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1. Predestination (I) (2014)

R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

As his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.

Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West

Votes: 305,631 | Gross: $0.07M

2. Carnival of Souls (1962)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Mystery

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Director: Herk Harvey | Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison

Votes: 27,910

3. The Seven Kittens (1980)

109 min | Comedy, Drama

Noronha, a low-class civil servant and his wife Gorda have four elder daughters. Silene, the youngest, is expelled from boarding school for killing a cat and newborns.

Director: Neville de Almeida | Stars: Antônio Fagundes, Ana Maria Magalhães, Lima Duarte, Ary Fontoura

Votes: 536

4. Summer of Fear (1978 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller

A teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Jeff McCracken

Votes: 3,041

5. The Jazz Singer (1927)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 11,112 | Gross: $7.63M

6. A Rage to Live (1965)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.

Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves

Votes: 767

7. Autumn Leaves (1956)

Approved | 107 min | Drama

A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene

Votes: 3,207

8. Wild Witch (2018)

90 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

"Wild Witch" is a fantasy film for the whole family based on the popular book series by Lene Kaaberbøl.

Director: Kaspar Munk | Stars: Gerda Lie Kaas, Sonja Richter, May Lifschitz, Vera Mi Fernandez Bachmann

Votes: 692

9. Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

Teenage Julie Thurston has no wheels, so she hitchhikes to get around. Unfortunately, a psychopath is roaming the highways, picking up young girls and raping them.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Dominique Dunne, Dick Van Patten, Katherine Helmond, James Carroll Jordan

Votes: 199

10. Alison's Birthday (1981)

99 min | Horror, Mystery

A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.

Director: Ian Coughlan | Stars: Joanne Samuel, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, John Bluthal

Votes: 1,262

11. The Green Promise (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Drama

After the Matthews family buys a farm, the father suffers a severe injury, which puts his four children in charge. Daughter Deborah and her kid sister Susan take the lead--with help from the handsome local agricultural agent.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Walter Brennan, Robert Paige, Natalie Wood

Votes: 699

12. Witchcraft (1964)

Not Rated | 79 min | Horror

When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.

Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats

Votes: 1,547

13. Afrodita (1993 TV Movie)

78 min | Drama

Being constantly bullied by his peers, 11-yr old Michal Ronec develops a friendship with a man and the man's horse Aphrodite.

Director: Lubomir Mihailo Kocka | Stars: Gabriela Bauerová, Marcela Fuksova, Juraj Hrcka, Bohdan Krnac

Votes: 30

14. Promises in the Dark (1979)

PG | 118 min | Drama

Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Marsha Mason) hides behind a hard shell of professional detachment, until she treats Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller), a ... See full summary »

Director: Jerome Hellman | Stars: Marsha Mason, Ned Beatty, Susan Clark, Michael Brandon

Votes: 336

15. The Bigamist (1953)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Ida Lupino, Edmund Gwenn, Edmond O'Brien

Votes: 4,743

16. A Place of One's Own (1945)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price

Votes: 960

17. Unwed Mother (1958)

Approved | 74 min | Drama

Betty (Norma Moore) moves from a farming community to Los Angeles. She falls into the clutches of a super-cad (Robert Vaughn) and ends up abandoned and pregnant. After visiting a drunken ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Doniger | Stars: Norma Moore, Robert Vaughn, Diana Darrin, Billie Bird

Votes: 106

18. Falling Leaves (1912)

Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama

Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.

Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne, Magda Foy

Votes: 1,665

19. The Stork Club (1945)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Robert Benchley

Votes: 748

20. Them Thar Hills (1934)

Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short

Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their '... See full summary »

Director: Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall

Votes: 2,337

21. Gambling with Souls (1936)

Unrated | 70 min | Drama

Young girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Martha Chapin, Wheeler Oakman, Bryant Washburn, Gay Sheridan

Votes: 213

22. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy

A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards

Votes: 1,011

23. Free Wheeling (1932)

Approved | 20 min | Family, Comedy, Short

Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.

Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Dorothy DeBorba, Kendall McComas, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Votes: 287

24. Sleepless (1957)

127 min | Drama, Romance

Teenage Nadia is raised by her father after her mother's death. Returning home from boarding school, her father has re-married. Jealous Nadia decides to get rid of the competition of a stepmother by accusing her of sleeping with her uncle.

Director: Salah Abouseif | Stars: Faten Hamamah, Yehia Chahine, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif

Votes: 477

25. The Town Went Wild (1944)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Edward Everett Horton, Tom Tully

Votes: 191

26. Unholy Love (1932)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama

An adaptation of Madame Bovary transported to Rye, New York in the 1930's. All characters have been renamed.

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: H.B. Warner, Lila Lee, Beryl Mercer, Joyce Compton

Votes: 149

27. La maisonnée (1992)

25 min | Short, Comedy

It is easier to hurt children rather than astonish them. Francois Chasteller is coming to take his wife to the final procedure of their divorce. He is to take her home on the same day in ... See full summary »

Director: Hervé Lièvre | Stars: Maryse Aubert, Céline Courcy, Jean Davy, Gaëla Giraud

28. Sleepless Hollow (1936)

Passed | 16 min | Comedy, Short

A newlywed couple visits the husband's country bumpkin family so his wife can meet the in-laws. She is jealous of the girl he left behind. A bottle of Champagne, a bottle of arsenic, a leaky roof and celery threaten to ruin the honeymoon.

