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1. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

R | 113 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts

Votes: 92,003 | Gross: $16.00M

2. Wonder Woman (2011 TV Movie)

45 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

It's the modern day, and being Wonder Woman is complicated. Diana is leading a triple life - running a large corporation out of costume and fighting crime in costume in one identity.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Adrianne Palicki, Elizabeth Hurley, Cary Elwes

Votes: 2,330

3. Mulholland Dr. (1999 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After a car wreck, an amnesiac woman sets out to learn what happened to her with the help of a wannabe actress.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller

Votes: 9,874

4. Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015–2017)

TV-14 | 27 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southern belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age.

Stars: Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, Kristine Nielsen, David Strathairn

Votes: 4,746

5. Beverly Hills Cop (2013 TV Movie)

42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Aaron Foley, a police officer on the rise, tries to escape from under the shadow of his father's legacy in Detroit by busting the rich and famous of Beverly Hills.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Ren Burttet, Chasty Ballesteros, B.J. Britt, Kenzie Dalton

Votes: 1,395

6. Bamboozled (2000)

R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport

Votes: 12,353 | Gross: $2.27M

7. Fargo (2003 TV Movie)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Marge Gunderson, the still pregnant police chief of Brainerd, Minnesota, investigates the murder of a town pharmacist, shot in a snowy parking lot by a stranger who was helping jump his car... See full summary »

Director: Kathy Bates | Stars: Edie Falco, Bruce Bohne, Matt Malloy, Rondi Reed

Votes: 736

8. The Ranch (2004 TV Movie)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

They're young, beautiful and every man's fantasy. Join the women of Diamond Ranch as they release unbridled passions in this seductive and unflinching look behind the doors of a private club that's based on a real-life brothel.

Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Jennifer Aspen, Jessica Collins, Samantha Ferris, Nicki Micheaux

Votes: 684

9. My Babysitter's a Vampire (2010)

TV-PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A teenager discovers the girl hired to look after his little sister is a vampire.

Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Matthew Knight, Vanessa Morgan, Atticus Mitchell, Cameron Kennedy

Votes: 4,187

10. Batgirl (1967 TV Short)

8 min | Short

Promotional short introducing librarian Barbara Gordon as Batgirl for the series "Batman (1966)". Barbara meets Bruce Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson at the Gotham Public Library and is able to help them battling Killer Moth and his gang.

Stars: Yvonne Craig, William Dozier, Neil Hamilton, Tim Herbert

Votes: 422

11. Dreaming Whilst Black (2023)

TV-MA | 26 min | Comedy, Drama

Kwabena is an aspiring filmmaker trapped in his recruitment job. When he is given the opportunity he's always dreamed of, is he brave enough to chase it?

Stars: Adjani Salmon, Dani Moseley, Rachel Adedeji, Babirye Bukilwa

Votes: 618

12. Delirium (2014 TV Movie)

52 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable: she falls in love.

Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Emma Roberts, Billy Campbell, Corey Reynolds, Erin Cahill

Votes: 2,003

13. Mockingbird Lane (2012 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 40 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vampiress. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Portia de Rossi, Charity Wakefield, Mason Cook

Votes: 4,334

14. The Oscar (1966)

Approved | 119 min | Drama

Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker

Votes: 1,462

15. Blackjack (1998 TV Movie)

R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Dolph Lundgren plays Jack Devlin, a U.S Marshal who protects high-profile clients when it comes to a matter of security.

Director: John Woo | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Phillip MacKenzie, Kam Heskin

Votes: 4,518

16. How and Why (2014 TV Movie)

60 min | Comedy

After his children's science show is canceled, Goodman Hesselman tries to start over with a new show in a little TV market - also a portal to the supernatural world.

Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Sally Hawkins, John Hawkes, Catherine Keener, Michael Cera

Votes: 79

17. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)

87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Spaceship crew members start dying because of an unknown defect in a virtual-reality device.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo

Votes: 4,220

18. McLeod's Daughters (1996 TV Movie)

60 min | Drama, Western

Following the death of her mother, Tess Silverman travels to Drover's Run, the farm where she spent the first few years of her life. Drover's is a rural cattle property in South Australia, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Tammy Macintosh, Kris McQuade, Mercia Deane-Johns, Simone Kessell

Votes: 459

19. Zombies and Cheerleaders (2012 TV Movie)

Musical

Zed moves to a new school where a cheerleader falls in love with him - but the thing is, Zed is a zombie and needs to learn how to control himself to keep this relationship going.

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson | Stars: Luke Benward, John DeLuca, Nick Galarza, Kimmy Gatewood

Votes: 62

20. Witchblade (2000 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Witchblade is the story of New York detective, Sara Pezzini, whose search for justice leads her to an arcane weapon that grants her the power to battle Earth's darkest evil forces.

Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: Yancy Butler, Anthony Cistaro, Conrad Dunn, David Chokachi

Votes: 2,349

21. Doomsday (2017 TV Movie)

Drama

As a preventive measure, the U.S. government assembled a think tank of the most brilliant, out-of-the-box thinkers from various disciplines tasked with dreaming up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions.

Director: Joachim Rønning | Stars: Jack Davenport, Justin Chatwin, Rachelle Lefevre, Dan Byrd

Votes: 38

22. Alien Nation (1989 TV Movie)

Unrated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a drug conspiracy hidden in the subculture of... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland

Votes: 1,265

23. Get Christie Love (2018 TV Movie)

Drama

An attractive and charismatic CIA agent with the ability to adapt to different situations leads an elite ops unit. An updated version of the 1970s TV show.

Stars: Lisseth Chavez, Steven Weber, Camille Guaty, Kylie Bunbury

Votes: 44

24. Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1992 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The grandson of Kwai Chang Kane walks out of the past. He teaches his son the Shaolin way in a temple. An evil force destroyed that temple. Father and son each believed that the other ... See full summary »

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: David Carradine, Chris Potter, Roger Bate, Clay Caan

Votes: 547

25. This Is How the World Ends (2000 TV Movie)

45 min | Comedy, Drama

This Is How The World Ends was a TV Pilot episode for a series that was to be presented on MTV.

Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Alan Simpson, Michael J. Anderson, Lucas Babin, Molly Brenner

Votes: 408

26. Avalon (2022 TV Movie)

Drama

A sheriff detective in the small town of Avalon on Catalina Island is drawn into a career-defining mystery.

Director: Kate Dennis | Stars: Neve Campbell, Alexa Mansour, Steven Pasquale, Demetrius Grosse

Votes: 6

27. Sea Oak (2017 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 32 min | Comedy

A lonesome woman comes back from the dead to live the life she was too afraid to live.

Director: Hiro Murai | Stars: Glenn Close, Jane Levy, Jack Quaid, Rae Gray

Votes: 606

28. Scruples (2012 TV Movie)

Drama

A rich and powerful clothing designer is living in a world of sex, revenge and scandal.

Director: Michael Sucsy | Stars: Claire Forlani, Chad Michael Murray, Gary Cole, Mimi Rogers

Votes: 56

29. The List (2013 TV Movie)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Centers on Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Shaker who, when members of the Federal Witness Security Program start getting killed, leads the hunt for the person who stole the list, a file with the identities of every member of the program.

Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Hilarie Burton Morgan, Gary Cole, Jessica Szohr, Tamsin Egerton

Votes: 49

30. High School U.S.A. (1984 TV Movie)

60 min | Comedy

Principal of Excelsior High School deals with a rivalry between student groups and his own interest in the new counselor.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Melody Anderson, Crystal Bernard, Barbara Billingsley, Henry Gibson

Votes: 119

31. Broken (2016 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

A tough Dallas divorce attorney struggles to balance her personal and professional life.

Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Anna Paquin, Blair Underwood, Penelope Ann Miller, T.R. Knight

Votes: 33

32. Welcome to Eltingville (2002 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The misadventures of four boys who are big fans of comic books, toys, trading cards, and science fiction.

Director: Chuck Sheetz | Stars: Jason Harris, Troy Metcalf, Larc Spies, Corey Brill

Votes: 258

33. The Chicken from Outer Space (1996)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In this pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999), Courage, the cowardly dog of an oblivious elderly couple that lives on a remote farm, must defend them from a malicious space chicken bent on conquest and its mutagenic eggs.

Director: John Dilworth | Star: Howard Hoffman

Votes: 876

34. Black Bart (1975 TV Movie)

25 min | Comedy, Crime, Western

Western spoof concerning the adventures of a black Sheriff and his fast-drawing sidekick fighting corruption and bigotry in the old west. Based on Blazing Saddles (1974).

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Millie Slavin, Noble Willingham, Steve Landesberg

Votes: 298

35. Arwin! (2007 TV Movie)

22 min | Comedy, Family

Centers on the character of Arwin the handyman, who moves in with his sister to take care of her kids.

Director: Richard Correll | Stars: Chad Broskey, Samantha Droke, Selena Gomez, Logan Grove

Votes: 153

36. Awokened (2019 TV Short)

Short, Comedy

When Theo Wasserman (David Walton) accidentally takes magic mushrooms for the first time, he has a spiritual awakening that leads to him completely upending not just his life, but the lives of those closest to him as well.

