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1. Nebraska (2013)
R | 115 min | Drama
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk
Votes: 123,709 | Gross: $17.65M
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western
A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin
Votes: 82,496
3. The Company You Keep (2012)
R | 125 min | Drama, Thriller
After a journalist discovers his identity, a former Weather Underground activist goes on the run.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci, Nick Nolte
Votes: 35,006 | Gross: $5.13M
4. Burning Days (2022)
129 min | Drama, Thriller
Emre, a young prosecutor newly appointed to the small town of Yaniklar, finds himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first criminal investigation.
Director: Emin Alper | Stars: Selahattin Pasali, Ekin Koç, Erol Babaoglu, Erdem Senocak
Votes: 12,281
5. All About Steve (2009)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.
Director: Phil Traill | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church, Ken Jeong
Votes: 44,469 | Gross: $33.86M
6. Space Oddity (2022)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A man seeks the help from an insurance company to plan a one-way trip to Mars.
Director: Kyra Sedgwick | Stars: Kyle Allen, Alexandra Shipp, Madeline Brewer, Simon Helberg
Votes: 1,351
7. The Paper (1994)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
New York City tabloid editor Henry's faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges, and a tempting job offer.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei
Votes: 15,141 | Gross: $38.82M
8. Kings of the Road (1976)
Not Rated | 175 min | Drama
A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer, Rudolf Schündler
Votes: 6,467
9. Hold the Front Page (2023– )
Documentary, Comedy, Reality-TV
In this fun, factual series comedians Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar immerse themselves into the world of local newspapers by travelling across the UK working for a different local paper each week on a mission to find real local stories.
Stars: Josh Widdicombe, Nish Kumar, Nicola Wheeler, Charlotte Anne-Tilley
Votes: 97
10. Walking the Dog (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
Rival lawyers battle each other in court as their respective dogs fall madly in love, bringing their guardians together at every turn until they reluctantly realize it may not just be the pups who are each other's true Valentine.
Director: Gary Harvey | Stars: Jennifer Finnigan, Sam Page, Lini Evans, Peter Benson
Votes: 1,339
11. Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An urban wheeler-dealer gets involved in organized crime, corrupt city politics and graft while falling in love with the fiancée of the newly elected mayor.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl, Kent Taylor
Votes: 1,294
12. Run, Man, Run (1968)
Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western
A knife-wielding Mexican ne'er-do-well is tasked by a scholar with locating $3 million in revolutionary gold, and finds himself working and competing with various parties for it.
Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Tomas Milian, Donald O'Brien, Linda Veras, Marco Guglielmi
Votes: 2,018
13. The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
115 min | Comedy
Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Olga Villi
Votes: 1,750
14. Motives 2 (2007 Video)
R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
It's been three years since Emery Simms was wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Emery's best friend Brandon (Blakemore) and ex-wife Connie (Fox) are now married, running a ... See full summary »
Director: Aaron Courseault | Stars: Brian White, Vivica A. Fox, Sean Blakemore, John Jason Bailey
Votes: 533
15. Only Two Can Play (1962)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
A frustrated librarian (Sellers) in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean (Markell) and a glamorous married woman, Liz (Zetterling), who wants to have an affair.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, Virginia Maskell, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 1,419
16. Love at the Top (1974)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution.
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin
Votes: 2,081
17. Dear Viola (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Romance
Romantic drama centered around "Dear Viola," a small-town newspaper advice column.
Director: Laurie Lynd | Stars: Kellie Martin, Jefferson Brown, Jackie Richardson, Kira Gelineau
Votes: 666
18. The Mimic (2020)
81 min | Comedy
A man suspects his friend may be a sociopath and goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him and his wife, who he eventually begins to fancy.
Director: Thomas F. Mazziotti | Stars: Jake Robinson, Olaf, Jessica Walter, Tammy Blanchard
Votes: 244
19. So Well Remembered (1947)
Passed | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard
Votes: 585
20. Home for Harvest (2019 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 86 min | Romance
A travel writer is surprised to be sent back to the home town she left, heartbroken, years before. She meets a new man, and also her ex.
