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1. The Big Combo (1955)

Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A police lieutenant is ordered to stop investigating deadly crime boss Mr. Brown because he hasn't been able to get any hard evidence against him. He goes after Brown's girlfriend, who despises him, for information instead.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy

Votes: 8,618

2. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)

G | 89 min | Family, Fantasy, Music

A young boy dreams that he is in an imaginary world where, assisted by his family's plumber, he must save other piano-playing kids like himself from the dungeons of his dictatorial piano teacher who also mind-controls his mother.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Tommy Rettig

Votes: 4,457

3. Skidoo (1968)

R | 98 min | Comedy

Infamous psychedelic all-star comedy about ex-gangster Tony Banks, who's called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks ... See full summary »

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark

Votes: 1,917

4. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Music

Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.

Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski

Votes: 2,885

5. Raiders in the Sky (1953)

Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War

War drama about the dangerous and stressful work of Lancaster bomber British crews during World War II.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bryan Forbes

Votes: 821

6. Commander (1988)

TV-PG | 99 min | Action, War

Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they ... See full summary »

Director: Ignazio Dolce | Stars: Craig Alan, David Light, Max Laurel, Larry Brand

Votes: 199

7. Babette Goes to War (1959)

106 min | Comedy, War

Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Ronald Howard, Michael Cramer

Votes: 452

8. UFOs: It Has Begun (1979)

97 min | Documentary

A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings.

Director: Ray Rivas | Stars: William T. Coleman, L. Michael Drummond, José Ferrer, William Fitzgerald

Votes: 118

9. Sea Racketeers (1937)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama

Step back in time to the golden age of classic crime movies. The arch villain (played by J. Carrol Naish) is running a casino on board a ship. At the same time he�۪s smuggling ... See full summary »

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Weldon Heyburn, Jeanne Madden, Warren Hymer, Penny Singleton

Votes: 79

10. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: The War Against the U-Boats (2002)

Documentary, History, War

An in depth look at the World War II Battle of the Atlantic, the people who commanded the fighting, the national leaders, and the equipment used.

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith

Votes: 6

11. Darkwing Duck (1991–1992)
Episode: Double Darkwings (1991)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Short, Action

Jambalaya Jake uses a potion mixed up by Granny to take control of Launchpad - dressed as Darkwing Duck - and makes him do crimes.

Directors: Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove | Stars: Jim Cummings, Terence McGovern, Michael Gough, Billie Hayes

Votes: 162

12. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Middle Man (2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When bodies begin turning up in the cornfields of Indiana, the team must catch a pack of serial killers targeting exotic dancers.

Director: Rob Spera | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 2,583

13. The Great War (2010–2012)
Episode: The Battle of Moscow (2011)

46 min | Documentary, Drama, History

October 1941, Germany's Army Group Center is only some 25 km west of Moscow. The Russian winter, however, is only a few weeks away. With not enough soldiers or military equipment, the ... See full summary »

Director: Anna Grazhdan | Stars: Anatoliy Bogush, Olga Radchuk, Evgeniy Sinchukov, Joseph Stalin

Votes: 11

14. The Great War (2010–2012)
Episode: The Battle of Berlin (2012)

45 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Germany has without question lost World War II in Europe, but Hitler, by now a heavily medicated and deluded character, refuses to give up hope; he orders the roughly one million German ... See full summary »

Votes: 11