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1. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,366,080 | Gross: $57.30M
2. Tombstone (1993)
R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
Directors: George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre | Stars: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton
Votes: 166,627 | Gross: $56.51M
3. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church
Votes: 638,649 | Gross: $336.53M
4. Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and two gangsters looking for some money owed to them.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 6,824 | Gross: $4.38M
5. Revolutionary Road (2008)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald, Jonathan Roumie
Votes: 225,176 | Gross: $22.91M
6. Original Sin (2001)
R | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman, along with her lover, plans to con a rich man by marrying him, earning his trust, and then running away with all his money. Everything goes as planned until she falls in love with him.
Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson
Votes: 59,832 | Gross: $16.25M
7. See How They Run (2022)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.
Director: Tom George | Stars: Kieran Hodgson, Pearl Chanda, Gregory Cox, Harris Dickinson
Votes: 64,324
8. Dorian Gray (2009)
R | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, John Hollingworth
Votes: 68,149
9. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.
Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 13,685 | Gross: $1.59M
10. Cordelia (2019)
91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Following an incident in her past, Cordelia now lives with her twin sister, Caroline in their late father's basement flat.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ryan Kelly, David Leon, Joel Fry
Votes: 4,395
11. Wonderstruck (2017)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Oakes Fegley, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Millicent Simmonds
Votes: 11,092 | Gross: $1.03M
12. Ballet Shoes (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 85 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Emilia Fox
Votes: 9,180
13. Breakfast for Two (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
Texan debutante Valentine Ransome tries to reform a bankrupt playboy.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore
Votes: 1,189
14. That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
R | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 4,657 | Gross: $0.02M
15. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Kenneth Cranham, Julie Walters
Votes: 10,736 | Gross: $1.03M
16. Tea With the Dames (2018)
Unrated | 84 min | Documentary
Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright
Votes: 2,840 | Gross: $0.87M
17. Another Woman (1988)
PG | 81 min | Drama
Facing a mid-life crisis, a woman rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Ian Holm, Blythe Danner
Votes: 15,058 | Gross: $1.56M
18. Escape (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1936, a young man arrives in Hitler's Germany, frantically seeking information about his missing German mother, and finds she is pending execution at a concentration camp.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova
Votes: 1,155
19. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Votes: 8,980
20. Brother and Sister (2022)
108 min | Drama
Alice and Louis are estranged siblings who have been avoiding each other for over twenty years and are forced to reunite after a tragedy.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Melvil Poupaud, Golshifteh Farahani, Patrick Timsit
Votes: 1,258
21. Black Widow (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A young writer insinuates herself into the life of a Broadway producer.
Director: Nunnally Johnson | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft
Votes: 3,252
22. Forever Amber (1947)
Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Votes: 1,695 | Gross: $16.00M
23. Repeat Performance (1947)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,976
24. The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Directors: Gunther von Fritsch, Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph, Ann Carter
Votes: 7,189
25. Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Richard Todd, Ruth Roman, Mercedes McCambridge, Zachary Scott
Votes: 1,446
26. Man in the Attic (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Mystery, Thriller
After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier
Votes: 1,980
27. Only When I Laugh (1981)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, Ed Moore, Joan Hackett
Votes: 1,642 | Gross: $25.78M
28. Interrupted Melody (1955)
Passed | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This movie chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 1,192
29. Dancing Lady (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An attractive dancer is rescued from jail by a rich man who helps her to have her first big opportunity at a musical play on Broadway.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, May Robson
Votes: 2,677
30. Hikers (1997)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
Parisian friends (two brothers and their one-time girl friends) fly to Corsica for a mountain trek guided by the married lover of one of the women. Cora, nearly 30, goes because her psychic... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Harel | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Karin Viard, Géraldine Pailhas, Philippe Harel
Votes: 2,032
31. Finding Father Christmas (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 86 min | Drama, Romance
Raised by her mother, but orphaned at a young age at Christmas, Miranda finds a clue that will take her to the truth about her father. Along the way, she finds romance and rekindles her Christmas spirit.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Erin Krakow, Niall Matter, P. Lynn Johnson, Michael Kopsa
Votes: 2,649
32. Pirates of Tortuga (1961)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure
An English captain and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan has defected from his support of the English Empire and is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Ken Scott, Letícia Román, Dave King, John Richardson
Votes: 427
33. Kid Blue (1973)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Western
At the turn of the century, with the Old West fading away, Texas train robber Kid Blue goes straight and takes a factory job but old habits die hard.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson
Votes: 814
34. Eyes in the Night (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery
A blind detective and his seeing-eye dog investigate a murder and discover a Nazi plot.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally
Votes: 1,961
35. The Guardsman (1931)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A jealous stage actor disguises himself as a Russian guardsman in order to test his actress wife's loyalty.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Roland Young, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 602
36. The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joan Fontaine, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 426
37. The Golden Coach (1952)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Anna Magnani, Odoardo Spadaro, Nada Fiorelli, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 3,445
38. The Man in Grey (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance
After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Votes: 1,595
39. Man of Evil (1944)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny witnesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger
Votes: 635
40. For Heaven's Sake (1950)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An angel disguises himself as a crusty old rancher in order to visit Earth and help an unborn child find suitable parents.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Clifton Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 508
41. Illusions of Sin (1997)
R | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An obsession turns deadly when Elizabeth, a beautiful actress, discovers she has a secret admirer. While working as an understudy in a play, someone tries to kill the sexy lead actress, and all clues point to Elizabeth.
Director: Eric Gibson | Stars: Mellara Gold, Landon Hall, Johnny Keatth, Elina Madison
Votes: 172
42. Smooth as Silk (1946)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An attorney engaged to an actress gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the playboy's uncle, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Kent Taylor, Virginia Grey, Milburn Stone, John Litel
Votes: 243
43. Star-Crossed Romance (2022 TV Movie)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When sportscaster, competitive single-mother Piper, is called to her son's school for a bullying incident, that's where she meets the victim's stubborn single father, Erik, the principal demands they team up to stage the school play.
Director: Aubrey Arnason | Stars: Aliyah O'Brien, Andrew Zachar, Daxton Gujral, Corina Bradley
Votes: 194
44. The Voice of the Turtle (1947)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance
A soldier spends the weekend with an actress after being stood up by her friend. Will he be able to change her cynical attitude towards love?
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris
Votes: 803
45. Ovation (I) (2015)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Maggie Chase, now a passionate theater actress, must follow her mind or heart when she falls for a slick television star.
Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Tanna Frederick, James Denton, Stephanie Fredricks, Cathy Arden
Votes: 80
46. Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Not Rated | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A confused man with a gash on his head stumbles into the taxi cab of Patty Mitchell. He says that he can't recall his own name, any facts about his life or even what he was doing before he got in the cab.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews
Votes: 1,379
47. Baal (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze
Votes: 869
48. Here Come the Girls (1953)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical
A clumsy, full-of-himself chorus boy gets a chance at Broadway stardom when he's a stand-in for a leading actor threatened by an infamous killer.
Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney
Votes: 435
49. We Go Way Back (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
A tragic-comic tale with surrealistic tendencies about a lost 23-year-old who is haunted by her disappointed 13-year-old self.
Director: Lynn Shelton | Stars: Amber Hubert, Maggie Brown, Aaron Blakely, Robert Hamilton Wright
Votes: 317
50. Nana (1926)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Romance
When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane, Werner Krauss
Votes: 964