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1. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Myrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn
Votes: 5,691 | Gross: $9.65M
2. The Uninvited (1944)
Passed | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp, Cornelia Otis Skinner
Votes: 12,499
3. Promises..... Promises! (1963)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.
Director: King Donovan | Stars: Jayne Mansfield, Tommy Noonan, Marie McDonald, Mickey Hargitay
Votes: 644
4. The Cry Baby Killer (1958)
TV-14 | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.
Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Harry Lauter, Jack Nicholson, Carolyn Mitchell, Brett Halsey
Votes: 741
5. Kim (1950)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas
Votes: 2,264
6. Band of Angels (1957)
Passed | 125 min | Drama
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 2,635
7. Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Ian Hunter
Votes: 3,628 | Gross: $2.27M
8. Judge Priest (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 2,528
9. The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The wealthy but selfish parents of a lonely young girl begin to rethink what is important to them after a servant's irresponsibility results in a crisis.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Mary Pickford, Madlaine Traverse, Charles Wellesley, Gladys Fairbanks
Votes: 1,550
10. The Fan (1949)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
Lord Windermere appears to all, including his young wife Margaret, as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk after Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene
Votes: 762
11. Spring Night Summer Night (1967)
R | 82 min | Drama
Jessica, the eldest daughter of a coal miner-turned-farmer, has a fling with her half-brother Carl, which complicates things more when she becomes pregnant.
Director: Joseph L. Anderson | Stars: Larue Hall, Ted Heimerdinger, Marjorie Johnson, John Crawford
Votes: 748
12. The Little American (1917)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph Levering | Stars: Mary Pickford, Jack Holt, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 732
13. The Golden Hawk (1952)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, History
The seafaring adventures of French privateer Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo during the Franco-Spanish-English war of the 17th century.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden, Helena Carter, John Sutton
Votes: 359
14. Where Are My Children? (1916)
Approved | 62 min | Drama
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Mrs. Tyrone Power, Marie Walcamp, Cora Drew
Votes: 872
15. The Bachelor Father (1931)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Old man invites three of his illegitimate children to live with him.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Ralph Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith, Ray Milland
Votes: 1,237
16. Son of the Navy (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama
Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom and Dad. The sailor, not knowing ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Jean Parker, James Dunn, Martin Spellman, Selmer Jackson
Votes: 130
17. Smart Woman (1948)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A crusading district attorney, Robert Larrimore, butts heads in court with defense attorney Paula Rogers.
Director: Edward A. Blatt | Stars: Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Barry Sullivan, Michael O'Shea
Votes: 259
18. Gentleman's Fate (1931)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Jack lives the high life and wants to make Marjorie his one and only. He then learns that his deceased father is alive--but dying of lead poisoning. His father had sent him away 20 years ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page
Votes: 840
19. Lena Rivers (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance
Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Charlotte Henry, Morgan Galloway, Beryl Mercer, James Kirkwood
Votes: 106
20. The Millionaire Baby (1915)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Who stole "The Millionaire Baby?" Did the plotting Doctor Pool finally accomplish his bold determination? Did Valerie Carew, former Burlesque Queen conquered by Mother-Love seize an ... See full summary »
Directors: Lawrence Marston, Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Frederick Hand, Mrs. A.C. Marston, Grace Darmond, Harry Mestayer
Votes: 21
21. The Planter (1917)
100 min | Drama
Osgood and Short are promoters floating stock in a fraudulent tropical rubber plantation among the residents of a New England community. Their best prospect is Elizabeth Mann, a wealthy ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas N. Heffron, John Ince | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Lamar Johnstone, Mrs. Tyrone Power, Lucille King
22. The Call of the East (1917)
50 min | Drama
A Japanese aristocrat and an American woman fall in love, but their relationship is complicated when her brother seduces his sister.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Jack Holt, Margaret Loomis
23. The Wedding Waltz (1988 TV Movie)
56 min | Comedy, Drama
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from ... See full summary »
Director: Matti Ijäs | Stars: Vesa Vierikko, Sulevi Peltola, Markku Maalismaa, Kaija Pakarinen
