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1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)

PG-13 | 130 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.

Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon

Votes: 949,415 | Gross: $381.01M

2. Falling Down (1993)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 206,848 | Gross: $40.90M

3. The Bounty (1984)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

Votes: 30,516 | Gross: $8.60M

4. It Happened One Night (1934)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 112,368 | Gross: $4.36M

5. Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

Passed | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A family leaves Los Angeles for a camping trip just before hydrogen bombs destroy the city. In the midst of the chaos, the father must fight to keep his family alive along the highway.

Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Mary Mitchel

Votes: 4,841

6. The Boxer (1997)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan

Votes: 22,341 | Gross: $5.80M

7. 13th (2016)

TV-MA | 100 min | Documentary, Crime, History

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Melina Abdullah, Michelle Alexander, Cory Booker, Dolores Canales

Votes: 37,695

8. The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles

Votes: 12,426

9. The Big Trail (1930)

Passed | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Breck Coleman leads hundreds of settlers in covered wagons from the Mississippi River to their destiny out West.

Directors: Raoul Walsh, Louis R. Loeffler | Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall

Votes: 4,406

10. Captain Blood (1935)

Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, History

After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 16,107 | Gross: $2.96M

11. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery

After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer

Votes: 2,828

12. Türkisch für Anfänger (2012)

105 min | Adventure, Comedy

After a plane crash Lena Schneider finds herself on a remote Andaman island with a teenage turk Cem, full of hormones, his religious sister and Greek Costa.

Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Elyas M'Barek, Anna Stieblich, Adnan Maral

Votes: 9,438

13. Female on the Beach (1955)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Moving into a beach house involves Lynn Markham in mystery, danger, and romance with a beach boy of dubious motives.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Jan Sterling, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 1,419

14. The Sound and the Fury (1959)

Approved | 110 min | Drama

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes, and respect.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman

Votes: 1,025

15. Talk Back and You're Dead (2014)

TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

This is the story of Samantha, a girl who unbelievably fell in love with a delinquent, hot-headed guy named Top--the leader of the so-called gang "Lucky 13". And she always asks herself if they'll last forever.

Director: Andoy Ranay | Stars: James Reid, Nadine Lustre, Joseph Marco, Yassi Pressman

Votes: 518

16. Thousands Cheer (1943)

Passed | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her... See full summary »

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Mary Astor, John Boles

Votes: 1,196

17. The Taming of the Shrew (1929)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance

In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong... See full summary »

Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 647 | Gross: $2.40M

18. Blues in the Night (1941)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Music

"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 1,307

19. Myrt and Marge (1933)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Myrt has a show chock-full of talented performers who deserve to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer", provides the money in order to get his... See full summary »

Director: Al Boasberg | Stars: Myrtle Vail, Donna Damerel, Ray Hedge, Eddie Foy Jr.

Votes: 118

20. Freedom (XVIII)

Adventure, Drama, Western | Pre-production

In her quest to find Freedom a vulnerable divorcee falls for a down-and-out cowboy she meets in Las Vegas. The price she pays to make his life better destroys his pride and takes a toll on her soul.

Director: Tane McClure | Stars: Lisa Varga, Drew Pollock, Da'Neille Roy, Reynee Long

21. Stronghold (1951)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1860s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Veronica Lake, Zachary Scott, Arturo de Córdova, Rita Macedo

Votes: 117

22. Wings Over the Pacific (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Drama

An American officer discovers a Nazi plot to take over an island in the Pacific on which oil has been discovered.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Inez Cooper, Edward Norris, Montagu Love, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 84

23. Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (1948)

Approved | 180 min | Drama, Western

Jesse James returns to Missouri, and he and brother Frank come to the aid of a young woman who owns a gold mine. Her father was murdered and she took over the mine, and now the villains who... See full summary »

Directors: Fred C. Brannon, Yakima Canutt | Stars: Clayton Moore, Steve Darrell, Noel Neill, George J. Lewis

Votes: 152

24. Thundering Trails (1943)

Approved | 60 min | Drama, Western

In 1871, the Rangers are disbanded due to lack of funds so Monroe County sets up it's own police force. All ranchers must pay for protection, but those who do not are quickly robbed and/or ... See full summary »

Director: John English | Stars: Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Nell O'Day

Votes: 77

25. The Abysmal Brute (1923)

Passed | 80 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A young man is raised in the mountains by his prizefighter father. Although he possesses great strength and athletic skill, he is completely out of his league when it comes to women. He ... See full summary »

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Reginald Denny, Mabel Julienne Scott, Charles K. French, Hayden Stevenson

26. Life Begins with Love (1937)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a ... See full summary »

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Jean Parker, Douglass Montgomery, Edith Fellows, Leona Maricle

Votes: 122

27. Mississippi Gambler (1942)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A journalist finds out, that a plantation owner he meets is a gangster the police is looking for, who has changed his face with plastic surgery.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Kent Taylor, Frances Langford, John Litel, Shemp Howard

Votes: 43

28. The Rawhide Terror (1934)

Approved | 52 min | Western

Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens.

