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1. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
PG | 40 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 68,971
2. Bates Motel (2013–2017)
TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A contemporary prequel to Psycho, giving a portrayal of how Norman Bates' psyche unravels through his teenage years, and how deeply intricate his relationship with his mother, Norma, truly is.
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot, Nicola Peltz Beckham
Votes: 116,817
3. A Bug's Life (1998)
G | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.
Directors: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton | Stars: Kevin Spacey, David Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere
Votes: 314,140 | Gross: $162.80M
4. Cinderella (I) (2021)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A modern movie musical with a bold take on the classic fairy tale. Our ambitious heroine has big dreams and with the help of her fab Godmother, she perseveres to make them come true.
Director: Kay Cannon | Stars: Camila Cabello, Billy Porter, Nicholas Galitzine, Idina Menzel
Votes: 46,430
5. Theater Camp (2023)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy
The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.
Directors: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman | Stars: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro
Votes: 15,998
6. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
The original surreal sketch comedy showcase for the Monty Python troupe.
Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
Votes: 78,701
7. Down Low (2023)
R | 90 min | Comedy
A deeply repressed man, the uninhibited young man that gives him a happy ending, and all the lives they ruin along the way.
Director: Rightor Doyle | Stars: Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage, Judith Light, Simon Rex
Votes: 1,927
8. Jackass Forever (2022)
R | 96 min | Documentary, Action, Comedy
After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for another crusade.
Director: Jeff Tremaine | Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England
Votes: 51,712 | Gross: $57.74M
9. Three Fugitives (1989)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Comedy
A reformed bank robber is taken hostage by a desperate man during a bank hold up, but is forced to go on the run with his captor when they're both mistakenly thought to be in cahoots.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Sarah Rowland Doroff, James Earl Jones
Votes: 12,732 | Gross: $40.59M
10. Daddy (I) (2019)
18 min | Short, Drama
After the death of his wife, an 80-year-old man checks into the Plaza Hotel to celebrate their first anniversary apart, hiring a male escort to take her place.
Director: Christian Coppola | Stars: Ron Rifkin, Dylan Sprouse, Catherine Wolf, Cooper Koch
Votes: 661
11. Private Desert (2021)
Unrated | 121 min | Drama
Daniel is an exemplary policeman, but he ends up making a mistake and becoming suspended. With nothing keeping him in his hometown, he goes to visit his online love interest.
Director: Aly Muritiba | Stars: Antonio Saboia, Pedro Fasanaro, Thomas Aquino, Laila Garin
Votes: 1,811
12. Laxmii (2020)
TV-MA | 141 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Aasif visits his wife's parents' house and happens to go to a ground that is supposedly haunted. However, he is soon possessed by the spirit of a transgender who is out for revenge.
Directors: Raghava Lawrence, Balakrishnan Thevar | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani, Sharad Kelkar, Ashwini Kalsekar
Votes: 58,725
13. The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo (2016)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Comedy
A wondrous story of the complexities of relationships, friendly and romantic that blurs the lines of expected tropes through random comedy and realistic, interconnected interactions.
Stars: Brian Jordan Alvarez, Stephanie Koenig, Jon Ebeling, Jason Greene
Votes: 1,322
14. Borstal Boy (2000)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Director: Peter Sheridan | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 2,570 | Gross: $0.09M
15. The Prodigal Son (1981)
R | 100 min | Action, Comedy
A young man discovers that his reputation as a fearsome martial artist is manufactured by his rich father, after meeting a real martial arts master, who's also a master thespian, and is determined to apprentice under him to learn kung fu.
Director: Sammo Kam-Bo Hung | Stars: Biao Yuen, Ching-Ying Lam, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Frankie Chan
Votes: 3,530
16. Krabat (2008)
120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner | Stars: David Kross, Christian Redl, Daniel Brühl, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 6,844
17. Dear Mother (2020)
TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery.
Director: Laurent Lafitte | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Karin Viard, Vincent Macaigne, Hélène Vincent
Votes: 1,847
18. Miss (I) (2020)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man seeking his gender identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.
Director: Ruben Alves | Stars: Alexandre Wetter, Pascale Arbillot, Isabelle Nanty, Thibault de Montalembert
Votes: 952
19. The King of Masks (1995)
91 min | Drama
In a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.
