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1. Meet Joe Black (1998)
PG-13 | 178 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Death, who takes the form of a young man killed in an accident, asks a media mogul to act as his guide to teach him about life on Earth and, in the process, he falls in love with the mogul's daughter.
Director: Martin Brest | Stars: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber
Votes: 264,443 | Gross: $44.62M
2. Ben-Hur (1959)
G | 212 min | Adventure, Drama
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya Harareet
Votes: 253,345 | Gross: $74.70M
3. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 426,328 | Gross: $3.20M
4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, War
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 67,607 | Gross: $3.27M
5. The Bad Seed (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A father is forced to question everything he thought he knew about his daughter when he believes that she might have played a role in the tragic death of one of her classmates.
Director: Rob Lowe | Stars: Rob Lowe, Mckenna Grace, Sarah Dugdale, Marci T. House
Votes: 3,667
6. The Bad Seed (1956)
Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White
Votes: 15,744
7. The Bad Seed Returns (2022 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A new girl at school seems to know the secrets of Emma, who is anything but the typical teenage girl, so Emma must deal with her enemies by any means necessary.
Director: Louise Archambault | Stars: Mckenna Grace, Michelle Morgan, Benjamin Ayres, Ella Dixon
Votes: 1,196
8. Key Largo (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 43,928
9. The Wrong Man (1956)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Film-Noir
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone
Votes: 31,320
10. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 8,105 | Gross: $2.07M
11. 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: 3,774
12. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
Stars: Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford
Votes: 419
13. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp
Votes: 6,159
14. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 2,402
15. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing
Votes: 3,232
16. Rain (1932)
Passed | 94 min | Drama
A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, Fred Howard, Ben Hendricks Jr.
Votes: 3,028 | Gross: $1.17M
17. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
18. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 220
19. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
20. Mary of Scotland (1936)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
Directors: John Ford, Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Votes: 2,794
21. The Bad Seed (1985 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A freak fatal accident forces a widow to realize that her 9-year-old daughter was born to kill.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, David Carradine, Carrie Wells
Votes: 534
22. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 152
23. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 92
24. The Guardsman (1931)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A jealous stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 594
25. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)
60 min | Drama
This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity ... See full summary »
Stars: Bert Lytell, Jay Jackson, Bob Stanton, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 136
26. Play of the Week (1959–1961)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
This syndicated anthology series staged a different play every week covering all genres, dramas, comedies, musicals, fantasies, mysteries, et al, utilizing some of the best talent appearing on Broadway.
Stars: Myron McCormick, Cathleen Nesbitt, Frank Conroy, Tim O'Connor
Votes: 80
27. What Price Glory (1952)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,445
28. Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife,... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: James Cagney, Shirley Jones, Roger Smith, Cara Williams
Votes: 365
29. Ford Star Jubilee (1955–1956)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Stars: Noël Coward, Bing Crosby, Barry Sullivan, Raymond Bailey
Votes: 86
30. Winterset (1936)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine
Votes: 496
31. Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, History, Musical
It's 1650 in New Amsterdam, and Brom Broeck, a young outspoken newspaper publisher is arrested for printing advanced opinions on the undemocratic rule of Governor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant. ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart
Votes: 199
32. What Price Glory (1926)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Río, William V. Mong
Votes: 477 | Gross: $0.70M
33. Lost in the Stars (1974)
G | 97 min | Drama, Musical
Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques, Clifton Davis
Votes: 137
34. Valley Forge (1975 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, War
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Richard Basehart, Barry Snider, Harry Andrews, Alan Cauldwell
Votes: 86
35. Shower of Stars (1954–1958)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A CBS variety show that ran monthly from 1954-1958, broadcast in color. Stars appearing included Betty Grable, Mario Lanza, Jack Benny, Basil Rathbone, Fredric March, Shirley MacLaine, and ... See full summary »
Stars: William Lundigan, Jack Benny, Art Gilmore, Mary Costa
Votes: 84
36. The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, War
Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off ... See full summary »
Directors: John M. Stahl, Irving Pichel | Stars: Anne Baxter, William Eythe, Michael O'Shea, Vincent Price
Votes: 247
37. The Star Wagon (1966 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy
In middle age, inventor Stephen Minch is happy enough with his life, despite the fact that he has never risen to prominence even though his innovations have made others rich. His wife ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Genus | Stars: Orson Bean, Eileen Brennan, Hal Burdick, Richard S. Castellano
Votes: 130
38. Teatro de siempre (1966–1979)
Drama
Stars: Alicia Hermida, Nicolás Dueñas, Jesús Enguita, Juan José Otegui
39. We Live Again (1934)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance, War
Nekhlyudov, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for ... See full summary »
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Anna Sten, Fredric March, Jane Baxter, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 529
40. Saturday's Children (1940)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
After meeting each other as fellow employees at J.B. Martin Co., forthright twenty-two year old Bobby Halevy and twenty-five year old Rims Rosson, who has his head in the clouds in coming ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: John Garfield, Anne Shirley, Claude Rains, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 581
41. The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
60 min | Drama
This live series featured adaptations of other works (novels, plays, et cetera) plus original works for the show. It was primarily dramas, but a few musicals also were presented. The show ... See full summary »
Stars: Luis Van Rooten, Robert Emhardt, Loïs Bolton, Robert Dryden
Votes: 98
42. So Red the Rose (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
"So Red the Rose" is King Vidor's quietly-affecting Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Janet Beecher
Votes: 214
43. A Christmas Carol (1954 TV Movie)
49 min | Family
This is a TV special of Charles Dickens story 'A Christmas Carol.' It's an abridged version of Scrooge being visited by three ghosts. Original songs are by Maxwell Anderson and Bernard Herrman.
Director: Ralph Levy | Stars: Christopher Cook, Mary Costa, Juney Ellis, Rex Evans
Votes: 207
44. 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
45. Golden Showcase (1961–1964)
60 min | Drama
Stars: John Fraser, George C. Scott, Susan Oliver, Louis Hayward
Votes: 15
46. Hot Pepper (1933)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Comedy about a pair of ex-Marines who team up and get involved in a nightclub. Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with a feisty woman and begin fighting over her.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lupe Velez, Victor McLaglen, El Brendel
Votes: 126
47. Grande Teatro Tupi (1951–1964)
Drama
A tele theater where famous plays were adapted and staged, during the days before videotaped Brazilian television, and performed by a cast of accomplished actors.
Stars: Wanda Kosmo, Rita Cléos, Nydia Lícia, Rildo Gonçalves
Votes: 31
48. Elizabeth the Queen (1968 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
In the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I (Dame Judith Anderson) is the ruler of England. Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (Charlton Heston) is her lover, best friend, and worst enemy.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Judith Anderson, Charlton Heston, Michael Allinson, Alan Caillou
Votes: 88
49. One Romantic Night (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler
Votes: 465
50. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
60 min | Drama
Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, et cetera.
Stars: Elmer Davis, Charles Dingle, Richard Bishop, Joan Chandler
Votes: 50