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1. Mr Bates vs. The Post Office (2024)

53 min | Biography, Drama

One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

Stars: Toby Jones, Monica Dolan, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Will Mellor

Votes: 10,629

2. Men in Black II (2002)

PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Agent J is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from K's past.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle

Votes: 404,028 | Gross: $190.42M

3. The Shack (I) (2017)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama, Fantasy

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called "The Shack."

Director: Stuart Hazeldine | Stars: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell

Votes: 39,223 | Gross: $57.39M

4. Loving Vincent (2017)

PG-13 | 94 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Directors: DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman | Stars: Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory

Votes: 63,715 | Gross: $6.74M

5. Fatman (2020)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.

Directors: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms | Stars: Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield

Votes: 30,170

6. Shirley (2020)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman

Votes: 13,346

7. Going Postal (2010)

TV-14 | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A con artist is conned into taking the job as Postmaster General in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office.

Stars: Richard Coyle, Charles Dance, David Suchet, Claire Foy

Votes: 9,796

8. Swades (2004)

Not Rated | 189 min | Drama, Musical

A successful Indian scientist returns to an Indian village to take his nanny to America with him and in the process rediscovers his roots.

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Ballal, Smith Seth

Votes: 98,579 | Gross: $1.22M

9. Welcome to the Sticks (2008)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance

A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the firm intent to quickly come back.

Director: Dany Boon | Stars: Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret

Votes: 44,994 | Gross: $1.48M

10. Summer Magic (1963)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A Bostonian widow moves with her kids to the country.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Burl Ives, Deborah Walley

Votes: 2,731

11. We're No Angels (1955)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Three Devil's Island escapees hide out in the house of a kindly merchant and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett

Votes: 10,777

12. Dear Heart (1964)

Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Family

Bubbly, middle-aged Evie Jackson has been single and alone for quite some time. When she attends a postmasters' convention at a New York City hotel, she meets rakish greeting card salesman Harry Mork and falls in love.

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Michael Anderson Jr.

Votes: 1,843

13. Whisky Galore (2016)

TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

Scottish islanders try to plunder cases of whisky from a stranded ship during WWII.

Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Naomi Battrick, Sean Biggerstaff, James Cosmo, Matt Costello

Votes: 1,976

14. The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 2,588

15. Paper Clips (2004)

G | 82 min | Documentary, War

As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and grows to include millions of others killed.

Directors: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab | Stars: Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Tom Bosley, Casey Condra

Votes: 1,786 | Gross: $1.10M

16. Second Best (1994)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to give Graham a chance. Will the two be able to accept each other as family?

Director: Chris Menges | Stars: William Hurt, Nathan Yapp, Keith Allen, Chris Cleary Miles

Votes: 1,903 | Gross: $0.09M

17. The Bounty Hunter (1954)

Passed | 79 min | Western

A bounty hunter, hired by Pinkerton, trails 3 unknown murderous train robbers to a town and finds a host of suspects.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Dolores Dorn, Marie Windsor, Howard Petrie

Votes: 1,332

18. The Black Panther (1977)

R | 97 min | Crime, Thriller

A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.

Director: Ian Merrick | Stars: Donald Sumpter, Debbie Farrington, Marjorie Yates, Sylvia O'Donnell

Votes: 811

19. Dakghor (2023)

Comedy, Drama

Damodar Das comes to the remote village of Hagda as its new postmaster. While their simple aspirations and pure emotions slowly do away with Damodar's reservations, he keeps searching for a sliver of his long-lost childhood.

Stars: Ditipriya Roy, Kanchan Mullick, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Korak Samanta

Votes: 392

20. Bandini (1963)

157 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

During the British Raj of the 1930s, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convict who eventually reveals the story of her past and her connection to a freedom fighter.

Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Nutan, Dharmendra, Raja Paranjpe

Votes: 887

21. Son of Zorro (1947)

Approved | 100 min | Western

Young cavalry officer Jeff Stewart returns to his home in the west after the Civil War to find that a ring of crooked politicians has taken over the county, bleeding the citizens with 50% ... See full summary »

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon | Stars: George Turner, Peggy Stewart, Roy Barcroft, Ed Cassidy

Votes: 132

22. Kushti (2010)

121 min | Comedy, Sport

A small-framed postmaster must prove his one-sided love for a wrestler's daughter.

Director: T.K. Rajeev Kumar | Stars: Rajpal Naurang Yadav, Nargis Bagheri, Om Puri, Sharat Saxena

Votes: 220

23. Maple Town (1986–1988)

TV-Y | 24 min | Adventure, Animation, Family

This children's show tells the story of Patty Rabbit, a little rabbit-girl who has just arrived to Maple Town with her family. Soon after arriving, Patty befriends Bobby Bear, a boy her age... See full summary »

Stars: Yûsaku Yara, Yoku Shioya, Maya Okamoto, Steve Kramer

Votes: 317

24. Four Sons (1928)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, War

A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 920

25. Young Triffie's Been Made Away With (2006)

89 min | Comedy

A young and inexperienced regional police officer in 1947 Newfoundland travels to a small village to solve the mysterious murder of a young woman.

Director: Mary Walsh | Stars: Fred Ewanuick, Mary Walsh, Rémy Girard, Andrea Martin

Votes: 207

26. Double Harness (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama

A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Ann Harding, William Powell, Lucile Browne, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 1,296

27. Silver Dollar (1932)

TV-G | 83 min | Biography, Drama

Yates and Sarah Martin are barely getting by in a Colorado boom town grocery store. Sudden wealth leads to greater prosperity and political power. In Denver Yates buys a mansion and builds ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bebe Daniels, Aline MacMahon, DeWitt Jennings

Votes: 471

28. Once Upon a Horse... (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Western

Dan and Doc are incompetent desperados who plan to give crime one more try before going straight. Miss Amity Babb is the shapely toast of Empty Cup, Colorado who sets prices by Wall Street,... See full summary »

Director: Hal Kanter | Stars: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Erickson

Votes: 123

29. Parakh (1960)

139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Niravan (Nazir Hussain), the village postmaster receives an envelope with a cheque for a very large amount, with the instructions that he is to turn this cheque over to the most honest man ... See full summary »

Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Motilal, Vasant Choudhury, Sadhana Shivdasani, Nasir Hussain

Votes: 148

30. Strike It Rich (1948)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy

In 1930, in the heart of East Texas oil country, unemployed wildcat oil well drillers Delbert Lane, Tex Warren and Duke Massey roam the state looking for work. Soon after arriving in Kilmer... See full synopsis »

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Rod Cameron, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 38

31. Brandy for the Parson (1952)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A young couple get involved with a smuggler.

Director: John Eldridge | Stars: James Donald, Kenneth More, Jean Lodge, Frederick Piper

Votes: 207

32. Texas Lady (1955)

Approved | 86 min | Western

A strong-headed woman from the East inherits a newspaper in a small Texas town where the local cattle barons, who control the region, want her out of their hair.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, James Bell

Votes: 334

33. The Barefoot Mailman (1951)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy

A 19th-century con artist flees to the wilds of Florida to elude the law.

Director: Earl McEvoy | Stars: Robert Cummings, Jerome Courtland, Terry Moore, John Russell

Votes: 137

34. The Inspector General (1933)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever... See full summary »

Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vlasta Burian, Jaroslav Marvan, Václav Trégl, Josef Vosalík

Votes: 145

35. Undercover Agent (1939)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama

A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Russell Gleason, Shirley Deane, J.M. Kerrigan, Maude Eburne

Votes: 85

36. Postmaster (2016)

146 min | Drama, Family, Musical

Young spirited Nanda Sen leaves his city home and luxury of urban life to join as the village Postmaster of Plassey where his life was comforted with the service of orphan low-caste ... See full summary »

