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1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy

A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones

Votes: 388,261 | Gross: $70.14M

2. Star Trek (2009)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy

Votes: 621,297 | Gross: $257.73M

3. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

R | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.

Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro

Votes: 99,991 | Gross: $2.04M

4. Don't Say a Word (2001)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret...

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Skye McCole Bartusiak

Votes: 57,220 | Gross: $55.00M

5. The Politician (2019–2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Drama

Payton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.

Stars: Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Julia Schlaepfer

Votes: 24,649

6. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama

A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda

Votes: 13,913 | Gross: $0.44M

7. Official Competition (2021)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.

Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez, José Luis Gómez

Votes: 14,840

8. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

PG | 125 min | Drama, Romance

China in the 1920s. After her father's death, Songlian is forced to marry the wealthy Master Chen. With three wives already, each living in a separate house, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao

Votes: 35,475 | Gross: $2.60M

9. Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano

Votes: 11,084

10. Over Her Dead Body (2008)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship with a psychic.

Director: Jeff Lowell | Stars: Eva Longoria, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs

Votes: 25,649 | Gross: $7.56M

11. Little Black Book (2004)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman snoops through her boyfriend's palm pilot and reveals his former girlfriends, which causes her to question why they're still listed in his little black book.

Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Ron Livingston, Holly Hunter, Kathy Bates

Votes: 18,984 | Gross: $20.42M

12. The Twelve Chairs (1970)

GP | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise

Votes: 7,144 | Gross: $1.81M

13. Hell Bound (1957)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After World War II, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into the USA.

Director: William J. Hole Jr. | Stars: John Russell, June Blair, Stuart Whitman, Margo Woode

Votes: 728

14. In the Time of the Butterflies (2001 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government.

Director: Mariano Barroso | Stars: Salma Hayek, Lumi Cavazos, Edward James Olmos, Mía Maestro

Votes: 2,494

15. It's Not Me, I Swear! (2008)

Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

During the summer of 1968, Leon, a 10-year-old boy, navigates the hardships of young love, his lunatic mother's whims, and his urges to vandalize the house of his neighbors.

Director: Philippe Falardeau | Stars: Antoine L'Écuyer, Gabriel Maillé, Catherine Faucher, Suzanne Clément

Votes: 2,402

16. Christmas Next Door (2017 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Family, Romance

A famous MGTOW author is forced to look after his niece and nephew over the holidays and, with the help of his Christmas-loving neighbor, he learns to find love and the Christmas spirit.

Director: Jonathan Wright | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Fiona Gubelmann, Brittany Bristow, Jenna Weir

Votes: 2,833

17. Memento Mori (1999)

R | 97 min | Horror, Romance, Drama

In this second installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a young girl finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students who seem to have an unusually close bond.

Directors: Kyu-dong Min, Kim Tae-yong | Stars: Kim Gyu-ri, Park Yejin, Lee Yeong-jin, Seung-Yeon Han

Votes: 3,629

18. When Do We Eat? (2005)

R | 86 min | Comedy

A family's Passover gets screwy after the patriarch unknowingly ingests a hit of Ecstasy.

Director: Salvador Litvak | Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Lerner, Shiri Appleby, Jack Klugman

Votes: 1,552 | Gross: $0.43M

19. Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)

G | 72 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.

Directors: Greg Ford, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Terry Lennon, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, Mel Tormé, Roy Firestone, B.J. Ward

Votes: 2,681

20. The Wise Little Hen (1934)

Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Donald and Peter Pig refuse to help the Wise Little Hen plant her corn or harvest it, but they are plenty anxious to help eat it.

Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Billy Deltcer, Florence Gill, Clarence Nash

Votes: 2,545

21. Parvarish (1977)

Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.

Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Neetu Singh

Votes: 1,066

22. The Lady and the Duke (2001)

PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, History, Romance

During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt, Charlotte Véry

Votes: 2,877 | Gross: $0.33M

23. Small Town Girl (1953)

Passed | 92 min | Musical, Romance

A judge's daughter keeps an eye on a playboy who gets 30 days in jail for speeding.

