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1. The Help (2011)

PG-13 | 146 min | Drama

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard

Votes: 492,861 | Gross: $169.71M

2. Lady Macbeth (2016)

R | 89 min | Drama, Romance

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.

Director: William Oldroyd | Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie

Votes: 27,277 | Gross: $1.13M

3. The Beast (1975)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.

Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti

Votes: 5,347

4. Big Jake (1971)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Western

In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.

Directors: George Sherman, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne

Votes: 14,414 | Gross: $16.35M

5. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman

Votes: 55,283 | Gross: $10.63M

6. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Directors: Orson Welles, Fred Fleck, Robert Wise | Stars: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter

Votes: 26,758

7. Mausoleum (1983)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror

A 10 year-old girl, mourning the death of her mother, becomes possessed by a demon who has been preying on her female ancestors for centuries. Years later, the demon starts to take over, both mentally and physically.

Director: Michael Dugan | Stars: Marjoe Gortner, Bobbie Bresee, Norman Burton, Maurice Sherbanee

Votes: 3,091

8. The Beast Must Die (1974)

PG | 93 min | Horror, Mystery

Eight people are invited to an island estate for the weekend. One of them is a werewolf. Can you guess which one?

Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Peter Cushing, Marlene Clark, Charles Gray

Votes: 4,173

9. Queen Bee (1955)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance

When a young woman arrives at the home of her socialite cousin, she soon gets sucked into the woman's complex web of deceit.

Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland

Votes: 2,618

10. Invisible Ghost (1941)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Polly Ann Young, John McGuire, Clarence Muse

Votes: 2,592

11. Boom Town (1940)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr

Votes: 3,781 | Gross: $9.17M

12. Saratoga Trunk (1945)

Passed | 135 min | Drama, Romance, Western

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has ostracized them.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Flora Robson, Jerry Austin

Votes: 1,575

13. Alice Adams (1935)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 4,564

14. A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Warner Anderson

Votes: 1,028

15. L'inhumaine (1924)

Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.

Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat, Fred Kellerman

Votes: 1,040

16. Isabella, Duchess of the Devils (1969)

79 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.

Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Brigitte Skay, Mimmo Palmara, Fred Williams, Elina De Witt

Votes: 174

17. Dear Dead Delilah (1972)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A sickly matriarch of a dysfunctional family living in an old Southern mansion teases her siblings about finding a long lost treasure hidden in the premises, little did she know that there is someone ready to kill to get their hands on it.

Director: John Farris | Stars: Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick

Votes: 500

18. Erotic Symphony (1980)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A nobleman and his two lovers - a teenage boy and a runaway nun - plan to kill his mentally fragile wife.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Susan Hemingway, Armando Borges, Mel Rodrigo

Votes: 405

19. Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka

Votes: 1,195

20. Captain Pirate (1952)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In 1690, pardoned pirate Captain Blood's quiet existence is shaken when the Crown re-arrests him on fresh piracy charges but the captain suspects he's being set up.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton, Charles Irwin

Votes: 348

21. Night of the Vampires (1964)

Approved | 86 min | Horror

A mad scientist and his bevy of vampires terrorize a German village. A detective and a witch set out to stop them.

Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Adrian Hoven, Erika Remberg, Carl Möhner, Wolfgang Preiss

Votes: 402

22. H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms (2013)

80 min | Horror, Thriller

Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that the strange locals are hiding something and a mystery relating to a nearby lake that legend says was created by a meteor.

Directors: Adam Rehmeier, Domiziano Cristopharo | Stars: Yvonne Sciò, Paolo Stella, Carlo De Mejo, Yuri Antonosante

Votes: 90

23. The Grass Is Singing (1981)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

In the 1940s, a city girl moves from America to her husband's failing farm in Southern Rhodesia in colonial Africa. Unhappy and unhinged, she starts an affair with their black servant which leads to tragedy.

Director: Michael Raeburn | Stars: Karen Black, John Thaw, John Kani, Patrick Mynhardt

Votes: 193

24. Scarlet Angel (1952)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Pursued by a sea captain, larcenous saloon queen Roxy McClanahan assumes the identity of a Civil War widow with wealthy relatives.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Denning, Whitfield Connor

Votes: 246

25. The Killer of Dolls (1975)

98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.

Director: Miguel Madrid | Stars: David Rocha, Inma de Santis, Helga Liné, Elisenda Ribas

Votes: 392

26. Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920)

88 min | Horror

Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.

Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen

Votes: 1,130

27. The Bride Wore Boots (1946)

Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A bookish historian is married to a steely Southern belle who raises horses, an animal that he doesn't care for. However, the cute young neighbor girl doesn't feel that way about him and makes no bones about letting him know it.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles

Votes: 522

28. The Smiling Ghost (1941)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

An heiress seems to be cursed as each of her intended grooms meets with a horrible end.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale

Votes: 803

29. The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Simon Templar, the Saint, travels to San Francisco to solve crime mysteries within the police department.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Jerome Cowan

Votes: 1,084

30. Liberace: Behind the Music (1988 TV Movie)

97 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Fueled by the intense poverty of his youth, Walter Valentino Liberace is determined to become the world's greatest entertainer. Explore the rises and falls, the libel and palimony suits, as... See full summary »

Director: David Greene | Stars: Victor Garber, Saul Rubinek, Michael Dolan, Maureen Stapleton

