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1. Ghostbusters (1984)

PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis

Votes: 450,471 | Gross: $238.63M

2. Spider-Man 2 (2004)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a former brilliant scientist named Otto Octavius.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, James Franco

Votes: 709,066 | Gross: $373.59M

3. Spider-Man 3 (2007)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.

Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church

Votes: 637,927 | Gross: $336.53M

4. Something's Gotta Give (2003)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.

Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet

Votes: 129,223 | Gross: $124.73M

5. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

R | 104 min | Drama, Music

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund

Votes: 163,537 | Gross: $13.24M

6. Adventureland (2009)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to get him prepared for the real world.

Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Martin Starr

Votes: 169,074 | Gross: $16.03M

7. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, George Segal

Votes: 22,447 | Gross: $41.25M

8. Still Alice (2014)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth

Votes: 143,526 | Gross: $18.75M

9. Marathon Man (1976)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane

Votes: 70,248 | Gross: $21.71M

10. Quiz Show (1994)

PG-13 | 133 min | Biography, Drama, History

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Paul Scofield

Votes: 73,359 | Gross: $24.82M

11. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey

Votes: 76,805 | Gross: $40.08M

12. Antebellum (2020)

R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.

Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston

Votes: 29,816

13. Kill Your Darlings (2013)

R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster

Votes: 41,254 | Gross: $1.03M

14. Igby Goes Down (2002)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes

Votes: 35,241 | Gross: $4.68M

15. Premium Rush (2012)

PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez, Sean Kennedy

Votes: 118,500 | Gross: $20.28M

16. New York Minute (I) (2004)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Two sisters who just can't get along have to travel to New York City together and find themselves on numerous misadventures in order to accomplish their goals.

Director: Dennie Gordon | Stars: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Eugene Levy, Andy Richter

Votes: 24,963 | Gross: $14.02M

17. Elegy (I) (2008)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 23,214 | Gross: $3.58M

18. Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A father struggling with bipolar disorder tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.

Director: Maya Forbes | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide

Votes: 17,044 | Gross: $1.43M

19. P.S. (2004)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An unfulfilled divorced woman gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who appears to be her high school sweetheart who died many years before.

Director: Dylan Kidd | Stars: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Marcia Gay Harden, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 6,547 | Gross: $0.18M

20. Rebel in the Rye (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, "The Catcher in the Rye".

Director: Danny Strong | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, Victor Garber, Hope Davis

Votes: 10,793 | Gross: $0.38M

21. The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

Approved | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan

Votes: 12,003

22. People Places Things (2015)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Will Henry is a newly single graphic novelist balancing parenting his young twin daughters and a classroom full of students while exploring and navigating the rich complexities of new love and letting go of the woman who left him.

Director: Jim Strouse | Stars: Jemaine Clement, Regina Hall, Jessica Williams, Stephanie Allynne

Votes: 11,000

23. Roger Dodger (2002)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

After breaking up with his lover and boss, a smooth-talking man takes his teenaged nephew out on the town in search of sex.

Director: Dylan Kidd | Stars: Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley

Votes: 17,924 | Gross: $1.27M

24. Teacher's Pet (1958)

Approved | 120 min | Comedy, Romance

A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night-school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren

Votes: 4,855

25. Without a Trace (1983)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Mystery

Estranged New Yorker (Kate Nelligan) turns to the police after her son disappears.

Director: Stanley R. Jaffe | Stars: Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, Stockard Channing

Votes: 2,349

26. The Chosen (1981)

PG | 108 min | Drama

In 1944, in Brooklyn, two Jewish kids become friends. One is from a very conservative family, and the other is more liberal. The issues of importance of tradition, parental expectations and the formation of Israel cause constant friction.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller

Votes: 2,408

27. Tadpole (2002)

PG-13 | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Coming-of-age story about a suave 15-year-old prep school student who falls in love with his stepmother. When her best friend responds to his advances, he suddenly finds himself in way over his head.

Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Aaron Stanford, Kate Mara, Robert Iler

Votes: 6,263 | Gross: $2.88M

28. Stonewall (2015)

R | 129 min | Drama, History

A young man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones

Votes: 4,463 | Gross: $0.19M

29. RBG (2018)

PG | 98 min | Documentary, Biography

The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West | Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel, Nina Totenberg

Votes: 15,067 | Gross: $14.02M

30. Howl (2010)

R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.

Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott, Aaron Tveit

Votes: 13,407 | Gross: $0.62M

31. Anesthesia (2015)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Gretchen Mol

Votes: 5,026 | Gross: $0.02M

32. Dreamchild (1985)

PG | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Ian Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson.

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Caris Corfman

Votes: 1,751 | Gross: $1.22M

33. The Beginning or the End (1947)

Passed | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler

Votes: 749 | Gross: $2.66M

34. Shirkers (2018)

TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary

A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.

