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1. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker (2019)
PG-13 | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again in the conclusion of the Skywalker saga.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver
Votes: 494,279 | Gross: $515.20M
2. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson
Votes: 974,735 | Gross: $936.66M
3. Star Trek (2009)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 620,624 | Gross: $257.73M
4. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 497,321 | Gross: $228.78M
5. Felicity (1998–2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
A young girl, fresh out of high school, follows her high school crush to college to be near him.
Stars: Keri Russell, Scott Speedman, Scott Foley, Tangi Miller
Votes: 12,977
6. Nuremberg (2000)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, History, War
The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy
Votes: 6,974
7. Houdini (2014)
TV-14 | 76 min | Biography, Drama
Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
Stars: Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 12,355
8. Love, Again (2015 TV Movie)
TV-G | 83 min | Drama, Romance
A couple on the brink of divorce decides to keep their marital woes secret as they help their daughter plan her wedding. As the two work together on the happy occasion, they soon discover that their own marriage might just be worth saving.
Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Teri Polo, Paul Johansson, Chloe Babcook, Lini Evans
Votes: 739
9. 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain
Votes: 5,479
10. Modern Marvels (1993– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History
Fast-paced, fun and informative, Modern Marvels is The History Channel's signature series focusing on historical technology.
Stars: Lloyd Sherr, Harlan Saperstein, Adam Richman, William Atwater
Votes: 2,165
11. Biography (1987– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.
Stars: Jack Perkins, Peter Graves, Harry Smith, Robert J. Thompson
Votes: 2,087
12. The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004)
172 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
Uses accounts from family, friends, and acquaintances to tell the story of Natalie Wood and how she started young, acting in the spotlight, making the transition from a childhood actress to... See full summary »
Stars: Justine Waddell, Michael Weatherly, Matthew Settle, Colin Friels
Votes: 1,037
13. A Woman Called Golda (1982 TV Movie)
191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Ned Beatty, Franklin Cover, Judy Davis
Votes: 1,057
14. Deadly Encounter (2004 TV Movie)
88 min | Mystery, Thriller
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidently cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harrass Joanne.
Director: Richard Roy | Stars: Laura Leighton, Danny Mags, Alain Goulem, Catherine Colvey
Votes: 491
15. Flesh & Blood (1979 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
A convict takes up boxing in prison and this brings a new meaning to his life. Once out, his trainer motivates him to become a professional boxer. He cares about only two other things, his uncomfortably close mother and absent father.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Tom Berenger, Mitchell Ryan, Kristin Griffith, Denzel Washington
Votes: 280
16. A Dog Named Duke (2012 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A homeless veteran leaves his dying dog and best friend, Duke, on the doorstep of an animal clinic. The dedicated staff nurse Duke back to health, and then launch a campaign to locate the veteran and re-unite him with his best pal.
Director: Mark Jean | Stars: Steven Weber, Sarah Smyth, Allison Hossack, April Telek
Votes: 651
17. The Pastor's Wife (2011 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story is based on the real-life 2006 media sensation where Mary Winkler murdered her small-town preacher husband.
Director: Norma Bailey | Stars: Rose McGowan, Martin Cummins, Michael Shanks, Eric Keenleyside
Votes: 574
18. Hearts of Fire (1987)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Bob Dylan, Fiona, Rupert Everett, Julian Glover
Votes: 528
19. Jekyll and Hyde (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: David Wickes | Stars: Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Joss Ackland, Ronald Pickup
Votes: 1,295
20. Daughter of Darkness (1990 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Horror
The Daughter of Darkness is an atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing the young woman is the identity of her father. Unfortunately for her ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Mia Sara, Robert Reynolds, Dezsö Garas
Votes: 958
21. Out of the Ashes (I) (2003 TV Movie)
R | 113 min | Drama
A Holocaust survivor heads for America where she dreams of starting a new life, but finds it difficult to put the past behind her, especially when she's forced to relive the nightmare of Auschwitz.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Christine Lahti, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake, Jolyon Baker
Votes: 1,346
22. Fairfield Road (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Drama
Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ him and ... See full summary »
Director: David Weaver | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Natalie Lisinska, Derek McGrath, Chick Reid
Votes: 913
23. Florence Nightingale (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing, known as "the Lady with the Lamp".
Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
Votes: 367
24. Where Have All the People Gone (1974 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Peter Graves, George O'Hanlon Jr., Kathleen Quinlan, Verna Bloom
Votes: 1,502
25. Katherine (1975 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 97 min | Drama
A harrowing look at the 1960s and early 1970s through the eyes of Katherine Alman, a wealthy debutante who slowly, but inexorably spirals down into a fight for the causes that shook a nation, leading a path to the underground life.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Art Carney, Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner
Votes: 424
26. The Christmas Shepherd (2014 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance
The search for a missing dog leads to a new romance.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Teri Polo, Martin Cummins, Jordyn Ashley Olson, Jill Teed
Votes: 1,374
27. James Dean (1976 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors.
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Michael Brandon, Stephen McHattie, Brooke Adams, Julian Burton
Votes: 331
28. Daniel's Daughter (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 88 min | Drama
When a woman learns that her father has passed away, she must confront the past (and the town) she left behind.
