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1. 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: 465,890 | Gross: $1.59M
2. An American Tail (1986)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Erica Yohn, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 58,042 | Gross: $47.48M
3. Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950s New York, Lionel, a private detective with Tourette syndrome, sets out to uncover the mystery behind his mentor and only friend Frank's murder. Scouring the jazz clubs and slums of Brooklyn, he soon uncovers a web of secrets.
Director: Edward Norton | Stars: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 62,815
4. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,900
5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
Votes: 121,371 | Gross: $9.60M
6. Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley
Votes: 8,470
7. City Hall (1996)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello
Votes: 22,448 | Gross: $20.20M
8. The Glass Key (1942)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy, Bonita Granville
Votes: 7,398
9. The Last Hurrah (1958)
Approved | 121 min | Drama
Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien
Votes: 4,156
10. Flamingo Road (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A corrupt small town sheriff manipulates local candidates to the state legislature but he eventually comes into conflict with a visiting carnival dancer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet, David Brian
Votes: 3,622 | Gross: $2.26M
11. Sweet Bird of Youth (1989 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Aging movie star Alexandra del Lago, also known as Princess Kosmonopolis (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), fears her career is over due to her fading youthful looks. She takes up with a handsome ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Harmon, Valerie Perrine, Kevin Geer
Votes: 634
12. 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
13. An American Story (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 94 min | Drama
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Director: John Gray | Stars: Brad Johnson, Kathleen Quinlan, Tom Sizemore, Josef Sommer
Votes: 275
14. Girl on the Run (1953)
64 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.
Directors: Arthur J. Beckhard, Joseph Lerner | Stars: Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Harry Bannister
Votes: 258
15. Great Guy (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy
Votes: 1,139
16. Iruvar (1997)
140 min | Biography, Drama
A struggling actor and a writer-politician become friends as young men and rise to great heights in cinema and politics respectively. But when both become contenders for the top political post in the state, a rift develops between them.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Mohanlal, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Prakash Raj, Gautami
Votes: 7,324
17. Soy charro de Levita (1949)
110 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Germán Valdés, Marcelo Chávez, Rosita Quintana, Carmen Molina
Votes: 77
18. Lawyer Man (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully beats high-profile legal eagle Granville Bentley in a murder case. Bentley asks Adam to become a partner in his law firm.... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Helen Vinson
Votes: 1,114
19. The Glass Key (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ed Beaumont is the personal friend, advisor and bodyguard to Paul Madvig, the political boss of a large city. When a mysterious murder is committed---the son of a Madvig political opponent-... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: George Raft, Claire Dodd, Edward Arnold, Rosalind Keith
Votes: 521
20. The 9th Guest (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis
Votes: 673
21. Law of the Lawless (1964)
Approved | 87 min | Western
Hothead Pete Stone has been arrested for the murder of George.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Dale Robertson, Yvonne De Carlo, William Bendix, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 407
22. What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson
Votes: 438
23. The Renegade Ranger (1938)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Western
Texas Ranger Jack Steele is assigned to bring in former ranch owner Judith Alvarez, now the leader of a gang who is waging war against the crooked government officials who cheated the ranchers out of their land.
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Rita Hayworth, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley
Votes: 365
24. Whirlpool (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 445
25. Man from God's Country (1958)
Passed | 72 min | Western
A cattleman, through a deal with a friend, gets involved in a land-grab for a proposed railroad in Sundown, Montana in this classic Western starring George Montgomery.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: George Montgomery, Randy Stuart, Gregg Barton, Kim Charney
Votes: 267
26. The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering ... See full summary »
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 420
27. A Night of Adventure (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A wealthy lawyer begins to suspect that his inattention to his wife is making her cheat on him. When he discovers the truth he's charged with murder.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Tom Conway, Audrey Long, Edward Brophy, Louis Borel
Votes: 276
28. The County Chairman (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Will Rogers, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor, Louise Dresser
Votes: 33
29. Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
TV-G | 79 min | Drama
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton, while falling for the granddaughter of the... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Lee Tracy, Constance Cummings, Walter Connolly, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 179
30. Gangster Empire: Rise of the Mob (2013– )
TV-14 | Documentary, Action, Crime
Violence and corruption pulsed through the soul of the Gangster Empire during the heyday of Prohibition and the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
Stars: Coby Batty, Matt K. Baker, Todd Barsness, James Christopher Cooke
Votes: 31
31. 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
32. The Italian (1915)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
An Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke, Leo Willis
Votes: 458
33. Lauro Puñales (1969)
Not Rated | 87 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A dagger-throwing revolutionary suffers the consequences of defying the corrupt political boss and municipal president of his town.
