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1. Dead Poets Society (1989)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles
Votes: 544,816 | Gross: $95.86M
2. The Pagemaster (1994)
G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life.
Directors: Pixote Hunt, Joe Johnston | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Kanin Howell, Alexis Kirschner
Votes: 25,520 | Gross: $13.67M
3. Wuthering Heights (2009)
TV-PG | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Lancashire
Votes: 9,824
4. Othello (1995)
R | 123 min | Drama, Romance
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio, when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh, Irène Jacob, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 10,169 | Gross: $2.11M
5. Dev.D (2009)
Not Rated | 144 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After breaking up with his childhood sweetheart, a young man finds solace in drugs. Meanwhile, a teenage girl is caught in the world of prostitution. Will they be destroyed, or will they find redemption?
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Abhay Deol, Mahie Gill, Kalki Koechlin, Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Votes: 32,229 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Hyouka (2012)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Hyouka centers on Oreki Hotarou and his life in the Classic Literature Club. His mundane world is flipped upside down as they begin to solve various mysteries.
Stars: Yûichi Nakamura, Satomi Satô, Adam Gibbs, Madeleine Morris
Votes: 6,130
7. Anne of Green Gables (1979)
24 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Based on the books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, this 50 episode series tells the story of Anne Shirley, a young orphan living in 19th century Canada.
Stars: Eiko Yamada, Fumie Kitahara, Michio Hazama, Ryûji Saikachi
Votes: 2,085
8. The Browning Version (1951)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 5,434
9. The Browning Version (1994)
R | 97 min | Drama
On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Albert Finney, Greta Scacchi, Matthew Modine, Julian Sands
Votes: 3,573 | Gross: $0.46M
10. Dies Irae (2017– )
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A teenager gets involved with a group of sorcerers from World War 2 who unleashed a force beyond their understanding.
Stars: Brandon McInnis, Jad Saxton, Madeleine Morris, Alex Moore
Votes: 173
11. Of Time and the City (2008)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography
A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon
Votes: 2,250 | Gross: $0.03M
12. Letters of a Portuguese Nun (2014)
75 min | Drama, History, Romance
An actress is about to play the part of Mariana Alcoforado, a young nun from the convent of Beja who was writing five letters to her French lover, the officer De Chamilly. The actress, ... See full summary »
Director: Bruno François-Boucher | Stars: Ségolène Point, Nicolas Herman
Votes: 41
13. Sin vergüenza (2001)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
A movie script is presented to Isabel. After reading it she realizes it's based on an old love affair she had with movie director Mario Fabra, the author of the script.
Director: Joaquín Oristrell | Stars: Verónica Forqué, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Candela Peña, Carmen Balagué
Votes: 530
14. Ballet Shoes (1975)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Family
Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil live with Sylvia Brown, their guardian. Money is tight and as the story opens, three boarders - a garage owner, a retired English professor, and a dance ... See full summary »
Stars: Angela Thorne, Jane Slaughter, Elizabeth Morgan, Sarah Prince
Votes: 142
15. Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' (2010)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
It is our national novel. Reading to Kill a Mockingbird is something we all have in common. Harper Lee's first and only novel turns 50 this summer and the author hasn't given an interview ... See full summary »
Director: Mary McDonagh Murphy | Stars: Mary Badham, Jane Beasley, Rick Bragg, Tom Brokaw
Votes: 350 | Gross: $0.03M
16. Televiteatros (1993– )
Drama, History, Mystery
Stars: Edith González, Humberto Zurita, Christian Bach, Ernesto Alonso
Votes: 6
17. A Dream in Red Mansions (2010– )
45 min | Drama, Romance
Story of Jai Bao Yu's (inheritor) love affairs with his two cousins in the midst of his family's struggle to remain influential.
Stars: Dayong Fu, Yi Song, Mengjie Jiang, Roman Xing
Votes: 120
18. Calvin Klein: Obsession (1990)
1 min | Short, Romance
A series of 4 commercials for Calvin Klein's fragrance Obsession, based on 4 classic novels, that aim to illustrate the feeling of being romantically obsessed with someone.
