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1. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,258,912 | Gross: $330.25M
2. American History X (1998)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama
Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.
Director: Tony Kaye | Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien
Votes: 1,186,895 | Gross: $6.72M
3. To Catch a Killer (2023)
R | 119 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer (Shailene Woodley) is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator (Ben Mendelsohn) to help profile and track down a disturbed individual terrorizing the city.
Director: Damián Szifron | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, Ralph Ineson
Votes: 37,876
4. You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic Bat Mitzvahs. However, things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
Director: Sammi Cohen | Stars: Idina Menzel, Jackie Sandler, Adam Sandler, Sadie Sandler
Votes: 23,939
5. Live and Let Die (1973)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James
Votes: 115,535 | Gross: $35.38M
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
R | 81 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
When Stan Marsh and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame.
Director: Trey Parker | Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes
Votes: 215,047 | Gross: $52.04M
7. 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: 24,574
8. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
R | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black
Votes: 30,685 | Gross: $1.44M
9. Carnage (2011)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Votes: 133,067 | Gross: $2.55M
10. Till (I) (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Director: Chinonye Chukwu | Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett
Votes: 15,243
11. Marshall (2017)
PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown
Votes: 26,830 | Gross: $10.05M
12. The Intruder (1962)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama
A charismatic "social reformer" rallies the white populace of a Southern town to oppose school integration, but he soon finds himself in a situation that he cannot control.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: William Shatner, Frank Maxwell, Beverly Lunsford, Robert Emhardt
Votes: 3,907
13. The Lords of Discipline (1983)
R | 102 min | Thriller
In 1960s America, a black cadet is allowed acceptance into a seemingly prestigious military academy, unleashing a barrage of corruption within the system that another cadet is willing to expose.
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: David Keith, Robert Prosky, G.D. Spradlin, Barbara Babcock
Votes: 2,959 | Gross: $11.79M
14. 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: 4,160
15. Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)
G | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin
Votes: 1,362 | Gross: $1.24M
16. Trial (1955)
Passed | 105 min | Drama
Courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak
Votes: 1,190
17. Golden Gate (I) (1993)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man and his teenage daughter.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Elizabeth Morehead, Bruno Kirby
Votes: 937 | Gross: $0.40M
18. Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
TV-MA | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
Director: Amy Berg | Stars: Cat Power, Janis Joplin, Karleen Bennett, Laura Joplin
Votes: 5,642 | Gross: $0.41M
19. Death of a Nation (2018)
PG-13 | 108 min | Documentary, History
This docudrama draws parallels between the dramatic fracturing of the nation over Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump.
Directors: Dinesh D'Souza, Bruce Schooley | Stars: Dinesh D'Souza, Victoria Chilap, Pavel Kríz, Rafael Prazák
Votes: 7,243 | Gross: $5.89M
20. Black Legion (1937)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Votes: 3,920
21. Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)
PG | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
Directors: Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt | Star: James Whitmore
Votes: 575 | Gross: $11.00M
22. The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
PG-13 | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
Directors: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stew Albert, Tariq Ali
Votes: 5,689 | Gross: $1.10M
23. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)
Documentary, Crime, History
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan
Votes: 58
24. South (1999)
71 min | Documentary
A documentary examining the effect of a man dragged to death on the residents in Jasper, Texas.
Director: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 396
25. The Evil Dead Inbred Rednecks (2010 Video)
46 min | Comedy, Horror
In a cabin, a group of friends gather for fun. When they find a mysterious book, they unleash a ghostly evil. This resurrects the redneck Leo DeChamp, a serial killer who used to strangle kids with skunk tails in the 1960's.
Director: Chris Seaver | Stars: Kurt Indovina, Sean Jordan, Nichole LaRoche, Chris Seaver
Votes: 98
26. John Denver: Country Boy (2013 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A profile of the life and career of singer/songwriter John Denver.
Director: Steve Freer | Stars: Natasha Pyne, John Denver, Annie Martell, G. Brown
Votes: 189
27. They Had to See Paris (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides that the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 203
28. Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
Director: Francesco Zippel | Stars: Gian Luca Farinelli, Chuck D, Amma Asante, Kwame Kwei-Armah
Votes: 204
29. Serif za mrezami (1966)
101 min | Drama
A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang.
Director: Dimitrij Plichta | Stars: Vojtech Brázdovic, Karol Cálik, Slavo Drozd, Frantisek Hromada
Votes: 49
30. Sam Cooke: Legend (2003 TV Movie)
67 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life and tragic death of popular R&B singer Sam Cooke, who topped the music charts in the US during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Directors: Carl Franklin, Mary Wharton | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles
Votes: 60
31. The Dark Side of Roger Waters (2023 Video)
37 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Robert Ezrin, Gideon Falter, Norbert Stachel, John Ware
32. Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (2021)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, History
Deadly assault on the 100th anniversary of the crime in the context of other racial massacres and police killings.
