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1. The Stand (1994)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 38,422
2. Duel (1971 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Action, Thriller
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone, Lou Frizzell
Votes: 78,412
3. The Shining (1997)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers.
Stars: Rebecca De Mornay, Steven Weber, Wil Horneff, Courtland Mead
Votes: 18,298
4. The Normal Heart (2014 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists. With support from the medical community, they try to raise awareness about the disease.
Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Frank De Julio, William DeMeritt
Votes: 37,796
5. Prescription: Murder (1968 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, William Windom
Votes: 5,527
6. The Sunset Limited (2011 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 91 min | Drama
Through a chance encounter, two men of opposing ideologies deliberate spiritual, philosophical, and profound matters in a New York City apartment.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones
Votes: 31,849
7. The Winds of War (1983)
126 min | Drama, Romance, War
The trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman
Votes: 4,663
8. Comanche Moon (2008)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Western
The adventures and love lives of young Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae leading up to their retirement to the city of Lonesome Dove.
Stars: Steve Zahn, Ryan Merriman, Keith D. Robinson, Wes Studi
Votes: 3,289
9. Death of a Salesman (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 136 min | Drama
An aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang
Votes: 11,709
10. Empire Falls (2005)
TV-14 | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A decaying New England town is the backdrop for its unique citizens, led by unassuming restaurant manager Miles Roby.
Stars: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman
Votes: 6,332
11. Pippi Longstocking (1969)
27 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The adventures of Pippi Longstocking, an eccentric, super-strong, redheaded moppet and her best friends Tommy and Annika.
Stars: Inger Nilsson, Pär Sundberg, Maria Persson, Hans Clarin
Votes: 4,551
12. The Miracle Worker (1979 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Biography, Drama
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.
Director: Paul Aaron | Stars: Patty Duke, Diana Muldaur, Charles Siebert, Anne Seymour
Votes: 760
13. Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A cop turned private investigator Brita Burrows, a retiring booze-prone Palm Springs cop Cutter, a young hotheaded cop Hareem, and a guilt-ridden disgraced ex-cop Graves, have to follow a client's husband and find a mysterious Mexican.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Sam Elliott, Teri Garr, Thomas Haden Church, Raymond J. Barry
Votes: 213
14. Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
Unrated | 250 min | Drama
Based on the true life story that took place in 1979, this movie follows the murders of Susan Reinert (Stockard Channing) and her two children in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years.
Stars: Peter Coyote, Stockard Channing, Robert Loggia, Peter Boyle
Votes: 445
15. The Executioner's Song (1982 TV Movie)
Unrated | 135 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach
Votes: 2,079
16. Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991 TV Movie)
G | 98 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska
Votes: 2,376
17. Children of the Corn (2009 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
While traveling, an unhappy married couple encounter a cult of murderous children who worship an entity called He Who Walks Behind the Rows.
Director: Donald P. Borchers | Stars: Robert Gerdisch, Jordan Schmidt, David Anders, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 6,444
18. The Phantom of the Opera (1990– )
168 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Christine Daaé, a talented young singer, after being discovered by the well-known playboy Comte Philippe de Chagny, is sent by her new patron to the Paris Opera to receive classical training.
Stars: Teri Polo, Charles Dance, Burt Lancaster, Adam Storke
Votes: 1,734
19. Dinner with Friends (2001 TV Movie)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two married couples have their twelve-year bond of friendship put to the test when one couple reveals that they are splitting up.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette
Votes: 3,335
20. Emil i Lönneberga (1974–1976)
25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The series tells stories from the childhood of a sometimes naughty, but very lovable and kindhearted young boy growing up on a farm in southern Sweden in the early 20th century.
Stars: Jan Ohlsson, Lena Wisborg, Allan Edwall, Emy Storm
Votes: 2,775
21. The Crossing (2000 TV Movie)
89 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at Trenton.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Roger Rees, Sebastian Roché, Steven McCarthy
Votes: 2,192
22. Normal (2003 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
A Midwestern husband and father announces her plan to have a sex change operation.
Director: Jane Anderson | Stars: Richard Bull, Mary Seibel, Danny Goldring, Jessica Lange
Votes: 3,486
23. Bella Mafia (1997 TV Movie)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama
Starting in Palermo, Italy, 1977 - The ups and downs of a mafia family opposed to drug trade until the men are murdered and the widows take over.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Dennis Farina, Nastassja Kinski, Jennifer Tilly
Votes: 2,430
24. Summer's Lease (1989– )
220 min | Drama, Mystery
While on a family holiday in Tuscany, Molly Pargeter becomes preoccupied with the disappearance of their villa's owner and his connections to the local waterboard mafia much to the chagrin of her staid husband and swinger father.
Stars: Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington, Rosemary Leach
Votes: 403
25. Don't Drink the Water (1994 TV Movie)
PG | 92 min | Comedy
An ordinary American family goes on vacation to Europe. Because of the Cold War they are stuck in the U.S. Embassy surrounding by the Soviet forces.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Julie Kavner, Ed Herlihy, Josef Sommer
Votes: 3,835
26. The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)
320 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. Trevor meets a beautiful blond, a detective sergeant and a pair of men running a junior football team.
Stars: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Dominic Jephcott
Votes: 619
27. Trilogy of Terror II (1996 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Three horror stories, including a woman's fate when she and her lover attempt to rob her husband's grave, a woman who brings her son back from the dead and a Zuni fetish doll who comes to life again and goes on another murderous rampage.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Lysette Anthony, Geraint Wyn Davies, Matt Clark, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 1,803
28. The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife of an oil tycoon becomes engrossed in the sinister evil residing within her Seattle mansion home.
