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1. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 227,854 | Gross: $4.00M
2. Hardcore (1979)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A religious businessman from Michigan has to venture into the world of pornography in California, desperately searching for his runaway teenage daughter.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent
Votes: 13,969
3. Kinky Boots (2005)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper
Votes: 21,506 | Gross: $1.82M
4. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 21,898 | Gross: $19.65M
5. Toys (1992)
PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When Lieutenant General Leland Zevo (Sir Michael Gambon) inherits a toymaking company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright
Votes: 33,665 | Gross: $21.45M
6. No Other Woman (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Drama
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre, Eric Linden
Votes: 490
7. My Uncle (1958)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy
Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis
Votes: 24,288
8. Flash of Genius (2008)
PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
Director: Marc Abraham | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda, Tim Eddis
Votes: 17,837 | Gross: $4.23M
9. The Century of the Self (2002)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz
Votes: 6,370
10. Oci ciornie (1987)
118 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller, Elena Safonova
Votes: 3,520 | Gross: $2.20M
11. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.
Directors: Norman Taurog, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Frankie Avalon, Dwayne Hickman, Susan Hart
Votes: 2,612
12. Potiche (2010)
R | 103 min | Comedy
A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard
Votes: 11,367 | Gross: $1.62M
13. Carbine Williams (1952)
Unrated | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 2,097
14. Aaltra (2004)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems ... See full summary »
Directors: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern | Stars: Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, Michel de Gavre, Gérard Condejean
Votes: 2,961
15. Taken (I) (1999)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
A kidnapped businessman, finding out that no one is willing to pay the ransom to save his life, befriends his aggressor.
Director: Max Fischer | Stars: Dabney Coleman, Stewart Bick, Dennis Boutsikaris, Linda E. Smith
Votes: 176
16. Second Honeymoon (1937)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
Newly remarried woman finds her businessman husband boring and runs into her wealthy playboy first husband.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwin, Claire Trevor
Votes: 509
17. Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Unrated | 86 min | Documentary
Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Star: Edward Burtynsky
Votes: 3,067 | Gross: $0.24M
18. The Blackheath Poisonings (1992)
180 min | Crime, Drama, History
The investigation of Paul Vandervent into the mysterious death of his father brings further discord among two feuding families tied together in business and marriage, living under the same roof.
Stars: Christine Kavanagh, Ian McNeice, Zoë Wanamaker, Judy Parfitt
Votes: 181
19. Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance
Angela Twitchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, William Gargan, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 539
20. The Working Man (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The vacationing head of a successful shoe company is placed as his rival's trustee, unbeknownst to them.
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Theodore Newton, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,284
21. The City of Little Men (1938)
Passed | 11 min | Documentary, Short
The story of Boys Town, founded by Father Edward Flanagan in 1917 as a haven for wayward, homeless, and neglected boys.
Director: Harry Loud | Stars: Edward Flanagan, Johnny Walsh, Frank Whitbeck
Votes: 126
22. The Wings of the Kirin (2011)
129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man is stabbed to death in Tokyo's Nihonbashi area. The victim staggers with the knife still in the wound for eight minutes before collapsing under the winged statues of two Kirin on the ... See full summary »
Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Aragaki, Junpei Mizobata, Tôri Matsuzaka
Votes: 887
23. Beni Sasu Life (2023)
30 min | Comedy, Romance
22 year-old university student Hojo Masato, son and heir of major cosmetics manufacturer Pegasus Cosmetics, sets out to challenge his own family by starting his own unique make-up brand.
Stars: Ryûsei Ônishi, Hiroe Igeta, Ei Morisako, So Matsushima
Votes: 7
24. Pao Da Shuang Deng (1994)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a fireworks business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
Director: Ping He | Stars: Jing Ning, Gang Wu, Xiaorui Zhao, Yang Gao
Votes: 509 | Gross: $0.27M
25. State Penitentiary (1950)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Roger Manners (Warner Baxter), a former aircraft manufacturer is wrongly accused and convicted of embezzlement of $400,000 and is given a long prison sentence. There he must decide rather ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Warner Baxter, Onslow Stevens, Karin Booth, Robert Shayne
Votes: 83
26. A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not' (2003 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
In the 40's Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules... See full summary »
Stars: Leonard Maltin, Eric Lax, Robert Osborne, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 65
27. The Roaring Road (1919)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Theodore Roberts, Guy Oliver
Votes: 662
28. Restrung (2014)
56 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
From electrifying success to near break-down, this is a true tale of a man with a mad plan whose life was unwound - and restrung.
Director: Mike Enns | Stars: Randy Fullmer, Abe Laboriel, James Lomenzo
Votes: 23
29. Slatersville: America's First Mill Village (2022– )
Not Rated | Documentary, Biography, History
SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is a historical documentary series told across eleven episodes that retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village created in Rhode Island, America.
