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51. If I Had a Million (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft

Votes: 2,312

52. Bernard and Doris (2006)

TV-14 | 102 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke who develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

Director: Bob Balaban | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Ralph Fiennes, Peter Asher, Don Harvey

Votes: 4,490

53. The Count of Monte Cristo (1979)

350 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in ... See full summary »

Stars: Jacques Weber, Carla Romanelli, Jean-François Poron, Christiane Krüger

Votes: 170

54. The Keeper (1976)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so ... See full summary »

Director: T.Y. Drake | Stars: Christopher Lee, Tell Schreiber, Sally Drake, Ross Vezarian

Votes: 216

55. The Cat and the Canary (1978)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Mystery, Horror

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

Director: Radley Metzger | Stars: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller

Votes: 1,687

56. The Black Cat (1941)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery

Elderly Henrietta Winslow lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 2,090

57. Ruthless (1948)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Zachary Scott, Louis Hayward, Diana Lynn, Sydney Greenstreet

Votes: 1,417

58. The Merry Widow (1952)

Approved | 105 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance

Operating under royal orders, a count must woo a young and wealthy widow in order to save a kingdom from bankruptcy.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn

Votes: 671

59. Naked Gun (1956)

Approved | 69 min | Western

Don Pablo Salazar steals a fortune in jewels from an Indian tribe and an Aztec medicine man puts a curse on the jewels until they are returned. Years later an American insurance man, Breen ... See full summary »

Directors: Eddie Dew, Paul Landres | Stars: Willard Parker, Mara Corday, Barton MacLane, Tom Brown

Votes: 248

60. Decoy (1946)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.

Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley

Votes: 2,202

61. The Woman in White (1948)

Approved | 109 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A ghostly woman warns a beautiful Victorian heiress about a count, and a strange spell haunts a mansion and its inhabitants in an adaptation of Wilkie Collins' novel.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young

Votes: 1,764

62. Lady in a Jam (1942)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 327

63. The Inheritor (1973)

PG | 112 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A heir of media empire investigates who the enemy of his family is.

Director: Philippe Labro | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort, Charles Denner

Votes: 1,388

64. Egreti Gelin (2005)

115 min | Drama

Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the ... See full summary »

Director: Atif Yilmaz | Stars: Müjde Ar, Nurgül Yesilçay, Onur Ünsal, Füsun Demirel

Votes: 3,180

65. Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 87 min | Drama

"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he ... See full summary »

Director: Jim McBride | Stars: W. Earl Brown, Dedee Pfeiffer, Zachary Throne, Tim Kelleher

Votes: 540

66. Zoya (II) (2020)

105 min | Drama, War

Autumn 1941. Yesterday's schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya volunteered for a sabotage school. The partisan detachment, in which Zoya was located, is ambushed, and Zoya is captured by the ... See full summary »

Directors: Maksim Brius, Leonid Plyaskin | Stars: Anastasia Mishina, Anna Ukolova, Wolfgang Cerny, Olga Lapshina

Votes: 1,077

67. The Promised Land (1975)

Not Rated | 170 min | Drama

Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka

Votes: 4,038

68. Sentinels of Silence (1971)

G | 18 min | Documentary, Short

An 18-minute helicopter-based aerial visit across the archaeological ruins in Mexico.

Director: Robert Amram | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Orson Welles

Votes: 182

69. He ni zai yi qi (2002)

PG | 116 min | Drama, Music

A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.

