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1. The Untouchables (1987)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith

Votes: 330,845 | Gross: $76.27M

2. Topper (1937)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke

Votes: 8,321

3. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas

Votes: 11,088

4. The Enforcer (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Directors: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane

Votes: 5,645

5. Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)

PG | 78 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Batman and Robin of the 1960s live action series are back in action to take down their fiendish foes united once more against them.

Director: Rick Morales | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Julie Newmar, Jeff Bergman

Votes: 6,392

6. Wild Wife (1954)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A harried housewife describes to her boorish husband what she did that day.

Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet

Votes: 368

7. W*A*L*T*E*R (1984 TV Movie)

25 min | Comedy

The neurotic but perceptive Walter "Radar" O'Reilly joins the police force after the Korean War.

Director: Bill Bixby | Stars: Gary Burghoff, Ray Buktenica, Victoria Jackson, Noble Willingham

Votes: 244

8. The Luck of the Irish (1948)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil Kellaway, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 1,176

9. Union Station (1950)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A sharp-eyed woman spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald, Lyle Bettger

Votes: 2,726

10. Railroaded! (1947)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Hugh Beaumont, Jane Randolph

Votes: 1,806

11. The Gay Falcon (1941)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

The Falcon investigates jewel thieves who are working with hard up socialites to defraud insurance companies. First of the Falcon series.

Director: Irving Reis | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Allen Jenkins, Nina Vale

Votes: 1,229

12. The Racket (1928)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An honest police captain vows to bring down a powerful bootlegger who is protected by corrupt politicians and judges.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Louis Wolheim, Marie Prevost, G. Pat Collins

Votes: 1,584

13. Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who now works for his seemingly upright competitor.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 2,034

14. Gay Old Days (1935)

10 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

A musical street scene from the Gay 90s featuring a pretty girl and her numerous suitors, an Irish tenor, a trio of singers and the Salvation Army chorus.

Director: William Watson | Stars: Frank Luther, Norman Cordon, Jean Lacy, The Six Mountain Melodeers

Votes: 8

15. Where There's Life (1947)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Thriller

The American son of an Eastern European monarch wounded in an assassination attempt becomes a target for a terrorist organization.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Signe Hasso, William Bendix, George Coulouris

Votes: 512

16. Bugs and Thugs (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

When Bugs calls a cab he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers (he does know the capital of Nevada).

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 1,803

17. Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Mae Clarke

Votes: 1,415

18. Miracles for Sale (1939)

Not Rated | 71 min | Crime, Mystery

Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull

Votes: 845

19. The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)

Approved | 293 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.

Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Warren Hull, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel, Keye Luke

Votes: 426

20. Crime School (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama

A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.

Directors: Lewis Seiler, William Clemens | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, The Dead End Kids, Gale Page, Billy Halop

Votes: 1,399

21. The Saint Strikes Back (1939)

Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Simon Templar, the Saint, travels to San Francisco to solve crime mysteries within the police department.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Jerome Cowan

Votes: 1,084

22. Anton (2008)

95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970s Ireland is a radically different place from the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil ... See full summary »

Director: Graham Cantwell | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Anthony Fox, Laura Way, Andy Smith

Votes: 211

23. Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Mystery

Dr. James Kildare decides to take a position at a large New York hospital instead of joining his father's country practice but he finds himself in serious trouble when he saves a suicidal woman.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 709

24. Night Owls (1930)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy

After far too many break-ins on his watch, an ineffective policeman approaches the unsuspecting vagabonds, Laurel and Hardy, with a preposterous proposition; one that would get him off the hook. But, are the boys up to the task?

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, James Finlayson

Votes: 1,778

25. The Woman Condemned (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jerry, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara, a girl accused of murder, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence.

Director: Dorothy Davenport | Stars: Claudia Dell, Lola Lane, Richard Hemingway, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 294

26. The Adventurous Blonde (1937)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

After rival reporters, jealous of Torchy's success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel, Tom Kennedy

Votes: 536

27. Romance in Manhattan (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Rejected as an immigrant because he doesn't have the required $200, a Czech immigrant jumps ship and is befriended by a chorus girl and becomes a taxi driver.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ginger Rogers, Arthur Hohl, Jimmy Butler

Votes: 827

28. The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

After a series of vegetable disappearances,a potato policeman goes out to catch the kidnappers.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Dave Tendlar | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Margie Hines, Jack Mercer

Votes: 250

29. Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

Passed | 59 min | Mystery

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Stanley Ridges

Votes: 517

30. The Plot Thickens (1936)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr., Louise Latimer

Votes: 387

31. Love in Bloom (1935)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A young girl runs away from her carnival family to make it in New York City and becomes involved with a handsome young songwriter.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joe Morrison, Dixie Lee

Votes: 149

32. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1974 TV Movie)

25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Partly based on a true story, a little girl writes to the editor of a newspaper concerning the existence of Santa Claus.

Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Jim Backus, Susan Silo, Courtney Lemmon, Billy Green

Votes: 238

33. Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, John Miljan

Votes: 429

34. Uptown New York (1932)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

Pat and Max are in love and share an intimate relationship. However, after Max receives his surgeon's diploma, his parents have arranged a marriage for him with a woman from a rich, good background.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Jack Oakie, Shirley Grey, Leon Ames, George Cooper

Votes: 164

35. Blue Silence

Action, Crime, Drama | Announced

A down on his luck Detective in Queens, New York is tapped by the FBI to join a special operation to infiltrate and bring down a crime ring which involves his old partner, now a Homicide Detective in Manhattan.

Stars: R. Kan Albay, Emre Yildizlar, Dee Martin, Francis Cooper

36. Sister to Judas (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious roadblocks.

Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Claire Windsor, Holmes Herbert, John Harron, Lee Moran

Votes: 41

37. Big Hearted (1930)

Passed | 15 min | Comedy, Short

The Blues are happy that their neighbors have vacated and are looking forward to having newer and nicer neighbors. Then, the Blacks move in, making them nostalgic for the obnoxious neighbors they had before.

Director: Robert De Lacey | Stars: Harry Gribbon, Vivien Oakland, Ray Hughes, Dorothy Gulliver

Votes: 11

38. Measure (II) (2014)

Crime

A tragedy based loosely on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure about an aging and no longer relevant Irish mob who is struggling to keep their hold on a city, and the one cop who still holds ... See full summary »

Director: Beate Antares | Stars: Julie Marie Hassett, Evan Boymel, Barry Shabaka Henley, Peter Jason

39. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode: The Foxes and Hounds Affair (1965)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A magician has developed a mind-reading device and offers it to UNCLE. The problem is Thrush, led by rivals Victor Marton and Miss Belmont, also is seeking the machine.

Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Medina

Votes: 135

40. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–1986)
Episode: The Triumph of the Green Goblin (1981)

TV-Y | 25 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

The Green Goblin wants to poison the city's water supply with a formula that will turn everyone into creatures like him.

Directors: Don Jurwich, Bob Richardson | Stars: Hans Conried, Sally Julian, Jerry Dexter, Anne Lockhart

Votes: 208

41. Sons of Butcher (2005–2006)
Episode: Doin' the Time (2005)

TV-14 | Animation, Comedy

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Director: Karl DiPelino | Stars: Dave Dunham, Jay Ziebarth, Trevor Ziebarth, Peter Cugno

42. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963)
Episode: Blue-Tail Fly (1962)

TV-Y7 | 26 min | Comedy, Family

Dobie campaigns for student council against Chatsworth, capitalizing on the folksinging fad that has swept the campus.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, Sheila James Kuehl, William Schallert

Votes: 25

43. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963)
Episode: What's a Little Murder Between Friends (1962)

TV-Y7 | 26 min | Comedy, Family

After making Thalia the beneficiary of his GI insurance policy, Dobie becomes paranoid people are plotting to kill him.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: Dwayne Hickman, Frank Faylen, Florida Friebus, Bob Denver

Votes: 26

44. Archer (2009–2023)
Episode: Lo Scandalo (2012)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

Archer and Lana are called over to Malory's apartment on what was supposed to be an off night for the ISIS crew. There, they are shocked to discover what appears to be a dead body, some ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Reed | Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Amber Nash, Chris Parnell

Votes: 1,902

45. Scary Tales of New York (2023– )
Episode: Haircut for a Mob Boss (2023)

Crime

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, once the chief of the notorious "Murder Incorporated" crime firm, winds up the target of a mob hit in a barber shop chair.

Director: Steve Maher | Stars: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Cannell, Colm Meaney, Shane Serrano

46. Another Period (2013–2018)
Episode: The Love Boat (2018)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, History

Abandoned by Cornetta and Abortion Deb, Hortense reluctantly asks Lillian and Beatrice to assist her in a meteorological experiment which she hopes will garner her some scientific fame. A Spaniard's arrival complicates matters.

Director: Jeremy Konner | Stars: Michael Ian Black, Paget Brewster, Donna Lynne Champlin, Beth Dover

Votes: 69