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1. Law & Order (1990– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York's finest police detectives and prosecutors fight to make the city a safer place. With integrity as the guiding force from investigation to verdict, the teams weigh every perspective in their commitment to finding justice.
Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, Sam Waterston
Votes: 44,523
2. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown
Votes: 30,162
3. Californication (2007–2014)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A writer tries to juggle his career, his relationship with his daughter and his ex-girlfriend, as well as his appetite for beautiful women.
Stars: David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone, Evan Handler, Pamela Adlon
Votes: 188,369
4. Madam Secretary (2014–2019)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Thriller
A political drama which looks into the life of the Secretary of State as she tries to balance work with family.
Stars: Téa Leoni, Tim Daly, Erich Bergen, Zeljko Ivanek
Votes: 26,514
5. V (2009–2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An extraterrestrial race arrives on Earth with seemingly good intentions, only to slowly reveal their true machinations the more ingrained into society they become.
Stars: Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman
Votes: 58,857
6. The Big C (2010–2013)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
Stars: Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, Gabriel Basso, John Benjamin Hickey
Votes: 15,723
7. The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 98 min | Drama
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Director: Brent Shields | Stars: Keri Russell, Skeet Ulrich, Mare Winningham, Tania Gunadi
Votes: 6,072
8. Taken (2002)
TV-PG | 68 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Three families experience alien abductions over a period of five decades.
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Matt Frewer, Emily Bergl, Heather Donahue
Votes: 21,004
9. Halloween II (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror
While Dr. Loomis hunts for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and The Shape is not far behind her.
Director: Rick Rosenthal | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer
Votes: 101,664 | Gross: $25.53M
10. Moonlight (2007–2008)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
An immortal vampire and private investigator struggles to exist after he was bitten 60 years ago by his vampire bride. He is also internally tormented as he falls in love with one he should not.
Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles, Jason Dohring, Shannyn Sossamon
Votes: 25,028
11. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 133 min | Drama, History, Western
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin
Votes: 7,434
12. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A television mini-series adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King's collection of short horror stories.
Stars: Robert Mammone, Kodi Smit-McPhee, William H. Macy, Ron Livingston
Votes: 5,517
13. Resurrection (2013–2015)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy
The lives of the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.
Stars: Omar Epps, Frances Fisher, Matt Craven, Devin Kelley
Votes: 15,586
14. Mother's Boys (1993)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Jude Madigan abandons her husband Robert and her three sons without any explanation. Three years later Jude inexplicably returns to reunite her family. However Robert and his new lover ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 3,589 | Gross: $0.87M
15. Dead Man's Walk (1996)
PG-13 | 272 min | Western
In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove", two young men join the Texas Rangers unit that's on a mission to annex Santa Fe.
Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Patricia Childress, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 1,929
16. In Cold Blood (1996)
240 min | Crime, Drama, History
Based on Truman Capote's true-crime classic and nominated for two Primetime Emmys, "In Cold Blood" follows a pair of ex-cons (Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts) who brutally murdered a respected Midwestern rancher and his family.
Stars: Anthony Edwards, Eric Roberts, Sam Neill, Kevin Tighe
Votes: 1,040
17. The Code (2019)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
A look at the professional and personal lives of some of the military's brightest legal minds in the courtroom, where each attorney is trained as a prosecutor, a defense lawyer, an investigator - and a Marine.
Stars: Anna Wood, Ato Essandoh, Phillipa Soo, Raffi Barsoumian
Votes: 2,231
18. Modern Romance (1981)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Albert Brooks directs himself as a successful film editor with far too many issues that affects the relationship between him and his remarkably patient girlfriend.
Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Tyann Means, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 4,710 | Gross: $2.86M
19. The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Western
In 1919, a cocky sophomore in the forest service has to learn life the hard way.
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Sam Elliott, Jerry O'Connell, Ricky Jay, Molly Parker
Votes: 665
20. The Moderator (2022)
R | 82 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.
Director: Zhor Fassi-Fihri | Stars: Robert Knepper, Gary Dourdan, Marie-Batoul Prenant, Sabine Crossen
Votes: 3,841
21. Helen of Troy (2003)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The abduction of beautiful Helen, wife of Spartan King Menelaus, by Paris of Troy triggers a long war.
Stars: Emilia Fox, James Callis, Daniel Lapaine, Nigel Whitmey
Votes: 6,738
22. In Search of... (1977–1982)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary
Leonard Nimoy hosts investigations into various mysteries.
Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Hans Holzer, J. Francis Hitching, George O. Abell
Votes: 1,120
23. Night Visions (2001–2002)
TV-14 | 43 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
"Night Visions" was a hosted anthology series similar to "The Twilight Zone" - some tales are supernatural, others are just commentaries on twisted human nature. Each hour show is made up of two half-hour stories aired back-to-back.
Stars: Henry Rollins, Emily Holmes, Dion Luther, Ty Olsson
Votes: 1,048
24. Intensity (1997 TV Movie)
186 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman spending Thanksgiving at the home of her friend's family in the rural Pacific Northwest finds herself in the clutches of a disturbed serial killer.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Blu Mankuma, Lori Triolo
Votes: 2,180
25. The Lost Valentine (2011 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Lucas Thomas's grandmother Caroline returns every Valentine's Day to the station where, at their first wedding anniversary, she waved off to the Pacific Theater of War in 1944 her husband ... See full summary »
Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Betty White, Sean Faris, Billy Magnussen
Votes: 6,492
26. Rebel Highway (1994)
TV-MA | Drama
A series of made-for-television movies inspired by B-movies of the 1950s.
