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1. Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.
Directors: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Stars: Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone
Votes: 565,701 | Gross: $84.35M
2. The Social Network (2010)
PG-13 | 120 min | Biography, Drama
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Rooney Mara
Votes: 759,985 | Gross: $96.96M
3. Why Him? (2016)
R | 111 min | Comedy
A holiday gathering threatens to go off the rails when Ned Fleming realizes that his daughter's Silicon Valley millionaire boyfriend is about to pop the question.
Director: John Hamburg | Stars: Zoey Deutch, James Franco, Tangie Ambrose, Cedric The Entertainer
Votes: 123,872 | Gross: $60.32M
4. The Internship (2013)
PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy
Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Rose Byrne, Aasif Mandvi
Votes: 215,290 | Gross: $44.67M
5. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1971, twenty-four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Stars: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 46,175 | Gross: $0.64M
6. Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
After Charlie survives a car crash that kills his younger brother, he is given the gift of seeing the spirits of his brother and others who he has lost, and must use his powers to save the woman he loves from impending disaster.
Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew
Votes: 64,748 | Gross: $31.16M
7. Orange County (2002)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.
Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk, Bret Harrison
Votes: 51,978 | Gross: $41.03M
8. Spare Parts (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
Four Mexican high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: George Lopez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlos PenaVega, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 11,870 | Gross: $3.61M
9. The Gay Deceivers (1969)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Danny and Elliot avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they have to act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.
Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Kevin Coughlin, Brooke Bundy, Lawrence P. Casey, Jo Ann Harris
Votes: 883
10. Margot at the Wedding (2007)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is marrying less-than-impressive Malcolm.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Flora Cross, Zane Pais
Votes: 22,734 | Gross: $1.96M
11. New Best Friend (2002)
R | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of an underachieving college girl, and uncovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.
Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams | Stars: Taye Diggs, Dominique Swain, Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe
Votes: 3,470 | Gross: $0.03M
12. I Dreamed of Africa (2000)
PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A bored Italian socialite (Kim Basinger) abandons her jet-set lifestyle for the rigors and rewards of rural Kenya in this true story, based on the best-selling memoir by Kuki Gallmann. Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots of Fire).
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Liam Aiken, Garrett Strommen
Votes: 4,897 | Gross: $6.54M
13. Smart People (2008)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.
Director: Noam Murro | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elliot Page
Votes: 23,495 | Gross: $9.50M
14. Dark Skies (2009 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A reclusive scientific prodigy and three college friends find themselves in the middle of a toxic storm, when an unscrupulous business deal rains terror down on an entire county.
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Shawn Roberts, Sara Canning, P.J. Prinsloo, Levi James
Votes: 413
15. The College Admissions Scandal (2019 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Drama
Two wealthy mothers--sought-after interior designer Caroline and Bethany, owner of a successful financial-services firm--share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.
Director: Adam Salky | Stars: Penelope Ann Miller, Mia Kirshner, Robert Moloney, Catherine Lough Haggquist
Votes: 569
16. Double Indemnity (1973 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Webber, Samantha Eggar
Votes: 616
17. In Love and War (1958)
TV-14 | 111 min | Drama, War
In 1944, the family lives of three San Francisco Marines are affected by their personal experiences on the front lines in the Pacific and vice-versa.
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Robert Wagner, Dana Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange
Votes: 489
18. So This Is College (1929)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr
Votes: 284
19. American Promise (2013)
TV-PG | 135 min | Documentary
This intimate documentary follows the 12-year journey of two African-American families pursuing the promise of opportunity through the education of their sons.
Directors: Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson | Stars: Idris Brewster, Joe Brewster, Miles Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
Votes: 301 | Gross: $0.09M
20. Killer Stress: A National Geographic Special (2008 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
National Geographic investigates the root causes and eventual effects of stress.
Director: John Heminway | Stars: Elizabeth Blackburn, Elissa Epel, Marcus Lovett, Michael Marmot
Votes: 263
21. Prep School (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport
When the star player of an elite prep school rugby team suffers an emotional collapse, his friends and teammates respond in their own ways, ranging from heroic to horrifying.
