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1. Revenge of the Nerds (1984)

R | 90 min | Comedy

At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self-respect.

Director: Jeff Kanew | Stars: Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Timothy Busfield, Andrew Cassese

Votes: 58,375 | Gross: $40.90M

2. Youth (I) (2015)

R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda

Votes: 83,080 | Gross: $2.70M

3. Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into a modern and nihilistic life begins.

Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Syd Brisbane

Votes: 15,032

4. The Beguiled (2017)

R | 93 min | Drama, History, Thriller

The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell

Votes: 61,745 | Gross: $10.58M

5. News of the World (2020)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, Travis Johnson

Votes: 95,649

6. Casanova (2005)

R | 112 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Heath Ledger, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Oliver Platt

Votes: 56,337 | Gross: $11.30M

7. Broken Trail (2006)

Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while trekking from Oregon to Wyoming.

Stars: Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi, Chris Mulkey

Votes: 6,740

8. My Uncle (1958)

Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy

Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis

Votes: 24,253

9. A Study in Terror (1965)

95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.

Director: James Hill | Stars: John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 2,482

10. Two Evil Eyes (1990)

R | 120 min | Horror

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.

Directors: Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley

Votes: 8,142 | Gross: $0.35M

11. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander

Votes: 23,219

12. Music of the Heart (1999)

PG | 124 min | Drama, Music

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Meryl Streep, Cloris Leachman, Henry Dinhofer, Michael Angarano

Votes: 13,329 | Gross: $14.86M

13. When We Last Spoke (2019)

120 min | Drama

In 1967, two sisters are abandoned and raised by grandparents in the town of Fireside. Humor, heartbreak, and triumph are served with whipped cream and lots of local nuts in this heartwarming tale of family, friendship, and forgiveness.

Director: Joanne Hock | Stars: Cloris Leachman, Corbin Bernsen, Melissa Gilbert, Chandler Head

Votes: 605

14. The Woman in Green (1945)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell

Votes: 6,872

15. Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters, Jack Benny

Votes: 2,529

16. Ernesto (1979)

R | 94 min | Drama, Romance

Triestw in the year 1911. Ernesto is the privileged, seventeen year old son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, who has deserted his family. He is raised by his uncle Giovanni and ... See full summary »

Director: Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Martin Halm, Michele Placido, Virna Lisi, Turi Ferro

Votes: 572

17. In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In turn-of-the century America, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall, Spring Byington

Votes: 4,308 | Gross: $6.30M

18. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional couple. They live amid chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody except each other. Things become interesting when Sammy's father visits.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din

Votes: 1,539 | Gross: $1.20M

19. Viulisti (2018)

124 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A love story about ambition, giving up and reaching the dreams.

Director: Paavo Westerberg | Stars: Matleena Kuusniemi, Olavi Uusivirta, Kim Bodnia, Samuli Edelmann

Votes: 463

20. Chemical Wedding (2008)

Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A shy, stuttering professor brings Aleister Crowley back to life.

Director: Julian Doyle | Stars: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton

Votes: 1,685

21. Miracle Maker (II) (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Family

Woodhaven, a tiny town on the edge of the American frontier, needs a Christmas miracle and it may have arrived in the form of a ragged traveler.

Director: John Lyde | Stars: Jake Stormoen, Brian Krause, Melanie Stone, Jasen Wade

Votes: 314

22. Deeply (2000)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A reclusive woman's unpublished story about a curse, told to a grieving girl, turns out to be something other than a fairy tale.

Director: Sheri Elwood | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Julia Brendler, Trent Ford

Votes: 1,806

23. Nobody from Nowhere (2014)

G | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

Sébastien Nicolas, realtor, leads a dull existence and gets used to disguising himself to take on the appearance of the characters he meets.

Director: Matthieu Delaporte | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Marie-Josée Croze, Éric Caravaca, Diego Le Martret

Votes: 2,035

24. Dalecarlians (2004)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Mia, who's living in Stockholm, comes home to her small childhood town to celebrate her father's birthday. There she finds herself looked down-upon by her oldest sister; and she has to ... See full summary »

Director: Maria Blom | Stars: Sofia Helin, Kajsa Ernst, Ann Petrén, Lars-Gunnar Aronsson

Votes: 4,182

25. Beloved Sisters (2014)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, Romance

The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.

Director: Dominik Graf | Stars: Hannah Herzsprung, Florian Stetter, Henriette Confurius, Claudia Messner

Votes: 1,599 | Gross: $0.05M

26. John Fox (2021)

97 min | Drama, Thriller

When a young pub owner witnesses a suicide, her quiet life is thrown into turmoil. Between troubling amnesia and enigmatic reminiscences, she embarks on a journey to unravel the threads of her own history.

Director: Nino Ilacqua | Stars: Jack O'Halloran, Roberta Catanese, Giuseppe De Domenico, Asia Sottile

27. Wolfblood (1925)

Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

After wolf blood transfusion, man thinks he's becoming a wolf.

Directors: George Chesebro, Bruce Mitchell | Stars: George Chesebro, Roy Watson, Milburn Morante, Frank Clark

Votes: 360

28. A Single Rider (2017)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A man who has lost everything in his life travels to Australia in search of his family.

Director: Lee Joo-young | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Kong Hyo-jin, Sohee, Jack Campbell

Votes: 1,017

29. Égi bárány (1971)

84 min | Drama

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical ... See full summary »

Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: József Madaras, Daniel Olbrychski, Márk Zala, Lajos Balázsovits

Votes: 221

30. The Crooked Circle (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Ben Lyon, Irene Purcell

Votes: 380

31. Dva lidi v zoo (1989)

89 min | Comedy

Twin brothers are sent to Grandpa to spend some days. The Grandpa is a vet at a zoo and barely has time or patience to deal with the boys, most of the time the boys just help the animals by feeding, petting or playing their violins.