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Laura Leighton, Sebastian Spence, Derek McGrath, Brandon Firla
Votes: 559
29. Act of Love (1980 TV Movie)
104 min | Drama
Old country traditions and values cause Ron Howard to honor the pleas of his brother (played by Mickey Rourke), a quadriplegic following a motorcycle accident, to end his life, and then to ... See full summary »
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Ron Howard, Robert Foxworth, Mickey Rourke, David Spielberg
Votes: 179
30. A Christmas Visitor (2002 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A father struggles with the past. A daughter fights for the future. A mother searches for answers. The Boyajians have not celebrated Christmas in 11 years. They lost their faith when they ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: William Devane, Meredith Baxter, Dean McDermott, Reagan Pasternak
Votes: 1,287
31. The Gift (1979 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Glenn Ford, Gary Frank, Julie Harris
Votes: 136
32. Having Babies (1976 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Desi Arnaz Jr., Adrienne Barbeau, Ronny Cox, Harry Guardino
Votes: 98
33. Four Minutes (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the four minute mile-breaker Roger Bannister.
Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Jamie Maclachlan, Christopher Plummer, Shaun Smyth, Amy Rutherford
Votes: 381
34. Family of Spies (1990)
Not Rated | 175 min | Drama
Based on a true story, a naval officer (Powers Boothe) sells top-secret information to the Soviets and recruits family and friends into the scheme.
Stars: Powers Boothe, Lesley Ann Warren, Lili Taylor, Graham Beckel
Votes: 302
35. The National Tree (2009 TV Movie)
TV-G | 88 min | Drama
A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Evan Williams, Kari Matchett, Paula Brancati
Votes: 642
36. Red Alert (1977 TV Movie)
95 min | Thriller
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.
Director: William Hale | Stars: William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau, Ralph Waite
Votes: 244
37. It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Comedy
A beautiful woman kidnaps a random family man at gunpoint ("for kicks"), drives him to a secluded spot, orders his to strip naked, and then rapes him in the back seat of her car, before ... See full summary »
Director: Cy Howard | Stars: Paul Sorvino, Michael Learned, Bob Dishy, Adam Arkin
Votes: 104
38. Second Honeymoon (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
A couple celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary make plans to separate but are given a surprise second honeymoon trip to a tropical island.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Roma Downey, Tim Matheson, Daniel Lugo, Rachel York
Votes: 350
39. Black and Blue (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Drama
After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Anthony LaPaglia, Will Rothhaar, Sam Robards
Votes: 571
40. See Arnold Run (2005 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A look at the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from his early days as a body builder up until his successful campaign for governor of California.
Director: J.B. Rogers | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Roland Kickinger, Nora Dunn, Bob Morrisey
Votes: 483
41. Marian Rose White (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
In 1934, Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the Feeble-Minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and nothing is wrong with her except for some... See full summary »
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Nancy Cartwright, Charles Aidman, Ruth Silveira, Louis Giambalvo
Votes: 63
42. A Father's Revenge (1988 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
German terrorists kidnap the crew of an aeroplane as they leave the airport. The terrorists demand the release of two of their colleagues, who are to be extradited to the USA. The father of... See full summary »
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Ron Silver, Anthony Valentine, Christoph M. Ohrt
Votes: 303
43. Having Babies II (1977 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Tony Bill, Cliff Gorman, Carol Lynley, Lee Meriwether
Votes: 67
44. Ski Lift to Death (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A sports promoter tries to matchmake for a pair of ski champions and as a result, they end up trapped in a derailed ski-lift car, along with a gangster and the hitman sent to kill him.
Director: William Wiard | Stars: Deborah Raffin, Charles Frank, Don Galloway, Gail Strickland
Votes: 89
45. It's Good to Be Alive (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella, whose career was cut short when he lost the use of his legs in an auto accident in January of 1958.
Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Paul Winfield, Louis Gossett Jr., Ruby Dee, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 141
46. The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, ... See full summary »
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence, George Dzundza
Votes: 159
47. Berlin Tunnel 21 (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, Thriller
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Richard Thomas, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Jacques Breuer
Votes: 353
48. The Secret Life of John Chapman (1976 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Ralph Waite, Susan Anspach, Richard Arnold, John Aylward
Votes: 46
49. Monte Carlo (1986)
200 min | Drama
A two-part mini-series set on the eve of World War II in Monte Carlo and focusing on the adventures and love-life of Katrina Petrovna (Dame Joan Collins), a Russian singer and double agent,... See full summary »
Stars: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton
Votes: 173
50. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1991 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Thriller
A hot new model takes the fashion world by storm, but things start to turn ugly when people around her begin turning up dead.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Peter Outerbridge, Stephen Shellen, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 258