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1.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Jar of Spiders
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Joe must investigate Andy, a fellow FBI handler who's also one of his best friends, after a city councilwoman is murdered and the chief suspect is an informant under Andy's direction.
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 9
2.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Dirty White Collar
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Joe and Heather work a sting involving an accused corporate raider who has hired them to take out one co-workers. Lily and Darnell pose as a book dealer and supplier to take down a forger trying to pass off fake manuscripts as real.
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 6
3.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
It's Only Rock & Roll
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Darnell and Heather go undercover to infiltrate a band of bank robbers making its way across the U.S.; Lily poses as a waitress to get the goods on a dirty judge in a case that gets personal for Joe.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 7
4. From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, History
Dramatized portrayal of the Apollo manned space program.
Stars: Tom Hanks, Nick Searcy, Lane Smith, David Andrews
Votes: 13,231
5.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Bleak House
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lily goes undercover as an Irish nanny to determine the whereabouts of another Irish nanny who has gone missing and is maybe dead. Joe tries to set Darnell up as a collector/enforcer for a high-powered bookie they want to bring down.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 6
6.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Tavern at the Crossroads
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
Season one finale. The three finalists are tasked with creating a creature that will interact in a scene with others and must include a prop and a special effect. The setting is a roadside ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 14
7. Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the mid 23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions and various wars over the course of five years.
Stars: Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Stephen Furst, Andreas Katsulas
Votes: 34,638
8.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Alien Transformation
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
Gigi brings Farscape co-star Rygel into the workshop as inspiration for the creature designers to build original alien species attending an intergalactic press conference. Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld guest judges.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 15
9. The Strip (1999–2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action
Las Vegas PD Detectives Elvis Ford and Jesse Weir resigned from the force when their lieutenant wouldn't back them up on a bogus slot machine bust involving undercover FBI. They are ... See full summary »
Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Guy Torry, Joe Viterelli, Gye Di Capua
Votes: 99
10. Breathe (IX) (2018)
20 min | Short, Drama
When Marvin comes home from work one day, he discovers that not everything is as it was when he left - it seems that the air outside isn't for everyone anymore. Welcome to your new favorite Twilight Zone-inspired reverse Handmaid's Tale.
Director: Mitch Yapko | Stars: Jeremy Guskin, Susie Abromeit, Tikaeni Faircrest, Zoey Gale
Votes: 15
11. W.C. Fields: Straight Up (1986 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Joe Adamson | Stars: Dudley Moore, W.C. Fields, Harry Caplan, Teet Carle
Votes: 80
12.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Hardcore
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Joe and his crew pose as filmmakers involved in the adult-movie industry to lure a porn-obsessed man suspected of murdering his wife for insurance money. Also, an acquaintance asks Joe to help find her missing 14-year-old sister.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 7
13.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Swamp Things
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
The Henson Soundstage is transformed into a mystical swamp for a screen test revealing camouflaged creatures hiding in plain sight. Face Off's Neville Page guest judges.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 18
14.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Wedding Party
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lily is undercover as young Irish mobster's girlfriend. She agrees to marriage to draw his mob boss father into position for arrest. Joe orchestrates wedding as bait, but Lily has to go through with it and marry the guy to get their man.
Director: Rob Bailey | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 10
15.
That's Life (2000–2002)
Episode:
Pilot
(2000)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Comedy
32-year-old Lydia DeLucca astonishes everyone by breaking off her six-year engagement and enrolling in college.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Heather Dubrow, Ellen Burstyn, Kristin Bauer, Peter Firth
Votes: 11
16.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Return of the Skeksis
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
The creature designers tackle sculpting, molding, and mechanizations as the Henson classic The Dark Crystal inspires re-imagined Skeksis who return to the castle for a screen test with the original Dark Crystal.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 27
17. Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Reality-TV
People from around the world are bringing back Jim Henson's creatures back to life by competing to see who is the better monster maker.
Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 611
18.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Homewrecker's Ball
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Elena enters a rehab clinic in order to find out where $5 million in missing DEA money is located; Darnell poses as a hit man to thwart a murder attempt, in a case involving a nationwide drug ring.
Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 26
19.
Wanted (2005)
Episode:
Pilot
(2005)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A death row inmate named Silvio Machado is allowed out of jail to attend his mother's funeral, during which he escapes custody in a bloody shootout arranged by his former gang. After ... See full summary »
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Gary Cole, Ryan Hurst, Rashida Jones, Benjamín Benítez
Votes: 14
20.
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Episode:
Le voyage dans la lune
(1998)
TV-PG | 57 min | Action, Drama, History
The last manned Apollo mission to the moon is juxtaposed with Georges Méliès' filming of A Trip to the Moon (1902).
Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Tom Amandes, Bart Braverman, David Clyde Carr, David Clennon
Votes: 352
21. Avatar (2009)
PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
Votes: 1,387,248 | Gross: $760.51M
22.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Give Daddy Some Sugar
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Joe and his agents go undercover into the world of thoroughbred horse racing to take down a trainer suspected of murdering his horses.
Director: Alex Zakrzewski | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 13
23.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Life in Motion
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
An appearance by Lady Gaga's unicorn inspires the creature designers to create a larger-than-life creature with realistic movement, performed on a black light soundstage.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 19
24. The Untouchables (1987)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 330,995 | Gross: $76.27M
25. The Tenth Month (1979 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Romance
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Carol Burnett, Keith Michell, Dina Merrill, Melissa Converse
Votes: 56
26.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Heads Up!
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
Humor is the key to this week's Creature Brief as mounted creature heads in an enchanted trophy room return to life under the spell of a wizard, played by Scrubs' Donald Faison.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 21
27. Not Your Time (2010)
TV-MA | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
A failed screenwriter's suicide threat turns out to be his best sales pitch.
