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1. The Color Purple (2023)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, Musical
A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Director: Blitz Bazawule | Stars: Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo
Votes: 15,735
2. The Color Purple (1985)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery
Votes: 97,433 | Gross: $98.47M
3. Mr Selfridge (2013–2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History
Centers on the real-life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's department store.
Stars: Ron Cook, Jeremy Piven, Tom Goodman-Hill, Amy Beth Hayes
Votes: 16,976
4. The Changeling (1980)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh
Votes: 40,056
5. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting | Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson
Votes: 148,612 | Gross: $93.60M
6. Rose Red (2002)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A college professor and a team of psychics investigate mysterious deaths and disappearances at an old abandoned mansion.
Stars: Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes
Votes: 27,048
7. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
Votes: 21,102 | Gross: $0.95M
8. Big Jake (1971)
PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Western
In 1909, when John Fain's gang kidnaps Jacob McCandles' grandson and holds him for ransom, Big Jake sets out to rescue the boy.
Directors: George Sherman, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne
Votes: 14,428 | Gross: $16.35M
9. The Last Manhunt (2022)
R | 103 min | Western
Based on true events in the early 1900s Wild West, Willie Boy falls in love with Carlota from the Chemehuevi tribe despite being forbidden to be together. A fatal incident forces the young couple to flee the only place they know as home.
Director: Christian Camargo | Stars: Martin Sensmeier, Mainei Kinimaka, Zahn McClarnon, Lily Gladstone
Votes: 1,276
10. Against the Ice (2022)
TV-MA | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole, Heida Reed, Þorsteinn Bachmann
Votes: 28,422
11. The Public Enemy (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell
Votes: 23,032 | Gross: $1.01M
12. Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis
Votes: 24,493 | Gross: $1.33M
13. Viva Zapata! (1952)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 12,474
14. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Approved | 68 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
An animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" followed by an adaptation of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Directors: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney | Stars: Bing Crosby, Basil Rathbone, Eric Blore, John McLeish
Votes: 17,899
16. The Last Hard Men (1976)
R | 98 min | Drama, Western
In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is turned upside-down when his old enemy Zach Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yuma Territorial Prison and come gunning for him.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Barbara Hershey, Jorge Rivero
Votes: 2,618
17. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,832
18. Mata Hari (1985)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Mata Hari is a beautiful dancer of Dutch origin working in Paris. It is August 1914 and war between France and Germany seems imminent. However, she accepts an invitation to travel to Berlin as part of a show.
Director: Curtis Harrington | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown
Votes: 1,099
19. Ivy (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall, Richard Ney
Votes: 1,119
20. Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018)
TV-14 | 80 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
The true story of how Luis Buñuel made his third movie.
Director: Salvador Simó | Stars: Jorge Usón, Fernando Ramos, Luis Enrique de Tomás, Cyril Corral
Votes: 2,443 | Gross: $0.03M
21. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
120 min | Documentary, History
The history of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades until 1978.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-Gates, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Frank Barrett
Votes: 2,154 | Gross: $0.13M
22. The First Men in the Moon (2010 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1969, the Apollo moon landing is to be televised internationally but at a country fair in England a small boy named Jim meets the 90-year-old Julius Bedford who tells him that, in 1909, ... See full summary »
Director: Damon Thomas | Stars: Rory Kinnear, Mark Gatiss, Alex Riddell, Peter Forbes
Votes: 1,106
23. Howl from Beyond the Fog (2019)
Unrated | 35 min | Animation, Short, Drama
During the Meiji era, a blind girl named Takiri and a monster called Nebula fight against greedy developers who threaten to take over her family's land.
Director: Daisuke Sato | Stars: Suguru Inoue, Michiyo Ishimoto, Akane Kanamori, Tomohiro Matsumoto
Votes: 254
24. Titanic: Birth of a Legend (2005 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary, Drama
Dramatised documentary which follows the lives of the men who designed and built Titanic and her sister ship Olympic at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, showing the violence, ... See full summary »
Director: William Lyons | Stars: Charles Dance, Gordon Langford Rowe, Charles Lawson, Damian O'Hare
Votes: 206
25. 2009: Lost Memories (2002)
R | 136 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A failed assassination attempt in Harbin, China in 1909 changes the course of history. Now two JBI agents must find the connections between it and an ancient Korean artifact.