Stars: Heather Graham, Benicio Del Toro, Lara Flynn Boyle, James Marshall
Votes: 81
19. Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (2001)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.
Director: André Klotzel | Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Marcos Caruso, Petrônio Gontijo, Stepan Nercessian
Votes: 939
20. Romeo and Juliet (2000 Video)
Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's tragic tale about two young lovers and their warring families as re-told by Mercutio.
Director: Colin Cox | Stars: Kel Mitchell, Fran de Leon, Conrad Cimarra, Benito Martinez
Votes: 105
21. Madame Bovary (1934)
101 min | Drama
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault, who is well-endowed in every sense. In her new home,... See full summary »
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Max Dearly, Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan
Votes: 545
22. Notes from the New World (2011)
99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"Notes From The New World" is a contemporary retelling of Dostoyevsky's novella which unfolds in Los Angeles where dreams and harsh realities collide. It is a place where almost everyone ... See full summary »
Director: Vitaly Sumin | Stars: Rebecca Light, Natasha Blasick, Nathanael Theisen, Jerry Prager
Votes: 62
23. The Legend of Hiawatha (1983 TV Movie)
60 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
Half man, half God, Hiawatha is sent to his people to teach them the ways of progress and survival.
Director: Sebastian Grunstra | Stars: Michael Voss, Garry Chalk, Les Lye, Aline Van Dine
Votes: 24
24. Ocharovannyy strannik (1990)
Drama, History
Between passengers of the steamship there is a dispute on, whether that there are in Russia righteous persons? Nobody wants to tell about the life. And only one priest, though warns that he "the big sinner", decides to tell the history.
Director: Irina Poplavskaya | Stars: Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Andrey Rostotskiy, Olga Ostroumova, Vasiliy Krivun
Votes: 52
25. Mein Leben - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2009 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama
In 1929, the 9 year old Polish Jew Marcel Reich-Ranicki is sent by his artistic mother to Berlin to study. Marcel loves the German literature and music, but in October 1938 the Nazis deport... See full summary »
Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Katharina Schüttler, Maja Maranow, Joachim Król
Votes: 390
26. Ximalaya wang zi (2006)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
An adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in ancient Tibet.
Director: Sherwood Hu | Stars: Purba Rgyal, Duobujie, Zomskyid, Sonam Dolgar
Votes: 109 | Gross: $0.01M
27. Pasternak (1965)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
This short film, a mini-biography of of writer and Nobelist Boris Pasternak, serves as something of a promotional film for the upcoming film version of his novel Doctor Zhivago (1965). It ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Craven | Stars: David Lean, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Geraldine Chaplin
Votes: 111
28. Tell-All
Thriller | Announced
As Allen, a psychiatric patient, is questioned by Dr. Jack Warner, he recalls every night and moment before committing the murder of well-respected Augustus Clemm.
Director: Kii Hornick | Stars: Bob Glazier, Steve Balewicz, Dana Baker, Michael 'Mick' Sawyer
29. AN LA STORY: The Making of the award-winning Notes from the New World
Documentary | Post-production
SOMEONE -- OR SOMETHING -- DID NOT WANT THIS MOVIE TO BE MADE... It had the hallmarks of a thriller: betrayal and abandonment. Lies and innuendo. Colleagues caught up in a mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Vitaly Sumin | Stars: Vitaly Sumin, Rebecca Light, Natasha Blasick, Nathanael Theisen
30. Barnaby Rudge (1915)
Drama
A murderer's idiot son, jailed as an anti-Catholic rioter, is pardoned on the scaffold.
Directors: Thomas Bentley, Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Tom Powers, Violet Hopson, Stewart Rome, Chrissie White
31. Great Conquest: Romance of Three Kingdoms (1993)
149 min | Animation, History, War
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata
32. Corso: The Last Beat (2009)
Documentary
Following Beat Poet Gregory Corso - literary compatriot of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs -- throughout Europe, discovering his past, and facing his death.
