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1. Gone with the Wind (1939)

Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil

Votes: 334,281 | Gross: $198.68M

2. The Notebook (2004)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Romance

An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling

Votes: 620,174 | Gross: $81.00M

3. Stripes (1981)

R | 106 min | Comedy, War

Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, John Candy, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates

Votes: 80,013 | Gross: $85.30M

4. Winter's Bone (2010)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone

Votes: 150,552 | Gross: $6.53M

5. Private Benjamin (1980)

R | 109 min | Comedy, War

A sheltered young high-society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a trickier situation than she ever expected.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber

Votes: 28,687 | Gross: $69.85M

6. I Confess (1953)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne

Votes: 23,260

7. In the Army Now (1994)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, War

Two misguided youths join the reserves to make some money for their entrepreneurial dreams. No sooner than they finish basic training are they called up to do their part to save the free world.

Director: Daniel Petrie Jr. | Stars: Pauly Shore, Lori Petty, Andy Dick, David Alan Grier

Votes: 14,690 | Gross: $28.86M

8. Tokyo Sonata (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki

Votes: 11,807 | Gross: $0.28M

9. The Student Nurses (1970)

R | 89 min | Drama

Sexy young nurses apply special therapy in their daily rounds.

Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Elaine Giftos, Karen Carlson, Brioni Farrell, Barbara Leigh

Votes: 551

10. There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)

Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Dan Dailey

Votes: 6,701

11. Banana Joe (1982)

96 min | Action, Comedy

A man is living happily on an island with his family, growing bananas. When a local mobster with an eye on man's property tries to take it from him, he must go to the town for the first time to get some help.

Director: Steno | Stars: Bud Spencer, Marina Langner, Mario Scarpetta, Gianfranco Barra

Votes: 8,877

12. Love at First Fight (2014)

Unrated | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies.

Director: Thomas Cailley | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Kévin Azaïs, Antoine Laurent, Brigitte Roüan

Votes: 6,259 | Gross: $0.02M

13. Pursued (1947)

Passed | 101 min | Western

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger

Votes: 3,833

14. Girl in Gold Boots (1968)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A young woman leaves her job as a waitress and travels to Los Angeles, where she strives to become the top star in the glamorous world of go-go dancing.

Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Jody Daniels, Leslie McRay, Tom Pace, Mark Herron

Votes: 3,950

15. Starship Troopers (1988)

150 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Mysterious monstrous alien creatures attack Earth's colonies. This six-part OVA focuses on Juan "Johnnie" Rico who joins the army because of Carmen, a girl he likes, his days in boot camps, his losses and Earth's first counterattack.

Stars: Yasunori Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Inoue, Show Hayami, Hirohiko Kakegawa

Votes: 326

16. The Bowery (1933)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray

Votes: 615 | Gross: $4.36M

17. The Hanged Man (2008)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama

A story of a passionate sentimental initiation out of the ordinary; with a crime story and suspects, and two young characters.

Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira | Stars: Clara Lago, Álvaro Cervantes, Adriana Ugarte, Abel Folk

Votes: 758

18. The Real Inglorious Bastards (2012 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary

The Office of Strategic Services parachutes two Austrian naturalized citizens, Fred Mayer and Hans Wijnberg, back into the Austrian Alps to strike back at Nazi Germany during "Operation Greenup."

Director: Min Sook Lee | Stars: Robert Nolan, Patrick O'Donnell, Fred Mayer, Gerald Schwab

Votes: 445

19. Little Orphant Annie (1918)

57 min | Drama

Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Colleen Moore, Tom Santschi, Harry Lonsdale, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 78

20. Battle Scars (2020)

84 min | Crime, Drama, War

After his best friend is drafted to fight in Vietnam, a young man must grapple with the reality of life before and after war.

Director: Samuel Gonzalez Jr. | Stars: Kit Lang, Arturo Castro, Illya Konstantin, Emily Trosclair

Votes: 1,107

21. Luffar-Petter (1922)

75 min | Comedy

Peter joins the army after fleeing from the repercussions of a love affair. Greta is one of the daughters of a mayor from the army. Her father is the major, at whose town Peter's army ... See full summary »

Director: Erik A. Petschler | Stars: Anna Brandt, Gucken Cederborg, Agnes Clementsson, Valdemar Dalquist

Votes: 91

22. There's Something About a Soldier (1934)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Betty Boop recruits for the Army by offering inductees a kiss. The recruits march off to war with a force of giant mosquitoes!

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Star: Mae Questel

Votes: 148

23. G.I. Pink (1968)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The Pink Panther joins the U.S. Army and goes to boot camp, where he unwittingly causes no end of trouble for a short, pointy-nosed drill Sergeant. Before long, the Sergeant is plotting to ... See full summary »

Director: Hawley Pratt

Votes: 219

24. Alice's Little Parade (1926)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A little girl presides as general over her cartoon army made up of various animals as they head off to the trenches.

Director: Walt Disney | Star: Margie Gay

Votes: 154

25. The Lighthorsemen: Deleted Scenes (2022 Video)

18 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

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Stars: Peter Phelps, Sigrid Thornton

26. Gry i zabawy (1982)

73 min | Drama

The lavish villa of a local communist party official is the unexpected meeting point for people from various backgrounds: his son's partying friends, a worker recruit just before joining the army, and a group of burglars.