Director: Sandi Tan | Stars: Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah, Sophia Siddique Harvey, Sharon Siddique

Votes: 5,674

35. The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (1970)

R | 117 min | Drama

Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Robert T. Westbrook, the movie is about 23 year old Columbia University dropout (Stanley Sweetheart) who seeks his identity during the sexual revolution.

Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Linda Gillen, Michael Greer, Dianne Hull, Holly Near

Votes: 188

36. Love the Hard Way (2001)

R | 104 min | Drama, Crime, Romance

The story of a petty thief who meets an innocent young woman and brings her into his world of crime while she teaches him the lessons of enjoying life and being loved.

Director: Peter Sehr | Stars: Adrien Brody, Charlotte Ayanna, Jon Seda, August Diehl

Votes: 2,575 | Gross: $0.04M

37. Project Nim (2011)

PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary

Tells the story of a chimpanzee taken from its mother at birth and raised like a human child by a family in a brownstone on the upper West Side in the 1970s.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Nim Chimpsky, Stephanie LaFarge, Herbert Terrace, Wer LaFarge

Votes: 8,600 | Gross: $0.41M

38. Julie Johnson (2001)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.

Director: Bob Gosse | Stars: Lili Taylor, Courtney Love, Noah Emmerich, Mischa Barton

Votes: 719

39. The Other (1999)

105 min | Drama, Romance

Egyptian director Youssef Chahine exposes the links between power and fanaticism and denounces intolerance in this bitter portrait of the Egyptian business world, where unconditional drive ... See full summary »

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Nabila Ebeid, Mahmoud Hemida

Votes: 1,083

40. The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)

105 min | Comedy, Romance

A married author (Parker Posey) tries to stimulate her imagination for an erotic novel with hands-on research.

Director: Brian Skeet | Stars: Parker Posey, Jeremy Northam, Craig Chester, Elizabeth McGovern

Votes: 659

41. 24 Nights (1999)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Jonathan Parker was 4 years old, his mother's words and a chance encounter with a Salvation Army Kris Kringle instilled in him a lifelong belief in legend of Santa Claus.

Director: Kieran Turner | Stars: Kevin Isola, Aida Turturro, Stephen Mailer, David Burtka

Votes: 401

42. 1980 (2022)

Not Rated | 32 min | Short, Drama, Romance

Lost for almost four decades, this lovingly restored 32-minute film tells the story of an NYU student revealing his sexuality to his mother and sister - at a time when coming out was the ... See full summary »

Directors: Thomas F. Sailer, Mark Olmsted | Stars: Keith Jones, Greg Schaffert, Adele DeWitt Racheff, Marjorie Fierst

43. Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist (2009)

60 min | Documentary

Three irrepressible graduate students are in a race to beat the competition to discover the switch that controls appetite in the human body. The pressure is on, as they each have to deal ... See full summary »

Directors: Carole Rifkind, Richard Rifkind | Stars: Sharon Billington, Kil Carroll, Lawrence Shapiro, Robert Townley

Votes: 21

44. Behind the Mask (2006)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary

Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2006 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front. It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete.

Director: Shannon Keith | Stars: Shannon Keith, Keith Mann, Kevin Kjonaas, Rod Coronado

Votes: 201

45. 7 Transcendental Operations (2006)

35 min | Short, Fantasy

7 students experience sublime weirdness and brush their teeth.

Director: Eugene Kotlyarenko | Stars: Hannah Hunt, Gabriel Kass-Johnson, Ezra Koenig, Erik Lindman

46. Tom's Restaurant - A Documentary About Everything (2014)

90 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Tom's Restaurant in New York City: Seinfeld, Suzanne Vega, NASA, Columbia University and much more... Documentary about Tom's Restaurant, in Morningside Heights - Manhattan. Owners, clientele & pop culture references.

Director: Gian Franco Morini | Stars: Ramon Berenguer, Burton Crane, Mrs. Elfie, Josh Gondelman

Votes: 14

47. Songs of the Campus (1952)

15 min | Short, Music

A musical short featuring the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, directed by Philip Duey, singing "The Victors," "The Whiffenpoofs," "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech," ""Lord Jeffrey Amherst," and other college songs.

Director: Larry O'Reilly | Stars: Philip Duey, The Michigan State University Glee Club

48. The Great Romance (1919)

60 min | Adventure, Romance

King Rudolph of Rugaria sends his son, Prince Boris, to America to marry into wealth so that the country can recover from its financial difficulties. Rich Mrs. Hanway, eager to have her ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Otto | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Rubye De Remer, Joseph Granby, Frank Currier

Votes: 21

49. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 126 (1918)

Documentary, Short

Subjects may include: William L. Finley's Animal Studies, No. 1 (baby animals), "Schematography", "With the Deep Sea Anglers", and "The First Flyer".

Director: P.D. Hugon

50. Robert F. Kennedy: Legacy (2008 Video)

50 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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Stars: Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy