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1. Mayor of Kingstown (2021– )
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The McLusky family are power brokers tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality in Kingstown, Michigan, where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry.
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Hugh Dillon, Tobi Bamtefa, Taylor Handley
Votes: 47,403
2. Titanic (1997)
PG-13 | 194 min | Drama, Romance
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Votes: 1,285,886 | Gross: $659.33M
3. Psycho (1960)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Votes: 720,756 | Gross: $32.00M
4. A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.
Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy, John Krasinski
Votes: 274,913 | Gross: $160.07M
5. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
G | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear
Votes: 228,222 | Gross: $4.00M
6. The Birds (1963)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 205,253 | Gross: $11.40M
7. Last Action Hero (1993)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance
Votes: 164,373 | Gross: $50.02M
8. The Gift (2000)
R | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fortune teller with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 74,998 | Gross: $12.01M
9. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette
Votes: 90,715 | Gross: $44.79M
10. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
G | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 85,953
11. Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Unrated | 111 min | Comedy, Family
A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy
Votes: 9,882 | Gross: $25.91M
12. The Secret of NIMH (1982)
G | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Dom DeLuise, Arthur Malet
Votes: 45,377 | Gross: $10.14M
13. The Shootist (1976)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart
Votes: 26,963
14. Quest for Camelot (1998)
G | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit, and a goofy two-headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.
Director: Frederik Du Chau | Stars: Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Andrea Corr, Bryan White
Votes: 18,123 | Gross: $22.72M
15. Dick (1999)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy
After wandering off during a White House tour, two high school girls inadvertently become Richard Nixon's top secret advisers at the height of the Watergate scandal.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrell
Votes: 21,414 | Gross: $6.24M
16. The King and I (1956)
G | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Martin Benson
Votes: 27,974 | Gross: $21.30M
17. One Fine Morning (2022)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia
Votes: 7,037
18. The Lucy Show (1962–1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The wacky misadventures of a forever-scheming woman, her reluctant best friend, and her cantankerous boss.
Stars: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon, Vivian Vance, Jimmy Garrett
Votes: 3,161
19. Boon (2022)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The widowed Catherine is busy trying to protect herself and her son from a local criminal organization. When Nick Boon and Catherine's lives cross paths, they find themselves leaning on each other to protect everything they stand for.
Director: Derek Presley | Stars: Neal McDonough, Tommy Flanagan, Jason Scott Lee, Gabrielle Carteris
Votes: 2,203
20. Matador (1986)
NC-17 | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
A matador is wounded by a bull and can no longer kill in the arena. It is just one of the problems of one of the characters that unexpectedly collide in this film.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Antonio Banderas, Nacho Martínez, Eva Cobo
Votes: 12,979 | Gross: $0.21M
21. The Wind and the Lion (1975)
PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Berber chieftain triggers an international incident, drawing the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt, when he kidnaps an American widow and her children in 1900s Morocco.
Director: John Milius | Stars: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston
Votes: 10,183 | Gross: $0.75M
22. Bloody Birthday (1981)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
Three children are born at the height of an eclipse of the sun. Ten years later, they begin to murder the people around them - even their family members.
Director: Ed Hunt | Stars: Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown, Joe Penny
Votes: 5,708
23. The Colour Room (2021)
112 min | Drama
Clarice Cliff breaks the glass ceiling and revolutionizes the workplace at a pottery factory in 1920s England.
Director: Claire McCarthy | Stars: Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode, Kerry Fox, Darci Shaw
Votes: 1,673
24. Mother (II) (1996)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Albert Brooks, Debbie Reynolds, Paul Collins, Laura Weekes
Votes: 6,833 | Gross: $19.12M
25. Personal Effects (2009)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A 24 y.o. wrestler/McJobroni man meets a mom 20+ years older at group therapy for family of murder victims (sister and husband). He helps her deaf teenage son. She invites him to weddings. They await convictions on the murder trials.
Director: David Hollander | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher, Kathy Bates, Spencer Hudson
Votes: 9,201
26. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Myrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn
Votes: 5,691 | Gross: $9.65M
27. Butterflies Are Free (1972)
PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.
Director: Milton Katselas | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser
Votes: 5,978 | Gross: $0.25M
28. Titanic: Deleted Scenes (2012 Video)
Not Rated | 57 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Deleted scenes cut from James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic (1997).
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Lewis Abernathy, Suzy Amis, Scott Anderson, Jason Barry
Votes: 893
29. The Sunlit Night (2019)
106 min | Drama, Romance
An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.
