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1. Home Alone (1990)

PG | 103 min | Comedy, Family

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard

Votes: 654,345 | Gross: $285.76M

2. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

R | 88 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Brother/sister duo Hansel and Gretel are professional witch-hunters who help innocent villagers. One day they stumble upon a case that could hold the key to their past.

Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, Peter Stormare, Famke Janssen

Votes: 217,140 | Gross: $55.70M

3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

PG | 120 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara

Votes: 403,698 | Gross: $173.59M

4. Baby's Day Out (1994)

PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

After three kidnappers lose the baby they have kidnapped, both the cops and kidnappers go looking for the baby.

Director: Patrick Read Johnson | Stars: Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley

Votes: 55,864 | Gross: $16.67M

5. Big Fat Liar (2002)

PG | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Fourteen-year-old Jason Shepherd has a reputation for stretching the truth. So, when big-time Hollywood producer Marty Wolf steals his class paper and turns it into a smash hit movie, no one believes Jason's latest tall tale.

Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Frankie Muniz, Amanda Bynes, Paul Giamatti, Amanda Detmer

Votes: 39,684 | Gross: $48.36M

6. 3096 Tage (2013)

111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the factual case of Natascha Kampusch.

Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Thure Lindhardt, Amelia Pidgeon, Trine Dyrholm

Votes: 16,370

7. Home Alone 3 (1997)

PG | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off international spies who seek a top-secret computer chip in his toy car.

Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen

Votes: 127,473 | Gross: $30.88M

8. Baby Geniuses (1999)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Scientists hold super intelligent talking babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol

Votes: 27,686 | Gross: $27.14M

9. Fresh (1994)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Death and violence anger a twelve-year-old drug courier, who sets his employers against each other.

Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright

Votes: 14,628 | Gross: $8.09M

10. Charlie Bartlett (2007)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.

Director: Jon Poll | Stars: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings

Votes: 66,760 | Gross: $3.95M

11. Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

A married couple tries to steal back a valuable heirloom from a troublesome kid.

Director: Dan Mazer | Stars: Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea

Votes: 20,420

12. The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)

G | 77 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round-the-world race.

Director: Janice Karman | Stars: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Dody Goodman, Susan Tyrrell

Votes: 5,991 | Gross: $6.80M

13. The Curse (1987)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.

Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee

Votes: 3,897 | Gross: $1.93M

14. Cohen and Tate (1988)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a little boy witnesses a mob hit, he is kidnapped by two professional assassins who are not what they seem.

Director: Eric Red | Stars: Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Cooper Huckabee

Votes: 2,676

15. The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

G | 99 min | Family, Mystery, Fantasy

Two children befriend ghosts in a haunted mansion. To help the ghosts, they make a potion allowing time travel to the past. After becoming housekeepers, they return to the mansion's past and aid the dead children.

Director: Lionel Jeffries | Stars: Laurence Naismith, Graham Crowden, Dorothy Alison, Benjamin Smith

Votes: 1,702

16. Flickan (2009)

100 min | Drama, Family

Story of a nine-and-a-half year old girl left alone in Sweden while her family is in Africa during the summer of 1981.

Director: Fredrik Edfeldt | Stars: Blanca Engström, Shanti Roney, Annika Hallin, Calle Lindqvist

Votes: 1,623

17. Ship to Shore (1993–1994)

24 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The comic adventures of the kids who live on Circe Island, a fishing community off the coast of Western Australia. Some kids call it Paradise, the others call it a prison and long for the mainland.

Stars: Clinton Voss, Kimberley Stark, Greg Carroll, Francoise Sas

Votes: 304

18. The Sweetheart (2018 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 86 min | Drama, Thriller

Heartbroken over her parents' breakup and recovering from a car accident, Jane becomes increasingly suspicious of her mother's charming new boyfriend.

Director: Max McGuire | Stars: Jessalyn Gilsig, Jon Cor, Hannah Vandenbygaart, Habree Larratt

Votes: 454

19. The Aggression Scale (2012)

R | 85 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Four heavily armed hitmen and two unusual teenagers go to war over $500,000 of stolen cash.

Director: Steven C. Miller | Stars: Ryan Hartwig, Fabianne Therese, Ray Wise, Dana Ashbrook

Votes: 3,508

20. The Zoo Gang (1985)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

A group of nice kids rent a building from a down and out former wrestler. They work hard to turn it into a rock club, but some local troublemakers won't leave them alone. So, they ask their landlord to teach them to defend themselves.

