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1. The Graduate (1967)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels

Votes: 289,004 | Gross: $104.95M

2. Kiss the Girls (1997)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Police hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur

Votes: 81,404 | Gross: $60.53M

3. I Love You, Man (2009)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

Friendless Peter Klaven goes on a series of man-dates to find a Best Man for his wedding. But, when his insta-bond with his new B.F.F. puts a strain on his relationship with his fiancée, can the trio learn to live happily ever after?

Director: John Hamburg | Stars: Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Sarah Burns

Votes: 217,004 | Gross: $71.44M

4. Mank (2020)

R | 131 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey

Votes: 82,933

5. Santa Barbara (1984–1993)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Romance

In Santa Barbara, California, the fascinating lives of the wealthy Capwells revolve around the Lockridge, the rival family, and other more modest families such as the Andrades and the Perkins, whose fates know the same torments.

Stars: A Martinez, Marcy Walker, Nancy Lee Grahn, Jed Allan

Votes: 2,850

6. The Black Dahlia (2006)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank

Votes: 77,100 | Gross: $22.52M

7. Entourage (2015)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are back - and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold on a risky project that will serve as Vince's directorial debut.

Director: Doug Ellin | Stars: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon

Votes: 82,993 | Gross: $32.36M

8. 20th Century Women (2016)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama

The story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.

Director: Mike Mills | Stars: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup

Votes: 49,546 | Gross: $5.66M

9. The Politician (2019–2020)

TV-14 | 42 min | Comedy, Drama

Payton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.

Stars: Ben Platt, Zoey Deutch, Lucy Boynton, Julia Schlaepfer

Votes: 24,627

10. Them! (1954)

Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The earliest atomic tests in New Mexico cause common ants to mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness

Votes: 24,259

11. My Favorite Martian (1999)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

A Martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.

Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah

Votes: 14,457 | Gross: $36.83M

12. Cutter's Way (1981)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry

Votes: 7,668 | Gross: $1.73M

13. Amelia (2009)

PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston

Votes: 13,642 | Gross: $14.24M

14. Le divorce (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother-in-law and niece in Paris.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing, Jean-Marie Lhomme

Votes: 12,106 | Gross: $9.07M

15. Powerplay (1999 TV Movie)

R | 88 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A beautiful blonde con-woman and martial artist seduces wealthy bachelors and grifts them out of their money using her wiles and deadly force if necessary.

Director: Chris Baugh | Stars: Shannon Tweed, James Richer, Danielle Ciardi, Ron McCoy

Votes: 464

16. Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)

G | 93 min | Comedy

An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes

Votes: 1,825

17. Cinema Verite (2011 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 86 min | Drama

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the first American family to be the subjects of a reality TV show.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, Thomas Dekker

Votes: 4,013

18. Rites of Passage (I) (2012)

R | 103 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

An anthropology student invites his classmates and professor to his family's abandoned ranch, once a sacred Chumash burial ground, to recreate an ancient ceremony.

Director: W. Peter Iliff | Stars: Wes Bentley, Kate Maberly, Ryan Donowho, Travis Van Winkle

Votes: 1,722

19. Prince of Bel Air (1986 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A free-spirited, womanizing L.A. pool cleaner finds his lifestyle challenged by a new love interest.

Director: Charles Braverman | Stars: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robert Vaughn, Patrick Labyorteaux

Votes: 646

20. Breaking Up (1997)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A couple circa 30 breaks up after 2 1/2 years - or do they?

Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek, Abraham Alvarez, Carlo Corazon

Votes: 3,121 | Gross: $0.01M

21. The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

As a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, William Demarest, Tim Hovey

Votes: 981

22. Steal Big Steal Little (1995)

PG-13 | 135 min | Comedy

Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Andy Garcia, Alan Arkin, Rachel Ticotin, Joe Pantoliano

Votes: 1,090 | Gross: $6.28M

23. I Am Paul Walker (2018)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

Documentary examining the life of the late actor Paul Walker.

Director: Adrian Buitenhuis | Stars: Paul Walker, Cheryl Crabtree Walker, Paul Walker III, Caleb Walker

Votes: 1,149

24. What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton, Gregory Ratoff

Votes: 2,592

25. Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography

The story of matinee idol Tab Hunter from teenage stable boy to closeted Hollywood star of the 1950s.

Director: Jeffrey Schwarz | Stars: Tab Hunter, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood

Votes: 3,560

26. Three Blind Mice (1938)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 416

27. Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)

TV-14 | 133 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.

Director: Susan Lacy | Stars: Jane Fonda, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford, Nathalie Vadim

Votes: 2,681

28. The Little Giant (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

When Prohibition ends, a beer baron sees the writing on the wall, quits the rackets, and tries to break into California society.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Helen Vinson, Russell Hopton

Votes: 1,443

29. The Virgin Killer (2014 TV Movie)

65 min | Documentary, Crime

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Director: Talya Tibbon | Stars: Lucy Briers, Cayla Bergman, Junan Chen, Park Dietz

Votes: 49

30. Inside the Secret World of Incels (2019 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary

Documentary looking at the incel community, an online subculture of those no-one wants to love and to whom multiple mass murders and hate crimes against women have been attributed.

