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1. Emma (1996)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi, Alan Cumming
Votes: 41,719 | Gross: $22.20M
2. Marrowbone (2017)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Director: Sergio G. Sánchez | Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth
Votes: 39,875 | Gross: $0.00M
3. The Man in the Moon (1991)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Reese Witherspoon
Votes: 18,596 | Gross: $2.85M
4. Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Geraldine James, Michael Judd, Julia Dearden, Gerry O'Brien
Votes: 16,250
5. Bolero (1984)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to lose her virginity. Her mission leads her to a Moroccan sheikh and a Spanish bullfighter.
Director: John Derek | Stars: Bo Derek, George Kennedy, Andrea Occhipinti, Ana Obregón
Votes: 6,077 | Gross: $8.91M
6. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,137
7. Mansfield Park (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Romance
The classic tale by Jane Austen of family scandal, social graces, and the unrequited love between cousins.
Director: Iain B. MacDonald | Stars: Julia Joyce, Douglas Hodge, Maggie O'Neill, Tara Berwin
Votes: 7,569
8. Daydream Nation (2010)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
Director: Michael Goldbach | Stars: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas
Votes: 13,061
9. The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An anthology of four horror stories revolving around a mysterious rental house in the U.K.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: John Bryans, John Bennett, Denholm Elliott, Peter Cushing
Votes: 7,541
10. The Unknown (1927)
Unrated | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz
Votes: 9,202 | Gross: $0.41M
11. The Cameraman (1928)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
Directors: Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Votes: 13,228
12. The Strange Woman (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Poster but also seduces his son and his company foreman.
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 2,470
13. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Unrated | 63 min | Comedy, Horror
A crook decides to bump off members of his inept crew and blame their deaths on a legendary sea creature. What he doesn't know is that the creature is real.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Antony Carbone, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson
Votes: 3,313
14. Too Close to Home (1997 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 115 min | Drama, Thriller
Obsessed with her adult son and angered by the idea of him leaving her and marrying a beautiful nurse, a mother does everything in her power to prevent his independence.
Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Judith Light, Ricky Schroder, Sarah Trigger, Dorothy Gordon
Votes: 441
15. Josie (2018)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Hank, a solitary man living a dull existence in the sleepy, Southern town raises eyebrows when he develops a questionable relationship with Josie, a recently transplanted high school student.
Director: Eric England | Stars: Sophie Turner, Dylan McDermott, Kurt Fuller, Jack Kilmer
Votes: 3,522
16. Common Law Wife (1961)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
Shug, a rich old man, throws out his longtime live-in mistress and moves in his young, sexy niece, who's just returned home after making a living as a stripper in New Orleans. The mistress ... See full summary »
Directors: Eric Sayers, Larry Buchanan | Stars: Annabelle Weenick, George Edgley, Max W. Anderson, Lacey Kelly
Votes: 179
17. Flip That Romance (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Romance
Rival house flippers, Jules Briggs (Julie Gonzalo) and Lance Waddell (Tyler Hynes), renovate dual sides of a duplex and rekindle an old romance.
Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Julie Gonzalo, Tyler Hynes, Cardi Wong, Jacqueline Samuda
Votes: 1,613
18. Amityville 1992: It's About Time (1992 Video)
R | 95 min | Horror
An architect brings home a mysterious old clock, not knowing that it's haunted by the demonic presence of the Amityville house. Soon, the clock begins to alter time and space and starts to possess members of the household.