Director: Sean Nichols Lynch | Stars: Carly Schroeder, Taylor Lambert, Ben Bellamy, Austin Scott
Votes: 563
22. Admissions (2004)
PG | 84 min | Drama
The Brighton has a traumatic drama in the breast of their family: the twenty-year-old Emily Brighton is intellectually disabled due to a fall when she was one, and her overprotective mother... See full summary »
Director: Melissa Painter | Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Amy Madigan, Christopher Lloyd, Fran Kranz
Votes: 339
23. Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World, A Personal Exploration by Jason Riley (2021 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary, Biography
Traces Thomas Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of our era's most controversial economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.
Director: Tom Jennings | Stars: Jason Riley, Adaecus Brooks, Alton Demore, Larry Elder
Votes: 545
24. Target: St. Louis (2018)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
The secret history of U.S. Army aerosol radiation tests in segregated neighborhoods of North St. Louis during the Cold War.
Director: Sean Slater | Stars: Reese Archibald, James Baldwin, Sarah M. Barnes, Karl Brandt
Votes: 11
25. Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Narrated by Walter Cronkite, this is the quintessential documentary on Silicon Valley and the emergence of a new golden age of civilization. This film visually captures the origins and ... See full summary »
Director: John R. McLaughlin | Stars: Paul Berg, Nolan Bushnell, James H. Clark, Bob Cohn
26. 20 Minutes of Action (2020)
75 min | Documentary
20 Minutes Of Action brings to life in performance the harrowing victim's impact statement written by the Brock Turner rape survivor known as Emily Doe.
Director: Charles Nuckolls | Stars: Margot Avery, Lily Balsen, Marina Barry, Diana Maria Benigno
27. Campus Confessions (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
An unpopular freshman (William Henry) charms a coed (Betty Grable) by leading the basketball team to victory.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Betty Grable, Eleanore Whitney, William Henry, Fritz Feld
Votes: 34
28. Direct Order (2003)
55 min | Documentary
The United States Military is using an experimental drug on our men and women in uniform, and it is killing them.
Director: Scott Miller | Stars: Michael Douglas, Rick Otto
Votes: 24
29. The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
The Spirit of Stanford finds high school quarterback Frankie Albert, cocky because of his football abilities, heading for Stanford while his teammate, Cliff Bernard, opts for the University... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Frankie Albert, Marguerite Chapman, Matt Willis, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 52
30. Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age (1985 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 26 min | Documentary
All interviews in this documentary were shot over a long weekend at a 1984 hacker conference by the Whole Earth Catalog editors Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelley in Sausalito, California. The ... See full summary »
Director: Fabrice Florin | Stars: Bill Atkinson, Bruce Baumgart, Stewart Brand, Bill Budge
Votes: 62
31. China's Ghost Army (2010 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
They are one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time, but can modern technology explain the mysteries of China's Terracotta Warriors?
Star: Andrew Laing
Votes: 13
32. Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 (2021)
55 min | Documentary
TARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1© tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical testing on citizens of St. Louis's Northside. Told through the eyes of the survivors who ... See full summary »
Director: Damien D. Smith | Stars: Reese Archibald, Sarah M. Barnes, Chester Deanes Jr., Elkin L. Kistner
33. You Can't Fool a Camera (1941)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
This short starts out as a documentary. In a dramatization, Eadweard Muybridge's photographic experiments prove that when a horse gallops, there are times when all four of the animal's feet... See full summary »
Stars: Pete Kmetovic, Joseph Ruttenberg, Ray June, Mervyn LeRoy
Votes: 111
34. 2014 Foster Farms Bowl (2014 TV Special)
Sport
Stars: Dave Flemming, Greg McElroy, Shelley Smith, Banks Agaruwa
35. The Drive: Pac-12 Football (2013– )
30 min | Sport
Pac-12 Networks goes behind the scenes with The Drive: Pac-12 Football during football season to give viewers an all-access look at the venerable football programs throughout the conference.
