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1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,985,814 | Gross: $377.85M
2. Terminator Genisys (2015)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When John Connor, leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline.
Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Emilia Clarke, Jai Courtney
Votes: 293,149 | Gross: $89.76M
3. A Friend of the Family (2022)
TV-MA | 53 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years in the 1970s by a charismatic, obsessed family "friend."
Stars: Jake Lacy, Colin Hanks, Lio Tipton, Anna Paquin
Votes: 6,955
4. Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
PG-13 | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving
Votes: 53,191
5. Taxidermia (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Three generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
Director: György Pálfi | Stars: Csaba Czene, István Gyuricza, Gina Moreno, Éva Kuli
Votes: 18,672 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Fist of the North Star (1984–1988)
TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After a nuclear war turns Earth into a lawless wasteland, Kenshiro, a practitioner of the deadly master art "Hokuto Shinken", fights a succession of tyrannical warriors to restore order.
Stars: Akira Kamiya, Shigeru Chiba, Teiyû Ichiryûsai, Tomiko Suzuki
Votes: 3,604
7. Rebound (2005)
PG | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
An acclaimed college basketball coach is demoted to a junior varsity team after a public meltdown.
Director: Steve Carr | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Megan Mullally, Breckin Meyer, Wendy Raquel Robinson
Votes: 13,624 | Gross: $16.81M
8. Born Innocent (1974 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A young girl runs away from her abusive family and ends up in a girls' juvenile detention center, where she's raped and brutalized by her sadistic peers. Only one honest social worker shows interest in helping her.
Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mary Murphy
Votes: 1,197
9. Fist of the North Star (1986)
Not Rated | 110 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In a post-nuclear hellscape, a master of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two kids and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to battle the tyrants who kidnapped his lover.
Director: Toyoo Ashida | Stars: Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Kenji Utsumi, Chikao Ôtsuka
Votes: 7,323
10. Little Ladies of the Night (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Kyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to ... See full summary »
Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: David Soul, Louis Gossett Jr., Linda Purl, Clifton Davis
Votes: 216
11. Buttwhistle (2014)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ogden Confer is a community college student living with his parents and dealing with the recent loss of his best pal, Rose, when he foils the suicide effort of a mysterious young lady, Beth... See full summary »
Director: Tenney Fairchild | Stars: Trevor Morgan, Elizabeth Rice, Lio Tipton, Adhir Kalyan
Votes: 383
12. Vikes (2017)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
High-schooler Thorvald, influenced by Ida, a girl he likes, campaigns to change his school's mascot, the Viking, to something less offensive to the Scandinavian community. It's a love story.
Director: Tenney Fairchild | Stars: Aidan Alexander, Sydney Sweeney, Carter Hastings, Noah Munck
Votes: 187
13. Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
A 15-year-old girl runs away from home and arrives in Hollywood, but winds up becoming a prostitute to support herself and gets involved with a tough-talking pimp.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Eve Plumb, Leigh McCloskey, Lynn Carlin, William Schallert
Votes: 403
14. Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama, Romance
It's time for hockey! There's no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons' own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her ... See full summary »
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Tara Birtwhistle
Votes: 1,483 | Gross: $0.02M
15. The Stranger Beside Me (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Billy Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Suki Kaiser, Brenda James
Votes: 1,037
16. Shades of LA (1990–1991)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Det. Michael Burton of the Los Angeles Police Department is a shallow, casual kind of guy until a near-death experience changes his life. Grazed in the head by a bullet during a stake-out, ... See full summary »
Stars: Summer Shohfi, John D'Aquino, Warren Berlinger, Susan Ware
Votes: 35
17. Eastern Plays (2009)
83 min | Drama
Through Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
Director: Kamen Kalev | Stars: Christo Christov, Ovanes Torosian, Saadet Aksoy, Nikolina Iancheva
Votes: 3,196
18. Attack of the Helping Hand! (1979)
6 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.
