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1. Wonka (2023)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
Director: Paul King | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Gustave Die, Murray McArthur, Paul G. Raymond
Votes: 144,613 | Gross: $218.40M
2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
PG-13 | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House
Votes: 142,290 | Gross: $5.20M
3. Being There (1979)
PG | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
Votes: 77,829 | Gross: $30.18M
4. Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
PG | 138 min | Drama, War, Western
A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti
Votes: 37,616 | Gross: $0.70M
5. Benny & Joon (1993)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore
Votes: 62,173 | Gross: $23.20M
6. The Hunting Party (1971)
R | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A ruthless rancher and his gang use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland
Votes: 3,427
7. 10 Rillington Place (1971)
GP | 111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
What happened to the women at 10 Rillington Place? The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood
Votes: 9,821
8. Viva Zapata! (1952)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Wiseman
Votes: 12,496
9. Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Director: Michael Carney | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou, Jon Voight
Votes: 8,582 | Gross: $6.42M
10. Trespass Against Us (I) (2016)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal, Georgie Smith
Votes: 9,170
11. Stanley & Iris (1990)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton
Votes: 8,536 | Gross: $5.82M
12. Dark Command (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers
Votes: 3,054
13. Dalaal (1993)
160 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Naive, illiterate Bhola Nath lives in a small village in India, which has yet to receive electricity. Bhola is helpful to everyone around him, and even speaks out against the local ... See full summary »
Director: Partho Ghosh | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Ayesha Jhulka, Ravi Behl, Indrani Banerjee
Votes: 140
14. Mercury Plains (2016)
R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A troubled man runs away to Mexico and is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. He proves himself to the group, but questions their motive.
Director: Charles Burmeister | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Nick Chinlund, Andy Garcia, Jorge A. Jimenez
Votes: 1,450
15. The Whipping Boy (1994 TV Movie)
G | 96 min | Family, Fantasy
Prince Horace is the spoiled and arrogant heir to the throne whose continual pranks are designed to get his distant father's attention. Young Jemmy is a desperate streetwise orphan trying to survive with his sister.
Director: Syd Macartney | Stars: Truan Munro, Nic Knight, Karen Salt, Andrew Bicknell
Votes: 424
16. Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
100 min | Adventure, Drama
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
Director: Kurt Martin | Stars: Aaron Jeffery, David Field, Jessica Napier, Kai Lewins
Votes: 3,195
17. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
128 min | Crime, Drama, History
An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 2,333
18. Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name (2021)
99 min | Documentary
Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?
Director: Robin K. Phillips | Star: Robin K. Phillips
Votes: 39
19. Cow Country (1953)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In 1875, the collapse of the world beef market creates hardships for Texas cattle growers. In Garnet Basin, many cattlemen are forced to sell their cattle for low prices. Processed in ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Helen Westcott, Robert Lowery, Barton MacLane
Votes: 222
20. Baarish (1957)
Not Rated | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
City-bred Ramu is involved in petty crime. When his close friend Gopal-dada asks him to go to the village and look after his mother, and sister Chanda, Ramu does so. After he comes to know ... See full summary »
Director: Shankar Mukherjee | Stars: Dev Anand, Nutan, Anwar Hussain, Nana Palsikar
Votes: 58
21. The Daughters of Joshua Cabe (1972 TV Movie)
73 min | Western
Due to a home-steading law, a fur trapper schemes to keep his land by hiring a hooker, a pickpocket, and a thief to pose as his family.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Karen Valentine, Lesley Ann Warren, Sandra Dee
Votes: 214
22. Los muertos no se tocan, nene (2011)
Comedy
Fabianito, a teenager and apprentice poet, is perplexed by the grotesque organisation of his great-grandfather's wake. Fabianito will discover love in these circumstances.
