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1. Naked City (1958–1963)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct.
Stars: Harry Bellaver, Horace McMahon, Paul Burke, Nancy Malone
Votes: 1,436
2. Car 54, Where Are You? (1961–1963)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Sitcom featuring the zany hijinks of New York's finest.
Stars: Joe E. Ross, Fred Gwynne, Paul Reed, Al Lewis
Votes: 1,881
3. You Are There (1953–1972)
30 min | Drama, History
Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Todd Hunter, Paul Birch, Harlow Wilcox
Votes: 206
4. The Defenders (1961–1965)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A father and son lawyer duo take a variety of cases that often deal with the important issues of the day.
Stars: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Polly Rowles, Ossie Davis
Votes: 504
5. Three in the Attic (1968)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
When three coeds discover that the campus Casanova is dating them all at once, they lock him up in an attic and take turns having sex with him... to drain the stud of his potency.
Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Christopher Jones, Judy Pace, Yvette Mimieux, Maggie Thrett
Votes: 538
6. The Goldbergs (1949–1957)
30 min | Comedy
Comedy-drama about a Jewish-American family living in New York City.
Stars: Gertrude Berg, Arlene McQuade, Eli Mintz, Robert H. Harris
Votes: 218
7. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama
An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Don Herbert, Nancy Reagan, Lee Marvin
Votes: 433
8. N.Y.P.D. (1967–1969)
30 min | Crime, Drama
The three detectives fight every kind of criminal all over New York City. The show featured many actual New York City locations, as well as episodes based on real New York City police cases.
Stars: Jack Warden, Robert Hooks, Frank Converse, Ted Beniades
Votes: 344
9. Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This show featured four rotating stars, Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Dick Powell in individual episodes consisting of everything from comedy to drama.
Stars: David Niven, Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino
Votes: 244
10. Cop Hater (1958)
Not Rated | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The hardworking detectives of the 87th Precinct in an unnamed city during a massive heat wave investigate the seemingly random murders of policemen.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Loggia, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Ellen Parker, Shirley Ballard
Votes: 575
11. Four Boys and a Gun (1957)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. Crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Otto Hulett, Robert Dryden, J. Pat O'Malley, Diana Herbert
Votes: 212
12. Hawk (1966)
60 min | Crime, Drama
The crime busting techniques of Iroquois detective John Hawk of the New York City District Attorney's office.
Stars: Burt Reynolds, Wayne Grice, Leon Janney, John Marley
Votes: 171
13. I Spy (1955– )
30 min | Thriller
Raymond Massey is host and narrator for this anthology series featuring tales of espionage.
Stars: Raymond Massey, Louis Edmonds, Marcel Hillaire, John Holland
Votes: 30
14. The Mugger (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police psychiatrist attempts to find a mugger obsessed with the need to seek out lonely women and slash their faces.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Kent Smith, Nan Martin, James Franciscus, Stefan Schnabel
Votes: 289
15. Pretty Boy Floyd (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Charles Arthur Floyd finds work on an oil rig after serving time for armed robbery; but when he becomes involved with a married woman, her husband swears revenge. Floyd's boss doesn't know that his new employee was a jailbird.
Director: Herbert J. Leder | Stars: John Ericson, Barry Newman, Roy Fant, Joan Harvey
Votes: 173
16. Street of Sinners (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Rookie New York cop has to deal with juvenile delinquents, his superiors, and blame for the suicide of a woman who jumped to her death while he was in her apartment.
Director: William Berke | Stars: George Montgomery, Geraldine Brooks, Nehemiah Persoff, Marilee Earle
Votes: 221
17. Alcoa Theatre (1957–1960)
30 min | Drama
When The Alcoa Hour dramatic anthology series moved from Sunday night to Monday, both the name and the format were changed. Instead of having a completely different cast for each episode, ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Lemmon, David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell
Votes: 90
18. Killers Three (1968)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Two backwoods North Carolinians unsuccessfully attempt to rob a bootlegger of $250, 000. They kill a federal agent while escaping, then head for California. Based on a story by Michael Fisher and Dick Clark.
Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Robert Walker Jr., Diane Varsi, Dick Clark, Norman Alden
Votes: 207
19. Fright (1956)
Approved | 68 min | Film-Noir, Horror
A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Frank Marth, Humphrey Davis
Votes: 216
20. Rendezvous (1957– )
30 min | Drama
An anthology series of short stories told to acquaintances by a man named John Burden.
Stars: Charles Drake, Gordon Tanner, Gaylord Cavallaro, Paul Massie
Votes: 33
21. Mothers of Today (1939)
93 min
Mothers of Today includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well known on the airwaves of the 1930s as the 'Yiddishe Mama.' The film exemplifies the ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lynn | Stars: Esther Field, Max Rosenblatt, Gertrude Krause, Simon Wolf
22. Janet Dean, Registered Nurse (1954–1955)
30 min | Drama
Janet Dean is a nurse who has been recently discharged from the U. S. Air Force. She becomes a private nurse and travels around the country treating not only patients physical ailments but also their mental ailments.
Stars: Ella Raines, Lenore Lonergan, Darren McGavin, Anne Sargent
Votes: 21
23. Moon Over Harlem (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Musical numbers highlight this story of a wealthy widow who disowns her daughter after a new man enters her life.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Buddy Harris, Cora Green, Izinetta Wilcox, Earl Gough
Votes: 222
24. The Doctor (1952–1953)
30 min | Drama
Warner Anderson seldom acted in any of the episodes of this medical anthology, which were mostly concerned with emotional problems; he always presented the stories and provided commentary after their presentation.
Stars: Warner Anderson, Anne Jackson, Edward Binns, Wesley Addy
Votes: 37
25. Americaner Shadchen (1940)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he... See full summary »
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinsky, Anna Guskin
Votes: 118
26. Cloud in the Sky (1940)
18 min | Short, Drama
Produced in both English and Spanish, the film focuses on the López family, now motherless because of tuberculosis. When Consuelo, the daughter of the family, begins to manifest symptoms, ... See full summary »
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Rosario de la Vega, R.C. Ortega, F.L. Tafolla, Frederick J. Mann
Votes: 10
27. Missing Daughters (1924)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
An agent from the Bureau of Missing Persons tells about a case of a young girl kidnapped by white slavers and forced into a life of prostitution.
Director: William H. Clifford | Stars: Eileen Percy, Pauline Starke, Claire Adams, Eva Novak
28. Roogie's Bump (1954)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sport
A young boy who loves baseball develops a strange bump on his arm. The bump has such an effect on his pitching arm that he soon finds himself playing for a major league baseball team.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Robert Marriott, Ruth Warrick, Olive Blakeney, Robert F. Simon
Votes: 52
29. Stolen Paradise (1940)
79 min | Drama
Robert Gordon (Leon Janney), a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Leon Janney, Eleanor Hunt, Esther Muir, Wilma Francis
Votes: 29
30. Fight That Ghost (1946)
Approved | Comedy, Horror, Music
Pigmeat and Shorty, who own "Pigmeat and Shorty's Bootery", are told by their landlord to either pay up or get out. They get caught trying to short-count him, and he threatens to have them ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham, John Murray, Percy Verwayen, David Bethea
Votes: 14
31. Keep Punching (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father ... See full summary »
Director: John Clein | Stars: Henry Armstrong, Willie Bryant, Mae E. Johnson, Hamtree Harrington
Votes: 41
32. The Power of Life (1938)
92 min | Drama
Nathan Rahinowita is a bookkeeper for a dress manufacturer, and in his spare time he dabbles at inventions. Oner day he is offered $3000 for one of his inventions, and premises to get back ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lynn | Stars: Michal Michalesko, Berthe Hart, Morris Strassberg, Charlotte Goldstein
33. Green Fields (1937)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for... See full summary »
Directors: Jacob Ben-Ami, Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Michael Gorrin, Helen Beverley, Isidore Cashier, Anna Appel