Stars: Yogi Roth, Todd Graham, Zane Gonzalez, Taylor Kelly
Votes: 13
36. Mei (2004)
Short, Drama, History
Director: Carol Liu | Stars: Diana Ly, Joseph Juyo Chen, Justin Liszanckie, Daphne Nayar
Votes: 7
37.
Remington Steele (1982–1987)
Episode:
Steele Crazy After All These Years
(1983)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A woman from Murphy Michaels' college days seeks his help solving the mystery disappearance of a mutual friend. It appears a poltergeist is murdering former members of her 1970's anti-war group.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, James Read, Janet DeMay
Votes: 194
38.
Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode:
Pilot
(2005)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Sam and Dean Winchester were trained by their father to hunt the creatures of the supernatural. Now, their father has mysteriously disappeared while hunting the demon that killed their mother, 22 years ago.
Director: David Nutter | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Sarah Shahi, Adrianne Palicki
Votes: 10,860
39.
Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World (2019)
Episode:
The Airplane
(2019)
TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary, History
Take to the sky with the dreamers whose work gave humans the ability to fly. From Leonardo da Vinci's "flying machines" to the modern commercial plane, without these inventions, we may have never left the ground.
Directors: Stephen Mizelas, Nathan Williams, Ben Harding | Stars: Jim Al-Khalili, Brandon Mikesell, Shini Somara, David Lentick
Votes: 32
40.
College Football 150: The American Game (2019– )
Episode:
The Culture
(2019)
60 min | Documentary, History, Sport
College football is more than just a sport -- it's a cultural phenomenon. To understand the game, you have to understand how much everything around it matters, too -- from the team colors to the uniforms to the bands, the mascots and more.
Stars: Andrea Adelson, Erin Andrews, John Bacon, Jerry Barca
Votes: 13
41.
The Buck Sexton Show (2017– )
Can Therapeutics Save Us?
(2020 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Buck Sexton
42.
The Michael Knowles Show (2017– )
Finally, Some Good News!
(2020 Podcast Episode)
48 min | Talk-Show
Star: Michael J. Knowles
43.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Announcing My Candidacy for President of the United States
(2020 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
44.
Guiding Light (1952–2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.15604
(2009)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance
Alan threatens Beth, demanding that she marry him and break up with Coop. Remy and Christina fool the financial aid representative. Little Emma runs away from school.
Director: Adam Reist | Stars: Mandy Bruno Bogue, Orlagh Cassidy, Beth Chamberlin, Crystal Chappell
45.
Computer Chronicles (1983–2002)
Episode:
Business Applications
(1984)
TV-G | 23 min | News, Talk-Show
A look at the popular new software programs for business.
Director: Peter Nichols | Stars: Stewart Cheifet, Bill Blackmer, Dan Carroll Jr., Steve Jobs
46.
House Hunters (1999– )
Episode:
Sensational Silicon Valley Spread
(2009)
TV-G | Reality-TV
After selling their home, Frank and Corrie are living with their son in temporary housing in Palo Alto, California. They're looking in the Silicon Valley area for an open-plan, ranch-style ... See full summary »
Star: Andromeda Dunker
47.
Heartmix (1996– )
Episode:
Episode Five
(1996)
Reality-TV
Stars: Juha Sulin, Tomi Paalosmaa, Maria Valonen, Tuomas Talvitie
48.
Computer Chronicles (1983–2002)
Episode:
Computers and the Arts
(1987)
TV-G | 28 min | News, Talk-Show
Computers are moving from math and engineering to the world of the arts. A look at how artists are using computer technology.
Stars: Stewart Cheifet, George Morrow, Margo Apostolos, Eddie Dombrower
49.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Silicon Valley
(2013)
TV-PG | 82 min | Documentary, Biography, History
SILICON VALLEY tells the story of the pioneering scientists who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity we now know as Silicon Valley.
Stars: Leslie Berlin, Roger Borovoy, Kathleen Cohen, Andrew Grove
Votes: 199
50.
The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
Why the Woke Mob Must Be Mocked
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Star: Matt Walsh