Director: Tony Randel | Stars: Stephen Macht, Shawn Weatherly, Megan Ward, Damon Martin
Votes: 3,472
19. A Dog's Life (1918)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson, Bert Appling
Votes: 9,709
20. Bloodknot (1995 TV Movie)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
A grieving family opens its household to an unknown woman who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Margot Kidder, Allan Royal, Ashleigh Ann Wood, Patrick Dempsey
Votes: 327
21. Bad Sister (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Marianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 1,511
22. The Lower Depths (1957)
Not Rated | 137 min | Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjirô Nakamura
Votes: 5,965
23. Judge Priest (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 2,527
24. Zaza (1923)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Zaza is the favorite actress at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But when Zaza is badly injured, he has no choice.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 916 | Gross: $0.43M
25. Ruthless (1948)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet
Votes: 1,417
26. The Count (1916)
Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy
The fifth film in the Mutual series Charlie Chaplin impersonates a man of means in order to underscore the contrast between rich and poor.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 2,494
27. Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil, William Haines
Votes: 291
28. Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon
Votes: 906
29. Private Buckaroo (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
A musical showcase for Harry James, the Andrews Sisters, Joe E. Lewis, and Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan. James i drafted and joining him is the band's lead vocalist who doesn't believe that Army training is necessary.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Harry James, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Votes: 576
30. Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane
Votes: 979
31. Summer Storm (1944)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 681
32. Making a Living (1914)
G | 11 min | Short, Comedy
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport
Votes: 2,310
33. The Patsy (1928)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray
Votes: 2,783
34. The Crush (I) (2010)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An 8 year old schoolboy is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel...to the death.
Director: Michael Creagh | Stars: Olga Wehrly, Rory Keenan, Oran Creagh, Charlie Bonner
Votes: 1,755
35. Wild Girl (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 282
36. Hearts and Flowers (1930)
6 min | Animation, Short
Two men compete over winning the heart of their common love interest.
Director: Howard S. Moss | Star: Dolly Daisy
Votes: 169
37. The Knockout (1914)
TV-G | 27 min | Short, Comedy
To show his girl how brave he is Fatty challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Chaplin, Dan Albert
Votes: 1,493
38. The Silver Horde (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 631
39. The Regeneration (1915)
Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh
Votes: 1,435
40. A Sailor-Made Man (1921)
Passed | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland
Votes: 1,254
41. Pretty Ladies (1925)
74 min | Comedy, Drama
Comedienne Maggie falls for musician Al Cassidy. They get married, Al becomes a songwriter and Maggie a housewife. Al is hired to write a number for one of the Follies' most beautiful stars and falls for her. Complications ensue.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Tom Moore, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 269
42. The Music Teacher (2012 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 83 min | Drama
When a high-school music teacher loses her program, her former students spring into action to save it.
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Annie Potts, Kerry James, Emilie Ullerup, Moneca Delain
Votes: 182
43. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,171
44. Mambo (1954)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Silvana Mangano (a very lovely and sexy voiced actress) plays a young, poor Venetian woman, Giovanna Masetti. She is struggling with a difficult life as a shop assistant when one day the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Michael Rennie, Vittorio Gassman, Shelley Winters
Votes: 231
45. Opfergang (1944)
98 min | Drama
Idle intellectuals Albrecht, Octavia and Äls, are given to quoting and emulating their philosopher hero, Nietzsche. Albrecht later contracts typhus bringing the foster child gravely ill Äls out of an infected area.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff, Franz Schafheitlin
Votes: 755
46. Haunted Spooks (1920)
Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wally Howe, Marie Benson
Votes: 1,427
47. Naughty Arlette (1949)
80 min | Comedy
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor ... See full summary »
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Hugh Williams, Margot Grahame, Petula Clark
Votes: 93
48. For You I Die (1947)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young convict,Johnny Coulter, serving as a trustee and with only a year remaining on his sentence, is forced to participate in a prison break by one of the hardened criminals. They ... See full summary »
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Cathy Downs, Paul Langton, Mischa Auer, Roman Bohnen
Votes: 289
49. Coast of Skeletons (1965)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
Harry Sanders returns to England after losing his job as a police inspector in West Africa. However, he soon returns to the continent to investigate the offshore diamond operation of a shady American tycoon.
Director: Robert Lynn | Stars: Richard Todd, Dale Robertson, Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch
Votes: 290
50. Gay Old Days (1935)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A musical street scene from the Gay 90s featuring a pretty girl and her numerous suitors, an Irish tenor, a trio of singers and the Salvation Army chorus.
Director: William Watson | Stars: Frank Luther, Norman Cordon, Jean Lacy, The Six Mountain Melodeers
Votes: 8