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1. To Die For (1995)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck
Votes: 53,084 | Gross: $21.28M
2. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
R | 118 min | Drama, Music
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
Director: John Badham | Stars: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali
Votes: 87,590 | Gross: $94.21M
3. The Banker (2020)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Director: George Nolfi | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long
Votes: 35,789
4. Working Girl (1988)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 62,453 | Gross: $64.00M
5. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Approved | 128 min | Drama
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
Votes: 9,580
6. Metropolitan (1989)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols
Votes: 12,421 | Gross: $2.94M
7. A Woman of Substance (1984)
300 min | Drama, Romance
Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl, overcomes her impoverished beginnings in her quest to become a retailing magnate and one of the world's richest women.
Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Barry Bostwick, Deborah Kerr, Diane Baker
Votes: 1,132
8. The Temp (1993)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Nice guy junior exec Peter doesn't play dirty but unfortunately, some of his colleagues do. In comes Kris, his new temp, who is bright and efficient and saves him. She's willing to play dirty for Peter.
Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dwight Schultz, Oliver Platt
Votes: 3,620 | Gross: $6.42M
9. The Young Philadelphians (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Drama
A promising lawyer tries to handle his social and professional problems while climbing the ranks in Philadelphia.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith
Votes: 4,276
10. Strictly Business (1991)
PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Sharp social satire in which the uneven friendship between an ambitious Black businessman and his streetwise pal is thrown into further confusion when the professional falls in love with a mind-numbingly gorgeous waitress.
Directors: Kevin Hooks, Rolando Hudson | Stars: Tommy Davidson, Joseph C. Phillips, Anne-Marie Johnson, David Marshall Grant
Votes: 2,255 | Gross: $7.68M
11. Sins (1986)
420 min | Drama, Romance
Young Helene Junot (Catherine Mary Stewart) witnesses her mother's death at the hands of Nazis. Separated from her brother Edmund (Timothy Dalton) by the war, Helene goes to work at the ... See full summary »
Stars: Joan Collins, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Berenson, Steven Berkoff
Votes: 379
12. Champion (1949)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Votes: 4,759
13. The Castle of Sand (1974)
143 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita, Yôko Shimada
Votes: 1,538
14. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama
After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard
Votes: 4,827
15. No Down Payment (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
In California, four couples who have bought houses near one another face problems, alcoholism, racism, promiscuity, and discrimination against lack of education, until a tragic event forces them to reassess their lives.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sheree North, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 1,202
16. Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
G | 72 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.
Directors: Greg Ford, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Terry Lennon, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Mel Tormé, Roy Firestone, B.J. Ward
Votes: 2,672
17. Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream (2012)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Paul Piff, Anne Rueth, Colin Dunkley
Votes: 1,390
18. Chuecatown (2007)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime
In BOYSTOWN (Chuecatown), Victor (Pablo Puyol of 20 Centimeters) is a real estate agent in the quickly gentrifying neighborhood of Chueca in Madrid. But he hides a terrible secret; his ... See full summary »
Director: Juan Flahn | Stars: Pepón Nieto, Pablo Puyol, Concha Velasco, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 982
19. The Gay Lady (1949)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. She later wonders if Sid wasn't better after all, and seeks to find out.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Lana Morris
Votes: 177
20. Brillante porvenir (1965)
93 min | Drama
Antonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, lives a monotonous existence until he is transferred to Barcelona to work in an architecture company. From that moment on, a new life... See full summary »
Directors: Vicente Aranda, Román Gubern | Stars: Germán Cobos, Serena Vergano, Josefina Güell, Arturo López
Votes: 35
21. Stick It (2014)
5 min | Short, Romance, Sport
The single channel video STICK IT combines television footage of women's gymnastics with recordings of the artist attempting the same routines. Merging himself and the young gymnasts of the... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Ramirez Perez
22.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
Trump Unveils Tax Plan: It's Mostly Good
(2017)
13 min | News
Styx doesn't think Donald Trump's tax plan is perfect; but it's good, and he supports it.
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
23.
Geography Geek (2020– )
Episode:
What's Left of New Amsterdam? (And the Origins of the USA)
(2021)
16 min | Documentary
New Amsterdam was establish by Henry Hudson on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Renamed by the English as New York City. little is physically left of the original town due to fires. ... See full summary »
Star: Zack Fleming
24.
Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs (2012– )
Episode:
No Going Back
(2012)
Documentary, History
Director: Paul Berczeller | Stars: Pamela Cox, Edith Argy, Caroline Carr-Whitworth, Lucy Delap
25.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
The Death of the American City
(2016)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Roshaun Harris, Chris Hedges, Darryl Mitchell
26.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
How Trump Can Trap the Democrats Into Voting for His Tax Reform
(2017)
20 min | News
Styx predicts what Donald Trump is likely to do re tax reform.
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
27.
Extraordinary Humans (2017– )
Episode:
From Wall Street to Brooklyn Wordsmith: Leaving the 9-5 for Art's Sake
(2017)
5 min | Documentary, Short
28.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
Left Behind America
(2018)
TV-MA | 53 min | Documentary, News
The economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once booming city that now struggles to recover in the post-recession economy.
Director: Shimon Dotan | Stars: Mark Bernstein, Priyanka Boghani, Joseph Bohbot, Rodney Brickey
Votes: 55