Director: Kaige Chen | Stars: Yun Tang, Peiqi Liu, Hong Chen, Zhiwen Wang

Votes: 4,480 | Gross: $0.60M

70. The Lady and the Duke (2001)

PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, History, Romance

During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Libolt, Charlotte Véry

Votes: 2,874 | Gross: $0.33M

71. Sign of the Lion (1962)

103 min | Drama

A French-American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jess Hahn, Michèle Girardon, Van Doude, Paul Bisciglia

Votes: 2,359

72. The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)

30 min | Adventure, Family

A TV series adaptated from the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the ... See full summary »

Stars: George Dolenz, Nick Cravat, Robert Cawdron, Henry Corden

Votes: 67

73. The Hidden Hand (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best

Votes: 680

74. Assault of the Party Nerds 2: The Heavy Petting Detective (1995)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy

Five years after throwing a killer party and stealing Muffin away from alpha-male Zeta frat member Bud, head party nerd Ritchie is married (to Muffin!) and runs a detective agency.

Director: Richard Gabai | Stars: Richard Gabai, Christopher Dempsey, Michelle Bauer, Robert Dorfmann

Votes: 219

75. The Perfect Human (1968)

13 min | Short

An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.

Director: Jørgen Leth | Stars: Majken Algren Nielsen, Claus Nissen, Jørgen Leth

Votes: 2,567

76. Finding Escobar's Millions (2017–2019)

TV-14 | 41 min | Documentary

Two ex CIA agents travel to Colombia to look for the hundreds of millions of dollars buried by Pablo Escobar. Using modern technology they search throughout the country for the hidden money.

Stars: Douglas Laux, Ben Smith, Chris Feistl, Paul Bauman

Votes: 383

77. Plunder of the Sun (1953)

Approved | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

American adventurer gets involved in archaeological artifact smuggling and treasure hunting in Mexico.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 855

78. Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure

In the 18th century France, Jean-Paul, who was cheated out of his inheritance, land and titles by his uncle, decides to go to Guatemala in search of a famed Mayan treasure.

Directors: Delmer Daves, Otto Preminger | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden

Votes: 551

79. Little Treasure (1985)

R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Desperate for a better life, a failed dancer turned stripper teams up with a hunky aimless bartender to find her late father's buried treasure.

Director: Alan Sharp | Stars: Margot Kidder, Ted Danson, Burt Lancaster, Joseph Hacker

Votes: 374

80. Ushpizin (2004)

PG | 90 min | Drama

An Orthodox Jewish couple's faith is tested after praying to the Lord for a child on the Succoth holiday.

Director: Gidi Dar | Stars: Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-Sheva Rand, Shaul Mizrahi, Ilan Ganani

Votes: 2,131 | Gross: $1.40M

81. Money (1991)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.

Director: Steven Hilliard Stern | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Maryam d'Abo, Bruno Cremer, Mario Adorf

Votes: 222

82. Sudden Death (1977)

R | 89 min | Action, Drama

When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired C.I.A. operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an ... See full summary »

Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Felton Perry, John Ashley

Votes: 183

83. Kentucky Kernels (1934)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music

Two out-of-work magicians help lovelorn Jerry adopt little Spanky. When Jerry makes up and elopes, the duo are stuck with the brat. Then Spanky inherits a fortune, so they all head to Kentucky and get caught between two feuding clans.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Mary Carlisle, George 'Spanky' McFarland

Votes: 397

84. Fabulous Fanny (1975)

X | 87 min | Comedy

Twenty-year old Seymour will stand to inherit $250,000 if he becomes a father by his twenty-first birthday, a quest which a number of buxom beauties are only too willing to assist him.

Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Alan Spitz, Diane Sommerfield, Connie Hoffman, Cindy Arnold

Votes: 18

85. Hatsuyuki no koi (2007)

102 min | Romance

Min is a Korean boy moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he meets Nanae, a beautiful Japanese girl with stunning eyes who is aspiring to be a painter. ... See full summary »

Director: Han Sang-hee | Stars: Lee Joon-gi, Aoi Miyazaki, Seon-Yeong Baek, Yeon-hui Gu

Votes: 972

86. Ah! Si j'étais riche (2002)

105 min | Comedy

On the verge of a divorce, Aldo wins the lottery. About to tell his wife, he discovers she's sleeping with his new boss. Instead of telling her and sharing the money, he keeps the news hidden.