Votes: 1,265
24. A Society Sensation (1918)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman.
Directors: Edmund Mortimer, Paul Powell | Stars: Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Alfred Allen
Votes: 133
25. A Manhattan Knight (1920)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
John Fenton visits a fortune-teller to gain insight into his parentage. While there, a police raid occurs, and he climbs the fire escape to the apartment above. There he finds a girl ... See full summary »
Director: George Beranger | Stars: George Walsh, Virginia Hammond, William H. Budd, Warren Cook
Votes: 21
26. The Innocence of Lizette (1916)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Ashby Leene, once a famous actor, but now poverty stricken, dies, leaving his grandchild, Lizette, in the care of Granny Page, his landlady. Lizette's new home is one of kindliness and she ... See full summary »
Director: James Kirkwood | Stars: Mary Miles Minter, Eugene Forde, Harvey Clark, Eugenie Forde
Votes: 41
27. The Pride of the Clan (1917)
84 min | Drama, Romance
Among the simple fisher-folk of a little island off the west coast of Scotland lives MacTavish, head of a clan. Here he rules as a chieftain, and his word is law. One day a hurricane sweeps... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Mary Pickford, Matt Moore, Warren Cook, Kathryn Browne-Decker
Votes: 118
28. The Dark Mirror (1920)
50 min | Drama, Horror
Priscilla Maine, a wealthy young woman, is plagued by visions of menacing people and strange adventures, which she confides to Dr. Philip Fosdick, a young physician. Later, while reading a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Huntley Gordon, Walter D. Nealand, Jessie Arnold
Votes: 33
29. Less Than the Dust (1916)
93 min | Drama
A little English girl, abandoned in India and raised by an Indian swordmaker, learns of her true origin and returns to England to seek out her birthright.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Mary Pickford, David Powell, Frank Losee, Mary Alden
Votes: 57
30. The Strongest (1920)
60 min | Drama
Harle, a successful French businessman, is so absorbed with his factory that he neglects his wife Claire. One day, Harle's old friend Henri, the Marquis de Puymaufray, comes to visit, and ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Florence Malone
Votes: 16
31. The Broken Gate (1920)
60 min | Drama
When Don Lane returns from college to visit his mother in the town of Spring Valley, where she has worked in a millinery shop to support him since his infancy. There Don learns that he is ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Scardon | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Joseph Kilgour, Sam De Grasse, Marguerite De La Motte
32. The Spell of the Yukon (1916)
50 min | Drama
Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert Temple is rid of his only serious rival for Helen, whom he soon marries. Jim goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Burton L. King | Stars: Edmund Breese, Arthur Hoops, Christine Mayo, William Sherwood
33. Fighting Mad (1917)
50 min | Western, Drama
Doctor Lambert takes his wife west to a mining town, where he can both minister and doctor. His wife is not happy and upon discovering she is pregnant, runs away with a gambler. He soon ... See full summary »
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: William Stowell, Helen Gibson, Hector Dion, Betty Schade
34. At Piney Ridge (1916)
Drama
When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson ... See full summary »
Director: William Robert Daly | Stars: Fritzi Brunette, Al W. Filson, Leo Pierson, Edward Peil Sr.
