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1. Batman & Robin (1997)
PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman
Votes: 268,152 | Gross: $107.33M
2. Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During an experiment into time travel, a scientist finds himself trapped in the past, "leaping" into the lives of different people, sorting out their problems and changing history in hopes of getting back to his own life in the present.
Stars: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell, Deborah Pratt, Dennis Wolfberg
Votes: 36,472
3. Southland Tales (2006)
R | 145 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Carlos Amezcua
Votes: 40,634 | Gross: $0.28M
4. Radioactive (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin
Votes: 21,733
5. The Postman (1994)
PG | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Directors: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi | Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa
Votes: 39,004 | Gross: $21.85M
6. Lover Come Back (1961)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams
Votes: 8,759 | Gross: $16.94M
7. The Lady (2011)
R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse
Votes: 11,292 | Gross: $0.36M
8. Dead Man's Letters (1986)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son.
Director: Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Aleksandr Sabinin
Votes: 3,815
9. The Distinguished Citizen (2016)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who has been living in Europe for decades, accepts an invitation to receive another award. In Argentina he finds both similarities and irreconcilable differences with the people of his hometown.
Directors: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio, Nora Navas
Votes: 13,340
10. Monster in the Closet (1986)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Paul Dooley, Paul Walker, John Carradine and Henry Gibson head up an all-star cast in this horror-comedy about a murderous but misunderstood monster!
Director: Bob Dahlin | Stars: Donald Grant, Denise DuBarry, Claude Akins, Howard Duff
Votes: 2,979
11. The Heavy Water War: Stopping Hitler's Atomic Bomb (2015)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, History, War
The story behind Germany's attempt to develop an atomic bomb during World War II and the sabotage of the heavy water program in Rjukan, Norway from the points of view of the Germans, the Allies, the saboteurs, and the company.
Stars: Marc Ben Puch, Andreas Döhler, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Pip Torrens
Votes: 7,768
12. Creator (1985)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An eccentric scientist teaches a student in his own manner while he looks for a way to clone his deceased wife.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen
Votes: 3,511 | Gross: $5.35M
13. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,825
14. The Atomic Submarine (1959)
Not Rated | 72 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Ships mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,838
15. La fin du monde (1931)
105 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The two Novalic brothers, Jean and Martial, are in love with the same woman, Genevieve. Jean is an impoverished actor and an idealistic dreamer, who does not want Genevieve to share in his ... See full summary »
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Abel Gance, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance, Jeanne Brindeau
Votes: 353
16. Tortilla Flat (1942)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Danny, a poor northern Californian Mexican-American, inherits two houses from his grandfather and is quickly taken advantage of by his vagabond friends.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, John Garfield, Frank Morgan
Votes: 2,046
17. The French Minister (2013)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy
A young speechwriter working in the French Foreign Ministry learns the impure nature of the political world.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Niels Arestrup, Bruno Raffaelli
Votes: 3,940 | Gross: $0.00M
18. He Named Me Malala (2015)
PG-13 | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai for speaking out on girls' education, followed by the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Khushal Yousafzai
Votes: 4,794 | Gross: $2.64M
19. Hamsun (1996)
Not Rated | 159 min | Biography, Drama, War
Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during World War II and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Gard B. Eidsvold
Votes: 1,715
20. The Colt (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 80 min | Action, Drama, History
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb's beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance, ... See full summary »
Director: Yelena Lanskaya | Stars: Ryan Merriman, Steve Bacic, William MacDonald, Darcy Belsher
Votes: 567
21. Mother Teresa (1986)
81 min | Documentary, Biography
This definitive portrait of Mother Teresa was shot over 5 years and follows the saint into the world's trouble spots, showing how Mother Teresa transcends all barriers with her works of love.
