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1. Clueless (1995)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd

Votes: 246,258 | Gross: $56.63M

2. Billy Madison (1995)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy

In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again.

Director: Tamra Davis | Stars: Adam Sandler, Darren McGavin, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Bradley Whitford

Votes: 156,734 | Gross: $25.59M

3. Persuasion (I) (2022)

PG | 108 min | Drama, Romance

Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?

Director: Carrie Cracknell | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Henry Golding, Ben Bailey Smith, Yolanda Kettle

Votes: 35,515

4. 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: 163,999 | Gross: $50.02M

5. Love at First Sight (I) (2023)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A 20 year old girl misses her flight at JFK Airport and meets a young British guy who may turn out to be her true love.

Director: Vanessa Caswill | Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Ben Hardy, Rob Delaney, Katrina Nare

Votes: 32,688

6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

Director: Joel Zwick | Stars: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Christina Eleusiniotis

Votes: 144,711 | Gross: $241.44M

7. Barton Fink (1991)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

Votes: 129,033 | Gross: $6.15M

8. Withnail & I (1987)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown

Votes: 47,935 | Gross: $1.54M

9. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey

Votes: 76,827 | Gross: $40.08M

10. Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In the future, Highlander Connor MacLeod must prevent the destruction of Earth under an anti-ozone shield.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside

Votes: 48,114 | Gross: $15.56M

11. 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: 18,082 | Gross: $22.72M

12. The Libertine (2004)

R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Director: Laurence Dunmore | Stars: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter

Votes: 37,804 | Gross: $4.84M

13. Alice in Wonderland (1999 TV Movie)

PG | 150 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Alice falls down a rabbit hole, and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.

Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Tina Majorino, Whoopi Goldberg, Robbie Coltrane, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 8,875

14. The Ninth Configuration (1980)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

An ex-marine psychiatrist attempts to rehabilitate his patients by indulging their fantasies, and seeks to prove the existence of a loving God to one especially troubled inmate.

Director: William Peter Blatty | Stars: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders

Votes: 8,991

15. I Capture the Castle (2003)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance

A love story set in 1930s England that follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain and the fortunes of her eccentric family struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Romola Garai, Rose Byrne, Bill Nighy, Sophie Stuckey

Votes: 7,985 | Gross: $1.17M

16. Consent (2010)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.

Director: Ron Brown | Stars: Peter Vack, Troian Bellisario, Betsey Brown, Kate Burton

Votes: 662

17. Apex (2021)

93 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Six elite hunters pay to hunt down a man on a deserted island, only to find themselves becoming the prey.

Director: Edward Drake | Stars: Neal McDonough, Bruce Willis, Corey Large, Alexia Fast

Votes: 6,356

18. The Twelve Chairs (1970)

GP | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise

Votes: 7,117 | Gross: $1.81M

19. New Year's Evil (1980)

R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

During a New Year's Eve celebration, a Los Angeles disc jockey receives a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered - and she will be the last one.

Director: Emmett Alston | Stars: Roz Kelly, Kip Niven, Chris Wallace, Grant Cramer

Votes: 3,853

20. Skullduggery (1970)

PG | 105 min | Adventure

The missing-link is found on a safari in New Guinea. Is it human or animal?

Directors: Gordon Douglas, Richard Wilson | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Paul Hubschmid

Votes: 507

21. It's a Wonderful World (1939)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

When a tycoon (Ernest Truex) is accused of murder, the private eye (James Stewart) tracking him finds himself roped in as an accessory and attempts to evade police, kidnapping a poetess (Claudette Colbert) along the way.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 3,424

22. Kærestesorger (2009)

117 min | Drama, Romance

A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a ... See full summary »

Director: Nils Malmros | Stars: Thomas V. Solnæs, Sofie Linde Lauridsen, Jesper Svane, Simone Tang

Votes: 929

23. Crazy Eights (2006)

R | 80 min | Horror

Circumstance brings six childhood friends together to face their past, and a secret they share.

Director: Jimi Jones | Stars: Traci Lords, Frank Whaley, Dina Meyer, George Newbern

Votes: 3,367

24. The Switchblade Sisterhood (2023)

124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman discovers second-wave feminism, while meeting with her estranged half-sister, as they encounter the grief, rage, jealousy and injustice that govern their lives.

Director: Davo Hardy | Stars: British Flower, Kieran Hudson, Catherine Tomsen, Seaton Kay-Smith

Votes: 24

25. One Woman or Two (1985)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

A scientist is busy searching for an ancient woman, and does not pay attention to modern ones. Until a day when a businesswoman decided to seduce him in order to use his sensational discoveries for commercial purposes.

Director: Daniel Vigne | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver, Ruth Westheimer, Michel Aumont

Votes: 438 | Gross: $0.18M

26. Mel Brooks: To Be or Not to Be (1983 Music Video)

4 min | Comedy, History, Music

Mel Brooks raps as Adolf Hitler reminiscing on his life.

Director: Alan Johnson | Star: Mel Brooks

Votes: 143

27. Secret Men's Business (1999 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

A group of school friends are re-united after a death.

Director: Ken Cameron | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Marcus Graham, Simon Baker, Jeremy Sims

Votes: 271

28. Love Song for Tough Guys (2021)

107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In a port city, the lives of a few isolated people, used to violence, are strongly influenced by the love they feel for each other. Choices, envy, love and tenderness are the driving forces... See full summary »

Director: Samuel Benchetrit | Stars: François Damiens, Ramzy Bedia, Vanessa Paradis, Gustave Kervern

Votes: 505

29. Agoraphobia (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An agoraphobic inherits her father's house in a remote part of the Florida Keys. When weird things start happening, she discovers that there's something far more terrifying trapped inside the house with her.