Director: Scott Spiegel | Stars: Linda Quiroz, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell
Votes: 194
19. Reaching from Heaven (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Just as church services are letting out, a shabbily-dressed stranger is run over by an automobile in front of the church. The stranger is helped mentally and physically by the minister and ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Cheryl Walker, John Qualen, Regis Toomey
Votes: 36
20. March Comes in Like a Lion 2 (2017)
140 min | Drama
With friendship of other shogi players and the care of the Kawamoto sisters, Kiriyama Rei's frozen heart melts as he starts to truly appreciate shogi and the world he lives in. However, the... See full summary »
Director: Keishi Otomo | Stars: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Hideaki Itô, Kasumi Arimura, Kuranosuke Sasaki
Votes: 271
21. City Park (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into obtaining enough money to support the ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Sally Blane, Henry B. Walthall, Matty Kemp, Hale Hamilton
Votes: 52
22. The Time Tree (2018)
18 min | Short, Drama, Family
1596. Anne, a deaf girl, bullied by the maids and mistresses who look after her, finds solace when she comes across a magical tree: a portal to the present, where she meets Jo and Rachel, ... See full summary »
Director: Celine Cotran | Stars: Miranda Beinart-Smith, Jillian Bradley, Cleopatra Dickens, Paul Fuller
Votes: 26
23. Ethelontis ston erota (1971)
93 min | Comedy, Romance
A kind accountant meets the statuesque owner of a boutique who comes up with a double proposal: apart from bookkeeping, he has to help her with her fiancé. As deeper feelings take over, will this brave volunteer of love emerge victorious?
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Elena Nathanail, Rika Dialyna, Elsa Rizou
Votes: 113
24. The Town That Forgot God (1922)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A village schoolteacher, unaware that Eben, the village carpenter, is in love with her, marries a surveyor and has a son, David. Eben, distraught at losing her, goes away, and he returns ... See full summary »
Director: Harry F. Millarde | Stars: Ben Grauer, Warren William, Jane Thomas, Harry Benham
25. The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble (1937)
Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason
Votes: 35
26. Enemies (1940)
91 min | Drama, Romance, War
Nazi propaganda film about a German laborer named Keith who works in a sawmill in Poland near the German border in 1939. When local anti-German sentiment leads to lynchings, lovely Anna hides Keith in her tavern.
Director: Viktor Tourjansky | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Willy Birgel, Reinhold Lütjohann, Karl-Heinz Peters
Votes: 18
27. Making Friends (1936)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Pudgy the pup takes Betty Boop's advice ('Go Out and Make Friends With the World') to heart and befriends various wild animals.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Myron Waldman | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Votes: 132
28. Urban Legend (1994)
25 min | Short, Comedy
In a park, a homeless woman claiming to be a psychoanalyst helps out Annie, a troubled young woman in need of some guidance, by explaining to her in a fun and approachable way the philosophy of Freud and Kierkegaard.
Director: Adrienne Shelly | Stars: Jan Leslie Harding, Julia McNeal, Melinda Wade
Votes: 49
29. The Happy Cobblers (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In a little village in a far-away mythical country lives an old cobble and his dog. The old man can no longer make good shoes and they have fallen upon hard times until, one night, the dog ... See full summary »
Director: Eddie Donnelly
Votes: 15
30. Per Aspera Ad Astra (1969)
1 min | Animation, Short
A short animated film in which an old man struggles to get off a toilet.
Director: Nedeljko Dragic
Votes: 213
31. Brotherly Love (1936)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Inspired by Olive's preaching of the value of brotherly love, Popeye takes a walk through the city doing good deeds.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke
Votes: 304
32. So You Want to Be a Handy Man (1951)
Passed | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor Marvin comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line and almost asphyxiate themselves. They then ... See full summary »
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Rodney Mabrey Bell
Votes: 26
33. A Matter of Life and Debt (2017– )
44 min | Documentary
Documentary series about credit unions and responsible lenders across the UK, telling the stories of people whose lives have been transformed by an ethical loan.
Star: Kevin Duala
34. Jeep Kiosk and Love (1957)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
Secretly in love with a charming seamstress, a kiosk owner with an irrational fear of jeeps needs to raise his game when a pressing well-off suitor falls for the same girl. Will he finally get rid of his phobia to marry his sweetheart?
Director: Maria Plyta | Stars: Sofia Mathioudaki, Nikos Stavridis, Marika Nezer, Vilma Kirou
Votes: 76
35. Everyone's Favorite (2023)
Unrated | 8 min | Short, Comedy
Sibling rivalry between a brother and sister leads to each one seeking a helping hand.
Director: Jackson Buhring | Stars: Kelly Banfield, Kade Buhring, Kurt Buhring, William Crosby
36. Norbert commis d'office (2015– )
60 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
Stars: Norbert Tarayre, Philippe Lacheau, Alice David, Julien Arruti
38. Rewinders (2010)
Unrated | 6 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Rewinders are everywhere, helping those less fortunate reach their goals, and sometimes just help people save face.
