With United Productions of America (UPA) (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Leopard (1963)
PG | 186 min | Drama, History
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 23,658
2. Scrooged (1988)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover
Votes: 89,739 | Gross: $60.33M
3. Electric Dreams (1984)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort
Votes: 7,060 | Gross: $2.19M
4. Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
G | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Astronauts investigate Planet X and encounter the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world from "Monster Zero". As one astronaut forms a romance with a mysterious woman, he uncovers the Xilien's true intentions.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Nick Adams, Akira Takarada, Jun Tazaki, Akira Kubo
Votes: 5,669
5. The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
G | 92 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the ... See full summary »
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Russ Tamblyn, Kumi Mizuno, Kenji Sahara, Nobuo Nakamura
Votes: 2,506
6. Mr. Magoo (1997)
PG | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The myopic millionaire defeats jewel smugglers in his usual bumbling manner.
Director: Stanley Tong | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund
Votes: 14,508 | Gross: $21.38M
7. Surviving Christmas (2004)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A lonely, obnoxious young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.
Director: Mike Mitchell | Stars: Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara
Votes: 23,306 | Gross: $11.66M
8. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
In Woody Allen's directorial debut, he took the Japanese action film Key of Keys (1965) and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser
Votes: 9,190
9. All Monsters Attack (1969)
G | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A latchkey child living in the industrial city of Kawasaki confronts his loneliness through his escapist dreams of Monster Island and friendship with Minilla. All while confronting bullies and back robbers.
Directors: Ishirô Honda, Jun Fukuda, Kengo Furusawa | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Machiko Naka, Tomonori Yazaki, Hideyo Amamoto
Votes: 4,132
10. Gay Purr-ee (1962)
Approved | 85 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A farm cat moves to Paris in search of the high life while her wannabe lover from back home tries to reunite.
Director: Abe Levitow | Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees
Votes: 1,675
11. Amblin' (1968)
R | 26 min | Short, Drama, Romance
They were both wanderers but to be more specific...Hippies.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Levin, Pamela McMyler, Henry Axelrod
Votes: 1,079
12. The Red Pony (1949)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Family, Western
A ranch boy is gifted with a colt, grows to love him but the colt escapes, with tragic results.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick
Votes: 908
13. Mister Magoo (1960–1961)
5 min | Animation, Comedy
The adventures of a visually impaired old man.
Stars: Daws Butler, Benny Rubin, Jim Backus, Mel Blanc
Votes: 410
14. Dreamboat (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor, is plagued when his old movies are shown on TV and sets out with his daughter to stop it. However, his former co-star is the hostess of the TV show playing his films and she has other plans.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Clifton Webb, Ginger Rogers, Anne Francis, Jeffrey Hunter
Votes: 687
15. Evil of Dracula (1974)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Horror
A teacher assumes a position at a school that's run by a vampire.
Director: Michio Yamamoto | Stars: Toshio Kurosawa, Mariko Mochizuki, Kunie Tanaka, Shin Kishida
Votes: 555
16. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (1953)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Crime
A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
Director: Ted Parmelee | Star: James Mason
Votes: 1,831
17. OSS 117 Murder for Sale (1968)
GP | 91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Agent OSS 117 infiltrates an organization that specializes in political assassinations, by assuming the identity of one of its top assassins.
Directors: Renzo Cerrato, Jean-Pierre Desagnat, André Hunebelle | Stars: John Gavin, Margaret Lee, Curd Jürgens, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 220
18. 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
75 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Mr. Magoo's ancestor, Abdul Aziz Magoo, is the uncle of Aladdin, who falls in love with a princess.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Jim Backus, Kathryn Grant, Dwayne Hickman, Hans Conried
Votes: 257
19. Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962 TV Movie)
Approved | 53 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
This musical adaptation of the classic tale by Charles Dickens stars Magoo as the cold-hearted old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.
Director: Abe Levitow | Stars: Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano
Votes: 2,572
20. The Girl Next Door (1953)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird (June Haver) buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Dan Dailey, June Haver, Dennis Day, Billy Gray
Votes: 227
21. 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005 TV Special)
245 min | Documentary, Animation, Family
A list compiling the 100 Greatest cartoons, new and old, as voted by the British public.
