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1. Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.

Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans

Votes: 25,281 | Gross: $3.92M

2. As Time Goes By (1992–2005)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Romance

The Korean War, and a long lost letter, separate the lives of young lovers Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle, whose paths cross again by happenstance.

Stars: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker, Philip Bretherton

Votes: 4,992

3. White Christmas (1954)

Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

Votes: 51,191 | Gross: $30.00M

4. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)

TV-PG | 1,349 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Hetty wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. With assistance from a teenager called Geoffrey and her husband Robert, combined with her own common sense, Hetty is confident she can solve any case.

Stars: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield, John Graham-Davies

Votes: 2,006

5. That Darn Cat! (1965)

Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

After a kidnapped bank teller uses a neighbor's wandering cat to send an S.O.S., the F.B.I. assigns a cat-allergic Agent to the case.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 7,940 | Gross: $28.06M

6. Vera Drake (2004)

R | 125 min | Crime, Drama

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham

Votes: 26,905 | Gross: $3.75M

7. A Special Day (1977)

Approved | 106 min | Drama

Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd

Votes: 15,899

8. Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complications ensue.

Director: Stanley A. Long | Stars: Christopher Neil, Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors

Votes: 651

9. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran

Votes: 8,525

10. Good Morning (1959)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake

Votes: 11,103

11. The Christmas Train (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A cynical journalist decides to take a train from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles for Christmas to get inspiration for a story in honor of his late father. He gets to know the other passengers and runs into an old flame while aboard.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Danny Glover, Joan Cusack

Votes: 3,535

12. A Murder of Quality (1991 TV Movie)

90 min | Mystery

Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at... See full summary »

Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw

Votes: 971

13. Cop Au Vin (1985)

Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In a small provincial French town, Dr Morasseau, Mr Lavoisier and butcher Filiol decide to create a significant estate business but Mrs Cuno and her son Louis do not want to sell their house. Louis presumably provokes the death of Filiol.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Jean Topart

Votes: 2,240

14. Undertow (1949)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A paroled convict is framed for murder and must clear himself before the police catch him.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Scott Brady, John Russell, Dorothy Hart, Peggy Dow

Votes: 932

15. Appointment with a Shadow (1957)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when he is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.

Director: Richard Carlson | Stars: George Nader, Joanna Moore, Brian Keith, Virginia Field

Votes: 402

16. Angel in My Pocket (1969)

G | 105 min | Comedy, Family

A homespun minister (Andy Griffith) and his family move to a small town where he tries to win the support and trust of his new congregation.

Director: Alan Rafkin | Stars: Andy Griffith, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Lee Meriwether

Votes: 519

17. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron

Votes: 4,622

18. Boys' Night Out (1962)

Unrated | 115 min | Comedy

Four men bored with their Thursday nights out from their wives (and mom) rent a love nest in New York City, equipped with a blonde. What they don't know is that she's writing a postgraduate thesis on sexual fantasies of urban men.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Kim Novak, James Garner, Tony Randall, Howard Duff

Votes: 2,437

19. Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (2014)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Cheyenne Jackson, Jacki Weaver, Rita Moreno

Votes: 364 | Gross: $0.07M

20. Supernatural (1933)

Passed | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne

Votes: 943

21. Chickens Come Home (1931)

Passed | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Mr. Hardy is running for mayor but an old flame of ill repute shows up to blackmail him with an old naughty photograph.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Baldwin Cooke

Votes: 1,685

22. The Lady in Question (1940)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A juror in a murder trial takes pity on the recently acquitted defendant and invites her to move into his family's home and his son soon falls in love with her.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Brian Aherne, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Irene Rich

Votes: 936

23. Amazing Grace (1974)

G | 99 min | Comedy

An elderly woman in a Baltimore neighborhood finds out that a somewhat slow-witted neighbor is being put up for local office by some shady politicians who have no interest in their ... See full summary »

Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Moms Mabley, Slappy White, Rosalind Cash, Moses Gunn

Votes: 284 | Gross: $0.74M

24. Assassin of Youth (1938)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama

A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Short, Earl Dwire

Votes: 470

25. Signpost to Murder (1964)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An escapee from an asylum takes refuge in a woman's house; but she has dark secrets of her own.

Director: George Englund | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier

Votes: 541

26. Quality Street (1937)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Eric Blore, Fay Bainter

Votes: 1,318

27. Girls' Dormitory (1936)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance

After a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Constance Collier

Votes: 386

28. Adventure in Baltimore (1949)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

The liberated daughter of a 1905 minister innocently starts a scandal.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe

Votes: 531

29. Quality Street (1927)

80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch

Votes: 799

30. Hospitality (2010)

Unrated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

The film follows the follies that ensue when a man and his wife shack up with a family that owns a printing press in their building, the husband takes it over, and the couple begin inviting a motley crew of friends.

Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Kanji Furutachi, Bryerly Long

Votes: 539

31. The Medicine Man (1930)

Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Romance

The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.

Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson, George E. Stone, Tom Dugan

Votes: 281

32. 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

33. The New York Hat (1912)

Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama

A dying mother bequeaths money in trust for her teenage daughter to the pastor. When he buys the girl an expensive new hat, scandal breaks out, as local gossips assume something fishy is going on between the pastor and the pretty girl.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 936

34. Busybody Bear (1952)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Barney gets involved in Good Neighbor Week by helping out the local beaver, help the beaver could do without.

Director: Dick Lundy | Star: Paul Frees

Votes: 116

35. Enas delikanis (1963)

90 min | Comedy

The adventures of a young Cretan Casanova.

Director: Manolis Scouloudis | Stars: Manos Katrakis, Ilia Livykou, Alkis Giannakas, Kleo Skouloudi

Votes: 61

36. London Blackout Murders (1943)

Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A man helps the authorities uncover a ring of murderous German spies in wartime London.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Abbott, Mary McLeod, Lloyd Corrigan, Lester Matthews

Votes: 150

37. Dumbbells in Ermine (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

The story of a fighter's romance with a small-town girl.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Barbara Kent, Claude Gillingwater

Votes: 26

38. Babovresky (2013)

133 min | Comedy

After the death of Trudy, a centenarian, some lucrative land with an old house are left at the end of the village. That is convenient for the mayor (Pavel Kikincuk), who have designs on the... See full summary »

Director: Zdenek Troska | Stars: Jana Altmanová, Jarmila Bursová, Lucie Bílá, Jan Dolanský

Votes: 330

39. Osení (1961)

95 min | Drama

Coachman Lojza Zacpal likes to make up rascally tricks to annoy his older fellow-villagers. The frivolous young man also likes to flirt with girls without really falling in love with them. ... See full summary »

Director: Václav Krska | Stars: Vít Olmer, Zuzana Fisárková, Eva Blazková, Jaroslav Satoranský

Votes: 23

40. The Witness Goes Out! (1992 Video)

50 min | Drama

A faithful Jehovah's Witness begins questioning and investigating the teachings of the Watchtower after meeting with an "apostate" Witness now evangelical Christian.

Stars: Jim Bullock, Ann Ault, Dorothy McDonald, Lorri MacGregor

Votes: 9

41. Zero Gravity: Making Space Station 76 (2014 Video)

13 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

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Stars: Matt Bomer, Marisa Coughlan, Jerry O'Connell, Jack Plotnick

42. What Price Goofy? (1925)

Passed | 22 min | Short, Comedy

A wife suspects her husband is cheating when seen on the street talking to an attractive young woman. She believes she has caught him his mistress. A dancing butler, a game-playing dog and an accommodating burglar complicate things.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Lucien Littlefield, Jane Sherman

Votes: 170

43. Birds in Love (1936)

Animation, Short

The titular birds love one another, but another wants the female one.

Director: Ben Harrison

Votes: 30

44. Home(less) (2016)

26 min | Short, Drama

When a gay 17 year old gets kicked out of his foster home, there aren't a lot of options.

Director: David Walls | Stars: Josh Starkey, Noel Roberts, Jeff Harrison, Riggsby Lane

Votes: 68

45. Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová (1961 TV Movie)

101 min | Biography, Comedy, History

The story takes us to Litomysl in 1836. The local bourgeoisie, who, as a proof of good manners and better origins, does not forget to include some German words in their conversation, ... See full summary »

Director: Frantisek Filip | Stars: Jirina Sejbalová, Blanka Waleská, Bozena Pulpánová, Alena Vránová

Votes: 19

46. Kristálová noc (1966 TV Movie)

65 min | Drama

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Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Marie Vásová, Václav Voska, Marie Drahokoupilová

47. The Nightmares Next Door (2005 TV Special)

180 min | Reality-TV

A senior lecturer in psychology at Newcastle University oversees the planning and construction of a small remote community of static caravans in a Dorset valley, which will be used to house... See full summary »

Director: Jamie Simpson | Stars: Paul Vaughan, George Erdos, Paddy Fetherston, Riyad Ibrahim

Votes: 14

48. Barbora Poláková: Nafrnená (2015 Music Video)

4 min | Comedy, Music

A comedy-pop song about a group of hypocritical female friends, maliciously spreading rumors about each other.

Director: Tereza Kopácová | Stars: Barbora Poláková, Ivana Chýlková, Markéta Dergelová, Martha Issová

Votes: 25

49. Bookmark (1983–1999)
Episode: Miss Pym's Day Out (1992)

47 min | Biography

After a 14 year dry spell, novelist, Barbara Pym (Patricia Routledge) is nominated for a Booker Award in 1977 for her novel "Quartet in Autumn". This short biography follows her the day of ... See full summary »

Director: James Runcie | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Marcia Warren, John Bott, Susan Wooldridge

Votes: 40

50. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode: A Dark Blue Perfume (1997)

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

A middle-aged man is still haunted by a love affair from his youth which almost ended in murder.

Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: David Ryall, Susannah York, John Castle, Peter Helmer

Votes: 99