Director: Gustave Reininger | Stars: Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ethan Hawke
Votes: 27
33. Nous, princesses de Clèves (2011)
69 min | Documentary
Has 1558 anything in common with 2009 ? Have nobles of King Henri III's court anything to do with today's young people from poor neighborhoods, most of whom immigrants'children ? Is there ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Sauder | Stars: Abou Achoumi, Laura Badrane, Morgane Badrane, Manel Boulaabi
Votes: 37
34. The Real Treasure Island (2007)
60 min | Documentary, History
Did Robert Louis Stevenson base his immortal classic novel, Treasure Island, on actual events? A researcher postulates that not only did he, but Stevenson may have found the pirate treasure.
Director: Robert Krause | Stars: Sari Colt, Shawn Henry, David McCormick, Michael Pez
Votes: 10
35. The Blessing of Prometheus (2000)
20 min | Short, Fantasy, Thriller
The Blessing of Prometheus is a retelling of the Prometheus fire legend and the tale of Admetus and Alcestis. Prometheus gave the gift of fire to mankind, but fire was only to be used by ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher K. Young | Stars: James E. Smith, Jennifer Gutauckas, Damion Kendrick, Joseph Cox
Votes: 26
36. Let Us Go and Burn Her Body; or, the Devil Done Let Out (2005)
Not Rated | 112 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A young female paranormalist is pursued by a man claiming to be the devil in human form.
Director: Damon Blalack | Stars: Erika O'Bar, Carl Buffington, Johnathan Prince, Jimi Fleming
Votes: 254
37. Tri goda (1968 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Mr. Laptev is a wealthy intellectual, who falls in love with young Julia. She is not in love, but she uses their marriage to upgrade her life. Laptev suffers without a mutual love, but ... See full summary »
Director: Grigori Nikulin | Stars: Petr Shelokhonov, Alla Balter, Mikhail Khrabrov, Tamara Alyoshina
Votes: 134
38. Faust (2008)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Short
A depressed FAUST makes a deal with Mephisto, the devil's servant, to obtain more power and glory, including the power to seduce a maiden. Faust grows powerful, but the consequences of his act has deadly, unintended ramifications.
Director: Hoku Uchiyama | Stars: Steven Ritz-Barr, Eugene Seregin
Votes: 8
39. Sárga rózsa (1969 TV Movie)
82 min | Drama
Director: Éva Zsurzs | Stars: Gábor Koncz, András Kozák, Ildikó Piros, Tivadar Bilicsi
Votes: 9
40. You're in Trouble (2007)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy
Kelly, Kim, and Carrie are lesbian house thieves who trick guys into robbing for them. Their neighbor, Jack, finds out about the robberies and blackmails them. In an unrelated incident, ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Krayvo | Stars: Hillary Lewis, Nathaniel Kerr, Benzy, Elysia Annacini
Votes: 12
41. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (2006)
15 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A slaves memories of repressed abuse at the hands of his master fuels him to murder.
Director: Lawrence 'Law' Watford | Stars: Dave Hobbs, Antwon Smallwood
42. Kak v starom detektive (2004– )
186 min | Crime, Mystery
Stars: Varvara Pavlova, Andrei Zaitsev, Oleg Belonuchkin, Anna Aleksakhina
Votes: 10
43. How Does It End? (1952)
20 min | Drama, Family
Stars: Robert McDermott, J. Leslie Frith, Desmond Llewelyn, Richard Johnson
44.
Télévision de chambre (1982–1984)
Episode:
Une villa aux environs de New York
(1982)
55 min | Drama
Karl, a young European immigrant, lives with his uncle in New York. The uncle watches over the education of his nephew. Karl is invited to Mr Pallunder. Despite strong opposition from his uncle, Karl accepts.
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Nicolas Baby, Anne-Laure Meury, Hubert Deschamps, Michel Delahaye