Director: Tian-Ming Wu | Stars: Xu Zhu, Renying Zhou, Zhigang Zhao, Li Chen
Votes: 3,468 | Gross: $1.10M
20. The female soldier at the military visit (1977)
84 min | Comedy
Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up.
Director: Nando Cicero | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Renzo Montagnani, Fiorenzo Fiorentini, Alvaro Vitali
Votes: 286
21. Hollywood Horror House (1970)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to take over the large estate.
Director: Donald Wolfe | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, David Garfield, Gale Sondergaard, Virginia Wing
Votes: 533
22. L'infermiera nella corsia dei militari (1979)
89 min | Comedy
A story about a singer/showgirl who poses as a nurse to find some stolen paintings, which have been hidden in a military insane asylum.
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Nadia Cassini, Lino Banfi, Paolo Giusti, Karin Schubert
Votes: 323
23. The Raggedy Rawney (1988)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally... See full summary »
Director: Bob Hoskins | Stars: Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Nathenson, Zoë Wanamaker, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 403
24. La Cage aux Folles II (1980)
R | 102 min | Comedy
The titular gay couple become involved with local cops and foreign spies when one of them unwittingly obtains a roll of stolen microfilm.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru
Votes: 2,231 | Gross: $6.95M
25. Laugh or Die (2018)
TV-14 | 103 min | Drama, History, War
In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp's vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the ... See full summary »
Director: Heikki Kujanpää | Stars: Martti Suosalo, Jani Volanen, Leena Pöysti, Paavo Kinnunen
Votes: 1,081
26. Rules of the Game (2015–2016)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A hero of the people belonging to a criminal organization faces a supposedly well-intentioned fugitive of justice, proving that sometimes good and evil are just a matter of point of view.
Stars: Giovanna Antonelli, Cauã Reymond, Tony Ramos, Marco Pigossi
Votes: 289
27. Jönssonligan på Mallorca (1989)
101 min | Comedy, Crime
Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas ... See full summary »
Director: Mikael Ekman | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Björn Gustafson, Ulf Brunnberg, Birgitta Andersson
Votes: 4,005
28. Flirty Birdy (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Tom is all set to eat Jerry when a hawk swoops down and grabs Jerry. To get Jerry back, Tom poses as a female hawk and quickly finds his new lover to be more than he bargained for.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Graham, William Hanna
Votes: 1,201
29. Stolen Identity (2018)
116 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After Asami's boyfriend lost his cellphone, she begins to receive unknown credit card payment notification, her social media information is leaked, and she is drawn into an unexpected ... See full summary »
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Keiko Kitagawa, Yûdai Chiba, Ryo Narita, Kei Tanaka
Votes: 642
30. Don't Tell Papa (2004)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about a third-rate DJ who finds his relationship with his young son rapidly deteriorating.
Director: Sang-hoon Lee | Stars: Jeong Woong-in, Yoo Seung-ho, Min-seo Chae, Lee Eung-kyung
Votes: 168
31. Cheotsarang sasu gwolgidaehoe (2003)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young student falls madly in love with a professor's daughter. Promised by the professor that he will let him marry his daughter if he graduates from university with a law degree, the ... See full summary »
Director: Jong-rok Oh | Stars: Cha Tae-hyun, Son Ye-jin, Yoo Dong-geun, Sung Ji-ru
Votes: 601
32. Na Deribasovskoy khoroshaya pogoda, ili Na Brayton-Bich opyat idut dozhdi (1993)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
When mysterious Russian bandit named Artist came in USA, brave Russian special agent Fyodor Sokolov runs to States for defeat evil master.
Director: Leonid Gaidai | Stars: Dmitriy Kharatyan, Kelly McGrill, Andrey Myagkov, Mikhail Kokshenov
Votes: 2,052
33. I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Crime
Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested, and probably sent to jail.
Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Bob Dishy, Joanna Barnes, Bill Dana, Harvey Jason
Votes: 234
34. Divine Divas (2016)
110 min | Documentary, Musical
The Divine Divas are the icons of the first generation of Brazilian transvestite artists in the 1960's. One of the first stages to host men dressed as women was the Rival Theatre, ran by ... See full summary »
Director: Leandra Leal | Stars: Rogéria, Jane di Castro, Divina Valéria, Camille K.
