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: 21,952
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: 82,594 | 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: 6,745 | Gross: $2.19M
4. 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: 13,927 | Gross: $21.38M
5. 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: 21,818 | Gross: $11.66M
6. 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: 8,933
7. Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
G | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Nick Adams, Akira Takarada, Jun Tazaki, Akira Kubo
Votes: 4,969
8. 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: 627
9. All Monsters Attack (1969)
G | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A bullied schoolboy dreams of traveling to Monster Island, where he befriends Godzilla's son, who is also having bully troubles.
Directors: Ishirô Honda, Jun Fukuda, Kengo Furusawa | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Machiko Naka, Tomonori Yazaki, Hideyo Amamoto
Votes: 3,681
10. 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: 2,242
11. Gay Purr-ee (1962)
Approved | 85 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Mouser Jaune Tom and house cat Mewsette are living in the French countryside, but Mewsette wants to experience the refinement and excitement of the Paris living. But upon arrival she falls ... See full summary »
Director: Abe Levitow | Stars: Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Paul Frees
Votes: 1,599
12. 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: 1,020
13. Mister Magoo (1960–1961)
5 min | Animation, Comedy
The wacky adventures of a nearly blind senior citizen with a great energy and sense of humor, who doesn't accept that he almost can't see, and whose imagination compensates when he drives ... See full summary »
Stars: Daws Butler, Benny Rubin, Jim Backus, Mel Blanc
Votes: 365
14. 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: 207
15. 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: 862
16. 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: 452
17. 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: 179
18. Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962 TV Movie)
Approved | 53 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An animated, magical, musical version of Dickens' timeless classic "A Christmas Carol." The nearsighted Mr. Magoo doesn't have a ghost of a chance as Ebenezer Scrooge, unless he learns the ... See full summary »
Director: Abe Levitow | Stars: Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano
Votes: 2,371
19. 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.
Directors: Jack Kinney, Abe Levitow | Stars: Jim Backus, Kathryn Grant, Dwayne Hickman, Hans Conried
Votes: 239
20. 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: 1,694
21. 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, Howard Morris
Votes: 551
22. 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: 1,739
23. 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: 206
24. 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: 151
25. 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: 230
26. 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 | Stars: Jimmy Carr, Joe Alaskey, Terry Alderton, Kelly Asbury
Votes: 121
27. 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: 780
28. 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: 145
29. 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
30. 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: 112
31. A Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A henpecked husband sees a unicorn outside his window--or does he?
Director: William T. Hurtz
Votes: 680
32. 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: 79
33. 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: 143
34. 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: 37
35. Esupai (1974)
87 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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: 84
36. Frosty the Snowman (1950)
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: 98
38. Robin Hoodlum (1948)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short
A slight role reversal for the Fox and Crow in this one, as the Crow was usually the smart one who ended up with the winning hand. Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing ... See full summary »
Director: John Hubley | Star: John T. Smith
Votes: 128
39. 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: 142
40. The Emperor's New Clothes (1953)
Animation, Short
Director: Ted Parmelee | Star: Hans Conried
Votes: 30
41. I Was a Teenage Magoo (1960)
6 min | Animation, Short
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Star: Jim Backus
42. Trees and Jamaica Daddy (1957)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Music
"Trees and Jamaica Daddy" was the first of a UPA series (short-lived) that featured two different subjects (plot, characters)running about 3.5 minutes each, on a seven-minute reel. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Fred Crippen, Lew Keller
Votes: 66
43. Punchy de Leon (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short
The Fox and the Crow compete to bring the king of Spain a jug filled at the mystical Fountain of Youth.
Director: John Hubley | Star: Daws Butler
Votes: 45
44. Christopher Crumpet (1953)
6 min | Animation, Short
Through drawings, an illustrator tells his dog the story of a boy named Christopher Crumpet. Christopher can at will change himself from a little boy into a chicken. He threatens to do so ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cannon | Stars: Marvin Miller, Marian Richman
Votes: 140
45. Georgie and the Dragon (1951)
Animation, Short
Georgie, a young Scottish lad, befriends a baby dragon and takes it home as a pet and companion. Complications arise, however, when the dragon begins growing rapidly.
Directors: Robert Cannon, John Hubley
Votes: 28
46. Totally Tooned In (1999– )
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
65 1/2 hour episodes of almost 200 theatrical cartoons, 3 full length cartoons, mini-cartoons never available on TV. Mr. Magoo is in every episode and they are all in technicolor. This was ... See full summary »
Star: Steve Howey
Votes: 9
47. 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: 80
48. 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
49. 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
Votes: 118
50. 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: 231