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1. Strangers on a Train (1951)

PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 141,005 | Gross: $7.63M

2. Unleashed (2005)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A man enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog escapes his captors and attempts to start a new life.

Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Jet Li, Bob Hoskins, Morgan Freeman, Kerry Condon

Votes: 108,071 | Gross: $24.52M

3. Fragments of Love (2016)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

A woman shares stories of her previous lovers with her present lover and makes him a one those 'fragments' of her love.

Director: Fernando Vallejo | Stars: Angélica Aragón, Laura Aleman, Angelica Blandon, Alfredo De Quesada

Votes: 440

4. The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

R | 103 min | Drama

A daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson

Votes: 6,077

5. Barbara (I) (2012)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke

Votes: 15,969

6. The Concrete Jungle (1960)

TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the UK, after pulling a racetrack robbery, repeat offender Johnny Bannion hides the loot in a farmer's field but the police and the local mob come looking for Johnny and the money.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Grégoire Aslan, Margit Saad

Votes: 1,763

7. Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

R | 91 min | Comedy

A young business executive hates the direction his life is taking, and decides to make some changes. He becomes a struggling (but happy) tap-dancing magician. His old boss is financially ruined, but finds a way to bounce back by commercialising his career change.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Tom Smothers, John Astin, Katharine Ross, Orson Welles

Votes: 1,011 | Gross: $0.07M

8. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady

Votes: 2,959

9. Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Family

A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are followed by a strange red balloon.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Fang Song

Votes: 4,177 | Gross: $0.46M

10. Female Teacher Rope Hell (1981)

81 min | Drama, Horror

Sayuri, a female teacher, is abducted, imprisoned and tortured by a pervert.

Director: Shôgorô Nishimura | Stars: Junko Mabuki, Miki Yamaji, Ryôichi Kusanagi, Shinji Sekikawa

Votes: 163

11. Kiss Me (1989)

95 min | Drama

The life of an eleven-year-old girl living with her professional pianist mother in Paris is disrupted by the arrival of her mother's much younger saxophone playing lover.

Director: Michèle Rosier | Stars: Sophie Rochut, Dominique Valadié, Thomas Nock, Patrick Chesnais

Votes: 73

12. Pastorale 1943 (1978)

125 min | Drama, War

In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.

Director: Wim Verstappen | Stars: Frederik de Groot, Leen Jongewaard, Coen Flink, Sacco van der Made

Votes: 487

13. Convict Concerto (1954)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A wanted criminal hides inside a piano that Woody Woodpecker is tuning, and forces Woody at gunpoint to play said piano as cover so he can escape the completely oblivious cop.

Director: Don Patterson | Stars: Daws Butler, Dal McKennon, Grace Stafford

Votes: 113

14. The Piano Tuner (2010)

Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama, Music

A pianist finds himself once again facing the performance anxiety demons that he so desperately tries to evade.

Director: Olivier Treiner | Stars: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Danièle Lebrun, Grégory Gadebois, Emeline Gue

Votes: 2,327

15. The Forest of Wool and Steel (2018)

134 min | Drama, Music

When high school student Tomura Naoki met piano tuner Itadori Soichiro at his school in Hokkaido, he could smell the forest from the piano tuned by Soichiro. Touched, the boy decides to ... See full summary »

Director: Kôjirô Hashimoto | Stars: Keiko Horiuchi, Moka Kamishiraishi, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ken Mitsuishi

Votes: 228

16. Naughty But Nice (1939)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, Helen Broderick

Votes: 363

17. The Window (2008)

R | 85 min | Drama

It is a significant day for eighty year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit.

Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Antonio Larreta, María del Carmen Jiménez, Emilse Roldán, Roberto Rovira

Votes: 595 | Gross: $0.01M

18. The Old Crowd (1979 TV Movie)

62 min | Drama

George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their ... See full summary »

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: John Moffatt, Isabel Dean, Philip Stone, Frank Grimes

Votes: 52

19. Born to Gamble (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical

A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Onslow Stevens, H.B. Warner, Maxine Doyle, Eric Linden

Votes: 68

20. Love in Vienna (2018 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mélodie, a production assistant hounded by a tyrannical boss, is tasked with hunting down pianist Michaël Grimaud, who fell off the radar ten years ago. If the young widowed mother can find... See full summary »

Director: Alexandre Laurent | Stars: Barbara Cabrita, Lannick Gautry, Didier Flamand, Ilys Barillot

