Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Ruth Maleczech

1. Sleepers (1996)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric

Votes: 237,520 | Gross: $49.10M

2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Two newly acquainted music-lovers spend the night scouting the streets of New York City in search of their favourite band's surprise secret show. All the while, they're both being chased after by their tempting but devious exes.

Director: Peter Sollett | Stars: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Aaron Yoo, Rafi Gavron

Votes: 95,362 | Gross: $31.49M

3. ER (1994–2009)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Romance

The doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.

Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Eriq La Salle

Votes: 67,718

4. 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: 44,550

5. The Crucible (1996)

PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen

Votes: 40,170 | Gross: $7.34M

6. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

This series focuses on the NYPD's Major Case Squad, a force of detectives who investigate high-profile cases, while also showing parts of the crime from the perpetrator's point of view.

Stars: Kathryn Erbe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 27,870

7. C.H.U.D. (1984)

R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.

Director: Douglas Cheek | Stars: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist

Votes: 13,968 | Gross: $4.65M

8. In the Soup (1992)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

New Yorker Adolpho Rollo is your classic head-movie auteur. In his mind, he's creating deathless classics of the screen. Back in the real world, he can't pay the rent on the downtown flophouse he calls home.

Director: Alexandre Rockwell | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Seymour Cassel, Jennifer Beals, Pat Moya

Votes: 4,369 | Gross: $0.26M

9. The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)

R | 121 min | Drama, Romance, Western

After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.

Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung

Votes: 1,768 | Gross: $0.54M

10. Angela (1995)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.

Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson, John Ventimiglia

Votes: 1,059

11. Mac (1992)

R | 117 min | Drama

Mac is the ambitious, overbearing, irresistible oldest of three brothers who struggle against all odds to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York.

Director: John Turturro | Stars: John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Carl Capotorto, Nicholas Turturro

Votes: 1,023 | Gross: $0.47M

12. ER (1994–2009)
Episode: The Long Way Around (1997)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance

Nurse Carol Hathaway is held hostage during a convenience store robbery, then befriends one of the gunmen.

Director: Christopher Chulack | Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies

Votes: 940

13. Anna (1987)

PG-13 | 100 min | Drama

Anna, an aging Czech movie star, comes to NYC struggling to establish her career. When she meets a beautiful, young peasant girl, she teaches her the ins and outs of acting, only to have the young girl become a screen star instead.

Director: Yurek Bogayevicz | Stars: Sally Kirkland, Paulina Porizkova, Robert Fields, Gibby Brand

Votes: 807 | Gross: $1.24M

14. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: The Saint (2004)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The detectives try to determine why a social worker was killed with a lye bomb, and whether it has anything to do with a Catholic saint.

Director: Frank Prinzi | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 378

15. Tales of Erotica (1996)

R | 170 min | Drama, Comedy

A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

Directors: Bob Rafelson, Ken Russell, Susan Seidelman, Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Jim Staley, Jim Staley, Mira Sorvino, Sharon Angela

Votes: 331

16. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Under God (2003)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A drug dealer turns up dead, leading detectives to members of a neighborhood watch group whose lives were poisoned by the victim. The priest who leads the group confesses to the crime, claiming that God told him to do it.

Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 278

17. The Dutch Master (1993)

28 min | Short, Romance, Comedy

Teresa is not like her female colleagues. She cannot enjoy that kind of simple minded pleasure like watching males stripping. There is that Dutch painting in the museum she is fascinated of... See full summary »

Director: Susan Seidelman | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Aida Turturro, Sharon Angela, Rick Pasqualone

Votes: 261

18. Waiting for the Moon (1987)

PG | 88 min | Drama

Sundance prizewinner. Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, ... See full summary »

Director: Jill Godmilow | Stars: Linda Hunt, Linda Bassett, Jacques Boudet, Andrew McCarthy

Votes: 215 | Gross: $0.75M

19. Dead End Kids (1986)

103 min | Drama

The 1986 film version of the theatrical production "Dead End Kids" by the NYC avant-garde theatre group The Mabou Mines which premiered on November 11, 1980, and was presented by Joseph Papp at The Public Theater, NYC.