Stars: Christian de Rezendes, Barbara Tucker, Anne D. Holst, Wayne Cabral
Votes: 11
30. Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy
Herbert Kalness (Guy Kibbee) is an opinionated man and a huge grouch, but his loving family puts up with him. Herbert is upset when daughter Alice (Patricia Ellis) becomes engaged to Andrew... See full summary »
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Patricia Ellis, Helen Lowell
Votes: 227
31. We Go Fast (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two cops (Curtis, Deforest) flirt with highway restaurant waitress (Bari) who falls for Oriental businessman (Mohr) who turns out to be a crook.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Lynn Bari, Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Don DeFore
Votes: 60
32. Traumprinz in Farbe (2003 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy
Pretty blond Clara Arnold works for a newspaper in picturesque Lüneburg, just outside Hamburg in northern Germany. Being single, she firmly believes that some day she will meet the man of ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Dommenget | Stars: Sophie Schütt, Sandra Borgmann, Kai Ivo Baulitz, Kathrin Spielvogel
Votes: 51
33. Die gläserne Fackel (1989– )
615 min | Drama, History
Stars: Walter Plathe, Walfriede Schmitt, Renate Blume, Alfred Müller
Votes: 18
34. Samuel Slater - Hero or Traitor? (2006)
26 min | Short, History
Director: Lloyd Johnston | Stars: Nicholas Bentley, Chris Herriott, Barry Coope, Lester Simpson
35. De-Light: Making an Electric Light Bulb (1920)
Not Rated | 12 min | Documentary, Short
Details making an early electric bulb in a factory.
Votes: 85
36. Fools in the Dark (1924)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Percy Schwartz is the son of a rich trash-can manufacturer but forgoes joining the company business in order to write thriller movie stories about bigger-than-life heroes, which he also ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Patsy Ruth Miller, Matt Moore, Bertram Grassby, Charles Belcher
37. The Fabric of a Dream: The Fletcher Jones Story (2007 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
The story of how a shellshocked war veteran took to the road as a hawker and ended up creating a national icon.
Director: Dennis K. Smith | Stars: Wendy Hughes, Andrew S. Gilbert, Don Bridges, Ben Rogers
38. The Art & Artisans of Southern Furniture (1997 Video)
Documentary, History
This video tells the story of how Colonial Williamsburg's curators, conservators, archaeologists, and historic tradespeople pooled their expertise to reveal the merits of early Southern ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Durling | Stars: Kathaleen Getward, Marcus Hansen, Mack Headley, Diane Landon
39. Stranger Than Fiction 6374: Junior Battle Fleet (1941)
Approved | 9 min | Short, News
This edition takes a look at Billy Arthur, the world's tiniest editor, who edits "News and Views"; the building of exact replicas of famous battle ships; a sixteen-year-old boy who designs ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Mead, Joseph O'Brien | Stars: Alois Havrilla, Billy Arthur
40. Trifles That Win Wars (1943)
Passed | 11 min | Short
Part of MGM's John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this 1943 entry looks at how three inventions are making a major contribution to the U.S. war effort. The first is the invention of ... See full summary »
Director: Harold Daniels | Stars: John Nesbitt, Ernie Alexander, Margaret Bert, Edward McWade
Votes: 82
41. Majoor Barbara (1964 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
Arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft visits his estranged family, looking for an heir. According to family tradition, he wants to disavow his only son and give over the reigns to a foundling... See full summary »
Director: Jack Dixon | Stars: Loudi Nijhoff, Hans Tiemeijer, Anita Menist, Ton Lensink
42. Shift Change (2012)
69 min | Documentary
.visits the 50-year-old network of cooperative businesses in Mondragon, Spain, and thriving examples of such businesses in U.S. The film shares on-the-ground experiences, lessons, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Dworkin, Melissa Young
43. No Longer Made in Australia (2007 Video)
6 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Malcolm McKinnon | Stars: Graham Fraser, Eva Jarincik, John Rutherford, Selam Tensay
44. Unusual Occupations (II) (1943)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, War
This series entry has five feature stories. In Mountainair, New Mexico, juniper trees grow in large numbers. 'Pop' Schaeffer prunes the trees on his property and sculpts the oddly shaped ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Carlisle | Stars: Ken Carpenter, Ethel Bennell, Edwin Knapp, 'Pop' Schaeffer
46. The Sunbeam (1916)
50 min | Drama
Big-hearted Prue, living in the slums, and Danny O'Maddigan, a reformed crook, want to buy a birthday cake for Prue's 75-year-old grandmother. They live across the hall from Ellen ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Mabel Taliaferro, Helen Alexandria, Raymond McKee, Gerald Griffin
48. Mechanix Illustrated Series 2, No. 3 (1939)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, History
This third entry of the 1940-41 production season deals with a new chemical substance which can be manufactured to take the place of silk in clothes. A third segment deals with election ... See full summary »
Director: Ira Genet | Star: Dwight Weist
49. The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman (2023 Podcast Series)
Documentary, Crime
Journalist Kathleen Goldhar set out to discover in the tragic deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, as she explores who the Shermans really were and why too much money might have been what killed them in the end.
Star: Kathleen Goldhar
50.
Cannon (1971–1976)
Episode:
The Torch
(1972)
Not Rated | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a clothing manufacturer is accused of arson and murder, his daughter hires Cannon to find who actually did the deed and to exonerate her father.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Conrad, Larry Blyden, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Carlson
Votes: 116