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1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan
Votes: 536,353 | Gross: $72.86M
2. The Babadook (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney
Votes: 248,081 | Gross: $0.92M
3. Along Came Polly (2004)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A buttoned-up newlywed finds his strictly organized life descend into chaos when he falls in love with an old classmate.
Director: John Hamburg | Stars: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Debra Messing, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Votes: 143,955 | Gross: $88.10M
4. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill
Votes: 50,806 | Gross: $7.50M
5. Freaks (2018)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.
Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Park, Amanda Crew
Votes: 40,684
6. Elf (2003)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 311,229 | Gross: $173.40M
7. I Am Sam (2001)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 155,537 | Gross: $40.31M
8. Bedtime Stories (2008)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A hotel handyman's life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true.
Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Courteney Cox, Guy Pearce
Votes: 101,482 | Gross: $110.10M
9. Young Adult (2011)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.
Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, Elizabeth Reaser
Votes: 88,051 | Gross: $16.31M
10. Pete's Dragon (2016)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliott, who happens to be a dragon.
Director: David Lowery | Stars: Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence
Votes: 61,756 | Gross: $76.23M
11. The Secret Garden (2020)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate.
Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Dixie Egerickx, Richard Hansell, David Verrey, Tommy Gene Surridge
Votes: 10,080
12. Death Parade (2015)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery
After death, humans go to either heaven or hell. But for some, at the instant of their death, they arrive at the Quindecim, a bar attended by the mysterious white-haired Decim.
Stars: Jamie Marchi, Alex Organ, Asami Seto, Tomoaki Maeno
Votes: 20,319
13. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Votes: 20,943
14. Funny Farm (1988)
PG | 101 min | Comedy
A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O'Morrison, Joseph Maher
Votes: 25,055 | Gross: $25.54M
15. The Guardian (1990)
R | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young couple with a newborn baby don't realize that the nanny they hired is a magical nymph who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell, Brad Hall
Votes: 6,419 | Gross: $17.04M
16. Dark Harbor (2019)
91 min | Thriller
Olivia, a pregnant woman approaching her due date, returns to Maine for the funeral of her father, but while she's there her father's well-kept secrets come after her.
Director: Joe Raffa | Stars: Jessica Sipos, Sterling Hurst, Meagen Fay, Xander Berkeley
Votes: 343
17. This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young woman who dreams of becoming a children's book author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.
Director: Simon Aboud | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 13,265 | Gross: $0.04M
18. Arthur (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Romance
A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman his family doesn't like.
Director: Jason Winer | Stars: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner, Greta Gerwig
Votes: 52,997 | Gross: $33.04M
19. Ask the Dust (2006)
R | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Mexican beauty Camilla Lopez (Salma Hayek) hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Colin Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Director: Robert Towne | Stars: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 10,091 | Gross: $0.74M
20. The Door in the Floor (2004)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household.
Director: Tod Williams | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Elle Fanning
Votes: 16,207 | Gross: $3.84M
21. He's Out There (2018)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Yvonne Strahovski, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Ryan McDonald
Votes: 9,542
22. The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
PG | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A NASA astronaut, forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Max Thieriot
Votes: 23,295 | Gross: $11.00M
23. Wit (2001 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald
Votes: 11,420
24. Sweet Bean (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama
Burdened with a heavy and ever-increasing debt, a dorayaki baker hires a kind ageing woman, after tasting her delicious surprise. Little by little, she unravels her beautiful inner world. Could she be holding the secret to his success?
Director: Naomi Kawase | Stars: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida, Miki Mizuno
Votes: 12,777 | Gross: $0.12M
25. Irresistible (2006)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Director: Ann Turner | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Votes: 6,638
26. Snow Cake (2006)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
Director: Marc Evans | Stars: Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Hampshire
Votes: 13,291 | Gross: $0.03M
27. Feels Good Man (2020)
92 min | Documentary, Comedy
Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.
Director: Arthur Jones | Stars: Matt Furie, Aiyana Udesen, Chris Sullivan, Johnny Ryan
Votes: 5,572
28. One Week (I) (2008)
Not Rated | 94 min | Adventure, Drama
Chronicles the motorcycle trip of Ben Tyler as he rides from Toronto to Tofino, British Columbia. Ben stops at landmarks that are both iconic and idiosyncratic on his quest to find meaning in his life.
Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Peter Spence, Marc Strange, Gage Munroe
Votes: 12,055
29. Just My Type (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Vanessa, a features writer in NYC, hopes to land the interview of a lifetime with renowned mystery author, Martin Clayborne.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Bethany Joy Lenz, Brett Dalton, Aleque Reid, Colleen Wheeler
Votes: 2,007
30. Trust the Man (2005)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After much drama, cheating, and trial separations, two men fight to save their respective relationships.
Director: Bart Freundlich | Stars: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Votes: 8,844 | Gross: $1.53M
31. Saint Frances (2019)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.
Director: Alex Thompson | Stars: Kelly O'Sullivan, Ramona Edith Williams, Charin Alvarez, Lily Mojekwu
Votes: 5,329
32. Dedication (2007)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend.
Director: Justin Theroux | Stars: Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, Tom Wilkinson, Christine Taylor
Votes: 7,229 | Gross: $0.09M
33. Undercover Angel (1999)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A writer with no focus in his work, becomes the unwilling babysitter of a precocious little girl who turns his life around.
