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1. Fat City (1972)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Sport
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take different directions.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark
Votes: 10,399
2. The Rhythm Section (2020)
R | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.
Director: Reed Morano | Stars: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis, David Duggan
Votes: 19,653 | Gross: $5.44M
3. Barfly (1987)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Alice Krige, Jack Nance
Votes: 21,995 | Gross: $3.22M
4. The Hunting Party (2007)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent embark on an unauthorized mission to find the No.1 war criminal in Bosnia. However, their extremely dangerous target decides to come after them.
Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Jesse Eisenberg, Gordana Vukres
Votes: 26,000 | Gross: $0.97M
5. P.J. (1967)
Approved | 109 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A down-on-his-luck New York private eye takes a bodyguard job for the death-threatened mistress of a shady millionaire and gets involved in conspiracy and murder.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: George Peppard, Raymond Burr, Gayle Hunnicutt, Brock Peters
Votes: 535
6. Little Deaths (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror
Composed of three disturbingly sensual and terrifying short narratives, unified by the twin themes of sex and death.
Directors: Sean Hogan, Andrew Parkinson, Simon Rumley | Stars: Luke de Lacey, Holly Lucas, Siubhan Harrison, James Oliver Wheatley
Votes: 3,348
7. Hard Luck Love Song (2020)
R | 104 min | Romance, Thriller
A gritty love story about a charismatic but down-on-his-luck troubadour living out of cheap motels and making bad decisions.
Director: Justin Corsbie | Stars: Michael Dorman, Sophia Bush, Dermot Mulroney, RZA
Votes: 546
8. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 2,169
9. A Deal Is a Deal (2008)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedy about ordinary people with unique dilemmas. How far will they go? Will the cocktail of desperation, friendship, loneliness, love and even a brush with cannibalism derail their intent?
Director: Jonathan Gershfield | Stars: Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Imelda Staunton
Votes: 2,465
10. The Ride (I) (1997)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A has-been cowboy is given a second chance at the hands of an unexpected teacher.
Director: Michael O. Sajbel | Stars: Michael Biehn, Brock Pierce, Charles Young, Clarence Felder
Votes: 536 | Gross: $0.19M
11. Crashing (2007)
R | 79 min | Drama
Having been kicked out of his house by his wife, writer Richard McMurray crashes on the couch of two sexy co-eds where he just might find the inspiration to complete his second novel.
Director: Gary Walkow | Stars: David Cross, Caleigh White, Campbell Scott, Alex Kingston
Votes: 715
12. TwentyFourSeven (1997)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience,... See full summary »
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Danny Nussbaum, Toby, Bruce Jones
Votes: 2,722
13. The Singing Fool (1928)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical
A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman
Votes: 281 | Gross: $10.90M
14. The Barefoot Prince (1966)
91 min | Comedy, Musical
Run out of options and in desperate need of cash, a down-and-out young man accepts his rich hotelier friend's preposterous proposal to impersonate an exotic Arab Prince. But what does the bride-to-be has to say about this scandalous farce?
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Martha Karagianni, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Vagelis Seilinos
Votes: 468
15. The Hard Road (1973)
R | 85 min | Drama
The cautionary tale of 17-year-old Sherman Oaks high-schooler Pam Banner, who has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to return to school, so her dad gets ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Connie Nelson, John Alderman, Catherine Howard, Gary Kent
Votes: 157
16. Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley
Votes: 666
17. The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 203
18. The Savage Five (1974)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A town is taken over by a brutal gang, which has taken a safe in a robbery of another town and needs to find someone who can open it for them. They terrorize the townsfolk, beating up and ... See full summary »
Director: Cheh Chang | Stars: David Chiang, Lung Ti, Kuan Tai Chen, Danny Lee
Votes: 337
19. Cuba Libre (1996 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom steals Tina's love and money, and five years later they meet again by chance. Both wanting to get back what was taken from them, they dream of traveling to Cuba. In the end, however, they only manage to get as far as the Belgian coast.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Richy Müller, Catherine Flemming, Wolfram Berger, Mark Schlichter
Votes: 112
20. Sunshine Hotel (2001)
98 min | Documentary
A portrait of one of the few remaining men only 'flophouses' on New York City's infamous skid row, the Bowery.
