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1. Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

R | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Determined to ensure that Superman's ultimate sacrifice wasn't in vain, Bruce Wayne recruits a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams

Votes: 438,912

2. 1900 (1976)

Unrated | 317 min | Drama, History

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini

Votes: 27,298

3. The Bad Seed (1956)

Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White

Votes: 15,795

4. A Star Is Born (1954)

Passed | 154 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford

Votes: 19,690 | Gross: $14.93M

5. A Summer Place (1959)

Approved | 130 min | Drama, Romance

A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 3,860

6. A Star Is Born (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.

Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson

Votes: 10,900 | Gross: $4.36M

7. Written on the Wind (1956)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 13,436

8. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, Romance

An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed

Votes: 4,268

9. Three on a Match (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William

Votes: 4,400

10. Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard

Votes: 11,069

11. I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

Passed | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Susan Hayward stars as singer-actress Lillian Roth, whose rise to stardom was nearly destroyed by alcoholism.

Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet

Votes: 2,491

12. Blood and Sand (1941)

Approved | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova

Votes: 3,140 | Gross: $5.92M

13. Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A compulsive gambler dies during a shooting, but he'll receive a second chance to reform himself and to make up with his worried wife.

Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong

Votes: 3,414

14. Brief Moment (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.

Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley

Votes: 365

15. The Lady Gambles (1949)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett

Votes: 1,062

16. Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A hair-dresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon

Votes: 904

17. The Man with a Cloak (1951)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron

Votes: 1,314

18. Studs Lonigan (1960)

95 min | Drama

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Carolyn Craig

Votes: 372

19. Baal (1970 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze

Votes: 869

20. Blues in the Night (1941)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Music

"Jigger' Pine forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 1,307

21. Torch Singer (1933)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.

Directors: Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Lyda Roberti

Votes: 790

22. Palooka (1934)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Music

Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau

Votes: 416

23. The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy

A widow and her daughter are threatened with eviction by an unscrupulous lawyer.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton

Votes: 356

24. The Red Lily (1924)

Passed | 81 min | Drama

Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Enid Bennett, Ramon Novarro, Wallace Beery, Frank Currier

Votes: 500

25. A Million to One (1936)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance

John Kent (Monte Blue') wins the Olympic decathlon but is disqualified on a charge of professionalism. William Stevens (Kenneth Harlan), the second-place finisher, is awarded the title and ... See full summary »

Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Joan Fontaine, Reed Howes, Monte Blue

Votes: 82

26. The Great Man Votes (1939)

Passed | 72 min | Drama

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what ... See full summary »

Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 647

27. Notorious Gentleman (1945)

110 min | Drama, Romance

Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones

Votes: 391

28. The Man I Love (1929)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

An arrogant boxer named Dum-Dum Brooks romances beautiful Celia Fields, but then falls for temptress Sonia Barondoff on the eve of the big fight.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Olga Baclanova, Harry Green

Votes: 88

29. Outcast Lady (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

A woman's trials and tribulations over a romance since childhood, protecting her husband's secret past, and the trouble it causes with her brother.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Herbert Marshall, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Hugh Williams

Votes: 199

30. Mayblossom (1917)

Drama, Romance

In the blossom time in spring, in the sunny southland, Anabel Lee returned home from the young ladies' finishing academy. Warner Richmond, the favorite of society and beloved by all the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward José | Stars: Pearl White, Hal Forde, Fuller Mellish

31. Fighting Mad (1917)

50 min | Western, Drama

Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon ... See full summary »

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: William Stowell, Helen Gibson, Hector Dion, Betty Schade

32. The Women in His Life (1933)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A brilliant, successful criminal defense attorney's life is turned upside down when he takes on a case of a murdered woman who turns out to be an old flame who left him 10 years ago.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon, Isabel Jewell

Votes: 217

33. McVeagh of the South Seas (1914)

59 min | Drama

A brutal, sadistic overseer runs a pearl-diving operation on a South Seas island and treats the natives terribly, torturing them and violating their women. A local native girl falls in love... See full summary »

