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1. The Wedding Planner (2001)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

Mary Fiore is San Francisco's most successful supplier of romance and glamor. She knows all the tricks. She knows all the rules. But then she breaks the most important rule of all: she falls in love with the groom.

Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Matthew McConaughey, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Justin Chambers

Votes: 86,731 | Gross: $60.40M

2. Amsterdam (2022)

R | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola

Votes: 93,538

3. While You Were Sleeping (1995)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority ticket booth operator is mistaken for the fiancée of a comatose patient.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle

Votes: 114,190 | Gross: $81.06M

4. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt

Votes: 108,275 | Gross: $1.88M

5. Anthropoid (2016)

R | 120 min | Action, Drama, History

Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.

Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr.

Votes: 54,327 | Gross: $2.96M

6. War Horse (2011)

PG-13 | 146 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch

Votes: 165,753 | Gross: $79.88M

7. Cool World (1992)

PG-13 | 102 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

When Jack Deebs was behind bars he found escape by creating Cool World, a cartoon series featuring a vixen named Holli Would. The flesh proves weaker than ink, however, as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas.

Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Janni Brenn, Brad Pitt

Votes: 24,985 | Gross: $14.11M

8. The Vikings (1958)

Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Adventure, History

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh

Votes: 15,742 | Gross: $7.00M

9. Luna (1979)

R | 142 min | Drama

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazar, Renato Salvatori

Votes: 5,387

10. One Fine Morning (2022)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia

Votes: 6,974

11. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

M/PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin

Votes: 9,875

12. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Passed | 170 min | Adventure, Drama, History

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Córdova

Votes: 10,245 | Gross: $17.80M

13. Julieta (2016)

R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

After a casual encounter, a brokenhearted woman decides to confront her life and the most important events involving her estranged daughter.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Inma Cuesta

Votes: 33,938 | Gross: $1.49M

14. Postcards from London (2018)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

A stylish, sexy film about a young man's journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London's Soho.

Director: Steve McLean | Stars: Harris Dickinson, Jonah Hauer-King, Alessandro Cimadamore, Leonardo Salerni

Votes: 1,331 | Gross: $0.01M

15. The Wedding Veil (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance

Follows longtime friends who find a mysterious, antique veil fabled to unite its bearer with her true love.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Kevin McGarry, Autumn Reeser, Alison Sweeney

Votes: 2,426

16. Swann in Love (1984)

R | 110 min | Drama, Romance

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant

Votes: 2,180

17. The Secret Garden (1949)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Family

A girl is sent to live with her uncle on his estate when her parents die. There she discovers much intrigue, family history and secrets and personal baggage. In particular, a screaming child and...a secret garden.

Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Dean Stockwell, Gladys Cooper

Votes: 3,312

18. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)

88 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

Director: Alexandra Dean | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom, Anthony Loder

Votes: 4,309 | Gross: $0.82M

19. Floating Skyscrapers (2013)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

The story of a young man discovering his homosexuality, while his girlfriend tries to cling onto him.

Director: Tomasz Wasilewski | Stars: Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner, Katarzyna Herman

Votes: 3,234

20. The Wedding Veil Inspiration (2023 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Emma's life plan is thrown off course when Paolo must return to Italy to take care of his father and she discovers a new passion for making art accessible to all.

Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Autumn Reeser, Kacey Rohl, Carlo Marks, Paolo Bernardini

Votes: 943

21. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman frets upstairs in her family's country manor on her wedding day, fearful she's about to marry the wrong man. Downstairs, her fiancé and her former lover grow increasingly anxious.

Director: Donald Rice | Stars: Felicity Jones, Luke Treadaway, Elizabeth McGovern, James Norton

Votes: 2,453 | Gross: $0.00M

22. Churchill's Secret (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History

British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, Lindsay Duncan, Daisy Lewis

Votes: 1,559

23. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its "Debutante Season."

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee

Votes: 1,838

24. A Maple Valley Christmas (2022 TV Movie)

TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Erica is a rancher who has spent her whole life working the family farm with her mother and sister. When Aaron arrives and disrupts her plans, she starts to question what it is she actually wants.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Peyton List, Andrew W. Walker, Frances Flanagan, Ella Cannon

Votes: 1,266

25. Parts Per Billion (2014)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In the midst of a manmade biological disaster and a terrible fate, three couples try to find meaning in their lives.

Director: Brian Horiuchi | Stars: Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 2,173

26. A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (1980)

Unrated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, History

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Oleg Tabakov, Yuriy Bogatyryov, Elena Solovey, Andrei Popov

Votes: 2,563

27. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

Passed | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 2,132

28. Lucy Gallant (1955)

Approved | 104 min | Drama

The success story of a dressmaker who comes to run a group of fashion shops at the expense of her love life.

Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 677

29. Touched by Romance (2014 TV Movie)

G | 86 min | Drama

Norma, an author of novels, finds herself diagnosed with cancer. Emma, Norma's nurse, is doing a secret treatment that no one may know about. While in her treatment to help her feel happy, ... See full summary »

Director: Bradford May | Stars: Doris Roberts, Rachael Carpani, Ernie Hudson, Elizabeth Bond

Votes: 287

30. Tonight's the Night (1954)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy

In the Irish village of Rathbarney, the aged squire is killed while hunting. His successor, O'Leary arrives in Rathbarney to take over his dead great uncle's estate.

Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald, George Cole

Votes: 610

31. Herculanum (2016)

21 min | Short, Drama

Three meetings. Two men. A rumbling volcano.

Director: Arthur Cahn | Stars: Jérémie Elkaïm, Arthur Cahn

Votes: 161

32. Beyond Gravity (1989)

TV-14 | 48 min | Comedy, Romance

A man obsessed with the sun exploding and a trouble-making Italian-Kiwi man meet and fall in love in Auckland.

Director: Garth Maxwell | Stars: Robert Pollock, Iain Rea, Lucy Sheehan, Alex Van Dam

Votes: 77

33. Time Out with Britney Spears (1999 TV Special)

TV-MA | 53 min | Reality-TV

Join Britney Spears in this official release. She talks about touring, recording, and more. Plus music videos and bonus concert performances.

Director: Jac Benson II | Stars: Britney Spears, Nigel Dick, Melissa Joan Hart, Max Martin

Votes: 343

34. Black Mafia (2021)

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Director: Romano Montesarchio | Stars: Giancarlo Caselli, Stefano Castellani, Fabrizio Lotito, Sergio Nazzaro

35. Mountain Rhythm (1943)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Music

The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Lynn Merrick

Votes: 16

36. The Back Room (2008)

Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama, Romance

Two strangers uncover astonishing connections as they search for a mysterious Renaissance painting.

Director: Greg Ivan Smith | Stars: Tina Johnson, Greg Ivan Smith, Dan Sturges, Quinn Murphy

Votes: 68

37. Tirana, année zéro (2001)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A film tells the story of a young couple in post-communist Albania, at the time when many Albanians left the country in search for a better life abroad. The protagonist is Nik, who lives in... See full summary »

Director: Fatmir Koçi | Stars: Nevin Meçaj, Ermela Teli, Raimonda Bulku, Robert Ndrenika

Votes: 167

38. John Law and the Mississippi Bubble (1979)

10 min | Animation, Short, Biography

In early eighteenth century France, a man devises a scheme that makes many Frenchmen rich, but falls apart.

Director: Richard Condie | Stars: Stanley Jackson, Randy Woods, Robert Duncan, Ishu Patel

Votes: 43

39. Father Knows... (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Father Knows... is a bittersweet comedy-drama that tells the story of Love Family and personal estrangements spanning over 15 years in the life of what seem like a simple American Family. ... See full summary »

Director: Toby Ross | Stars: Cort Donovan, Luke Aulwurm, Larry Filas, Debra Langland

Votes: 78

40. Clothes & Blow (2018)

Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

For voice over artist Daniel, life in London is one long ride of demanding client calls and awkward Grindr meets, but when his mother visits from the US, he is forced to re-evaluate how authentically he is living his life.

Director: Sam Peter Jackson | Stars: David Menkin, Nancy Baldwin, Christy Meyer, Ambur Khan

Votes: 55

41. RiffTrax: Last Man on Earth (2021)

TV-14 | 78 min | Comedy

Ah, The Last Man on Earth. Of all the adaptations of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, there's no denying that this was the earliest. And the Vincent Price-iest.

Stars: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson

Votes: 17

42. Heiraten macht mich nervös (2005 TV Movie)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Nina Becker is a very good horsewoman and she wants to participate in the Olympic Games.Niklas Tremsaal is a film actor and travels all the time from one location to a another location (... See full summary »

Director: Ariane Zeller | Stars: Suzan Anbeh, Gregor Törzs, Thure Riefenstein, Gaby Dohm

Votes: 32

43. Do Not Send Your Wife to Italy (1960)

101 min | Comedy, Romance

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Director: Hans Grimm | Stars: Marianne Hold, Claus Biederstaedt, Elma Karlowa, Harald Juhnke

Votes: 27

44. Gloria - Apoteosi del Soldato Ignoto (1921)

67 min | Documentary, History

A public procession with the body of the Unknown Soldier, as registered by the operators of the Italian Film Federation and the Cinema Phototechnical Union. A symbolic tribute on the fallen... See full summary »

Star: King Victor Emmanuel III

45. Boy Crazy, Girl Crazier (1995)

21 min | Short, Comedy

Celena and Charlie live together in L.A., and both of them want to make it in the movies. At a Hollywood party, Charlie manages to grab himself a part in a film, and he does it by stealing ... See full summary »

Director: Illeana Douglas | Stars: Kevin Breznahan, Illeana Douglas

Votes: 25

46. Another Brick in the Wall (2023 Video)

17 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Marc Brickman, Robert Ezrin, Gideon Falter, Norbert Stachel

47. Performance (1991–1998)
Episode: A Doll's House (1992)

140 min | Drama

Years ago, Nora Helmer committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out.

Director: David Thacker | Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Geraldine James, Patrick Malahide

Votes: 131

48. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Das Ende einer Ermittlung (1993)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Robert Fuller , the owner of a private bank , is under menace.His chief of the security , Weisberg shows him a message in which somebody is blackmailing him, he must pay a ransom of ... See full summary »

Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 20

49. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Heat Wave (1975)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

A wife claims spousal abuse. Wojo and Wentworth go undercover to catch a park rapist.

Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail

Votes: 153

50. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Primum Non Nocere (2002)

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An ice hockey player dies during a game.

Director: Danny Cannon | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 886