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1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
Votes: 695,979 | Gross: $127.51M
2. Brüno (2009)
R | 81 min | Comedy
Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten, Clifford Bañagale, Chibundu Orukwowu
Votes: 153,902 | Gross: $60.05M
3. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 8,220
4. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,701 | Gross: $5.97M
5. Putney Swope (1969)
R | 84 min | Comedy
The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swope.
Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell
Votes: 4,363 | Gross: $2.73M
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Unrated | 193 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Votes: 6,366 | Gross: $0.03M
7. The Sign of Four (1987 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 103 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The disappearance of a young woman's father and a mysterious note years later after the strange regular annual delivery of valuable pearls to her puts Sherlock Holmes on the case.
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robin Hunter, Alf Joint
Votes: 4,515
8. The Spider Woman (1943)
Passed | 63 min | Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 5,132
9. The Sign of Four (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Mystery
Hired by a young lady, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange recent deaths of her missing father's friends from the army, as well as the whereabouts of the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Ian Richardson, David Healy, Thorley Walters, Cherie Lunghi
Votes: 843
10. Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure
A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black-magic remedies are killing patients.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Jil Jarmyn
Votes: 567 | Gross: $1.57M
11. Trader Horn (1931)
Passed | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionary's daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Harry Carey, Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, Mutia Omoolu
Votes: 1,124
12. Warriors of the Apocalypse (1984)
R | 96 min | Action, Sci-Fi
After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life. Along the way they encounter pygmy tribes, bands of ... See full summary »
Director: Bobby A. Suarez | Stars: Michael James, Deborah Moore, Ken Metcalfe, Mike Cohen
Votes: 261
13. The Ambassador (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
Danish journalist Mads Brügger goes undercover as a Liberian Ambassador to embark on a dangerous yet hysterical journey to uncover the blood diamond trade in Africa.
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Heather Schmid
Votes: 4,247 | Gross: $0.03M
14. Man to Man (I) (2005)
122 min | Drama
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Iain Glen, Hugh Bonneville
Votes: 2,143
15. Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1998 Video)
Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, Comedy
Executive transvestite Eddie Izzard takes his show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Jordan | Star: Eddie Izzard
Votes: 7,517
16. Future Hunters (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A man from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to prevent the coming nuclear holocaust and enlists the help of a young couple.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Robert Patrick, Linda Carol, Ed Crick, Bob Schott
Votes: 520
17. The Crucifer of Blood (1991 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Edward Fox
Votes: 599
18. The Lost City (I) (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
An evil scientist plots to take over the world from his base in Africa, where he has invented a machine that can cause earthquakes.
Director: Harry Revier | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Kane Richmond, Claudia Dell, Josef Swickard
Votes: 321
19. L'africain (1983)
101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A travel agent travels to Africa intending to start a resort hotel only to encounter her crusty ex-husband and ivory smugglers.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer, Jacques François
Votes: 910
20. His Mouse Friday (1951)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom is shipwrecked on an island, which is inhabited by at least one mouse - Jerry. To thwart the hungry cat, Jerry disguises himself as a cannibal.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Paul Frees, William Hanna
Votes: 817
21. Spare the Rod (1954)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Donald's nephews are always playing instead of doing their chores. Donald is going to punish them, but the "voice of child psychology" convinces him to play along instead. This works well ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash, Bill Thompson
Votes: 331
22. Jungle Moon Men (1955)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Priestess Oma is forever young in this Jungle Jim knockoff of "She" or the La of Opar stories from "Tarzan". The Jungle Jim type is played by Weissmuller using his own name.
Director: Charles S. Gould | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Jean Byron, Helene Stanton, William Henry
Votes: 327
23. The Giant of Metropolis (1961)
Unrated | 98 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Muscleman Ohro travels to the sinful capital of Atlantis to rebuke its godlessness and hubris and becomes involved in the battle against its evil lord Yoh-tar and his hideous super-science schemes.
Director: Umberto Scarpelli | Stars: Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez, Roldano Lupi, Marietto
Votes: 455
24. Queen of the Jungle (I) (1935)
197 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An expedition sets off for the last land of Mu, where legend has it that a killer death ray is emitted from the eye of a golden idol.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Mary Kornman, Marilyn Spinner, Reed Howes, Dickie Jones
Votes: 85
25. Three Heroes on Distant Shores (2012)
65 min | Animation
Who runs the world? Girls. And other adventures of knight's wives.
Director: Konstantin Feoktistov | Stars: Fedor Bondarchuk, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 1,224
26. Africa Speaks! (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.
Director: Walter Futter | Stars: Harald Austin, Paul L. Hoefler, Lowell Thomas, Charles Gemora
Votes: 138
27. Cannibal Island (1956)
75 min | Documentary
Though the release date says 1956, this film consists mostly of footage from a 1931 documentary called "Gow the Killer." It was the first sound film to deal with cannibalism, as it ... See full summary »
Votes: 31
28. Extreme Tribe: The Last Pygmies (2019)
60 min | Documentary
Livia Simoka travels to the remote jungles of the Republic of the Congo to spend five months living with the isolated pygmy tribe the Mbendjele.