Director: Daryl Wein | Stars: Majandra Delfino, Paul W. Downs, Mark Feuerstein, Zoe Lister-Jones

Votes: 17

37. Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974 TV Movie)

100 min | Mystery

China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial centre Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Khigh Dhiegh, Mako, Soon-Tek Oh, Miiko Taka

Votes: 153

38. His and Her Christmas (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tom Lane is the star columnist for the media conglomerate owned San Francisco Sun newspaper. The company is thinking about increasing Tom's exposure by producing a new television show ... See full summary »

Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Dina Meyer, David Sutcliffe, April Telek, Kyle Cassie

Votes: 737

39. Children of the Pines (2023)

93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Riley, a college junior, is persuaded by her estranged parents to visit. Unbeknownst to her, they've developed an unsettling friendship with her high school ex, while also seeking supernatural healing for their family's deep-rooted issues.

Director: Joshua Morgan | Stars: Danielle J. Bowman, Sylvie Mohr, Kelly Tappan, Vivian Hunter

Votes: 29

40. 2Survive (2015)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A desert survival reality show goes horribly wrong.

Director: Tom Seidman | Stars: Sam Bearpaw, Madison Brightwell, Jonathan Camp, Erik Estrada

Votes: 254

41. Hillbilly Handfishin' (2010–2013)

Adventure, Reality-TV

Hillbilly Handfishin' takes a group of city-slickers & drops them off in the hands of self-proclaimed hillbilly, hand-fisherman, Skipper Bivins. He teaches them the art of noodling, the act... See full summary »

Stars: Jillie Reil, DeeDee Bigelow, Skipper Bivins

Votes: 41

42. The Introvert Life (Pilot) (2021 TV Movie)

Comedy

A reclusive screenwriter with a vivid imagination dreams of making it big in the entertainment business and is constantly pushed to step out of her comfort zone into crazy unforeseen circumstances by her extroverted friend.

Director: Chad Eric Smith | Stars: Tiffany Yancey, Lynia Love, Patrick Bean Jr., Logan Jenkins

43. Couples Therapy (2020 TV Movie)

Comedy, Drama

Natalia, a therapist specialized in couples, treats high maintenance New York couples while her own marriage is falling apart. Tensions get high and boundaries get crossed as Natalia's ... See full summary »

Director: Randy Ramos Jr. | Stars: Michaela Zannou, Ryan Metcalf, Ashley Weismantel, Manni L. Perez

44. Citizen (2016 TV Movie)

Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A hero's origin story, blending vigilantism and magical realism in Los Angeles, California.

Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Amanda Plummer, Tom Waits, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Forrest Goodluck

Votes: 11

45. Trick Moon (2020 TV Short)

TV-Y7 | 8 min | Animation, Short, Action

Royal wolf siblings Trickshot and Pocket must protect the moon stone and their older brother the Prince of their land (who has been put into the moon stone during an attack) from the evil ... See full summary »

Stars: Jessica McKenna, Kath Soucie, Max Mittelman, Nathan Kress

Votes: 97

46. The Wrong Mans (2018 TV Movie)

Action, Comedy, Crime

A pair of office workers have their humdrum lives turned upside-down when a random phone call pits them in an epic case of mistaken identity. U.S. version of the British comedy series 'The Wrong Mans'.

Director: Jim Field Smith | Stars: Ben Schwartz, Jillian Bell, Annie Chang, Asif Ali

Votes: 26

47. Naked With Niecy Nash (2018 TV Special)

Talk-Show

Niecy Nash, never afraid to get real and tell it like it is, will serve up a tall glass of humor, advice, and one-of-a-kind "Niecy-isms" on all things love, sex, romance and relationships with everyday people.

Stars: Niecy Nash, Lawrence J Murphy

48. The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991 TV Movie)

83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

TV pilot for the Disney series The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage (1991) about a notoriously narcissistic and corrupt yuppie hiding from the FBI in a castle on a tropical island run by a dictator. The ghost of a legendary pirate haunting the castle seeks his help.

Director: Kim Manners | Stars: Daniel Hugh Kelly, Tobin Bell, Omar Caraballo, Sami Chester

Votes: 80

49. Southern Discomfort (2010 TV Movie)

Comedy

A father's life is disrupted when his adult children move back home.

Director: Andy Cadiff | Stars: Sophia Bush, Mary Steenburgen, Don Johnson, Steve Talley

Votes: 44

50. Making the Boys (2011)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Gay Rights Movement, the film explores the drama, struggle and enduring legacy of the first-ever gay play and subsequent Hollywood movie to ... See full summary »

Director: Crayton Robey | Stars: Edward Albee, Joe Allen, Matt Baney, David Carter

Votes: 712 | Gross: $0.03M