Directors: Esther Dere, Anna Gien, Andrew Adamson, Katsuhito Akiyama, Roger Allers, Wesley Archer, Kelly Asbury, Ralph Bakshi, Joseph Barbera, Stéphane Bernasconi, Bruno Bianchi, Brad Bird, Sylvain Chomet, Ron Clements, Gene Deitch, Pete Docter, Jim Duffy, Peter Firmin, Bob Godfrey, Mark Hall, Masamitsu Hidaka, Stephen Hillenburg, Larry Jacobs, Bob Jaques, Vicky Jenson, Andy Kim, Mark Kirkland, Andi Klein, John Kricfalusi, John Lasseter, Peter Lord, Craig McCracken, Bill Melendez, Pete Michels, Rob Minkoff, Rich Moore, Jimmy T. Murakami, John Musker, Nick Park, Oliver Postgate, Jim Reardon, Mike Reiss, Martin Rosen, Aaron Ruben, John Ryan, Tim Searle, Henry Selick, Brian Sheesley, Peter Shin, Alan Smart, Aaron Springer, Andrew Stanton, Satoshi Tajiri, Hideki Takayama, Genndy Tartakovsky, Hisayuki Toriumi, Gary Trousdale, Gregg Vanzo, Conrad Vernon, Gwen Wetzler, Richard Williams, Kirk Wise, Bill Wolf, David Yates, Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Jimmy Carr, Joe Alaskey, Terry Alderton, Kelly Asbury
Votes: 125
22. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of a little boy who would only talk in sound effects. With story by Dr. Seuss (and Bill Scott of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame) this cartoon won the Oscar for best short subject (animated) for 1950.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley | Star: Marvin Miller
Votes: 1,786
23. Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen (1974)
88 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late.... See full summary »
Directors: Toshio Masuda, Shûe Matsubayashi, Shirô Moritani | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Toshio Kurosawa, Kaoru Yumi, Yôko Tsukasa
Votes: 246
24. The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo (1964–1965)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Animated series featuring Jim Backus's Mr. Magoo character in half-hour adaptations of classic stories for children. Praised by both critics and educators, and well-remembered by fans, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Jim Backus, Joan Gardner, Marvin Miller, Paul Frees
Votes: 563
25. The Dick Tracy Show (1961– )
23 min | Animation, Crime, Adventure
Cartoon series produced by UPA, in which Dick Tracy (voiced by the distinguished film and stage actor Everett Sloane) played more or less of an incidental role. Most of the crime fighting ... See full summary »
Stars: Jerry Hausner, Benny Rubin, Mel Blanc, Everett Sloane
Votes: 189
26. Madeline (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley | Star: Gladys Holland
Votes: 162
27. The Four Poster (1952)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after ... See full summary »
Directors: Irving Reis, John Hubley | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 166
28. A Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A henpecked husband sees a unicorn outside his window--or does he?
Director: William T. Hurtz
Votes: 695
29. The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1954)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Sort of a cartoon version of "All About Eve" or people-using-people themes. It opens with a man singing the title song, accompanied by a pianist, a trumpeter and a trombonist. A flashback ... See full summary »
Director: Ted Parmelee | Star: Jack Mather
Votes: 23
30. Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967)
82 min | Documentary
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out!
5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16
Length: 47 min.
1. "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min. Director and writer: Jerry ... See full synopsis »
Director: Robin S. Clark | Stars: Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Votes: 29
31. Ragtime Bear (1949)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short
At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.
Director: John Hubley | Stars: Jim Backus, Jerry Hausner
Votes: 149
32. Esupai (1974)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A bad ESP syndicate is planning to kill world leaders through mental telepathy. The good guys are a top secret group called ESPY and they're in charge of stopping the killer psychics.
Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Hiroshi Fujioka, Kaoru Yumi, Masao Kusakari, Yûzô Kayama
Votes: 101
33. What's New, Mr. Magoo? (1977)
30 min | Animation, Family
The further misadventures of the lovable nearsighted curmudgeon.