Director: Andrew Cymek | Stars: Brigitte Kingsley, Landy Cannon, Troy Blundell, Alys Crocker
Votes: 460
21. Christmas She Wrote (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Kaleigh is fired as popular column writer by the new editor at The Globe in NYC. She heads to her sister near Tahoe, CA, and helps in her bakery the weeks before Xmas. The single editor shows up - to right a wrong.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Danica McKellar, Dylan Neal, April Telek, Andrew Francis
Votes: 1,279
22. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Countess de Saint-Fiacre, having received a terrible anonymous letter predicting her imminent death, summons Commissioner Maigret in the hope that he can protect her and save her from a secret ill-wisher.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Jacques Morel
Votes: 1,514
23. Fort Apache Napoli (2009)
108 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Director: Marco Risi | Stars: Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino, Massimiliano Gallo
Votes: 1,169
24. The Christmas Ring (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A website writer tries to locate the owner of an antique engagement ring for her latest human interest story.
Director: Troy Scott | Stars: Nazneen Contractor, David Alpay, Kazumi Evans, Chelsey Reist
Votes: 1,264
25. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 467
26. How I Caught the Killer (2018– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Former police officer turned television presenter Rav Wilding narrates this true crime documentary series focusing on the police investigation into murder cases.
Stars: Rav Wilding, Helen Meadows, David Holmes, Keri Nixon
Votes: 39
27. His and Her Christmas (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom Lane is the star columnist for the media conglomerate owned San Francisco Sun newspaper. The company is thinking about increasing Tom's exposure by producing a new television show ... See full summary »
Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Dina Meyer, David Sutcliffe, April Telek, Kyle Cassie
Votes: 738
28. You Belong to Me (2014)
88 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama
Over sixty years ago, a murder rocked Live Oak, Florida, and awakened the nation. Today, the ghosts still remain.
Director: John Cork | Stars: Gleene Harrell, Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Eric Musgrove, Edna Hindson
Votes: 186
29. A Family Affair (1937)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Judge Hardy faces problems at work and at home. Powerful men in town are upset with his decisions and want to see him impeached; his daughters, Joan and Marion, have romantic problems; and ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cecilia Parker, Eric Linden, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 780
30. WTC View (2005)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
After placing an ad on September 10th, a young man living in SoHo struggles to find a new roommate and keep his emotional balance in the weeks following 9/11.
Director: Brian Sloan | Stars: Michael Urie, Jeremy Beazlie, Lucas Papaelias, Elizabeth Kapplow
Votes: 446
31. 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: 53
32. One Night (2012)
104 min | Drama
A young woman is stabbed, sexually assaulted and murdered in public as her neighbors ignore her cries for help.
Director: Lucas Belvaux | Stars: Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton, Nicole Garcia, François Feroleto
Votes: 1,436
33. Systrar 1968 (2018)
177 min | Drama
Karin, a young journalist in the politically charged time of 1968, gets a job at a local paper. Little does she know the true extent of her connections to the community.
Stars: Mikaela Knapp, Maja Rung, Anna Åström, Hannes Fohlin
Votes: 437
34. Judith Therpauve (1978)
125 min | Drama
The widow of a resistance leader, Judith Therpauve, agrees to take over a large daily, established after the liberation of France. But she is soon under pressure from dirty dealings, on the one hand, and labor demands, on the other.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Simone Signoret, Philippe Léotard, Robert Manuel, François Simon
Votes: 185
35. Out in the Silence (2009)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Comedy, Family
The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small hometown and a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school.
Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | Stars: C.J. Bills, Diane Granley, Linda Henderson, Roxanne Hitchcock
Votes: 545
36. Much Too Shy (1942)
92 min | Comedy
A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley, Eileen Bennett
Votes: 205
37. Dieu vomit les tièdes (1991)
100 min | Drama
Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ariane Ascaride, Pierre Banderet, Gérard Meylan
Votes: 56
38. All Over the Town (1949)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On the south west coast of England, two crusading reporters revive a failing newspaper and expose local corruption.
