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1. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.

Director: Gil Junger | Stars: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik

Votes: 386,946 | Gross: $38.18M

2. A Room with a View (1985)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance

Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands

Votes: 47,965 | Gross: $20.97M

3. My Bodyguard (1980)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.

Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Paul Quandt

Votes: 10,865 | Gross: $22.48M

4. Liberal Arts (2012)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When 30-something Jesse returns to his alma mater for a professor's retirement party, he falls for Zibby, a college student, and is faced with a powerful attraction that springs up between them.

Director: Josh Radnor | Stars: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Zac Efron, Elizabeth Reaser

Votes: 40,357 | Gross: $0.32M

5. Uncle Frank (2020)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina, for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover, Walid.

Director: Alan Ball | Stars: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, Steve Zahn

Votes: 23,071

6. Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

GP | 168 min | Drama, History, Romance

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp

Votes: 6,233

7. Shadowlands (1993)

PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby

Votes: 20,482 | Gross: $25.84M

8. Wuthering Heights (1939)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson

Votes: 19,811 | Gross: $0.76M

9. Jane Eyre (1943)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner

Votes: 9,521 | Gross: $3.82M

10. So Fine (1981)

R | 90 min | Comedy

While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success: bottomless pants.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel

Votes: 1,265

11. Pride and Prejudice (1940)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 9,238

12. Under the Sand (2000)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Mystery

When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Jacques Nolot, Alexandra Stewart

Votes: 11,419 | Gross: $1.45M

13. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer

Votes: 11,248 | Gross: $1.08M

14. Brighton Rock (1948)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.

Director: John Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams

Votes: 6,840 | Gross: $0.22M

15. Treasure Island (1934)

Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Family

Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his loyalty to his benefactors and his affection for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger

Votes: 3,178 | Gross: $2.54M

16. The Wrong Teacher (2018 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 86 min | Thriller

Charlotte has a night of passion with a younger guy and the next day discovers that he is a new pupil at the high school where she teaches.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Vivica A. Fox, Jessica Morris, Eric Roberts, Jason-Shane Scott

Votes: 457

17. Tenure (2008)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

Professor Thurber loves to teach, but can't stand all the politicking. So when his opportunity for tenure is announced, he goes out on a limb to prove his worth, but unexpectedly falls in love with the girl who might replace him.

Director: Mike Million | Stars: Luke Wilson, Gretchen Mol, David Koechner, Sasha Alexander

Votes: 2,801

18. Of Time and the City (2008)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography

A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon

Votes: 2,262 | Gross: $0.03M

19. Is There Life Out There? (1994 TV Movie)

89 min | Drama

A young mom, with a perfect family, wants to go back and finish college to find life outside of her family. The family supports her, but her student life gets hectic fast.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Reba McEntire, Keith Carradine, Genia Michaela, Mitchell Anderson

Votes: 239

20. Lakeboat (2000)

R | 98 min | Drama

Film adaptation of David Mamet's comic play Lakeboat about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.

Director: Joe Mantegna | Stars: Charles Durning, Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Robert Forster

Votes: 749

21. The Designated Mourner (1997)

R | 94 min | Drama

Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judys father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's point of view.

Director: David Hare | Stars: Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson, David de Keyser

Votes: 375

22. Night Into Morning (1951)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance

Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Ray Milland, John Hodiak, Nancy Reagan, Lewis Stone

Votes: 585

23. Sam Fooi (1999)

Not Rated | 50 min | Drama, Romance

In Hong Kong, a university student discovers his attraction to his English Literature professor, an expat British playwright who realizes that he's at a crossroads in his own life.

Director: Simon Chung | Stars: Edmund Strode, Alex Wong, Carrie Leung, Kin Wai Young

Votes: 148

24. Manfred - versione per concerto in forma d'oratorio (1983 TV Special)

72 min | Music

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Director: Carmelo Bene | Stars: Carmelo Bene, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Piero Bellugi, Lydia Mancinelli

Votes: 10

25. Reading Byron Now: Bernard Beatty and Jerome McGann in Conversation (2023 TV Special)

63 min | Documentary

Why should we read Byron today, and how should we go about reading him? A joint event by the Byron Society and Byron Society of America brings together two leading scholars of Byron today, ... See full summary »

Stars: Bernard Beatty, Marc, Jerome McGann, Emily Paterson Morgan

26. Why Should You Read 'Hamlet'? (2019)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Silvia Prietov | Star: Jack Cutmore-Scott

27. The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1984–1985)

Documentary, Short

An analysis of the sonnets of William Shakespeare, with readings by leading actors.

Stars: Michael Bryant, Ben Kingsley, A.L. Rowse, Leslie Fiedler

28. Why Should You Read Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'? (2019)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Héloïse Dorsan Rachet | Star: Bethany Cutmore-Scott

29. Everything You Need to Know to Read 'Frankenstein' (2017)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Silvia Prietov | Star: Susan Zimmerman

30. Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode: Loving (1996)

TV-14 | 95 min | Drama

An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom.

Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Mark Rylance, Georgina Cates, Lucy Cohu, Sara Stephens

Votes: 40

31. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: For the Sake of Elena (2002)

TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the deaf daughter of a Cambridge professor is found brutally murdered while jogging, Lynley finds she has led a promiscuous lifestyle.

Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Samantha Baker, Cherie Lunghi, Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small

Votes: 431

32. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with Ross's Sandwich (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Joey finds himself constantly covering for Chandler and Monica's affair. Ross becomes angry when someone at work eats his sandwich. Phoebe and Rachel enroll in a literature class.

Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 6,160

33. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: Feelings (1990)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Dorothy attracts severe criticism for refusing to pass a star football player in the high school English Literature course which she is teaching. Meanwhile, Rose is concerned her dentist may have behaved improperly while she was under sedation.

Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 409

34. Testament of Youth (1979)
Episode: Buxton 1913 (1979)

Drama, Romance, War

In 1913, Vera Brittain tries to convince her parents to allow her to attend university, while war looms on the horizon.

Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Cheryl Campbell, Emrys James, Jane Wenham, Rupert Frazer

Votes: 13

35. The Adventure of English (2002– )
Episode: The Battle for the Language of the Bible (2003)

Documentary

The Protestant Reformation changes English from the language in the street to the language on the pulpit.

Stars: Joss Ackland, Melvyn Bragg, Mark Saban

Votes: 11

36. Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode: Cartoons Are So Lit! (2021)

TV-PG | Animation, Comedy

Sue P. tries to market the show toward a hipper Millennial audience, as the cartoon lineup showcases Looney Tunes from the 1990s and 2000s: My Generation G... G... Gap (2004), From Hare to Eternity (1997), Museum Scream (2003), The Whizzard of Ow (2003), Superior Duck (1996).

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein

37. Prophets of Science Fiction (2011–2012)
Episode: H.G. Wells (2011)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Biography, History

With stories like The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells established himself as a sci-fi writer of almost clairvoyant talent. But these tales of hi-tech adventure hold an ominous warning - beware the dark side of progress.

Director: Declan Whitebloom | Stars: Jonathan Adams, Sean Carroll, Circus-Szalewski, Ridley Scott

Votes: 86

38. The Conversation (2017– )
Episode #1.11 (2018 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Star: Andrew Klavan