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1. Fargo (1996)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Votes: 726,681 | Gross: $24.61M
2. Big Fish (2003)
PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Votes: 458,901 | Gross: $66.26M
3. Red Rocket (2021)
R | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
Mikey Saber is a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown, not that anyone really wants him back.
Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Simon Rex, Bree Elrod, Suzanna Son, Brenda Deiss
Votes: 33,076
4. How the West Was Won (1962)
G | 164 min | Adventure, War, Western
A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.
Directors: John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Henry Fonda
Votes: 23,325 | Gross: $46.50M
5. The Dream Team (1989)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.
Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst
Votes: 16,379 | Gross: $28.89M
6. Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)
Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
Arjun and Pyare Mohan are honest policemen who work together. Trouble follows when thieves Bade Miyan and Chote Miyan, look-alikes of Arjun and Pyare, commit crimes and the hapless duo are blamed for it.
Director: David Dhawan | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Ramya Krishnan
Votes: 3,407
7. Violet & Daisy (2011)
R | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two teenage assassins accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until an unexpected target throws them off their plan.
Director: Geoffrey Fletcher | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Danny Trejo
Votes: 13,282 | Gross: $0.02M
8. Will Penny (1967)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Aging cowboy Will Penny gets a line camp job on a large cattle spread and finds his isolated cabin is already occupied by an abandoned woman traveler and her young son.
Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence, Lee Majors
Votes: 5,253
9. Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
American frontiersman Davy Crockett fights in the Creek Indian War, is elected to the U.S. Congress and fights for Texas at the Alamo.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Basil Ruysdael, Hans Conried
Votes: 4,888
10. Long Weekend (2021)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A struggling writer meets an enigmatic woman who enters his life at the right time.
Director: Steve Basilone | Stars: Steve Basilone, Jennifer Irwin, Jess Jacobs, Finn Wittrock
Votes: 2,037
11. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,345
12. Larceny (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A con man sets out to swindle a widow out of the money she's received to build a memorial to her war-hero husband, but winds up falling in love with her instead.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Payne, Joan Caulfield, Dan Duryea, Shelley Winters
Votes: 925
13. Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan (2013)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Young adults at a first-time offenders' boot camp discover the legend of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined.
Director: Gary Jones | Stars: Amber Connor, Joe Estevez, Dan Haggerty, Thomas Downey
Votes: 1,310 | Gross: $0.00M
14. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
This lavish, impudent, adult fairy tale takes the viewer from 18th-century Braunschweig to St. Petersburg, Constantinople, Venice, and then to the moon using ingenious special effects, stunning location shooting.
Director: Josef von Báky | Stars: Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter
Votes: 2,183
15. Spy School (2008)
PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Doubting Thomas is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.
Director: Mark Blutman | Stars: Forrest Landis, AnnaSophia Robb, Rider Strong, Lea Thompson
Votes: 1,710
16. As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
TV-G | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A German Army officer is captured by the Soviets in World War II and sent to a labor camp in Eastern Siberia. After five years of enormous hardship he escapes, commencing an incredible, arduous, danger-filled journey.
Director: Hardy Martins | Stars: Bernhard Bettermann, Iris Böhm, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Michael Mendl
Votes: 8,091
17. Tall Tales & Legends (1985–1988)
Comedy, Drama, Family
An anthology series that showcases various mythical characters and incidents throughout history.
Stars: Shelley Duvall, David McCharen, Stewart Duvall, Michael McKean
Votes: 229
18. Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
R | 101 min | Comedy
The movie chronicles a young man's (Richard Benjamin) love and passion in his own kinky way.
Director: Ernest Lehman | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack
Votes: 584 | Gross: $0.61M
19. Sword of Trust (2019)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, but the only item she receives is an antique sword that was believed by her grandfather to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell
Votes: 4,103 | Gross: $0.32M
20. John Henry (2000)
G | 10 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Disney's retelling of the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man.
Director: Mark Henn | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Geoffrey Jones, Tim Hodge, Dave Murray
Votes: 1,880
21. Paper Tiger (1975)
PG | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: David Niven, Toshirô Mifune, Hardy Krüger, Kazuhito Andô
Votes: 754
22. Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010 TV Short)
TV-PG | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Hiccup and the gang join Gobber on a quest to find a legendary boneclad Dragon.
Director: John Puglisi | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera
Votes: 4,006
23. The Sea Hawk (1924)
Passed | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A wrongly-convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery
Votes: 641 | Gross: $0.78M
24. Paul Bunyan (1958)
Approved | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The life, career, and challenges of the legendary giant lumberjack.
Director: Les Clark | Stars: Bill Lee, The Mellowmen Quartet, Thurl Ravenscroft, Max Smith
Votes: 1,189
25. Trail Street (1947)
Approved | 84 min | Western
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 827
26. Bunyan and Babe (2017)
PG | 84 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Travis and Whitney visit their grandparents and stumble upon the evil plan of a greedy land developer. Travis falls through a magical portal which transports him to the world of American hero, Paul Bunyan and his pet ox, Babe.
Director: Louis Ross | Stars: John Goodman, Jeff Foxworthy, Kelsey Grammer, Johnny Orlando
Votes: 444
27. Bold King Cole (1936)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix the Cat is perched in a tree playing his guitar and serenading himself and a canary with a little ditty called "Nature and Me." It is a beautiful day in cartoon-land but Mother Nature... See full summary »
Director: Burt Gillett | Star: Walter Tetley
Votes: 292
28. Secondary Effects (2006)
R | 111 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Four people meet again at their high school reunion, with some of the same old baggage, doubts, and questions that haunted them then, and some new ones, that come with being on the verge of turning 30.