Director: Lou Simon | Stars: Cassandra Scerbo, Adam Brudnicki, Tony Todd, Aniela McGuinness

Votes: 808

30. Gundermann (2018)

128 min | Biography, Drama, History

The movie deals with the real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.

Director: Andreas Dresen | Stars: Alexander Scheer, Anna Unterberger, Axel Prahl, Thorsten Merten

Votes: 2,128

31. All of a Sudden (2016)

112 min | Drama, Mystery

Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.

Director: Asli Özge | Stars: Sebastian Hülk, Julia Jentsch, Hanns Zischler, Sascha Alexander Gersak

Votes: 973

32. Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018)

75 min | Documentary, Biography, History

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in ... See full summary »

Director: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan | Stars: Charles Bird, Michael Cecil, Alberto Toso Fei, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 126

33. Nothing Like It (1921)

Short, Comedy

The comic mishaps of an ambitious literary society that attempts to produce a Roman tragedy written by one of its members.

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Dorothy Devore, Eddie Barry, Ward Caulfield, Gino Corrado

34. Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name (2021)

99 min | Documentary

Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?

Director: Robin K. Phillips | Star: Robin K. Phillips

Votes: 39

35. The Cry of Mann (2017)

40 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

After patriarch of the rich Mann family, oil magnate Tank Mann disappears, family begins falling apart with the help of mysterious villain Gergiev. An interactive live stream TV series by Wham City Comedy.

Stars: Cricket Arrison, Casper Kelly, Connor Kizer, Taylor McCormick

Votes: 35

36. Mel Gibson, à la folie, passionnément (2022 TV Movie)

54 min | Documentary, Biography

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Director: Bruno Sevaistre | Stars: Laure Sagols, Lisa Hrdina, Mouloud Achour, Luke Bracey

Votes: 57

37. Jenseits des Spiegels (2018)

89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Julia moves with her family to a remote farm in northern Germany, where her sister Jette had committed suicide last year. She hopes to make peace with the past by returning to that ... See full summary »

Director: Nils Loof | Stars: Julia Hartmann, Bernhard Piesk, Oskar von Schönfels, Petra Kelling

Votes: 92

38. Hollywood Mouth 3 (2018)

109 min | Drama

A film buff learns something new about her family and encounters noir-like situations in Hollywood.

Director: Jordan Mohr | Stars: Heidi Appe, Anastasia Art, Barbara Bologna, Angelica Coralvine

39. The World According to Radiohead (2019 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary, Music

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Director: Benjamin Clavel | Stars: Fabrice Colin, Michel Delville, Tim Footman, Colin Greenwood

Votes: 57

40. Rifftrax: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

TV-14 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Strap on a vest and your smirkiest smirk, it's time for Solo. The first Star Wars title that tells you exactly how high to set your expectations.

Stars: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson

41. Maciej Adamczyk: Nalezyta starannosc (2019 TV Special)

45 min | Comedy

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Director: Maciej Adamczyk | Star: Maciej Adamczyk

42. The Death of Hollywood (2017 Video)

32 min | Short, News

Stefan Molyneux talks to Milo Yiannopoulos about the sex scandals in Hollywood.

Stars: Milo Yiannopoulos, Stefan Molyneux

43. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode: Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia (1984)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

13-year-old boy has problems reading, which his teachers attribute to laziness. It is later discovered that he has Dyslexia.

Director: Alexander Grasshoff | Stars: Madge Sinclair, River Phoenix, Judy Farrell, Joaquin Phoenix

Votes: 97

44. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Reunion (1989)

TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Seven Vietnam vets meet on the date of their leader's death.

Director: John Wood | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Geraint Wyn Davies, James Blendick, Patricia Collins

Votes: 84

45. Bewitched (1964–1972)
Episode: Sam and the Beanstalk (1969)

TV-G | 24 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Sam must retrieve Tabitha who has run away into the book 'Jack and the Beanstalk.'

Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, David White

Votes: 316

46. CSI: Miami (2002–2012)
Episode: Dead Woman Walking (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An environmental lawyer is poisoned with a radioactive isotope and has only one week left to help the CSI team find her murderer.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Khandi Alexander

Votes: 540

47. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Deathtrap (2002)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

While Frasier and Niles uncover a human skull under the floor of their childhood home and let their imagination get the better of them, Roz's daughter's hamster has died and she is uncertain how to break it to her.

Director: Kelsey Grammer | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 795

48. Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode: The Unexplored (1955)

30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A Parapsychologist has his funding cut at a college. In a last ditch effort to prove the worth of his research he uses techniques he's developed to try and locate a member of the college staff who has gone missing.

Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Truman Bradley, Kent Smith, Osa Massen, Harvey Stephens

Votes: 28

49. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: Cousin Tundifer (1962)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A killer's descendant plots to quickly inherit what he thinks works rightfully be his, when his ill, rich uncle Pontifex, takes up with Queenie De Lyte, a stripper turned art fancier. ... See full summary »

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Boris Karloff, Edward Andrews, Sue Ane Langdon, Vaughn Taylor

Votes: 148

50. Not Going Out (2006– )
Episode: Kid (2006)

TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy

Kate agrees to take in fourteen-year-old Nicky for a few days whilst his parents attend a wedding in the West Indies. Whilst Nicky bonds with the more juvenile Tim he and lee do not get on ... See full summary »

Directors: Alex Hardcastle, Nick Wood | Stars: Lee Mack, Megan Dodds, Tim Vine, Rupert Simonian

Votes: 139