Votes: 394
35. You Should Meet My Son 2! (2018)
76 min | Comedy
A comedy about a religious mother who is determined to stop her gay son's wedding. But her plans go awry when she accidentally befriends his fiancé and begins dispensing relationship advice.
Director: Keith Hartman | Stars: Ryann Robbins, Emory Duncan, Nerissa Tedesco, Tyler Richmeier
Votes: 181
36. The Chess Player (1927)
135 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Camille Bert
Votes: 337
37. Chew-Chew Baby (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Wally Walrus kicks the delinquent Woody Woodpecker out of his boarding house. But the mooching bird finds the walrus's personal ad in the newspaper and comes back, disguised as a woman.
Director: Shamus Culhane | Stars: Lee Sweetland, Mel Blanc, Ben Hardaway, Jack Mather
Votes: 170
38. Garbage, the City and Death (2012)
74 min | Drama
The screenplay (Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder inspired a theatre production by Dusan David Parízek. The screenplay and the production in turn inspired the ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Hrebejk | Stars: Jirí Cerný, Stefan Chovanec, Martin Finger, Stanislav Majer
Votes: 78
39. Sequins (2019)
18 min | Short, Comedy
SEQUINS is a coming of age comedy short film set in late 90s Blackpool. 17-year-old Paul's journey of self-discovery takes a unique turn when he embarks on his ambition to become a drag ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Beddoes | Stars: Robbie Gaskell, James Dreyfus, Ben Willbond, Nicole Louise Lewis
Votes: 44
40. Which Is Witch (1949)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Dr. I.C. Spots is an African witch doctor about to prepare a potion which needs as one of its ingredient a rabbit.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 273
41. Once in a Blue Moon (2005– )
50 min | Drama, Romance
Ex-babysitter Heloísa falls in love with a member of her boss' family. After the boss' death she wins custody of his 15-year-old daughter Branca, heiress to his fortune, and fights the envy... See full summary »
Stars: Adriana Esteves, Zezé Polessa, Wagner Moura, Marcos Pasquim
Votes: 81
42. Cross Dreamers (2022)
78 min | Documentary
Documentary that chronicles the life of four men who practice cross-dressing. Their fascination with the feminine, years of guilt and fear have led them to have a double life, until the world they had created begins to crumble.
Director: Soledad Velasco
43. Isaskar Keturin ihmeelliset seikkailut (1960)
84 min | Comedy
Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Hannes Häyrinen, Pirkko Mannola, Leo Jokela, Siiri Angerkoski
Votes: 79
44. Wolf! Wolf! (1944)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, and that leaves one of them vulnerable to a pack of hillbilly wolves. It's Mighty Mouse to the rescue!
Director: Mannie Davis | Star: Tom Morrison
Votes: 211
45. The joulukalenteri (1997)
15 min | Comedy, Musical
Elf called Iki-Iäkäs is dying, because music box that plays the tone of his life is about to stop. Iki-Iäkäs sent 3 elves called Hande, Kauko and Toivo to retrieve the key to the music box ... See full summary »
Stars: Raimo Smedberg, Seppo Korjus, Kari Lehtomäki, Jukka Virtanen
Votes: 508
46. Half-Pint Palomino (1953)
TV-G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Barney Bear sets out to capture the world's smallest horse.
Director: Dick Lundy | Star: Paul Frees
Votes: 120
47. Gay, Gay Hollywood (1980)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Nick Bougas | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, James Cagney, Glen Campbell
Votes: 10
48. Killing Tony (2020)
58 min | Documentary
A workaholic deliveryman struggles not to be terminated by the flashy social butterfly screaming inside him.
Director: Panu Suuronen | Stars: Jenni Salomaa, Tony Kammonen, Jasmin Ruokolainen, Jari Paldanius
Votes: 15
49. Sheep Shape (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short
The villainous Wolf, desiring wine, women and song, fleeces Blackie the Sheep out of his money and heads off to whet his pleasure appetites. A vampish nightclub entertainer soon separates ... See full summary »
Directors: Izzy Sparber, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Jackson Beck, Sid Raymond, Arnold Stang
Votes: 56
50. From Matti with Love (2019)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
To overcome his loneliness and sadness, Matti has to figure out who he is again in his mid-fifties. Trans woman Masha helps him to open up more.
Director: Jarno Lindemark | Stars: Petteri Pennilä, Rain Tolk, Tarja Heinula, Otso Kangasaho
Votes: 50