Director: Jonathan Silvers | Stars: Michel Martin, Robert R.A. Turner, DeNeen L. Brown, Betsy Warner
Votes: 82
33. The Big Fat Quiz of Everything (2017 TV Special)
97 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Music
Jonathan Ross and David Walliams, Aisling Bea and Katherine Ryan, and Noel Fielding and Richard Ayoade face off in this humorous special annual celebrity edition of The Big Fat Quiz of Everything hosted by Jimmy Carr.
Stars: Jimmy Carr, Richard Ayoade, Aisling Bea, Noel Fielding
Votes: 384
34. The Sons of Tennessee Williams (2010)
Unrated | 75 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Sons of Tennessee Williams charts the evolution of the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene over the decades, illuminating the ways in which its emergence was a seminal factor in the cause of gay liberation in the South.
Director: Tim Wolff | Stars: Charles Maddox, Tommy Dietsch, Ed Herlihy, George Roth
Votes: 847 | Gross: $0.00M
35. Zlocin v dívcí skole (1966)
107 min | Comedy, Crime
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the... See full summary »
Directors: Jirí Menzel, Ivo Novák, Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jan Preucil, Petr Kostka, Jana Gýrová
Votes: 106
36. Sleeping with the Far Right (2019 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Television and radio broadcaster Alice Levine spends a week living with Jack Sen, a self styled spin doctor for the British nationalist movement, to discover why he holds such extreme views.
Director: Marc Williamson | Stars: Alice Levine, Jack Sen, David Duke, Nick Griffin
Votes: 25
37. KKKillers (2018)
Unrated | 77 min | Horror, Thriller
Marco discovers that he is connected to a satanic cult that wants him as their new leader.
Director: Manny Velazquez | Stars: Brian Mack, Angie Velazquez, Keisha Shadè Akinyemi, Dana Balkin
Votes: 25
41. The Black Friend (2020)
Short, Drama
A few friends are playing Cards Against Humanity and a discussion about racism occurs.
Director: Landon Moss | Stars: Davis Cameron, Guy Fairon, Zach Kaltenbach, Tamika Mallory
42. Mosquito (2010)
12 min | Short, Drama
A coming of age story about a 13-year old Dominican boy -- nicknamed Mosquito by his tormentors -- who fights to win their respect on a memorable Halloween night in 1974. MOSQUITO captures ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Engle | Stars: Vaughn Bowman, James Cartwright, John Diaz, Marion Matthias
Votes: 23
43. Disobedient Voices (2017)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Members of the public and fellow artists give their thoughts on the artwork of British Ghanaian artist Eugene Ankomah at his solo exhibition held in a large warehouse space in East London.
Director: Christina Mitrentse | Stars: Eugene Ankomah, Darren Bardo, Geisha Davis, Bradley Fenn
44. The King James Code, Volume 6: The Cult of 33 (2011 Video)
80 min | Documentary
Pastor Mike teaches about the scripture numerics of the number 33, as found in the King James Bible.
Star: Michael Hoggard
45.
Any Day Now (1998–2002)
Episode:
It's Not Just a Word: Part 1
(2001)
Drama
Uncle Jimmy Died. There is a fight following the HS City Championship B-Ball Game. Rene defends a classmate of Ajoni's, and is jailed for contempt. Kelly is going to the hospital for tests to find the cause of her high blood pressure.
Director: Artie Mandelberg | Stars: Annie Potts, Lorraine Toussaint, Shari Dyon Perry, Mae Middleton
46.
CSI: Miami (2002–2012)
Episode:
A Horrible Mind
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A horribly mutilated body of a professor is found lynched on a tree.
Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Khandi Alexander
Votes: 544
47.
ER (1994–2009)
Episode:
Ground Zero
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Al wants to move to Atlanta where he got a job offer. Jeanie however isn't keen on moving. Carol talks to Carter's grandmother about the clinic.
Director: Darnell Martin | Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies
Votes: 413
48.
Good Times (1974–1979)
Episode:
Junior Gets a Patron
(1974)
TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy
J.J. begins coming home with new art supplies to the point that Florida accuses him of "finding" things. However, he soon reveals that he has a patron who was impressed by his work. However... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: Esther Rolle, John Amos, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter
Votes: 94
49.
Good Times (1974–1979)
Episode:
Getting Up the Rent
(1974)
TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy
A shortage of funds for the rent and an eviction notice causes James to take drastic action to get cash.
Directors: Donald McKayle, Perry Rosemond | Stars: Esther Rolle, John Amos, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter
Votes: 128
50.
Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode:
Doris in Wonderland
(1983)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Ozzie Cleveland enters the race for Mayor, Chief Daniels orders Furillo to put four officers undercover at Murray's Wonderland, a triple X store in Cleveland's precinct. Officer Perez ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz
Votes: 105