Director: László Kardos | Stars: Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller, S.Z. Sakall

Votes: 933

24. My Little Bride (2004)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A teenage girl tries to continue her normal social and school life, after her grandfather forces her into an arranged marriage with a man in his twenties.

Director: Ho-joon Kim | Stars: Kim Rae-won, Moon Geun-young, Ahn Sun-yeong, Kim Bo-kyung

Votes: 5,953

25. En toute innocence (1988)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Paul Duchene, owner of a thriving enterprise, works with his son Thomas and his wife Catherine. Drama begins when Paul unexpectedly catch his daughter-in-law sleeping with one of his son's colleagues.

Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Michel Serrault, Nathalie Baye, François Dunoyer, Suzanne Flon

Votes: 339

26. Snow Treasure (1968)

G | 95 min | Action, Drama, War

This movie is based on a book by Marie McSwigan. It is 1940 in Norway, a neutral, peace-loving country that is invaded by Nazi Germany. A gang of Norwegian children do what Norwegian children like to do best - ski.

Director: Irving Jacoby | Stars: James Franciscus, Ilona Rodgers, Paul Austad, Roald Øyen

Votes: 107

27. El cochecito (1960)

PG | 85 min | Comedy, Drama

Seventy-something Don Anselmo, a retired minister, becomes obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair and fakes infirmity to get it.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: José Isbert, Pedro Porcel, José Luis López Vázquez, María Luisa Ponte

Votes: 1,584

28. Polka-Dot Puss (1949)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Tom pretends to have a cold in order to trick Mammy into letting him stay inside for the night. Jerry tricks Tom by making him think he really is sick - with the measles.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Lillian Randolph

Votes: 1,146

29. Cyclops (1982)

138 min | Drama, War

Melkior Tresic is one of many intellectuals in 1941 Zagreb who is helplessly waiting for the encroaching war.

Director: Antun Vrdoljak | Stars: Frano Lasic, Ljuba Tadic, Rade Serbedzija, Mira Furlan

Votes: 365

30. Szívzür (1982)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Géza Böszörményi | Stars: Gábor Máté, Dorottya Udvaros, Jirí Menzel, László Szacsvay

Votes: 61

31. High Rise Life - The Movie (2012)

84 min | Comedy

For a long time, a group of friends have been on a yearly summer trip to Laholm. This year, they want to go somewhere else, at least everyone except Ulf, who force the others to join the trip - by saying he has cancer.

Director: Mikael Syrén | Stars: Johan Glans, Vanna Rosenberg, David Batra, Rachel Mohlin

Votes: 1,257

32. Hlidac c.47 (2008)

108 min | Drama, Thriller

A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Karel Roden, Lucia Siposová, Václav Jirácek, Vladimír Dlouhý

Votes: 297

33. Fonazei o kleftis (1965)

82 min | Comedy

A lost wallet that finds one evening an honest accountant becomes the occasion to reveal a wide abuse.

Directors: Andreas Andreadakis, Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Rena Vlahopoulou, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Andreas Douzos

Votes: 889

34. Wishing Well (1954)

78 min | Drama

Postman/poet Eynon Evans patches up broken romances in a Welsh village.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Brenda de Banzie, Eynon Evans, Petula Clark, Donald Houston

Votes: 52

35. Reform School (1939)

Approved | 58 min | Drama

A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes.

Director: Leo C. Popkin | Stars: Louise Beavers, Reginald Fenderson, Eugene Jackson, Freddie Jackson

Votes: 88

36. The Family Doctor (1910)

7 min | Short, Comedy

A woman seems to be terribly ill, but is it health or seduction that's truly on her mind?

Director: Johann Schwarzer

Votes: 54

37. Cyclops (1983)

60 min | Drama

The 1982 theatrical film of the same name reedited into a five part mini-series. In 1941, in pre-WW2 Zagreb, young bohemian artist and intellectual is conscripted and sent to a brutal boot camp that breaks him.