Directors: Gérard Bitton, Michel Munz | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Richard Berry, François Morel

Votes: 1,433

87. Verified Couple (2022)

73 min | Documentary

Andreea and Nico made a fortune as "Verified Couple" on porn websites. Now they live their dream under palm trees in the tax haven state of Cyprus. But how does it look off the stage?

Director: Joscha Bongard | Stars: Nico Nice, Jamie Young, Sylvia Sadzinski, Andreas Baranowski

Votes: 148

88. Torrent (1926)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After... See full summary »

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Greta Garbo, Gertrude Olmstead, Edward Connelly

Votes: 931 | Gross: $0.46M

89. Inheritance (2024)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

When an eccentric inventor and gameshow host, played by Jan Peszek, suddenly passes away, a family of bickering oddballs, among them Maciej Stuhr, Joanna Trzepiecinska and Mateusz Król, ... See full summary »

Director: Sylwester Jakimow | Stars: Jan Peszek, Maciej Stuhr, Joanna Trzepiecinska, Mateusz Król

90. Till Luck Do Us Part (2012)

104 min | Comedy

Tino and Jane, a couple from Rio, suddenly become millionaires after winning the lottery. 16 years later they have two children, but Tino is trying to hide from Jane that they face bankruptcy.

Director: Roberto Santucci | Stars: Leandro Hassum, Danielle Winits, Kiko Mascarenhas, Rita Elmôr

Votes: 2,692

91. Hello, She Lied (1996 TV Movie)

R | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A woman uses her smarts, charm and beauty as part of a scheme to settle her long-lost brother's debt that a sleazy lawyer wants settled right now.

Director: Lawrence Lanoff | Stars: Kathy Ireland, John Enos III, Audie England, Richard C. Sarafian

Votes: 220

92. Il successo (1963)

104 min | Comedy

With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What's the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?

Directors: Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Cristina Gaioni

Votes: 293

93. Alye parusa (1961)

88 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A little girl Assol met a wizard and it has been foretold: "... it will be a fine sunny day when a beautiful ship under scarlet sail comes and the noble prince will take you away from here.... See full summary »

Director: Aleksandr Ptushko | Stars: Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Yelena Cheremshanova, Aleksandr Lupenko

Votes: 686

94. A Cube of Sugar (2011)

PG | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

The story happens in an old house in an old city of Iran. Because of the wedding of the youngest sister, Pasandide, all of her sisters come to their old house to help their mother.

Director: Reza Mirkarimi | Stars: Reza Kianian, Negar Javaherian, Farhad Aslani, Saeed Poursamimi

Votes: 4,259

95. Turquoise Fever (2019)

TV-G | 43 min | Family, Reality-TV, Western

Turquoise Fever follows the Otteson clan in a quest for gems long buried in the Nevada desert. The rewards are great but the risks are high.

Stars: Emily Otteson, Tony Otteson, Jon Armond, Danny Otteson

Votes: 74

96. Just This Once (1952)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy

Mark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks, and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. His trustee Sam uses the power of... See full summary »

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Marilyn Erskine

Votes: 451

97. Black Starlet (1974)

R | 98 min | Drama

Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.

Director: Chris Munger | Stars: Juanita Brown, Eric Mason, Rockne Tarkington, Damu King

Votes: 68

98. Million Dollar Baby (1941)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

An older woman discovers that her multimillion-dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman who is the one and ... See full summary »

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan, May Robson

Votes: 557

99. Nonstop Trouble with the Family (1985)

91 min | Comedy

A series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a ... See full summary »

Directors: Dieter Hallervorden, Christian Rateuke | Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Wolfgang Kieling, Gerhard Wollner, Christoph Hofrichter

Votes: 996

100. Little Old New York (1923)

Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.

Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Marion Davies, Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote, Mahlon Hamilton

Votes: 1,087 | Gross: $2.40M