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1. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr
Votes: 56,995 | Gross: $27.15M
2. The Producers (2005)
PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Votes: 44,842 | Gross: $19.38M
3. Maps to the Stars (2014)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, John Cusack
Votes: 42,942 | Gross: $0.35M
4. Destroyer (2018)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.
Director: Karyn Kusama | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 31,865 | Gross: $1.53M
5. Rang De Basanti (2006)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi
Votes: 122,511 | Gross: $2.20M
6. I'm Not Here (I) (2017)
TV-MA | 81 min | Drama
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
Director: Michelle Schumacher | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Sebastian Stan, Maika Monroe, Mandy Moore
Votes: 1,801
7. The Final (I) (2010)
R | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An awkward student with a deadly vendetta leads a group of outcasts who plot to avenge the years of humiliation they faced by the popular students at Hohn High School.
Director: Joey Stewart | Stars: Marc Donato, Jascha Washington, Whitney Hoy, Justin Arnold
Votes: 12,026
8. Daydream Nation (2010)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A city girl who moves to a small town and becomes entangled in a love triangle between her high school teacher and a stoner classmate.
Director: Michael Goldbach | Stars: Kat Dennings, Reece Thompson, Andie MacDowell, Josh Lucas
Votes: 13,062
9. A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
Director: Natalie Portman | Stars: Natalie Portman, Gilad Kahana, Amir Tessler, Moni Moshonov
Votes: 4,358 | Gross: $0.57M
10. Martial Law II: Undercover (1991 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A martial arts expert cop teams up with another to take down a criminal organization after one of his fellow detectives suspiciously dies in a car accident.
Director: Kurt Anderson | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Jeff Wincott, Billy Drago, Paul Johansson
Votes: 1,176
11. The Boys Club (1996)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
In Ontario, Canada, three fourteen-year-old boys, Kyle, Brad and Eric are forced to perform an ordeal when they find a wounded mysterious fugitive named Luke, who has a gun and claiming to be a cop, has taken a hiding in their clubhouse.
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Chris Penn, Dominic Zamprogna, Stuart Stone, Devon Sawa
Votes: 1,348
12. The Brain Eaters (1958)
Approved | 61 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
Director: Bruno VeSota | Stars: Ed Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, Cornelius Keefe, Joanna Lee
Votes: 1,816
13. Dirty Weekend (1973)
107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André, Lionel Stander
Votes: 561
14. Jakarta (1988)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A CIA agent roams the streets of New York haunted by the death of the beautiful woman he fell in love with while on assignment in Jakarta.
Director: Charles Kaufman | Stars: Chris Noth, Suzee Pai, Frans Tumbuan, Ronald Hunter
Votes: 171
15. Love Comes to the Executioner (2006)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man is hired as the executioner at a prison where his brother sits on death row. Things get more surreal when he falls in love with his brother's ex-girlfriend -- who's imprisoned herself.
Director: Kyle Bergersen | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Jeremy Renner, Ginnifer Goodwin, Christine Ebersole
Votes: 945
16. Engraçadinha (1981)
103 min | Drama
Engraçadinha is a sexy teenager, with whom every man wants to get involved, except her cousin Sílvio, the only man she loves. On Sílvio's engagement day, she seduces him at the party and ... See full summary »
Director: Haroldo Marinho Barbosa | Stars: Lucélia Santos, José Lewgoy, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Wilson Grey
Votes: 241
17. For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Pepe Le Peu chases a female cat in a perfume shop until she turns the tables on him.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,950
18. Deep Sleep (1990)
87 min | Mystery, Thriller
Shelly, institutionalized following the death of her father, returns home desperate for answers about his death. Her memories return, revealing long-repressed dark family secrets.
Director: Patricia Gruben | Stars: Megan Follows, Stuart Margolin, Patricia Collins, David Hewlett
Votes: 84
19. The Hagstone Demon (2011)
R | 96 min | Horror
Douglas Elmore is an alcoholic writer and caretaker haunted by visions of his dead wife and pursued by supernatural forces bent on revenge for his past deeds. When tenants start turning up ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Springer | Stars: Mark Borchardt, Nadine Gross, Cyndi Kurtz, Sasha Andreev
Votes: 362
20. Trial (IV) (2016)
16 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
A quadriplegic soldier is offered an experimental procedure. He gets a new body. He suffers leaps in time. Is it multiple personality disorder or is he time sharing the body with the original owner?
Directors: David T. Lynch, Keith Lynch | Stars: Tom Cullen, Ana Ularu, Joseph Mawle, Akie Kotabe
Votes: 132
21. An Itch in Time (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Elmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 669
22. One Meat Brawl (1947)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
It's groundhog day, Grover Groundhog's big day - but it's also hunting season for Porky, and he's hunting groundhogs.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett, Stan Freberg
Votes: 234
23. Exposed (I) (2013)
77 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
EXPOSED profiles eight women and men who use their nakedness to transport us beyond the last sexual and social taboos that our society holds dear. These cutting edge performers -- operating... See full summary »
Director: Beth B | Stars: James 'Tigger!' Ferguson, Mat Fraser, James Habacker, Bunny Love
Votes: 113
24. The Pirate's Gold (1908)
16 min | Short, Action
Young Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coast. The waters of the sea have been ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Gebhardt, Linda Arvidson, Charles Inslee, Arthur V. Johnson
Votes: 19
25.
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode:
Nanette Fabray, Steve Lawrence, and Nancy Wilson
(1970)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family
Highlights: First "Mrs. Wiggins" sketch, Steve Lawrence sings "In The Still of the Night," tribute to Glenn Miller with "Moonlight Serenade" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000".
Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner
Votes: 48
26.
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode:
Lucille Ball and George Carlin
(1969)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family
Highlights include: a stand-up routine from guest George Carlin criticizing the Emmy Awards' bias in favor of big-budget shows; a spoof of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice"; two airline ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner
Votes: 64
27.
The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode:
Water on the Brain or the Deep Six and 7/8/Bullwinkle Goes to Press or All the Moose That's Fit to Print
(1960)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Box Top Robery" Part 11 Fractured Fairy Tales "Puss In Boots #2" Peabody's Improbably History "Captain Matthew Clift" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Box Top Robery" Part 12
Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Jim Hiltz, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, Rudy Zamora | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad
Votes: 45
28.
Who Killed Sara? (2021–2022)
Episode:
Seguro de vida
(2021)
TV-MA | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The burden of having to keep all the Lazcano secrets starts taking a toll on Elroy. Elisa and Alex attend a masquerade party at the casino.
Director: Bernardo De la Rosa Villarreal | Stars: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Miranda, Alejandro Nones
Votes: 336
29.
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode:
Audrey Meadows and Kaye Stevens
(1970)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family
Guest Kaye Stevens solos on the song "Eli's Coming." She is joined by Carol for "Games People Play." The cast does the skit As the Stomach Turns. They also spoof TV weddings.
Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner
Votes: 31
30.
South of Hell (2015)
Episode:
I See You
(2015)
43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
At Cadillac Black's, Abigal causes Maria to make out with a woman and some dudes--one of whom turns out to be a stalker. Meanwhile, David is torn between his attraction to a black girl and a white supremacist gang.
Director: Jennifer Lynch | Stars: Mena Suvari, Zachary Booth, Lamman Rucker, Paulina Singer
Votes: 64
31.
Traitors (2019)
Episode:
Priscilla
(2019)
TV-MA | History, Thriller
The truth about Jarvis is revealed.
Director: Dearbhla Walsh | Stars: Emma Appleton, Brandon P Bell, Keeley Hawes, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 155