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1. Planet of the Apes (2001)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 2029, an Air Force astronaut crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, Michael Clarke Duncan
Votes: 228,753 | Gross: $180.01M
2. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,304,941 | Gross: $210.61M
3. Back to the Future Part II (1989)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Tom Wilson
Votes: 571,860 | Gross: $118.50M
4. North & South (2004)
TV-PG | 235 min | Drama, Romance
North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.
Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 34,908
5. Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Romance
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge
Votes: 53,641 | Gross: $12.23M
6. Just My Luck (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner
Votes: 61,530 | Gross: $17.32M
7. The Decameron (1971)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato
Votes: 12,067
8. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie
Votes: 22,627 | Gross: $8.72M
9. Bel Ami (2012)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, History
A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women.
Directors: Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci
Votes: 19,266 | Gross: $0.12M
10. Out in the Dark (2012)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.
Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jameel Khoury, Alon Pdut
Votes: 9,225
11. Paradise for Three (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Romance, Comedy
A wealthy business man, out of touch with real folks, decides to mingle and see what it is really all about.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Frank Morgan, Robert Young, Mary Astor, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 628
12. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, Romance
An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed
Votes: 4,260
13. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, History
A story set in nineteenth-century China and focusing on the life-long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Bingbing Li, Jun Ji-hyun, Vivian Wu, Russell Wong
Votes: 4,007 | Gross: $1.35M
14. The Right Girl (2015 TV Movie)
G | 90 min | Romance
A young woman learns valuable lessons while developing a relationship with her new boss and his young son.
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Anna Hutchison, Jonathan Patrick Moore, Gail O'Grady, Constance Marie
Votes: 945
15. Pocket Listing (2015)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensue when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.
Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: James Jurdi, Jessica Clark, Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 7,128
16. Silver River (1948)
Passed | 110 min | Romance, Western
After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 1,525
17. Springfield Rifle (1952)
Approved | 93 min | Thriller, War, Western
Major Lex Kearney becomes the North's first counterespionage agent as he tries to discover who's behind the theft of Union cavalry horses in Colorado during the Civil War.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly
Votes: 2,273
18. Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell
Votes: 1,238
19. The Big Snatch (I) (1971)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama
Guy in a pickup truck kidnaps 5 women off the street, intending to make them his sex slaves.
Directors: Dan Martin, Byron Mabe | Stars: Harry Chest, Momo, Peggy Church, Tracy Handfuss
Votes: 207
20. Friends & Crocodiles (2005 TV Movie)
109 min | Drama
"Friends and Crocodiles" traces the changing relationship of maverick entrepreneur Paul Reynolds and his assistant Lizzie Thomas over a period of 20 years from the beginnings of the Thatcher era to the bursting of the dot.com bubble.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Damian Lewis, Jodhi May, Robert Lindsay, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 1,002
21. Success at Any Price (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
Joe comes from a rough neighborhood and when his brother Mike is gunned down in 1927, he decides to go into legitimate business. He wants to make a lot of money and fast so he is ambitious ... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Frank Morgan, Colleen Moore
Votes: 351
22. Twinkle Twinkle (2011– )
70 min | Drama, Romance
A rich woman and a poor woman simultaneously experience reversal of fortune after discovering that the hospital accidentally switched them at birth.
Stars: Kim Hyun-joo, Lee Yu-ri, Seok-hun Kim, Kang Dong Ho
Votes: 35
23. Eve's Love (2015)
40 min | Drama, Romance
An optimistic woman attempts to persevere and prosper after being betrayed by a once trusted friend.
Stars: Yun Se-ah, Lee Jae-hwang, Min-Kyeong Kim, Choe-un Park
Votes: 9
24. Empire of Gold (2013)
65 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Internal strife ensues for two decades as three family members vie for control over a large South Korean conglomerate.
Stars: Go Soo, Lee Yo-won, Son Hyeon-ju, Ryu Seung-su
Votes: 51
25. Bird That Doesn't Cry (2015)
50 min | Drama, Romance
A grief-stricken woman sets out to inflict retribution upon the woman who callously murdered her mother for profit.
Stars: Oh Hyun-kyung, Kim Yu-seok, Joo Min-ha, Choi Su-rin
Votes: 7
26. Tears of Diamonds (2005– )
22 min | Drama, Romance
Betrayed by the man she loves over money, a woman returns for revenge. She is no longer the same innocent and gullible woman she once was.
Stars: Yoon Hae-young, Seong-min Kim, Lee Jae-hwang, Hong Eun-hee
27. Bondagettes to Order (1999 Video)
35 min | Short, Adventure
Sharon's supply of bondage playmates has petered out, so she hires several thugs to bring her suitable specimens to bind, gag and tease. When Sharon stiffs the kidnappers, they turn on ... See full summary »
Director: Sharon Kane | Stars: Carolyn Monroe, Chelsea Blue, Sharon Kane
28. The Watch (2009)
22 min | Short, Drama
An unappreciated and disliked TV station worker has a reversal of fortune with the impulsive purchase a mystical watch.
Director: Mu Sun | Stars: Travis Walck, Brittany Krall, Terence J. Rotolo, Thomas James O'Leary
Votes: 19