Stars: Frano Lasic, María Baxa, Ljuba Tadic, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 72

38. Let's Join Joanie (1950 TV Movie)

33 min | Comedy

Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.

Director: Dick Linkroum | Stars: Joan Davis, Hope Emerson, Joseph Kearns

Votes: 16

39. A Very Bad Night (2013)

9 min | Short, Horror

Abby plans to surprise her boyfriend on their anniversary, only it is Abby who is in for a surprise when she turns up on his doorstep unannounced.

Director: Amir Aghelnejad | Stars: Gaudy Mayorquin, Sheryl Stuart, Kayla Anne Thomas, Dustin Lloyd

40. Rootin' Tootin' Roundup (1990 TV Movie)

73 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

A compilation of classic Disney western-themed shorts tied together by an old duck prospector Saddlesore Sam who tells the tales of the old west using these classic cartoons.

Stars: Billy Bletcher, Corey Burton, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney

Votes: 16

41. Rovastin häämatkat (1931)

107 min | Comedy

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Director: Jaakko Korhonen | Stars: Katri Rautio, Iris Knape, Glory Leppänen, Mia Backman

Votes: 35

42. Legitimately Mallie! (2020– )

Comedy, Family

A "know-it-all", well meaning tween- soon to be teen- and her two best friends hilariously tackle daily shenanigans at school, at home and in every other nook and cranny of their "well ... See full summary »

Stars: Sandy the Dog, Mallian Butler, Gracie Silva, Dieter Kingwergs

43. Halifax f.p. (1994–2001)
Episode: Lies of the Mind (1995)

95 min | Crime

Jane is called on to assess wealthy socialite, Sharon Sinclair, charged with the murder of her father, Sir Edward and her step-mother.

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Rebecca Gibney, Jacqueline McKenzie, Marshall Napier, Richard Roxburgh

Votes: 47

44. Are You Being Served? (1972–1985)
Episode: Cold Store (1975)

TV-G | 28 min | Comedy

The department staff all fear catching a cold. Ms. Brahms swaps counters with Mr. Lucas to avoid catching anything from Mrs. Slocombe; meanwhile Mr. Lucas hopes to fake an illness so he can go home early.

Director: David Croft | Stars: Mollie Sugden, Trevor Bannister, Frank Thornton, John Inman

Votes: 209

45. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Dog Days (2001)

TV-PG | Comedy

A con man posing as a homeless person deceives everyone at the diner. In need of extra cash, Margaret takes on a second job, then regrets it.

Director: Darryl Bates | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 98

46. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Jed Gets the Misery (1963)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Jed cheers up Granny by pretending to be sick so she can doctor him. Soon Drysdale and his doctor, Clyburn, are subject to her methods as well.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 118

47. CHiPs (1977–1983)
Episode: High Flyer (1978)

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

Ponch and Jon pick up the trail of an auto theft ring. A fatherless teenage girl has a crush on Jon. Ponch is running out of excuses to avoid going up on patrol in the CHP helicopter.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Robert Pine, Mary Louise Weller

Votes: 101

48. Carnivàle (2003–2005)
Episode: Tipton (2003)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

When the authorities of the cash-poor Oklahoma town of Tipton refuses to let the carnival set up show, Samson takes Jones' advice and temporally reinvents the troupe as a religious-revival ... See full summary »

Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Clancy Brown

Votes: 858

49. The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode: Disorder in the Court (1965)

Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Fred and Barney are selected for jury duty. Fred is elected as jury foreman.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler

Votes: 173

50. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Agents in America: Part 3 (1995)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

When the station plays hardball instead of giving in to Frasier's demand for a raise, Frasier begins to worry - but his agent, the notorious Bebe Glazer, has a few tricks up her sleeve.

Director: Philip Charles MacKenzie | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 1,081