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1. The 39 Steps (1935)

Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle

Votes: 61,534

2. Holiday (1938)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres

Votes: 18,246

3. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)

PG | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

In a bid to gain respect, the neglected younger son of a working class Jewish family in Montréal embarks on a series of get-rich-quick schemes to buy land surrounding a lake.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid

Votes: 2,697 | Gross: $0.85M

4. The Last Station (2009)

R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.

Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 19,159 | Gross: $6.62M

5. Young and Innocent (1937)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A man on the run from a murder charge enlists the help of a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby

Votes: 10,857

6. Nina Forever (2015)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Suicidal Rob starts dating a colleague at the supermarket. But whenever they have sex, his dead girlfriend, Nina, pops up.

Directors: Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine | Stars: Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham, Mandeep Dhillon, Katharine Bennett-Fox

Votes: 5,246

7. The Naked Kiss (1964)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey

Votes: 8,754

8. The Ambulance (1990)

R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NYC streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses and is picked up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman has disappeared.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons

Votes: 4,186

9. Mountains of the Moon (1990)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, History

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river.

Director: Bob Rafelson | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 4,254 | Gross: $4.01M

10. Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.

Director: Terry Loane | Stars: Dean Andrews, Ruth Bradley, Bebe Cave, Amelia Dell

Votes: 5,547

11. Passion Fish (1992)

R | 135 min | Drama

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Angela Bassett, Lenore Banks

Votes: 6,087 | Gross: $5.41M

12. Max (I) (2002)

R | 106 min | Drama, War

A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.

Director: Menno Meyjes | Stars: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker

Votes: 8,792 | Gross: $0.53M

13. 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: 8,974

14. My Nights with Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975)

85 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Anton arrives at Susan's farmhouse in rural Holland to take her away with him. The house and surrounding area is populated by strange characters who duplicitously lust for each other. An opening murder weighs over everything.

Director: Pim de la Parra | Stars: Willeke van Ammelrooy, Hans van der Gragt, Nelly Frijda, Jerry Brouer

Votes: 339

15. Easy to Wed (1946)

Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

To prevent a libel case against the paper, a reporter tries to compromise the reputation of a tycoon's slandered daughter.

Directors: Edward Buzzell, Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 942

16. The Saxon Charm (1948)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.

Director: Claude Binyon | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Susan Hayward, John Payne, Audrey Totter

Votes: 313

17. The Weekend Murders (1970)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A family goes to a British estate to hear the reading of a will and while there they are murdered one by one.

Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Anna Moffo, Ida Galli, Gastone Moschin, Peter Baldwin

Votes: 588

18. Star of Midnight (1935)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

When a dancer disappears from a theater, her former lover asks lawyer Clay Dalzell to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 1,768

19. Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air (1942)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance, War

A veteran American flyer trains new recruits, including the acrophobic son of his dead war buddy. Complications arise when the younger man falls in love with his mentor's girl.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt

Votes: 585

20. Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Lee Grant, Perry King, Roxana Zal

Votes: 487

21. So Well Remembered (1947)

Passed | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard

Votes: 582

22. Station West (1948)

Approved | 97 min | Western

After two U.S. cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, U.S. Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Dick Powell, Jane Greer, Agnes Moorehead, Tom Powers

Votes: 1,516

23. Spooks Run Wild (1941)

Approved | 65 min | Horror, Comedy

The boys are stranded in a small rural town, they hear about a "monster killer" roaming the countryside. At night, they sneak out. Peewee is shot by a grave-digger, and they are forced to seek aid at an old mansion.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall

Votes: 1,831

24. Roommates (1994 TV Movie)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.

Director: Alan Metzger | Stars: Randy Quaid, Eric Stoltz, Elizabeth Peña, Charles Durning

Votes: 178

25. The Haunting of Marsten Manor (2007)

PG | 85 min | Horror, Mystery

Jill is angry about being blind and struggling with her faith, unexpectedly inherits an old mansion from her estranged aunt. She and her friends go there to check it out. On the way they ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Sapp | Stars: Brianne Davis, Christine Woods, Ken Luckey, C. Thomas Howell

Votes: 294

26. The Crimean War (1997)

150 min | Documentary, History, War

The devastating details of a long ago war are eloquently presented in this documentary. "The Crimean War" is a well-researched look into the conflict that shook Europe during the years 1853... See full summary »

Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Dominic Lieven, Andrew Lambert, Alain Gouttman

Votes: 72

27. Thunder Rock (1942)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.

Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer

Votes: 808

28. Smart Alecks (1942)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Danny comes into money for capturing an elusive criminal - money which Mugs insists he split equally with the gang while gangsters want to split open Danny.

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell

Votes: 547

29. Florence Nightingale, la première des infirmières (2022 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

After the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale is hailed as a heroine in England. She immediately sets about reforming military and civilian hospitals - i.a. using statistics. Throughout her ... See full summary »

Director: Aurine Crémieu | Stars: Marie Adamczyk, Aline Alliot, Cecile Bartholome, Zoé Besmond de Senneville

Votes: 24

30. Border Cafe (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Western

Easterner Keith Whitney, son of a wealthy Senator, heads west where he ends up a drunk at a border cafe. After losing the money his father sent him to buy a ranch he learns his father is ... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Harry Carey, John Beal, Armida, George Irving

Votes: 118

31. Helping Hands (1941)

10 min | Family, Comedy, Short

Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Robert Blake, Darla Hood, Billy 'Froggy' Laughlin, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Votes: 52

32. The Joy of Stats (2010 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary

Professor Hans Rosling shares his excitement with statistics, and shows how researchers are handling the modern data deluge.

