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1. The Lion King (1994)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Whoopi Goldberg
Votes: 1,141,735 | Gross: $422.78M
2. The Lion King (2019)
PG | 118 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Votes: 266,813 | Gross: $543.64M
3. Alone (V) (2020)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Rosenthal
Votes: 28,557
4. This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
After their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes, and might-have-beens.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver
Votes: 89,224 | Gross: $34.29M
5. The Tree of Life (2011)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama, Fantasy
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
Votes: 184,087 | Gross: $13.30M
6. West Side Story (1961)
Approved | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 121,154 | Gross: $43.66M
7. The Hired Gun (1957)
Approved | 63 min | Western
A woman breaks out of jail before hanging and a man is hired to bring her back.
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Anne Francis, Vince Edwards, John Litel
Votes: 379
8. Death at a Funeral (2010)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Keith David, Loretta Devine
Votes: 53,641 | Gross: $42.74M
9. The Burning Plain (2008)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A drama with a two-tiered storyline concerning a mother and daughter who try to form a bond after the young woman's difficult childhood.
Director: Guillermo Arriaga | Stars: Charlize Theron, John Corbett, José María Yazpik, Robin Tunney
Votes: 21,333 | Gross: $0.20M
10. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.
Director: Sanaa Hamri | Stars: America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively
Votes: 30,752 | Gross: $44.09M
11. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Wang Yu-wen, Chien-Lien Wu
Votes: 23,183 | Gross: $7.29M
12. Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe
Votes: 12,014 | Gross: $63.32M
13. The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel
Votes: 3,175
14. The Shipping News (2001)
R | 111 min | Drama
An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 33,920 | Gross: $11.43M
15. Summer Wars (2009)
PG | 114 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A student tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world, while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Mitsuki Tanimura, Takahiro Yokokawa
Votes: 31,772 | Gross: $0.08M
16. Meet the Browns (2008)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father--a man she never met--and she and her clan meet the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Tamela J. Mann, Angela Bassett, Tyler Perry, David Mann
Votes: 7,295 | Gross: $41.98M
17. Aparajito (1956)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Rani Bala
Votes: 15,980 | Gross: $0.17M
18. Twenty Bucks (1993)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.
Director: Keva Rosenfeld | Stars: Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Elisabeth Shue, David Rasche
Votes: 4,175
19. The Brothers Rico (1957)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates
Votes: 1,617
20. Aftershock (2010)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History
The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu, Fan Xu
Votes: 9,735 | Gross: $0.06M
21. Constellation (2005)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama
A painter living in exile returns home where his family endured generations of racial violence. There he begins to fantasize the people around him as a series of portraits in order to bury the pain and find something beautiful to feel.
Director: Jordan Walker-Pearlman | Stars: Gabrielle Union, Billy Dee Williams, Zoe Saldana, Daniel Bess
Votes: 698 | Gross: $23.01M
22. Switched at Birth (1991)
PG | 176 min | Drama
This is the story of two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later, when one of the girls dies, tests reveal that she was not the child of the couple who raised her.
Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, John M. Jackson, Eve Gordon
Votes: 844
23. The Firefly (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
After the sudden death of her estranged brother, Lucia accidentally meets his fiancée and falls in love with her.
Director: Ana Maria Hermida | Stars: Carolina Guerra, Olga Segura, Manuel José Chaves, Luis Fernando Orozco
Votes: 1,310
24. Accidents Happen (2009)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Billy, his parents, siblings and neighbors have their fair share of accidents in 1974 and 1982. Boys will be boys.
Director: Andrew Lancaster | Stars: Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck
Votes: 2,800
25. La tía Alejandra (1980)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Diana Bracho, Isabela Corona, Manuel Ojeda, María Rebeca
Votes: 449
26. They Wait (2007)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young mother and her six-year-old son come face to face with the mysteries of two murders and a great crime against the Chinese community into which they have recently arrived from Shanghai.
Director: Ernie Barbarash | Stars: Jaime King, Terry Chen, Pei-Pei Cheng, Henry O
Votes: 3,510
27. Ouija (2007)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Half-sisters Aileen and Romina reunite with their first-cousins Ruth and Sandra in Camiguin to bury their grandmother, accompanied by Sandra's friend Lucy. The five girls dare to call on ... See full summary »
Director: Topel Lee | Stars: Judy Ann Santos, Jolina Magdangal, Iza Calzado, Rhian Ramos
Votes: 248
28. Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
This moving story was the swan song of actress Viveca Lindfors, who died unexpectedly soon after completing it. It's a fitting tribute, as the film explores the last performance in the ancestral home of a large family of actors.
Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Victoria Foyt, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Robin Baitz, Savannah Smith Boucher
Votes: 441 | Gross: $0.40M
29. Tukaram (2012)
Not Rated | 156 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the story of Tukaram's transformation into a extremely compassionate spiritual saint.
Director: Chandrakant Kulkarni | Stars: Jitendra Joshi, Radhika Apte, Vrishasen Dabholkar, Padmanabh Gaikwad
Votes: 354
30. My Ghost Dog (1997 TV Movie)
G | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
He's cute, he's furry and he's completely invisible - except to Toby, his 8 year old best friend. His name is Lucky, The Magic Dog. When Toby's evil Aunt Violet tries to steal Toby's inheritance, Lucky tries to wreck her nasty scheme.