Director: Tadeusz Junak | Stars: Leon Niemczyk, Tomasz Zaliwski, Cezary Domagala, Arnold Pujsza

27. China Beach (1988–1991)
Episode: F.N.G. (1990)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama, History, War

A flashback to 1966 shows McMurphy as a hospital ward nurse who joins the army and after months in basic training, arriving for the first time at China Beach where she meets Dr. Richard for... See full summary »

Director: John Sacret Young | Stars: Dana Delany, Michael Boatman, Nancy Giles, Jeff Kober

Votes: 45

28. Good Times (1974–1979)
Episode: The Enlistment (1975)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

James gets word that he is about to be "temporarily" laid off leaving JJ the only bread winner in the Evans household. Unfortunately, he finds out that the theater where he has been working... See full summary »

Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: Esther Rolle, John Amos, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter

Votes: 88

29. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)
Episode: Full Frontal Nudity (1969)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy

A pet-shop customer returns his dead parrot; a gang of female senior citizens attacks a town's young men; a young army officer who joined the service to water-ski tries to resign.

Director: Ian MacNaughton | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones

Votes: 1,225

30. The Young Ones (1982–1984)
Episode: Cash (1984)

TV-PG | 34 min | Comedy

The boys are broke so they force Neil to get a job as a policeman to raise money for Vyvyan, who is pregnant.

Director: Paul Jackson | Stars: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan

Votes: 497

31. Becoming Evil: Sisterhood of Murder (2019– )
Episode: America's Most Notorious Serial Killers: The First Wave (2019)

TV-14 | 56 min | Documentary, Crime

We profile some of America's most notorious serial killers including the Axeman of New Orleans who terrorised the city, and the gruesome crimes of Albert Fish, the infamous Brooklyn vampire.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Jack Levin, Frederic Reamer, Kirk Gill, Eric Hickey

Votes: 16

32. Timon & Pumbaa (1995–1999)
Episode: War Hogs/The Big No Sleep (1999)

TV-Y | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Timon and Pumbaa join the hog army to live off their back but end up in a real war against a mysterious enemy. / Timon promises to stay awake and see the migration of a rare bird with Pumbaa but the Sandman intervenes.

Director: Brad Neave | Stars: Ernie Sabella, Kevin Schon, Pat Fraley, Rob Paulsen

Votes: 45

33. Saga (2020)
Episode: Seriya 3 (2020)

45 min | Drama

The brothers compete for Maryana's love while several suitors pursue Bohdana. Her fiance is arrested by the KGB. As the Nazis invade, the Kozaks come to the aid of a Jewish family.

Stars: Aleksandra Liutaya, Liliya Tsvelikova, Hryhorii Baklanov, Oleksandr Sokolov

34. True Crime Authors (2003– )
Episode: The Westies (2003)

Documentary

Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, ... See full summary »

Stars: T.J. English, Brian Bogulski, Jimmy Coonan, Roy DeMeo

35. The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (2021– )
Episode: Episode #1.18 (2022)

TV-MA | Drama

In 1931, Mercada admits she lied to convince Gavriel to marry Roza. In 1941, David must choose between enlisting in the British Army or disobeying his mother to marry Luna.

Director: Oded Davidoff | Stars: Michael Aloni, Yoalah Brinson, Miki Kam, Irit Kaplan

Votes: 19

36. Bomb Girls (2012–2014)
Episode: Elements of Surprise (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, War

Set against the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gladys's secret job is exposed, while Lorna grapples with a possible pregnancy and Kate struggles to stand up to the return of her manipulative father.

Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Meg Tilly, Jodi Balfour, Charlotte Hegele, Ali Liebert

Votes: 91

37. 48 Hours (1988– )
Episode: Deadline for Justice (2008)

TV-14 | Documentary, Crime

N 2002, a young television reporter named Jennifer Servo was found murdered inside her apartment just weeks after moving to Abilene, Texas.

Votes: 7

38. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Episode: People's Soul: Oleksandr Polivodskyy (2023)

Documentary, Drama, War

A native of Zhmerynka, Uzhhorod University and the Koretsky Institute graduate, lawyer Oleksandr Polivodskyy, PhD (1973-2023) joined the army on the first day of the full-scale invasion and sacrificed his life for Ukraine's Independence.

Stars: Yuriy Chyzhmar, Sofiya Polivodska, Stanislava Polivodska, Oleksandr Polivodskyy

39. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Episode: Ukraine the Victorious 49: Grandmaster Igor Kovalenko (2023)

Documentary, Drama, War

Grandmaster Igor Kovalenko remained in Ukraine with the start of the full-scale invasion, helping ordinary people, later joined the Ukraine's Armed Forces and in the meantime improved his ranking in the top 100 of the world chess rating.

Stars: Igor Kovalenko, Volodymyr Zelenskyy

40. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Episode: Last Shooting: Mykola Aleksyk (2024)

Documentary, Drama, War

Educated in Lviv, Mykola Aleksyk from Transcarpathia (1994-2023) hoped continue producing films after graduating from the Ukrainian Film School, but with the start of a full-scale invasion he joined army sacrificing his life for Ukraine.

Star: Mykola Aleksyk

41. Masters of Sex (2013–2016)
Episode: Parliament of Owls (2015)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Romance

As Masters and Johnson face the press for the first time, they flashback to summer vacation, where Bill is finishing their book, Virginia faces parenting struggles, and Libby is pulling herself out of a depression. Season premiere.

Director: Jeremy Webb | Stars: Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, Caitlin FitzGerald, Annaleigh Ashford

Votes: 423

42. Hang Ups (2018)
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2018)

23 min | Comedy

Hung over after Ricky's party Richard can do without a snap supervision session from Celia, a failure to re-mortgage the house and a new patient with foreign accent syndrome. One client has... See full summary »

Director: Robert Delamere | Stars: James Sterndale, Fionn O'Shea, Kaine Zajaz, Bebe Cave

Votes: 25