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51. Lajja (2001)
Not Rated | 202 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The lives of four women from different places are the victims of male chauvinism and marital abuse. They decide to fight for their rights and dignity against the social norms and injustice.
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Ajay Devgn
Votes: 2,919 | Gross: $0.38M
52. Daawat-e-Ishq (2014)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A story of Gullu, a Hyderabadi girl frustrated with dowry-seeking men and Taru (a charming Lucknawi cook), who crush old-fashioned world-view.
Director: Habib Faisal | Stars: Aditya Roy Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Anupam Kher, Karan Wahi
Votes: 6,151
53. Tango Charlie (2005)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Tarun Chauhan, a rookie army officer undergoes ups and downs in his mission and learns the true meaning of 'war' to overcome his weaknesses.
Director: Mani Shankar | Stars: Bobby Deol, Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty
Votes: 2,303
54. Million Dollar American Princesses (2015– )
History
These are the true stories of American heiresses who travelled to England to marry titled English men in the late 1800s.
Stars: Elizabeth McGovern, Lorelei King, Charles Jennings, Fiona Herbert 8th Countess of Carnarvon
Votes: 190
55. Dream Wife (1953)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
A business tycoon decides to wed a Middle Eastern princess whose customs dictate the pair must live apart for several months before marrying. Even more complications settle in when the tycoon's ex-fiancée is assigned to chaperone the pair.
Director: Sidney Sheldon | Stars: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John
Votes: 2,229
56. Fandry (2013)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Family
It is about a teenager from a Dalit (Oppressed caste) family, who lives at the village fringe, and falls in love with an upper caste girl.
Director: Nagraj Manjule | Stars: Somnath Awghade, Rajeshwari Kharat, Suraj Pawar, Kishore Kadam
Votes: 2,580
57. Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! (2005)
153 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Adi Chachu faces a dilemma - and it's a big one! What if YOU were told by the God of Death himself you had only 15 minutes of life left? What would YOU do?!
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar | Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi
Votes: 3,035
58. Before the Frost (2018)
104 min | Drama
In 1800s Denmark, a farmer has a bad harvest and thus not enough food for his family. He makes a deal, that includes his farm and his daughter getting married, with a nearby rich farmer.
Director: Michael Noer | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Clara Rosager, Magnus Krepper, Ghita Nørby
Votes: 1,583
59. Ghulam-E-Musthafa (1997)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gangster shuns the path of crime after his lover is killed by his rivals but soon he is dragged by his boss once again in the criminal world to do one last job.
Director: Partho Ghosh | Stars: Nana Patekar, Raveena Tandon, Paresh Rawal, Aruna Irani
Votes: 1,319
60. Saudagar (1991)
Not Rated | 213 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Two clan chiefs who have maintained a blood feud for decades have to contend with the romance between their respective grandchildren.
Director: Subhash Ghai | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Raaj Kumar, Vivek Mushran, Manisha Koirala
Votes: 1,612
61. Wings of the Morning (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Music, Romance
First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.
Directors: Harold D. Schuster, Glenn Tryon | Stars: Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome
Votes: 367
62. Holiday in Mexico (1946)
128 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The U.S. Ambassador's (Walter Pidgeon) daughter falls for a Mexican pianist (Jose Iturbi) old enough to be her grandfather.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ilona Massey, José Iturbi, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 526
63. Carl & Bertha (2011 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, History
The biopic film follows visionary Inventor Carl Benz, who invented the first car and was the founding father of Mercedes-Benz.
Director: Till Endemann | Stars: Felicitas Woll, Ken Duken, Hansjürgen Hürrig, Michou Friesz
Votes: 198
64. Blackboards (2000)
88 min | Drama, War
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a ... See full summary »
Director: Samira Makhmalbaf | Stars: Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari, Bahman Ghobadi, Mohamad Karim Rahmati
Votes: 2,913 | Gross: $0.00M
65. Baasha (1995)
Not Rated | 145 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An auto driver, Manikam, desperately tries to hide his dark underworld side to keep his promise to his father.
Director: Suresh Krishna | Stars: Rajinikanth, Nagma, Raghuvaran, Vijayakumar
Votes: 11,525
66. Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by a villainous Squire's promises of marriage, and when she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gypsy lad is blamed.
Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Clare Greet
Votes: 448
67. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Musical
Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Raymond Cordy, Henri Marchand, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier
Votes: 4,984
68. Que Viva Mexico (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, Western
Eisenstein shows us Mexico in this movie, its history and its culture. He believes, that Mexico can become a modern state.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Sergey Bondarchuk, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Votes: 1,893
69. Jubilee Trail (1954)
Approved | 103 min | Western
A wild west trader and his New York City wife head out for California by wagon train. The trader is killed en route, and his wife finds herself pregnant. She continues on, hoping to find a man and a home.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell
Votes: 253 | Gross: $1.30M
70. Ramji Londonwaley (2005)
154 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A small-town cook moves to London to earn a living, but from his employer's sudden death to the immigration officials on his trail, plans soon go sour.
Director: Sanjay Dayma | Stars: Madhavan, Samita Bangargi, Harsh Chhaya, Suneeta Sengupta
Votes: 1,249
71. Love Crimes of Kabul (2011)
TV-14 | 71 min | Documentary
Inside Afghanistan's Badam Baugh Women's Prison, where half of the inmates are locked up for 'moral crimes.
Director: Tanaz Eshaghian
Votes: 252
72. The Flying Ship (1979)
18 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
To build a flying ship - here is a condition for marriage with a king's daughter. She loves a poor chimney sweep, but he has a dangerous rival.
Director: Garri Bardin | Stars: Tatyana Shabelnikova, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Garri Bardin, Rogvold Sukhoverko
Votes: 1,677
73. Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women (2003)
99 min | Drama
A disturbing saga about male chauvinism and mistreatment of women in India.
Director: Manish Jha | Stars: Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Sushant Singh, Aditya Srivastav
Votes: 2,265
74. Anpadh (1962)
150 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A wealthy, pampered and illiterate woman faces many challenges after her marriage.
Director: Mohan Kumar | Stars: Mala Sinha, Balraj Sahni, Dharmendra, Shaminder
Votes: 134
75. Valerie (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Western
After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steel, Peter Walker
Votes: 393
76. The Clandestine Marriage (1998)
90 min | Comedy
A period movie, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family. ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Miles | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Tom Hollander
Votes: 399
77. Getting Married in Buffalo Jump (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
Sophie Ware is a musician who returns to run the family farm after her father's death. She struggles with the operation and is surprised by an offer of assistance from Alex, the farm's ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Wendy Crewson, Paul Gross, Marion Gilsenan, Victoria Snow
Votes: 260
78. Pyar Ka Devta (1990)
Not Rated | 148 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
After the death of their parents, Vijay takes it upon himself to look after his sisters Sharda, Sujata and Sangeeta until they became old enough to take care of the house while working as a... See full summary »
Director: K. Bapaiah | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Madhuri Dixit, Bharat Bhushan, Nirupa Roy
Votes: 161
79. Queen Dracula (2017)
53 min | Horror
Jonathan Harker receives a mysterious postcard in the mail summoning him to Transylvania. Upon his return, Jonathan's daughters Mina and Lucy are very apprehensive toward their prospective mother-in-law who goes by D.
Director: Curtis Everitt | Stars: Melanie Calvert Benton, Cynthia Bonner, Davis Coen, Jonathan Dixon
Votes: 60
80. Daata (1989)
Action, Drama
Dinanath is a school-teacher in a small town in India, and lives with his wife, Kamla; daughter, Shanti; and son Kundan. He has published a book called "Daata" in which he has made ... See full summary »
Director: Sultan Ahmed | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Padmini Kolhapure, Shammi Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 124
81. Pelli Chesi Choodu (1988)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Narasimha Rao Relangi | Stars: Rajendra Prasad, Ashwini, Gollapudi Maruthi Rao, Annapoorna
Votes: 20
82. Ennu Sakshal Daivam (2023)
92 min | Drama
Social satire movie with relevant moralities
Director: S.S. Jishnu Dev | Stars: Anas Rahim J, Abhishek Sreekumar, Manasa Prabhu, Sunilkumar .T.
Votes: 14
83. Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (2002)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho inexpertly tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects.