Director: Derek N. Twist | Stars: Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill, Cyril Cusack, Ronald Adam
Votes: 215
39. Granica (1938)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Zenon Ziembiewicz comes back to his hometown after graduating from the university in Paris. He gets entangled in a love triangle with educated young lady Elzbieta and a common country girl Justyna who gets pregnant.
Director: Joseph Lejtes | Stars: Elzbieta Barszczewska, Lena Zelichowska, Jerzy Pichelski, Aleksander Zelwerowicz
Votes: 45
40. The Woman Who Buys the Local Newspaper (2016 TV Movie)
108 min | Crime, Mystery
Ryuji becomes suspicious when Yoshiko subscribes to a local newspaper which is serializing his novel and then suddenly cancels her subscription saying the novel has become boring. He investigates and finds a connection to a double suicide.
Director: Meiji Fujita | Stars: Asami Mizukawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Masakazu Tamura, Isao Hashizume
Votes: 23
41. Torrella, una vida pel cinema (1997)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A brief and revealing account of the life and work of Catalonian filmmaker Josep Torrella. It examines his career as a filmmaker and writer, and also his personal life as a friend, husband, confidant and patriarch.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Josep Torrella, Josep Ache, Victorio Aguado, Juan Ainaud de Lasarte
42. A Fitting Tribute (2007)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
When Mrs. Wright loses her beloved son in a car accident, the experienced and cynical journalist, Tammy, trains her rookie colleague, Niall, on how to approach Mrs. Wright for an interview ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Cormack | Stars: Sally Bretton, Thomas Nelstrop, April Nicholson
Votes: 100
43. Onnellinen mies (1979 TV Movie)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
A satirical story based on Arto Paasilinna's novel about the bridge engineer Jaatinen and his activities in the municipality of Kuusmäki. Jaatinen gets along with the workers, but he is at ... See full summary »
Director: Hannu Kahakorpi | Stars: Harri Tirkkonen, Liisamaija Laaksonen, Maija-Leena Soinne, Keijo Lindroos
Votes: 248
44. For lang og tro tjeneste (1990)
33 min | Documentary
Jytte Dreyer portrays Danes who have worked in the same job position their entire lives.
Stars: Jytte Dreyer, Rigmor Berthelsen
45. Cars and Coffee Movie (2025)
Not Rated | Documentary, Short, Action | Announced
People gather to celebrate cars and coffee.
Director: Kathy Jean | Star: Kathy Jean
46.
EastEnders (1985– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1971
(2000)
TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Jon East | Stars: Marc Bannerman, Michael Greco, Forbes Masson, Louise Jameson
47.
Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode:
Harriet's Happenings
(1978)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Sterling Murdoch arrives in Walnut Grove planning to found a newspaper. The fledgling newspaper is The Pen and the Plow, and its star reporter is none other than one Harriet Olesen. At ... See full summary »
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson
Votes: 305
48.
M*A*S*H (1972–1983)
Episode:
Depressing News
(1981)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When a supply snafu brings too many tongue depressors to camp, Hawkeye uses the extras to erect a monument to the wounded who have passed through camp. Klinger starts his own camp newspaper.
Director: Alan Alda | Stars: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit
Votes: 462
49.
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1956–1960)
Episode:
The Dark Horse
(1958)
30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Richard Diamond is hired by a newspaper editor to protect their party candidate from murder or abduction by a corrupt syndicate.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: David Janssen, Frances Mercer, Russ Conway, Jack Elam
Votes: 19
50.
EastEnders (1985– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2449
(2003)
TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Karl Neilson | Stars: Jessie Wallace, Nicholas R. Bailey, Michelle Ryan, Brooke Kinsella
Votes: 7