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1. Ghostbusters (1984)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Votes: 450,642 | Gross: $238.63M
2. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,258,912 | Gross: $330.25M
3. Almost Famous (2000)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
Votes: 293,587 | Gross: $32.53M
4. Iron Man (2008)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges
Votes: 1,125,586 | Gross: $318.41M
5. Primal Fear (1996)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney
Votes: 247,280 | Gross: $56.12M
6. Iron Man 2 (2010)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Sci-Fi
With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father's legacy.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle
Votes: 869,027 | Gross: $312.43M
7. Sister Act (1992)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Music
When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn
Votes: 108,471 | Gross: $139.61M
8. The Founder (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini
Votes: 177,528 | Gross: $12.79M
9. Damien: Omen II (1978)
R | 107 min | Horror
Damien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Directors: Don Taylor, Mike Hodges | Stars: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth
Votes: 35,933 | Gross: $3.88M
10. Miss Sloane (2016)
R | 132 min | Drama
In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. But when taking on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds winning may come at too high a price.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 82,560 | Gross: $3.50M
11. Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A loving mom becomes compelled to reconnect with her creative passions after years of sacrificing herself for her family. Her leap of faith takes her on an epic adventure that jump-starts her life and leads to her triumphant rediscovery.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Emma Nelson, Kristen Wiig
Votes: 24,953 | Gross: $9.20M
12. The Dead Zone (1983)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability to foresee future events.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom
Votes: 77,369 | Gross: $20.77M
13. Superman III (1983)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Synthetic kryptonite laced with tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper
Votes: 74,808 | Gross: $59.95M
14. The General's Daughter (1999)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.
Director: Simon West | Stars: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton
Votes: 63,869 | Gross: $102.71M
15. Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A bitter ex-husband wants his former spouse dead. A put-upon momma's boy wants his mother dead. Who will pull it off?
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal, Kim Greist, Anne Ramsey
Votes: 40,695 | Gross: $57.92M
16. CBGB (2013)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A look at the New York City punk-rock scene and the venerable nightclub, CBGB.
Director: Randall Miller | Stars: Alan Rickman, Malin Akerman, Justin Bartha, Richard de Klerk
Votes: 11,229 | Gross: $0.04M
17. Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.
Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland
Votes: 81,099 | Gross: $38.04M
18. Yoga Hosers (2016)
PG-13 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Two teenage yoga enthusiasts must do battle with an evil presence that is threatening to rise from its underground lair and endanger their major party plans.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith, Johnny Depp, Adam Brody
Votes: 15,499
19. Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996 Video)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Earl Bassett, now a washed-up ex-celebrity, is hired by a Mexican oil company to eradicate a Graboid epidemic that's killing more people each day. However, the humans aren't the only one with a new battle plan.
Director: S.S. Wilson | Stars: Fred Ward, Chris Gartin, Helen Shaver, Michael Gross
Votes: 32,757
20. I Spy (2002)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.
Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Owen Wilson, Famke Janssen, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 53,453 | Gross: $33.56M
21. The Kid Detective (2020)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity; until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Director: Evan Morgan | Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson
Votes: 22,535
22. Terminal Velocity (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Mystery, Romance
A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.
Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 14,658 | Gross: $16.48M
23. Trick or Treat (1986)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
A bullied teenage boy is devastated after the death of his heavy metal idol, Sammi Curr. But as Halloween night approaches, he discovers that he may be the only one who can stop Sammi from making a Satanic comeback from beyond the grave.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Doug Savant
Votes: 7,879 | Gross: $6.80M
24. Hanging Up (2000)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Director: Diane Keaton | Stars: Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau
Votes: 13,178 | Gross: $36.05M
25. The Hard Way (1991)
R | 111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An action movie star researching a role is allowed to tag along with a hardboiled New York City policeman, who finds him superficial and irritating.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra
Votes: 22,305 | Gross: $25.90M
26. My King (2015)
Unrated | 124 min | Drama, Romance
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious skiing accident. Dependent on medical staff and painkillers, she takes the time to remember the tumultuous love story she lived with Georgio.
Director: Maïwenn | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Bercot, Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco
Votes: 14,191 | Gross: $0.05M
27. Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000 (1994 Video)
R | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time and change history to prevent that from ... See full summary »
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Morgan Fairchild, Ian Abercrombie, Brian Bremer, Christopher Wolf
Votes: 633
28. The Kiss (1988)
R | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
Director: Pen Densham | Stars: Joanna Pacula, Meredith Salenger, Mimi Kuzyk, Nicholas Kilbertus
Votes: 1,920 | Gross: $1.87M
29. Populaire (2012)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
1958. Rose is a terrible secretary but a demon typist. Her handsome boss resolves to turn her into the fastest girl in the world.
Director: Régis Roinsard | Stars: Romain Duris, Féodor Atkine, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo
Votes: 12,717 | Gross: $0.18M
30. S.F.W. (1994)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Director: Jefery Levy | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey, Joey Lauren Adams
Votes: 5,413 | Gross: $0.06M
31. My Little Princess (2011)
105 min | Drama
When Hanah re-emerges in the life of her pre-pubescent daughter, she comes with a strange, yet attractive proposition: she needs her own girl to pose for her in ways that would later take by surprise the Parisian art world of the 1970s.