Directors: Ann Petrie, Jeanette Petrie | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Mother Teresa, Mohandas K. Gandhi
Votes: 121
22. Cold Fever (1995)
Unrated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
Director: Friðrik Þór Friðriksson | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Lili Taylor, Fisher Stevens, Gísli Halldórsson
Votes: 1,895 | Gross: $0.34M
23. One Peace at a Time (2009)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
Filmed in 20 countries, with the insights of Nobel Laureates: Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize), Steve Chu (Nobel Prize Physics and President Obama's Secretary of Energy) & Desmond Tutu (... See full summary »
Director: Turk Pipkin | Stars: Donna Berber, Philip Berber, Caroline Boudreaux, Steve Chu
Votes: 71 | Gross: $0.01M
24. Crimes of Passion: Dangerous Dreams (2013 TV Movie)
92 min | Crime, Thriller
Puck has managed to get a job working for the eccentric Nobel Literature Prize laureate Andreas Hallman. Hallman is charming and genial, but also a neurotic tyrant. He forces his wife, his ... See full summary »
Director: Molly Hartleb | Stars: Tuva Novotny, Linus Wahlgren, Ola Rapace, Björn Andersson
Votes: 693
25. Selma (2008 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Drama about Swedish world renowned novelist Selma Lagerlöf's life. In the first part, Selma is in Sicily with her lover Sophie Elkan. The second part is years later, when Selma receives the Nobel Price.
Director: Erik Leijonborg | Stars: Helena Bergström, Alexandra Rapaport, Nina Zanjani, Ola Rapace
Votes: 205
26. Spravedlnost pro Selvina (1968 TV Movie)
70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A dark comedy about a man who, against his will, dedicated his life to the fight for justice.
Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jirina Sejbalová, Míla Myslíková
Votes: 40
27. Vsyo budet khorosho (1995)
100 min | Comedy
Russian tragic comedy about forming post USSR society.
Director: Dmitriy Astrakhan | Stars: Anatoliy Zhuravlyov, Olga Ponizova, Mark Goronok, Aleksandr Zbruev
Votes: 479
28. Ski Patrol (1940)
64 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1939 a Finnish reserve unit defends the border and their town in the valley below from Russian invaders who are excavating an explosive-laden tunnel under their mountaintop encampment.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Philip Dorn, Luli Deste, Stanley Fields, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 217
29. Glory Enough for All (1988 TV Movie)
192 min | Drama
A dramatised account of the Nobel Prize winning discovery of Insulin by Fred Banting, Charles Best, J. J. R. Macleod & James Collip at the University of Toronto 1921-22.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: R.H. Thomson, Robert Wisden, John Woodvine, Michael Zelniker
Votes: 74
30. The Genius and the Boys (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography
The documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as ... See full summary »
Director: Bosse Lindquist | Stars: Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Carleton Gajdusek
Votes: 65
31. Matter of Heart (1986)
107 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary on the famous Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung, featuring interviews with those who knew him and archive footage of Jung.
Director: Mark Whitney | Stars: Carl Gustav Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Barbara Hannah, Liliane Frey-Rohn
Votes: 168
32. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 TV Movie)
84 min | Biography, History
A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.
Director: Alain Brunard | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Bateau, Patrick Descamps
Votes: 47
33. The Nobelists (2015)
35 min | Documentary
Over the past ten years, eight Israeli scientists have won the Nobel Prize, an extraordinary achievement for a country this size. After all the pomp and fanfare, few of us really know what ... See full summary »
Stars: Daniel Kahneman, Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt, Irwin Rose
34. Nobelity (2006)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
A look at the future and how to solve global problems such as poverty and the environmental degradation through a series of interviews with Nobel Prize winners.
Director: Turk Pipkin | Stars: Wangari Maathai, Turk Pipkin, Joseph Rotblat, Amartya Sen
Votes: 81
35. Life Is Bearable at Times... (2010)
74 min | Documentary
Director: Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska | Stars: Wislawa Szymborska, Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska, Woody Allen, Václav Havel
Votes: 65
36. Solar (I)
Drama | Announced
A story centered on a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose career is flagging and whose marriage is on the rocks. He also encounters another potential dilemma: a potential environmental catastrophe.
37. Disarm (2005)
67 min | Documentary, History, War
Disarm filmmakers Mary Wareham (Next Step Productions) and Brian Liu (Toolbox DC) present a contemporary and provocative view of the forces challenging the achievement of a mine-free world.... See full summary »
Directors: Brian Liu, Mary Wareham
Votes: 34
38. Romain Rolland (1969)
24 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Directors: Jean Faurez, Jean Lods | Star: Roger Pigaut
39. Seger i mörker (1954)
108 min | Biography, Drama
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Swedens greatest inventors.
Director: Gösta Folke | Stars: Olof Bergström, Eva Stiberg, Gunnar Björnstrand, Kolbjörn Knudsen
Votes: 70
40. Dario Fo and Franca Rame: A Nobel for Two (1998)
55 min | Documentary
Portrays the life and career of this husband and wife duo of actors and playwrights, who are best known for their satirical and politically radical theater.
Directors: Lorena Luciano, Filippo Piscopo | Stars: Dario Fo, Franca Rame
41. Poles Poles (2003)
28 min | Documentary, Short
A portrait of a portraying portraitist. For 4 decades the photographer Krzysztof Gieraltowski portrays eminent figures, thus creating a testimony, what the Poles are like. This time his "... See full summary »
Director: Borys Lankosz | Stars: Krzysztof Gieraltowski, Stanislaw Lem, Krzysztof Penderecki, Wislawa Szymborska
Votes: 7
42.
Without Walls (1990–1996)
Episode:
Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa
(1994)
25 min | Documentary, Biography
Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and foeticide and her questionable relationships with wealthy religious and political leaders.
Director: Jenny Morgan | Stars: Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Mihir Bose
Votes: 488
43.
Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode:
IQ
(1999)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy
Frasier and Niles' long time competitiveness is reawakened at a silence auction where the two spend eight thousand dollars for a lunch with three Nobel Prize winners.
Director: David Lee | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin
Votes: 884
44.
Maya (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Legend of Whitney Markham
(1968)
60 min | Adventure
Terry (Jay North) receives a tip that his father may be hospitalized in a remote hospital, but discovers the lead was false. Devastated, Terry runs off and Raji finds his friend in a state ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Coleman | Stars: Jay North, Sajid Khan, E.J. André, Mort Mills
Votes: 9
45.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
Once Upon a Time in the West
(1999)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
The Houdini Gang, a cowboy trio straight out of 1899, is stealing bullion from a bank's vault when their time machine breaks down. They take Peter hostage. Outside, familiar stranger approaches Lindsay and her psychotic SWAT leader beau.
Director: John Bell | Stars: Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Joanne Vannicola, Colin Fox
Votes: 16
46.
Ripcord (1961–1963)
Episode:
Where Do Elephants Go to Die?
(1963)
30 min | Adventure
After a recent health scare, Nobel-Prize-winning author and former Korean War correspondent Aaron Sparks asks his friends and comrades-in-arms Ted and Jim to teach him how to skydive, for ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Larry Pennell, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Lynn Cartwright
47.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Subterraneans: Part 1
(2005)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Boyd and the team discover that two decomposed bodies -- one a suicide and the other a murder victim -- are linked to the same man, a medical researcher.
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall
Votes: 151
48.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Two Fathers
(1999)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The alien rebels return to kill abductees including Scully and Cassandra Spender. With the Syndicate in shambles, the Cigarette Smoking Man reveals the truth to Agent Spender hoping that he will continue his work.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, William B. Davis, Chris Owens
Votes: 3,608
49.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Hoaxes, Buttigieg, Healthcare, Israel, Candace Owens, More
(2019 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
50.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Subterraneans: Part 2
(2005)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Boyd and his team are convinced that Dr. Nick Henderson has committed the two cement factory murders but proving it will be difficult.
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall
Votes: 127