Stars: John Hawkes, Christian Klemash, Dick Miller, Wendy Schaal
Votes: 164
27. Till Death Us Do Part (1992 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi (the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away). On December 11, 1966, a murder ... See full summary »
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Treat Williams, Arliss Howard, Rebecca Jenkins, J.E. Freeman
Votes: 224
28. Boss of Bosses (2001 TV Movie)
93 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Chazz Palminteri, Angela Alvarado, Jay O. Sanders, Clancy Brown
Votes: 1,476
29. The Water Is Wide (2006 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious, idealistic teacher, accepts Beaumont County South Carolina's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper ... See full summary »
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Jeff Hephner, Frank Langella, Julianne Nicholson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson
Votes: 460
30. In Love and War (2001 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance
Based on a true story, a British soldier stranded in enemy territory during WWII falls in love with a local Italian girl. But with the Germans advancing, the war that brought them together could now separate them forever.
Director: John Kent Harrison | Stars: Callum Blue, Barbora Bobulova, Peter Bowles, Nick Reding
Votes: 448
31. High Noon (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Western
On his last day in office, town marshal Will Kane gets married and plans to retire on a farm but news that paroled killer Frank Miller is coming to get revenge on Kane changes the marshal's retirement plans.
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso
Votes: 548
32. A Smile as Big as the Moon (2012 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Family
A special-education teacher helps his students, trains them, and looks for ways to take them to where they are dreaming to go: space camp.
Director: James Steven Sadwith | Stars: John Corbett, Jessy Schram, Logan Huffman, Moira Kelly
Votes: 958
33. Two for Texas (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Two escapees from a brutal Louisiana penal colony join Sam Houston's forces in the effort to gain vengeance for the massacre at the Alamo.
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Scott Bairstow, Irene Bedard, Tom Skerritt
Votes: 315
34. Hope (1997 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
During the early 1960s, Kate is faced with a dreary small-town existence, surrounded by her mother, who is a stroke victim, and her bigoted Uncle Ray, who owns a theatre. When a black ... See full summary »
Director: Goldie Hawn | Stars: Christine Lahti, Jena Malone, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey D. Sams
Votes: 458
35. ...And Then She Was Gone (1991 TV Movie)
M | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Robert Urich, Megan Gallagher, Brett Cullen, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Votes: 361
36. Cruel Doubt (1992)
187 min | Crime, Drama
A college student and two friends are accused of murdering one's stepfather and injuring his mother whom refuses to believe her son had anything to do with the attack.
Stars: Blythe Danner, Matt McGrath, Denis Arndt, Adam Baldwin
Votes: 419
37. Reform School Girl (1994 TV Movie)
R | 85 min | Drama
Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Aimee Graham, Teresa DiSpina, Matt LeBlanc, Carolyn Seymour
Votes: 412
38. Ruffian (2007 TV Movie)
85 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A look at the life of the thoroughbred filly that dominated horse racing in the early 1970s.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Sam Shepard, Frank Whaley, Mark Adam, Lisa Arnold
Votes: 507
39. And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Two inventor brothers create a working robot that is also inhabited by the spirit of their dead father.
Director: Tony Cookson | Stars: Joshua John Miller, Edan Gross, Marcia Strassman, John Quade
Votes: 693 | Gross: $0.40M
40. 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
41. American Gun (2002)
R | 89 min | Drama
When his daughter is shot just before Christmas, Martin Tillman journeys across the U.S. using the gun's serial number to track down the truth behind Penny's killing.
Director: Alan Jacobs | Stars: James Coburn, Virginia Madsen, Barbara Bain, Alexandra Holden
Votes: 1,289
42. Dollar for the Dead (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 94 min | Drama, Western
"Cowboy" has killed the son of a rancher who is now on his heels. He meets a Confederate soldier searching for a treasure. But others have picked up the scent of the gold as well, and soon the duo is pursued by Union and Mexican soldiers.
Director: Gene Quintano | Stars: Emilio Estevez, William Forsythe, Jordi Mollà, Joaquim de Almeida
Votes: 954
43. Darkness Before Dawn (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A nurse at a methadone clinic, with her own secret, falls in love and marries an addict that doses there. Together, they fall down a hole of addiction while trying to keep a marriage and family.
Director: John Patterson | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Stephen Lang, Gwynyth Walsh, L. Scott Caldwell
Votes: 262
44. Don't Look Down (1998 TV Movie)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman tries to get over the death of her sister by taking an Acrophobiac group. Then the group starts to get killed one by one.
Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: Megan Ward, Billy Burke, Angela Moore, William MacDonald
Votes: 1,140
45. Dead Men Don't Die (1990)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A reporter investigating a drug dealing ring is murdered. Brought back to life by the voodoo spell of a cleaning woman, he goes after his killers.
Director: Malcolm Marmorstein | Stars: Elliott Gould, Melissa Sue Anderson, Mark Moses, Mabel King
Votes: 314
46. The Test of Love (1999 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
Cassie's husband was just involved in a plane crash and is in a coma. The airline says his wife was killed in the accident. The two have a young daughter together. Cassie must decide if she can accept David's child by another woman.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Roma Downey, William Russ, Jamie Rose, Jed Millar
Votes: 231
47. Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" (McCormack) had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ... See full summary »
Director: Mikael Salomon | Stars: Eric McCormack, Sherry Stringfield, Emily Alyn Lind, Stephen McHattie
Votes: 939
48. Lies (1983)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Directors: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat | Stars: Ann Dusenberry, Gail Strickland, Bruce Davison, Clu Gulager
Votes: 224
49. Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight (1994 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 95 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan undertake her longest flight: a round-the-world attempt. However, the plane disappears in the process.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Diane Keaton, Rutger Hauer, Bruce Dern, Paul Guilfoyle
Votes: 446
50. 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