Stars: Jim Backus, Bob Ogle, Casey Kasem, Hal Smith
Votes: 81
34. Gerald McBoing! Boing! on Planet Moo (1956)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
While meeting a new friend, Gerald is abducted by aliens and whisked to the planet Moo. The king of Moo mistakenly thinks that all Earthlings - like Gerald - speak only in sound effects, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cannon | Star: Marvin Miller
Votes: 254
35. Taiheiyô kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka (1965)
105 min | Drama, History, War
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska, Alaska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the ... See full summary »
Director: Seiji Maruyama | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Sô Yamamura, Makoto Satô, Tadao Nakamaru
Votes: 47
36. Our Mr. Sun (1956 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 57 min | Animation
One entry in a series of films produced to make science accessible to the masses--especially children--this film describes the sun in scientific but entertaining terms.
Directors: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz | Stars: Eddie Albert, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Baxter, Marvin Miller
Votes: 152
37. Little Boy with a Big Horn (1953)
7 min | Animation, Short
Ollie loves to play the tuba but his playing upsets all the people in town. He goes to the country and disrupts the milking habits of the cows. He finally takes a boat and practices at sea ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cannon | Stars: John T. Smith, Marian Richman
Votes: 28
38. The Sicilians (1964)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a Mafia boss who has spilled the beans back in the States.
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Robert Hutton, Reginald Marsh, Ursula Howells, Alex Scott
Votes: 60
39. Hell-Bent for Election (1944)
Not Rated | 13 min | Animation, Short
A villainous Thomas E. Dewey supporting sprite tries to influence a sleepy Union rail switchman to derail Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign train.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Marvin Miller
Votes: 127
40. Sailing and Village Band (1958)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The second of UPA's split-reel cartoons in which there were two unrelated segments---one with Hattie and one with Ham---of 3.5 minutes each. The first one---Sailing" has young Hattie ... See full summary »
Directors: Fred Crippen, Lew Keller
Votes: 16
41. Frosty the Snowman (1951)
3 min | Animation, Short, Family
An animated musical number of the beloved classic song based off everyone's favorite snowman Frosty.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley
Votes: 112
42. Rooty Toot Toot (1951)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Musical
The musical tale of a murder trial by a jealous lover.
Director: John Hubley | Stars: Thurl Ravenscroft, Annette Warren
Votes: 819
43. Swan Lake (1966)
112 min | Music
Director: Truck Branss | Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev
Votes: 96
44. Magoo's Puddle Jumper (1956)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty salesman but he drives it off anyway. ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Jim Backus, Daws Butler
Votes: 284
45. The Jaywalker (1956)
7 min | Animation, Short
Milton Muffet is confessed poor pedestrian. He's addicted to "the most awful, habit-forming vice" man falls prey to, jaywalking.
Director: Robert Cannon | Star: Eugene Bollay
Votes: 95
46. When Magoo Flew (1954)
6 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Mr. Magoo sets off to go to the movies but goes to an airport by mistake and gets on a plane thinking it to be a theater. Little does Magoo know the man he is sitting next to is actually a ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Burness | Star: Jim Backus
Votes: 363
47. The Fifty-First Dragon (1954)
Approved | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Based on the Heywood Broun story of an awkward Knight who couldn't keep up with his classmates at the Killing Dragons Knight School, until a professor, in order to instill self-confidence ... See full summary »
Director: Pete Burness | Stars: Heywood Hale Broun, Jerry Hausner
Votes: 7
48. The Magic Fluke (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
UPA had just taken over the cartoon production for Columbia and their influence shows vividly on this Fox-and-Crow entry that lets the slapstick be a result of a 'human-nature' story. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Hubley | Star: John T. Smith
Votes: 129
49. The Family Circus (1951)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
Five-year-old Patsy has competition for her father's attention from the family's new baby daughter. Her attempts to win her father's praise receive instead a rebuke. The father slips on a ... See full summary »
Directors: Art Babbitt, John Hubley
Votes: 31
50. Ballet-Oop (1954)
7 min | Animation, Short
Dance teacher Miss Placement is dismayed to learn that the head of the School of Ballet where she teaches has entered her beginners class in a contest just three weeks away. But she manages... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cannon | Stars: Marvin Miller, Marian Richman
Votes: 32