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1. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,312,706 | Gross: $210.61M
2. Toy Story 2 (1999)
G | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye.
Directors: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer
Votes: 621,890 | Gross: $245.85M
3. Paycheck (2003)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
What seemed like a breezy idea that would net an engineer millions of dollars ends up leaving him on the run for his life and trying to piece together why he's being chased.
Director: John Woo | Stars: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall
Votes: 113,481 | Gross: $53.79M
4. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp
Votes: 27,598 | Gross: $17.37M
5. Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
Director: Paul Johansson | Stars: Taylor Schilling, Grant Bowler, Matthew Marsden, Edi Gathegi
Votes: 14,352 | Gross: $4.75M
6. The Object of My Affection (1998)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A pregnant New York City social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd, Kali Rocha, Lena Cardwell
Votes: 21,574 | Gross: $29.11M
7. Last Holiday (2006)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell all her possessions and live it up at a posh Central European hotel.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito
Votes: 36,378 | Gross: $38.36M
8. Teorema (1968)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky
Votes: 15,334
9. Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
Director: John Putch | Stars: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Esai Morales, Patrick Fabian
Votes: 7,663 | Gross: $3.34M
10. 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: 6,382
11. The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. ... See full summary »
Director: Heiner Carow | Stars: Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare
Votes: 1,232
12. Solo Sunny (1980)
104 min | Drama, Music
Sunny is a singer in a band which is constantly on the road. She therefore leads a relatively restless life, which she cannot afford to give up, having to rely on the fee she gets paid..
Directors: Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Kohlhaase | Stars: Renate Krößner, Alexander Lang, Heide Kipp, Dieter Montag
Votes: 826
13. Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible (2020)
Not Rated | 115 min | Documentary
"SUPERHUMAN: The Invisible Made Visible" documents the jaw-dropping experiences of individuals with extra-sensory powers that seem to defy the laws of physics known to man today. Producer ... See full summary »
Director: Caroline Cory | Stars: Corey Feldman, Michael Dorn, Robert Picardo, Naomi Grossman
Votes: 342
14. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
60 min | Documentary
The many ways in which Western notions of personal and political freedom are changing in the 21st Century are explored in this three-part documentary from writer and filmmaker Adam Curtis.
Stars: John Nash, Robert Spitzer, Jerome Wakefield, Paul McHugh
Votes: 2,024
15. The Women's Room (1980 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
A wife is sick and tired of her husband's infidelities, so she leaves home and goes back to grad school. There she meets many self-confident women who help her find her own voice.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Lee Remick, Colleen Dewhurst, Patty Duke, Kathryn Harrold
Votes: 145
16. Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged (2011)
Unrated | 87 min | Documentary
'Ayn Rand & the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged is a feature length documentary film that examines the resurging interest in Ayn Rand's epic and controversial 1957 novel and the validity of its dire prediction for America.
Director: Chris Mortensen | Stars: John Allison, Clifford Asness, Rajia Baroudi, Mike Berliner
Votes: 498
17. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary focusing on the life of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and originator of the Objectivist philosophy.
Director: Michael Paxton | Stars: Sharon Gless, Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Sylvia Bokor
Votes: 651 | Gross: $0.21M
18. Bouvard et Pecuchet (1990– )
162 min | Drama
Stars: Jean Carmet, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Pierre Étaix, Catherine Ferran
Votes: 57
19. The Architects (1990)
95 min | Drama
The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. He ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Kahane | Stars: Kurt Naumann, Rita Feldmeier, Judith Richter, Jürgen Watzke
Votes: 294
20. Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The story of a group of rebellious teens in East Berlin.
Director: Gerhard Klein | Stars: Ilse Pagé, Ekkehard Schall, Harry Engel, Ernst-Georg Schwill
Votes: 389
21. Bankett für Achilles (1975)
89 min | Drama
Karl Achilles has been working at the Bitterfeld chemical plant ever since he helped build it up in 1945. Now he is 65 years old and the time has come for him to retire. The movie depicts ... See full summary »
Director: Roland Gräf | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Elsa Grube-Deister, Jutta Wachowiak, Carl Heinz Choynski
Votes: 27
22. I'll be your mirror (2019)
91 min | Documentary
Artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. A vague memory comes to her mind: didn't her grandmother do the same thing, with terrible consequences?
Director: Johanna Faust
Votes: 6
23. A Documentary (2001)
PG-13 | 83 min
A Documentary tells the story of fulfillment through life, death and stand-up comedy.
Director: Richard May | Stars: Jimmy Shubert, Rick Gutierrez, Eddie Gossling, John Morgan
24. Wie Blätter im Wind (2019)
30 min | Short, Drama
A young nameless student is on her journey of finding her own identity and freedom. During this process she has to overcome several obstacles, which question her definition of freedom.
Director: Florian Ecker | Stars: Dalma Dömötör, Barbara Dorsch, Nico Kaufmann, Stefan Kreis
Votes: 5
25. Someplace Else (2008)
70 min | Documentary, Music
Part musical documentary, part personal meditation, 'Someplace Else' is the engaging portrait of acclaimed soul-blues musician Vance Kelly from the South Side of Chicago through the director's personal film journal.
Directors: Kai-duc Luong, Avisheh Mohsenin | Stars: Vance Kelly, Kai-duc Luong
Votes: 46
26. Othella Dallas What is Luck? (2016)
72 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Andres Brütsch | Star: Othella Dallas
27. Porno (1990)
78 min | Comedy, Romance
Middle aged man lies sleeplessly in bed, recalling his numerous sexual encounters. The various couplings are haphazard, loveless affairs in which most of the women are as anxious to release... See full summary »
Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Zbigniew Rola, Agnieszka Wojcik, Iwona Katarzyna Pawlak, Ewa Grabarczyk
Votes: 548
28.
The Mike Wallace Interview (1957–1960)
Episode:
Ayn Rand
(1959)
Talk-Show
Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand on her self-made philosophy, which Wallace calls Randism, but which Rand herself prefers to call Objectivism.
Director: Max Miller | Stars: Mike Wallace, Ayn Rand
Votes: 19
29.
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000)
Episode:
Self-Fulfillment
(2000)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary
A satirical investigation into a Las Vegas based movement to inspire self-improvement through hypnosis.
Director: Geoffrey O'Connor | Stars: Louis Theroux, Ross Jeffries, Marshall Sylver
Votes: 187