Directors: Lee Dong-Joon, Si-myung Lee | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Tôru Nakamura, Jin-ho Seo, Shin Goo
Votes: 3,431
26. Carnegie Hall (1947)
Approved | 144 min | Music, Drama
A mother (Marsha Hunt) wants her son (William Prince) to grow up to be a pianist good enough to play at Carnegie Hall but, when older, the son prefers to play with Vaughn Monroe's orchestra... See full summary »
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Marsha Hunt, William Prince, Frank McHugh, Martha O'Driscoll
Votes: 404
27. Across the Pacific (2020)
History
This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh
Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny
Votes: 70
28. Glory & Honor (1998 TV Movie)
94 min | Biography, Drama
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Delroy Lindo, Henry Czerny, Bronwen Booth, Kim Staunton
Votes: 125
29. The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life (2000 TV Movie)
94 min | Adventure, Family
On safari in British East Africa in September 1910, ten year old Indiana Jones befriends a Massai boy named Meto who helps him in his search for the little seen Fringe-Eared Oryx for former... See full summary »
Directors: René Manzor, Carl Schultz | Stars: Corey Carrier, Margaret Tyzack, Ruth de Sosa, Lloyd Owen
Votes: 440
30. The Devil's Lieutenant (1984 TV Movie)
206 min | Drama, History
In the pre-WWI Austro-Hungarian Empire, an older officer (Capt. Kunze) investigates a brilliant junior officer (Lt. Dorfrichter) suspected of complicity in a murder by poisoning.
Director: John Goldschmidt | Stars: Helmut Griem, Ian Charleson, Barbara De Rossi, Claudine Auger
Votes: 18
31. Puccini and the Girl (2008)
84 min | Biography, Drama
While Puccini is totally engrossed with the composition of his opera La fanciulla del West, sexual intrigue swirls around him.
Director: Paolo Benvenuti | Stars: Tania Squillario, Riccardo Moretti, Giovanna Daddi, Debora Mattiello
Votes: 95
32. Matter of Heart (1986)
107 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary on the famous Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung, featuring interviews with those who knew him and archive footage of Jung.
Director: Mark Whitney | Stars: Carl Gustav Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Barbara Hannah, Liliane Frey-Rohn
Votes: 168
33. Moscow Clad in Snow (1909)
7 min | Short, Documentary
This is another one of our famous scenic films which is a revelation of the beauties of the historic Russian city, showing it clad in a blanket of snow and giving us a good view of the many... See full summary »
Director: Joseph-Louis Mundwiller
Votes: 560
34. L'armée française en manoeuvres du Bourbonnais en 1909 (1909)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Jean Brun, François Goiran, Charles Trémeau
35. Review of British Navy at Southend End and Spithead: Lt. Shackleton on Board Armadale Castle (1909)
Documentary, Short
Director: George Albert Smith | Star: Ernest Shackleton
38. Urban Science: To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)
Documentary, Short
An animated model spider is used to demonstrate how spiders use their silken threads to make a web. The spider produces enough thread to support its own weight. It then lifts all eight legs... See full summary »
Director: F. Percy Smith
Votes: 41
39. Coiffures et types de Hollande (1909)
4 min | Documentary, Short
Short color documentary about hats and hairstyles in Holland.
Director: Alfred Machin
Votes: 23
40. A Texas Romance, 1909 (1964)
20 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Directors: Robert Benton, Elinor Jones, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt, Elinor Wright | Star: Pat Hingle
41. Zeppelin: The Flying Airship (1987 Video)
45 min | Documentary
Directors: Rüdiger Mörsdorf, Peter von Carnap | Stars: Christian Wolff, Jürgen Jung, German Zettel, Bernd Wiedmann
43. Le thé: culture, récolte, préparation industrielle (1909)
8 min | Documentary, Short
The growing, collection and processing of tea in Ceylon.
46. Viagem de S. Exa. Dr. Afonso Pena e Sua Comitiva de Curitiba a Paranaguá (1909)
Documentary, Short
Star: Afonso Pena