near being deceived by rich playboy but is saved by a girl whose life he ruined. Lettie finds happiness with poor but honest working man.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Mae Busch, Charles Delaney, Jean Arthur, Walter Hiers

Votes: 22

28. Madame Sans-Gêne (1941)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, History

The ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First;La Maréchale Lefèvre ,a former launderer who followed the emperor in many of his campaigns is the laughing stock ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Richebé | Stars: Arletty, Aimé Clariond, Maurice Escande, Henri Nassiet

Votes: 75

29. Lucrezia Borgia (1940)

76 min | Drama, History, Romance

A look at famous Lucrezia Borgia ,in the last part of her life,when she was duchess of Ferrara.

Director: Hans Hinrich | Stars: Isa Pola, Friedrich Benfer, Carlo Ninchi, Nerio Bernardi

Votes: 34

30. Stick It (2014)

5 min | Short, Romance, Sport

The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »

Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez

31. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Cheney Vase (1955)

TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at the museum.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Collinge, Darren McGavin, Carolyn Jones

Votes: 1,329

32. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: Three Letters from One Wife (1964)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

To help Rob, Millie sends raving pseudo fan letters praising Alan Brady for hosting a "brainy" documentary show on comedy that Rob wrote - only the show doesn't air, and the letters meant to help Rob could help him right out of his job.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 244

33. Maya (1967–1968)
Episode: Natira (1967)

60 min | Adventure

After escaping from the authorities with Maya's assistance, Terry and Raji travel to a small village in search of a relative of the tracker who worked with Terry's missing father. Although ... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Coleman | Stars: Jay North, Sajid Khan, I.S. Johar, Paidi Jairaj

Votes: 5

34. 12 O'Clock High (1964–1967)
Episode: The Slaughter Pen (1966)

60 min | Drama, War

With Allied bombing operations stymied by mysteriously improved German radar capabilities, Col. Gallagher becomes involved with a multi-national, multi-service commando mission aimed at ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Paul Burke, Frank Overton, Chris Robinson, Harry Guardino

Votes: 41

35. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2097 (2001)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Richard Platt | Stars: Kacey Ainsworth, Alex Ferns, Derek Martin, Laila Morse

36. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021– )
Episode: Episode #1.5 (2022)

TV-MA | Drama

In 1937, Ephraim is on death row. In 1923, Merkada intercepts mail sent to Gabriel and questions his business investment.

Director: Oded Davidoff | Stars: Shira Abarbanel, Michael Aloni, Yoalah Brinson, Itzik Cohen

Votes: 25

37. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.4521 (2012)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Rupert Such | Stars: Steve McFadden, Letitia Dean, Perry Fenwick, Danielle Harold

38. Outlander (2014– )
Episode: Useful Occupations and Deceptions (2016)

TV-MA | 56 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Claire finds an outlet for her skills at L'Hôpital des Anges treating the sick, while Jamie tries to derail the Jacobite Rebellion with the help of a pickpocket. Claire's new relationship ... See full summary »

Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Duncan Lacroix

Votes: 3,403

39. The Gilded Age (2022– )
Episode: Let the Tournament Begin (2022)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama

As Ada and Aurora rush to stop Marian from making a huge decision, Bertha and Mrs Astor's clash impacts all of New York society. Season finale.

Director: Michael Engler | Stars: Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton

Votes: 1,113