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1. Houseboat (1958)

Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.

Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino

Votes: 9,668

2. Suspicion (1957–1958)
Episode: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1958)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a palmist tells an English lord that he is about to commit a murder, the man postpones his wedding in order to meet his fate without sullying the reputation of the woman he loves.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Ronald Howard, Rosemary Harris, Gladys Cooper, Sebastian Cabot

Votes: 26

3. Suspicion (1957–1958)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The show consisted of forty episodes, half of which were live and half of which were filmed. The shows, which often involved murder, were intended to confuse and mystify the audience.

Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Mike Ragan, Cris Roberts, David Armstrong

Votes: 521

4. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)

TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery

Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.

Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, Lillian O'Malley, John Williams

Votes: 19,367

5. Front Row Center (1955–1956)

60 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Broadway plays were presented live in condensed one hour versions.

Stars: Robert Sterling, Fletcher Markle, James Daly, Olive Sturgess

Votes: 34

6. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Into Thin Air (1955)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

When a young woman leaves her ill mother in a Paris hotel room and comes back later, she finds her mother is missing, and all the hotel's employees deny she and her mother were ever there.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Hitchcock, Geoffrey Toone, Alan Napier

Votes: 1,440

7. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode: Johnny, Where Are You? (1955)

30 min | Drama

Hope Foster is wary about the arrival of her husband's former wartime companion. She is sure that the woman is in love with him, and soon begins to think that he may be in love with her.

Director: Daniel Dare | Stars: Gale Storm, Keith Andes, Alix Talton, Frances Robinson

8. Front Row Center (1955–1956)
Episode: Meeting at Mayerling (1955)

Biography, Drama, Romance

The ill-fated romance between the Crown Prince Rudolf and a commoner, Maria Vetsera.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Claude Dauphin, Isobel Elsom, Fred Essler, Mary Forbes

9. Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)
Episode: Second Elopement (1954)

30 min | Drama

A youthful looking matron reconsiders her decision to marry a distinguished diplomat.

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Kathryn Card, Kathleen Crowley, Virginia Field, Mary Forbes

10. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)

30 min | Drama

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

Stars: Philip Carey, Laraine Day, Willis Bouchey, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 276

11. Les Miserables (1952)

Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A parole violator in early 19th Century France is relentlessly pursued and persecuted by an obsessive policeman.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 1,130 | Gross: $2.40M

12. Pest Man Wins (1951)

16 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

The stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. The boys are hired, but must dress as guests to work unobserved. They disrupt the party and a wild pie fight ensues.

Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Margie Liszt

Votes: 344

13. Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)

30 min | Drama

An anthology series which became the first successful filmed series on American television.

Stars: Gene Raymond, John Warburton, Nolan Leary, Dabbs Greer

Votes: 97

14. The Black Arrow (1948)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, History

Young nobleman Richard Shelton returns from the War of the Roses to find his father murdered, a fugitive family friend blamed, and his uncle occupying his estates.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 448

15. You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)

100 min | Comedy, Romance

A spoiled heiress who has jilted multiple fiancés embroils a commercial pilot in a series of wacky misadventures.

Directors: H.C. Potter, Walter Lantz | Stars: Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young

Votes: 943

16. The Judge Steps Out (1948)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

A Boston judge bored with his life leaves his family and heads off for adventure. He gets a job as a short-order cook at a roadside diner and soon finds romance with the pretty owner. He ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Alexander Knox, Ann Sothern, George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett

Votes: 364

17. Song of Love (1947)

Approved | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell

Votes: 1,162

18. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff, Fay Bainter

Votes: 6,877

19. It Had to Be You (1947)

98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A woman is noted for leaving her bridegrooms at the altar until a dashing fireman walks into her life.

Directors: Don Hartman, Rudolph Maté | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde, Percy Waram, Spring Byington

Votes: 827

20. Down to Earth (1947)

Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

Upset about a new Broadway musical's mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works her charms on the show's producer and he... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks, Marc Platt, Roland Culver

Votes: 1,608 | Gross: $5.45M

21. The Other Love (1947)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Karen Duncan, a seriously ill concert pianist, enters a Swiss sanatorium where she's attracted to Dr. Tony Stanton. Ignoring his warnings about resting, she leaves for Monte Carlo with Paul Clermont despite possibly fatal consequences.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, David Niven, Richard Conte, Gilbert Roland

Votes: 923

22. Half-Wits Holiday (1947)

Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short

A professor seeks to prove his theories about environment versus heredity by turning three boorish plumbers into gentlemen.

Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Vernon Dent

Votes: 644

23. Ivy (1947)

Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall, Richard Ney

Votes: 1,120

24. The Exile (1947)

Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Romance

Charles II, the King of England, finds himself in exile in Holland, where he falls in love with a beautiful farm-girl.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Paula Corday, Henry Daniell

Votes: 561

25. Cigarette Girl (1947)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Boy meets Girl. Boy tells Girl he is an oil company president and she tells him she is a popular night club singer. Boy and Girl are telling each other little white lies. But, via some ... See full summary »

Director: Gunther von Fritsch | Stars: Leslie Brooks, Jimmy Lloyd, Ludwig Donath, Doris Houck

Votes: 27

26. Terror by Night (1946)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 6,946

27. A Stolen Life (1946)

Passed | 109 min | Drama

When a woman's twin sister is drowned, she assumes her identity in order to be close to the man she feels her sister took from her years before.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark, Walter Brennan

Votes: 4,103

28. The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Sport

After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran

Votes: 1,293

29. One Way to Love (1946)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

A Chicago team of radio scriptwriters must split up when one takes a job with his bride-to-be's father, and another must write commercial jingles.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Willard Parker, Marguerite Chapman, Chester Morris, Janis Carter

Votes: 55

30. 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: 14,477

31. Lady on a Train (1945)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir

In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.

Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris

Votes: 2,574

32. Guest Wife (1945)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A newspaper correspondent who has convinced his publisher he is married implores his friend's wife to pose as his bride.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Dick Foran, Charles Dingle

Votes: 502

33. That Night with You (1945)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy

A young singer becomes so desperate to appear on Broadway that she goes to a prominent producer and tells him that she is the daughter who resulted from his day-long marriage to a young woman he knew years ago.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Franchot Tone, Susanna Foster, David Bruce, Louise Allbritton

Votes: 63

34. That's the Spirit (1945)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, June Vincent, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 78

35. Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)

Approved | 91 min | Musical, Romance

A producer puts an unknown European princess (Constance Moore) in his show, and she falls for its author (Dennis O'Keefe).

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger

Votes: 94

36. A Guy, a Gal and a Pal (1945)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman devises a clever scheme to secure a train reservation by pretending to be married to a stranger.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Ross Hunter, Lynn Merrick, Ted Donaldson, George Meeker

Votes: 24

37. I'll Remember April (1945)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Gloria Jean, Kirby Grant, Milburn Stone, Edward Brophy

Votes: 45

38. Ladies Courageous (1944)

Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War

The story of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, a unit of female pilots during WW II who flew bombers from the factories to their final destinations.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Diana Barrymore, Anne Gwynne

Votes: 155

39. Tender Comrade (1943)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Robert Ryan, Ruth Hussey, Patricia Collinge

Votes: 999

40. 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: 9,522 | Gross: $3.82M

41. Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)

Approved | 71 min | Mystery, Thriller, War

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy hands.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell

Votes: 4,756

42. Mr. Lucky (1943)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 3,547

43. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field

Votes: 1,156

44. Women in Bondage (1943)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, War

Margot Bracken returns home to Germany after several years of absence, and is horrified at the degraded status which has been forced on the women of her homeland. Toni Hall is prevented ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Gail Patrick, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Tala Birell

Votes: 114

45. What a Woman! (1943)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A literary agent is pursued by the charming writer of a popular magazine while she attempts to sway one of her clients, a handsome but innocent college professor, to star in an upcoming movie based on his best-selling novel The Whirlwind.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Willard Parker, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 408

46. Dangerous Blondes (1943)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Edmund Lowe, John Hubbard

Votes: 401

47. Two Tickets to London (1943)

Passed | 78 min | Drama, War

Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Alan Curtis, C. Aubrey Smith, Barry Fitzgerald

Votes: 53

48. This Above All (1942)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance, War

Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Fontaine, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 1,422

49. Twin Beds (1942)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: George Brent, Joan Bennett, Mischa Auer, Una Merkel

Votes: 135

50. We Were Dancing (1942)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

Two titled aristocrats support themselves by being professional house guests in the homes of star-struck American nouveau riche.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Melvyn Douglas, Gail Patrick, Lee Bowman

Votes: 528