Votes: 150

31. The Monster Walks (1932)

Passed | 57 min | Horror, Mystery

People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds

Votes: 1,085

32. The Vanishing Virginian (1942)

Passed | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Natalie Thompson

Votes: 323

33. The Great Gildersleeve (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Gildersleeve, a small town bachelor, has slapstick troubles with a husband-hunting woman and two helpful kids.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Harold Peary, Jane Darwell, Nancy Gates, Charles Arnt

Votes: 413

34. Dixiana (1930)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.

Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Everett Marshall, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey

Votes: 423

35. Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy

In 1940, Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a retired Army officer, returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, and is disturbed at the lack of civic pride. He ... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 448

36. Ramon the Mexican (1966)

96 min | Drama, Western

A terrifying tale of murder and revenge that takes place as Slim Baxter attempts to destroy the terrible Morales gang and save his lovely bride Esmeralda.

Director: Maurizio Pradeaux | Stars: Robert Hundar, Wilma Lindamar, Jean Louis, José Torres

Votes: 66

37. La hembrita (2023)

90 min | Drama

A high-class woman with "empty nest syndrome" ends up with one of her maid's granddaughters under her care. She must decide between giving the girl back or keeping her in the family.

Directors: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán | Stars: Cecilia Garcia, Cuquín Victoria, Juan Maria Almonte, William Junior Caminero

Votes: 29

38. Lena Rivers (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance

Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Charlotte Henry, Morgan Galloway, Beryl Mercer, James Kirkwood

Votes: 106

39. The Face of Marble (1946)

Approved | 72 min | Horror

Dr. Randolph is so obsessed with re-animating the dead in his isolated old dark house and lab that he doesn't realize his wife is in love with his younger assistant.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Claudia Drake, Robert Shayne, Maris Wrixon

Votes: 379

40. The Glory Trail (1936)

Passed | 65 min | Western

It's just after the Civil War and Captain Morgan and his confederate soldiers are establishing a town on the Bozeman trail. Colonel Strong and his union men are at the nearby fort. Things ... See full summary »

Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Tom Keene, Joan Barclay, James Bush, Frank Melton

Votes: 28

41. Aladdin and His Wonder Lamp (1906)

12 min | Short, Fantasy

The legend of Aladdin and his magic lamp: Aladdin finds a magic lamp which brings him wealth, luxury, and marriage to a princess. But his rival, an evil magician, steals the lamp for ... See full summary »

Director: Albert Capellani | Stars: Georges Vinter, Paul Capellani, Liane de Pougy, André Deed

Votes: 445

42. Fred's Fictitious Foundling (1918)

Short, Comedy

Two con men trick a wealthy family into thinking a 300 pound man is a baby in this 1918 silent comedy.

Director: Josh Binney | Stars: Hilliard Karr, Bert Tracy, Fred Bezerril, Vivian Dart

Votes: 26

43. Public Enemy feat. Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane: Burn Hollywood Burn (1990 Music Video)

4 min | History, Music

Public Enemy, Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane go to the cinema to watch old movies featuring racist stereotypes of black people which they comment on in the song.

Director: Lionel C. Martin | Stars: Louise Beavers, Willie Best, Big Daddy Kane, Chuck D

Votes: 27

44. Chicken Chased and Henpecked (1917)

Comedy, Short

The old man goes away on vacation and leaves his son in charge of the house, with no money. The son gets the idea of renting the rooms. He steals a sign and hangs it out. Mr. and Mrs. ... See full summary »

Director: Vin Moore | Stars: Phil Dunham, Merta Sterling, Lucille Hutton, Catherine Young

45. Making a Man of Her (1912)

10 min | Comedy, Short

In order to get a job as a cook on a ranch, a young girl disguises herself as a boy. Problems arise when several of the young women at the ranch fall in love with "him".

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Donald MacDonald, Eddie Lyons, Lee Moran, Russell Bassett

Votes: 38

46. The Timid Ghost (1937)

16 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

A drunk man in a bar sells another man a ghost. Spooky hi-jinx ensue when the ghost follows him to meet his girlfriend's father.

Director: William Watson | Stars: Charles Kemper, Earle Gilbert, Mary McCormick, Douglas Leavitt

Votes: 8

47. Nick Kenny's Radio Thrills No. 2 (1933)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Radio Reporter Nick Kenny does a little socializing in his radio studio, greeting and schmoozing with radio performers of the day such as Arthur Tracy, Leo Reisman, Mildred Bailey, Donald ... See full summary »

Director: Monte Brice | Stars: Nick Kenny, Armida, Arthur L. Jarrett, Arthur Tracy

48. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Lady in Waiting (1971)

TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A mousy heiress murders her brother, pretending she thought he was a burglar. Lt. Columbo unravels her alibi.

Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Peter Falk, Susan Clark, Jessie Royce Landis, Richard Anderson

Votes: 3,216

49. Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode: Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles (1993)

30 min | Drama

In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell, ... See full summary »

Director: John Byrne | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, John Sessions, Celia Imrie, Ruth McGhie

Votes: 26

50. Arena (1975– )
Episode: The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow - Part 1 (1998)

140 min | Documentary

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Director: Anthony Wall | Stars: Bryan Barrett, Lionel Bart, Peter Brown, Brian Epstein

Votes: 58