Director: Michael Dominic | Stars: Cashmere, Nathan Smith
Votes: 714
21. The Man Who Came Back (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Kenneth MacKenna, William Holden
Votes: 116
22. Here Comes Cookie (1935)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness
Votes: 178
23. Accidents Will Happen (1938)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama
An insurance adjustor tangles with a big insurance-fraud gang.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Sheila Bromley, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell
Votes: 306
24. Cafe Hostess (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out of the dreary and sordid routine of entertaining customers - called drinking and dancing... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 87
25. The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there. It talks to a prostitute and heroin ... See full summary »
Directors: Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena, Geof Bartz | Star: Charles Bukowski
Votes: 57
26. Bread (1918)
60 min | Drama, Romance
A naïve country girl ventures to New York to become a star, but faces poverty and disillusionment when a lecherous theatre manager attempts to take advantage of her.
Director: Ida May Park | Stars: Edward Cecil, Gladys Fox, Kenneth Harlan, Mary MacLaren
Votes: 55
27. Midnight Court (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Victor Shanley had once been New York City's most-acclaimed crime-fighting, crusading District Attorney and the scourge of the underworld. But the workaholic demands of the job led him to ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Ann Dvorak, John Litel, Carlyle Moore Jr., Joseph Crehan
Votes: 129
28. Hell Is a Place Called Hollywood (1950)
21 min | Short, Drama
A beauty queen called Sheila Anderson wins a part in a Hollywood motion picture. The film turns out to be a cheap nudie film, she is then shunned by the theatrical community and ends up ... See full summary »
Star: Sheila Anderson
Votes: 42
29. The Agony of Jimmy Quinlan (1978)
28 min | Documentary, Short
A documentation of a Montreal vagrant's attempts to overcome alcoholism.
Star: Earl Pennington
Votes: 9
31. Marigold Man (1970)
90 min | Comedy
Low-budget misfire concerns the farcical and dramatic situations met by two duplicitous roommates, one of whom dreams of planting a coast-to-coast garden of marigold flowers.
Director: Paul Leder | Stars: Greg Mullavey, Harry Cohn, Joan Lemmo, Pearl Shear
32. Upon Our Children (2012)
Short, Drama
She's prostitute and he's a preacher. She's down and out and he's a failed ex jazz musician preaching from his bible and playing saxophone on the subway. Their paths cross as they search for redemption in their lives.
Director: Charles Lyons | Stars: Joanna Pickering, Stacey Griffin, Jerry Broome
33. The Stand-Up (1930)
Passed | 8 min | Short, Drama
The time is New Year's Eve, 1929 and the place is the New York City apartment of a wealthy real-estate man who is expecting a young lady to dine with him. When she does not appear, he goes ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Bobby Watson, Wilbur Mack, Rudolph Cameron, Marjorie Lane
34.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
Skin
(1980)
TV-14 | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
In post-war Paris Drioli, an elderly down-and-out, sees a painting for sale by his old friend Soutine, who is now a best-selling artist. Thirty years earlier Soutine tattooed a portrait of ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Roald Dahl, Derek Jacobi, Lucy Gutteridge, Boris Isarov
Votes: 296
35.
Hung (2009–2011)
Episode:
Pilot
(2009)
TV-MA | 43 min | Comedy, Drama
Years ago, as a student at Detroit's West Lakefield High School, Ray Drecker was athletic, popular and destined for success. Today, as a West Lakefield teacher and coach of the varsity ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Thomas Jane, Jane Adams, Eddie Jemison, Charlie Saxton
Votes: 561
36.
Medium (2005–2011)
Episode:
Only Half Lucky
(2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A dream causes Allison to become suspicious of her brother's recent success. Meanwhile, Devalos' campaign manager takes an interest in Bridgette's abilities.
Director: Larry Reibman | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Miguel Sandoval, David Cubitt, Sofia Vassilieva
Votes: 182