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1. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 138,236
2. American Psycho (2000)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 715,595 | Gross: $15.07M
3. Starship Troopers (1997)
R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey
Votes: 321,194 | Gross: $54.81M
4. Dirty Dancing (I) (1987)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes
Votes: 256,450 | Gross: $0.62M
5. The Man from Earth (2007)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
Director: Richard Schenkman | Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford
Votes: 200,201
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 465,993 | Gross: $1.59M
7. Steve Jobs (2015)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama
Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels
Votes: 178,552 | Gross: $17.77M
8. Crimson Tide (1995)
R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza
Votes: 123,335 | Gross: $91.40M
9. The Nanny Diaries (2007)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney, Paul Giamatti, Donna Murphy
Votes: 64,077 | Gross: $25.93M
10. Giant (1956)
G | 201 min | Drama, Western
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Votes: 42,249
11. The Man from Toronto (2022)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Jasmine Mathews, Kaley Cuoco
Votes: 59,594
12. The Politician (2019–2020)
TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Drama
Payton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.
Stars: Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Julia Schlaepfer
Votes: 24,562
13. The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Best friends Audrey and Morgan unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of them discovers that the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.
Director: Susanna Fogel | Stars: Justin Theroux, Kate McKinnon, Blanka Györfi-Tóth, Mila Kunis
Votes: 83,062 | Gross: $33.56M
14. Baby Boom (1987)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Kristina Kennedy
Votes: 19,160 | Gross: $26.71M
15. Two Weeks Notice (2002)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
A lawyer decides that she's used too much like a nanny by her boss, so she walks out on him.
Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, Alicia Witt, Dana Ivey
Votes: 125,938 | Gross: $93.35M
16. Happiest Season (2020)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Romance
A holiday romantic comedy that captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family's acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas.
Director: Clea DuVall | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber
Votes: 47,398
17. Heart of Champions (2021)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Sport
During their last year at an Ivy League college in 1999, a group of friends and crew teammates' lives are changed forever when an army vet takes over as coach of their dysfunctional rowing team.
Director: Michael Mailer | Stars: Michael Shannon, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Alex MacNicoll
Votes: 2,295
18. The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)
GP | 103 min | Western
An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon
Votes: 5,079 | Gross: $0.11M
19. Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main
Votes: 12,372
20. Here Today (2021)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York street singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Director: Billy Crystal | Stars: Billy Crystal, Chad Jennings, Dierdre Friel, Alex Brightman
Votes: 5,907
21. Petrocelli (1974–1976)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Harvard-educated lawyer from Boston sets up shop in a small Arizona town.
Stars: Barry Newman, Susan Howard, Albert Salmi, Arnold Jeffers
Votes: 1,048
22. Murina (2021)
96 min | Drama
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
Director: Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic | Stars: Gracija Filipovic, Leon Lucev, Danica Curcic, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 3,200
23. Tea for Two (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A socialite with aspirations of a career in show business bets her wealthy uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for two days straight, hoping winning will help her fulfill her dreams.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden
Votes: 2,192
24. Leprechaun: Origins (2014)
R | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror
Not related to the previous Leprechaun films. Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends is a terrifying reality.
Director: Zach Lipovsky | Stars: Dylan Postl, Stephanie Bennett, Andrew Dunbar, Melissa Roxburgh
Votes: 6,516
25. How to Build a Better Boy (2014 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Teenage tech whizzes unwittingly use military software to program a robotic boyfriend.
Director: Paul Hoen | Stars: China Anne McClain, Kelli Berglund, Marshall Williams, Matt Shively
Votes: 3,705
26. Northwest Passage (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 3,906
27. The Secret Army (2024)
89 min | Documentary
Darragh MacIntyre reveals the strange story of the lost documentary that unmasked the IRA. Right at the bloodiest point of the conflict, IRA bombers were filmed unmasked, and most of its underground leadership appeared on camera.
Star: Darragh MacIntyre
Votes: 56
28. Marjorie Prime (2017)
99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A service that provides holographic recreations of deceased loved ones allows a woman to come face-to-face with the younger version of her late husband.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Geena Davis, Hannah Gross, Jon Hamm, India Reed Kotis
Votes: 6,867 | Gross: $0.18M
29. A Summer Romance (2019 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Richard flies to Montana to buy a 2500 acre ranch with money problems from Sam, and build a resort. Sam turns out to be a cute, single woman.
