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51. His Mouse Friday (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Tom is shipwrecked on an island, which is inhabited by at least one mouse - Jerry. To thwart the hungry cat, Jerry disguises himself as a cannibal.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Paul Frees, William Hanna

Votes: 821

52. Landing Stripling (1962)

TV-G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A young bird flies into Tom's territory, but quickly allies himself with Jerry. Tom shows a coyote-like persistence and reliance on ever more elaborate schemes to catch the bird.

Director: Gene Deitch | Star: Allen Swift

Votes: 441

53. Ginger Meggs (1982)

100 min | Comedy, History

The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.

Director: Jonathan Dawson | Stars: Garry McDonald, Coral Drouyn, Paul Daniel, Rowan Hillard

Votes: 161

54. Buccaneer Bunny (1948)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Bugs infuriates pirate Yosemite Sam by stealing his treasure and Yosemite chases Bugs onto the pirate ship.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 1,338

55. Pyromaniac (2016)

98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A ruthless pyromaniac is on the loose in a southern village of Norway. They don't know he's not a stranger, but one of them. We follow him, the fire brigade chief's own son, spreading fear in secret.

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stars: Trond Nilssen, Per Frisch, Liv Bernhoft Osa, Henrik Rafaelsen

Votes: 1,047

56. Bed and Sofa (1927)

86 min | Comedy, Drama

A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.

Director: Abram Room | Stars: Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Leonid Yurenev

Votes: 1,336

57. Tugboat Mickey (1940)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

As Mickey, Donald and Goofy are preparing their tugboat to head out to sea, they receive a distress call from a sinking ship. This program is presented as originally created.

Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Danny Webb

Votes: 1,238

58. Der Struwwelpeter (1955)

79 min | Family

A live action adaptation of the 1845 children's book.

Director: Fritz Genschow | Stars: Fredy Kaindl, Traute Höhnisch, Eric Canso, Renée Stobrawa

Votes: 77

59. Big Boss (1995)

Not Rated | 153 min | Action, Drama

The movie starts with a young man Surendra (Chiranjeevi) landing in a town for a job. He witnesses rivalry between two mafia gangs at that place. After a fight with a street goon, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Vijaya Baapineedu | Stars: Chiranjeevi, Roja, Madhavi, Kota Srinivasa Rao

Votes: 133

60. Spook Busters (1946)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

Newly graduated from exterminator college, Slip and the boys open a pest control business. Their first job leads to a doctor who wants to transplant Sach's brain.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Douglass Dumbrille, Bobby Jordan

Votes: 561

61. Bad Day at Cat Rock (1965)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Tom and Jerry are on a building construction site. Things explode, Tom loses his fur for a while, Jerry hides in a glove, Tom falls from a great height, and Tom has great trouble with a rock-and-girder see-saw.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 523

62. Casey at the Bat (1946)

9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Animated version of classic baseball poem.

Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Jerry Colonna, John Brown, Dessie Flynn, James MacDonald

Votes: 570

63. Curtain Razor (1949)

7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy

Porky Pig is a talent agent auditioning various corn ball performers. A fox keeps interrupting and promising Porky the act of the century. Unfortunately, the act is fatal and can only be done once.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Stan Freberg, Dorothy Lloyd

Votes: 316

64. Moving Day (1936)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, with the help of Goofy the iceman, try to move out before the sheriff can sell off their furniture.

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash

Votes: 1,056

65. People We Know Are Confused (2021)

99 min | Drama

Set in Vilnius, a modern city still in search for its relation to the past, three parallel stories with three average people marooned in a state of change, looking to the future with hope, ... See full summary »

Director: Tomas Smulkis | Stars: Juozas Budraitis, Milda Noreikaite, Arunas Sakalauskas, Paulius Markevicius

Votes: 106

66. Show Biz Bugs (1957)

7 min | Animation, Family, Short

Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 1,121

67. Safety Second (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Jerry forbids young Nibbles from lighting fireworks on the Fourth of July, but both mice find these dangerous toys to be useful weapons when their cat-nemesis, Tom, starts trouble.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Star: William Hanna

Votes: 1,026

68. The Little Match Seller (1902)

3 min | Drama, Short

A poor young girl tries to sell matches in a snowstorm. After being robbed by bullies, she lights matches which illuminate visions of a far happier Christmas than the one she faces.