Director: Austin McCarthy | Stars: Chele André, Jeffrey Donnelly, Nicholas Anthony Zarrillo
39.
7th Heaven (1996–2007)
Episode:
X-Mas
(2005)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Kevin makes a fine Father Christmas and knows the ideal gift: a dog, but Lucy insists to wait till after the holidays, then sneakily goes to the asylum herself, only to find their tastes in... See full summary »
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, David Gallagher, Beverley Mitchell
Votes: 77
40.
The Loretta Young Show (1953–1961)
Episode:
A Greater Strength
(1958)
30 min | Drama
A newly returned widow discovers to her dismay that her only daughter has been adopted while she was a POW. While trying to retrieve her daughter, she encounters frustrating complications that endanger her child and challenge her faith.
Director: Richard Morris | Stars: Loretta Young, Mae Clarke, Ann Morrison, Cheryl Callaway
Votes: 12
41.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
A Harvest of Friends
(1974)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Charles and his family settle on farmland by Plum Creek just outside the town of Walnut Grove. To support his family until he can bring in a harvest, Charles works several jobs, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Landon | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 645
42.
Night Visions (2001–2002)
Episode:
Bitter Harvest/My So Called Life and Death
(2001)
TV-14 | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Mean Old Jennings loses his arms in an accident caused by his scared young neighbor Shane, who must now care for him. / Angsty teen girl on vacation with her family in their summer home falls for their handsome ghostly handyman.
Directors: Ernest R. Dickerson, Philip Sgriccia | Stars: Steve Bacic, Wanda Cannon, Brendan Fletcher, Mark Houghton
Votes: 103
43.
Only in LA (2004– )
Episode:
Christmas Special
(2005)
Family, News
Director: Nancy Criss | Stars: Nancy Criss, Nicole Criss, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Henry Winkler
Votes: 50
44.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
He's Alive
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A tiny neo-Nazi organization struggles pathetically to succeed in a big city. A mysterious figure begins to ruthlessly guide a young, insecure U.S. Nazi leader, and the group begins to draw more attention.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine
Votes: 2,192
45.
The Pacific (2010)
Episode:
Basilone
(2010)
TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Outmanned and with supplies low, Basilone and other marines on Guadacanal rally to repel superior Japanese forces.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: James Badge Dale, Joseph Mazzello, Jon Seda, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 2,824
46.
Touching Lives (2007– )
Episode:
Something from Nothing
(2007)
Reality-TV, Talk-Show
Jeff travels to Bauleni compound in Lusaka to visit the Zambia Community Concerned Project Foundation, an organization that educates the community though various programs. He also goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Eddie Edwards | Stars: Monica Eisenberg, Jeff Kawana
47.
World on Fire (2019–2023)
Episode:
Episode #2.3
(2023)
TV-14 | 57 min | Drama, Romance, War
As Stan and Rajib make a hasty retreat across the desert, Marga reasserts her commitment to the führer. Meanwhile, David is in peril in the skies over France.
Director: Meenu Gaur | Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Miriam Schiweck, Inga Dietrich, Ahad Raza Mir
Votes: 155
48.
Sam and Colby: The Paranormal (2015– )
Episode:
Exploring an Abandoned College
(2017)
Not Rated | 13 min | Adventure, History, Horror
Sam and Colby discovers an abandoned college in Los Angeles and brings along Elton and Corey to go explore the abandoned structure. However, things take a turn for the worst while exploring.
Directors: Colby Brock, Sam Golbach | Stars: Colby Brock, Elton Castee, Sam Golbach, Corey Scherer
Votes: 6
49.
Sam and Colby: The Paranormal (2015– )
Episode:
Exploring Haunted Ghost School
(2018)
Not Rated | 18 min | Adventure, History, Horror
In the beginning of the fourth season of the show, the duo is in Pennisylvania to explore a abandoned middle school.
Directors: Colby Brock, Sam Golbach | Stars: Colby Brock, Sam Golbach
Votes: 7
50.
Sam and Colby: The Paranormal (2015– )
Episode:
Overnight at Haunted Queen Mary Ship
(2019)
Not Rated | 54 min | Adventure, History, Horror
After multiple years of fear, nightmares, regret and life changing experience inside the known haunted Queen Mary ship. The team has finally, ( with multiple regrets and remorse ), to go back. But this time, overnight.
Directors: Colby Brock, Sam Golbach | Stars: Colby Brock, J.C. Caylen, Sam Golbach, Kian Lawley
Votes: 6