Votes: 110

21. The Concert (1974)

12 min | Short, Comedy, Music

In this short film punctuated by cartoonlike sight gags, a self styled soloist performs a concert outside The Royal Albert Hall in London by "playing" the black & white stripes of a ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Chagrin | Stars: Julian Chagrin, Gerald Benson, Gabrielle Blunt, Elizabeth Burger

Votes: 47

22. A Good Blinder (2017 TV Special)

27 min | Documentary

75-year-old Dan Bowman of Harrisonburg, Virginia, who lost his sight at age 12, became a piano tuner and crafts fine furniture using power tools and precision instruments. His creations ... See full summary »

Directors: Mike Grundmann, Shaun Wright | Stars: Dan Bowman, Ferne Bowman, Sandra Bolt, Bernard Bolt

23. Ei, maestro (1986)

87 min | Drama, Music

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Director: Nodar Managadze | Stars: Tengo Amiridze, Elene Kvirkvelia, Eka Mchedlidze, Dali Chitaladze

Votes: 13

24. Miss Hobbs (1920)

60 min | Comedy

She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about 50 years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an ... See full summary »

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Wanda Hawley, Harrison Ford, Helen Jerome Eddy, Walter Hiers

25. Shengming ru ge (1997)

Drama, Music

Jilted by his first love, and abandoned by the woman he marries, piano teacher Jiansheng refuses to allow his misfortune to dilute his devotion to music and to his students. When he becomes... See full summary »

Director: Gang Xia | Stars: Luoyong Wang, Shichang Da, Ningbo Miao, Ke Shi

26. Comedy Playhouse (1961–2017)
Episode: Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Strange Case of the Dead Solicitors (1973)

30 min | Comedy

Holmes and Watson must solve the bizarre murder of four solicitors stabbed in the back. The case involves Moriarty, Fu Manchu and an ancient Chinese custom. Meanwhile, a rattlesnake is killing off the members of a rich family.

Director: Harold Snoad | Stars: John Cleese, William Rushton, Bill Maynard, Josephine Tewson

Votes: 25

27. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Mörderisches Spiel (1997)

58 min | Crime, Drama

Stefan Orlak is a famous pianist and this night he is playing in a theater of Munich.After the last play the public applauds, Stefan receives a bouquet of flowers from a young woman.Then ... See full summary »

Director: Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 18

28. Bliss (2002–2004)
Episode: The Piano Tuner (2003)

TV-MA | 22 min | Drama, Romance

A lonely neglected piano playing housewife has a chance encounter with a handsome blind piano tuner.

Director: E. Jane Thompson | Stars: Shannon Lawson, Alan Van Sprang

Votes: 21

29. Northern Exposure (1990–1995)
Episode: Duets (1993)

TV-PG | 46 min | Comedy, Drama

Ed's spirit guide returns claiming to have found the identity of Ed's father. Maggie and Mike grow closer. An itinerant, blind piano tuner shows up at the Brick.

Director: Win Phelps | Stars: Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum

Votes: 202

30. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
Episode: Tony Curtis & Bill Talbert (1955)

Family, Game-Show

Actress, movie star, Janet Leigh joins Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen and Bennett Cerf as a guest panelist for the week, temporarily replacing Arlene Francis. The panelists try to guess the ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Heller | Stars: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Janet Leigh, Bennett Cerf

Votes: 54

31. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Young at Heart (1994)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A criminal believed to have died in a prison years earlier wages a vendetta against Mulder.

Director: Michael Lange | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Dick Anthony Williams, Alan Boyce

Votes: 5,302

32. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: 30 (2007)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Logan investigates the polonium poisoning of an old journalist friend, and accidentally stumbles onto a story about an American martyr in Palestine that Logan suspects the Israeli government doesn't want released.

Directors: Andre Belgrader, Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Chris Noth, Julianne Nicholson, Eric Bogosian, Lee Tergesen

Votes: 289

33. The English (2022)
Episode: The Wounded Wolf (2022)

TV-MA | Drama, Western

Fifteen years earlier, Trafford witnesses a violent massacre in America which triggers another tragedy across the ocean in England setting the course of Eli and Cornelia's destiny.

Director: Hugo Blick | Stars: Christian Patterson, Tom Hughes, Rafe Spall, Steve Wall

Votes: 934

34. Endeavour (2012–2023)
Episode: Sway (2014)

TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A housewife found choked to death in her own house marks the third strangling in a month, setting Oxford City Police on edge.

Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Shaun Evans, Jack Laskey, Roger Allam, Michael Thomas

Votes: 1,272