Director: JoAnne Akalaitis | Stars: The Mabou Mines, George Bartenieff, David Brisbin, Ruth Maleczech

Votes: 201

20. The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)

111 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.

Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter

Votes: 194

21. Boomtown (1985)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U. S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.

Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Ruth Maleczech, Valeria Vasilevski

Votes: 181

22. Portraits in Dramatic Time (2011)

Drama

An array of glacially paced performances of theater artists and actors of all genres and nationalities both well-known and under-recognized.

Directors: David Michalek, Paul Warner | Stars: William H. Macy, Holly Hunter, Liev Schreiber, Alison Pill

Votes: 175

23. Me and Veronica (1992)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A woman must get the kids of her estranged dead beat irresponsible jailed sister back from sister's latest trailer park boyfriend and also try to cope with the fact that her sister may have serious self-destructive mental issues.

Director: Don Scardino | Stars: Elizabeth McGovern, Patricia Wettig, Michael O'Keefe, John Heard

Votes: 157

24. Mondo Plympton (1997)

53 min | Animation, Biography, History

A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Plympton | Stars: Chris Hoffman, Daniel Kaufman, Ruth Maleczech, Maureen McElheron

Votes: 109

25. Strong Medicine (1981)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.

Director: Richard Foreman | Stars: Kate Manheim, David Warrilow, Ron Vawter, Bill Raymond

Votes: 88

26. Far from Poland (1984)

106 min | Documentary

An attempt to cover Poland's Solidarity movement - the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country inspired by the strikes at the Gdansk Shipyard in August 1980 - and its shaping... See full summary »

Director: Jill Godmilow | Stars: Ruth Maleczech, Mark Margolis, Olek Krupa, John Perkins

Votes: 47

27. Working in the Theatre (1976– )

60 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Bringing together performers, directors, playwrights, designers, choreographers, producers and behind-the-scenes personnel from the American and international theatre, the program offers a ... See full summary »

Stars: Jean Dalrymple, George White, Brendan Gill, Ted Chapin

Votes: 46

28. Statuary (1995)

Not Rated | 25 min | Short

A statuary keeper closes herself off from the world beyond the fence that surrounds her yard, and lives in a world of statues. A recent college graduate tries job after job, in a quest for ... See full summary »

Director: Laura Colella | Stars: Laura Colella, Marissa Colella, Aaron Jungels, Ruth Maleczech

Votes: 26

29. Volcano Saga (1989 Video)

28 min | Short

This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.

Director: Joan Jonas | Stars: Joan Jonas, Ruth Maleczech, Tilda Swinton, Ron Vawter

Votes: 20

30. Sandman (1995)

21 min | Short

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Director: Marco Capalbo | Stars: William Hickey, Debbie Harry, Ruth Maleczech, Paul Megna

Votes: 19

31. The Mystery of Claywoman (2009)

33 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

A mock documentary exploring the purported existence of 'Claywoman', a 500 million year old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. Presented as a found, severely ... See full summary »

Director: Rob Roth | Stars: Rachelle Garniez, Mauro von Waldenberg, Steve Wangh, Alan Cumming

Votes: 13

32. Mabou Mines' Lear '87 Archive (Condensed) (2001 Video)

360 min | Drama

Jill Godmilow's six-hour archive of The Mabou Mines ensemble's controversial 1990, gender-reversed production of William Shakespeare's King Lear documents the first two-week workshop on the... See full summary »

Director: Jill Godmilow | Stars: Lee Breuer, The Mabou Mines, Ruth Maleczech

33. Working in the Theatre (1976– )
Episode: Design (1996)

Documentary, Talk-Show

The panel of American Theatre Wing Design Award-winners -- Julie Archer, special effects designer for Mabou Mines; Christopher H. Barreca, scenic designer of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold"... See full summary »

Director: Adam Walker | Stars: Julie Archer, Christopher Barreca, Tish Dace, Beverly Emmons