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1. Mean Girls (2004)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey

Votes: 436,183 | Gross: $86.06M

2. Easy A (2010)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Olive lies to her best friend about losing her virginity to one of the college boys, a girl overhears their conversation. Soon, her story spreads across the entire school like wildfire.

Director: Will Gluck | Stars: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Penn Badgley, Dan Byrd

Votes: 418,660 | Gross: $58.40M

3. Bad Teacher (2011)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers is forced to return to teaching to make enough money for breast implants after her wealthy fiancé dumps her.

Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Lucy Punch

Votes: 212,870 | Gross: $100.29M

4. Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale

Votes: 52,086 | Gross: $22.55M

5. The Little Hours (2017)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci, Aubrey Plaza

Votes: 25,499 | Gross: $1.65M

6. The Package (II) (2018)

TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Thriller

When a group of teenage friends go on a spring break camping trip, an unfortunate accident sets off a race against time to save their friend's most prized possession.

Director: Jake Szymanski | Stars: Daniel Doheny, Geraldine Viswanathan, Sadie Calvano, Luke Spencer Roberts

Votes: 21,289

7. The Addams Family (2019)

PG | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

The eccentrically macabre family moves to a bland suburb where Wednesday Addams' friendship with the daughter of a hostile and conformist local reality show host exacerbates conflict between the families.

Directors: Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard

Votes: 44,950 | Gross: $100.04M

8. Nightwatch (1994)

R | 107 min | Thriller

A law student starts working as a night watchman at The Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a suspect.

Director: Ole Bornedal | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen

Votes: 17,919

9. The Children's Hour (1961)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A rebellious student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of lesbianism.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins

Votes: 18,452

10. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)

Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm

Votes: 8,744

11. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp

Votes: 26,520

12. Oh, Ramona! (2019)

109 min | Comedy, Romance

A teenager named Andrei transitions from a teenager into an adult.

Director: Cristina Jacob | Stars: Aggy K. Adams, Ioachim Ciobanu, Holly Horne, Basil Eidenbenz

Votes: 9,604 | Gross: $2.50M

13. Heavy Trip (2018)

92 min | Comedy, Music

After years of playing songs by other artists, the opportunity of a concert in Norway encourages a metal band to compose their own material, but not before overcoming some unexpected difficulties.

Directors: Juuso Laatio, Jukka Vidgren | Stars: Johannes Holopainen, Samuli Jaskio, Antti Tuomas Heikkinen, Max Ovaska

Votes: 10,658 | Gross: $0.01M

14. The Way West (1967)

Approved | 122 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright

Votes: 3,585

15. Odd Girl Out (2005 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 84 min | Drama

A teenager is bullied by her former friends when they discover that she has a crush on the same boy as the most popular girl in school does.

Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Lisa Vidal, Leah Pipes, Elizabeth Rice

Votes: 3,680

16. Meet the Applegates (1990)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.

Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby

Votes: 2,617 | Gross: $0.49M

17. Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama

A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Géret, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Ivernel

Votes: 9,786 | Gross: $0.02M

18. Fury (1936)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 13,742

19. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)

R | 105 min | Drama

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Anne Heywood, Donald Pleasence, Robert Vaughn, Earl Holliman

Votes: 458

20. La compagna di banco (1977)

84 min | Comedy

Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy

Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Lilli Carati, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Alvaro Vitali, Antonio Melidoni

Votes: 285

21. Tree of Knowledge (1981)

101 min | Drama

We follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.

Director: Nils Malmros | Stars: Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen, Line Arlien-Søborg, Marian Wendelbo

Votes: 1,877

22. Taking Chances (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy

A troubled town is having an Indian casino built on a historic battlefield. Chase, working at the town museum, opposes it. He meets the cute Lucy. They start a petition against the casino.