Director: Jay Kamen | Stars: Jason Alexander, Valarie Pettiford, Kathy Najimy, Sally Kirkland
Votes: 98
28.
Crossing Jordan (2001–2007)
Episode:
Prisoner Exchange
(2002)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jordan tries to prove that a housewife murdered her husband; Macy's testimony frees a convicted child killer
Director: Michael Gershman | Stars: Jill Hennessy, Miguel Ferrer, Ken Howard, Ravi Kapoor
Votes: 258
29.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
The Big Fall
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Joe and team infiltrate dating service to catch woman suspected of killing past dates. Caroline Glenwood is the lethal temptress. Joe, poses as potential suitor, his crew as dating service employees to stop her before she kills again.
Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 7
30.
In Justice (2006)
Episode:
Pilot
(2006)
Crime, Drama
A woman goes to the NJP to ask them to look into the conviction of her husband. He was convicted to armed robbery and murder. It seems that the robber claims he's his partner so they set ... See full summary »
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Jason O'Mara, Kyle MacLachlan, Constance Zimmer, Daniel Cosgrove
Votes: 16
31.
The Strip (1999–2000)
Episode:
Pilot
(2000)
TV-14 | Action
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Guy Torry, Joe Viterelli, Jason Connery
Votes: 9
32. Day Is Done (2006)
Musical
Director: Mike Kelley | Stars: Melissa Sills, Max Shippee, Oscar Avalos, Suzan Averitt
Votes: 22
33.
The Handler (2003–2004)
Episode:
Street Boss
(2003)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An FBI agent trains and handles agents who go under cover to solve crimes; Joe mourns the loss of one of his own as the dangers of the job become all too real.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 6
34.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
Assembly Inspired
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
The creature designers breathe life into unconventional materials from a junkyard to create a believable half scrap, half fantasy creature trapped inside a hanging cage.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 20
35. That's Life (2000–2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Comedy
Lydia DeLucca is a New Jersey waitress who wants more from her life than just marriage and kids. So she breaks off her engagement and heads off to college. This doesn't make her ex-boyfriend happy and her family isn't too supportive.
Stars: Heather Dubrow, Ellen Burstyn, Kevin Dillon, Paul Sorvino
Votes: 514
36. Wanted (2005)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An elite team of crime fighters from various federal and local law enforcement agencies track down the city's 100 most wanted fugitives.
Stars: Gary Cole, Ryan Hurst, Rashida Jones, Benjamín Benítez
Votes: 621
37. Titanic: The Final Word with James Cameron (2012 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary
Engineers, architects and historians are assembled to examine why the Titanic sank, using new technology that has come to light since James Cameron's film Titanic (1997).
Director: Tony Gerber | Stars: James Cameron, Ken Marschall, Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Bill Sauder
Votes: 725
38.
Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (2014)
Episode:
What Lies Beneath
(2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
Brian Henson welcomes 10 talented creature designers to Jim Henson Studios for their first Creature Brief: design and build an original underwater creature for a screen test on the Henson Soundstage.
Director: Gary Shaffer | Stars: Jake Corrick, Melissa Doss, Chaz Vance, Robert H. Bennett
Votes: 24
39. Blow Out (1981)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Votes: 63,384 | Gross: $13.75M
40. Tuesdays with Morrie (1999 TV Movie)
TV-G | 89 min | Biography, Drama
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz, Caroline Aaron
Votes: 4,911
41. In Justice (2006)
60 min | Crime, Drama
David Swain is a successful lawyer with political aspirations and he decides to form an organization called the National Justice Project, which sets out to help those who were wrongfully ... See full summary »
Stars: Jason O'Mara, Kyle MacLachlan, Constance Zimmer, Daniel Cosgrove
Votes: 589
42.
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Episode:
The Original Wives Club
(1998)
TV-PG | 55 min | Action, Drama, History
The lives of the astronaut wives during their NASA years and beyond - through speaking engagements and fashion shows, alcoholism and divorce.
Director: Sally Field | Stars: Tom Hanks, Jo Anderson, David Andrews, Katie Austin
Votes: 386
43. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham
Votes: 22,425 | Gross: $0.16M
44. Night Trap: 25th Anniversary Edition (2017 Video Game)
T | Action, Horror
Director: James W. Riley | Stars: Tracy Matheson, Debra Parks, Allison Rhea, Christy Ford
Votes: 18
45. Live from Baghdad (2002 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 108 min | Drama, War
CNN producer Robert Wiener, his colleague and their crew venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard, Lili Taylor
Votes: 4,816
46. Anything for Money (1984– )
30 min | Game-Show
Stars: Johnny Gilbert, Fred Travalena, Christopher Callen
Votes: 18
47. Crossing Jordan (2001–2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Brash, stubborn and resourceful ME Jordan Cavanaugh revives her career in Boston, occasionally breaking the rules and ticking off the cops or her co-workers. On the home front, she gets crime-solving help from her retired-cop dad.
Stars: Jill Hennessy, Miguel Ferrer, Ravi Kapoor, Steve Valentine
Votes: 12,297
48. The Stunt Man (1980)
R | 131 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative director.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield
Votes: 10,472 | Gross: $7.06M
49. The Handler (2003–2004)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
FBI agent Joe Renato trains and handles rookie agents who go undercover to solve crimes at all levels of Los Angeles' diverse society, interfacing with government and local law enforcement ... See full summary »
Stars: Joe Pantoliano, Anna Belknap, Lola Glaudini, Tanya Wright
Votes: 207
50. Calendar Girls (2003)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation.
Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, John Alderton
Votes: 28,048 | Gross: $31.04M