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1. The Good Wife (2009–2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm.
Stars: Julianna Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry
Votes: 82,816
2. Amadeus (1984)
R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice
Votes: 428,364 | Gross: $51.97M
3. Toy Story (1995)
G | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman action figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's bedroom.
Director: John Lasseter | Stars: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
Votes: 1,069,331 | Gross: $191.80M
4. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Three years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Samuel L. Jackson
Votes: 846,102 | Gross: $380.26M
5. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
G | 84 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart
Votes: 479,881 | Gross: $218.97M
6. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 113,523 | Gross: $8.05M
7. Neighbours (1985– )
TV-G | 22 min | Drama, Romance
Australian soap opera exploring the lives and relationships of the residents of Ramsay Street in a suburb of Melbourne called Erinsborough.
Stars: Stefan Dennis, Alan Fletcher, Jackie Woodburne, Ryan Moloney
Votes: 6,362
8. Blades of Glory (2007)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Sport
In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.
Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck | Stars: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Votes: 177,779 | Gross: $118.59M
9. Neighbors (I) (2014)
R | 97 min | Comedy
After they are forced to live next to a fraternity house, a couple with a newborn baby do whatever they can to take them down.
Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron, Lisa Kudrow
Votes: 329,512 | Gross: $150.16M
10. The Parent Trap (1961)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
Director: David Swift | Stars: Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 24,000
11. The Promised Neverland (2019–2021)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When three gifted kids at an isolated idyllic orphanage discover the secret and sinister purpose they were raised for, they look for a way to escape from their evil caretaker and lead the other children in a risky escape plan.
Stars: Sumire Morohoshi, Mariya Ise, Shinei Ueki, Lynn
Votes: 46,943
12. Arthdal Chronicles (2019–2023)
80 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
"Arthdal Chronicles" depicts the birth of civilization and nations in ancient times. It is a story of mythical heroes--their struggle, unity, and love of people living in a virtual land called Arth.
Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Kim Ok-bin, Yoon Sa-bong, Park Hae-joon
Votes: 5,975
13. Sunset Beach (1997–1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
After discovering her fiancé Tim Truman kissing another woman, Meg Cummings leaves her home in Kansas on their wedding day to start a new life in Sunset Beach, California.
Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Sam Behrens, Susan Ward, Clive Robertson
Votes: 2,625
14. The One in Charge (2022– )
30 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The apartment manager of a residential building takes advantage of his power of surveillance to meddle in the lives of the tenants.
Stars: Guillermo Francella, Gabriel Goity, Pochi Ducasse, Gastón Cocchiarale
Votes: 4,289
15. Endless Love (2015–2017)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A young artist finds herself obligated to sacrifice her love story for hiding a family secret.
Stars: Burak Özçivit, Neslihan Atagül, Kaan Urgancioglu, Orhan Güner
Votes: 10,144
16. Heidi (1937)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Family, Musical
A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley
Votes: 4,944
17. The Big Bounce (2004)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischevious, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.
Director: George Armitage | Stars: Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Sara Foster
Votes: 18,808 | Gross: $6.47M
18. Deathtrap (1982)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's play.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth
Votes: 15,453 | Gross: $19.28M
19. Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
R | 60 min | Drama, History
A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction.
Stars: Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Kosar Ali, Nathanael Saleh
Votes: 1,015
20. Tales from the Crypt (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Ralph Richardson, Geoffrey Bayldon
Votes: 13,028 | Gross: $1.70M
21. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This is the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich told like the drama it really was: through the personal relationships of the movers and shakers of the Nazi Party.
Stars: Guy Walters, Alisdair Simpson, Jay Osborne, Michael Lynch
Votes: 5,069
22. X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Ray Milland, Diana Van der Vlis, Harold J. Stone, John Hoyt
Votes: 8,168
23. The Parent Trap II (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Family
Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York City.
Director: Ron Maxwell | Stars: Hayley Mills, Tom Skerritt, Carrie Kei Heim, Bridgette Andersen
Votes: 2,308
24. Detour (I) (2016)
R | 97 min | Action, Thriller
A young law student blindly enters into a pact with a hoodlum who offers to kill his stepfather--a man he feels is responsible for the accident that put his mother in a coma.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Tye Sheridan, Emory Cohen, Bel Powley, Stephen Moyer
Votes: 6,575 | Gross: $0.00M
25. The Rise of Phoenixes (2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of power, desire, lust and love among people of different kingdoms in ancient China. No matter who you are, you have to rise from the mud to become The Great Phoenix.
Stars: Kun Chen, Hong Yuan, Ni Ni, Ou Wang
Votes: 1,765
26. Ghost in a Teeny Bikini (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A B-movie actress and her director boyfriend go to the spooky mansion of her rich uncle for the reading of his will, while her uncle's scheming lawyer and a sexy, playful female ghost vie to control the inheritance.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Christine Nguyen, Nicole Sheridan, Voodoo, Brad Bartram
Votes: 670
27. Fair City (1989– )
25 min | Drama
The day-to-day dramas of the community who live and work in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown.
