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1. Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953)
30 min | Drama
American television anthology drama series. At least 21 episodes aired on CBS from November 11, 1952 to August 30, 1953. From January 6, 1953 to May 26, 1953 it alternated weekly with Demi-Tasse Tales.
Stars: Sheldon Leonard, Barbara Whiting, Bob Sweeney, Ford Rainey
Votes: 22
2. Rebecca (1940)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Votes: 146,824 | Gross: $4.36M
3. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Music, Talk-Show
The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
Stars: Ed Sullivan, The Ray Bloch Orchestra, Ray Bloch, Johnny Wayne
Votes: 1,561
4. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy
While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Walter Catlett
Votes: 66,121
5. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
Votes: 23,230
6. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, History, Romance
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Directors: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen
Votes: 6,301
7. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty
Votes: 19,472 | Gross: $13.50M
8. Gold Digger of Weepah (1927)
21 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Billy Bevan, Sunshine Hart, Matty Kemp, Alma Bennett
Votes: 9
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 14,453
10. Jane Eyre (1943)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner
Votes: 9,504 | Gross: $3.82M
11. The Secret Garden (1949)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Family
A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 3,307
12. A Christmas Carol (1938)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart, Terry Kilburn
Votes: 8,752
13. Wandering Waistlines (1924)
Short, Comedy
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Billy Bevan, Sidney Smith, Kalla Pasha, Madeline Hurlock
Votes: 11
14. The Bicycle Flirt (1928)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Billy Bevan, Vernon Dent, Dot Farley, Carole Lombard
Votes: 19
15. Cluny Brown (1946)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Peter Lawford, Helen Walker
Votes: 4,112
16. Waterloo Bridge (1931)
81 min | Drama, Romance
A prostitute's self-loathing makes her reluctant to marry an idealistic soldier during World War I.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 3,168
17. Mystery Woman (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Crime
A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Mona Barrie, Gilbert Roland, John Halliday, Rod La Rocque
Votes: 15
18. The Lion's Whiskers (1925)
Comedy, Short
A movie "vamp" has secretly married her chauffeur, even though her contract with the motion-picture firm stipulates that she is not to marry.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Billy Bevan, Madeline Hurlock, John J. Richardson, Andy Clyde
Votes: 22
19. Don't Get Jealous (1929)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Wilbur is insanely jealous of every man and believes that his wife Carmelita is being unfaithful. His landlord Billy offers to take her out to a cafe and have Wilbur follow them to test his wife's fidelity.
Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Billy Bevan, Vernon Dent, Carmelita Geraghty, Edna Mae Cooper
Votes: 14
20. Suspicion (1941)
Approved | 99 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 42,460 | Gross: $4.50M
21. National Velvet (1944)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere
Votes: 8,007
22. The Young in Heart (1938)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Thrown out of the Riviera, a family of grifters meets a lonely, vulnerable rich old woman and insinuate themselves into her life while they sponge off her.
Directors: Richard Wallace, Lewis Milestone, Gilbert Pratt, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Roland Young, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,618
23. Holy Matrimony (1943)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Monty Woolley, Gracie Fields, Laird Cregar, Una O'Connor
Votes: 897
24. The White Sin (1924)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Smalltown runaway teen Hattie Lou is hired as maid for the Van Gore family, bound for the South Seas on their yacht. On board she falls for the son Spencer, who "marries" her in a mock wedding. A baby and hard times result from the union.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Madge Bellamy, John Bowers, Francelia Billington, Hallam Cooley
Votes: 31
25. Uncle Tom Without a Cabin (1919)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Ray Hunt | Stars: Ben Turpin, Marie Prevost, Heinie Conklin, Ford Sterling
Votes: 17
26. Meet the Girls (1938)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Entertainers (Lang and Bari) lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: June Lang, Lynn Bari, Robert Allen, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 30
27. Motorboat Mamas (1928)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Directors: Harry Edwards, Phil Whitman | Stars: Billy Bevan, Alma Bennett, Vernon Dent, Carmelita Geraghty
Votes: 18
28. I Married a Witch (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Fredric March, Veronica Lake, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward
Votes: 9,530 | Gross: $0.31M
29. The Pearl of Death (1944)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey, Evelyn Ankers
Votes: 4,857
30. The Lodger (1944)
Passed | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 4,105
31. We Are Not Alone (1939)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, History
A husband hires a lonely, pretty young Austrian woman to work as a nanny for his son. His wife becomes instantly jealous and things take turn for the worst. Meanwhile, World War II is in the air, and anti-German sentiment is on the rise.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Paul Muni, Una O'Connor, Jane Bryan, Flora Robson
Votes: 386
32. Techno-Crazy (1933)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Jimmy will be rich when the world adopts Technocracy. He wants to marry the mayor's daughter but he thinks Technocracy is thinly veiled communism. When asking for the mayor's daughter's ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Billy Bevan, Monte Collins, Eleanor Hunt, John T. Murray
Votes: 17
33. Penny Serenade (1941)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 8,074
34. Three Secrets (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three women who secretly gave up their newborn sons for adoption in 1945 wonder if the 5-year-old survivor of a plane crash, named in the the local newspapers, is their long-abandoned son.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy
Votes: 670
35. Whispering Whiskers (1926)
Short, Comedy
Mistaken for a private eye, Billy finds himself hot (or not) on the trail of a stolen ruby.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Madeline Hurlock, Kewpie Morgan
Votes: 35
36. The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War
A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Ward Bond
Votes: 4,924
37. Forever and a Day (1943)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, History
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the house and who is ... See full summary »
Directors: Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox, René Clair | Stars: George Kirby, Doreen Munroe, May Beatty, Connie Leon
Votes: 794
38. Lloyd's of London (1936)
Approved | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
An honest broker saves the day.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Madeleine Carroll, Freddie Bartholomew, Guy Standing
Votes: 1,212
39. Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Mystery
Algy, Bulldog Drummond's right-hand-man, is getting married. Bulldog attends; on the way home, in the fog, he enters the (apparently deserted) mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a phone.... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Warner Oland, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 459
40. The Way to Love (1933)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
The Way to Love is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film, starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Dvorak, Edward Everett Horton, Minna Gombell
Votes: 72
41. Nip and Tuck (1923)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan, Alberta Vaughn
Votes: 38
42. Weak But Willing (1929)
18 min | Comedy, Short
A very hungry Dave Finkel misses his birthday diner because of business. Getting home his wife and friends insist on taking him out to a nightclub instead of letting him eat. His attempts ... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Will King, Dot Farley, Billy Bevan, Natalie Joyce
Votes: 40
43. Looking Forward (1933)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Family
In this Depression-era story set in London, a department-store owner (Lewis Stone) faces bankruptcy while his family fritters away money. A long-standing employee (Lionel Barrymore) gets ... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan
Votes: 307
44. The Girl from Nowhere (1928)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Daphne Pollard, Mack Swain, Billy Bevan, Carole Lombard
Votes: 22
45. The Iron Nag (1925)
11 min | Short, Comedy
A man, mistaken for a famous jockey, ends up in jail with the race horse as the Kentucy Steeplechase is ready to begin. They make their escape, pursued by a car full of trigger-happy cops.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Billy Bevan, Ruth Taylor, Andy Clyde, Sunshine Hart
Votes: 27
46. Hubby's Quiet Little Game (1926)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy
A dancing instructor goes to a married woman's home to give her lessons while her husband is absent. He leaves and goes to a poker game. The husband is one of the players, and the ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Billy Bevan, Thelma Parr, Vernon Dent, Barbara Tennant
Votes: 16
47. Hubby's Weekend Trip (1928)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Billy Bevan, Dot Farley, Vernon Dent, Carmelita Geraghty
Votes: 13
48. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp
Votes: 9,874 | Gross: $3.92M
49. Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Passed | 112 min | Biography, Family, Musical
The opening scene of the movie describes it best: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about the great spinner of fairy tales."
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Danny Kaye, Farley Granger, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh
Votes: 4,224
50. The Lost Patrol (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Wallace Ford, Reginald Denny
Votes: 3,607