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1. The Buccaneers (1995)
TV-14 | 48 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Four American girls go to England to find husbands.
Stars: Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, Mira Sorvino, Rya Kihlstedt
Votes: 2,625
2. Black Butterfly (II) (2017)
R | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A reclusive screenwriter takes in a mysterious drifter who is determined to repay his kindness by helping him finish his latest story.
Director: Brian Goodman | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Piper Perabo, Vincent Riotta
Votes: 14,955
3. The Group (1966)
Approved | 150 min | Drama
After graduating from a prestigious Eastern university, 8 devoted female friends go their separate ways: one leaves for Europe, while the others experience troubled relationships. Decades later they get to meet one last time.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight
Votes: 2,108 | Gross: $6.54M
4. F for Fake (1973)
PG | 89 min | Documentary
A documentary about fraud and fakery.
Directors: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach | Stars: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach, Elmyr de Hory
Votes: 18,366
5. Les Misérables (1995)
R | 175 min | Drama, History
A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Salomé Lelouch
Votes: 4,062 | Gross: $1.04M
6. High Society (1995–1996)
30 min | Comedy
Successful publisher Dot lets pregnant friend Val move in despite best friend Ellie's disapproval, straining their relationships.
Stars: Jean Smart, Mary McDonnell, Dan O'Donahue, Luigi Amodeo
Votes: 215
7. The Truck (1977)
76 min | Drama, Romance
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary »
Director: Marguerite Duras | Stars: Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 459
8. Before We Collapse (2023)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
Tristan, campaign manager for a legislative candidate, is shocked by an anonymous letter containing a positive pregnancy test.
Directors: Benoît Volnais, Alice Zeniter | Stars: Niels Schneider, Ariane Labed, Souheila Yacoub, Myriem Akheddiou
Votes: 90
9. Party Girl (1996)
30 min | Comedy
In a spinoff of the cult film, Christine Taylor stars as Mary, a girl whose mother has passed away, leaving her to find herself in the clubs and parties of New York City. She is finally ... See full summary »
Stars: Christine Taylor, John Cameron Mitchell, Merrin Dungey, Matt Borlenghi
Votes: 38
10. Don Quijote de la Mancha (1947)
137 min | Comedy, Drama
The most faithful of all the major film versions of Cervantes' novel.
Director: Rafael Gil | Stars: Rafael Rivelles, Juan Calvo, Fernando Rey, Manolo Morán
Votes: 193
11. Don Quijote de la Mancha (1991–1992)
310 min | Comedy
Miniseries version of the first half of Cervantes' famous novel.
Stars: Fernando Rey, Alfredo Landa, Francisco Merino, Manuel Alexandre
Votes: 197
12. The Dark Sisters (2023)
80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Sisters Jorie and Kaidon attempt to reconnect over a vacation in the woods after a terrible secret drove them apart.
Director: Richard Bailey | Stars: Nicole Fancher, Edna Gill, Kristin Colaneri, Christie Vela
Votes: 67
13. Innocenza (1986)
90 min | Drama
A beautiful new teacher arrives in a small, traditional village in Switzerland. Luca immediately falls in love with her - until he realizes that his best friend receives as much of her (... See full summary »
Director: Villi Hermann | Stars: Enrica Maria Modugno, Alessandro Haber, Teco Celio, Patrick Tacchella
Votes: 18
14. Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, History
The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Director: Mac Carter | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Paul Levitz, Gerard Jones, Mark Waid
Votes: 1,332
15. Derrida (2002)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
Documentary about French philosopher (and author of deconstructionism) Jacques Derrida, who sparked fierce debate throughout American academia.
Directors: Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering | Stars: Jacques Derrida, Marguerite Derrida, René Major, Chantal Major
Votes: 993 | Gross: $0.16M
16. Rings of the Unpromised (2023)
69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a world of broken promises, one woman finds the answer to fulfill the only promise that truly matters.
Director: Michelle Arthur | Stars: Michelle Arthur, Kat Kramer, Linney Allen, Jeff Vernon
Votes: 21
17. The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen (2011 TV Movie)
History
A historian and professor Amanda Vickery explores why Jane Austen's books have been popular for nearly 200 years.
