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51. Marvin & Tige (1983)
PG | 104 min | Drama
Marvin is a heavy-drinking widower who's seen better days and now ekes out a living at odd jobs. He meets Tige, an 11-year-old boy about to kill himself because his mother has just died. With nowhere else to stay, Tige moves in
Director: Eric Weston | Stars: John Cassavetes, Billy Dee Williams, Gibran Brown, Denise Nicholas
Votes: 244
52. Cool! (2004)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Five friends take their hours with petty crimes. Are persuaded by a tough gangster and his seductive girlfriend to rob a bank. When they are caught, they are condemned to spend a year and a half in Glen Mills, an experimental reformatory.
Director: Theo van Gogh | Stars: Fouad Mourigh, Farhane El Hamchaoui, Jones Kruijne, Remco Alberts
Votes: 497
53. A Neighborhood Named 'The Dream' (1961)
95 min | Drama
The stories of poor people living in a neighborhood in Athens and their difficulties.
Director: Alekos Alexandrakis | Stars: Alekos Alexandrakis, Manos Katrakis, Aliki Georgouli, Spyros Mousouris
Votes: 947
54. The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Hot-tempered Kathleen Maguire enlists the services of a young attorney to help her zookeeper father get his job back after he is fired for political reasons. In the midst of uncovering ... See full summary »
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 421
55. Fric-Frac (1939)
92 min | Comedy
Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow ... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Hélène Robert
Votes: 557
56. Walkover (1965)
77 min | Drama, Sport
A young boxer Andrzej Leszczyc not only has to face a tough boxing opponent but needs to make some serious personal and professional choices.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Jerzy Skolimowski, Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Krzysztof Chamiec, Andrzej Herder
Votes: 527
57. Dry Season (2006)
96 min | Drama
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a ... See full summary »
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine, Khayar Oumar Defallah
Votes: 984
58. Yeshwant (1997)
145 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tough policier about a straight, but maverick cop who does not believe in bending over, no matter what. He encourages his wife to become a top government officer and tutors her at home, ... See full summary »
Director: Anil Mattoo | Stars: Nana Patekar, Madhoo, Atul Agnihotri, Mohan Joshi
Votes: 1,247
59. Convention Girl (1935)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A cabaret hostess is broken-hearted because she loves a gambler who does not love her.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Rose Hobart, Weldon Heyburn, Sally O'Neil, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 54
60. Terrain vague (1960)
100 min | Drama
Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli, Constantin Andrieu
Votes: 223
61. Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, John Miljan
Votes: 430
62. Milagro en el circo (1979)
84 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A circus arrives in town, but an evil sorcerer threatens to destroy it. Only the clown Cepillín can save the day.
Director: Alejandro Galindo | Stars: Ricardo Gonzalez 'Cepillin', Fernando Fernán Gómez, Antonio Ferrandis, Álvaro Lobo
Votes: 34
63. Un officier de police sans importance (1973)
97 min | Crime, Drama
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Larriaga | Stars: Robert Hossein, Charles Denner, Nicole Courcel, Raymond Pellegrin
Votes: 62
64. Blonde Alibi (1946)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Tom Neal, Donald MacBride, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 53
65. The Man in Blue (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police officer who kills a thief during the commission of a robbery takes on the responsibility of raising the man's son.
Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Edward Ellis, Nan Grey, Richard Carle
Votes: 18
66. One Is Guilty (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-unoccupied. There, the caretaker "Pop" ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Warren Hymer, Rita La Roy
Votes: 31
67. Si usted no puede, yo sí (1951)
90 min | Comedy
An Argentine and a Mexican become friends by coincidence. Some Italians confuse them for mafia people and try to kill them, but the band leader cannot kill them because he falls in love.
Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Pepe Iglesias, Alma Rosa Aguirre, Fernando Soto, Julio Villarreal
Votes: 59
68. The Line-Up (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Drama
Bob Curtis (William Gargan), the youngest member of the New York City plain-clothes squad, is assigned to help Detective-Sergeant Doyle (Paul Hurst) uncover the people behind a number of ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Gargan, Marian Nixon, Paul Hurst, John Miljan
Votes: 38
69. Klettermaxe (1952)
86 min | Comedy
A masked hero scales the walls of buildings and relieves burglars of the money or valuables they've stolen. He donates the stolen goods to charity and turns the criminals over to the ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Hoffmann | Stars: Liselotte Pulver, Albert Lieven, Charlott Daudert, Madelon Truß
Votes: 34
70. Little Sky (2004)
93 min | Drama
An itinerant worker, engaged by a farm couple, finds interest in their little child, giving it loving protection when the parents split up.
Director: María Victoria Menis | Stars: Leonardo Ramírez, Darío Levy, Mónica Lairana, Rodrigo Silva
Votes: 301
71. Una prova d'innocenza (1991 TV Movie)
185 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Enrico Montesano, Corinne Dacla, Luigi Pistilli, Angiola Baggi
72. The Miser's Heart (1911)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a girl who lives in his building.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Adolph Lestina, Ynez Seabury, Wilfred Lucas, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 301
73. Coitado do Jorge (1993)
110 min | Drama
One night Jorge will meet with a Japanese industrialist, who will allow him to abandon his teaching position and resume his chemical work. However, when he gets home he finds a person there.