Director: José Luis García Sánchez | Stars: Silvia Marsó, Carlos Iglesias, Mariola Fuentes, Blanca Romero
Votes: 122
23. The Big House (2001)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Drama
Big House - Andy Griffith
Director: Rachel Ward | Stars: Tony Martin, Gary Sweet, Kick Gurry, Paul Pantano
Votes: 143
24. The Face Behind the Mask (1938)
11 min | Short, History, Mystery
Dramatized short film that investigates three possibilities for the identity of France's "man in the iron mask," who was imprisoned for life by King Louis XIV, forced to wear an iron mask, and was buried in the mask upon his death.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Carlos De Valdez, Jack Deery, Ivo Henderson
Votes: 202
25.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Tödliche Beziehungen
(1992)
57 min | Crime, Drama
Prof. Martin Willrod is the director of psychiatric clinic and this morning he asks his wife Marion and the nurse Hannes Weber about Bruno Franke. Hannes Weber answers that he lent his ... See full summary »
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 20
26.
Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Episode:
High Fidelity
(1993)
TV-14 | Comedy
Sharon falls for carpet-fitter Mark but he can't read or write so match-making Tracey invites him to the house for literacy lessons. Unfortunately he is attracted to the wrong sister and ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Kinane | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Alun Lewis
Votes: 32
27.
The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996)
Episode:
Whipping Post
(1995)
Comedy
Carley's brother (Joey Lawrence) visits the bus station and John realizes he can't read when he can't read the sign to Carley's Bar.
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: John Larroquette, Liz Torres, Gigi Rice, Daryl Mitchell
Votes: 38
28.
MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode:
Live and Learn
(1990)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
MacGyver is mentoring a troubled high school student who drops out of school to work at a construction site with his dad. While there, the kid discovers that the site may be unsafe when he witnesses a safety inspector being bribed.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, James Sloyan, Glenn Scarpelli
Votes: 276
29.
Shameless (2004–2013)
Episode:
Old Flame
(2006)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
As Kev grieves for his mother on his birthday, his wife returns after being released from prison.
Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: David Threlfall, Maggie O'Neill, Dean Lennox Kelly, Maxine Peake
Votes: 127
30.
The Stand (1994)
Episode:
The Dreams
(1994)
TV-14 | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The plague has taken its toll and only those immune to the virus are alive. The forces of good and evil are slowly taking shape. Those that have been dreaming about Mother Abigail are ... See full summary »
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 794
31.
Little Men (1998–1999)
Episode:
Philanthropy
(1999)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Family
A gift of two hundred books to Plumfield School prompts Franz to assign a project on philanthropy which the students turn into a competition. But Jo's horse Penny falling ill with pleurisy ... See full summary »
Director: Don McCutcheon | Stars: Michelle Burke, Spencer Rochfort, Corey Sevier, Trevor Blumas
Votes: 11
32.
The Outpost (2018–2021)
Episode:
Two Heads Are Better Than None
(2018)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Talon learns deep secrets about herself and her kind; Wythers investigates the murder of a Prime Order officer.
Director: Kurt Knight | Stars: Jessica Green, Jake Stormoen, Imogen Waterhouse, Anand Desai-Barochia
Votes: 431
33.
Surviving R. Kelly (2019–2023)
Episode:
The Pied Piper of R&B
(2019)
TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
As R. Kelly rises to fame and power as an R&B icon, he forms relationships with younger singers and dancers. Rumors about his marriage to a fifteen-year-old Aaliyah do little to stop his meteoric trajectory.
Directors: Nigel Bellis, Astral Finnie | Stars: Aaliyah, John Legend, Wendy Williams, R. Kelly
Votes: 257
34.
Surviving R. Kelly (2019–2023)
Episode:
All the Missing Girls
(2019)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
Parents of girls in R.Kelly's camp accuse him of keeping them psychologically and sexually imprisoned. One mother fights to get her daughter back - and wins.
Directors: Nigel Bellis, Astral Finnie | Stars: Jody Adewale, Tarana Burke, Kathy Chaney, Alice Clary
Votes: 195