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Lisa Brenner, Steven Brand, Kate Burton, Tsidii Leloka
Votes: 4,049
29. The Lion in Winter (2003 TV Movie)
167 min | Drama, History, Romance
King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Andrew Howard
Votes: 2,392
30. The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
222 min | Comedy, Drama
Karim's mother is English and his father is Indian. Therefore Karim has some problems with life in British society which is becoming more and more racist and intolerant; he experiences this especially when he pursues acting.
Stars: Naveen Andrews, Brenda Blethyn, Roshan Seth, David Bamber
Votes: 526
31. The Piano Lesson (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Music
An African-American family struggles to retain their heritage, in the form of a history told in the carvings on the family piano. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano and use the money to buy farmland, but sister Berniece won't part with it.
Director: Lloyd Richards | Stars: Charles S. Dutton, Alfre Woodard, Carl Gordon, Tommy Hollis
Votes: 496
32. Further Tales of the City (2001–2002)
TV-MA | 180 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
This third installment to "Tales of the City" finds Mary Ann Singleton struggling to advance in her new career as a TV personality, while Michael Tolliver is playing the field after his ... See full summary »
Stars: Olympia Dukakis, Paul Hopkins, Laura Linney, Barbara Garrick
Votes: 1,645
33. The Trip to Bountiful (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 102 min | Drama
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Wilson | Stars: Cicely Tyson, Vanessa Williams, Blair Underwood, Keke Palmer
Votes: 744
34. The West Side Waltz (1995 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Drama
Margaret keeps her neighbours at a distance and avoids contact except with Cara. She enjoys her company just for making music since Cara plays the violin accompanying Margaret at the piano.... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Thompson | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Jennifer Grey, August Schellenberg
Votes: 298
35. The Electric Grandmother (1982 TV Movie)
60 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Three children and their father get a very special robot grandmother to assist them.
Director: Noel Black | Stars: Maureen Stapleton, Edward Herrmann, Paul Benedict, Tara Kennedy
Votes: 627
36. A Murder of Quality (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Mystery
Taken from the book by John le Carré, George Smiley rallies to the aid of his former intelligence colleague, Ailsa Brimley, to investigate a mysterious letter from a junior master's wife at... See full summary »
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw
Votes: 966
37. Always Outnumbered (1998 TV Movie)
R | 104 min | Drama
A former prisoner tries to save a neighbor youth from following him down the wrong path.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Daniel Williams, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole
Votes: 2,172
38. Madicken (1979–1983)
27 min | Drama, Family
Based on Astrid Lindgren's books. Madicken's life on Junibacken is filled with ups and down.
Stars: Jonna Liljendahl, Björn Granath, Lis Nilheim, Liv Alsterlund
Votes: 1,037
39. Lily Dale (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 98 min | Drama
The story takes place in 1910, Texas. Nineteen-year-old Horace Robedaux (Tim Guinee).
Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Sam Shepard, Stockard Channing, Tim Guinee
Votes: 225
40. Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Marlee Matlin, Ed Waterstreet, Phyllis Frelich
Votes: 684
41. A Man for All Seasons (1988 TV Movie)
150 min | Biography, Drama
King Henry VIII wants to divorce his wife, and seeks the approval of the aristocracy. Sir Thomas More is a man of principle and reason, and is thus placed in a difficult position: should he... See full summary »
Director: Charlton Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Richard Johnson
Votes: 744
42. The Baby Dance (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama
Wanda (Laura Dern) is a dirt-poor Louisiana mother pregnant with her fifth child who answers a wealthy couple's "baby wanted" ad. Rachel (Stockard Channing) is the would-be adoptive mother who quietly clashes with Laura at every turn.
Director: Jane Anderson | Stars: Laura Dern, Stockard Channing, Richard Lineback, Peter Riegert
Votes: 480
43. A Voyage Round My Father (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey (1978), writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 232
44. The Stranger Within (1974 TV Movie)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An expectant mother begins acting strangely and doesn't know why. Gradually she starts to realize that her bizarre behavior is being controlled by her unborn baby.
Director: Lee Philips | Stars: Barbara Eden, George Grizzard, Joyce Van Patten, David Doyle
Votes: 412
45. A Girl Named Sooner (1975 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Don Murray, Anne Francis
Votes: 303
46. Blackeyes (1989)
196 min | Drama
Blackeyes is an attempt to explore "what does go on between men and women in their heads, to show the possibilities of the ways that they see each other." Complex and multi-layered, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Michael Gough, Carol Royle, Nigel Planer, Gina Bellman
Votes: 204
47. Favorite Son (1988)
R | 255 min | Action, Thriller
A Vice-Presidential candidate's been shot. Now an investigation ensues, and the investigator discovers that there's a conspiracy going on. And not only that, people in the President's staff... See full summary »
Stars: Harry Hamlin, Tony Goldwyn, Lynnette Mettey, Philip McKeon
Votes: 225
48. Journey (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama
Journey and his grandfather Marcus have to come to terms with each other's reactions to the loss when Journey's mother, Min, decides to leave Journey and his sister Cat to be looked after by their grandparents.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Jason Robards, Brenda Fricker, Max Pomeranc, Eliza Dushku
Votes: 261
49. The Sunshine Boys (1996 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.
Director: John Erman | Stars: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 1,379
50. The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987– )
151 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Then they meet ... See full summary »
Stars: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Storry
Votes: 373