Votes: 112 | Gross: $0.08M
34. House-Rent Party (1946)
Comedy
Shorty's wife throws him out of the house for lying around reading detective thrillers and letting his boss Pigmeat get away with not paying him for the work he does at Pigmeat's barber ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham, John Murray, Alfred Cortez, David Bethea
35. The Light Ahead (1939)
94 min | Drama
In a small town in Russia in the 1880s, two young but poor lovers are helped by a wise old bookseller.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: David Opatoshu, Helen Beverley, Isidore Cashier, Rosetta Bialis
Votes: 91
36. The Marines Come Thru (1938)
65 min | Action, War
Marine Lieutenant Steve Landers has perfected a new bomb-release for airplanes which he is testing with the aid of his mechanics,'Singapore' Stebbins and Jack Murray. Dick Weber, one of a ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Wallace Ford, Toby Wing, Grant Withers, Sheila Lynch
Votes: 44
37. Drums o' Voodoo (1934)
70 min | Drama
In a small Southern town, Baptist preacher Amos Berry and a local voodoo priestess, Auntie Hagar, get together to thwart the aims of a pimp who has come to town to recruit a beautiful young... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hoerl | Stars: Laura Bowman, Augustus Smith, Morris McKenny, Lionel Monagas
Votes: 42
38. Max Baer vs. Max Schmeling (1933)
Sport
Stars: Max Baer, Arthur Donovan, Joe Humphries, Max Schmeling
39. Light Fantastic (1964)
85 min | Drama, Romance
In this romantic drama, a plain, lonely secretary wins three dance lessons. Her handsome instructor tells her that she is quite talented and cons her into signing a long-term contract. She ... See full summary »
Director: Robert McCarty | Stars: Dolores McDougal, Barry Bartle, Jean Shepherd, Lesley Woods
Votes: 24
40. They Ask for Joey (1957)
23 min | Short
Director: Robert Wilmot | Stars: Ed Bryce, Richard Carlyle, Joseph Walsh
41. Where Is My Child? (1937)
95 min | Drama
Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss.
Directors: Abraham Leff, Henry Lynn | Stars: Celia Adler, Morris Strassberg, Morris Silberkasten, Anna Lillian
42. The Wandering Jew (II) (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, War
A German-Jewish artist encounters German anti-semitism when his masterpiece is rejected by the Berlin Academy of Art. Later, the figure in the painting comes to life and tells him the ... See full summary »
Director: George Roland | Stars: Jacob Ben-Ami, Natalie Browning, M.B. Samuylow, Ben Adler
Votes: 29
43. Steve Randall (1952–1953)
30 min | Drama
Steve Randall, a private detective, is a disbarred lawyer who turned to detective work in the hope that he can become a lawyer again. He investigates murder and blackmail crimes and, in the last episode, is again admitted to the bar.
Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Olive Deering, Neil Fitzgerald, Fred Irving Lewis
Votes: 11
44. Diagnostic Procedures in Tuberculosis (1940)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Kendall Emerson, Edgar Mayer, Ralph S. Muckenfuss, Esmond Ong
45. Pinky Tomlin and His Orchestra (1940)
10 min | Short, Music
Director: Leslie M. Roush | Stars: Pinky Tomlin, Pinky Tomlin and His Orchestra, Woody Wilson
47. My Son (1939)
97 min | Drama
This dramatic tale of immigrant hardship highlights some of the traumatic problems of the immigrant experience, including alcoholism, separation and poverty. The child star, Jerry Rosenberg... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Seiden | Stars: Fania Rubina, Gustav Berger, Jerry Rosenberg, Herman Rosen
Votes: 13
48. Mirele Efros (1939)
Approved | 87 min | Drama
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow ... See full summary »
Director: Josef Berne | Stars: Berta Gersten, Ruth Elbaum, Albert Lipton, Michael Rosenberg
49. Stars on Parade (1946)
42 min | Short, Music, Romance
Small radio station, about to lose its last sponsor, gets reprieve when its manager unknowingly helps a performer who is friends with all the major pop radio stars, who come to put on a show of shows.
Director: Joseph Seiden | Stars: Milton Wood, Francine Everett, Jane Cooley, Bob Howard
50. The Holy Oath (1937)
57 min
Director: Henry Steward | Stars: Anna Appel, Lazar Freed, Lucy Levine, Morris Strassberg