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51. Trouble Preferred (1948)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Peggy Knudsen, Lynne Roberts, Charles Russell, Paul Langton
Votes: 12
52. In the Wee Wee Hours... (1987)
20 min | Documentary, Short
A look at homelessness in Los Angeles.
Director: Izak Ben-Meir
Votes: 12
53. Ex-Champ (1939)
Approved | 64 min | Drama
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, William Frawley
Votes: 20
54. The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
America Undercover goes to the Madison Hotel in the skid-row section of downtown Los Angeles and talks to some of the desperate people living there. It talks to a prostitute and heroin ... See full summary »
Directors: Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena, Geof Bartz | Star: Charles Bukowski
Votes: 58
55. Slums of Berlin (1925)
113 min | Drama
A young engineer lies to protect his fiancée, and is later convicted of perjury (after which his fiancée abandons him) and sent to prison. When he gets get, he tries to return to his former... See full summary »
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Bildt, Aud Egede-Nissen, Arthur Bergen
Votes: 85
56. Pie in the Sky (1935)
22 min | Short, Comedy
At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men at the end of the line get none. They leave the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Steiner | Stars: Elia Kazan, Ellman Koolish, Molly Kazan, Russell Collins
Votes: 150
57. Krysta Youngs: Xanax (A Love Song) (2015 Music Video)
5 min | Music, Romance
Director: David N. Donihue | Stars: Krysta Youngs, Lori Barth, Trey Campbell, Eddie Eisele
58. Humble Beauty: Skid Row Artists (2013)
60 min | Documentary
The evolving lives and art work of several talented homeless and indigent fine arts painters who create art, despite the obstacles, on LA's Skid Row. In return, art transforms lives.
Directors: Letitia Popa-Schwartz, Judith Vogelsang | Stars: Lillian Abel Calamari, Magdalena Astrid Dahlen, Darlene Altemeier Dobbs, Lucille Forester
Votes: 40
59. Police Court (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Drama
A once great stage and screen actor (Henry B. Walthall) has fallen from fame because of his alcoholism; his young son (Leon Janney) is determined to see his father "make good" again.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Leon Janney, Lionel Belmore, King Baggot
Votes: 55
60. Lucky (VI)
Approved | Drama | Announced
During a bad recession, a man loses his job as a bank manager and ends up living on the streets of Los Angeles, CA.
Star: Girard Swan
61. Skid Row (1956)
38 min | Documentary, Short
"...acomplete and totally satisfying portrait of a timeless world... Bit of it rank with Chaplin: the mimed party in the flop-house, the pan-handler at work in the street, the alley brawl ... See full synopsis »
Director: Allan King | Star: Art Hives
Votes: 34
63. Life Is Blunt (2015)
7 min | Short, Comedy
Wil, always trying to be one of the cool guys, gets chased all over Los Angeles City College campus by a dorky wanna-be police investigator for some weed his thugs left him with. Wil gets ... See full summary »
Director: Elizabeth Regal | Stars: Charlie Harmony, Jum Raoof, Paul Rivera, Tone Tone Taylor
65. Homeless in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Breakdown (2010)
Approved | 54 min | Documentary
To create awareness about individuals trapped in poverty, homelessness, and/or forgotten to society for the purpose of creating a new standard of well-being for all mankind based on Utilitarian Ideologies.
Directors: Brandon James Miller, Dayve Sanz, Matthew Paul Rasmussen | Stars: Chrishelle Buckner, Maya Buckner, Summeray Buckner, Jyeger Chandler
Votes: 13
66. The Agony of Jimmy Quinlan (1978)
28 min | Documentary, Short
A documentation of a Montreal vagrant's attempts to overcome alcoholism.
Star: Earl Pennington
Votes: 9
67. Dosing (2014)
3 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A lonely woman's relationship is pushed to the limits by her use of downloadable drugs.
Director: Matt MacDonald | Stars: Matt MacDonald, Megan Stier
68.
Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode:
The Need of a Friend
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mannix seeks to help a man released from prison after seven years. The detective helped send him to prison. This occurred when Mannix was on his first case and, as he remarks, "I was green"... See full summary »
Director: Sutton Roley | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, John Colicos, Paul Stevens
Votes: 127
69.
Max Headroom (1987–1988)
Episode:
Rakers
(1987)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Theora's brother gets involved in "raking" - a violent underground sport that is a cross between skateboarding and roller-derby.
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays, George Coe, Chris Young
Votes: 68
70.