Director: James Williamson

Votes: 535

69. Sandwitch (2018)

18 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

During their lunch break Dave and Fred accidentally shoot a witch.

Directors: Ivan Hidayat, Jasper ten Hoor | Stars: Denise Bassahan, Duncan Meijering, Max van Kreij

Votes: 46

70. Fright to the Finish (1954)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Olive is reading ghost stories to the boys. Popeye scoffs; Bluto decides to take advantage of this by staging various pranks (a headless man, an animated skeleton, and a sheet-over-balloon ... See full summary »

Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Al Eugster | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel

Votes: 338

71. All Fowled Up (1955)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Intending to catch a chicken for his dinner, little Henery the Chicken Hawk ventures onto the farm of the eternally feuding Foghorn Leghorn and barnyard dog. Foghorn tries to dump a load of... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 440

72. Captain Hareblower (1954)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs will not bend to the threats of Pirate (Yosemite) Sam.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 496

73. The Rattled Rooster (1948)

7 min | Animation, Family, Short

A rooster is unable to get worms; the other chickens either get there first or trick him out of the worms. But there's one worm nobody else competes for, because it's a trickster. It uses ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Davis | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 163

74. A Bone for a Bone (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

The first goofy gopher cartoon that expresses their gentility over their goofiness, until a dog wants to bury his bone in their home.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg

Votes: 241

75. Night Breakers (2021)

17 min | Short, Horror

On the hard journey to the illuminated city, a group of migrants make their way in their light suits. On their journey they will have to face the dangers that lurk in the dark and what's worse: themselves.

Directors: Gabriel Campoy, Guillem Lafoz | Stars: Pol Fernandez, Anna Gonzalvo, Chacha Huang, Marc Padró

Votes: 45

76. Holiday for Drumsticks (1949)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

The patriarch of a family of farming hill billies is fattening a turkey to slaughter for Thanksgiving Day dinner, and he is fattening the fowl by providing him with a veritable feast of ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Davis | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 271

77. Lily (VI) (2019)

Short, Comedy, Horror

A teenage babysitter receives a job looking after the daughter of a well-off family. However, it takes a dark turn when Lily, the aforementioned daughter, proves to be more of a handful than expected.

Director: Christopher C. Wyatt | Stars: Maeve Campbell, Jenny Porter, Telisa Steen, Thomas Brophy

78. Ko-Ko in Toyland (1925)

6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

In this Christmas season release, Max assembles a toy train track while Ko-Ko the Clown visits a cartoon toyland, playing cops and robbers and rescuing a doll in distress.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 52

79. Mouse-Warming (1952)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A teen-aged boy mouse falls in love with the girl mouse who lives in the hole across the room. But Claude Cat literally comes between them, and also tries to stir up a feud between their two families.

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 175

80. Jack and the Beanstalk (1933)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Jack sells the family cow for magic beans which grow a vine into the sky.

Directors: Ub Iwerks, Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster

Votes: 142

81. The Little Match Girl (1914)

9 min | Short, Drama

A poor child strikes matches for warmth and dies in the snow.

Director: Percy Nash | Star: John East

Votes: 34

82. The Kiss in the Tunnel (II) (1899)

1 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Similar to A Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), this remake omits the phantom ride scenes and chooses to portray a significantly steamier, more prolonged, and more explicit passion between a young couple. Surely, this is a kiss to remember.

Director: James Bamforth

Votes: 462

83. Petite étincelle (2019)

3 min | Animation, Short

A literate mouse sneaks into a house to read a book. A cat discovers him and climbs the bookshelf to eat him, but is frightened away when the mouse accidentally turns on a bright flashlight... See full summary »

Directors: Nicolas Bianco-Levrin, Julie Rembauville

Votes: 5

84. Ko-Ko Hops Off (1927)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Koko the clown and his dog attempt a round-the-world flight.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Stars: Dave Fleischer, Max Fleischer

Votes: 23

85. Ko-Ko's Hot Ink (1929)

8 min | Animation, Short

Drawn with steaming ink, Koko and Fitz try to cool off.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 28

86. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember (1967)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Through the bumbling magic of Aunt Clara, the Stephens family and Mrs. Kravitz spend Thanksgiving with the original pilgrims in 1620.

Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy

Votes: 322

87. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: The Man from 'Emperor' (1964)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

An old friend of Rob's shows up to offer him a job with his hugely successful but racy gentlemen's magazine. Rob says he won't do it, but Laura is not so sure. Rob is sorely tempted by the wining, dining, and the beautiful girls.

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

Votes: 264

88. DuckTales (1987–1990)
Episode: Hotel Strangeduck (1987)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Scrooge buys an old castle and tries to turn it into a hotel, but the castle appears to be haunted. Or is it?

Director: Alan Zaslove | Stars: Gino Conforti, Joan Gerber, Arte Johnson, Chuck McCann

Votes: 264

89. I Love Lucy (1951–1957)
Episode: Home Movies (1954)

TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy

When an advertiser agrees to make a pilot for a potential music TV show starring Ricky only, Lucy, Ethel, and Fred make a movie of their own.

Director: William Asher | Stars: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley

Votes: 357

90. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: Captive Night (1979)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

David 'Bishop' is working overtime at Slaters department store the night two brothers break in. When the safe proves harder to crack than expected, David pretends to be after the money as well.

Director: Frank Orsatti | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Paul Picerni

Votes: 175

91. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964–1968)
Episode: The Virtue Affair (1965)

TV-G | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Mr. Robspierre, a descendant of the original Robspierre, plans to launch a nuclear missile and destroy France's vineyards. By doing so, he hopes to restore the virtue of France. Solo works ... See full summary »

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Mala Powers

Votes: 88

92. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: Time's Arrow (1992)

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

Captain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.

Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Votes: 3,697

93. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Je Souhaite (2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two brothers have a less than helpful genie who grants their wishes with disastrous consequences. Mulder comes into possession of the same genie, and his wishes garner similar results.

Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Paula Sorge

Votes: 3,702

94. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Brother's Keeper (2007)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of a prominent minister's wife appears to be connected a blackmail attempt and a mysterious DVD. Meanwhile, Goren's mother takes a turn for the worse, and Robert stumbles upon his long-missing, troubled brother.

Director: Ken Girotti | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian, Tom Arnold

Votes: 335

95. Darkwing Duck (1991–1992)
Episode: Night of the Living Spud (1991)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Short, Action

Bushroot finds being a villain plant a lonely occupation, and so he tries to create for himself a beautiful wife. But instead of the pretty pansy he expected, he ends up with a monstrous ... See full summary »

Directors: Tad Stones, Alan Zaslove | Stars: S. Scott Bullock, Christine Cavanaugh, Jim Cummings, Dana Hill

Votes: 260

96. WWE Raw (1993– )
Episode: WWE ThunderDome: Alexa's Playground (2021)

TV-PG | 128 min | Action, Sport

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Stars: Adeel Alam, Joe Anoa'i, Cassie Arneill, Charly Arnolt

Votes: 35

97. WWE Raw (1993– )
Episode: Episode #29.21 (2021)

TV-PG | 126 min | Action, Sport

Bobby Lashley to battle The Miz in a WWE Championship Rematch.

Stars: Adeel Alam, C.J. Perry Barnyashev, Shayna Andrea Baszler, Sidney Bateman

Votes: 31

98. Wednesday (2022– )
Episode: Friend or Woe (2022)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Wednesday stumbles on a secret society. During Outreach Day, Nevermore's outcasts mingle with Jericho's normies in Pilgrim World. Fudge, anyone?

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane

Votes: 9,000

99. WWE Raw (1993– )
Episode: The Road to Wrestlemania 37 Begins (2021)

TV-PG | 128 min | Action, Sport

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Stars: Cassie Arneill, C.J. Perry Barnyashev, Shayna Andrea Baszler, Sidney Bateman

Votes: 28

100. Outlander (2014– )
Episode: Allegiance (2022)

TV-MA | 69 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Jamie struggles with his first request as Indian Agent. Roger presides over an unusual funeral. Marsali gives birth. However, the joy is short lived when a discovery is made.

Director: Kate Cheeseman | Stars: Caitríona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin

Votes: 1,716