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51. Carolina (I) (2003)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.

Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Julia Stiles, Shirley MacLaine, Alessandro Nivola, Randy Quaid

Votes: 4,339

52. The War at Home (1996)

R | 123 min | Drama

Haunted by his experiences in the Vietnam War, a young man returns home and has trouble adjusting back to civilian life, his family and his stern father.

Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Votes: 2,602 | Gross: $0.04M

53. Family of Cops (1995 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police detective's oversexed daughter is charged with murder when someone kills the wealthy married man she slept with.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Charles Bronson, Angela Featherstone, Sebastian Spence, Kate Trotter

Votes: 1,123

54. Battle Hymn (1957)

Passed | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History

A remorseful bomber pilot-turned-minister rejoins for the Korean War.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Martha Hyer, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore

Votes: 1,310

55. By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)

Approved | 101 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 2,486

56. Sweet November (1968)

Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman lures emotionally crippled men into affairs, then helps them repair their lives.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr DeBenning

Votes: 1,262 | Gross: $2.18M

57. Married by Christmas (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

A high-level executive must find herself a husband before Christmas in order to inherit a fortune.

Director: Letia Clouston | Stars: Jes Macallan, Coby Ryan McLaughlin, April Bowlby, James Eckhouse

Votes: 1,406

58. The Christmas Box (1995 TV Movie)

G | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy

A ski shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and their daughter into an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.

Director: Marcus Cole | Stars: Richard Thomas, Maureen O'Hara, Annette O'Toole, Kelsey Mulrooney

Votes: 1,305

59. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973 TV Short)

TV-G | 25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.

Directors: Bill Melendez, Phil Roman | Stars: Todd Barbee, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, Hilary Momberger-Powers

Votes: 12,361

60. Home Sweet Home (1981)

TV-PG | 85 min | Horror

An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...

Director: Nettie Peña | Stars: Jake Steinfeld, Vinessa Shaw, Peter De Paula, Don Edmonds

Votes: 893

61. Return to Zero (2014)

104 min | Drama

A couple navigate their way through a pregnancy filled with doubt, grief and trepidation.

Director: Sean Hanish | Stars: Joseph Marcell, Paul Adelstein, Minnie Driver, Marisol Ramirez

Votes: 1,024

62. What's Cooking? (2000)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.

Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers

Votes: 2,917 | Gross: $1.04M

63. Betrayed by Innocence (1986 TV Movie)

94 min | Drama

A married commercial filmmaker is charged with statutory rape when it is revealed that his lover is only 16.

Director: Elliot Silverstein | Stars: Paul Sorvino, Lee Purcell, Barry Bostwick, Cristen Kauffman

Votes: 111

64. Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008 TV Movie)

PG | 120 min | Drama

Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Marlee Matlin, Ed Waterstreet, Phyllis Frelich

Votes: 685

65. Fifty Pills (2006)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Unless Darren can survive New York's largest drug mogul, write a paper on Dante's "Inferno," escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy to make his tuition payment, he'll never date the girl of his dreams.

Director: Theo Avgerinos | Stars: Diora Baird, Kristen Bell, Michael Masini, Rachel Boston

Votes: 2,846

66. Duane Hopwood (2005)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Drama

A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.

Director: Matt Mulhern | Stars: Daisy Ang, Bill Buell, Dick Cavett, Rachel Covey

Votes: 2,390 | Gross: $0.01M

67. An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 88 min | Drama

In the late 1880's, a widowed mother of three struggles to keep her family intact and to put food on the table. The oldest daughter sends a letter to her estranged, very wealthy grandmother... See full summary »

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Helene Joy, Tatiana Maslany, Kristopher Turner

Votes: 781

68. All I Want for Christmas (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 86 min | Family, Romance

Anxious to help his struggling widowed mom, Sara, 10-year-old Jessie enters a national video contest. But Jessie's winning entry, "All I Want for Christmas is a Husband for my Mom," has ... See full summary »

Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: Gail O'Grady, Greg Germann, Robert Mailhouse, Jimmy 'Jax' Pinchak

Votes: 1,151

69. Garfield's Thanksgiving (1989 TV Short)

TV-G | 24 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Jon falls for Garfield's veterinarian--who puts Garfield on a diet--and invites her to Thanksgiving dinner.

Directors: Phil Roman, Gerard Baldwin, Bob Nesler, John Sparey | Stars: Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger, Julie Payne

Votes: 1,305

70. Country Christmas Album (2018 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Family, Romance

A country singer finds love when she collaborates with a former pop star on a Christmas album.

