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1. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody, Vince Vaughn
Votes: 540,832 | Gross: $186.34M
2. The Terminal (2004)
PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 494,820 | Gross: $77.87M
3. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old San Francisco writer, gets a divorce that leaves her with terminal writer's block and depression. Later, she decides to buy a house in Tuscany in order to change her life.
Director: Audrey Wells | Stars: Diane Lane, Raoul Bova, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan
Votes: 59,437 | Gross: $43.61M
4. The Black Dahlia (2006)
R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank
Votes: 77,003 | Gross: $22.52M
5. The Class (2006–2007)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
A 27-year-old is reunited with his childhood friends.
Stars: Andrea Anders, Jon Bernthal, Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Votes: 4,834
6. L.I.E. (2001)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay
Votes: 10,443 | Gross: $1.14M
7. Heartburn (1986)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 12,542 | Gross: $25.31M
8. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,195 | Gross: $0.27M
9. Veronica Guerin (2003)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 21,877 | Gross: $1.57M
10. The Ten Commandments (1923)
Passed | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History
After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye
Votes: 2,655 | Gross: $5.36M
11. October Road (2007–2008)
TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Best-selling author Nick Garrett hopes to get over his writer's block by going back to his hometown of Knights Ridge, Mass. There, he realizes he's got to finally face the people he wrote about unfavorably in his novel.
Stars: Bryan Greenberg, Laura Prepon, Warren Christie, Brad William Henke
Votes: 4,922
12. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It's a lot more trouble than they think.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Reginald Denny
Votes: 12,798 | Gross: $6.00M
13. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con (2021 TV Movie)
84 min | Mystery
When one of Aida Teagarden's real estate clients is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter, Aurora sets out with her fiancé, Nick, to solve the murder.
Director: Tony Dean Smith | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner, Lexa Doig
Votes: 797
14. Bliss (1997)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
A newly married happy couple visits a sex therapist to determine why the wife can't achieve an orgasm with her husband. This causes a horrific suppressed memory to emerge and she becomes more and more distant.
Director: Lance Young | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Terence Stamp, Sheryl Lee, Casey Siemaszko
Votes: 2,881 | Gross: $0.21M
15. The Wedding Veil Expectations (2023 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Avery and Peter try to keep the romance alive while renovating an old house and juggling work, but everything takes on a new perspective when Avery has a surprise for Peter.
Director: Peter Benson | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Kevin McGarry, Alison Sweeney, Autumn Reeser
Votes: 1,094
16. Secret Smile (2005)
180 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After Miranda splits up with her creepy boyfriend Brendan because he read her diary she finds out that he is now going out with her sister Kerry and later proposes to her.
Stars: Claire Goose, Kate Ashfield, David Tennant, Jill Baker
Votes: 1,791
17. Strangers When We Meet (1960)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush
Votes: 2,632
18. Attila Marcel (2013)
G | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Paul, thirty or so, lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, two old aristocrats who have raised him since he was two and who dream of seeing him become a virtuoso pianist.
Director: Sylvain Chomet | Stars: Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont, Hélène Vincent
Votes: 3,339
19. A Friend's Betrayal (1996 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
Two childhood friends grow up. One has a family and the other has a career. One relationship may make or break a family. Paul, the teenage son, must decide what he wants for his future. ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Leitch | Stars: Brian Austin Green, Sharon Lawrence, Harley Jane Kozak, John Getz
Votes: 361
20. The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Quick-tempered yet likable Biff Grimes falls for the beautiful Virginia Brush, but he is not the only young man in the neighborhood who is smitten with her.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth, Alan Hale
Votes: 4,264
21. Partir (I) (2009)
Unrated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Suzanne "Dame Kristin Scott Thomas" is a well to do married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.
Director: Catherine Corsini | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi López, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan
Votes: 4,537 | Gross: $0.17M
22. A Life at Stake (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed architect meets a married woman with a business proposition. The architect soon suspect her interest isn't just financial - and might be deadly.
Director: Paul Guilfoyle | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglass Dumbrille, Claudia Barrett
Votes: 981
23. Come Early Morning (2006)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.
Director: Joey Lauren Adams | Stars: Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Tim Blake Nelson, Jason T. Davis
Votes: 2,770 | Gross: $0.12M
24. After (II) (2014)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery
A story centered around the Valentinos, a struggling family whose delicate balance is threatened by a carefully concealed secret that, if revealed, will change their lives forever.
Director: Pieter Gaspersz | Stars: Kathleen Quinlan, John Doman, Pablo Schreiber, Sabrina Gennarino
Votes: 218
25. Love in the Time of Money (2002)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York serves as a backdrop for a cast of characters in search of love, lust or lucre including a woman who makes awkward moves on the man renovating her SoHo loft, an embezzler, a sleazy artist and a phone psychic.
Director: Peter Mattei | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Domenick Lombardozzi, Jill Hennessy, Malcolm Gets
Votes: 747 | Gross: $0.01M
26. Century (1993)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of unending progress in science and civilization. ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Charles Dance, Clive Owen, Miranda Richardson, Robert Stephens
Votes: 416
27. Why? (1971)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
The surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Lino Banfi, Andrea Aureli
Votes: 1,011
28. Third Man Out (2005 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A gay detective is hired to find who has been been threatening a notorious member of the gay community noted for outing people.
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Chad Allen, Sebastian Spence, Jack Wetherall, Woody Jeffreys
Votes: 1,220
29. The Woman in Black (I) (1914)
55 min | Drama, Romance
Young gypsy girl Mary, is seduced by the immoral Robert Crane and abandoned. She is exiled from the gypsies and, along with her mother Zenda, known as "The Woman in Black," she vows revenge... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Marston | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Alan Hale, Mrs. Lawrence Marston, Marie Newton
Votes: 50
30. Time and Again (2007 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When Anna Malone finds an old music box hidden in a house she is renovating, she has no idea the joys, sorrows and hidden dangers it will bring.
