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1. Million Dollar Baby (2004)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama, Sport

Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel

Votes: 723,112 | Gross: $100.49M

2. Sabrina (1954)

Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden

Votes: 70,534

3. Maurice (1987)

R | 140 min | Drama, Romance

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 23,672 | Gross: $3.13M

4. Mississippi Masala (1991)

R | 118 min | Drama, Romance

An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore

Votes: 6,231 | Gross: $7.31M

5. All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel

Votes: 16,714

6. Only the Lonely (1991)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

A Chicago cop must balance loyalty to his controlling mother and a relationship with a shy funeral home worker.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn

Votes: 12,374 | Gross: $21.83M

7. You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold

Votes: 27,957 | Gross: $4.66M

8. This Property Is Condemned (1966)

Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Romance

The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid

Votes: 6,320

9. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 9,239

10. Pride and Prejudice (1980)

TV-PG | 53 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

While the arrival of wealthy gentlemen sends her marriage-minded mother into a frenzy, willful and opinionated Elizabeth Bennet matches wits with haughty Mr. Darcy.

Stars: Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul, Moray Watson, Priscilla Morgan

Votes: 2,497

11. Juliantina (2019)

30 min | Drama

Story of two girls whose many differences such as social status and education, doesn't stop them from being very good friends and eventually falling in love with each other.

Stars: Macarena Achaga, Bárbara López, Michel Brown, Claudia Martín

Votes: 607

12. More Than Only (2017)

Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young gay man finds how to love himself and accept love from another, despite his father's disapproval.

Director: Michelle Leigh | Stars: Jonathan Daniel Miles, Bjorn Anderson, Beth Dodge, Dennis Wells

Votes: 745

13. The Little Colonel (1935)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

In the post-Civil war south, a darling little girl attempts to restore the peace between her parents and her plantation owner grandfather.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge

Votes: 1,892

14. Slipaway (2017)

89 min | Drama

When a spirited elderly widow invites a homeless, drug-addicted musician to stay with her on her vintage sailboat, the two must overcome their differences and haunting pasts to realize that each holds the key to the other's life dream.

Directors: Julia Butler, Daniel Mentz | Stars: Elaine Partnow, Jesse Pepe, Hossein Mardani, Alain Ali Washnevsky

Votes: 304

15. Tremors (2019)

Unrated | 107 min | Drama

The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.

Director: Jayro Bustamante | Stars: Juan Pablo Olyslager, Diane Bathen, Mauricio Armas Zebadúa, Rui Frati

Votes: 1,519

16. Little Nellie Kelly (1940)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again angers Nellie's ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Douglas McPhail

Votes: 724

17. Girl with Green Eyes (1964)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still married land-owner.

Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean

Votes: 1,487

18. Alai Payuthey (2000)

Not Rated | 156 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

After a difficult romance in a class-divided society, the love birds find out marriage is not what they thought it would be.

Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Madhavan, Shalini, Swarnamalya, V. Natarajan

Votes: 7,380

19. Teddy Bear (2012)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Romance

Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder who lives with his mother, sets off to Thailand in search of love.

Director: Mads Matthiesen | Stars: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, David Winters

Votes: 4,805 | Gross: $0.02M

20. Ma vie en rose (1997)

R | 88 min | Drama

Ludovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in his community when he dresses in girls clothes and insists he's a girl.

Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent

Votes: 9,035 | Gross: $2.28M

21. The Affair (1973 TV Movie)

PG | 74 min | Drama, Romance

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Bruce Davison, Jamie Smith-Jackson

Votes: 297

22. Come Next Spring (1956)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Romance

In 1920s Arkansas, after a 12 year absence, reformed alcoholic Matt Ballot returns to his abandoned family but has to win them back and regain his hometown's respect too.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson

Votes: 674

23. The Neighbor (2022)

96 min | Drama

Two young men who are in love and get bullied by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads that makes their life difficult as hatred and intolerance seeps into the rapport between their relatives and respective families.

Director: Pasquale Marrazzo | Stars: Michele Costabile, Jacopo Costantini, Lucia Vasini, Luisa Vernelli

Votes: 46

24. Between Two Women (1986 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

When shy schoolteacher Val marries Harry, the son of an aged opera star, she quickly discovers that Harry's mother Barbara is not very happy with their union. In fact, Barbara tries to ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Colleen Dewhurst, Michael Nouri, Bridgette Andersen

Votes: 252

25. Joy in the Morning (1965)

GP | 103 min | Drama, Romance

In 1927, Carl Brown marries Annie McGairy and goes to college, but taking his young wife with him creates difficult challenges for both of them, for their parents back home, and for the campus faculty.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux, Arthur Kennedy, Oscar Homolka

Votes: 374

26. Beulah Land (1980)

281 min | Drama

Miniseries detailing the lives of two Civil War families.

Stars: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange

Votes: 270

27. Romeo and Juliet (1954)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, Romance

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson, Norman Wooland

Votes: 636

28. Testosterone (2003)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dean has been stumped for some time in his attempt to produce a follow-up to "I was a Teenage Speed Freak," his incredibly successful graphic novel. His fans expect great things from him ... See full summary »

Director: David Moreton | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Celina Font, Antonio Sabato Jr., Jennifer Coolidge

Votes: 1,275 | Gross: $0.03M

29. The Bigamist (1942)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's ... See full summary »

Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone, Carlo Romano

Votes: 533

30. Consenting Adult (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

A young gay man tries to find acceptance from his shocked mother and disgusted father. Through this journey, he also learns to accept himself for who he is.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Marlo Thomas, Martin Sheen, Barry Tubb, Talia Balsam

Votes: 446

31. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

32. Simon, el gran varón (2002)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The first-born son of a wealthy Mexican businessman, Simon is doted upon by his father, Don Andres. But as Simon grows older, he displays a fondness for dressing in women's clothing and playing with dolls.

