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1. The Princess Bride (1987)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon
Votes: 452,289 | Gross: $30.86M
2. A Man Called Otto (2022)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, John Higgins
Votes: 160,754 | Gross: $62.47M
3. Gran Torino (2008)
R | 116 min | Drama
After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her
Votes: 817,120 | Gross: $148.10M
4. Monster House (2006)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Ryan Whitney
Votes: 139,021 | Gross: $73.66M
5. Morning Glory (2010)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton, Noah Bean
Votes: 83,351 | Gross: $31.01M
6. Nebraska (2013)
R | 115 min | Drama
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk
Votes: 123,824 | Gross: $17.65M
7. A Man Called Ove (2015)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.
Director: Hannes Holm | Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll
Votes: 68,791 | Gross: $3.48M
8. One Foot in the Grave (1990–2001)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Victor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.
Stars: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Owen Brenman
Votes: 7,361
9. St. Vincent (2014)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
Director: Theodore Melfi | Stars: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell
Votes: 108,716 | Gross: $44.13M
10. A Christmas Carol (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine
Votes: 129,854 | Gross: $137.86M
11. Stan Against Evil (2016–2018)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
An aging police sheriff begrudgingly joins an alliance with a new sheriff, Evie Barret, to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.
Stars: John C. McGinley, Janet Varney, Deborah Baker Jr., Nate Mooney
Votes: 6,548
12. In Sickness and in Health (1985–1992)
30 min | Comedy
Alf and Else are getting old, Rita's left home, Else's confined to a wheelchair. Alf must now do battle with the Social Security system.
Stars: Warren Mitchell, Carmel McSharry, Arthur English, Ken Campbell
Votes: 732
13. Till Death Us Do Part (1965–1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
A working-class Cockney bigot with a biased and experienced opinion of everything shares them bluntly and carelessly.
Stars: Warren Mitchell, Anthony Booth, Una Stubbs, Dandy Nichols
Votes: 1,019
14. Angry Neighbors (2022)
R | 89 min | Comedy
A grumpy novelist vows revenge when his wealthy neighbor builds a hideous mega-mansion next door.
Director: Warren Brock | Stars: Frank Langella, Stockard Channing, Katie Parker, Jared Gilman
Votes: 934
15. Unfinished Song (2012)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 7,988 | Gross: $1.70M
16. Black Snow (2017)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.
Director: Martín Hodara | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Laia Costa, Federico Luppi
Votes: 6,056
17. La cena (1998)
126 min | Comedy, Drama
A multitude of characters face personal problems while having dinner in a roman restaurant.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Antonio Catania, Francesca d'Aloja, Riccardo Garrone
Votes: 1,369
18. Three Days to Vegas (2007)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from marrying the wrong guy.
Director: Charlie Picerni | Stars: Peter Falk, Rip Torn, George Segal, Bill Cobbs
Votes: 318
19. Us Again (2021)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
An elderly couple regain their youth in the rain.
Director: Zach Parrish
Votes: 7,387
20. Heat Wave (2011)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama
On a sweltering day in the south of France; an alluring girl; her troubled boyfriend; her mysterious mother and a gruff neighbor collide in tragedy as their secrets lead to a series of shocking events.
Director: Jean-Jacques Jauffret | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Sylvie Lachat, Ulysse Grosjean, Yves Ruellan
Votes: 441
21. Les vieux de la vieille (1960)
90 min | Comedy
Three old drinking buddies, accomplices and pranksters, decide to leave their village for a promising retirement home, walking through the countryside.
Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Jean Gabin, Noël-Noël, Bruno Balp
Votes: 627
22. Florida (2015)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Although he's now eighty years old, Claude Lherminier is still as imposing as he ever was. His moments of forgetfulness and confusion are becoming increasingly more frequent, but he stubbornly refuses to admit that anything is wrong.
Director: Philippe Le Guay | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lucas, Anamaria Marinca
Votes: 773
23. Chalupári (1975– )
Comedy
Show about live in a village in Czech republic in the 70's.