Director: John Putch | Stars: Leo Milbrook, Bryan Mendez, Jessica Knoblauch, Sarah Tinnon
Votes: 263
31. A House Through Time (2018– )
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.
Stars: David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Ian Hislop, Gaynor Evans
Votes: 196
32. Breza (1967)
92 min | Drama, Romance
Beautiful but ailing girl is married to a harsh man who doesn't care for her. Only after she dies does he realize that he actually loves her.
Director: Ante Babaja | Stars: Manca Kosir, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Fabijan Sovagovic, Nela Erzisnik
Votes: 864
33. Forever (2022)
110 min | Drama
A family is struck by an unbearable tragedy.
Director: Frelle Petersen | Stars: Jette Søndergaard, Mette Munk Plum, Eskil Bøgh Tonnesen, Tue Frisk Petersen
Votes: 259
34. Saan darating ang umaga? (1983)
116 min | Drama
A family's source of joy becomes the cause of all their grief. After years of trying to have a son, a couple finally decides to adopt one. While Shayne their only child is receptive at ... See full summary »
Director: Maryo J. de los Reyes | Stars: Nida Blanca, Nestor De Villa, Maricel Soriano, Jaypee De Guzman
Votes: 39
35. Honeymoon in Bali (1939)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A Manhattan career woman tries to resist a man who wants her to be his wife.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Allan Jones, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 451
36. Lydia Bailey (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In 1802, during Haiti's struggle for independence from Napoleonic France, an American lawyer seeks a client's daughter living on the revolution-torn island.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Dale Robertson, Anne Francis, Charles Korvin, William Marshall
Votes: 227
37. Bahama Passage (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 143
38. Mother (1952)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Eiji Okada, Akihiko Katayama
Votes: 863
39. Framed (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde, William Holden
Votes: 322
40. Les pel·lícules del meu pare (2007)
98 min | Drama
Director: Augusto Martínez Torres | Stars: Karme Málaga, Ariadna Cabrol, Marisa Lull, Carlo D'Ursi
Votes: 93
41. Summer's End (1999 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 101 min | Drama, Family
A 12-year-old boy and his older brother have just lost their dad. At their summer cottage, the younger boy befriends a black doctor who has to deal with local prejudice and racism.
Director: Helen Shaver | Stars: James Earl Jones, Jake LeDoux, Brendan Fletcher, Wendy Crewson
Votes: 470
42. Eve and the Fire Horse (2005)
92 min | Drama
Chinese-Canadian Eve Eng was born in 1966, in the year of the fire horse. In Chinese culture, fire horse children are notorious for being troublesome. In 1975, nine year old Eve is looking ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Kwan | Stars: Phoebe Kut, Hollie Lo, Vivian Wu, Chit-Man Chan
Votes: 574
43. Joaquin Bordado (2008– )
45 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Joaquin Bordado is a man with tattoos all over his body. What is unique about these tattoos are they become alive.
Stars: Robin Padilla, Iza Calzado, Eddie Garcia, Ian Veneracion
Votes: 38
44. Adventures of Casanova (1948)
Approved | 83 min | Action, Adventure, History
After Palermo falls in 1793, a notorious ladies man joins the underground resistance movement--but still finds time for the ladies.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey, John Sutton
Votes: 65
45. Stestí (2005)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
Three young adults in Most sort out feelings and responsibilities: Monika's boyfriend has left for the States, her mother wants her to join him there, and if the invitation does come, what ... See full summary »
Director: Bohdan Sláma | Stars: Tatiana Dyková, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Marek Daniel
Votes: 1,552
46. Subject: I Love You (2011)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young man, Victor, will do anything to reconnect with the only woman he's ever loved - even if that means entangling himself in an international criminal investigation.
Director: Francis dela Torre | Stars: Briana Evigan, Jericho Rosales, Dean Cain, Dante Basco
Votes: 157
47. Cinq filles en furie (1964)
95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two branches of the same family fight for the love of a handsome Spanish poacher, and to retrieve the location of a treasure hidden by an ancestor during WWII, which secret is guarded by Marthe, their spinster aunt.
Director: Max Pécas | Stars: Marc Bonseignour, Madeleine Constant, Nicole Mérouze, Marie-France Mignal
Votes: 32
48. Flying Devils (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Anny Hardy is a parachute-stunt diver with a flying-circus group of barnstorming pilots which her husband, "Speed" Hardy heads. She meets and falls in love with Bud Murray, the younger ... See full summary »
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Arline Judge, Bruce Cabot, Eric Linden, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 157
49. Rose of the Rancho (1914)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Esra Kincaid takes land by force, and having taken the Espinoza land, he sets his sight on the Castro rancho U.S. Government Agent Kearney holds him off until the cavalry shows up and he ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Jane Darwell, Dick La Reno, Jack W. Johnston
Votes: 45 | Gross: $0.09M
50. Don't Turn 'em Loose (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote. This turns out to cause many problems for the family while on vacation.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Lewis Stone, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Louise Latimer
Votes: 209