Director: David Wnendt | Stars: Jenny Slate, Alex Sharp, Fridtjov Såheim, Gillian Anderson
Votes: 2,569
30. Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace
Votes: 4,958
31. Revenir (2019)
77 min | Drama
A man in his early thirties returns to the rural farm of his childhood and rejoins the family struggle to get by.
Director: Jessica Palud | Stars: Niels Schneider, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Roman Coustère Hachez, Patrick d'Assumçao
Votes: 592
32. Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas (2021)
TV-14 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey wants to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.
Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Jane Levy, Skylar Astin, Alex Newell, John Clarence Stewart
Votes: 2,485
33. My Mom Made Me Do It (I) (2022 TV Movie)
TV-14 | Drama, Thriller
When Jade finds out about her mother's financial problems, she joins her crush in a series of high-profile burglaries to pay off her mother's debts.
Director: Jessica Harmon | Stars: Lizzie Boys, Kate Drummond, Kelaya Allison-Squakin, Diamond Alls
Votes: 161
34. The Red House (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun
Votes: 4,971
35. Don't Tell a Soul (2020)
R | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Director: Alex McAulay | Stars: Jack Dylan Grazer, Fionn Whitehead, Rainn Wilson, Mena Suvari
Votes: 5,807
36. The Narrow Margin (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Votes: 8,674
37. The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper
Votes: 4,612
38. Catfish Murder (2023 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Doing her best to balance a successful career with family life, a single mom's world spirals out of control when her shy teenage son is arrested for the murder of a young woman from the same high school.
Director: Soran Mardookhi | Stars: Gina Holden, Zoë Christie, Stephanie Izsak, Quinten James
Votes: 171
39. Ida Red (2021)
R | 111 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Ida "Red" Walker may not survive her terminal illness while incarcerated for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
Director: John Swab | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Frank Grillo, Melissa Leo, Sofia Hublitz
Votes: 2,296 | Gross: $0.02M
40. A Rage to Live (1965)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves
Votes: 770
41. Passion of Mind (2000)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams.
Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Demi Moore, Eloise Eonnet, Hadrian Dagannaud-Brouard, Chaya Cuénot
Votes: 3,593 | Gross: $0.77M
42. Late Autumn (1960)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada
Votes: 6,202
43. Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
G | 105 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
When Captain Nemo saves the passengers of a sinking ship and takes them to his Utopian underwater city he discovers that not all of his guests agree to remain there forever.
Director: James Hill | Stars: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 1,809
44. Playa prohibida (1985)
80 min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
An engineer moves into a bungalow on the beach next to a widow and her two boys. The older boy has a bit of an Oedipal complex and seems to like his mom.
Director: Enrique Gómez Vadillo | Stars: Sasha Montenegro, José Alonso, Jaime Garza, Óscar Alejandro
Votes: 155
45. A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wedding planner looks to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief period of time, until an unexpected development forces her to re-examine her feelings.
Director: Leslie Hope | Stars: JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Helen Shaver, Kenneth Welsh, Lucas Bryant
Votes: 836
46. Pioneer Woman (1973 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Western
Despite some initial hesitations, a family from the East decides to try their luck by settling in the harsh and dangerous West in 1867.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Joanna Pettet, William Shatner, David Janssen, Lance LeGault
Votes: 359
47. The Most Colorful Time of the Year (2022 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
It follows Ryan, an elementary school teacher who learns that he is colorblind. Michelle, an optometrist and mother of one of his students, helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays.
Director: Max McGuire | Stars: Katrina Bowden, Christopher Russell, Ava Weiss, Joanna Douglas
Votes: 969
48. Imperfect (2019)
TV-PG | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Being born fat and has dark skins, it feels like a curse for Rara, especially when she worked at the office that has surrounded by pretty girls. Her boss wants her to lose her weight, but there is a man who loves the way she were.
Director: Ernest Prakasa | Stars: Jessica Mila, Reza Rahadian, Yasmin Napper, Karina Suwandhi
Votes: 1,361
49. Lazos de familia (2003)
16 min | Drama, Short
A young man is madly in love with his mother, until he discovers a horrible truth about her sexual behavior. In honor to the memory of his late father, he decides to set things straight again but fate has another thing to say.
Director: Ivan Martínez Lomelí | Stars: Hugo Arrevillaga, Lucero Trejo, Javier Díaz Dueñas, Paloma Woolrich
Votes: 9
50. Tony & Tina's Wedding (2004)
R | 110 min | Comedy
A comedy about two Italian families from different sides of the tracks. What can go wrong does go wrong in this comedy about an Italian-American wedding.
Director: Roger Paradiso | Stars: Joey McIntyre, Mila Kunis, Krista Allen, Dean Edwards
Votes: 393