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1. The Godfather (1972)

R | 175 min | Crime, Drama

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton

Votes: 2,014,755 | Gross: $134.97M

2. Network (1976)

R | 121 min | Drama

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall

Votes: 170,764

3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar

Votes: 273,232 | Gross: $50.00M

4. Serpico (1973)

R | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire

Votes: 134,971 | Gross: $29.80M

5. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: The King of Jazz (1989)

Mystery

While BL is working a divorce case for upscale clients at a party for the local who's who, he disrupts an FBI surveillance. Turns out BL knows the FBI agent in charge of the investigation ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Needham | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Ned Beatty, Aharon Ipalé

Votes: 33

6. Prince of the City (1981)

R | 167 min | Crime, Drama

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett

Votes: 9,527 | Gross: $8.12M

7. I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

GP | 92 min | Drama, Music

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons

Votes: 3,002 | Gross: $0.85M

8. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)

PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone

Votes: 117,619 | Gross: $106.59M

9. The Wanderers (1979)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The Wanderers is a teenage, Italian gang in Bronx, NYC, 1963. They have their confrontations with other gangs. Drugs and weapons are uncool. Adult life awaits them.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, John Friedrich, Toni Kalem

Votes: 12,375 | Gross: $0.01M

10. The Front (1976)

PG | 95 min | Drama

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy

Votes: 9,679

11. Going in Style (1979)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Three friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank.

Director: Martin Brest | Stars: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan

Votes: 3,910 | Gross: $26.87M

12. Little Murders (1971)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Crime

Pitch black comedy about a young nihilistic New Yorker coping with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Director: Alan Arkin | Stars: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 3,571 | Gross: $0.26M

13. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Blues for Buder (1989)

Mystery

A young boy who has radical religious ideas seems totally lost, no one knows how to deal with him. Both his parents disappeared. Then BL is asked to look into it, and it seems that there's much more to his situation.

Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Elizabeth Ashley, Neil Patrick Harris

Votes: 169

14. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Carolann (1989)

95 min | Mystery

Queen Carolann of Algibal disembarks from a yacht after a party and no sooner watches as her husband King Rashid is blown up. She then hires her old friend Stryker to be her bodyguard.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Deborah Raffin, Dick Anthony Williams

Votes: 34

15. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: High Rise (1990)

Mystery

Kimberly and Oz are in an office picking a birthday present for BL, when a hostage situation occurs. When BL finds out he's determined to get them out.

Director: Nick McLean | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Ricardo Montalban

Votes: 29

16. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Plates (1990)

100 min | Mystery

BL is determined to get his friend Oz a set of license plates for his friend's car - but all sorts of trouble ensues first.

Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Carol Alt

Votes: 25

17. Conspiracy Theory (1997)

R | 135 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart

Votes: 107,310 | Gross: $75.98M

18. Mariah Carey: Hero (1993 Music Video)

4 min | Music

Prior to the song's release towards the end of 1993, Carey performed an intimate concert at Proctor Theatre, New York on July 15, 1993. Following its taping, the concert was released as the... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Jordan | Star: Mariah Carey

Votes: 132

19. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Die Laughing (1989)

Mystery

When the life of a comedian is threatened, he asks for police protection. Local police don't feel there's a serious case so they give that task to BL. Then people get killed.

Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Dom DeLuise

Votes: 33

20. Lime Street (1985–1986)

PG | 60 min | Drama

Divorced father Greyson Culver is a Virginia horse breeder who teams with Brit Edward Wingate to investigate insurance cases. On the home front James lives with daughters Elizabeth and Margaret Ann plus his debonair father Henry.

Stars: Robert Wagner, Anne Haney, Maia Brewton, Lew Ayres

Votes: 70

21. Maid in America (1982 TV Movie)

96 min | Comedy, Romance

An unemployed worker answers a personal ad for a housekeeper to a crusading female lawyer, and then takes her to court to force her to accept him into her home, claiming sex discrimination.

Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Susan Clark, Alex Karras, Fritz Weaver, Mildred Natwick

Votes: 62

22. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Winner Takes All (1990)

Mystery

Football and money figure in the murder of a high-school star's father, who's killed by his bookmaker's enforcers.

Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Paul Gleason

Votes: 22

23. Gardens of Stone (1987)

R | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old Army buddy.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney

Votes: 6,142 | Gross: $5.26M

24. That Championship Season (1982)

R | 110 min | Drama, Sport

It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their former basketball coach and ended up revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to ... See full summary »

Director: Jason Miller | Stars: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen

Votes: 710

25. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: The Dancer's Touch (1989)

95 min | Mystery

Stryker returns to his home town of Palm Beach to get away from the violent crime in New Orleans. A tabloid journalist, aware of Stryker's previous investigations of similar crimes in New ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Fraker | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Helen Shaver, David Hunt

Votes: 86

26. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Auntie Sue (1989)

Mystery

B.L. Stryker's incorrigible Aunt Sue will stop at nothing to acquire an old mansion for herself and two of her friends.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Gilford

Votes: 31

27. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Night Train (1990)

96 min | Mystery

B.L. is hired to protect a little girl on her train-ride to safety. The little girl's mother was murdered and she saw it happen, she is now hunted by a criminal group who she can testify against. An assassin is on the train.

Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Morgan Brittany

Votes: 33

28. Ghost Story (1981)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Craig Wasson, Alice Krige, Fred Astaire, John Houseman

Votes: 9,884 | Gross: $23.37M

29. Law and Disorder (1974)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In the crime-ridden '70s New York City, two cops have had enough. They, along with few other disgruntled people decide to take the things into their own hands only to realize too late that they're in over their heads.

Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Wedgeworth, Anita Dangler

Votes: 330 | Gross: $1.60M

30. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)

120 min | Mystery

House boat living Private eye who solves crime.

Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Michael O. Smith, Alfie Wise

Votes: 393

31. Breaking In (1989)

R | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.

Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Casey Siemaszko, Sheila Kelley, Lorraine Toussaint

Votes: 1,756 | Gross: $1.88M

32. The Littlest Angel (1969 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 77 min | Family, Fantasy

A little shepherd boy newly arrived in Heaven tries to adjust to life in the Hereafter.

Director: Joe Layton | Stars: Johnny Whitaker, Fred Gwynne, Cab Calloway, E.G. Marshall

Votes: 381

33. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Blind Chess (1989)

95 min | Mystery

B.L. Stryker regrets helping his secretary's brother Danny Lynnox, who orchestres a daring prison escape, causing Stryker's P.I. license to be revoked.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Ossie Davis, Scott Plank, Jessica Lundy

Votes: 32

34. Switching Channels (1988)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Crime

A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty

Votes: 4,085 | Gross: $9.13M

35. The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972)

PG | 98 min | Western

A slave kills a white man in self-defense and heads West towards freedom, pursued by a professional slave hunter.

Director: Martin Goldman | Stars: Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, Don Pedro Colley, Thomas Anderson

Votes: 501 | Gross: $1.95M

36. B.L. Stryker (1989–1990)
Episode: Grand Theft Hotel (1990)

Mystery

B.L., McGee and Oliver are on the prowl at a Bahamian jewelers convention to mail a cat burglar before he steals a necklace.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Dana Kaminski, Ossie Davis, Loni Anderson

Votes: 44

37. Jaws 2 (1978)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo

Votes: 84,546 | Gross: $102.92M

38. Malone (1987)

R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An ex-C.I.A. hit man running from his past finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs across a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their control.

Director: Harley Cokeliss | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Cliff Robertson, Kenneth McMillan, Cynthia Gibb

Votes: 3,624 | Gross: $3.06M

39. Tank (1984)

PG | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Herrier

Votes: 4,684 | Gross: $14.13M

40. Stick (1985)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Released from prison, Stick meets up with a friend and joins him on a job delivering a bag. His friend gets killed in the setup. Stick gets away and is ready to forget all and see his daughter, but they won't forget.

Director: Burt Reynolds | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning

Votes: 2,309 | Gross: $8.49M

41. Lovin' Molly (1974)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys, straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny, fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner, Edward Binns

Votes: 608

42. Let It Be Me (1995)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Romance

After becoming engaged to Emily, Gabe finds himself watching a graceful pair of dancers in a dance studio window. Hoping to learn to dance for his upcoming wedding, Gabe enters the studio ... See full summary »

Director: Eleanor Bergstein | Stars: Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, Yancy Butler, Patrick Stewart

Votes: 793

43. Just Tell Me What You Want (1980)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A married, egotistical, middle-aged head of a corporate empire man and his mistress and protegee, who wants a more serious commitment and ends up dating a younger man, are in a casual love/hate relationship and engage in a battle of wits.

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Ali MacGraw, Alan King, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 748 | Gross: $2.09M

44. F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'the Last of the Belles' (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.

Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Blythe Danner, Susan Sarandon, David Huffman

Votes: 281

45. The Bell Jar (1979)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama

As the horrors beneath the idealized 1950s come about, a successful young woman finds herself having a serious mental breakdown when she returns to New England.

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie

Votes: 299

46. Physical Evidence (1989)

R | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.

Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Theresa Russell, Ned Beatty, Kay Lenz

Votes: 2,094 | Gross: $3.56M

47. Slaves (1969)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Dionne Warwick, Ossie Davis, Marilyn Clark

Votes: 214

48. That's Adequate (1989)

R | 82 min | Comedy

Fake documentary about a fictional Hollywood film studio.

Director: Harry Hurwitz | Stars: Tony Randall, James Coco, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara

Votes: 285

49. Rent-a-Cop (1987)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Detective Tony is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Liza Minnelli, James Remar, Richard Masur

Votes: 2,057 | Gross: $0.30M

50. Lime Street (1985–1986)
Episode: The Mystery of Flight 401 (1985)

PG | Drama

The cockpit crew of a 747 stage a hijacking in order to extort four million dollars from their airline, then plant evidence that points to D.B. Cooper. Grey and Eddie see through their plot... See full summary »

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Robert Wagner, John Standing, Julie Fulton, Anne Haney