Director: Talmage Cooley | Stars: Justin Long, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Corddry, Keir O'Donnell

Votes: 1,449

23. Dust (2018 TV Movie)

41 min | Drama

The short drama film Dòst tells the tough coming of age process of best friends Alko and Björn in a small rural village community. Between agricultural weekend work and partying, dealing ... See full summary »

Director: Joren Molter | Stars: Maurins Boonstra, Henk Jan Doornbosch, Liam Feikens, Matthijs Groenbroek

Votes: 188

24. The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985)

100 min | Music, Comedy

In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.

Director: Macoto Tezuka | Stars: Shingo Kubota, Kan Takagi, Kyôko Togawa, Issay

Votes: 626

25. Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968)

104 min | Comedy

Marino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin, Moira Orfei

Votes: 612

26. Off Season (2001 TV Movie)

TV-G | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After the death of his parents, 10-year-old, Jackson Mayhew (Culkin), moves in with his Aunt. But when he befriends an elderly man (Cronyn), he begins to suspect that the old man is actually Santa Claus.

Director: Bruce Davison | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Hume Cronyn, Bruce Davison, Tom McBeath

Votes: 379

27. Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)

88 min | Drama, Horror

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Director: Peter Fleischmann | Stars: Martin Sperr, Angela Winkler, Else Quecke, Michael Strixner

Votes: 758

28. The Christmas Star (2020 TV Movie)

91 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The teacher Václav goes every evening to watch the princess skating on the frozen lake, but he doesn't admit to himself that he is in love with her. One day, the star Denicka, the fiancee ... See full summary »

Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Tereza Ramba, Vojtech Kotek, Leonie Brill, Anna Geislerová

Votes: 221

29. Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová (1961 TV Movie)

101 min | Biography, Comedy, History

The story takes us to Litomysl in 1836. The local bourgeoisie, who, as a proof of good manners and better origins, does not forget to include some German words in their conversation, ... See full summary »

Director: Frantisek Filip | Stars: Jirina Sejbalová, Blanka Waleská, Bozena Pulpánová, Alena Vránová

Votes: 19

30. Simpauttaja (1975 TV Movie)

151 min | Comedy, Drama

Imppa has to leave home and finds a job at the farm. There he meets an enigmatic hired hand known as Simpauttaja.

Director: Veikko Kerttula | Stars: Ahti Kuoppala, Pekka Räty, Leni Katajakoski, Esko Hukkanen

Votes: 191

31. Love Birds (1934)

Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Love Birds is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Doris Anderson, Henry Myers and Tom Reed. The film stars Slim Summerville, ZaSu Pitts, Mickey... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Mickey Rooney, Frederick Burton

Votes: 27

32. Akko's Secret (2012)

120 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by ... See full summary »

Director: Yasuhiro Kawamura | Stars: Haruka Ayase, Ai Yoshikawa, Masaki Okada, Takeshi Kaga

Votes: 328

33. Murder in Polná (2016– )

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, History

An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anezka Hruzová - was found between the village of Veznicka and the town of Polná. She was 19 and she had a ... See full summary »

Stars: Jaroslav Plesl, Karel Hermánek Jr., Karel Roden, Gabriela Mícová

Votes: 88

34. Krtiny (1981)

76 min | Comedy

Deputy of cartography enterprise Mr. Ciruvka tries to seduce the colleague's assistent to destabilize his confident in a run for the director's chair. But things can go wrong.

Director: Zdenek Podskalský | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Michal Pesek, Dagmar Havlová, Jirina Jirásková

Votes: 70

35. Dedek Bárta (1989 TV Movie)

53 min | Comedy

The villagers are planning a traditional feast on St. Martin's Day and the whole village is looking forward to it. But the band they had booked for the feast promises to play at a wedding ... See full summary »

Director: Jitka Nemcová | Stars: Jitka Asterová, Hana Bazantová, Vlastimil Bedrna, Josef Bek

36. Give Up the Ghost (2020)

9 min | Short, Drama

School mates Charlie and Matt share a kiss. But Matt storms off. At a catechism lesson, Matt accuses Charlie of it not being consensual and an argument erupts.