Stars: Mick Nolan, Philip Michael, Rodrigo Ternevoy, Alexander Lester
Votes: 673
28. Harriet Craig (1950)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
Harriet Craig enjoys married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not even trust her husband Walter and always checks up on him.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 2,423
29. Six Flying Dragons (2015–2016)
Action, Drama, History
Story of the the foundation of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea and ambition, success and fall of several real and fictional characters.
Stars: Kim Hyun-bin, Yoo Ah-in, Byun Yo-han, Kim Myung-min
Votes: 1,206
30. Boogie Woogie (2009)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedy of manners set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene.
Director: Duncan Ward | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham, Danny Huston
Votes: 4,186 | Gross: $0.00M
31. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp
Votes: 6,166
32. Nirvana in Fire (2015–2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Story about a son's search for his family's lost honor.
Stars: Kei Gambit, Ge Hu, Tu-Te-Ha-Meng, Kai Wang
Votes: 2,867
33. Empresses in the Palace (2011–2012)
TV-G | 45 min | Drama, History, Romance
A young woman born in Eight Banners' family marries the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. After surviving through many murderous scandals and betrayals, she prevails as the most powerful woman in the Emperor's harem, the Empress dowager.
Stars: Li Sun, Kei Gambit, Jianbin Chen, Qian Sun
Votes: 2,150
34. Crime of Passion (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray
Votes: 2,856
35. 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: 8,975
36. Julia (2008)
R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.
Director: Erick Zonca | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould
Votes: 6,957 | Gross: $0.00M
37. The Great Queen Seondeok (2009)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of Queen Seondeok who was born a princess, brought up among commoners and overcame many trials to become the ruler of Silla.
Stars: Jeong Woong-in, Kim Jung-hyun, Ryu Dam, Lee Yo-won
Votes: 1,412
38. Samurai Assassin (I) (1965)
122 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary »
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Yûnosuke Itô
Votes: 2,509
39. Profit (1996–1997)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Jim Profit works for a multinational company and isn't above using any means necessary to get ahead, which includes bribery, blackmail, intimidation, extortion, and even murder. Everyone at... See full summary »
Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Lisa Darr, Lisa Blount, Jack Gwaltney
Votes: 2,155
40. A Frosty Affair (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A rom-com about the adventures of a small town teacher, Kate Carter, going back to the city for her wedding. After a blizzard strikes, she is forced to travel with a stranger named Redford who leaves her questioning her future plans.
Director: Dylan Pearce | Stars: Jewel Staite, Shawn Roberts, Chris Craddock, Shaun Johnston
Votes: 2,021
41. Framed (1947)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Mike Lambert, seeking a mining job, instead becomes the patsy for a femme-fatale's schemes.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Glenn Ford, Janis Carter, Barry Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 2,291
42. Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Romantic antics abound among the guests at a luxury hotel, including a stage director, an eccentric millionaire, and the daughter of a financial backer.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady
Votes: 2,964
43. Legend of Yun Xi (2018)
45 min | Fantasy, History, Romance
A young naive girl skilled in magical medicine and poisons meets cruel power struggle, villains, friends and love.
Stars: Ma Cheng, Michael Mao, Zhehan Zhang, Jingyi Ju
Votes: 422
44. The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019)
45 min | Action, Crime, History
A former detective turned convicted criminal becomes China's last hope to thwart mysterious invaders who threaten the empire's capital city on the day before the Lantern Festival.
Stars: Ricardo Ortiz Del Rio Carrizosa, Jiayin Lei, Jackson Yee, Lu Cai
Votes: 750
45. Hondo (1967)
60 min | Western
Hondo, an embittered former rebel officer, travels to Arizona Territory in the 1870s with his dog Sam. Often clashing with the local cavalry, which he holds responsible for the death of his Indian wife.
Stars: Ralph Taeger, Kathie Browne, Noah Beery Jr., Gary Clarke
Votes: 273
46. Hamlet (1964)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.
Director: Grigoriy Kozintsev | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina, Yuriy Tolubeev
Votes: 2,974
47. 5 Against the House (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore
Votes: 2,054
48. Psychout for Murder (1969)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Shortly after her release from a mental hospital, a young woman begins a campaign of revenge against those who placed her there.
Director: Rossano Brazzi | Stars: Adrienne Larussa, Rossano Brazzi, Nino Castelnuovo, Paola Pitagora
Votes: 454
49. Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017)
45 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of legendary widow Zhou Ying who revitalized the business of Wu's family, a prominent clan in Guanzhong of Shaanxi, in late Qing Dynasty.
Stars: Li Sun, Mimi Chi-Yan Kung, Xiao Chen, Morning Chang
Votes: 253
50. The Great Seer (2012–2013)
Action, History, Romance
The story set in the late Goryeo Dynasty in which a group of Feng Shui advisers to the government authorities help the hero Lee Sung Gye become the first king of the Joseon Dynasty.
Stars: Choi Tae-Joon, Jo Han-chul, Lee Seung-yun, Ahn Kil-kang
Votes: 89