Director: Mina Shum | Stars: Sandra Oh, Valerie Tian, Ric Young, Tseng Chang
Votes: 606
84. Schalcken the Painter (1979 TV Movie)
68 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Director: Leslie Megahey | Stars: Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham, Cheryl Kennedy, John Justin
Votes: 513
85. They Had to See Paris (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides that the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill
Votes: 206
86. Vijetha (1985)
107 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Chinnababu (Chiranjeevi) is an aspiring footballer who has a good heart. But his father does not support a career in football. Chinnababu loves a beautiful girl Priyadarshani (Bhanupriya) ... See full summary »
Director: A. Kodandarami Reddy | Stars: Chiranjeevi, Bhanupriya, Sharada, J.V. Somayajulu
Votes: 300
87. Taaqat (1982)
Action, Drama
Devi and Shakti Singh gets married but Ambica loves him secretly. Devi kill husband's step-brother and his friends as they tries to molest her and runs away and comes under protection of Dacoit Bhawani Singh where she gives birth to a boy.
Director: Narendra Bedi | Stars: Vinod Khanna, Parveen Babi, Rakhee Gulzar, Pran Sikand
Votes: 15
88. The Bold Caballero (1936)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Western
The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant.
Director: Wells Root | Stars: Robert Livingston, Heather Angel, Sig Ruman, Ian Wolfe
Votes: 250
89. Mr. Gullible (1970)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A man from village goes to city, to find a job and marry a wife. But encounters with a lot of troubles he did not expect.
Director: Dariush Mehrjui | Stars: Ali Nasirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Fakhri Khorvash, Mohamad Ali Keshavarz
Votes: 567
90. Suicide Battalion (1958)
Approved | 79 min | War, Drama
During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, an American commando team is sent to an evacuated American base in the jungle to destroy classified documents.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Mike Connors, John Ashley, Jewell Lain, Russ Bender
Votes: 212
91. It's a Girl! (2012)
Not Rated | 64 min | Documentary
Every year in India and China, millions of babies are killed, neglected or abandoned simply because they are girls.
Director: Evan Grae Davis
Votes: 535
92. Bairaag (1976)
149 min | Drama, Thriller
Thakur Chandrabhan lives a wealthy lifestyle in a small village in India. He is widowed and lives with his sister; a widowed daughter-in-law, Saraswati; and a grand-daughter, Tara, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Asit Sen | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Leena Chandavarkar, Prem Chopra
Votes: 131
93. Grace Kelly: The Missing Millions (2021 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery
What happened to the wealth classic Hollywood actress Grace Kelly earned during her incredibly successful career.
Director: Adam Warner | Stars: Nimmy March, Lucy Bolton, Rob Cooper, Doris Day
Votes: 42
94. Man Ki Aankhen (1970)
Drama
After working as a teacher in Delhi for several years, Master Dinanath decides to re-locate to a small village to spend the rest of the days teaching in a nearby school, his pay is the ... See full summary »
Director: Raghunath Jhalani | Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Dharmendra, Sujit Kumar, Faryal
Votes: 56
95. Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)
98 min | Biography, Drama
A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Aleksei Lyarsky, Varvara Massalitinova, Mikhail Troyanovskiy, Elizaveta Alekseeva
Votes: 780
96. Jawani Zindabad (1990)
163 min | Drama, Romance
After idealist Shashi takes a stand against traditional marriage dowries, angry elders vow to destroy the young man and his family.
Director: Arun Bhatt | Stars: Aamir Khan, Farha Naaz, Jaaved Jaaferi, Rohini
Votes: 708
97. Manto Mavrogenous (1971)
95 min | Biography, Drama, History
As the war for the independence of Greece in the early-1820s rages on, the fervent patriot and fearless commander, Mando Mavrogenous, engages herself in an intense relationship with Prince Demetrios Ypsilantis.
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Petros Fyssoun, Alkis Giannakas, Eleni Erimou
Votes: 313
98. Al assifa (2000)
100 min | Drama, Romance, War
This drama from Egyptian filmmaker Khaled Youssef offers Western audiences an unusual perspective on the Gulf War, as a family is torn apart by conflicting personal and political ... See full summary »
Director: Khaled Youssef | Stars: Youssra, Hanan Turk, Hani Salama, Mohamed Nagati
Votes: 259
99. Frangipani (2014)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Frangipani movi sinhala film
Director: Visakesa Chandrasekaram | Stars: Jehan Sri Kanth, Dasun Pathirana, Yasodha Rasanduni
Votes: 72
100. The Son-Daughter (1932)
Passed | 79 min | Drama
A large group of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco is clandestinely donating whatever money they earn to smuggle arms into China for the rebels in their fight against the centuries old ... See full summary »
Directors: Clarence Brown, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Helen Hayes, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Warner Oland
Votes: 188