Director: Dan Hillman | Stars: Hans Rosling, Stephen Emmott, Sep Kamvar, Eileen Magnello

Votes: 142

33. Her Honor, the Nurse (1956)

Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short

An RKO-Pathe Screenliner short. A look at the duties of the modern nurse. The story tracks the education of a student nurse as she works toward graduation and shows the earning of her cap ... See full summary »

Director: Harry W. Smith | Star: Peter Roberts

Votes: 111

34. Life in Victorian Britain (1998)

TV-G | 55 min | Documentary, History

The Victorian era was one of the most remarkable in British history. It saw The Industrial Revolution, the growth of the major cities, the birth of the Empire, as well as huge advances in medicine, transport, and education.

Director: Steve Gillham | Stars: Rachel Iliffe, Terry Molloy, Dave Perks

35. Prisel na veceri (1981 TV Movie)

113 min | Comedy

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Directors: Anna Procházková, Stanislav Remunda | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Iva Janzurová, Jirina Jirásková, Jana Stepánková

Votes: 19

36. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death (1995)

TV-14 | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In the annals of crime, perhaps no name evokes terror more than that Jack the Ripper. Although this anonymous killer committed his gruesome murders more than a century ago, his name lives ... See full summary »

Stars: Jack Perkins, Brian Saxton, Lillian Harlan, Sean Kavanagh-Dowsett

Votes: 130

37. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: In the Driver's Seat (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An abrasive race driver has trouble adjusting to paralysis.

Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, David James Elliott, Greg Evigan, Nadine Van der Velde

Votes: 89

38. Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Episode: First Time Caller (1994)

TV-14 | Comedy

With Sharon and Dorien doing something for the community - though Dorien's reasons for becoming a first-aider are questionable - Tracey feels left out and rings a local radio phone-in to ... See full summary »

Director: Charlie Hanson | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Alun Lewis

Votes: 26

39. Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Episode: Still Waters Run Deep (1994)

TV-14 | Comedy

Sharon and Tracey wonder if they have got in too deep when they agree to build a pool for Monty Kray, the Godfather of Chigwell, for his trophy wife Chanel, with a tight deadline and a ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Kinane | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Peter Vaughan

Votes: 27

40. Birds of a Feather (1989–2020)
Episode: The Essex Patient (1998)

TV-14 | Comedy

The sisters start work as cleaners with a view to setting up their own cleaning company. However Sharon is not feeling well and goes to hospital. She believes that she may be suffering from... See full summary »

Director: Hugh Thomas | Stars: Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph, Matthew Savage

Votes: 24

41. The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode: Coming Out Party (1971)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family

Mike's boss, Mr. Phillips, invites the Bradys to spend a day on his boat, but they have to postpone the trip when both Cindy and Carol have to get their tonsils removed.

Director: Oscar Rudolph | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick

Votes: 185

42. The Brady Bunch (1969–1974)
Episode: What Goes Up... (1970)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Family

Bobby falls while climbing into a treehouse. He hurts his ankle and develops a fear of heights. However, he doesn't want to tell anyone the truth, so he uses his injury as an excuse.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick

Votes: 188

43. CSI: Miami (2002–2012)
Episode: Urban Hellraisers (2005)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

During an early morning trip to the bank, Delko ends up witnessing a robbery and fatally shooting one of the suspects. As the investigation progresses, Wolfe realizes that the robbers are trying to replicate a violent video game.

Director: Matt Earl Beesley | Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Khandi Alexander

Votes: 414

44. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Outside Man (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The detectives work on two cases. One involves multiple homicides at a restaurant. The second case opens with an amputated leg found in a dumpster and ultimately leads to the owner of the missing limb, found dead in his own bed.

Director: Rob Bailey | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito

Votes: 347

45. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Carl Reiner, Melba Moore (1972)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Carol welcomes guests Carl Reiner and singer Melba Moore. Highlights include: another installment of "Terminal Hospital"; a sketch about a writer who changes plots faster than his ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 44

46. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: A Woman's Place: Part 1 (1983)

Drama, Romance

Judy Loveday's warnings about Margaret Sloan are quickly confirmed upon the new Matron's arrival.

Director: Brendan Maher | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

47. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Positive Steps: Part 2 (1983)

Drama, Romance

After having his suggestion of an alternative, relaxation based treatment vociferously rejected by patient Derek Clayton, Terence rethinks his approach to treating the angry man and his arthritis.

Director: Brendan Maher | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond

48. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Ships in the Night: Part 1 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Frank, Shirley, Simon, Brendan, and Cookie depart from Sydney Cove aboard the S.S. Oriana.

Director: Leigh Spence | Stars: Shane Porteous, Grant Dodwell, Penny Cook, Lorrae Desmond

49. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: The Last Picture Show: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

A sick Bert Griffiths is brought to hospital where he tells staff of his encounter with "spacemen." Frank tells his family about his lottery win and before long the news is out and Antony is asking him to help fund his movie.

Director: Mandy Smith | Stars: Lorrae Desmond, Grant Dodwell, Shane Withington, Penny Cook

50. A Country Practice (1981–1993)
Episode: Unemployment, a Health Hazard: Part 2 (1984)

Drama, Romance

Simon and Vicky stand firm in their refusal to accept his parents loan but agree to leave the door open should they ever need it in the future.

Director: Mandy Smith | Stars: Shane Porteous, Joyce Jacobs, Brian Wenzel, Lorrae Desmond