Director: Danny Buday | Stars: Hannah Barefoot, Evan Gamble, Taylor Bedford, Valerie Jane Parker

Votes: 578

71. The National Tree (2009 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Drama

A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Evan Williams, Kari Matchett, Paula Brancati

Votes: 642

72. Christmas Perfection (2018 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Darcy's been striving for the perfect Christmas since childhood and, thanks to a magical figurine, her dream finally comes true.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Caitlin Thompson, James Henri-Thomas, Robbie Silverman, Rachel-Mae Brady

Votes: 1,035

73. Silent Night in Algona (2022)

140 min | Drama, Family, History

A character study that explores the dynamics of a small Iowa town from September through December 1944, during WWII.

Director: Anthony Hornus | Stars: Curran Jacobs, Cassie Dean, Samuel Peterson, Bodhi Rader

Votes: 94 | Gross: $0.06M

74. Three Desperate Men (1951)

Approved | 71 min | Western

Two deputies from Texas travel to California to save their outlaw brother from the hangman and they become outlaws themselves.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Preston Foster, Jim Davis, Virginia Grey, Kim Spalding

Votes: 118

75. Death on Demand (2008)

R | 90 min | Horror

Twenty years ago Sean McIntyre murdered his family then hung himself on Thanksgiving day. For tonight's webcast he's just warming up.

Director: Adam Matalon | Stars: Jerry Broome, Suzannah Lawson Matalon, Bridget Megan Clark, Daphne Ciccarelle

Votes: 488

76. The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't (1972 TV Movie)

30 min | Animation

A talking squirrel must save the holiday by rescuing a young Pilgrim boy and a young Native American boy that has gone missing in the woods on Thanksgiving day.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Kevin Cooper, June Foray, Marilyn Mayne, Don Messick

Votes: 118

77. All You Need (2001)

105 min | Drama

Beth's life was going backwards. Her husband suddenly walks out on her, she has an alcoholic mother, an ambivalent father and so she decides to begin making a change by going back to school in order to take charge of her life.

Director: Randy Ser | Stars: Kayren Butler, Amy Raymond, Kellie Martin, Janet Carroll

Votes: 149

78. I'm Glad That You're Sorry

10 min | Short, Comedy | Post-production

When Gina brings her boyfriend, Brian, to her dysfunctional family's Thanksgiving dinner, tensions rise, secrets spill, and an unexpected confrontation leaves Brian shell-shocked and desperate for an escape.

Director: Jourdan Henderson | Stars: Andrew Friedman, Emily Pendergast, Mitch Silpa, Lisa Schurga

79. Life with Tom (1953)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Tom reads Jerry's best selling book, "Life with Tom" and experiences some flashbacks.

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Fred Karbo, Jerry Mann

Votes: 681

80. Cosmopolitan (2003 TV Movie)

53 min | Drama, Romance

The story of an East Indian immigrant who turns to pop culture as he tries to reinvent his life and woo the girl next door.

Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Roshan Seth, Carol Kane, Madhur Jaffrey, Yolande Bavan

Votes: 100

81. Side Street (1929)

Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Tom Moore, Owen Moore, Matt Moore, Emma Dunn

Votes: 107

82. America's Fugitive Family (2014 TV Movie)

55 min | Documentary

A documentary about the Grey family which leave a simple life in the wilderness in Texas outside the hometown of the Bonnie and Clyde on the edge on society, after the family father had an encounter with a policeman.

Directors: Mark Soldinger, Alex Stockley von Statzer | Stars: Alicia Gray, Alicia Jean Gray, Bubba Gray, Cassie Gray

Votes: 32

83. Ko-Ko's Thanksgiving (1925)

TV-G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

At the studio Thanksgiving dinner, Ko-Ko plays a home movie reel showing clips of his wildest pranks on "The Boss" from previous "Out of the Inkwell" films.

Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer

Votes: 32

84. Inside Irvin (2004)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama

Inside Irvin is a compelling character study in the fragility of the human psyche and the effects of isolation and loneliness on the human spirit. Set in the Los Angeles home of Irvin and Ida Walter.

Director: Armen Titizian | Stars: Christo Dimassis, Christie Lynn Smith, Alandra Ortis, Michael J. Mancini

Votes: 37

85. I Was a Thanksgiving Turkey (1986)

3 min | Short, Animation, Comedy

Thanksgiving dinner, from the turkey's point of view.

