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1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)

R | 132 min | Drama, Romance

In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar

Votes: 315,749 | Gross: $18.10M

2. The Big Lebowski (1998)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 860,367 | Gross: $17.50M

3. The Hangover (2009)

R | 100 min | Comedy

Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Bradley Cooper, Justin Bartha, Ed Helms

Votes: 846,395 | Gross: $277.32M

4. The Equalizer 2 (2018)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean

Votes: 197,745 | Gross: $102.08M

5. Speed (1994)

R | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.

Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton

Votes: 391,943 | Gross: $121.25M

6. Porky's (1981)

R | 94 min | Comedy

In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Roger Wilson

Votes: 45,754 | Gross: $111.29M

7. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)

PG | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

Director: Rich Moore | Stars: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman

Votes: 458,437 | Gross: $189.42M

8. The Holiday (2006)

PG-13 | 136 min | Comedy, Romance

Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.

Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black

Votes: 322,960 | Gross: $63.22M

9. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

R | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy

A Korean-American office worker and his Indian-American stoner friend embark on a quest to satisfy their desire for White Castle burgers.

Director: Danny Leiner | Stars: John Cho, Kal Penn, Ethan Embry, Rob Tinkler

Votes: 206,119 | Gross: $18.23M

10. BlacKkKlansman (2018)

R | 135 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace

Votes: 291,112 | Gross: $49.28M

11. Downsizing (2017)

R | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.

Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig

Votes: 124,513 | Gross: $24.45M

12. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

R | 95 min | Comedy

Borat returns to America from Kazakhstan to America, this time to reveal more about the American culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

Director: Jason Woliner | Stars: Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu

Votes: 153,727

13. Ben-Hur (2016)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.

Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi

Votes: 46,840 | Gross: $26.41M

14. Coming 2 America (2021)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Music

The African monarch Akeem learns he has a long-lost son in the United States and must return to America to meet this unexpected heir and build a relationship with his son.

Director: Craig Brewer | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, Jermaine Fowler

Votes: 75,443

15. Vinyl (2016)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Music

Richie Finestra, a shrewd record executive from New York, tries to promote American Century, his music label, amidst the changing music scene in the 1970s.

Stars: Bobby Cannavale, Paul Ben-Victor, P.J. Byrne, Max Casella

Votes: 24,931

16. Very Bad Things (1998)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau

Votes: 49,007 | Gross: $9.80M

17. Wish I Was Here (2014)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

A struggling actor, father and husband finds himself at a major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his family and his career.

Director: Zach Braff | Stars: Zach Braff, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon, Kate Hudson

Votes: 39,088 | Gross: $3.59M

18. The Specials (2019)

114 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of two men, educators of children and adolescents with autism.

Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Reda Kateb, Hélène Vincent, Bryan Mialoundama

Votes: 11,198

19. Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama

A young Jewish American man, with the help of an eccentric local, endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.

Director: Liev Schreiber | Stars: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Lyoskin, Jonathan Safran Foer

Votes: 59,920 | Gross: $1.71M

20. The Opposite of Sex (1998)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

Director: Don Roos | Stars: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett

Votes: 21,762 | Gross: $5.88M

21. Barney's Version (2010)

R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Jake Hoffman, Macha Grenon

Votes: 26,249 | Gross: $7.50M

22. A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)

Approved | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War

On the Russian front in 1944, German private Ernst Graeber receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: John Gavin, Liselotte Pulver, Jock Mahoney, Don DeFore

Votes: 3,715

23. Save the Tiger (1973)

R | 100 min | Drama

A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton

Votes: 5,610 | Gross: $2.33M

24. Nowhere in Africa (2001)

R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History

Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.

Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo

Votes: 13,963 | Gross: $6.17M

25. It's a Disaster (2012)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

Four couples meet for Sunday brunch, then discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.