Stars: Jirí Sovák, Josef Kemr, Jirina Bohdalová, Josef Vetrovec
Votes: 276
24. The Grump (2014)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
The Grump is a man from the past. A man who knows that everything used to be so much better in the old days. Pretty much everything that's been done after 1953 has always managed to ruin ... See full summary »
Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Antti Litja, Petra Frey, Mari Perankoski, Iikka Forss
Votes: 2,959
25. Bwakaw (2012)
TV-PG | 110 min | Drama
Gruff and cynical Rene is no stranger to loneliness, living an emotionally detached life with his dog, Bkawaw. Yet a connection with a middle-aged taxi driver begins to soften his outlook on life.
Director: Jun Lana | Stars: Eddie Garcia, Princess, Rez Cortez, Bibeth Orteza
Votes: 370
26. Family Tools (2013)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
A man is forced to put his dreams on hold to take over his family's handyman business from his father.
Stars: Kyle Bornheimer, J.K. Simmons, Edi Gathegi, Johnny Pemberton
Votes: 658
27. Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A little girl asks her guardians to take her by boat to a nearby swamp believing her older brother, a sailor who recently went M.I.A. in WWII, is somehow there. She finds a grumpy old Crusoe-like hermit, instead, but there's still hope.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: John Payne, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood, Connie Marshall
Votes: 171
28. The Projectionist (2019)
94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.
Director: José María Cabral | Stars: Félix Germán, Cindy Galán, Lia Briones, Ana Maria Arias
Votes: 215
29. Happier Times, Grump (2018)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
The Grump prepares to die: everything is done and his wife is dead. He's making his own coffin when life suddenly walks in: his granddaughter needs the wisdom and stubbornness of her ... See full summary »
Director: Tiina Lymi | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Satu Tuuli Karhu, Elina Knihtilä, Jani Volanen
Votes: 1,266
30. Greener Pastures (2022)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Dov (75) a widower, lives in a nursing home where he feels like he's in jail. He dreams of buying back his old house and returning live there, but he has has no money since losing his his ... See full summary »
Directors: Assaf Abiri, Matan Guggenheim | Stars: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Joy Rieger, Doval'e Glickman, Gadi Yagil
Votes: 49
31. Familienfest (2015)
90 min | Drama
Clashes between the estranged members of a family occur on the day of the grandfather's birthday celebration.
Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Günther Maria Halmer, Hannelore Elsner, Michaela May, Lars Eidinger
Votes: 369
32. Bubble Trouble (1953)
Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges run a local drug store and are about to have their lease taken away by Amos Flint, the mean old man who owns the place. When Flint kicks out his wife for being old, the stooges ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Emil Sitka
Votes: 351
33. Halloween: H33 (2011)
6 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
33 years later, Michael Myers is much older and grumpier (and chattier), and has been moved to England to try and calm him down.
Director: James Moran | Stars: Peter Charlton, Thomas Coombes, Paul Davis, Sarah Douglas
Votes: 26
34. A Film About Jörn Donner (2019 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Biography
A film about a powerful and difficult but equally fascinating man of many careers, achievements and failures. A phenomenon who, during an entire lifetime, has used his intellect but also ... See full summary »
Directors: Alberto Herskovits, Olavi Linna | Stars: Jörn Donner, Alberto Herskovits
Votes: 47
35. Grandpa's Girl (2012)
11 min | Short, Drama, Family
During her Sarah's weekly visits to her bad-tempered grandfather, they sit in silence, only sharing a sweet from a tin he keeps under his armchair. After his death she discovers a different side to her Grandfather.
Director: Rebecca Gillespie | Stars: Megan Bradley, Marie Louise Cookson, Albert Thompson
36. Winning Ticket (2015)
12 min | Short, Comedy
John Sumpton (John Livingstone) is the nursing home's resident grumpy old man. When he is begrudgingly woken up to take a flu shot, John's usual selfish antics come into play and affect his neighbors' morning.