Director: Jorge Silva Melo | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Ángela Molina, Manuel Wiborg, Graziella Galvani
Votes: 29
74. La braconne (2013)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Samuel Rondière | Stars: Patrick Chesnais, Rachid Yous, Audrey Bastien, Husky Kihal
Votes: 63
75. Fate Named Kamila (1974)
97 min | Crime, Drama
It is 1970 and taxi-driver Tomás Gross is planning to leave for Switzerland to join his great love Kamila, previously a waitress in a Prague bar. With the help of his younger brother, ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Schulhoff | Stars: Jirí Klem, Renáta Dolezelová, Marie Drahokoupilová, Zdenek Ornest
Votes: 24
76. Her Forgotten Past (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Over the objections of her father (Henry B. Wathall) Doris Maynard (Barbara Kent) elopes with family chauffeur Dan Simmons (Eddie Phillips). Simmons pawns her jewels, forges her father's ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ford | Stars: Monte Blue, Barbara Kent, Henry B. Walthall, Eddie Phillips
Votes: 22
77. Granite Hotel (1940)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
At Granite Hotel, the stone-age operator insists nothing ever happens, oblivious to the antics of the cave-guests and even the dinosaur-riding fire department.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Thomas Johnson | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 62
78. Laitakaupungin laulu (1948)
73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Edvin Laine | Stars: Ansa Ikonen, Tauno Palo, Aku Korhonen, Mirjam Novero
Votes: 91
80. Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013 Video Game)
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Adventure game about a female art restorer suffering from a terminal condition who is asked by her boss, Metropolitan Museum of Art director, to investigate a portrait that mysteriously reappeared in Europe after the boat it was on sank.
Stars: Paul Bandey, Matthew Géczy, Mirabelle Kirkland, Barbara Scaff
Votes: 6
81. The Pointed Finger (1917)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Walter Armstrong is released from prison and finds it impossible to secure work. As he renews his promise to his wife that henceforth he will travel the straight road they are interrupted ... See full synopsis »
Director: A.W. Rice | Stars: George C. Pearce, Gretchen Lederer, Charles Hill Mailes, Jessie Arnold
82.
Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1990)
Episode:
Fric-Frac
(1971)
115 min | Comedy
A jewelry employee, distracted by his fondness for the boss's daughter, mistakenly gives out some information that could be useful to a couple of crooks plotting a break in.
Director: Pierre Sabbagh | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darras, Catherine Samie, Jean Le Poulain, Françoise Fleury
83.
Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode:
The Layoff
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A city-wide labor layoff forces Barney, Fish, and Yemana to do without the services of Chano, Harris and Wojo. A morose stockbroker resorts to petty theft.
Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Hal Linden, Barbara Barrie, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail
Votes: 152
84.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
A Bell for Volcano
(1965)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
A town drunk and a businessman from a small town make a trip to San Francisco to buy a bell for the new Church In Volcano, California. While on the way back the businessman gets sick in ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Jay Novello, Dick Simmons, Robert Carricart, Jean Willes
Votes: 29
85.
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Episode:
Casting the Runes
(1997)
TV-Y7 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
After a small-time hood steals a pouch of ancient runes from a museum, he learns that he can use them to mark people for a giant demon to take them to its world to serve its demon master as... See full summary »
Director: Victor Dal Chele | Stars: Tara Strong, Maurice LaMarche, Jason Marsden, Pat Musick
Votes: 48
86.
Matlock (1986–1995)
Episode:
The Getaway
(1995)
TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Matlock defends an ex-con in a bank robbery trial, which hinges on the testimony of a kid who claims he can identify the real bandits.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Andy Griffith, Daniel Roebuck, Carol Huston, Jay Acovone
Votes: 100
87.
NewsRadio (1995–1999)
Episode:
Security Door
(1998)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance
Because things have been disappearing from his desk, Dave has a card-operated security door installed at the station entrance. Meanwhile, Bill is hired to do a TV commercial for a blue-jean company.
Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney
Votes: 492
88.
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Episode:
Rumpole and the Female of the Species
(1983)
Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rumpole defends a petty thief on charges of armed robbery while trying to get Fiona accepted into his chamber.
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Patricia Hodge, Julian Curry
Votes: 84
89.
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Episode:
Rumpole and the Tap End
(1988)
Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Featherstone's controversial remarks and ruling in a domestic violence case causes fallout from women's rights groups and concern from the Lord Chancellor.
Director: Julian Amyes | Stars: Leo McKern, Marion Mathie, Peter Bowles, Joanna Van Gyseghem
Votes: 83
90.
King of Diamonds (1961–1962)
Episode:
Kato the Clown
(1962)
30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A clown supplements his meager income with petty thefts.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Broderick Crawford, William Gargan, Art Gilmore, Ray Hamilton
91.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Dead End
(2008)
TV-14 | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An old antagonist teams with frost to investigate the kidnapping of two bus drivers and the death of a clown.
Director: Roger Bamford | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Cherie Lunghi
Votes: 244
92.
O sabor das margaridas (2018–2020)
Episode:
Through Me...
(2018)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, Thriller
Civil Guard officer Rosa Vargas arrives in a small Galician town to investigate the disappearance of a teen girl, and soon develops a chilling theory.
Director: Miguel Conde | Stars: María Mera, Toni Salgado, Miquel Insua, Denis Gómez
Votes: 162