Director: Todd Berger | Stars: Rachel Boston, Laura Adkin, Kevin M. Brennan, David Cross

Votes: 11,614 | Gross: $0.04M

26. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013)

Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary

What is the difference between us and pedophiles?

Director: Jan-Willem Breure | Stars: Jan-Willem Breure, Dick Swaab, Corine de Ruiter, Savannah van Zweeden

Votes: 6,332

27. The Last Earth Girl (2019)

98 min | Drama

After the announcement that the world will end in seven years, a young woman must decide what is truly important to her in life and what she is willing to sacrifice to reach her goals.

Director: Jim Weter | Stars: Kari Fleskes, Mark Pergolizzi, Duane P. Craig, Greg Earnest

Votes: 790

28. The Critic (1963)

Approved | 4 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Mel Brooks is an old man watching abstract animations. He doesn't understand them, so he heckles with strange commentary, to the annoyance of those around him.

Director: Ernest Pintoff | Star: Mel Brooks

Votes: 1,139

29. How Murray Saved Christmas (2014 TV Special)

TV-G | 42 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

One-hour animated special surrounding a surly deli owner Murray Weiner, who is forced to step into Santa's shoes for one Christmas and bumbles his way into doing a great job.

Director: Peter Avanzino | Stars: Jason Alexander, Sean Hayes, Dennis Haysbert, Nick Jameson

Votes: 595

30. Frozen Justice (1929)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama, Music

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Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Lenore Ulric, Robert Frazer, Louis Wolheim, Ullrich Haupt

Votes: 28

31. Boychick (2001)

12 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

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Director: Glenn Gaylord | Stars: Andrea La Bella, Nic Arnzen, Gregory Siff, Lindsey Girardot

Votes: 149

32. Pettersson & Bendel (1933)

108 min | Drama

Pettersson, the charmer, and Bendel, the clever one, team up and begin to do small-time semi-legal business.

Director: Per-Axel Branner | Stars: Adolf Jahr, Semmy Friedmann, Birgit Sergelius, Isa Quensel

Votes: 43

33. The Same Snowy Ground (2020)

43 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

A journey through a place of an eternal past; where the grandson of a Jewish partisan sets out to experience the dramatic events and places that shaped his grandfather's war time.

Director: Matan Tal

34. Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode: TKO (1994)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A disgraced boxer comes to Babylon 5 to compete in the Mutai, an alien fighting match. Meanwhile, an old friend visits Ivanova so that she can mourn the loss of her father.

Director: John C. Flinn III | Stars: Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan

Votes: 844

35. Robot Chicken (2001–2022)
Episode: Robot Chicken's Santa's Dead (Spoiler Alert) Holiday Murder Thing Special (2019)

TV-MA | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A Christmas murder mystery special.

Director: Tom Sheppard | Stars: Seth Green, Jason Alexander, Wayne Knight, Zahn McClarnon

Votes: 98

36. V (1983)
Episode: Part 2 (1983)

TV-14 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A resistance movement is formed in Los Angeles under the medical scientist Julie Parrish. Visitor dissidents opposing their leader's plans join their cause to fight the alien oppression by leader John and his right hand Diana.

Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant, Peter Nelson

Votes: 352

37. The Last Tycoon (2016–2017)
Episode: Eine Kleine Reichmusik (2017)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama

Stahr orchestrates an extravagant Hollywood party that masks a secret agenda. Brady courts Margo Taft to become Brady-American's permanent leading lady. Rose is tortured by Stahr's public ... See full summary »

Director: Gwyneth Horder-Payton | Stars: Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, Lily Collins, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 189

38. The Last Tycoon (2016–2017)
Episode: A Brady-American Christmas (2017)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama

Stahr encourages Kathleen to join Lang's secluded rehearsal, leaving him alone on Christmas Eve to contemplate his choices. Brady hopes for a Christmas miracle as he schemes to boost ticket... See full summary »

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer, Lily Collins, Dominique McElligott

Votes: 178