Directors: Bruce Mitchell, Jack Nelson | Stars: Art Mix, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, William Barrymore

Votes: 183

29. The Girl from Monterrey (1943)

Passed | 58 min | Romance, Sport

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to ... See full summary »

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Armida, Edgar Kennedy, Veda Ann Borg, Jack La Rue

Votes: 61

30. Emergency Hospital (1956)

Not Rated | 62 min | Drama

About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Walter Reed, Margaret Lindsay, John Archer, Byron Palmer

Votes: 143

31. Two in a Taxi (1941)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama

Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small, roadside gas station from its elderly owner George Cleveland. In ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr., Dick Purcell

Votes: 30

32. The Pastry Girl (2002)

105 min | Comedy, Romance

Saeed and Niloo loves each other and want to get marry for 20 years but each time their families intervene and prevent them from getting marry. Until they decide to commit suicide together.... See full summary »

Director: Iraj Tahmasb | Stars: Iraj Tahmasb, Soraya Ghasemi, Hamid Jebeli, Fatemah Motamed-Aria

Votes: 752

33. On the Ropes

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An unlikely boxing prodigy struggles to survive the constant drama of a highly dysfunctional family while chasing success in and out of the ring with a little help from a dead man.

34. Return to Kandahar (2003)

65 min | Documentary

Nelofer Pazira returns to Afghanistan to find her lost friend.

Directors: Paul Jay, Nelofer Pazira

Votes: 111

35. The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble (1937)

Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason

Votes: 35

36. La dame de Monsoreau (1961 TV Movie)

Drama, History, Romance

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Director: Alain Boudet | Stars: Jacques Duby, Alain Saury, Guy Kerner, André Charpak

37. The Rancho High School Riots (2012 TV Movie)

57 min | Documentary, History

Forty years after the tumultuous season of race riots that spread like wildfire through Rancho High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, the participants on all sides of the cultural divide come ... See full summary »

Director: Stan Armstrong | Stars: Michael Brophy, Dan Crevoisier, Antonio Fargas, Dan Gray

38. The Cold War: Act 1 - France (1948)

Approved | 19 min | Short, History

The subject deals with Europe's problem of economic recovery, following WWII, and the struggle against the expanding pressure by Russia. The film shows that the Communists lost their first ... See full summary »

Director: Richard De Rochemont | Stars: Jackson Beck, Robert Schuman, Charles de Gaulle, George C. Marshall

39. Mills of the Gods (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Drama

A game-old-girl, Mary Hastings (May Robson), retires as the head of the Hasting Plow Works...only to see it slip rapidly into ruin. Her ne're-do-well son and daughter refuse to part with a ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: May Robson, Fay Wray, Victor Jory, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 49

40. Fever (I) (2017)

3 min | Short, Music

A Jungian exploration of the human psyche, from dark apparitions to angelic figures.

Director: Jason Snell

41. The White Black Sheep (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, War, Romance

Robert Kincairn, the dissolute son of a British colonel, is gallant enough to take the blame for a robbery perpetrated by his fiancee Enid. Thrown out of his home, he changes his name and join the army.

Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Patsy Ruth Miller, Constance Howard, Erville Alderson

42. Qualquer Lugar (2002)

15 min | Short, Drama, Romance

"Anywhere" tells the tempestuous love story between a rich photographer and an underground artist.

Director: Gisela Rodriguez | Stars: Tatiana Paganella, Adriano Basegio, Tiago Agne, Carlos Tomazzolli

Votes: 19

43. Hard Time (2008)

Unrated | 6 min | Short, Action, Romance

August Day, a young man imprisoned in a strange futuristic lab, recalls the strange events of his seemingly 150 years of ageless life. He relives the same experiences in different eras of ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Clement | Stars: Matt McLaughlin, Michelle Adams, Robert Nolan, Evan Spergel

Votes: 5

44. Eagle of the Night (1928)

Passed | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

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Director: Jimmy Fulton | Stars: Frank Clarke, Shirley Palmer, Earl Metcalfe, Josef Swickard

Votes: 20

45. One Piece (1999– )
Episode: Hiyori's Confession! Reunion on Oihagi Bridge (2020)

TV-14 | Animation, Action, Adventure

Big Mom and Kadio come to blows leaving Kadio's subordinate nervous. Reunions take place as Hyogoro and the yakuza bosses from the past get reacquainted while across Wano, Hiyori and Kawamatsu also reunite.

Director: Ryosuke Tanaka | Stars: Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Susumu Akagi, Cyrus Rodas

Votes: 1,817

46. One Piece (1999– )
Episode: Oden's Determination! Whitebeard's Trials! (2021)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Once their ship is repaired, the Whitebeard Pirates leave at night to avoid Oden's advances but he catches up anyway, attaching a chain to the ship and riding with Izo through the ocean. ... See full summary »

Director: Satoshi Itô | Stars: Robbie Daymond, Kelly Greenshield, Zac Loera, Christian Thorsen

Votes: 5,345

47. One Piece (1999– )
Episode: The Moment of Conclusion! Oden vs. Kaido! (2021)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Oden and the nine Ninjas march toward Kaido's area for revenge. Suddenly something shows up in their way.

Director: Ryosuke Tanaka | Stars: Van Barr Jr., Robbie Daymond, Ken'yû Horiuchi, Hiroya Ishimaru

Votes: 6,184

48. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Episode: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey (2011)

TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary

Humankind's progressive belief in being machines, and how no one believes anymore that the world can be changed for the better.

Director: Adam Curtis | Stars: Adam Curtis, David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Robin Day

Votes: 104

49. Alaska Daily (2022–2023)
Episode: A Place We Came Together (2022)

TV-PG | 41 min | Drama

When Roz and Eileen find a lead in Gloria's case, Eileen calls in a favor to help them track down the person of interest. Meanwhile, Claire investigates why beloved local restaurant Rita's ... See full summary »

Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Grace Dove, Meredith Holzman

Votes: 522

50. The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode: Examining the Syrian War Chessboard (2016)

Documentary, News, Talk-Show

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Stars: John Kerry, Abby Martin, Vijay Prashad

Votes: 10