Director: Simon Rawles | Stars: Alek Minassian, Kaitlyn Regehr, Elliot Rodger

Votes: 76

31. Pirates of Monterey (1947)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Mikhail Rasumny, Phillip Reed

Votes: 145

32. Bride by Mistake (1944)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Norah is very rich, owns her own shipyard and has Sylvia double for her at all outside functions. But Sylvia is now married and wants to go to Washington with her new husband while Norah's ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Alan Marshal, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 334

33. The Goose and the Gander (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Wife #1 wants ex-husband to catch second wife being unfaithful.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, John Eldredge

Votes: 489

34. Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)

72 min | Documentary, War

A war of national liberation or a war against terrorism? Film-maker and acclaimed freelance journalist Kevin McKiernan poses this question at the outset of this stirring, provocative film ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin McKiernan | Stars: William Hartung, Jim McGovern, Kevin McKiernan, Abdullah Ocalan

Votes: 93

35. The Black Coin (1936)

Approved | 323 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Federal agents and smugglers battle it out over lost secret papers.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Ralph Graves, Ruth Mix, Dave O'Brien, Constance Bergen

Votes: 83

36. We're Rich Again (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The wedding of their daughter brings many surprises, including a determined bill collector, a bad business venture, an elopement, and an unexpected windfall. They all add up to a barrel of one-liners and slap-stick.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke, Marian Nixon, Reginald Denny

Votes: 252

37. Better Together (I) (2019)

44 min | Documentary, History

Rising from oil, mud and ash like a phoenix, Santa Barbara citizens keep standing, from the 1969 Oil Spill that sparked the environmental movement, to recent oil, fire and debris flow disasters, for love, shared support and strength.

Director: Isaac Hernández Herrero | Stars: James A. Bottoms, Barry Capello, Michael Chiacos, Marc Chytilo

38. First, Last and Deposit (2000)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Thirteen-year-old Tessa faces more than the usual tribulations of adolescence.

Director: Peter Hyoguchi | Stars: Sara Wilcox, Jessica White, Don Margolin, Alanna Learned

Votes: 79

39. The Life of the Party (1937)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Dr. Molnac and his musical troupe; Beggs, the manager; Mitzi Martos, a singer; Mitzi's agent Pauline; society scion Barry Saunders and his "keeper" Oliver Goodwin, are en route to Santa ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joe Penner, Gene Raymond, Harry Einstein, Harriet Nelson

Votes: 202

40. Girlfriends (I) (2017)

Comedy

Having both gone through breakups recently, two women head to Santa Barbara for a wild weekend of drinking, dancing and men, but one of them is determined to bump into her ex to win him back.

Director: Michael Judd | Stars: Natasha Adamo, Lindsay Taylor, Travis Peery, Richard Alan Reid

Votes: 11

41. In Pot We Trust (2007 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary

Documentary examining the cases of five chronically ill people who have been prescribed medical marijuana as part of their treatment.

Director: Star Price | Stars: Aaron Houston, Jacqueline Patterson

Votes: 373

42. Gun Control (2017 Video)

56 min | News, Talk-Show

Stefan Molyneux talks with the conservative blogger, Bill Whittle, about gun control.

Stars: Bill Whittle, Stefan Molyneux

43. Saint of Lost Causes (2021 TV Movie)

21 min | Comedy

Laid back dog walker, Tony Sullivan reveals to his roommate, Conner Moore, of his psychic ability to find people's lost items. Conner hatches a business plan to rescue people's lost pets ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Zauner | Stars: Anthony Casabianca, Diane Anthony, Gia Blanchette, Emily Libera

44. Much Ado About W: Art Wars of Santa Barbara (2007)

83 min | Documentary

Enraged by the policies of George W. Bush, two prominent artists, Colin Gray and John Nava, are compelled to take a political stand in their art for the first time, one in a public ... See full summary »

Directors: Michael Love, Tina Love | Stars: Rita Ferri, Dane Goodman, Frank Goss, Colin Gray

Votes: 8

45. Qualia (2017)

15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Faced with enormous debt, recent college graduate Mary Dennet is given the chance to absolve all her student loans by partaking in a radical thought experiment. Given only five minutes to ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Sashegyi | Stars: Jeffry Druce, Fiona Lakeland, Sarah Navratil, Sam Silverstein

46. Act Like a Movie Star (2013– )

Reality-TV

The actor's Character & Scene study workshop and TV show.

Star: Keith Odett

47. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece (1957)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman is divorcing her husband after she catches him sleepwalking near her bed with a knife. When his stepbrother is found dead, stabbed with the knife, he's charged with the murder and accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 579

48. Prop Culture (2020)
Episode: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (2020)

TV-PG | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure

Dan uncovers the secrets behind Walt Disney's OSCAR winning film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit."

Director: Jason C. Henry | Stars: Dan Lanigan, Andreas Deja, Chris Buck, Michael Giaimo

Votes: 90

49. Canvasing the World with Sean Diediker (2020– )
Episode: Canvasing Santa Barbara, California (2020)

Documentary, Biography, Reality-TV

Sean celebrates restauranteur Tom Dolan's winning formula that pleases patrons and staff alike. Also, Sean explores the harbor, mountain-top picnics, an author's secret thoughts, and an ... See full summary »

Director: Sean Diediker | Star: Kelton Temby

50. Ride with Norman Reedus (2016– )
Episode: America: Cross Country Adventure (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV

Norman Reedus crosses the country, reflecting on past rides from California to New York City.

Star: Norman Reedus

Votes: 30