35. Sold at Auction (1917)
50 min | Drama
To remove forever anything that will remind him of his dream of happiness that was shattered by his wife's infidelity, Stanley sends his infant daughter Nan to be cared for by a woman named... See full summary »
Director: Sherwood MacDonald | Stars: Lois Meredith, William Conklin, Marguerite Nichols, Frank Mayo
36. The Circus of Life (1917)
50 min | Drama
Danny, the driver of a brewery wagon, marries Mamie; soon after, she becomes infatuated with artist Gaston Bouvais. When Marie gives birth to Daisy May, Danny is led to believe at the ... See full summary »
Directors: Rupert Julian, Elsie Jane Wilson | Stars: Elsie Jane Wilson, Mignon Anderson, Pomeroy Cannon, Harry Carter
Votes: 13
37. The Merry-Go-Round (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Crump's Colossal Combined Carnival Show barely survives financially by hiring thieves and pickpockets to rob customers. One day, clubman Jack Hamilton buys the circus when his car breaks ... See full summary »
Director: Edmund Lawrence | Stars: Peggy Hyland, Jack Mulhall, Edward Jobson, Edwin B. Tilton
38. The Book Agent (1917)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Harry Kelly, a bookseller, meets pretty young Mollie Lester at a women's seminary. He runs into her again sometime later when he finds her employed as nurse to the wealthy invalid Crandall ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: George Walsh, Doris Pawn, William Burress, Reginald Everett
39. The Raggedy Queen (1917)
50 min | Drama
Tatters holds court in a rundown little village at the mouth of the main shaft of the Tilson iron mines. The court consists of miners' children. Tatters firmly believes that she is ... See full summary »
Director: Theodore Marston | Stars: Violet Mersereau, Grace Barton, Donald Hall, Robert F. Hill
40. Wolves of the Night (1919)
50 min | Drama
Bruce Andrews, a mining engineer who owns a sheep ranch in a copper-rich region of the Northwest, marries vacationing Easterner Isabel Hollins, who is also loved by Burton Mortimer, the ... See full summary »
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Louise Lovely, Lamar Johnstone, Charles Clary
41. Under Northern Lights (1920)
50 min | Drama, Romance
Douglas MacLeod of the Royal North West Mounted Police is in love with Suzanne Foucharde, who has adopted an abandoned Indian baby, the illegitimate child of Louis La Rocque and Na Fa Kowa.... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Jaccard | Stars: William Buckley, Tom London, Virginia Brown Faire, Herbert Bethew
42. The Foundling (1916)
Passed | Drama
Rich artist David King sends his infant daughter Molly to an orphanage, then years later regrets it and tries to find her. She's sent to slave at a boarding house,and the mistress of the orphanage passes her niece off as Molly.
Director: John B. O'Brien | Stars: Mary Pickford, Edward Martindel, Maggie Weston, Mildred Morris
Votes: 24
43. A Mother's Ordeal (1917)
Drama
Director: Will S. Davis | Stars: Jean Sothern, Walter Miller, Alice May, Arthur Housman
44. From the Valley of the Missing (1915)
50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett. They are neighbors of Governor Floyd Vandecarm whose twin ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Jane Miller, Vivian Tobin, Harry Spingler, William Bailey
Votes: 23
45. The Divine Sacrifice (1918)
50 min | Drama
Dr. David Carewe's already unhappy marriage is made worse when his wife Helen's refuses to have children. Helen poses as the wife of gambler Robert Spencer in Europe, while David falls in ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Kitty Gordon, Selene Johnson, Jean Angelo, Frank Goldsmith
46. Sins of Her Parent (1916)
50 min | Drama
Unhappy with her shotgun marriage to Southern aristocrat Arthur Heatherway, Valerie Marchmont leaves her new husband and, after giving her infant daughter to a Virginia family, goes to ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Gladys Brockwell, William Clifford, Carl von Schiller, George Webb
47. The Heritage of Hate (1916)
50 min | Drama
After watching her mother die gradually from a broken heart, Roberta, an illegitimate child, decides to seek vengeance from her father Bradley, who ran away before she was born. Bradley is ... See full summary »
Director: Burton George | Stars: Roberta Wilson, William Quinn, Lillian Concord, Eileen Sedgwick
48. Sunshine and Gold (1917)
50 min | Drama
Shouts of joy and the clapping of many tiny hands welcomed the arrival of the big birthday cake. For this was Little Mary's birthday. To celebrate all Mary's little friends had been invited... See full summary »
Director: Henry King | Stars: Marie Osborne, Henry King, Daniel Gilfether, Neil Hardin
49. The Straight Way (1916)
50 min | Drama
Deserted by her husband, John Madison, because he incorrectly accuses her of having an affair, Mary Madison goes to her aunt's house to have her baby, and then loses her memory in a train ... See full summary »
Director: Will S. Davis | Stars: Valeska Suratt, Herbert Heyes, Glen White, Claire Whitney
50. A Circus Romance (1916)
50 min | Drama
Circus dancer Babette learns from Zaidee, her fortune-teller mother, that her father is the respected businessman Ezra Butterworth, who had deserted Zaidee years before and then remarried. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles M. Seay | Stars: Muriel Ostriche, Edwards Davis, Jack Hopkins, Catherine Doucet