Director: John Schnall

Votes: 13

86. Thxgiving Dinner (2021)

34 min | Short

THXGIVING DINNER is a slasher/ mystery/ dark comedy that tells the story of a troubled young woman who invites her wealthy family to her "quaint" first apartment for Thanksgiving dinner ... See full summary »

Directors: Lele Bell, Tae Cimone | Stars: Daija Nealy, Lele Bell, Arlieta Hall, Patricia Hoskins-Saffold

87. Turkey Dinner (1936)

TV-G | Animation, Short, Comedy

Meany, Miny and Moe, three monkeys, have their hearts set on a turkey dinner but the turkey thinks otherwise. While they are out hunting the turkey, the turkey sneaks into their house and ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lantz | Star: Dorothy Lloyd

Votes: 13

88. Jungles of the Amazon (1928)

10 min | Documentary, Short

A silent travelogue of a journey across the Andes to the Amazon jungle.

89. 7th Heaven (1996–2007)
Episode: Turkey (2005)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Ruthie becomes the subject of a shocking rumor.

Director: Michael Preece | Stars: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, David Gallagher, Beverley Mitchell

Votes: 59

90. ALF (1986–1990)
Episode: Turkey in the Straw: Part 1 (1988)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

ALF already ate the Thanksgiving turkey - raw. Willie fails to find a new one, so Raquel invites the Tanners over. A storm arrives as does the neighborhood bum ("a homeless person"), since ALF has been leaving food and clothes for him.

Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory

Votes: 266

91. ALF (1986–1990)
Episode: Turkey in the Straw: Part 2 (1988)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Pete has called the Alien Task Force. He has been told to keep ALF occupied until Sergeant Fox and his men arrive to capture him. Dead or alive. Will Pete sell ALF out after he's talked with him for a while? Will he?

Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory

Votes: 268

92. Alias (2001–2006)
Episode: Color Blind (2001)

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

Trapped in the Romanian asylum run by the Russian spy group, K-Directorate, Sydney befriends amnesiac agent Mark Shephard. Sloane and Alliance representative Alain Christophe come to conclusion that SD-6 has mole(s) and plan a trap.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan, Bradley Cooper

Votes: 660

93. Alice (1976–1985)
Episode: Alice's Turkey of a Thanksgiving (1982)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Alice's Thanksgiving dinner is ruined by her mother.

Director: Mel Ferber | Stars: Linda Lavin, Vic Tayback, Beth Howland, Philip McKeon

Votes: 58

94. All of Us (2003–2023)
Episode: Parents Just Don't Understand (2004)

TV-PG | 20 min | Comedy

When Tia's dad Lucas joins the family for Thanksgiving dinner, he is immediately taken by Neesee's mom Kate and spends the entire meal flirting with her, while she wants nothing to do with ... See full summary »

Director: Debbie Allen | Stars: Duane Martin, LisaRaye McCoy, Elise Neal, Khamani Griffin

Votes: 67

95. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Thanksgiving Story (1977)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

The detectives clean up the mess after three mental patients have Thanksgiving dinner at an automat.

Director: David Swift | Stars: Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Jack Soo

Votes: 112

96. Becker (1998–2004)
Episode: Sister Spoils the Turkey (2003)

TV-PG | Comedy

Becker's and Chris's plans for a quiet Thanksgiving dinner with a few guests are disrupted by the appearance of Chris' sister.

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

Votes: 98

97. The Bernie Mac Show (2001–2023)
Episode: Thanksgiving (2004)

Not Rated | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

The Mac family is invited over to one of Vanessa's teachers for Thanksgiving dinner; who are all vegetarians.

Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Bernie Mac, Kellita Smith, Jeremy Suarez, Dee Dee Davis

Votes: 40

98. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Elly's First Date (1962)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Mr. Drysdale convinces his self-absorbed stepson Sonny to date Elly May to Mrs. Drysdale's consternation, while Granny and Jed make preparations for Thanksgiving.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 186

99. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Turkey Day (1963)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Elly bonds with the Thanksgiving turkey so the family can't bring themselves to kill it; Mrs Drysdale hires some Indians to take a Thanksgiving picture, which puts Granny on the warpath.

Director: Richard Whorf | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 130

100. Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000)
Episode: Radar Love (1993)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Romance

After mistaking a woman at a rural filling station for his former girlfriend Emily Valentine, Brandon decides to visit Emily's home in Marin County north of San Francisco. He learns that ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering

Votes: 174