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1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.

Director: Rupert Wyatt | Stars: James Franco, Andy Serkis, Freida Pinto, Karin Konoval

Votes: 567,664 | Gross: $176.76M

2. 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: 144,468 | Gross: $218.40M

3. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

Director: Jon Watts | Stars: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon

Votes: 882,993 | Gross: $804.75M

4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.

Directors: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc, Fabien Polack | Stars: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black

Votes: 238,529 | Gross: $574.93M

5. The Incredibles (2004)

PG | 115 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee

Votes: 811,074 | Gross: $261.44M

6. Enchanted (2007)

PG | 107 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

Director: Kevin Lima | Stars: Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey

Votes: 217,667 | Gross: $127.81M

7. Hocus Pocus (1993)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A teenage boy named Max and his little sister move to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.

Director: Kenny Ortega | Stars: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz

Votes: 156,169 | Gross: $44.34M

8. In the Heights (2021)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

In Washington Heights, a sympathetic New York bodega owner saves every penny every day as he imagines and sings about a better life.

Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera

Votes: 52,228

9. The Third Man (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Votes: 182,182 | Gross: $0.45M

10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The Turtles get into another battle with their enemy the Shredder, who has acquired new allies: the mutant thugs Bebop and Rocksteady and the alien being Krang.

Director: Dave Green | Stars: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry, Laura Linney

Votes: 99,979 | Gross: $82.05M

11. Superman II (1980)

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

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty

Votes: 114,812 | Gross: $108.19M

12. The Omen (2006)

R | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An American official realizes that his young son may literally be the Devil incarnate.

Director: John Moore | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, David Thewlis

Votes: 62,913 | Gross: $54.61M

13. Dreamcatcher (2003)

R | 134 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis

Votes: 96,571 | Gross: $33.72M

14. C.H.U.D. (1984)

R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.

Director: Douglas Cheek | Stars: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist

Votes: 14,009 | Gross: $4.65M

15. Frankenweenie (2012)

PG | 87 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Martin Landau

Votes: 117,308 | Gross: $35.29M

16. The Mighty (1998)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

Two young boys are social outcasts in their community due to their disabilities and broken home lives. When they are paired together, they form a bond over their shared circumstances.

Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 13,928 | Gross: $2.64M

17. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.

Director: Jason Eisener | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Pasha Ebrahimi, Robb Wells, Brian Downey

Votes: 48,709 | Gross: $0.70M

18. New Police Story (2004)

R | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.

Director: Benny Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Daniel Wu

Votes: 29,045

19. Collision Earth (2011 TV Movie)

PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When the sun converts to a magnetar for a short time, the planet Mercury is thrown out of orbit and set on a collision course for Earth. It's up to a disgraced scientist to save our planet.

Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Diane Farr, Chad Krowchuk, Jessica Parker Kennedy

Votes: 1,599

20. Text (2019)

132 min | Drama, Thriller

College student Ilya spends 7 years in prison on a fake drug bust. Coming out, he wants revenge on the dirty cop, Pyotr. He gets Pyotr's smartphone filled with personal info and starts texting - pretending to be Pyotr.

Director: Klim Shipenko | Stars: Alexander Petrov, Kristina Asmus, Ivan Yankovskiy, Sofya Ozerova

Votes: 3,510

21. He Walked by Night (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell

Votes: 6,733

22. It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)

Passed | 116 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore

Votes: 6,305

23. While the City Sleeps (1956)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A serial killer has been killing beautiful women in New York and the new owner of a media company offers a high ranking job to the first of his senior executives who can get the earliest scoops on the case.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Howard Duff

Votes: 7,094

24. Metro (I) (2013)

TV-14 | 133 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel.

Director: Anton Megerdichev | Stars: Sergey Puskepalis, Anatoliy Belyy, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anfisa Vistingauzen

Votes: 7,882

25. Iceman (2014)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, History

An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later passes and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

Director: Wing-Cheong Law | Stars: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Shengyi Huang, Kang Yu

Votes: 3,843 | Gross: $0.01M

26. The Garden of Sinners: Paradox Spiral (2008)

TV-MA | 114 min | Animation, Action, Crime

A teenage demon hunter uses her mystical powers to investigate supernatural events.

Director: Takayuki Hirao | Stars: Maaya Sakamoto, Ken'ichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura

Votes: 2,108

27. Juuni Taisen (2017)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

The 12th Twelve Tournament that gets held every twelve years - Twelve brave warriors who bear the names of the signs of the zodiac fight each other for the lives and souls. The participants... See full summary »

Stars: Ian Sinclair, Mark Stoddard, Caitlin Glass, Jerry Jewell

Votes: 993

28. A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Bugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frances Baruch, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 905

29. Tom-ic Energy (1965)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Essentially one long chase scene, in an urban setting; at the end, a dog joins in, to Jerry's annoyance.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray

Votes: 489

30. Hands Across the Table (1935)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn

Votes: 2,155

31. Devil's Feud Cake (1963)

TV-Y7 | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Yosemite Sam is given three chances to gain his own freedom by bringing Bugs Bunny to Hell.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 411

32. Zor: Never Underestimate the Force (1998)

Not Rated | 157 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A journalist seeks justice for his jailed police officer father.