Director: Pedro Rilhó | Stars: Hannah Zoé Ankrah, Sofie Bland, Kate Cook, Jesse Rutherford

Votes: 7

37. Roztomilý clovek (1941)

86 min | Comedy

Editor Viktor Bláha is a notorious prankster. He likes to make up crazy stories and likes to have fun at the expense of his surroundings. Until one day he meets a cute girl who has an ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Oldrich Nový, Ladislav Pesek, Natasa Gollová, Lída Chválová

Votes: 153

38. Prezident Blaník (2018)

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Director: Marek Najbrt | Stars: Michal Dalecký, Tomás Klus, Milos Zeman, Jirí Drahos

Votes: 310

39. Caught (2008)

9 min | Short, Drama

Set in 1948, Caught is the musical memory story of a shy teenager who gets tempted to give into his desires by a handsome new student.

Director: David C. Jones | Stars: Leah Bjornson, Keara Gillis, Joshua James, Dylan Coulter

Votes: 29

40. Enas delikanis (1963)

90 min | Comedy

The adventures of a young Cretan Casanova.

Director: Manolis Scouloudis | Stars: Manos Katrakis, Ilia Livykou, Alkis Giannakas, Kleo Skouloudi

Votes: 61

41. Barbora Poláková: Nafrnená (2015 Music Video)

4 min | Comedy, Music

A comedy-pop song about a group of hypocritical female friends, maliciously spreading rumors about each other.

Director: Tereza Kopácová | Stars: Barbora Poláková, Ivana Chýlková, Markéta Dergelová, Martha Issová

Votes: 25

42. Dum Doni Bernardy (1974 TV Movie)

68 min | Drama

Mrs. Bernada Alba is a proud and tough woman who carefully guards the reputation of her house. In fact, it's the only thing that matters to her. After the death of her husband, she closes ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Belka | Stars: Eliska Balzerová, Eva Jirousková, Miriam Kantorková, Vera Koktová

43. Já se vrátím (1977 TV Movie)

58 min | Drama

Young doctor Vencl is going through a difficult beginning. In the small town and especially in the surrounding isolated villages, he must first overcome the distrust of the locals, who ... See full summary »

Director: Anna Procházková | Stars: Viktor Preiss, Josef Somr, Jana Bousková, Václav Svorc

44. The Man in the Net (1973 TV Movie)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The small American town of Stoneville is home to a painter named John and his unstable wife Linda. One day Linda, who is admired by everyone, mysteriously disappears and the suspicion of ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Rudolf Jelínek, Marie Drahokoupilová, Hana Maciuchová, Josef Vinklár

Votes: 18

45. Pan Jordán a Habada (1968 TV Movie)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Miloslav Zachata | Stars: Josef Bek, Vlastimil Brodský, Libuse Havelková, Ljuba Hermanová

Votes: 15

46. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: The Job (2003)

TV-PG | Comedy

John is frustrated with his practice and applies for a research position in Baltimore, without telling his staff or friends. His suspicious behavior leads them to believe he's either ill or on drugs.

Director: Darryl Bates | Stars: Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith

Votes: 92

47. The Ben Stiller Show (1992–1995)
Episode: With Colin Quinn (1992)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Special guest star COLIN QUINN joins the cast at a train station to introduce several comedy sketches.

Directors: John Fortenberry, Troy Miller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Odenkirk

Votes: 95

48. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: The Pointer Sisters: Strictly for the Birds/Fun in a Drugstore/The Cruise (1976)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights include: the first female clown with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus giving Carol a Doctorate in Clown Humanities during the open; Carol as a deranged bag lady feeding ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway

Votes: 85

49. Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963)
Episode: The Black Eye (1957)

TV-G | Comedy, Family

Violet Rutherford gives Beaver a black eye.

Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow, Jerry Mathers

Votes: 224

50. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2069 (2001)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Graeme Hattrick | Stars: Todd Carty, Lucy Benjamin, Steve McFadden, Ricky Groves