Director: Eva Ionesco | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Anamaria Vartolomei, Georgetta Leahu, Denis Lavant
Votes: 1,887
32. Make Mine Music (1946)
Passed | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Animation done to contemporary popular music.
Directors: Robert Cormack, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Joshua Meador | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Dinah Shore, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews
Votes: 4,959
33. Love Finds You in Sugarcreek (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Family, Mystery, Romance
Baseball player Micah Matthias and his young son Bobby are big Leeds United fans, lost in America. They end up in the quaint Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio under a set of aliases and ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Cunningham | Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Sarah Lancaster, Kelly McGillis, Thomas Kapanowski
Votes: 1,070
34. The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to produce a film. Problems soon arise.
Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Jorge Sanz, Rosa Maria Sardà
Votes: 4,521
35. A Harvest Wedding (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Sarah Bloom is hired to plan the most anticipated wedding of the season. The problem: The groom is from her home town and wants the wedding on the family farm which is now being run by his older brother who happens to be her first love.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Jill Wagner, Victor Webster, Merren McMahon, Andrea Brooks
Votes: 1,551
36. American Nightmare (1983)
R | 88 min | Horror, Crime, Thriller
A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Lawrence Day, Lora Staley, Neil Dainard, Lenore Zann
Votes: 569
37. Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When strangers Cara and Heath are stranded before Christmas, they embark on an unexpected journey that may give them the miracles they've been hoping for.
Director: David Winning | Stars: Josh Henderson, Megan Park, Lindsay Maxwell, Paul McGillion
Votes: 1,854
38. The Stolen Children (1992)
114 min | Crime, Drama
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano, Florence Darel
Votes: 2,874 | Gross: $0.93M
39. The Price of a Broken Heart (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A woman learns that her husband has been having a very open affair with his secretary and has promised marriage. The wife sues for divorce and also sues the secretary based on an obscure ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Park Overall, Laura Innes, Timothy Carhart, Bill Nunn
Votes: 254
40. Taboo 3 the Unforgettable Act (2021)
83 min | Drama
When Devin finally meets his soap star birth mother, Rebecca, as an adult, feelings go beyond family love.
Director: Renee S. Warren Peoples | Stars: Nelson J. Davis, Nytia Nikole, Saisha Teagues, Jamald Gardner
Votes: 43
41. The Fearmakers (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Korean War veteran returns to Washington D.C. only to discover his business partner had died and their public-research business sold, so he works there undercover to find out the truth.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dana Andrews, Dick Foran, Marilee Earle, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 849
42. Wedding Wars (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a gay party planner discovers his brother is behind the governor's speech against gay marriage, he decides to go on strike for equal rights.
Director: Jim Fall | Stars: John Stamos, Eric Dane, Bonnie Somerville, Sean Maher
Votes: 2,066
43. The Ugliest Woman in the World (1999)
TV-MA | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
2012 Madrid DF. Lola Otero, the ugliest woman in the world, suffers the cruelty of the people until at 18 a surgery transforms her into a beauty. When the mutilated corpse of an old woman is discovered, it seems Lola as suspicious.
Director: Miguel Bardem | Stars: Elia Galera, Roberto Álvarez, Javivi, Héctor Alterio
Votes: 648
44. The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985)
100 min | Music, Comedy
In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.
Director: Macoto Tezuka | Stars: Shingo Kubota, Kan Takagi, Kyôko Togawa, Issay
Votes: 626
45. David Bowie: The Stars (Are Out Tonight) (2013 Music Video)
6 min | Music
David Bowie 's official music video for 'The Stars (Are Out Tonight)'.
Director: Floria Sigismondi | Stars: David Bowie, Tilda Swinton, Saskia de Brauw, Andreja Pejic
Votes: 683
46. The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met (1946)
15 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
The Metropolitan Opera is looking for the sea monster reported in newspaper headlines, because this monster sings beautifully! The "monster" is actually Willie, a whale who can sing in ... See full summary »
Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske | Star: Nelson Eddy
Votes: 582
47. La feldmarescialla (1967)
110 min | Comedy, Musical, War
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
Director: Steno | Stars: Rita Pavone, Francis Blanche, Terence Hill, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 259
48. Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
G | 110 min | Comedy, Musical
Friends Herman, Karl, Keith, Derek, and Barry are working-class Manchester lads who aren't getting far in their working lives. That fact is epitomized by Herman's failure to get the ... See full summary »
Director: Saul Swimmer | Stars: Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood, Derek Leckenby
Votes: 578
49. Elvis Gratton 3: Le retour d'Elvis Wong (2004)
105 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Pierre Falardeau | Stars: Julien Poulin, Yves Trudel, Jacques Allard, Louise Boisvert
Votes: 554
50. La vengeance au triple galop (2021 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
Parody of the acclaimed Australian TV series of the 80s, Return to Eden (1983). Wealthy heiress Stephanie Harper marries Craig Danners, without suspecting that he only wants her money and is having an affair with her best friend.
Directors: Alex Lutz, Arthur Sanigou | Stars: Audrey Lamy, Alex Lutz, Guillaume Gallienne, Leïla Bekhti
Votes: 140