Directors: Cyril Bruce, Harry Carey | Stars: Harry Carey, Fern Foster, Herbert Russell, Kathleen Butler

Votes: 50

34. Gerald Cranston's Lady (1924)

Passed | 70 min | Drama

Gerald Cranston, a successful financier and industrialist who worked his way up through the ranks, enters into a marriage of convenience with Lady Hermione, from which he hopes to gain ... See full summary »

Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: James Kirkwood, Alma Rubens, Walter McGrail, J. Farrell MacDonald

35. Blue Blood (1918)

Drama

Spencer Wellington, a wealthy young man, who is threatened with paresis, will not take his physician's warning, and marries Grace Valient. Dr. Rand loves the same woman, but his ... See full summary »

Director: Eliot Howe | Stars: Howard Hickman, George Fisher, Mary Mersch, Nona Thomas

36. The Other Man (1918)

50 min | Drama

John Stedman, a promising young surgeon, returns home from a business trip to find his wife Lucia in another man's apartment. Shocked and depressed, John abandons his practice and becomes a... See full summary »

Director: Paul Scardon | Stars: Harry T. Morey, Grace Darmond, Florence Deshon, Frank Norcross

37. Broadway Billy (1926)

Passed | 55 min | Action, Drama, Romance

After winning the lightweight championship, Billy Brooks is rushed into the bright lights of Broadway;s Great White Way, along with his flighty wife, Phyllis. Ace O'Brien, the manager of ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Virginia Brown Faire, Jack Herrick, Hazel Howell

38. What I wouldn't give (2021)

12 min | Short, Drama

A Venezuelan immigrant waiting for approval on her permanent resident status finds herself in a desperate situation when an officer from Immigration Canada shows up at her door. Putting everything she built for herself under threat.

Director: Nadia Zreik | Stars: Elizabeth Erhart, Julie McCarthy, Rick Hastings, Karen Florez

39. The Water Lily (1919)

50 min | Drama

Genevieve Connors, a girl of the slums, is taken to wealthy Mrs. Vanderbeck's country home for a week's vacation. Although neighbor Evelyn Carlisle refers to Genevieve as a "gutter brat," ... See full summary »

Director: George Ridgwell | Stars: Alice Mann, Emil De Varney, Philip Yale Drew, Francis Mann

40. Police Court (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Drama

A once great stage and screen actor (Henry B. Walthall) has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son (Leon Janney) is determined to see his father "make good" again.

Director: Louis King | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Leon Janney, Lionel Belmore, King Baggot

Votes: 55

41. Outwitted (I) (1917)

Short

Jim Adams, son and heir of a wealthy New Yorker, is left a fortune in a will, providing that he is married before a certain date. He wakes the morning of the fatal day and realizes that he ... See full summary »

Director: George Terwilliger | Stars: Helen Greene, Earl Metcalfe

42. Trumpet Island (1920)

70 min | Drama

Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve, who had been forced to marry another man, but Fate still has more in store.

Director: Tom Terriss | Stars: Marguerite De La Motte, Wallace MacDonald, Hallam Cooley, Josef Swickard

Votes: 18

43. A Man's Duty (1919)

Drama

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Director: Harry A. Gant | Stars: Clarence Brooks, Webb King, Tasmania Darden, Ethel Gray

44. Her Debt of Honor (1916)

50 min | Drama

Marian Delmar's architect father has died without an estate, though she thinks he has left her a settlement of some sort. From the time of his death, a member of his profession, Varcoe, has... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Valli Valli, William B. Davidson, William Nigh, John Goldsworthy

45. Thomas and Sarah (1979)
Episode: Love Into Three Won't Go (1979)

51 min | Drama

Thomas and Sarah go into the service of a depressed and dissipated aristocrat with a death wish, but their good cheer lifts him out of his doldrums.

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: John Alderton, Pauline Collins, Anton Rodgers, William Moore

Votes: 11