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1. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Thriller
Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon
Votes: 619,973 | Gross: $183.42M
2. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,431
3. Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Approved | 127 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford
Votes: 25,235 | Gross: $12.32M
4. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Not Rated | 178 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton | Stars: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith
Votes: 17,902 | Gross: $13.68M
5. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid
Votes: 43,067 | Gross: $12.00M
6. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,229 | Gross: $0.30M
7. The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O'Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Votes: 33,368 | Gross: $0.01M
8. Kiss of Death (1995)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt
Votes: 20,250 | Gross: $14.94M
9. Kiss of Death (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark
Votes: 9,583
10. Can-Can (1960)
Approved | 131 min | Comedy, Musical
In 1896 Paris, a female nightclub proprietor fights against the forces of public morality for the right to feature her performers doing the risqué dance, the Can-Can.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Votes: 2,495
11. Monkey Business (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Votes: 15,584
12. Follow That Dream (1962)
109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore
Votes: 2,998
13. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Approved | 135 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Votes: 8,616
14. O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
John Steinbeck introduces a quintet of five of O. Henry's most celebrated stories from his New York Period (1902-1910) in this anthology film.
Directors: Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco | Stars: Fred Allen, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Farley Granger
Votes: 3,067
15. The Front Page (1931)
Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 3,456
16. I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan, Marion Marshall, Randy Stuart
Votes: 9,218
17. Kismet (1955)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen | Stars: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone
Votes: 1,683
18. It Started with a Kiss (1959)
Unrated | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
A U.S. sergeant serving in Spain creates envy among his Air Force superiors and the Spanish locals when his brand new futuristic sports car and pretty wife arrive at the base.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Eva Gabor, Gustavo Rojo
Votes: 1,077
19. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
G | 133 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 2,436 | Gross: $6.54M
20. A Global Affair (1964)
84 min | Comedy
A bachelor employee at the United Nations building takes care of an abandoned baby.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Bob Hope, Michèle Mercier, Elga Andersen, Yvonne De Carlo
Votes: 502
21. Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
WW2 veteran Lucky Gagin arrives in a New Mexico border-town intent on revenging against mobster Frank Hugo but FBI agent Bill Retz, who also wants Hugo, tries to keep Gagin out of trouble.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Thomas Gomez, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King
Votes: 3,430
22. Love Crazy (1941)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson
Votes: 3,437
23. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,835
24. Matinee Theatre (1955–1958)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A daily anthology show, featuring original material, as well as adaptations of literary classics.
Stars: John Conte, Peter Hansen, Sarah Churchill, Johnny Crawford
Votes: 133
25. I Love You Again (1940)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe
Votes: 3,807
26. The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Western
In this western remake of Kiss of Death (1947), a convicted bank robber serving his sentence, and wishing nothing more than to finish his time and get back to his family, gets involved with... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Robert Evans, Dolores Michaels, Linda Cristal
Votes: 263
27. Topaze (I) (1933)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
An honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: John Barrymore, Myrna Loy, Reginald Mason, Jobyna Howland
Votes: 1,032
28. Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
An aspiring actress finds herself in a jam when a gangster, who is backing the show she is in, is found dead in her apartment.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Betty Hutton, Victor Mature, William Demarest, June Havoc
Votes: 302
29. Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A scientist invents a formula that removes old, thinning hair and replaces it with thick, new hair. Complications ensue.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone, Edward Everett Horton, Mikhail Rasumny
Votes: 483
30. Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty
Votes: 882
31. Fingers at the Window (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 1,145
32. Eternally Yours (1939)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anita Halstead, swept off her feet by magician Arturo, finds the results less than magical.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Billie Burke
Votes: 879 | Gross: $0.18M
33. Wabash Avenue (1950)
Approved | 92 min | Musical
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position... See full summary »
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Phil Harris, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 346 | Gross: $2.04M
34. Destry (1964)
60 min | Western
Young Harrison Destry, son of legendary lawman Tom Destry, had been a sheriff himself until he was framed and sent to prison. Now he roams about looking for the hombres that did him wrong. ... See full summary »
Stars: John Gavin, Ken Mayer, Bill Coontz, Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Votes: 84
35. 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
36. The Youngest Profession (1943)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
Joan Lyons and her friend Patricia Drew are autograph hounds spending most of their day bumping into, and having tea, with the likes of Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Based on ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Virginia Weidler, Edward Arnold, John Carroll, Ann Ayars
Votes: 485
37. Double or Nothing (1937)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
According to the will of an eccentric millionaire, one of four randomly chosen strangers will become his heir if he/she can double $5000 by honest means.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Andy Devine, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 283
38. Gaby (1956)
Approved | 96 min | Drama
A French ballerina (Leslie Caron) in 1944 London falls for an American soldier (John Kerr) who is sent to France in the Normandy Invasion.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Cedric Hardwicke, Taina Elg
Votes: 390
39. Broadway Serenade (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Drama
Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan
Votes: 288
40. Fearless Fagan (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, Richard Anderson
Votes: 380 | Gross: $0.95M
41. On the Loose (1951)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
Shunned by her self-absorbed parents, a teenage girl's need for love and attention drives her to delinquency and a suicide attempt - an act that finally brings her parents to their senses.
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Joan Evans, Melvyn Douglas, Lynn Bari, Robert Arthur
Votes: 198
42. Cock of the Air (1932)
80 min | Comedy
An opera diva sets her sights on a womanizing army officer.
Director: Tom Buckingham | Stars: Chester Morris, Billie Dove, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett
Votes: 87
43. Within the Law (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful ways.
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly, William Gargan
Votes: 333
44. Kismet (1967 TV Movie)
90 min | Musical
Set in ancient Bagdad the intersection of commoners and kings occurs. A princess falls in live with a beggar, her father the beggar's daughter. Songs include "Stranger in Paradise," " Night of My Nights, " and "Rhymes Have I."
Director: Bob Henry | Stars: José Ferrer, Barbara Eden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Hans Conried
Votes: 28
45. Mountain Music (1937)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
Folksy Ozark girl Mary Beamish (Martha Raye) yearns for the glitter of show business, and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures that her enthusiasm offsets that ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bob Burns, Martha Raye, John Howard, Terry Walker
Votes: 34
46. Baby Face Harrington (1935)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime
Willie Harrington is a wimpy small-town bookkeeper at a bank who unwittingly gets involved with the country's toughest gangster and his gang, and he gets suspected of being the leader of ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 276
47. Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1950s Madrid, an American veteran pilot with a gambling problem is forced to accept a high-paying dangerous smuggling job.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala, Martin Gabel
Votes: 365 | Gross: $0.40M
49. The Ben Hecht Show (1958–1959)
30 min | Talk-Show
Due to its sometimes controversial subject matter, the show only ran for 22 weeks. Hecht discussed a variety of subjects; often enraging some, engaging many. His comments were often entertaining, defiant, realistic and iconoclastic.
Stars: Ben Hecht, Monique van Vooren, Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig, Hy Stierman
50.
Destry (1964)
Episode:
Ride to Rio Verde
(1964)
60 min | Western
Destry career as a photographer's assistant is cut short when his friend and employer, Jim Logan, is murdered during a bank robbery. When a U.S. marshal asks for Destry's assistance is ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Baur | Stars: John Gavin, Charles McGraw, Lawrence Dobkin, John A. Alonzo
Votes: 9