Directors: Pen Densham, John Watson | Stars: Eric Gurry, Tiffany Helm, Jason Gedrick, Marc Price

Votes: 241

21. The Wiz Kid (1989)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

Bodo is a kid with abnormally high intelligence, a samurai sword toting father and a robotic orangutan. Unfortunately, all this leaves him with a minimum of social skills, so what's a boy ... See full summary »

Director: Gloria Behrens | Stars: Martin Forbes, Gary Forbes, Ulrike Kriener, Heiner Lauterbach

Votes: 153

22. Playing Dangerous (1995)

PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A young scientific whiz (Mikey LeBeau) virtually single-handedly defeats corporate mercernaries who take his family hostage to get a blueprint for a top secret super-fast computer chip.

Director: Lawrence Lanoff | Stars: Mikey LeBeau, David Keith Miller, George Shannon, Linda LoPorto

Votes: 364

23. Caught in the Net (1960)

64 min | Family

Bob Ketley is a young boy whose older brother is a research scientist working with fish. He helps catch criminals who are poaching salmon by dropping dynamite into the river.

Director: John Haggerty | Stars: Jeremy Bulloch, Anthony Parker, Larry Burns, Bruce Wightman

Votes: 19

24. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Video game adaption of the film of the same name. The player controls Kevin as he makes his way alone through New York City. Locations include the Plaza Hotel, Central Park, Uncle Rob McCallister's townhouse, and the streets of New York.

Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Tim Curry, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

Votes: 388

25. Home Alone (I) (1991 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two bumbling burglars, Harry and Marv a.k.a the Wet Bandits, are attempting to break into Kevin McCallister's house. Nobody else is home and Kevin has called the police, but it's gonna take... See full summary »

Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

Votes: 276

26. Pelikaanimies (2004)

90 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children ... See full summary »

Director: Liisa Helminen | Stars: Kari Ketonen, Roni Haarakangas, Inka Nuorgam, Jonna Järnefelt

Votes: 646

27. Enteng and the Shaolin Kid (1996)

Action, Comedy

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Director: Danilo Cabreira | Stars: Vic Sotto, Jacky Shix, Alou Gonzales, Charito Solis

Votes: 15

28. Kidnapping Mom & Dad (1998 TV Movie)

95 min | Comedy

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Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Jan Josef Liefers, Laura Syniawa, Mitja-Daniel Krebs

Votes: 58

29. Pertsa ja Kilu (2000–2001)

Adventure, Crime, Family

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Stars: Joona Mielonen, Ville Turtiainen, Eija Vilpas, Tapio Liinoja

Votes: 31

30. Lucas (1997)

9 min | Short

The bratty young Lucas dreams only of a brand new bike. That's when he's not trying to improvise clever ways to irritate his parents.

Director: Jon Carnoy | Stars: Julián Gutiérrez, Natasha Cashman, Sylvain Corthay, Bénédicte Berger

Votes: 15

31. Dinner with Malibu (1993)

12 min | Short, Comedy

Dinner With Malibu is a comedy about a young boy who spies on his father's girlfriends through a peep-hole from his bedroom into the bathroom. One day he discovers a woman who is much different from the others.

Director: Jon Carnoy | Stars: Brad Merenstein, Jim Siatkowski, Marti Wilkerson, Blair Zoe Tuckerman

Votes: 21

32. Battle of the Ages (1952– )

30 min | Family, Game-Show

A prime-time talent-contest game show in which children and adult celebrity teams competed for the "most talented team" prize, selected by the studio audience. If the children's team won, ... See full summary »

Stars: Morey Amsterdam, John Reed King, Connie Francis, Alan Dale

33. We Have Your Daughter (2003)

32 min | Drama, Short

A young girl is kidnapped and held for ransom by two men and uses her wits to befriend one of her captors. By the time the ransom is paid, one of them will be dead and one will learn something that changes their whole life.

Director: William M. Johns | Stars: Renee Schilling, Terry Giancaterino, Daniel Usaj

Votes: 14

34. Caught Napping (1897)

Short, Crime, Family

"Two children sleeping in bed are aroused by a burglar, who foolishly lays down his revolver while he is ransacking the room. One of the little girls gets possession of the pistol, and ... See full summary »

Votes: 24

35. What I Did on My Vacation (2013)

6 min | Short, Comedy

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Director: Lucy Rudichuk | Stars: Lucy Rudichuk, Brandon Pentecost, Brenda Pentecost, Carla Rudichuk

36. The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode: Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (2002)

Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Amidst his parents' impending divorce, Kevin McCallister must foil his old nemesis Marv and his wife Vera's plot to kidnap a Crown Prince.

Director: Rod Daniel | Stars: French Stewart, Erick Avari, Barbara Babcock, Jason Beghe

Votes: 39,533

37. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: The Unusual Suspect (2006)

TV-14 | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a courtroom, Det. Sofia, Dr. Robbins and Nick go to the stand to testify about the murder of the popular high-school student Stacy Vollmer, who was found wrapped in a shower curtain and ... See full summary »

Director: Alec Smight | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 925