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1. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A free-thinking art professor teaches conservative 1950s Wellesley girls to question their traditional social roles.

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Votes: 91,091 | Gross: $63.86M

2. Splash (1983)

PG | 111 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A young man is reunited with a mermaid he briefly encountered as a boy and falls in love with her without knowing her secret.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy

Votes: 83,483 | Gross: $62.10M

3. Hall Pass (2011)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

Rick and Fred, two husbands who are having difficulty in their marriages, are given a Hall Pass by their wives: for one week, they can do whatever they want.

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly | Stars: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer

Votes: 131,166 | Gross: $45.06M

4. Hot Summer Nights (2017)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In 1991, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends on Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head.

Director: Elijah Bynum | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Emory Cohen

Votes: 23,534

5. Blown Away (1994)

R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges

Votes: 33,733 | Gross: $30.16M

6. The Ghost Writer (2010)

PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 170,923 | Gross: $15.54M

7. Summer Catch (2001)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rich girl whose family summers on Cape Cod has a romance with a local poor boy who hopes to become a major league baseball player.

Director: Michael Tollin | Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Fred Ward, Matthew Lillard

Votes: 16,666 | Gross: $19.69M

8. Portrait of Jennie (1948)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In Depression-era New York, an impoverished painter has a chance encounter with an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl in Central Park who inspires him and changes his destiny.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish

Votes: 7,643

9. The Lightkeepers (2009)

PG | 97 min | Comedy

Set in the year 1912 on Cape Cod, a lighthouse keeper who has disavowed any association with females, must deal with the appearance of two attractive women who move into a nearby cottage for the summer.

Director: Daniel Adams | Stars: Mamie Gummer, Bruce Dern, Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner

Votes: 1,543

10. Star! (1968)

G | 176 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey

Votes: 2,272 | Gross: $9.16M

11. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)

288 min | Documentary, Biography

Director Jonas Mekas provides an intimate glimpse of his personal life by constructing a feature length narrative from over 30 years of private home movie footage.

Director: Jonas Mekas | Stars: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Hollis Frampton

Votes: 1,467

12. Mystery Street (1950)

Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 3,458

13. Off the Map (2003)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama

An eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss.

Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Valentina de Angelis, Joan Allen, Sam Elliott, Amy Brenneman

Votes: 3,436 | Gross: $1.31M

14. Diane (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

Diane fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. As these pieces of her existence begin to fade, she finds herself confronting memories she'd sooner forget than face.

Director: Kent Jones | Stars: Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacy, Estelle Parsons, Andrea Martin

Votes: 1,663 | Gross: $0.34M

15. BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012)

Unrated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Kathy Najimy plays den mother to the returning cast of bears, boys and cubs, for a Bear Week bachelor party in Provincetown! Take a trip down the aisle with Roger and Tyler to one of the ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Langway | Stars: Joe Conti, Gerald McCullouch, Stephen Lambeth, Chuck Southworth

Votes: 614

16. Daisy Kenyon (1947)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick

Votes: 3,038

17. Where Are the Children? (1985)

R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In Cape Cod, Missy and Michael, the two children of Nancy Eldridge, are kidnapped by a man who has disturbing intentions for them. Local police chief Ed Coffin wrongfully suspects that Nancy is behind the disappearances.

Director: Bruce Malmuth | Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Max Gail, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois

Votes: 319

18. Christmas Bells Are Ringing (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Drama, Romance

A freelance photographer, on her way to Cape Cod to celebrate her father's Christmas Eve wedding, enlists the help of an old childhood friend to meet a deadline for a big Christmas spread that could ignite her career.

Director: Pat Williams | Stars: Emilie Ullerup, Josh Kelly, Mark Humphrey, Rebecca Staab

Votes: 1,759

19. Cafe Society (1995)

R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery

A society playboy with a taste for the lowlife is set up for exploitation by an unscrupulous undercover cop and his shadowy political masters.

Director: Raymond De Felitta | Stars: Frank Whaley, Peter Gallagher, Lara Flynn Boyle, John Spencer

Votes: 426 | Gross: $0.01M

20. Wild About Harry (2009)

PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Family

In 1973 playing it straight can get a little twisted... Set in 1973 and inspired by true events, 'American Primitive' tells the story of the havoc that is wreaked in a teenage girl's life ... See full summary »

Director: Gwen Wynne | Stars: Tate Donovan, Adam Pascal, Danielle Savre, Skye McCole Bartusiak

Votes: 234

21. Summer Solstice (1981 TV Movie)

75 min | Drama, Romance

Fifty years after their wedding, a couple celebrating their golden anniversary reminisce about when they first met. Through flashbacks, we see them fall in love.