Director: Robert Hall | Stars: Harry Gribbon, George Shelton, Anita Garvin, Dorothy Morrison

Votes: 11

29. What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life (2018)

123 min | Comedy, Drama

Not everyone values the housewife enough. When the local friendly neighbourhood burglar hits their house, the husband and wife descend into a quarrel that ends up with the woman departing ... See full summary »

Director: Yôji Yamada | Stars: Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Yui Natsukawa

Votes: 468

30. Home Cured (1926)

11 min | Short, Comedy

The wife and doctor of a hypochondriac come up with a creative way to cure him of his malady.

Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Johnny Arthur, Virginia Vance, Chick Collins, George Davis

Votes: 25

31. The House Call (2020)

13 min | Short, Horror

We meet Dr. Vanessa Stevens, a psychiatrist, on her first day back to work since the tragic death of her sister, Natalie. Convinced that work is the best distraction from her grief, Dr. ... See full summary »

Director: David Schuler | Stars: Varda Appleton, Nicole Fong, Anna Lillie, Ricky Mabe

Votes: 10

32. Every Saturday Night (1936)

58 min | Comedy

First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: June Lang, Thomas Beck, Jed Prouty, Spring Byington

Votes: 37

33. Molly O' (1921)

80 min | Comedy

An Irish washerwoman's daughter falls in love with one of America's most eligible bachelors, much to the chagrin the young doctor's fiancée. The two girls attend a masked ball in similar costumes, where Molly is mistaken for her rival.

Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Mabel Normand, George Nichols, Anna Dodge, Albert Hackett

Votes: 78

34. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance

A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.

Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: William Farnum, Tom Santschi, Patty Lou Lynd, Robert Frazer

Votes: 137

35. If My Country Should Call (1916)

50 min | Drama

A pacifist mother tries to protect her son, whose patriotism makes him want to enlist in the army. Her uncle, a doctor, has invented a heart medication which mimics heart disease. Just a drop or ten in her son's drink should keep him home.

Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, Helen Leslie, Frank Whitson, Lon Chaney

Votes: 27

36. Who's Looney Now (1936)

Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short

Brown gives his new neighbor a ride home. In appreciation, the neighbor shares his tricks he calls "the masculine emancipator." When Brown follows his advice, things do not go exactly to plan.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Jack Norton, Vivien Oakland, Billy Gilbert, Tempe Pigott

Votes: 28

37. Her Accidental Hero (1937)

18 min | Comedy, Short

A gang of insurance-fraudsters and a love triangle involving a hapless masseur and a cop intersect in the streets of a big city.

Director: William Watson | Stars: Harry Gribbon, Jack Hartley, Jean Stuart, Douglas Leavitt

Votes: 8

38. The Family Doctor (1910)

7 min | Short, Comedy

A woman seems to be terribly ill, but is it health or seduction that's truly on her mind?

Director: Johann Schwarzer

Votes: 54

39. Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode: Witching Time (1980)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The ghost of a witch returns to her place of residence before she died, a rural farm, and possesses one of the current occupants.

Director: Don Leaver | Stars: Jon Finch, Patricia Quinn, Prunella Gee, Ian McCulloch

Votes: 892

40. All in the Family (1971–1979)
Episode: Archie in the Hospital (1973)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama

Hospital patient Archie strikes up a quick friendship with his roommate ... unaware that he is black.

Directors: Bob LaHendro, John Rich | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers

Votes: 247

41. The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode: Coming Out Party (1971)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family

Mike's boss, Mr. Phillips, invites the Bradys to spend a day on his boat, but they have to postpone the trip when both Cindy and Carol have to get their tonsils removed.

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick

Votes: 185

42. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.243 (1967)

TV-PG | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Dr. Woodard hopes to examine Willie's blood. Jason informs Elizabeth that they will be married.

Director: John Sedwick | Stars: Joan Bennett, Dennis Patrick, Jonathan Frid, John Karlen

Votes: 63

43. Sona Chandi (1982)
Episode: Episode #1.4

Comedy, Drama

Sona and Chandi are hired by an eccentric couple as nannies for two reclusive children.

Director: Rashid Dar | Stars: Sheba Hasan, Hamid Rana, Ayub Khan, Tashfeen

44. Sona Chandi (1982)
Episode: Episode #1.18

Comedy, Drama

As Sona and Chandi contemplate interfering with family matters of Tafazzul, his relationship with his wife and her brother change rapidly.

Director: Rashid Dar | Stars: Sheba Hasan, Hamid Rana, Ayub Khan, Tashfeen

45. Sona Chandi (1982)
Episode: Episode #1.21

Comedy, Drama

Sona and Chandi stumble upon a new job while solving mystery of a lost child. Bhai Hameed suffers from deep despair.

Director: Rashid Dar | Stars: Sheba Hasan, Hamid Rana, Ayub Khan, Tashfeen

46. Sona Chandi (1982)
Episode: Episode #1.29

Comedy, Drama

Sona and Chandi are in last phase of their matchmaking plan. Tragedy hits Mama Yaqoob's relatives.

Director: Rashid Dar | Stars: Sheba Hasan, Hamid Rana, Ayub Khan, Tashfeen

47. Urban Legends (2007–2011)
Episode: Missing Pieces (2011)

PG-13 | 24 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A barmaid's life of death decision; fairytale romance for an Irish couple; a small town murder.

Stars: Michael Allcock, Paige Albrecht, Peter Attwell, Sheila Bhatnagar

Votes: 8

48. Manhunt (2024)
Episode: Useless (2024)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Stanton gets a win, but not the way he wanted. He plans for the conspirators' trial, which he must conquer to keep Lincoln's legacy alive.

Director: Eva Sørhaug | Stars: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Will Harrison

Votes: 224