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1. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
Larry David stars as an over-the-top version of himself in this comedy series that shows how seemingly trivial details of day-to-day life can precipitate a catastrophic chain of events.
Stars: Larry David, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman
Votes: 147,911
2. Chernobyl (2019)
TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis
Votes: 868,026
3. iCarly (2007–2012)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Carly hosts her own home-grown web show, iCarly, Carly and sidekick Sam's regular webcasts ultimately feature everything from comedy sketches and talent contests to interviews, recipes, and problem-solving.
Stars: Miranda Cosgrove, Jerry Trainor, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress
Votes: 44,847
4. Inland Empire (2006)
R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern
Votes: 62,492 | Gross: $0.75M
5. Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
Stars: John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth
Votes: 100,272
6. Meet the Parents (2000)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend's parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date's worst nightmare.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner
Votes: 355,596 | Gross: $166.24M
7. Crimson Tide (1995)
R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza
Votes: 123,510 | Gross: $91.40M
8. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr
Votes: 56,873 | Gross: $27.15M
9. Father Ted (1995–1998)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy
Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.
Stars: Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn
Votes: 43,866
10. The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Horror
An interweaving narrative chronicling the antics of such diverse characters as: a transgender taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women into marriage, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people.
Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson
Votes: 12,238
11. The Command (2018)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster is followed by governmental negligence. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl
Votes: 21,485
12. The Money Pit (1986)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
A young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Alexander Godunov, Maureen Stapleton
Votes: 62,326 | Gross: $37.50M
13. The Fly (1958)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 25,692 | Gross: $3.00M
14. A Night to Remember (1958)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, History
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman
Votes: 17,187
15. Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)
136 min | Drama, History
A story about a heroic fireman who worked as one of Chernobyl liquidators.
Director: Danila Kozlovskiy | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Oksana Akinshina, Filipp Avdeev, Ravshana Kurkova
Votes: 10,548
16. Passengers (2008)
PG-13 | 93 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.
Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, David Morse, Andre Braugher
Votes: 39,284 | Gross: $0.27M
17. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 46,902 | Gross: $0.20M
18. Fail Safe (1964)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 24,438
19. Arthur Christmas (2011)
PG | 97 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Santa's clumsy son Arthur sets out on a mission with Grandsanta to give out a misplaced present to a young girl in less than two hours on Christmas Day.
Directors: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook | Stars: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Hugh Laurie
Votes: 67,167 | Gross: $46.46M
20. Topkapi (1964)
Unrated | 120 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley
Votes: 10,743
21. Destiny (2006)
103 min | Drama
Bekir loves Ugur, who loves Zagor, who is about to get out of jail. An already tense love triangle is thrown into turmoil on a hot summer night, when Zagor kills someone, and Ugur disappears.
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz | Stars: Ufuk Bayraktar, Vildan Atasever, Engin Akyürek, Müge Ulusoy
Votes: 16,945
22. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,147
23. Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, History
Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.
Stars: June Scobee Rodgers, William Harwood, John Zarrella, Frederick D. Gregory
Votes: 7,954
24. Half-Life (1998 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Dr. Gordon Freeman must fight his way out of a secret research facility after a teleportation experiment goes disastrously wrong.
Directors: Gabe Newell, Randy Pitchford | Stars: Kathy Levin, Harry S. Robins, Mike Shapiro, Bill van Buren
Votes: 11,295
25. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,533
26. Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004 Video)
G | 68 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Sequel to Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
Directors: Theresa Cullen, Carole Holliday, Peggy Holmes, Matthew O'Callaghan | Stars: Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings
Votes: 5,947
27. Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History
Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Stars: Rick Parks, Nicole Remsburg, Paula Kinney, Joyce Corradi
Votes: 5,420
28. Fukushima 50 (2020)
TV-PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Riho Yoshioka, Takumi Saitô
Votes: 3,379
29. ChuckleVision (1987–2009)
20 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Crazy antics ensue when Barry and Paul Chuckle get into various exaggerated situations.
Stars: Paul Chuckle, Barry Chuckle, Jimmy Patton, Brian Patton
Votes: 2,134
30. Hillsborough (2016 TV Movie)
121 min | Documentary
Hillsborough is an in-depth, moving account of Britain's worst sporting disaster, in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. Beginning with... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Gordon | Stars: William Bale, Margaret Aspinall, David Duckenfield, Tony Evans
Votes: 545
31. Command and Control (2016)
PG | 92 min | Documentary, History
Documentary of 1980's near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser's award-winning book of the same name.