Science Fiction Theatre (1955–1957)
Episode:
The Flicker
(1956)
30 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A man randomly kills a woman and has no memory of the event or anything after he'd left a theatre. Once investigators watch the same film they discover the cause behind his strange course of action and how to stop it happening again.
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Truman Bradley, Victor Jory, Michael Fox, Bradford Jackson
Votes: 25
71.
Side Effects (1994–1996)
Episode:
Leave My Bum Alone
(1995)
Drama
Director: Alan Simmonds | Stars: Albert Schultz, Nadia Capone, Joseph Ziegler, Barbara Eve Harris
72.
State Trooper (1956–1959)
Episode:
The Choker
(1959)
30 min | Drama
Blake's investigation into the deaths of nightclub waitresses leads to a hobo camp. He tries to get evidence by posing a vagrant.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Rod Cameron, Robert Armstrong, Jean Howell, Harry Shannon
Votes: 11
73.
The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode:
Legion of the Lost
(1973)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After three winos are brutally beaten to death, Stone goes undercover as a bum to crack the case.
Director: Robert Douglas | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Leslie Nielsen, Karen Carlson
Votes: 144
74.
Lupin the 3rd (1977–1980)
Episode:
Kimi wa neko boku wa katsuobushi
(1979)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure
When the newspaper mistakenly reports that Lupin stole a cat that eats pencil leads, a scandalized Lupin must now protect his reputation by searching for such an animal and pilfering it.
Director: Kyôsuke Mikuriya | Stars: Steve Apostolina, Richard Cansino, Ben Hiura, Makio Inoue
Votes: 27
75.
Official Detective (1957– )
Episode:
Beauty in a Bag
(1957)
30 min | Mystery, Adventure
The body of an unidentified woman is discovered in a laundry bag. Police try to determine her identity by hiring a sculptor to reconstruct her appearance.
Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Everett Sloane, Morris Ankrum, Francis De Sales, Jack Hogan
76.
Jeff Lewis Live (2019– )
Episode:
Peet Montzingo on Ghosts & LPs
(2021)
14 min | Comedy, Talk-Show
Stars: Shane Douglas, Jeff Lewis, Peet Montzingo, Megan Weaver
77.
Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode:
Chapter Ninety: The Night Gallery
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cheryl enlists the help of Archie, Kevin, Fangs and Reggie after she learns there is palladium underneath her maple groves. Betty and Alice confront a trucker who may have been involved in Polly's disappearance.
Director: Mädchen Amick | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Cole Sprouse, Madelaine Petsch
Votes: 702
78.
City of Angels, City of Death (2021– )
Episode:
Heart of Darkness
(2021)
Not Rated | 42 min | Documentary, Crime
In the late 1970s, Los Angeles was wracked by dozens of murders committed by serial killers, and bodies were turning up all over the city, from well-to-do areas of the Holywood Hills to the... See full summary »
Stars: Rodney Alcala, Stanley Backman, Edoardo Beghi, Kenneth Bianchi
Votes: 51
79.
Prohibition (2011)
Episode:
A Nation of Drunkards
(2011)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, History
The 19th century was a period of growth both for alcoholic beverages and the temperance movement. Washingtonian societies - made up of men who had taken a pledge to forgo all alcoholic ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Michael Lerner, Daniel Okrent, Pete Hamill
Votes: 224
80.
Ray Donovan (2013–2020)
Episode:
The Texan
(2016)
TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama
Ray enlists the help of Lena and Daryll to ensure Hector's rematch with Whittaker proceeds. An angry neighbor confronts the Donovans about Conor's behavior. Teresa's worsening depression causes her family to have her committed.
Director: Tucker Gates | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Paula Malcomson, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok
Votes: 856
81.
The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
Trump's Hope, Dem's Apocalypse
(2018 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Donald Trump seems to be having a good time, while Democrats are all doom-and-gloom. Drew interviews Stephen Eide from the Manhattan Institute about homelessness.
Stars: Andrew Klavan, Stephen Eide, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Huckabee Sanders
82.
The Terror (2018–2025)
Episode:
Come and Get Me
(2019)
TV-14 | 40 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
The Terminal Islanders return home to find that things have changed since they left. The Nakayamas, still tense from the pain they've inflicted on one another, must come together to battle the spirit that threatens their future.
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Derek Mio, Kiki Sukezane, Cristina Rodlo, Shingo Usami
Votes: 697