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1. The Founder (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.

Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini

Votes: 178,223 | Gross: $12.79M

2. Elmer Gantry (1960)

Approved | 146 min | Drama

A fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger

Votes: 12,863 | Gross: $11.34M

3. I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)

X | 121 min | Drama, Romance

Told in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.

Director: Vilgot Sjöman | Stars: Lena Nyman, Vilgot Sjöman, Börje Ahlstedt, Peter Lindgren

Votes: 4,304 | Gross: $20.24M

4. The Sting II (1983)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime

A team of cons is planning a new scam involving betting on a boxing match but one of its past victims aims to exact revenge by eliminating the whole group.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden

Votes: 2,462 | Gross: $6.35M

5. August (2008)

R | 88 min | Drama

August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Director: Austin Chick | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott, Robin Tunney

Votes: 4,335 | Gross: $0.01M

6. Variety Lights (1950)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

Directors: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina, John Kitzmiller

Votes: 3,872

7. I Live in Fear (1955)

103 min | Drama

An aging Japanese industrialist becomes so fearful of nuclear war that it begins to take a toll on his life and family.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi

Votes: 5,567

8. Chinese Box (1997)

R | 99 min | Drama, Romance

The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui

Votes: 3,600 | Gross: $2.20M

9. In Old California (1942)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western

During the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish

Votes: 1,550

10. Zachariah (1971)

GP | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.

Director: George Englund | Stars: John Rubinstein, Patricia Quinn, Don Johnson, Country Joe and the Fish

Votes: 780 | Gross: $0.06M

11. The White River Kid (1999)

R | 99 min | Action, Comedy

Brother Edgar (Bob Hoskins) is a generous entrepreneur of low-quality socks who hides behind a self-bestowed cassock to avoid the low-level corruption of local sheriff (Randy Travis). He ... See full summary »

Director: Arne Glimcher | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Antonio Banderas, Ellen Barkin, Wes Bentley

Votes: 1,333

12. Suspense (1946)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Frank Leonard, the proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes Joe Morgan, a peanut vendor at the show, to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker

Votes: 892

13. High Pressure (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy

Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: William Powell, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney, John Wray

Votes: 683

14. It Can't Last Forever (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get ... See full summary »

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, Robert Armstrong, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 67

15. Arizona to Broadway (1933)

66 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, con artist Smiley is traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris, and Ambrose, and he persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: James Dunn, Joan Bennett, Herbert Mundin, Sammy Cohen

Votes: 69

16. On Again-Off Again (1937)

Passed | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Music

This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie Lord, Patricia Wilder

Votes: 137

17. Hot Rod Huckster (1954)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Woody is driving down the city street singing a "screwy" driving song. Used car dealer Buzz Buzzard tries to interest Woody in buying a new car (after sabotaging the one he has, natch). He ... See full summary »

Director: Don Patterson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dal McKennon, Grace Stafford

Votes: 93

18. My Gal Loves Music (1944)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music

A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest.

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Bob Crosby, Grace McDonald, Alan Mowbray, Betty Kean

Votes: 25

19. Religious Racketeers (1938)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in ... See full summary »

Director: Frank O'Connor | Stars: Robert Fiske, Helene LeBerthon, Arthur Gardner, Betty Compson

Votes: 81

20. KumiteClips: Mister Metokur Gets Amos to Admit He's a Troll (2018 Video)

Short, News

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Stars: Mister Metokur, Amos Yee, Cognitive Thought, Andy Warski

21. Le socle (1948)

14 min | Short, Comedy

The bases, under the occupation, lost their statues. These now anonymous steles rightly intrigue many visitors. Have you ever wondered who is up there? Ask Paul Colline, the most amusing ... See full summary »

Directors: Paul Colline, Alain Pol | Stars: Andréas, Jean Cabanis, Alain Colline, Paul Colline

22. Bad Medicine (1936)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Gene Austin, accompanied by two musicians, are part of a traveling medicine show using a trailer pulled by an automobile. They convert the trailer into a stage covered by an awning, and ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Gene Austin, James C. Morton

23. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)

Not Rated | 240 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. In HD.

Director: Peter H. Hunt | Stars: Patrick Day, Jim Dale, Frederic Forrest, Anne Shropshire

Votes: 239

24. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Durward Kirby and Garry Moore (1969)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

The accent is on the holiday season when Carol Burnett's old friends Garry Moore and Durward Kirby drop In for their annual visit. Carol and Harvey play the old folks as they reminisce ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 39

25. Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode: The Mallet (1950)

30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A bellicose huckster travels the fairs of England shilling his magic elixir. The "doctor," as he's called, is befriended by a couple in a local tavern who proceed to get him intoxicated. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Walter Slezak, Cara Williams, Michael Shepley, Rex Marshall

Votes: 38

26. Blackfly (2001–2002)
Episode: Kettles from the Land of Cool Stuff (2001)

Adventure, Comedy, History

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Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Ron James, Shauna Black, Richard Donat, James Kee

27. Loki (2021–2023)
Episode: 1893 (2023)

TV-14 | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Loki and Mobius go on the hunt for everyone's favorite cartoon clock as they try to save the TVA.

Director: Kasra Farahani | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Votes: 12,473

28. Shadowland (2022)
Episode: This Was Planned (2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary

An anti-vaccine influencer procures a large following when he pushes a dangerous fake "cure" for COVID-19; a famous pastor, labeled a threat to democracy, faces possible consequences for his actions.

Directors: Stephen Bailey, Alex Braverman | Stars: Pauline Bauer, Gina Childers, Ellen Cushing, Kristin Davis

Votes: 12

29. Superior Donuts (2017–2018)
Episode: Pilot (2017)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

The gruff owner of a Chicago donut shop takes in an enterprising young employee.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Jermaine Fowler, David Koechner, Maz Jobrani, Darien Sills-Evans

Votes: 209