Director: Marie Polednáková | Stars: Miroslav Machácek, Jirina Jirásková, Martin Morávek, Jan Morávek

Votes: 117

32. The Life Before This (1999)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe.

Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pantoliano, Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea

Votes: 566

33. Make Believe Ballroom (1949)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jerome Courtland, Ruth Warrick, Ron Randell, Virginia Welles

Votes: 64

34. Peaches (2017)

TV-14 | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

When Diego's girlfriend decides to leave him after a disastrous anniversary getaway, he will find any means possible to amend or fix what happened. Even if it means competing with different versions of himself when traveling through time.

Director: Héctor Valdez | Stars: Peter Vives, Joaquín Ferreira, Frank Perozo, María Guinea

Votes: 85

35. Saimin (1999)

110 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's ... See full summary »

Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Gorô Inagaki, Miho Kanno, Takeshi Masu, Ken Utsui

Votes: 735

36. The Quest for Tonewood (2021)

83 min | Documentary, Music

A luthier is obsessed with the idea of crafting a violin, the sound of which is so exceptional that it will thrill the musician who plays it and caress the souls of those who hear it. This ... See full summary »

Director: Hans Lukas Hansen | Stars: Eliza Chadwick, Gaspar Borchardt, Sibylle Fehr-Borchardt, Stefano Conia

Votes: 106

37. Jack of Diamonds (2011 TV Movie)

120 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A young tennis pro teaching at an exclusive country club crosses paths with a master jewel thief and fate determines their future together.

Director: Hervé Renoh | Stars: Jean-Yves Berteloot, John Bregar, James A. Woods, David Gow

Votes: 59

38. On the Q.T. (2001)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A struggling violin player has his morals tested after he meets a wise musician while playing in the subway who introduces him to the music world in N.Y.C.

Director: Yale Strom | Stars: Sam Ball, James Earl Jones, Trudie Styler, Annie Parisse

Votes: 146

39. Åsa-Nisse på jaktstigen (1950)

94 min | Comedy

Åsa-Nisse and Klabbarparn are hunting enthusiasts. This includes illicit hunting, but the new police officer Klöverhage keeps a sharp eye on them. When Åsa-Nisse happens to get caught with ... See full summary »

Director: Ragnar Frisk | Stars: John Elfström, Artur Rolén, Helga Brofeldt, Bertil Boo

Votes: 134

40. Tsili (2014)

88 min | Drama

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Director: Amos Gitai | Stars: Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Leah Koenig, Adam Tsekhman

Votes: 66

41. Fiesta (1941)

Passed | 45 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations ... See full summary »

Director: LeRoy Prinz | Stars: Ann Ayars, Jorge Negrete, Armida, George Givot

Votes: 152

42. 'Babicky dobíjejte presne!' (1984)

101 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums... See full synopsis »

Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Daniela Kolárová, Libuse Havelková, Jana Dítetová

Votes: 144

43. Tokyo Days (1988)

20 min | Documentary, Short

A "home movie" by Chris Marker of his visit to Tokyo with his girlfriend, actress Arielle Dombaste, beginning with a chat with a live mannequin in a store window, then through the subway and to the market.

Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Arielle Dombasle, Chris Marker

Votes: 83

44. Thriller Restaurant the Movie (2010)

Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Horror

At the spooky western styled mansion turned restaurant "Thriller Restaurant," Kuroka and Ryu disappear. After their disappearance others start to disappear at the restaurant. Rumors soon ... See full summary »

Director: Masayuki Ochiai | Stars: Masumi Asano, Ayame Gôriki, Hiroaki Hirata, Hairi Katagiri

Votes: 63

45. Idea Girl (1946)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Larry Brewster, partner in the music publishing firm of Brewster and Crow, returns from a trip to find that his partner, J.C. Crow has hired Pat O'Rourke as a song plugger. Larry doesn't ... See full summary »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Jess Barker, Julie Bishop, Alan Mowbray, George Dolenz

Votes: 25

46. Musical Chairs (2015)

83 min | Comedy, Drama

Perrine plays at kids' birthdays to make ends meet. On her way to a party, she makes a man fall into a tip. The victim is taken to hospital in a coma. Perrine decides to do all she can to help him awake.

Director: Marie Belhomme | Stars: Isabelle Carré, Carmen Maura, Philippe Rebbot, Nina Meurisse

Votes: 363

47. Halgato (1995)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A tragedy looms for a young Gypsy violinist whose half brother is in the throes of first love.

Director: Andrej Mlakar | Stars: Ludvik Bagari, Ljerka Belak, Kristjan Borovsak, Peter Bostjancic

Votes: 68

48. Heart Strings (1920)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Pierre Fournel is a violinist living in a Canadian village with his sister, Gabrielle. Gabrielle is tricked into a mock marriage by Rouget, but she keeps the matter secret from her brother.... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Gladys Coburn, Betty Hilburn, Paul Cazeneuve

49. Livet paa Hegnsgaard (1938)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama

Somewhere on the Jutland heath lies Hegnsgaard, owned by the strict Wolle. His wife, Karen, was forced into the marriage, even though she really loved poor Per. Wolle and Karen's daughter ... See full summary »

Directors: Arne Weel, Lau Lauritzen, Alice O'Fredericks | Stars: Holger Reenberg, Willy Bille, Karin Nellemose, Peter S. Andersen

Votes: 23

50. Blokada (II) (2006)

18 min | Short, Drama, History

Winter. War. Music. On the Russian front two soldiers fight and wait, hoping to survive.

Director: Andrew Ireland | Stars: Olegar Fedoro, John Wordsworth

Votes: 30