Director: Rupert Edwards | Stars: Cassandra Hodges, Andrew Davies, Colin Firth, Katie Halsey
Votes: 36
18. Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man (2003)
52 min | Documentary
In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his "den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore," offering free, dirty beds to poor literati, cutting his ... See full summary »
Directors: Gonzague Pichelin, Benjamin Sutherland | Stars: James Baldwin, John Baxter, Sylvia Beach, Gary Brown
Votes: 51
19. Forbidden Lie$ (2007)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Drama
A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Director: Anna Broinowski | Stars: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Rana Husseini, Caroline Overington
Votes: 633
20. The Blue Men (1990)
Short
On a small summer island, May and her grandson Bomber count the days. May's son, Bomber's father, is on Death Row. At Dawn, on September 1st, he will be executed. May retreats from this sad... See full summary »
Director: Denise McKenna | Stars: Teresa Bowman, David Bruhn, Randy Burr, Leanna Buster
Votes: 77
21. Le tartuffe (1984)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
Blinded by admiration, Orgon, a property-owning French man, brings the poor and insincere Tartuffe into his home and arranges for his daughter to marry him. Various members of the family attempt to have Tartuffe thrown out.
Director: Gérard Depardieu | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, François Périer, Yveline Ailhaud, Paule Annen
Votes: 173
22. Noorpur Ki Rani (2009–2020)
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Noorie comes from an impoverished background and goes through turbulent times before her life takes a magical turn and she finds a new life in the palace.
Stars: Nouman Ijaz, Sanam Baloch, Azfar Rehman, Mahnoor Baloch
Votes: 13
23. The Bridge of San Luis Rey Remastered (2022)
130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An epic adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Now fully remastered, this star-studded film is restored with 40 minutes of unseen footage.
Director: Mary McGuckian | Star: Kathleen Warner Yeates
24. Televiteatros (1993– )
Drama, History, Mystery
Stars: Edith González, Humberto Zurita, Christian Bach, Ernesto Alonso
25. The Oval Portrait (1997)
25 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A man discovers that in his former life he was an artist that killed his newlywed wife by painting her soul into an Oval Portrait. The dead wife reappears in the present to haunt and kill him for his crime.
Directors: Phillip A. Boland, Ivan Zuccon | Stars: Jeanne Bates, Sam Bologna, Laura Erlich, Annalisa Candini
Votes: 14
26. Dead River (2015)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A biographer of a renowned crime writer finds real darkness behind the fiction.
Director: Jason DeBoer | Stars: Morse Bicknell, Eb Lottimer, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Staci Robbins
Votes: 9
27. SlamNation (1998)
100 min | Documentary
Various competitors of the National Poetry Slam are profiled with their poetry readings.
Director: Paul Devlin | Stars: Mychele Dee, Craig muMs Grant, Bill MacMillian, Taylor Mali
Votes: 129
28. James Bond: The Films, the Books and the Cold War (2015 Video)
64 min | Biography, History, Talk-Show
Star: Jeremy Black
29. Kew Gardens (2018)
Short, Drama
A cinematic adaptation of Virginia Woolf's short story, 'Kew Gardens.'
Director: Nick Cohen | Stars: Christina Carty, Imogen Stubbs, Natasha Wightman, Simon Wilson
30. The Eye of the Storm: Q+A with Geoffrey Rush and Fred Schepisi (2012 Video)
25 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Stars: Andrew L. Urban, Geoffrey Rush, Fred Schepisi, Judy Davis
31. My Brilliant Career: The Miles Franklin Story (2004 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Star: Miles Franklin
32. Time Travel Boyfriends (2009)
10 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A woman remembers her love affairs with well-known historical male figures. Based on the director's book of the same name, the film is a fantasy love-letter to a diverse collection of men ... See full summary »
Director: Josephine Halbert | Stars: Josephine Halbert, Hanna Peretz, Tim Seyfert
Votes: 8
33. An Arrest (1997 Video)
15 min | Short, Drama
A man waiting to be hanged, escapes by killing his jailer and flees deep into the woods where he is capture by the jailer's ghost.
Director: Phillip A. Boland | Stars: Harry Bennett, Danny Grossman, Zale Morris, John Paul Saurine
34. In the Spotlight (2007)
11 min | Short, Drama
An aspiring author is offered the chance to be the front person for a literary hoax and discovers a far worse fate than rejection.