Director: Robert Kenner | Stars: Michael Bideller, Andreas Birnbaum, Tom Brokaw, Robin Brosch
Votes: 993 | Gross: $0.05M
32. Rome & Juliet (2006)
135 min | Drama, Romance
ROME AND JULIET follows the romantic journey and soul mating of two women caught in a web of forbidden love. Juliet (a conservative pre-school teacher) is a bride to be who befriends and ... See full summary »
Director: Connie Macatuno | Stars: Andrea Del Rosario, Mylene Dizon, Rafael Rosell, Tessie Tomas
Votes: 285
33. Lev Yashin. Vratar moey mechty (2019)
120 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
An ordinary working class boy, like all his peers, he played football day and night and dreamed of being a striker. But no matter which team he played for - in the yard, at the factory, or in the army - he was inevitably put in goal.
Director: Vasiliy Chiginskiy | Stars: Aleksandr Fokin, Yuliya Khlynina, Aleksey Guskov, Aleksey Kravchenko
Votes: 975
34. The Danny & Mick Show (2019–2023)
11 min | Comedy, Family
Children's television slapstick sitcom set in a leisure centre. Danny is the junior team member at Pottsfield Leisure Centre. His (very big) little brother Mick is the centre's one and only security guard.
Stars: Danny Adams, Mick Potts, Shalini Peiris, Nina Wadia
Votes: 39
35. Great Guns (1941)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer will need them now he's drafted.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Sheila Ryan, Dick Nelson
Votes: 1,599
36. Ekipazh (1980)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Director: Aleksandr Mitta | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Alexandra Yakovleva
Votes: 2,633
37. Brick Bradford (1947)
Approved | 257 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An adventurer travels to the moon to stop a madman from getting hold of the Interceptor Ray, a weapon that could destroy Earth.
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Kane Richmond, Rick Vallin, Linda Leighton, Pierre Watkin
Votes: 96
38. Pardon My Past (1945)
Approved | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
An ex-GI wants to open a mink farm in Wisconsin, but is mistaken for a look-alike gambler who owes a lot of money.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Marguerite Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest
Votes: 275
39. Watch the Birdie (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A cameraman helps an heiress to get rid of her financial adviser, who wants to get her money.
Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames
Votes: 419
40. Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Giovanna Ralli, Tina Pica
Votes: 631
41. Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy
A teacher writes sample letters to a fictional Mr. Hartman with her students, but the recipient really exists.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Vera Bergman, Carla Del Poggio, Irasema Dilián
Votes: 405
42. Der Untergang der Pamir (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Action, Drama
The Story of the German Sail-School Ship Pamir that sunk in a hurricane.
Director: Kaspar Heidelbach | Stars: Klaus J. Behrendt, Miroslav Milanovic Miki, Jan Josef Liefers, Dietmar Bär
Votes: 188
43. Lian ren (2005)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Alan is trapped in three absurd relationships. His girlfriend Angel is deeply in love with him but Alan's detachment keeps letting her down and pushes her to a nervous breakdown. Belle has ... See full summary »
Director: Ming-Tai Wang | Stars: Blue Cheng-Lung Lan, Kang-i Lee, Fang Wan, Kuei-Ying Hsu
Votes: 41
44. Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich (1998)
95 min | Comedy
Three women travel together to Spain for different reasons. The pregnant Mrs. Rettich wants to marry her Spanish lover in Barcelona, while Czerni, bored by her husband Bart, wants to have ... See full summary »
Director: Markus Imboden | Stars: Iris Berben, Martina Gedeck, Jeanette Hain, Olli Dittrich
Votes: 245
45. Perpetrators of the Crime (1999)
R | 86 min | Comedy
Tori Spelling stars in this suspense comedy about three college students who find themselves in need of some fast money. With more ambition than experience in criminal enterprise, they ... See full summary »
Director: John Hamilton | Stars: Sean Devine, Danny Strong, Mark Burgess, Tori Spelling
Votes: 148
46. Challenger: The Untold Story (2006 TV Movie)
101 min | Documentary, Drama
Directors: Stuart Everett, Richard Burke-Ward | Stars: John Shrapnel, Eliza Jane Scott, Carl Marotte, John Bayliss
Votes: 45
47. Super Duper Bloopers and Silly Shorts (1986 Video)
Not Rated | 60 min | Animation, Comedy, News
Stars: Alan Alda, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart
Votes: 9
48. First Communion (1950)
84 min | