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1. National Geographic Specials (1965– )
60 min | Documentary, History
For over 30 years, the National Geographic Society has presented specials on nature, foreign culture, scientific breakthroughs, and things which fall under the general category of "neat stuff." Each special is self-contained.
Stars: Alexander Scourby, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Kiley, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 340
2. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
25 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
In this science-fiction anthology series host Truman Bradley introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data available in the 1950's, concentrating on such concepts as space flight, UFO's and mental telepathy.
Stars: Truman Bradley, Michael Fox, Marshall Thompson, Peter Hansen
Votes: 445
3. Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary, Action
Director: Robert Guenette | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Fairbanks
Votes: 167
4. Death Be Not Proud (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander, Robby Benson, Linden Chiles
Votes: 202
5. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
R | 111 min | Drama, War
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
Director: Dalton Trumbo | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards
Votes: 18,369 | Gross: $0.55M
6. National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
R | 109 min | Comedy
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst
Votes: 129,475
7. Right of Way (1983 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
A dying woman and her husband agree to a joint-suicide pact, whether others like it or not.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Bette Davis, James Stewart, Melinda Dillon, Priscilla Morrill
Votes: 947
8. Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown (1975 TV Short)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The gang celebrate Valentine's Day while Charlie Brown hopes for at least one valentine for a change.
Director: Phil Roman | Stars: Duncan Watson, Stephen Shea, Melanie Kohn, Greg Felton
Votes: 2,943
9. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
R | 102 min | Drama
While drag-racing through the American Southwest in a Chevrolet 150, a driver and his mechanic cross paths with an enigmatic hitchhiker and the tall-tale-spinning driver of a GTO.
Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: James Taylor, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, Dennis Wilson
Votes: 13,439
10. A Time for Miracles (1980 TV Movie)
97 min | Biography, Drama
A true story about Elizabeth Bayley Seton, the first American to ever be canonized as a saint by the Pope. She took up Catholicism after the death of her rich husband, fought bigotry, and opened free Catholic schools and orphanages.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Rossano Brazzi, John Forsythe
Votes: 115
11.
Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Episode:
'Tis the Season to Be Murdered
(1980)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Jennifer and Jonathan go undercover to identify a toy plan thief who has become a murderer.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Kenneth Kimmins
Votes: 138
12. Taps (I) (1981)
PG | 126 min | Drama
Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Cox, Sean Penn
Votes: 20,116 | Gross: $35.86M
13. Cutter's Way (1981)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry
Votes: 7,653 | Gross: $1.73M
14. The Bunker (1981 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, History, War
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton
Votes: 2,548
15. Nutcracker Fantasy (1979)
G | 82 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Clara finds herself in a magical world where her toys have come to life but must fight the evil mice who threaten the kingdom before she can return home.
Director: Takeo Nakamura | Stars: Michele Lee, Melissa Gilbert, Lurene Tuttle, Christopher Lee
Votes: 282
16. The Final Countdown (1980)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino
Votes: 27,012 | Gross: $16.65M
17. Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The globe-trotting adventures of amateur detectives Jonathan and Jennifer Hart.
Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Lee Wilkof
Votes: 8,815
18. Baby Comes Home (1980 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A middle-aged couple deals with familial upheaval after giving birth to an unplanned 4th baby 17 years after their last child. The mother wrestles with with fears about aging, the father ... See full summary »
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Colleen Dewhurst, Warren Oates, Devon Ericson, Fredric Lehne
Votes: 47
19.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Human Experiment
(1956)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Biochemist Dr. Ellen Ballard has isolated an enzyme from bees that she hopes will help the mentally ill function in society. What she creates at her isolated laboratory is a house full of ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Truman Bradley, Marshall Thompson, Virginia Christine, Claudia Barrett
Votes: 25
20. Night Shift (1982)
R | 106 min | Comedy
A mild-mannered morgue attendant is assigned to the night shift, and his new coworker, along with his prostitute neighbor, convince him of running a prostitution ring out of the morgue.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht
Votes: 17,983 | Gross: $23.60M
21. Dead & Buried (1981)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery
Sheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.
Director: Gary Sherman | Stars: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield
Votes: 14,946 | Gross: $0.22M
22. The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
R | 83 min | Comedy
The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby, George Lazenby
Votes: 20,289
23. Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Stagestruck adolescent learns about love the hard way while interning in Cleveland summer stock during the early '50's.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller
Votes: 330 | Gross: $0.06M
24. Continental Divide (1981)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn
Votes: 5,649 | Gross: $15.58M
25. Four Girls in Town (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
Director: Jack Sher | Stars: George Nader, Julie Adams, Sydney Chaplin, Marianne Koch
Votes: 139
26. Nice Dreams (1981)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Crime
Disguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect.
Director: Tommy Chong | Stars: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Benita Barrie, Sandra Bernhard
Votes: 8,142 | Gross: $33.98M
27. Star in the Dust (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Western
A sheriff planning on legally hanging a killer, has to contend with farmers who want to lynch him, and cattlemen who want to help him escape.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: John Agar, Mamie Van Doren, Richard Boone, Coleen Gray
Votes: 663
28. The Killing of Randy Webster (1981 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn't believe the police version of the incident and starts digging around on his own.
Director: Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, James Whitmore Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh
Votes: 235
29. Summer Lovers (1982)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young American couple and a French woman engage in a threesome in the Greek Islands.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah, Valérie Quennessen, Barbara Rush
Votes: 4,494 | Gross: $4.97M
30. Seven (1979)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama
Hawaii has fallen under the control of a ruthless cartel of seven gangsters. The FBI acquires the services of an ex-agent turned assassin, Drew Savano, who in turn assembles a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
Director: Andy Sidaris | Stars: William Smith, Barbara Leigh, Guich Koock, Christipher Joy
Votes: 906
31. Evita Peron (1981 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 200 min | Drama, History
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all-consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Faye Dunaway, James Farentino, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Michael Constantine
Votes: 368
32. Nightkill (1980)
R | 97 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A woman's lover poisons her cruel husband, a rich businessman, in front of her. She becomes more terrified when she finds the lover dead as well. A police detective suddenly shows up at her door.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus
Votes: 891
33. The Take (1974)
PG | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crime fighter Terry Sneed arrives in New Mexico to help out a local police chief - but he's already taking money from the underworld.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Sorrell Booke
Votes: 315
34. In God We Trust (or Gimme That Prime Time Religion) (1980)
PG | 97 min | Comedy
Raised in a Trappist monastery, the innocent Brother Ambrose sets out to find money to save the bankrupt monastery. His education in worldliness is provided by a hooker. He eventually petitions G. O. D. For the cash.
Director: Marty Feldman | Stars: Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser, Richard Pryor
Votes: 1,197 | Gross: $2.01M
35. Chained Heat (1983)
R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs and staff corruption and brutality.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson
Votes: 2,633 | Gross: $6.15M
36. Endless Love (1981)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance
Parental disapproval of a passionate romance between two teenagers leads to arguments, circumstance, insanity and tragedy.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt, Shirley Knight, Don Murray
Votes: 9,594 | Gross: $31.18M
37. Wacko (1982)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy, Julia Duffy
Votes: 1,437
38. Safari 3000 (1982)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Reporter J.J. Dalton (Stockard Channing) wants to write a story about a gruelling three thousand kilometer auto rally through Africa. When her deal to ride with a driver falls through, she ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Hurwitz | Stars: David Carradine, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lee, Hamilton Camp
Votes: 436
39. Human Experiments (1979)
R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Director: Gregory Goodell | Stars: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle
Votes: 885
40. The Vals (1983)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime
Sam, Trish, Beth, and Annie are four Valley Girls bored with shopping and frat parties. They come across kind Mr. Stanton, who is running a home for orphaned boys. Mr. Stanton and his ... See full summary »
Director: James Polakof | Stars: Jill Carroll, Elena Stratheros, Michele Laurita, Gina Calabrese
Votes: 184
41. Starcrash (1978)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff
Votes: 7,988