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1. Mr. Skeffington (1944)

Approved | 146 min | Drama, Romance

Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis is forced into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris

Votes: 6,675

2. The Paradine Case (1947)

Approved | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn

Votes: 12,382

3. Joan of Arc (1948)

Approved | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War

The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert Barrat

Votes: 3,777

4. House of Dracula (1945)

Approved | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Martha O'Driscoll

Votes: 6,155

5. Monster on the Campus (1958)

Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters

Votes: 2,073

6. House of Frankenstein (1944)

Passed | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine

Votes: 7,716

7. 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: 1,407

8. The Woman in Green (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell

Votes: 6,866

9. Red Ball Express (1952)

Approved | 83 min | Action, Drama, War

Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during World War II.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Alex Nicol, Charles Drake, Judith Braun

Votes: 809

10. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood

Votes: 1,986

11. The Black Castle (1952)

Passed | 82 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Richard Greene, Boris Karloff, Stephen McNally, Paula Corday

Votes: 1,639

12. Nora Prentiss (1947)

Passed | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A doctor spins an ever-growing web of lies after a taste of the excitement that he was missing in his conventional life, thanks to a chance meeting with a nightclub singer.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett, Robert Alda

Votes: 2,054

13. Television Theater (1953– )

Drama

Series of television plays.

Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert

Votes: 90

14. The Strange Door (1951)

Approved | 81 min | Horror, Thriller

Noble-born cad Denis (Stapley) has been tricked into a forced stay at the eerie manor of the Sire de Maletroit (Laughton), an evil madman who can't get over the death of his beloved, 20 ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, Sally Forrest, Richard Stapley

Votes: 1,258

15. The Naughty Nineties (1945)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy

When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson

Votes: 2,161

16. The Fat Man (1951)

Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan.

Director: William Castle | Stars: J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg

Votes: 558

17. Hotel Berlin (1945)

Approved | 98 min | Drama, War

In 1945, a strange mix of Germans, military personnel and civilians, pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi, celebrities and escaped prisoners, converges at a lavish hotel in heavily-bombed Berlin.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey, Andrea King

Votes: 883

18. Cave of Outlaws (1951)

Passed | 76 min | Western

Released after serving 15 years in prison for train robbery Pete Carver being the only survivor of the gang goes looking for the loot in the caves where it was hidden.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Alexis Smith, Edgar Buchanan, Victor Jory

Votes: 387

19. Tarass Boulba (1936)

87 min | Action, Drama, History

Literary adaptation: A Cossack chief leads his forces against Poland. But one of his university trained sons is in love with an enemy daughter.

Director: Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Harry Baur, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Larquey

Votes: 48

20. Devil's Cargo (1948)

Approved | 64 min | Mystery

Poverty-row continuation of The Falcon series; mundane murder mystery showcasing Calvert's magic act skills.

Director: John F. Link Sr. | Stars: John Calvert, Rochelle Hudson, Roscoe Karns, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 286

21. The Pretender (1947)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Banker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her ... See full summary »

Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Carney

Votes: 382

22. Mother Courage and Her Children (1961)

151 min | Drama, War

In 17th-century Europe, a sutler struggles to keep her children alive as she follows various armies selling goods and her body to the soldiers.

Directors: Peter Palitzsch, Manfred Wekwerth | Stars: Helene Weigel, Angelika Hurwicz, Ekkehard Schall, Heinz Schubert

Votes: 55

23. Winter Wonderland (1946)

Approved | 71 min | Drama

A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Charles Drake, Roman Bohnen, Eric Blore

Votes: 67

24. Festival (1960–1969)

60 min | Drama

Festival is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television

Stars: Gillie Fenwick, Gerard Parkes, Eric House, Douglas Rain

Votes: 19

25. Yoshiwara (1937)

102 min | Drama, Romance

The film is set in Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Michiko Tanaka, Roland Toutain

Votes: 198

26. River Gang (1945)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Naive young Wendy (Gloria Jean) lives with her kind Uncle Bill (John Qualen), who has sheltered her from life by instilling a belief in fairy-tales and make-believe. Uncle Bill, a pawnshop ... See full summary »

Director: Charles David | Stars: Gloria Jean, John Qualen, Bill Goodwin, Keefe Brasselle

Votes: 26

27. It Happened in Gibraltar (1938)

92 min | Drama, Romance, War

Off Gibraltar ,British ships blow up;there might be a mole among the British officers .

Director: Fyodor Otsep | Stars: Viviane Romance, Roger Duchesne, Abel Jacquin, Erich von Stroheim

Votes: 113

28. Adventures of Casanova (1948)

Approved | 83 min | Action, Adventure, History

After Palermo falls in 1793, a notorious ladies man joins the underground resistance movement--but still finds time for the ladies.

Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey, John Sutton

Votes: 65

29. Anna and Elizabeth (1933)

74 min | Drama

Anna a young girl is thought of having the ability to heal people mysteriously. Elisabeth a middle aged aristocratic woman, is disabled and puts all her hopes in meeting Anna and having her disability heal by her.