Director: Srijon Bardhan | Stars: Ishan Mazumder, Pujarini Ghosh, Bodhisattva Mazumdar, Kalyan Chatterjee

Votes: 50

37. Alaska (1944)

Approved | 76 min | Drama, Western

A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who is secretly running a murderous claim-jumping gang.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Kent Taylor, Margaret Lindsay, John Carradine, Dean Jagger

Votes: 80

38. Ranson's Folly (1926)

Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

U. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a stagecoach with a pair of scissors. ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill, Anders Randolf, Pat Hartigan

Votes: 51

39. Young Chopin (1952)

Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History

A story of the formative years in Chopin's life between 1825 and 1831, a time of social unrest throughout Europe, of rising nationalism, and of cries for reform. Chopin, an outstanding ... See full summary »

Director: Aleksander Ford | Stars: Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, Józef Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski

Votes: 82

40. Laukaus Kyproksessa (1965)

92 min | Drama, Romance

A Finnish UN soldier falls in love with a beautiful Greek girl in Cyprus. Their love is mutual but cultural differences and misunderstandings complicate a romance that stretches across the language wall.

Director: Åke Lindman | Stars: Demetra Demetri, Monica Vasileiou, Åke Lindman, Jaakko Ahvonen

Votes: 57

41. Badi Didi (1969)

Not Rated | 156 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Director: Narendra Suri | Stars: Nanda Karnataki, Jeetendra, Om Prakash, Mehmood

Votes: 15

42. Star for a Night (1936)

Approved | 76 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Claire Trevor, Jane Darwell, Arline Judge, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 42

43. Men of the Plains (1936)

Approved | 62 min | Western

The Government sends Dean, Baxter, and Gordon to investigate a series of train holdups. Travis is behind the robberies and they are soon on his trail.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Rex Bell, Joan Barclay, George Ball, Charles King

Votes: 52

44. Slechetný cowboy Sandy aneb Prohraná nevesta (1964 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Western

A medium-length parody of cowboy stories in the style of silent slapstick.

Director: Eman Kanera | Stars: Jaroslav Stercl, Otto Simánek, Václav Lohniský, Vlastimil Bedrna

Votes: 11

45. Stranger Than Fiction, #57 (1938)

Approved | 11 min | Documentary, Short

This one presents a millionaire who has a hobby of making doll furniture for poor children, a cow which gives birth to four calves; a sculptor who works with metal instead of clay; a church... See full summary »

Director: Charles E. Ford | Stars: Alois Havrilla, Jimmy Wallington

46. Bat Masterson (1958–1961)
Episode: Jeopardy at Jackson Hole (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Western

Bat is called upon by the daughter of an old friend to investigate his murder in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The family runs a freight and stage line there but the drivers are being killed for some reason and the line is nearly bankrupt.

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Gene Barry, Larry Pennell, Ron Foster, Paul Dubov

Votes: 38

47. 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

48. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode: School Days (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Realizing Yuma is literate and in admiration of his ability to stand up to illiterate Armbruster family, Liam O'Shea offers Yuma a temporary schoolmaster job and he gains the affection of Peggy of which Troy Armbruster is jealous.

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Fintan Meyler, Warren Oates, Olan Soule

Votes: 54

49. Maya (1967–1968)
Episode: The Witness (1968)

60 min | Adventure

A donkey driver rescues Terry when he is blown over the edge of a cliff. To repay him for his kindness, Terry and Raji agree to tend the animals while he visits his cousin in a nearby ... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Coleman | Stars: Jay North, Sajid Khan, Surindernath, Shivraj

Votes: 6

50. Panorama (1953– )
Episode: Scandal at the Post Office (2020)

29 min | Documentary, News

A report on what could be Britain's largest ever miscarriage of justice - the scandal surrounding the Post Office's Horizon computer system and evidence of a cover-up at the Post Office.

Directors: Matt Bardo, Tim Robinson | Stars: Nick Wallis, Alan Bates, Jo Hamilton, Susan Knight

Votes: 8