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1. The Boy Next Door (2015)
R | 91 min | Thriller
A woman, separated from her unfaithful husband, falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett
Votes: 45,599 | Gross: $35.39M
2. Shazam! (2019)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer
Votes: 385,762 | Gross: $140.37M
3. Lady and the Tramp (1955)
G | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Cutting | Stars: Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Peggy Lee, Bill Thompson
Votes: 148,842 | Gross: $93.60M
4. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann
Votes: 78,032 | Gross: $111.51M
5. Saturn 3 (1980)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid belt of Saturn are intruded upon by an anal-retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent eight foot tall robot.
Directors: Stanley Donen, John Barry | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Ed Bishop
Votes: 10,520
6. In the House (2012)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 34,376 | Gross: $0.35M
7. Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Mira Sorvino, Pamela Blair, Rene Ceballos
Votes: 42,869 | Gross: $6.70M
8. The Human Stain (2003)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise
Votes: 32,300 | Gross: $5.38M
9. Class of 1999 (1990)
R | 99 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Three ex-military robots are reprogrammed as teachers and secretly placed in a school where most students are part of organized gangs. They begin to respond violently to unruly students, and their military training starts to take over.
Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach
Votes: 8,669 | Gross: $2.46M
10. Hollywood Homicide (2003)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two LAPD detectives who moonlight in other fields investigate the murder of an up-and-coming rap group.
Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Isaiah Washington, Lena Olin
Votes: 39,395 | Gross: $30.94M
11. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,244 | Gross: $0.27M
12. The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983)
PG | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, ... See full summary »
Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Lou Ferrigno, Sybil Danning, Brad Harris, Dan Vadis
Votes: 594
13. Strawberry & Chocolate (1993)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Story of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.
Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Francisco Gattorno
Votes: 6,025 | Gross: $2.08M
14. The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Natalie Thompson
Votes: 327
15. Arrebato (1979)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Votes: 3,400
16. Electra (I) (1962)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Giannis Fertis, Aleka Katselli, Theano Ioannidou
Votes: 1,817
17. Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
Passed | 216 min | Action, Adventure, Family
To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a teenage boy named Billy Batson is given the power to become an adult superhero, Captain Marvel, with a single magic word: "Shazam!"
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Votes: 1,524
18. The Trip to Greece (2020)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Rebecca Johnson
Votes: 4,761
19. Mon meilleur ami (I) (2006)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy
Catherine, refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, Julie Gayet, Julie Durand
Votes: 6,870 | Gross: $1.42M
20. Dante (I) (2022)
94 min | Biography, History, Romance
Italy, 1330. Ten years after Dante Alighieri's death, Giovanni Boccaccio travels to Ravenna in search of his daughter Beatrice to whom he must deliver ten gold florins from the Orsanmichele's Company as compensation for unjust exile.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Alessandro Sperduti, Carlotta Gamba, Enrico Lo Verso
Votes: 427
21. Solas (1999)
R | 101 min | Drama
While waiting for her husband to recover in a hospital, a mother stays with her estranged daughter, Maria, who fled her parents rural home in Andalusia because she could no longer bear her father's abusiveness and her mother's passivity.
Director: Benito Zambrano | Stars: María Galiana, Ana Fernández, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Antonio Dechent
Votes: 3,886 | Gross: $0.37M
22. The Club (1980)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson, Harold Hopkins
Votes: 1,122
23. The Wild North (1952)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse, Morgan Farley
Votes: 1,077
24. Evolution's Achilles' Heels (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
This groundbreaking documentary featuring 15 PhD scientists reveals the fatal flaws of evolutionary theory. 3D animations and dramatic footage help to show how the theory's supposed strengths are, in fact, Evolution's Achilles' Heels.
Director: Robert Carter | Stars: Donald Batten, Alessandro Bianchi, Pieter Borger, Stuart Burgess
Votes: 190
25. The Seven Sages of Antiquity (2010 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The Seven Wisest Men of Ancient Greece did not include Socrates, Plato or Aristotle. However, even the Seven Sages would choose only One as the Wisest of All.
Director: Giorgos Petritsis | Stars: Robert MacLean, Iren Theotokatou, Telis Zotos
Votes: 11
26. Cezary Jurkiewicz: Krótkie spiecie (2022 TV Special)
40 min | Comedy
Director: Cezary Jurkiewicz | Star: Cezary Jurkiewicz
27. Mirai: Achillova pata (2020 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Director: Ondrej Kudyn | Stars: Mirai Navrátil, Karolína Mlejnková
Votes: 15
28.
Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode:
Darrin Gone! and Forgotten?
(1968)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A witch who Endora made a deal with centuries ago kidnaps Darrin and insists that Samantha marry her wimpy son.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy
Votes: 317
29.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Out of the Past
(2001)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Sydney leaves weary Nigel to deal with the long-delayed accounting audit by foxy Maxine Schneider, as she can't wait to check out the Cleopatra exhibition at the Alexandria Museum. The ... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Barzman | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Madhuri Bhatia
Votes: 97
30.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Amazon Warrior Women
(2004)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary, History, War
An American and a Russian archaeologists work over a period of ten years to dig out and positively identify the remains of warrior women of probable Scythian origin, and further determine ... See full summary »
Directors: Jens Afflerbach, Carsten Oblaender | Stars: Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Liev Schreiber, Kelly Thorne, Alexander Lammers
Votes: 27
31.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Peak Performance
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The crew of the Enterprise participates in war games.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,601
32.
