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1. The Night Porter (1974)
R | 118 min | Drama
A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 14,748 | Gross: $0.63M
2. Little Fockers (2010)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker, have what it takes?
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson
Votes: 119,155 | Gross: $148.38M
3. Cyrano (2021)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.
Director: Joe Wright | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ben Mendelsohn
Votes: 14,900
4. Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War
The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt
Votes: 1,136
5. Used People (1992)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice... See full summary »
Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni
Votes: 1,712 | Gross: $17.96M
6. Crash Dive (1943)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason
Votes: 1,751
7. Forsaking All Others (1934)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dill leaves Mary standing at the altar in order to marry his old flame, Connie, instead. Knowing that Mary still has feelings for Dill, Jeff keeps quiet about his own love for her.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 1,576
8. Dangerous When Wet (1953)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
With her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel. - SimonJack
Directors: Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood
Votes: 1,148
9. Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Passed | 112 min | Drama
Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent
Votes: 4,635 | Gross: $1.61M
10. Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, then abandon a naive young woman.
Director: Hur Jin-ho | Stars: Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-gun, Ziyi Zhang, Shawn Dou
Votes: 2,075 | Gross: $0.05M
11. Good News (1947)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Golden Globe winner June Allyson and Peter Lawford star in this enjoyable musical about a football hero who falls in love with his French tutor.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Patricia Marshall, Joan McCracken
Votes: 2,822
12. Street Scene (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,055
13. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
A free-spirited yet naive country girl is caught between her wealthy, manipulative "cousin" Alec and the handsome, educated farmer Angel Clare in this Victorian tragedy from novelist Thomas Hardy.
Director: Ian Sharp | Stars: Justine Waddell, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Milburn, John McEnery
Votes: 2,100
14. Illicit (1931)
Unrated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple lives together out of wedlock, but they find that they're ahead of their time.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, James Rennie, Ricardo Cortez, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 1,167
15. The Golden Coach (1952)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 3,445
16. They Call It Sin (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Drama
Marian moves to New York to make it big in the chorus and becomes involved in a love triangle.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Loretta Young, George Brent, Una Merkel, David Manners
Votes: 760
17. Female (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Lois Wilson, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 1,918
18. What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 2,589
19. It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1951)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
Directors: Clarence Brown, Don Hartman, John Sturges, Richard Thorpe, Charles Vidor, Don Weis, William A. Wellman | Stars: Ethel Barrymore, Keefe Brasselle, Gary Cooper, Nancy Reagan
Votes: 727
20. Four Wives (1939)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Three of the four musically inclined daughters of Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, are settling into their lives as wives, but not all is well. Thea Lemp has long ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page
Votes: 731 | Gross: $0.36M
21. The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Approved | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
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: Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna
Votes: 568
22. Big Business Girl (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Thanks to her ability and her legs, Claire McIntyre rises in the business world.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Frank Albertson, Ricardo Cortez, Joan Blondell
Votes: 435
23. Smartest Girl in Town (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Romance
Modeling furs has given our heroine Cookie a taste for them, so she's determined to marry a rich man. Scheduled to meet a male model aboard a yacht, she meets the yacht's rich owner Dick ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore
Votes: 320
24. War Nurse (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, War
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker, Robert Ames
Votes: 378
25. Living on Love (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mary, a sometimes employed Midwest transplant living in New York is forced to share an apartment with Jack, a starving artist-night watchman. Both having problems paying their rent, ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward
Votes: 309
26. The Firebird (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Herman Brandt, a handsome but overly conceited actor, lives in the same apartment building in Vienna as Carola and John Pointer and their 18-year-old daughter Mariette. One day, as Carola ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill, Anita Louise
Votes: 327
27. Man Alive (1945)
70 min | Comedy
Michael McBride is declared dead after a car accident leaving his wife Connie grief stricken. When he reappears he has difficulty convincing people it's him due to the interference of Tolliver and a young Ignatius claiming to be his son.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Ellen Drew, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 275
28. King of Hockey (1936)
Passed | 55 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Gamblers try to pressure a hockey player into throwing a game.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dick Purcell, Anne Nagel, Marie Wilson, Wayne Morris
Votes: 156
29. Always a Bride (1940)
Not Rated | 58 min | Comedy, Romance
Alice Bond is under a lot of pressure from her parents to marry Marshall Winkler, an arrogant blowhard whose only positive quality is his money. Alice really cares for Michael Stevens, an ... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Rosemary Lane, George Reeves, John Eldredge, Virginia Brissac
Votes: 201
30. No Marriage Ties (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Alcoholic reporter Bruce Foster is on the road to ruin when he partners with advertising man "Perk" Perkins to form a successful advertising agency. Foster makes the business a success, but his personal life suffers.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan, Doris Kenyon, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 180
31.
Saving Grace (2007–2010)
Episode:
It's a Fierce, White-Hot, Mighty Love
(2008)
TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Grace and the team pull out all the stops for a missing woman whom Grace has a gut feeling is dead, but the family dynamics complicate the investigation; Clay joins the police department's ... See full summary »
Director: Gary A. Randall | Stars: Holly Hunter, Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Bailey Chase
Votes: 105
32.
Tom Jones (2023)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2023)
52 min | Comedy, Romance
All hope of getting together with Sophia seems lost for Tom, so Tom allows himself to be seduced by her aunt, the beguiling, dangerous Lady Bellaston. And Lady Bellaston doesn't like rivals, so she persuades a bachelor to cure Sophia.
Director: Georgia Parris | Stars: Sophie Wilde, Pearl Mackie, Hannah Waddingham, Solly McLeod
Votes: 79
33.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Murdoch Night in Canada
(2012)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two hockey teammates have a locker room altercation, and one of them is injured with a head wound. He does not go with his teammates for a post-practice drink and is later found dead in the locker room from a second blow to the head.
Director: Gail Harvey | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris, Georgina Reilly
Votes: 316