Star: Livia Simoka
Votes: 51
29. The Blonde Captive (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.
Directors: Clifton Childs, Paul Withington | Stars: Clifton Childs, Lowell Thomas, Paul Withington
Votes: 87
30. Half-Pint Pygmy (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
George and Junior hunt for the world's smallest pygmy.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Roy Glenn, Pat McGeehan
Votes: 269
31. World Safari (1977)
121 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Alby Mangels | Stars: John Field, Alby Mangels
Votes: 54
32. Life Begins for Andy Panda (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Walter Finchell, the tattletale gossip of the jungle, broadcasts from the treetop that Mr. and Mrs. Panda were presented with a baby boy, whom Mrs. Panda names Andy. All the birds and ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Lovy | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Margaret McKay, Danny Webb
Votes: 82
33. Le silence de la forêt (2003)
93 min | Drama
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that there is even heated debate over what ... See full summary »
Directors: Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouenangare | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Nadège Beausson-Diagne, Sonia Zembourou, Philippe Mory
Votes: 92
34. Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa (2018 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Alastair Leithead, Ilungama Ayanda, Elias Rodrigues Martins Filho, Osambia-Kpwata Fyfy
Votes: 12
35. Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson (1930)
93 min | Documentary
Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson set out an an expedition that takes them to Hawaii, the little explored South Pacific regions of the Solomon Islands and the New Hebrides Islands, Australia... See full summary »
Director: James Leo Meehan | Stars: Martin E. Johnson, Osa Johnson, Dick Douglas, Doug Oliver
Votes: 21
36. Flame and the Fire (1966)
80 min | Documentary
Documentary filmed in remote locales around the world.
Director: Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau | Star: Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
37. Tembo (1952)
Passed | 80 min | Documentary, Action, Adventure
This is an expedition/travelogue, disguised as a documentary with a plot. The 'plot' is that this Howard Hill expedition has come to Africa in search of a legendary tribe of "Leopard Men' (... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hill | Stars: Howard Hill, Westbrook Van Voorhis
Votes: 24
38. The Pygmy Hunt (1938)
9 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The Captain runs a safari business. He sets off to catch a live pygmy, with help from a tracking dog, but the dog isn't the world's most efficient, distracted first by some flowers, then ... See full summary »
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 73
39. Into the Forest
Documentary | Pre-production
For the African Pygmy tribes of the Republic of Congo, life is intimately and necessarily connected to the rainforest, the Congo Basin. This sacred symbiosis is threatened by the push for ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Greenwood-Whiteley
41. A Journey to Dzanga Bai (2011)
28 min | Short
Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic is the best place in the world to study forest elephants.
Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Peggy Heiman, Carolyn Tett, David Tett, Andrea Turkalo
42. Chew Chew Baby (1958)
7 min | Animation, Short
A cannibal wreaks havoc in Cincinnati.
Directors: Izzy Sparber, Thomas Johnson | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 41
43. Jungle Yachts in the Belgian Congo (1940)
27 min | Documentary, Short
The Jungle Yachts referred to in the title are International Caravan Camper Trucks. This film shows how well these trucks handle the Belgian Congo while out on Safari visiting the native ... See full summary »
Star: Chester Santon
44. Forest Keepers (2013)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
After being evicted from their ancestral homes in 1991, the Batwa of Southwestern Uganda struggle to preserve their culture in a modernizing society.
Directors: Matthew Blake, Malina Fagan, Siede Kohl, Kristelle Laroche, Ben Mullinkosson
45. Land of Pygmy, Land of Gorilla (2008 TV Special)
27 min | Documentary
Half the world's gorilla population saved. But at what cost? Journey to the Pearl of Africa to meet a tribe of Pygmies that have lost everything they have known since the beginning of time. Here in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
Director: Alexander Wolfe | Star: Keller Wortham
47. By Aeroplane to Pygmyland (1927)
Documentary
Footage of the expedition to New Guinea led by explorer Matthew W. Stirling.
Director: Matthew W. Stirling | Stars: Stanley A. Hedberg, Richard A. Peck, Matthew W. Stirling
49. Perils of the Jungle (1941)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Adventure, Thriller
Some of the last footage shot in the Belgian Congo following the outbreak of World War II, this short consists of just part of the footage shot by Commander Attilio Gatti, during a year's ... See full summary »
Director: Attilio Gatti | Stars: Knox Manning, Attilio Gatti
50.
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)
Episode:
The Money Programme
(1972)
TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy
"The Money Program" features a Swiss banker, a city accountant and a song of praise.
Director: Ian MacNaughton | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Votes: 839