Director: René Cardona | Stars: Antonio Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Alma Delia Fuentes
Votes: 14
34. Vai Melhorar (2020)
17 min | Short, Drama
Luísa must not only decide her fate, but that of an entire city.
Director: Pedro Fiuza | Stars: Cássia Damasceno, Henrique Fontes, Rogério Ferraz, Geraldo Maia
Votes: 7
35. The Prince of Avenue A (1920)
50 min | Drama
Barry O'Connor, son of Patrick O'Connor, plumber and political power, is called to the residence of William Tompkins whom he is to "put over" in the coming election.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James J. Corbett, Richard Cummings, Cora Drew, Frederick Vroom
Votes: 60
36. Man of the People (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Jack Moreno is an attorney with an office in the neighborhood he grew up in. All he wants is to help his friends and neighbors, but he must do business with the mob to make a living.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Joseph Calleia, Florence Rice, Thomas Mitchell, Ted Healy
Votes: 126
37. Bartolo toca la flauta (1945)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Miguel Contreras Torres | Stars: Manuel Medel, Eduardo Arozamena, Esther Luquín, Katy Jurado
Votes: 13
38. The Grand Passion (1918)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Western
Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his friend, Jack Ripley, to establish a newspaper, intending merely to further his own ... See full summary »
Director: Ida May Park | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, Jack Mulhall, Lon Chaney, William Stowell
39. Go Straight (1921)
50 min | Drama
When minister Keith Rollins comes to a backwoods community in Kentucky, he discovers that lawless and political elements are against him and threaten his position with the congregation. His... See full summary »
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Frank Mayo, Cora Drew, Harry Carter, Lillian Rich
40. The No-Good Guy (1916)
50 min | Comedy
Jimmy Coghlan has developed such a notorious reputation for spending money, drinking and going to parties that his uncle and guardian, political boss "Big" Malone, insists that he settle ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Edwards | Stars: William Collier Sr., Enid Markey, Charles K. French, Bob Kortman
41. The Wheel of the Law (1916)
50 min | Drama
Young attorney John Norton is in love with Broadway star Mona Mainard. Mona's young brother Tommy has served a term in Sing Sing. When he is released, he comes at once to his sister and ... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Emily Stevens, Frank Mills, Raymond McKee, Edwin Holt
42. Wings of Pride (1920)
Drama
In New York City, haughty society girl Olive Muir is engaged to a man named Dick. Olive objects when Alice Prentice, a girl of lower station, comes to visit her family. After Alice's ... See full summary »
Director: B.A. Rolfe | Stars: Olive Tell, John B. O'Brien, Denton Vane, Ida Pardee
43. Why Women Sin (1920)
60 min | Drama
So engrossed by his desire to be elected governor, Philip Pemberton neglects his wife Dorothy. Horton, a political boss opposes Pemberton's candidacy and conspires to prevent his election. ... See full summary »
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Anna Luther, E.J. Ratcliffe, Baby Ivy Ward, Claire Whitney
44.
Moyers & Company (2012–2015)
Episode:
The One-Percent Court
(2012)
TV-G | 57 min | News, Talk-Show
The unchecked power of the one-percent court.
Stars: Bill Moyers, Jamie Raskin, Craig Unger, Katrina vanden Heuvel