Director: Francisco Franco | Stars: John Livingstone, Ortrud Swanson, Jill McDowell, Tolliver Rachel
37. To the Victor (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A story about Cumbrian shepherds and their skilled sheepdogs. Grumpy old McAdam with aggressive Black Wull and civilized David Moore with educated Owd Bob compete to win the sheepdogs's cup. David also tries to win McAdam's daughter's heart.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Graham Moffatt
Votes: 128
38. A Christmas Accident (1912)
Not Rated | 15 min | Drama, Short
The Giltons are next-door neighbors to the Biltons. The houses are exactly alike and adjoin each other; the back yards are not even separated by a fence. Gilton is a crabbed old money-maker... See full summary »
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: William Wadsworth, Mrs. William Bechtel, Augustus Phillips, Ida Williams
Votes: 305
39. The Last Checkmate (2014)
26 min | Short, Drama
A chamber piece about a piece with one in the chamber.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Bob Elkins, Ernie Rowland
40. No Smoke! (2011)
2 min | Short, Comedy
Seven old Jewish men sitting in a New York Deli, drinking tea and coffee, they are all arguing against one young man who enters with a blue smokeless cigarette.
Director: Jacob Migicovsky | Stars: Rodrig Andrisan, David Barnaby, Chris Bearne, Frank Gordon
41. So This Is Love (2009– )
5 min | Short
Lucy and Desi, Burns and Allen, Ralph and Alice, now Jack and Josey. Older, wiser, zany, intriguing with a modern edge. Josey ponders WHY DID WE GET MARRIED interrupting Jack's reading routine. Their miscommunication is only the beginning.
Stars: Jack Donner, Jody Jaress
42. The Snowman (2004)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A sweet story about finding joy when we'd rather not. A crusty old man's heart is melted by a chance encounter with a little girl.
Director: Katarzyna Kochany | Stars: Christina Macri, Josie Macri, Ray Rawlings
43.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode:
The Impatient Patient
(1987)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Aggressively cheerful female hospital volunteer irritates a dying old man. After she kills his pet mouse, he decides to kill her but she unknowingly keeps ruining his murder plots.
Director: Allan King | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, E.G. Marshall, Patricia Hamilton, Patricia Collins
Votes: 98
44.
The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode:
Double Parked
(1971)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family
The Bradys fight to save Woodland Park from closing to make way for a new building. But Mike's firm gets the project and he is in charge of the plans for the new building, and Mr. Phillips delivers the family an ultimatum.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick
Votes: 186
45.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
The Big Party
(1973)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Behind on their bills, Fred and Lamont look to raise money by throwing a house party and charging admission.
Director: Jack Shea | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Gabriel Dell, Don Bexley
Votes: 158
46.
Tales from the Darkside (1983–1988)
Episode:
Halloween Candy
(1985)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Nasty old Mr Killup uses Halloween to taunt kids. This year, he's in for a surprise, from which even his long-suffering son Michael cannot save him.
Director: Tom Savini | Stars: Roy Poole, Tim Choate, David K. Varney, John Edward Allen
Votes: 478
47.
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2019–2021)
Episode:
Too Many Dummies!
(2020)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Kooky adventures await as ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham and his young colleague Darci Lynne Farmer join Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc gang to stop an evil ventriloquist dummy from sabotaging the ventriloquist contest they're judging.
Director: Sean Bishop | Stars: Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci
Votes: 95
48.
Turner & Hooch (2021)
Episode:
In the Line of Fur
(2021)
TV-PG | 47 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Scott attempts to impress his ex-girlfriend when he and Hooch are assigned to protect a grumpy judge from a mob assassin.
Director: Gail Mancuso | Stars: Josh Peck, Carra Patterson, Lyndsy Fonseca, Vanessa Lengies
Votes: 182
49.
Talio: Avenger Buddies (2020)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2020)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A man walks into the agency looking for help finding who murdered his wife and raided the safe twenty-five years ago. He has limited time and the statute of limitation has kicked in, which ... See full summary »
Stars: Mariko Akama, Yui Asaka, Ken'ichi Endô, Minami Hamabe
50.
The Powerpuff Girls (1998–2004)
Episode:
Town and Out/Child Fearing
(2000)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
"Town and Out" When the Professor gets a new job, the Girls have to move to a new town. They try to make the best of it, but it's just not the same. In fact, it's awful.
Directors: Craig McCracken, John McIntyre, Randy Myers | Stars: Tom Kenny, Tom Kane, Cathy Cavadini, Tara Strong
Votes: 177