Director: Issa López | Stars: Marina de Tavira, Alejandra Gollas, Arturo Barba, Pedro Izquierdo
Votes: 792
29. A Touch of Sweden (1971)
R | 89 min | Comedy
While on vacation in Sweden, a young woman tells a friend about the sexy escapades she's been involved in back in the U.S.
Director: Joseph F. Robertson | Stars: Uschi Digard, Starlyn Simone, Sandy Dempsey, Ray Sebastian
Votes: 94
30. Pecos Bill (1948)
23 min | Animation, Short, Western
The life of the legendary Texas cowboy with his horse, Widowmaker, and how his romance with Slue Foot Sue disrupted it.
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan, Luana Patten
Votes: 399
31. 4 (2004)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat ... See full summary »
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Kudriashov
Votes: 2,258
32. Well Wishes (2015)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
After losing his job on a coin-toss a man concocts a fantastical plan to build an enterprise of harvesting coins from wishing fountains.
Director: Anderson Boyd | Stars: Shane Callahan, Cullen Moss, Don Henderson Baker, Anna Stromberg
Votes: 461
33. Ego Trip (1969)
58 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Ron Oakes, Mary Peel, John Dullaghan, Pam Brown
Votes: 25
34. Captain Calamity (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: George Houston, Marian Nixon, Vince Barnett, Crane Wilbur
Votes: 158
35. The Legend of John Henry (1974)
11 min | Animation, Short, Family
The folk legend of John Henry, and his contest with a steam engine to cut a railroad tunnel through a mountain, is told in song by Roberta Flack.
Director: Sam Weiss | Star: Roberta Flack
Votes: 103
36. Pop 'im Pop! (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
A circus comes to town featuring Gracie the Fighting Kangaroo and her youngster, Hippety Hopper. Hippety slips out of the circus tent and hops into a yard where Sylvester Cat is bragging to... See full summary »
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 272
37. It's a Bird (1930)
14 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
Director: Harold L. Muller | Stars: Charles R. Bowers, Lowell Thomas
Votes: 272
38. The Rawhide Terror (1934)
Approved | 52 min | Western
Twelve renegades dressed as Indians kill the parents of two brothers. The brothers who have similar birth marks then separate. Ten years later a man known as the Rawhide Terror is murdering the renegades who are now town citizens.
Directors: Bruce Mitchell, Jack Nelson | Stars: Art Mix, Edmund Cobb, William Desmond, William Barrymore
Votes: 183
39. John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
7 min | Animation, Short
John Henry springs to life as a full-grown man, and in no time at all establishes himself as the mightiest steel-driver around. When a newfangled steel-driving machine threatens his livelihood, he sets out to beat it in a one-on-one race.
Director: George Pal | Stars: Rex Ingram, Lillian Randolph
Votes: 297
40. War Story (1989)
5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
This short animated piece uses a real interview as its soundtrack. Bill Perry relates stories about his youth, his tilted house, and adventures during WWII in Bristol, England during the blitz.
Director: Peter Lord | Stars: Bill Perry, Peter Lawrence
Votes: 272
41. Totosexy (1963)
90 min | Comedy, Musical
Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
Director: Mario Amendola | Stars: Totò, Erminio Macario, Mario Castellani, Gianni Agus
Votes: 113
42. The Lyin' Mouse (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A mouse is trying to free himself from a trap when a cat arrives. The mouse, desperate, asks if the cat has heard the story of the lion and the mouse. We see the lion, scaring all the ... See full summary »
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 191
43. Uncle Tom's Cabaña (1947)
8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Ruby Dandridge, Paul Frees, Imogene Lynn
Votes: 329
44. His Hare Raising Tale (1951)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde, derived from earlier cartoons (Baseball Bugs (1946), Stage Door Cartoon (1944), Rabbit Punch (1948), Falling Hare (1943) and Haredevil Hare (1948)).
Directors: Friz Freleng, Robert Clampett, Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 311
45. Rabbit Ears: Pecos Bill (1988 Video)
25 min | Short, Family
Take a rollicking ride through the Wild, Wild West with the original cowboy, Pecos Bill. Raised by coyotes to brave the great frontier, Pecos rides his wild mustang Widow-Maker and invents ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Raglin | Star: Robin Williams
Votes: 97
46. International Woodpecker (1957)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Woody Woodpecker tells Knothead and Splinter the story of how woodpeckers have influenced world history.
Director: Paul J. Smith | Stars: Daws Butler, June Foray, Grace Stafford
Votes: 81
47. Life After Hockey (1989)
48 min | Drama, Sport
An amateur hockey player talks about his life, his love affair with hockey and his supposed one time shot in the big time.
Director: Tom Radford | Stars: Ken Brown, Kurt Browning, Patricia Phillips, Maurice Richard
Votes: 13
48. The Legend of Paul Bunyan (1973)
13 min | Short, Animation, Fantasy
The story of Paul Bunyan and his encounters with Hels Helson and their legendary fight which caused the creation of many landmarks such as Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes and the Grand Canyon!
Director: Sam Weiss | Star: Jack Angel
Votes: 6
49. The Smartest Person Who Ever Lived (2005)
7 min | Short, Comedy
Over morning coffee, a man attempts to convince his wife of twenty years that he's the smartest person who ever lived.
Director: Angelique Little | Stars: Alex Alexander, Jeff Lewis, Selena Sanchez, Craig Welzbacher
Votes: 90
50. Men in the Raw (1923)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Western
"Windy" Watkins is fond of spinning wild stories of his daring exploits, to his fellow cowhands, while around the campfire at night but is given the chance to prove he is more than talk ... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Marguerite Clayton, Sid Jordan, J. Morris Foster