Director: Penelope Buitenhuis | Stars: Brooke Burns, Paul Anthony, Beau Starr, Christina Jastrzembska
Votes: 260
31. The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Approved | 96 min | Drama
Brad Adams is the new manager of a manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town. He is brought in by owner Mrs. Doubleday to calm labor relations plus layoff employees. Brad manages to also find romance.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray Hamilton
Votes: 402
32. The Garden of Delights (1970)
GP | 95 min | Drama
A middle age construction tycoon is wheelchair-bound and amnesiac from a car accident in the company of his mistress. He alone had access to all his business's secrets, including the combination to the safe and his Swiss bank account.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Luchy Soto, Francisco Pierrá, Charo Soriano
Votes: 737
33. My Friends, My Love (2008)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Mathias and Antoine become a modern-day odd couple when they move in together in London. But while establishing house rules is easy, handling relationships with the opposite sex is another matter!
Director: Lorraine Lévy | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Pascal Elbé, Virginie Ledoyen, Florence Foresti
Votes: 703
34. Quick Millions (1931)
72 min | Crime, Drama
Truck driver Bugs Raymond organizes the trucking associations and takes protection money. Now rich, he decides to marry socialite Dorothy Stone. She rejects him for another, so he plots to kidnap her on her wedding day.
Director: Rowland Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Marguerite Churchill, Sally Eilers, Bob Burns
Votes: 404
35. Bad Behaviour (1993)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The McAllister family home is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children, and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard ... See full summary »
Director: Les Blair | Stars: Stephen Rea, Sinéad Cusack, Philip Jackson, Clare Higgins
Votes: 227 | Gross: $0.26M
36. Blondie's Secret (1948)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Family
The Bumsteads are trying to leave on their vacation but one thing after another (including Radcliffe stealing their luggage) is stopping them.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie
Votes: 206
37. Father, Mother, My Wife and I (1955)
105 min | Comedy
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Robert Lamoureux, Gaby Morlay, Fernand Ledoux, Nicole Courcel
Votes: 189
38. Ça reste entre nous (1998)
86 min | Comedy
Patrick loves his exquisite wife, who made him two beautiful boys, as much as his charming mistress, who gave him a delicious little girl. Everything is for the best in the best of all ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Lamotte | Stars: Catherine Frot, Sam Karmann, Carole Brenner, Fanny Cottençon
Votes: 137
39. Blondie's Reward (1948)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood gets in trouble at work when he buys the wrong property for his boss and when he is accused of punching out a client's son.
Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Marjorie Ann Mutchie
Votes: 190
40. Und dann kam Wanda (2014 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
The widower Karlheinz Kluss is a building contractor and his business is near the bankruptcy.The competition in the building industry is strong,Karlheinz thinks that Polish illegal workers ... See full summary »
Director: Holger Haase | Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Karolina Lodyga, Matti Schmidt-Schaller, Bella Bading
Votes: 49
41. Päätalo (2008)
107 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A contractor wants to become a writer but his unhappy marriage and financial problems are suppressing him.
Director: Hannu Kahakorpi | Stars: Kai Lehtinen, Susanna Mikkonen, Nina Jääskeläinen, Antti Virmavirta
Votes: 280
42. Bâtir mieux, plus vite, et moins cher (1975)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Sidney Jézéquel | Star: Gérard Dessalles
44. Ma famille et mon toit (1956)
26 min | Short, Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Decourt | Stars: Colette Castel, José Artur, Hélène Roussel, René Berthier
45. Noelle's Journey (2017)
42 min | Documentary, Short
Noelle's Journey is a film about Noelle Elia. A multimedia artist, she writes and films the human condition and shares her discoveries through her work. Her major documentary film project ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Gentile | Stars: Daniela Alessandrini, Gabriella Colissi Arthur, Franco Ciacco, Barilaro Donatella
46. Les Arènes de Picasso (1985)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Jean-Yves Martel, Jean François Roudot | Stars: M. Beeckmans, M. Cividino, M. Mahaut, Manuel Núñez Yanowsky
47. Kovanaama (1954)
95 min | Comedy, Crime
Comedy thriller about a keen young reporter who infiltrates a criminal gang to get a scoop about their activities for his newspaper . Together with his photographer, he creates havoc in the... See full summary »
Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Sirkka-Liisa Wilén, Pentti Viljanen, Toivo Mäkelä
Votes: 71
48.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Tödliche Verstrickung
(2005)
Crime, Drama
This morning a cleaning lady has found the corpse of Claus Leitner in this office; somebody shot against him at point blank.And some minutes later the police finds the corpse of Christine ... See full summary »
Director: Hartmut Griesmayr | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 15
49.
As Time Goes By (1992–2005)
Episode:
The Bathroom
(2000)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, Romance
After an embarrassing incident involving Lionel walking in on Sandy in the bath, Jean becomes convinced that the house is not big enough and immediately arranges to have a second bathroom ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer, Moira Brooker, Philip Bretherton
Votes: 98
50.
Family Affair (1966–1971)
Episode:
The Wings of an Angel
(1969)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
A former friend of Bill's visits, asking for a favor. Harv has just gotten out of prison and needs to find a job. The twins are afraid of Harv, and Cissy thinks she can help him adjust to living outside of prison again.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Brian Keith, Sebastian Cabot, Kathy Garver, Anissa Jones
Votes: 44