Director: Clement Hil Goldberg | Stars: Michelle Tea, Guinevere Turner, Clint Catalyst, Steven Reigns
Votes: 18
35. Lasst uns frei fliegen über den Garten (1974 TV Movie)
40 min | Biography, Drama
Director: Stanislaw Latallo | Stars: Jan Nowicki, Yurek Bogayevicz, Asja Lamtiugina, Jerzy Bossak
Votes: 11
36. Books Du Jour (2014– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Books du Jour introduces a brand new literary program with a simple premise. Every week, the host invites three authors to lunch to discuss their work and their main concerns about life at ... See full summary »
Stars: Frederic Colier, Karin Slaughter, Billy Hayes, Antonin Baudry
37. Alice: A look into Alice's adventures in Wonderland and at the curious relationship between Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll (2010)
Documentary
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published in 1865, and revolutionized children's writing. It made a mockery of much that had preceded it; the cautionary tales where young mischievous... See full summary »
Director: Gerry Malir
38. My Brilliant Career: Interview with Producer Margaret Fink (2004 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Star: Margaret Fink
39. Postcards from Earth's Whisper (2011– )
30 min | Documentary
In spring 2011, poets and writers Joshua Ferris, Eliza Griswold, Bob Holman, Nathalie Handal and Christopher Merrill traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and UAE as part of a literary ... See full summary »
Stars: Bob Holman, Eliza Griswold, Nathalie Handal, Joshua Ferris
40. Gillian Armstrong on 'My Brilliant Career' (2019 Video)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Biography, History
In this interview, recorded in Los Angeles in 2018, director Gillian Armstrong talks about the way the success of 'My Brilliant Career' shaped her own career in film.
Star: Gillian Armstrong
41. Eastlake at USD (1968 Video)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
An archival, videotaped interview with the acclaimed author of the original Castle Keep novel, William Eastlake.
Director: Ernest Phelps | Stars: John R. Milton, William Eastlake, Gaylord Ayers
42. My Brilliant Career: Interview with Director Gillian Armstrong (2004 Video)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Gillian Armstrong, Judy Davis, Margaret Fink
43. Double Oh No in Covid Royale (2021)
Comedy, Drama
Literary characters are bleeding from books into our realm. With all competent spies self-isolating, Agent Double Oh No is called upon to save the day.
Stars: Simon's Dad, The Font*, Hannah's Books, Scott Baird
44. The Comfort of Strangers: Interview with Novelist Ian McEwan (1981 Video)
27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McEwan
45. James Bond: The Last Englishman (2008 Video)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Speaking from the Ian Fleming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum entitled 'For Your Eyes Only', Professor David Cannadine attempts to put the Bond novels into their historical ... See full summary »
Stars: David Cannadine, Cynthia Baron, Andrew Lycett, Simon Winder
46. Sleep in a Nest of Flames (2001)
118 min | Documentary, Biography
Charles Henri Ford was an openly gay poet/writer/filmmaker/magazine publisher who led a long and interesting life. He started by reading his poetry in one of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. ... See full summary »
Directors: James Dowell, John Kolomvakis | Stars: Eric M. Cole, Val Oisteneau, Rich Bernatovech, Paul Bowles
47. The Bookwallah (2013)
33 min | Documentary, Short
The Bookwallah: five writers; a pop-up library; and 2,000 km by train. The film follows five writers and an ingenious travelling library across India by train.
Director: Catriona Mitchell
48. Kylie Tennant (1986)
45 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Erika Addis | Stars: Elizabeth Riddell, Kylie Tennant
49. Beside the Manor Selby (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 50 min | Drama
Beside the Manor Selby is a period drama starring cult film actor Conrad Brooks taking place in the Edwardian era inspired by the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Daphne du Maurier, ... See full summary »
Director: Ellsworth Hall | Stars: Conrad Brooks, E. Warren Hopf, Hal L. Rothwells, Joseph M. Dwyer
50. The Tell-Tale Heart - a musicabre (2019)
37 min | Short, Musical
A musical adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story. A man murders an old man because of his "vulture eye", then is driven to madness and confession by the incessant beating of victim's heart under the floor boards.
Director: Danny Ashkenasi | Stars: Danny Ashkenasi, Scott Burns, Edward Elder, Michael Gelfand