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Episode:
11:59
(1999)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Capt. Janeway recalls her ancestor, Shannon O'Donnell, with great reverence, but historical records don't back up the family story.
Director: David Livingston | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson, Robert Duncan McNeill
Votes: 1,917
33.
Strangers with Candy (1999–2000)
Episode:
Jerri Is Only Skin Deep
(1999)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
Homecoming is around the corner, and Jerri is desperate to become Queen. So she secretly removes all the nominees except her own and that of another nerdy student. The only problem is when ... See full summary »
Directors: Bob Balaban, Danny Leiner | Stars: Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Greg Hollimon, Roberto Gari
Votes: 131
34.
The Tick (1994–1997)
Episode:
The Tick vs. Arthur's Bank Account
(1995)
TV-Y7 | 21 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Terror meets The Tick for the first time, and tries to take over The City.
Director: Art Vitello | Stars: Townsend Coleman, Micky Dolenz, Kay Lenz, Cam Clarke
Votes: 81
35.
Countdown (1982– )
Episode:
Episode #22.43
(1991)
TV-14 | 30 min | Game-Show
Karen Willis vs. Chris Waddington.
Director: John Meade | Stars: Richard Whiteley, Carol Vorderman, Catherine Clarke, Bill Tidy
36.
Why Didn't They Laugh? (2018– )
The Devil's Achilles, and Opening Mail!
(2019 Podcast Episode)
Comedy, News
Star: Owen Benjamin
37.
Battles BC (2009– )
Episode:
Alexander: Lord of War
(2009)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Action, History
Having conquered Egypt and archenemy Persia, the Greek emperor Alexander and his ambition look further east to India. As his forces encounter diverse adversaries they develop new tactics to... See full summary »
Director: David Padrusch | Stars: Drew Taylor, Dragos Berghia, Daz Crawford, Bryan McGowan
Votes: 25
38.
Young Justice (2010–2023)
Episode:
Misplaced
(2012)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When Earth's 5 most powerful sorcerers make all the adults on the planet disappear, it's up to the Team, Zatanna, and Billy Batson to stop them.
Director: Michael Chang | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Jesse McCartney, Stephanie Lemelin, Danica McKellar
Votes: 3,203
39.
L'aventure humaine (1997– )
Episode:
Les Étrusques - Une civilisation mystérieuse de Méditerranée
(2022)
90 min | Biography, History
Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Chloé Rejon, Laurent Vidal, Catherine Rigeade, Stéphane Verger
Votes: 23
40.
Franklin (2024– )
Episode:
The Natural State of Man
(2024)
TV-MA | 50 min | Biography, Drama, History
Tensions mount between Franklin and Adams. Madame Brillon asserts her power. Temple decides to fight his own war.
Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 118
41.
Trey the Explainer (2015– )
Episode:
What's the deal with the Nephilim?
(2018)
28 min | Documentary, History
The Nephilim are consistently, if you consider three references consistent, as warriors or heroes of old that apparently fell in battle. But where did they come from? That question leads to... See full summary »
Star: Trey Swenton
42.
Star Trek Continues (2013–2017)
Episode:
Pilgrim of Eternity
(2013)
51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The original Apollo is back aboard the Enterprise and once again wreaks havoc. Is there any reasoning with him?
Director: Vic Mignogna | Stars: Vic Mignogna, Todd Haberkorn, Larry Nemecek, Christopher Doohan
Votes: 595
43.
ReligionForBreakfast (2014– )
Episode:
Biblically-Accurate Angels Explained
(2023)
13 min | Documentary
Pictures of angels based on Biblical passages are prevalent in popular culture. How accurate are they really?
Star: Andrew M. Henry
44.
Numberphile (2011– )
Episode:
Zeno's Paradox
(2013)
12 min | Documentary
James Grime explores infinite series based on Zeno's paradoxes.
Director: Brady Haran | Stars: James Grime, Brady Haran
45.
The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
Die, Sports Illustrated, Die!
(2024 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Stars: Andrew Klavan, Spencer Klavan
46.
House of Cards (2013–2018)
Episode:
Chapter 23
(2014)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama
With a military stalemate abroad and a possible violent situation at home, Francis wants to put an end to Tusk forever. Claire and Jackie Sharp collide.
Director: Robin Wright | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Mahershala Ali
Votes: 4,190
47.
Hannibal (2013–2015)
Episode:
Tome-wan
(2014)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
During a therapy session, Will shares a vision of how he would kill Hannibal. Meanwhile, an increasingly impatient Jack brings in a surprise witness to help Will catch Hannibal.
Director: Michael Rymer | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 6,511
48.
Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode:
Endless Terror
(2014)
TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Paracelsus turns the warehouse into a house of horrors. Can the team stop him in time?
Director: Jack Kenny | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti
Votes: 438
49.
Countdown (1982– )
Episode:
Episode #72.47
(2015)
TV-14 | Game-Show
Director: Derek Hallworth | Stars: Nick Hewer, Rachel Riley, Susie Dent, Tim Vine