Director: Sangeeth Sivan | Stars: Sunny Deol, Sushmita Sen, Milind Gunaji, Om Puri

Votes: 326

33. Hare-Way to the Stars (1958)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Suffering from a rabbit-hangover Bugs accidentally climbs onto a rocket ship parked directly over his hole. He's taken to Marvin the Martian's home where he steals explosives Marvin was planning to use to blow up the Earth.

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 1,492

34. Going! Going! Gosh! (1952)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

The Coyote makes various attempts to get the Road Runner with an explosive-tipped arrow, by shooting himself out of a sling shot and by covering the road with quick drying cement.

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Paul Julian

Votes: 1,012

35. Top Hat and Spuds Nose (1974– )

92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A few kids make a circus show for their sick friend, and get in some trouble along the way

Stars: Krisztián Kovács, Alfonzó, Gábor Berkes, István Gruber

Votes: 575

36. Blake of Scotland Yard (II) (1937)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Sci-Fi

Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks that their invention... See full summary »

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Herbert Rawlinson, Joan Barclay, Lloyd Hughes

Votes: 130

37. Rampage (1986 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Fantasy

In Rampage three people can play at once, each player being a different giant monster that terrorizes cities throughout North America.

Directors: Brian Colin, Jeff Nauman

Votes: 330

38. The Little Broadcast (1943)

8 min | Animation, Short

A high-brow violinist at a concert hall does not enjoy the gypsy-themed swing performance of Jim Dandy and his orchestra.

Director: George Pal | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Sam Edwards, Joe Venuti

Votes: 78

39. They Might Be Giants: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (1991 Music Video)

3 min | Music

Music video for "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" by They Might Be Giants.

Directors: Lidia Pryzluska, J. Otto Seibold, Drew Takahashi

Votes: 11

40. Spree Lunch (1957)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at ... See full summary »

Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Thomas Johnson | Stars: Jackson Beck, Gilbert Mack, Jack Mercer

Votes: 290

41. The Mouse on 57th Street (1961)

Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short

A mouse in a yellow hat helps himself to what he thinks is a huge lump of cheese in a bakery but, after chewing a hole straight through it, realizes that it is really rum cake, which has ... See full summary »

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Julie Bennett

Votes: 156

42. Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Betty tries a regime of exercise, but her weight loss gets out of hand. She sings "Keep Your Girlish Figure."

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Stars: Clarence Nash, Mae Questel

Votes: 265

43. Giddyap (1950)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short

Always beaten to the punch by their modernized competition, an ice man and his daughter discover that their horse Jack is a talented dancer with a past career in showbiz.

Directors: Art Babbitt, John Hubley | Stars: Stan Freberg, Marian Richman

Votes: 40

44. Window Shopping (1938)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music

Mice run, cavort, sing and dance around in the stores and restaurants of a big city at night. They wind up in a meat market for an early-morning snack and stocking up on food provisions ... See full summary »

Director: Sid Marcus | Stars: Elvia Allman, The Rhythmettes

Votes: 25

45. Back to the Future Part II & III (1990 Video Game)

Action, Sci-Fi

Biff has stolen the time machine, used Sport Almanac to gamble money and altered the timeline. Marty must go back in time, collect 30 items to stop Biff in this platform game. Later on in 1875 he has to collect 10 items to save Doc Brown.

Votes: 66

46. Ali Baba and the Thieves (1953)

2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Ali Baba is chased by three thieves who want whatever treasure is in his bag. Ali Baba is able to avoid them, ultimately weaving his own magic carpet and flying away to enjoy his loot: a refreshing bottle of ice-cold Coca-Cola.

Director: Paul J. Smith | Star: Grace Stafford

47. An Audience with Hal Roach (1988 TV Special)

59 min | Comedy

Hal Roach, billed as Ireland's Bob Hope, delivers his patented brand of blarney to a live audience at the Jurys Hotel in Dublin.

Director: Ian McGarry | Stars: Hal Roach, Mike Murphy, Margaret Heckler

48. Ko-Ko's Kane (1927)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

While Max tinkers with his multi-purpose cane/umbrella contraption, Ko-Ko and Fitz cause havoc inside the schematic diagram. Hijinks ensue when Ko-Ko and Fitz get their hands on the magical cane in the cartoon world.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 21

49. Floor Flusher (1954)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks. Popeye... See full summary »

Directors: Izzy Sparber, Tom Golden | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel

Votes: 206

50. The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997–2000)
Episode: The Case of the Cryptic Creature (1998)

Family, Mystery

Sussex Academy is thrown into a panic when a mysterious monster is spotted in the toilets, the shower room, the kitchen and the sewer. When a large sea serpent is observed swimming in the ... See full summary »

Director: John L'Ecuyer | Stars: Meredith Henderson, John White, Brendan Fletcher, Annick Obonsawin

Votes: 35