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51. A Gentleman After Dark (1942)

Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband,... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Miriam Hopkins, Preston Foster, Harold Huber

Votes: 133

52. Ragtime Bear (1949)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short

At the Hodge Podge Lodge, a crotchety, near-sighted Mister Magoo takes a banjo-playing bear to be his nephew, Waldo.

Director: John Hubley | Stars: Jim Backus, Jerry Hausner

Votes: 190

53. Voyage d'affaires (2008)

10 min | Short, Comedy

Jean-Paul Clément is on a business trip. He checks into the Dolphine Hotel for seven nights where we learn he has one saved message on his mobile phone and a personal dilemma.

Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Ines Van Houtte Sanchez, Gwenaëlle Simon

Votes: 279

54. Dangerous Number (1937)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Romance

Artificial-silk manufacturer Hank Medhill has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave her ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Young, Ann Sothern, Reginald Owen, Cora Witherspoon

Votes: 292

55. The Pilgrim Lady (1946)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The head of a failing magazine gets an MS written under a pseudonym that he tries to unravel.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Warren Douglas, Alan Mowbray, Veda Ann Borg

Votes: 42

56. Dead Dogs (1999)

90 min | Crime, Thriller

A young security guard works the late shift at the Driftwood Inn along with a desk clerk and a married night maid with whom he is having an affair in whatever room is available. ... See full summary »

Director: Clay Eide | Stars: Joe Leroy Reynolds, Jay Underwood, Margot Demeter, John Durbin

Votes: 112

57. The Gristle (2001)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

The Senator needs a Kidney. He's unwilling to wait for one to become available, and has let it be known he is willing to pay top dollar. Two hospital workers want to sell him one. But when ... See full summary »

Director: David Portlock | Stars: Lyssa Aruda, Kris Andersson, Orson Bean, Al Berman

Votes: 137

58. Down in San Diego (1941)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A group of neighborhood teenagers discover some suspicious goings-on near a naval base in San Diego, and suspect that a foreign espionage ring is at work trying to find out military secrets.

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Bonita Granville, Ray McDonald, Dan Dailey, Leo Gorcey

Votes: 73

59. Chinatown Squad (1935)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Lyle Talbot, Valerie Hobson, Hugh O'Connell, Andy Devine

Votes: 77

60. Ksiazatko (1937)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Staying at a fancy resort, Wladyslawa Majewska is mistaken as a male guest when she is dressed in a skiing outfit. The manager offers her, thinking she is a he, a job as a dancer to ... See full summary »

Directors: Stanislaw Szebego, Konrad Tom | Stars: Karolina Lubienska, Eugeniusz Bodo, Loda Niemirzanka, Klemens Mielczarek

Votes: 70

61. Split Gas (2014)

71 min | Comedy, Drama

Jack, an easygoing grad student, posts on a campus bulletin board: 'Driving to San Francisco for Spring Break. Anyone Want a Ride? Split Gas.' The ad is answered by Oliver, a suicidal ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Edeline | Stars: Mary Bogh, Jacques Edeline, Galen Howard, Oliver Mauldin

Votes: 9

62. Take It Big (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A rancher puts on a show to raise money so he can save his dude ranch from bankruptcy.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Harriet Nelson, Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Lane

Votes: 35

63. Lady Tubbs (1935)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Romance

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Alice Brady, Douglass Montgomery, Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 38

64. Just a Cute Kid (1940)

20 min | Short, Comedy

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, a man accepts the help of a friend who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but things get worse than expected.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Cliff Edwards, Margaret Hayes, Frank Faylen, Olin Howland

Votes: 54

65. Squirrel Food (1926)

Passed | 10 min | Short, Comedy

Cliff is a bellhop in a hotel, where a cranky old Southern Colonel makes life hard for everybody, especially Cliff. The reason the Colonel is cranky is because he suffers from a bad case of... See full summary »

Director: Jules White | Stars: Cliff Bowes, Estelle Bradley, Jack Lloyd, Glen Cavender

66. Guests Wanted (1932)

18 min | Short, Comedy

A man inherits a hotel in California and hires his friends to help him run it. Business is bad so he plants a story that his late uncle hid his fortune in the hotel. The place is soon overrun with treasure hunters.

Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Benny Rubin, Nell Breen, Louise Carver, Bud Jamison

Votes: 11

67. Christmas Seals Ad (1925)

2 min | Animation, Short

Rare theatrical promo for the Christmas Seals charity, showing the busy daily routine of an urban everyman and offering the health wisdom of eight hours of sleep each night.

Votes: 11

68. The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode: A Black Day for Mayberry (1963)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Barney inadvertently spills the beans when a secret shipment of gold bars passes through Mayberry on its way to Fort Knox.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier

Votes: 362

69. Branded (1965–1966)
Episode: Seward's Folly (1965)

23 min | Western

Jason travels to Seattle to give William Henry Seward and Leslie Gregg his report of the survey results of Alaska. But his friend, Rufus I. Pitkin, gets drunk and spills the beans to two men who could destroy the 'American Dream.'

Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Chuck Connors, Coleen Gray, J. Pat O'Malley, Ian Wolfe

Votes: 29

70. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: The Ghost of A. Chantz (1964)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

After a mix up by Mel for reservations at a lodge, Rob, Laura, Sally and Buddy are forced to spend a frightening night in a cabin that has not been used in years and is rumored to be haunted.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 448

71. Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode: I'll Be Waiting (1993)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Eve Cressy hides in a fancy hotel awaiting the return of her vengeful gangster ex-lover from prison. She meets Tony Reseck, the hotel dick, whose attempt to protect her ends in violence.

Director: Tom Hanks | Stars: Bruno Kirby, Marg Helgenberger, Jon Polito, Dan Hedaya

Votes: 49

72. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode: Daughter of the Regiment (1997)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.

Director: David Giles | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Mel Martin

Votes: 91

73. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Control (2003)

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

The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,091

74. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Deception (2002)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A child's drawing leads detectives to investigate a mother for possible abuse of her teenage stepson.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Stephanie March

Votes: 882

75. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Duty and Honor (1987)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When some prostitutes are being killed, Castillo recognizes the M.O. as similar to some killings he saw when he was in Vietnam and working with a Vietnamese investigator. And the investigator shows up in Miami.

Director: John Nicolella | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 450

76. Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
Episode: Death Is a Red Rose (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man takes out a contract on himself, so his family can collect on his life insurance policy, but when his money troubles suddenly disappear, he hires Peter Gunn to find and stop the hitman before he makes the hit.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Craig Stevens, Lola Albright, Herschel Bernardi, Minerva Urecal

Votes: 100

77. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Royale (1989)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Worf, Data, and Riker find themselves trapped in a re-creation of a poorly written novel.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,777

78. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)
Episode: Seventh Stranger (1958)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Marshal Morgan and his men try to protect an escapee from behind the Iron Curtain from communist assassins sent to murder him.

Stars: John Bromfield, Douglas Fowley, Stacy Keach Sr., Dick Kallman

79. Reginald the Vampire (2022– )
Episode: The Last Day of Our Acquaintance (2022)

TV-14 | Comedy, Horror

Reginald finds himself in the middle of a love triangle and he navigates it to the best of his abilities. He's Swaggy Reg.

Director: Siobhan Devine | Stars: Jacob Batalon, Mandela Van Peebles, Em Haine, Aren Buchholz

Votes: 69

80. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: A Price Above Rubies (2009)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The new husband of a jewelry store owner is critically injured accidentally walking in on a jewel heist. CBI soon suspects that the heist was pulled off with help from the inside--specifically one of the owner's two nephews.

Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,406

81. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Monsieur Murdoch (2011)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A flamboyant Parisian detective arrives in Toronto and insinuates himself into the disappearance of a French woman visiting her married sister.

Director: John L'Ecuyer | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 357