Directors: Miguel Barreda-Delgado, Arturo Velazco | Stars: Alberto Estrella, Hugo Stiglitz, Alicia Encinas, Gibran Gonzalez

Votes: 42

33. Ángeles y querubines (1972)

90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A tragic celestial western that explores a surrealist point of view of the lost paradise by Adam and Eve.

Director: Rafael Corkidi | Stars: Roberto Cañedo, Jorge Humberto Robles, Helena Rojo, Ana Luisa Peluffo

Votes: 74

34. The Lady of Scandal (1930)

Passed | 76 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama

A famous British actress gets involved with two members of a reserved British noble family, whose plan to get rid of her backfires.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Basil Rathbone, Ralph Forbes, Nance O'Neil

Votes: 261

35. Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor (2004 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew is invited to an old manor in England to figure out why the woman living there has been acting strangely.

Director: Max Holechek | Stars: Lani Minella, Amy Broomhall, Conni Ellern, Jenn Ruzumna

Votes: 125

36. The Devil's Holiday (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 257

37. Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge (2010 Video Game)

E10+ | Adventure, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew travels to Japan and investigates ghost sightings at a traditional inn.

Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Kira Dorrian, Mikano Fukaya, Walayn Sharples

Votes: 76

38. Le nouveau monde (2008 TV Movie)

92 min | Drama

Lucie and Marion have been in a relationship for five years and now want to have a child. The decide to try artificial insemination and start looking for a donor. But finding a man ready to... See full summary »

Director: Étienne Dhaene | Stars: Natalia Dontcheva, Vanessa Larré, Grégory Fitoussi, Patrice Juiff

Votes: 72

39. Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall (2013 Video Game)

E | Adventure, Mystery

Teen detective Nancy Drew searches for a missing woman and investigates ghost sightings at an old southern plantation.

Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Keri Healey, Sharon Yamada-Heidner, Jeff Allen Pierce

Votes: 74

40. Banaz: A Love Story (2012)

69 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

This is a documentary film chronicling the brutal Honour Killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman in London, killed by her own family for choosing a life for herself.

Directors: Deeyah Khan, Darin Prindle | Stars: Nazir Afzal, Bobbie Cheema, Andy Craig, Caroline Goode

Votes: 247

41. I vsyo-taki ya lyublyu... (2008– )

44 min | Drama

Moscow, ca 1950. A simple provincial girl, trapped in a miserable marriage with a sophisticated muscovite, finds hope and redemption in her mother's love.

Stars: Irina Nizina, Kirill Zhandarov, Denis Yuchenkov, Vera Alentova

Votes: 123

42. Family Rewritten (2017)

14 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

Despite battling Cystic Fibrosis, Camilla, age 16, identifies as a typical middle-class American teenager until the thread that holds her family together suddenly snaps.

Director: Yasmin Mistry | Stars: Camilla Tecsy, Lesley Frey, Farhan Ali, Kim Flodin

43. Prodigal Son (2017)

9 min | Short, Drama

A short film about a closeted gay teenager coming out to a conservative Latino family.

Director: Amalia Ramírez Atiles | Stars: Juan Felipe Restrepo, Iliana Nunez, Andres Miranda, Jonathan De La Torre

Votes: 29

44. Feuille (2004)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama

Eastern and Western culture collide in this poetic tale of infatuation and self discovery.

Director: Youxin Yang | Stars: Youxin Yang, Sabine Bail, Hongwu Chen, Véronique Testard

Votes: 44

45. Three Chords and a Lie (2020)

56 min | Documentary

A decade after being ostracized for coming out to his strict, Southern Baptist family, rising country star Brandon Stansell is going home.

Director: Trent Atkinson | Stars: Ryan Aceto, Cody Alan, Steve Boysen, Ty Brown

Votes: 19

46. Ne zabyvay (2005– )

170 min | Drama, Romance, War

Moscow, June 1941. Nina and Ilya are in love and hope to marry. But, when war with Nazi Germany breaks out, their lives are changed forever.

Stars: Alina Prokonicheva, Olga Arntgolts, Ivan Kolesnikov, Dmitriy Ulyanov

Votes: 19

47. Medovyy mesyats (2005)

196 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Odessa, Ukraine. Their marriage a ruse, Alya and Zhenya are on their honeymoon. But, they will soon learn that Alya's lover wants her back, at any cost.

Stars: Aleksandr Domogarov, Tatyana Arntgolts, Aleksandr Lymarev, Aleksandr Robak

Votes: 25

48. Worth Waiting For (1962)

Not Rated | 27 min | Drama, Short

Sixteen-year-old Julie wants to marry her 17-year-old boyfriend Joe, but their friends are all against it. They try to persuade Julie to wait until she's 18, when she will be more mature. ... See full summary »

Director: Judge Whitaker | Stars: Johannah Stolworthy, Paul Engeman, Jane Urry, Lynne B. Clark

Votes: 8

49. Degrassi High (1987–1991)
Episode: He Ain't Heavy... (1989)

TV-14 | 27 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Snake learns his brother is gay.

Director: Kit Hood | Stars: Stefan Brogren, Pat Mastroianni, Dayo Ade, Billy Parrott

Votes: 84

50. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.1120 (1995)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Philip Casson | Stars: Bill Treacher, Susan Tully, Wendy Richard, David Roper

Votes: 7