Director: David Winning | Stars: Erin Krakow, Ryan Paevey, Sarah Strange, Kevin O'Grady
Votes: 1,979
30. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh
Votes: 3,487 | Gross: $7.70M
31. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard
Votes: 2,059
32. Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Approved | 126 min | Musical, Romance
A wealthy American has a chance encounter with a joyful young French woman, and anonymously pays for her education. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor, nicknaming him from the description given by some of her fellow orphans.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore, Thelma Ritter
Votes: 4,283
33. Humor Me (2017)
93 min | Comedy
With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.
Director: Sam Hoffman | Stars: Joey Slotnick, Bernie McInerney, Elliott Gould, Tibor Feldman
Votes: 1,410 | Gross: $0.04M
34. Spaceship Earth (2020)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary
A look at the group of people who built the Biosphere 2, a giant replica of the earth's ecosystem, in 1991.
Director: Matt Wolf | Stars: Kathelin Gray, Marie Harding, William Dempster, John Allen
Votes: 2,150
35. BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012)
Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Kathy Najimy plays den mother to the returning cast of bears, boys and cubs, for a Bear Week bachelor party in Provincetown! Take a trip down the aisle with Roger and Tyler to one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Langway | Stars: Joe Conti, Gerald McCullouch, Stephen Lambeth, Chuck Southworth
Votes: 613
36. Uncertainty (2008)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Assumpta Serna, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 6,669 | Gross: $0.04M
37. Too Many Girls (1940)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
A young lady goes to college, and without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards. They eventually join the college team and turn it into one the best--and one of them falls in love with her.
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Lucille Ball, Richard Carlson, Ann Miller, Eddie Bracken
Votes: 1,026
38. Murder Me, Murder You (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud, Delta Burke
Votes: 381
39. Death Dreams (1991 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.
Director: Martin Donovan | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Marg Helgenberger, Fionnula Flanagan, George Dickerson
Votes: 538
40. Bye Bye Germany (2017)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, War
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
Director: Sam Garbarski | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Tim Seyfi, Mark Ivanir
Votes: 1,764 | Gross: $0.07M
41. Bad Manners (1997)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician and Kim is a computer specialist who ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Kaufer | Stars: David Strathairn, Bonnie Bedelia, Saul Rubinek, Caroleen Feeney
Votes: 447
42. Oppenheimer (II) (2023)
43 min | Short, History
This documentary explores famous figure J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American theoretical physicist who was called, "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.
Director: Mitch Carterfield | Star: Chris Harvey
Votes: 11
43. Man Wanted (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Kay Francis, David Manners, Una Merkel, Andy Devine
Votes: 857
44. So This Is College (1929)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr
Votes: 284
45. Cadillac Girls (1993)
96 min | Drama
A woman and her delinquent rebellious teen daughter return to their small hometown after the death of the woman's distant father. Old wounds reopen quickly but they soon find a reason to stay. Will they find peace or more scars?
Director: Nicholas Kendall | Stars: Mia Kirshner, Morrissey Dunn, Benita Ha, Jessica Bowden
Votes: 139
46. The Great Man Votes (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 646
47. Border Cafe (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Western
Easterner Keith Whitney, son of a wealthy Senator, heads west where he ends up a drunk at a border cafe. After losing the money his father sent him to buy a ranch he learns his father is ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Harry Carey, John Beal, Armida, George Irving
Votes: 118
48. Father Is a Prince (1940)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy, Drama
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, John Litel, George Reeves
Votes: 181
49. Age Isn't Everything (1991)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business--and finds himself turned into a little old man.
Director: Douglas Katz | Stars: Jonathan Silverman, Robert Prosky, Rita Moreno, Rita Karin
Votes: 117
50. Of Moose and Men: The Rocky & Bullwinkle Story (1990 TV Movie)
Documentary, Animation, History
A retrospective look at the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" cartoon show, from the creative talent behind the scenes to the cast of animated characters and the cultural and historical influences behind the show's gags.
Director: Marino Amoruso | Stars: Howard Brandy, Allan Burns, William Conrad, June Foray
Votes: 53