Director: Bryan Michael Stoller | Stars: Yasmine Bleeth, Dean Winters, Emily Mae Young, Lorraine Ansell
Votes: 1,103
34. Full Moon in Paris (1984)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Louise is a suburban young interior decorator divided between a boyfriend, a lover (who is married) and the wish of having some fulfillment and some balance in her life. A change to reach ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Pascale Ogier, Tchéky Karyo, Fabrice Luchini, Virginie Thévenet
Votes: 5,413 | Gross: $0.01M
35. Ima, ai ni yukimasu (2004)
119 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A young woman returns from the dead to her guilt-ridden husband and son, but she cannot remember them.
Director: Nobuhiro Doi | Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Shidô Nakamura, Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama
Votes: 5,033
36. Neverwas (2005)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A psychiatrist searches for insight into the life of his father, who was an acclaimed children's author. But he is shocked when his journey leads him to believe that the fantasy-land his father wrote about might actually exist.
Director: Joshua Michael Stern | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte
Votes: 6,983
37. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon
Votes: 3,726 | Gross: $0.23M
38. Autumn in the City (2022 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Piper moves to New York for a fresh start and meets Austin, a jaded writer. Together, they experience autumn in the city and try to figure out who they're truly meant to be.
Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Aimee Teegarden, Evan Roderick, Laura Soltis, Adam Beauchesne
Votes: 845
39. Since You've Been Gone (1998 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
The story of a 10th anniversary High School reunion, told through the eyes of a doctor who was humiliated on graduation day by being badly beaten up by a fellow graduate.
Director: David Schwimmer | Stars: Philip Rayburn Smith, Joey Slotnick, Joy Gregory, Laura Eason
Votes: 1,585
40. Magical Christmas Ornaments (2017 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
"After a bad breakup, former Christmas lover Marie (Lowndes) loses her Christmas spirit. Trying to restore it, her mother sends Marie Christmas ornaments from her childhood, and a ... See full summary »
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Brendan Penny, Farah Merani, Stephen Huszar
Votes: 1,937
41. Plot of Fear (1976)
Not Rated | 98 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man is strangled by a female prostitute in his home at the same time as a woman is killed by a man with a spanner on an empty bus. In both cases the killer leaves an illustration from the... See full summary »
Director: Paolo Cavara | Stars: Corinne Cléry, Michele Placido, Quinto Parmeggiani, Edoardo Faieta
Votes: 897
42. Christmas on Holly Lane (2018 TV Movie)
PG | 86 min | Drama
Sarah, Riley, and Cat, three childhood friends with fond memories of Christmas at Sarah's house, come together as adults to save Sarah's home so they can have many more beautiful Christmases together.
Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Sarah Lancaster, Karen Holness, Gina Holden, Giles Panton
Votes: 1,116
43. The Monkey's Uncle (1965)
G | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
A student is able to save Midvale College's football reputation using his radical invention.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 999
44. The House Next Door (2002)
R | 95 min | Thriller, Drama
A nightmare-prone children's book illustrator and her weak-willed husband move next door to an ex-marine bar owner and his timid wife. A gunshot and a backyard burial lead the artist to suspect murder.
Director: Joey Travolta | Stars: James Russo, Theresa Russell, Sean Young, A.J. Cook
Votes: 806
45. November Christmas (2010 TV Movie)
TV-G | 96 min | Drama
A brave young girl's battle against cancer has an effect on the people around her.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Sam Elliott, John Corbett, Sarah Paulson, Karen Allen
Votes: 2,103
46. Joshua's Heart (1990 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Abandoned by his mother the week of his fifth birthday, Joshua a 10 year-old child whose promiscuous father meets a new beau Claudia. At first he assumes it is another fling, however she ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Tim Matheson, Matthew Lawrence, Lisa Eilbacher
Votes: 300
47. Six Degrees of Santa (2022 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Christmas enthusiast Harper has created a program, Six Degrees of Santa. When Harper's own gift lands in the hands of a leading internet entrepreneur, Jason, he's convinced that the original Santa might be his soul mate.
Director: Michael Kennedy | Stars: Kathryn Davis, Steve Lund, Kimberly Huie, Ainara Alleyne
Votes: 589
48. Storyline Online (2002– )
Family
Celebrated actors read children's books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
Stars: Jaime Camil, Amanda Bynes, Sean Astin, Bradley Whitford
Votes: 38
49. Red Bear (2002)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of ... See full summary »
Director: Israel Adrián Caetano | Stars: Julio Chávez, Soledad Villamil, Luis Machín, Agostina Lage
Votes: 2,514
50. A Bramble House Christmas (2017 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why his father left a nurse, named Willa $100,000, and goes undercover to investigate. When she discovers his true identity, will it keep her from ever trusting him again?
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Autumn Reeser, David Haydn-Jones, Liam Hughes, Teryl Rothery
Votes: 2,688