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Dorothea Wieck, Hertha Thiele, Mathias Wieman, Maria Wanck

Votes: 112

30. Cargaison blanche (1937)

100 min | Drama

Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Votes: 112

31. Her Kind of Man (1946)

Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A nightclub singer is caught between a big-time gangster and a tough Broadway columnist.

Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Dane Clark, Janis Paige, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson

Votes: 245

32. S. O. S. Iceberg (1933)

90 min | Adventure, Drama

An expedition goes in search of a party lost the year before.

Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet

Votes: 257

33. The Master Key (1945)

Passed | 226 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Government agents battle a gang of Nazis who are trying to use the Orotron machine, which can turn seawater into gold.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Milburn Stone, Jan Wiley, Dennis Moore, Addison Richards

Votes: 87

34. The Vicious Circle (1948)

Approved | 77 min | Drama

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, ... See full summary »

Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Fritz Kortner, Reinhold Schünzel, Philip Van Zandt

Votes: 102

35. Right to Happiness (1932)

105 min | Drama

Herr Hoffmann (tenor Richard Tauber) is a famous widowed singer with a young daughter to raise, aided by his faithful manager. They meet a girl and Hoffmann falls for her, reluctant to believe that in fact she is in love with a musician.

Director: Georg Jacoby | Stars: Richard Tauber, Petra Unkel, S.Z. Sakall, Lien Deyers

36. The Wife of Monte Cristo (1946)

Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck), The Count of Monte Cristo, rides again in 1832, this time accompanied by (or stood in for) his countess wife, Haydee (Lenore Aubert. He is out for vengeance ... See full summary »

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: John Loder, Lenore Aubert, Fritz Kortner, Charles Dingle

Votes: 112

37. Avoda (1935)

50 min | Documentary, Music

This documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine, recording the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and the idea of a socialist Jewish state.

Director: Helmar Lerski

Votes: 43

38. World Theatre (1959)

Drama

In 1959, a group of aspiring actors and playwrights navigate love, ambition, and artistic challenges in the world of theater.

Stars: Olive McFarland, John Southworth, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell

Votes: 14

39. Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930)

93 min | Adventure, Drama

In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the father ... See full summary »

Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet, Mathias Wieman

Votes: 272

40. Accord final (1938)

73 min | Music, Romance

A young American violinist is betting with his European organisor that he will marry the tenth girl he meets the next day within 2 months. If he fails, he looses his Stradivari, if he wins ... See full summary »

Directors: Ignacy Rosenkranz, Douglas Sirk | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Jules Berry, Jorge Rigaud, André Alerme

Votes: 53

41. Combat Fatigue Irritability (1945)

36 min | Short, Drama

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Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Jocelyn Brando, Lauren Gilbert, Gene Kelly, Harlan Warde

Votes: 21

42. Schmutziges Geld (1928)

94 min | Drama

After committing a murder for his lover, Gloria, the famous painter Jack is forced to go underground. In the harbor district, he saves the poor Malaysian girl Song in front of two intrusive... See full summary »

Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Anna May Wong, Heinrich George, Mary Kid, Hans Adalbert Schlettow

Votes: 42

43. Carrefour (1938)

84 min | Drama

A amnesiac industrialist is tricked into a game of mistaken identity.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Charles Vanel, Jules Berry, Suzy Prim, Tania Fédor

Votes: 135

44. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1955)

21 min | Short

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Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Helene Weigel, Simone Signoret, Bernard Blier, Erwin Geschonneck

Votes: 13

45. The Novel of Werther (1938)

85 min | Drama, Romance

Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as ... See full summary »

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Pierre Richard-Willm, Annie Vernay, Jean Galland, Jean Périer

Votes: 267

46. Danger Woman (1946)

Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An atomic scientist who was one of the brains behind the A-bomb is now working in private life, trying to adapt atomic power for business purposes. One day his long-estranged wife--who had ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Don Porter, Brenda Joyce, Patricia Morison, Milburn Stone

Votes: 48

47. The Rebel's Son (1938)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, History

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to ... See full summary »

Directors: Adrian Brunel, Albert de Courville, Alexis Granowsky | Stars: Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey, Patricia Roc

Votes: 36

48. Pasha's Wives (1939)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Mireille, a Frenchwoman, has married a westernized Turkish diplomat. Thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, she accepts to follow Vedad Bey, her husband, to ... See full summary »

Directors: Marc Sorkin, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Viviane Romance, John Lodge, Marcel Dalio, Sylvie

Votes: 60

49. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Drama

In a departure from the trademark Alpine settings of Arnold Fanck's Bergfilme ("Mountain Films"), S.O.S. ICEBERG (S.O.S. EISBERG) takes place off the coast of Greenland, where an explorer, ... See full summary »

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland

Votes: 157

50. Der weiße Rausch - Neue Wunder des Schneeschuhs (1931)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy

An exhilarating view of skiing the German Alps, with a load in your pants.

Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Hannes Schneider, Leni Riefenstahl, Rudi Matt, Lothar Ebersberg

Votes: 126