Director: Ralph Rosenblum | Stars: Henry Fonda, Myrna Loy, Stephen Collins, Lindsay Crouse

Votes: 283

22. Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007)

PG | 90 min | Drama

Shortly before Christmas, cold, impatient priest arrives in a tiny fishing village to shut down a dwindling parish's church.

Director: David Wall | Stars: David Wall, Sean Patrick Brennan, Kerry Wall, Brennan Wall

Votes: 702 | Gross: $0.24M

23. Give or Take (2020)

Unrated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

After the death of his father, a New Yorker returns to Cape Cod to prepare his childhood home for sale. With his father's boyfriend still living there, they butt heads and negotiate how to remember the man they both loved.

Director: Paul Riccio | Stars: Norbert Leo Butz, Jamie Effros, Joanne Tucker, Louis Cancelmi

Votes: 142

24. Design for Scandal (1941)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a swingeing alimony settlement. But his devious plan to compromise Cornelia Porter, the judge on the case, while she... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman

Votes: 521

25. Betrayed (2014 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 85 min | Thriller

While vacationing in Cape Cod, Julie, six months pregnant, and her boyfriend Trent get caught up in a scandal when Trent is kidnapped by a mysterious man, and Jonathan - Julie's husband - is forced to pay the ransom.

Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Amanda Schull, Lynne Adams, Tony Devon, Charlie Hofheimer

Votes: 263

26. Dischord (2001)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Music, Thriller

On the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Wilkinson | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, Annunziata Gianzero, Richard Bakalyan, Andrew Borba

Votes: 92

27. Unconditional Love (1995)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

In the setting of Pristine beaches and rolling dunes of Cape Cod, director Arthur Bjorn Egeli paints a canvas of beauty and love against the backdrop of an artist's struggle to find the ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Egeli | Stars: Pablo Bryant, Aleksandra Kaniak, Isabelle Dahlin, David Ellsworth

Votes: 66

28. Lie Down with Dogs (1995)

R | 84 min | Comedy, Romance

Tommie is a young guy in Manhattan with a dead-end job handing out fliers in Times Square. At the beginning of a fateful summer, he has a chance encounter with a friend who tells Tommie ... See full summary »

Director: Wally White | Stars: Wally White, Bash Halow, James Sexton, Darren Dryden

Votes: 661 | Gross: $0.24M

29. Joe & Joe (1996)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Joe and Joe are two likeable losers living in Cape Cod who mow lawns for a living, but their equipment is quite antiquated. Their lives change one day when a mysterious woman appears and ... See full summary »

Director: David Wall | Stars: David Wysocki, Sean Patrick Brennan, Tracy Griffith, Dianne Brennan

Votes: 95

30. The Deciding Kiss (1918)

50 min | Drama

Eleanor Hamlin, a forlorn little orphan living with her grandparents in Cape Cod, is adopted by a wealthy New Yorker, Beulah Page, and her friends. Beulah does not love Eleanor, but her ... See full summary »

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Edith Roberts, Winifred Greenwood, Hallam Cooley, Hans Unterkircher

Votes: 16

31. Going Places with Graham McNamee, #58 (1939)

Approved | 9 min | Short, History

The first segment is a study of the windmills found at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where a craftsman in Barnstable is shown working on making replicas of famous windmills known on the Cape for... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Mead | Star: Graham McNamee

32. The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu (1999)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

A young married couple living year round on Cape Cod face the winter season uncertain of their future, apart or together.

Director: Todd Verow | Stars: Devery Doleman, Bill Dwyer, Eric Sapp, Philly Abe

Votes: 100

33. Rugged Water (1925)

60 min | Drama

After years of service, the Captain of the Setuckit Life Saving Station on Cape Cod retires, Calvin Homer, the second in command, Calvin Homer expects to be promoted; but the appointment ... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Lois Wilson, Wallace Beery, Warner Baxter, Phyllis Haver

Votes: 28

34. Touching the Game: The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League (2004 Video)

G | 100 min | Documentary

A unique and insightful documentary following the experiences of college baseball players as they compete in one of the most prestigious amateur leagues in the country, The Cape Cod ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Carroll

Votes: 27

35. Picturesque Massachusetts (1942)

Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short

Traveltalks short exploring many of the historic and picturesque places in Massachusetts.

Stars: James A. FitzPatrick, Charles Alden, Hazel French

Votes: 87

36. The Accident (1999)

98 min | Documentary, Biography

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Director: Joseph F. Lovett | Stars: Joseph F. Lovett, Merrill Lovett, Tricia Lovett

37. Captain Hurricane (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Zenas Brewster (James Barton) is a seafaring man with a bad reputation. Notorious for his tempestuous nature, Brewster has earned the nickname of "Captain Hurricane." Brewster is smitten ... See full summary »

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: James Barton, Helen Westley, Helen Mack, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 101

38. A Petticoat Pilot (1918)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

When the third partner in their small Cape Cod trading business dies, Shad Gould and Zoeth Hamilton adopt his little daughter Mary-'Gusta. After several years, the two old salts decide that... See full summary »

Director: Rollin S. Sturgeon | Stars: Vivian Martin, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Harrison Ford

Votes: 30

39. As Ye Sow (1914)

50 min | Drama

Dora, the daughter of a wealthy man, marries a good-looking young fellow from the country who has made an auspicious start in New York business life. Having won the girl by trickery, he ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Hall Crane | Stars: Alice Brady, W.D. Fischter, Douglas MacLean, Lydia Knott

Votes: 17

40. The Bulls of Suburbia (2004)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary

The story of one American overcoming the demons of his past by entering the secretive world of Spanish bullfighting.

Director: Alex LeMay | Stars: Coleman Cooney, Santiago Gonzalez, Alex LeMay, David Rank

Votes: 19

41. No Trespassing (1922)

70 min | Drama

Roscoe Paine owns the lane that runs through the Cape Cod fishing village in which he lives, but he allows anyone to use it out of gratitude for the many kindnesses shown to him and his ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Hollywood | Stars: Irene Castle, Howard Truesdale, Emily Fitzroy, Ward Crane

Votes: 30

42. Variations on a Shot: Slough Pond (1974)

4 min | Documentary, Short

A series of color shots focused on Slough Pond in Truro on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Director: Nick Macdonald

43. Lobstering on the Benjo (1997 Video)

35 min | Documentary, Short

Experience a day on a Cape Cod lobster boat. Ride out through the choppy, early morning swells and accompany the lobstermen as they haul their traps, sorting and banding these ancient ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Seufert | Star: Dana Eldridge

44. Fish Lore (2010)

13 min | Short, Drama

To hide from his past, Stillman dwells, in solitude, at an antiquated cottage on Cape Cod. Surfcasting on the beach has become his therapy and his life. His peace is shattered when his ... See full summary »

Director: Brandon Todesca | Stars: Todd Poudrier, Philip Ransley-Szuszkiewicz, Christine Szuszkiewicz

45. Longlining on the Bad Dog (1998)

Documentary, Short

Follow a New England longliner out to "the old tuna grounds" as he sets and hauls his lines for dogfish, a small shark once considered "trash" fish and now sold extensively to the English ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Seufert | Star: Dana Eldridge

46. Variations on a Shot: Cape Ocean (1974)

4 min | Documentary, Short

A series of color shots focused on the Atlantic Ocean in Truro on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Director: Nick Macdonald

47. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Tide of Death (1959)

Adventure

A South American refugee living in Cape Cod is working on his autobiography when two assassins from his old country kidnap his son and demand the man turn over the manuscript for his book in exchange for the boy's life.

Stars: Richard Webb, Alma Beltran, Edward Colmans, Thano Rama

48. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Fire (1993)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder and Scully join forces with an inspector from Scotland Yard when a man with pyrokinetic powers stalks members of the British aristocracy.

Director: Larry Shaw | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Pays, Mark Sheppard

Votes: 6,135

49. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: Jack (1917-1940) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

Kennedy navigates his formative years, including his time in school, relationship with his family, and his early interests in history and politics.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: John F. Kennedy, Thomas J. Carty, David M. Kennedy, David Nasaw

Votes: 36

50. Kennedy (2023)
Episode: The Kennedy Machine (1956-1960) (2023)

Documentary, Biography, History

Kennedy sets into motion an unprecedented 5-year campaign for the Presidency, revolutionizing modern campaigning and the use of television.

Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: Peter Coyote, Julian Zelizer, Curtis Wilkie, Martin W. Sandler

Votes: 31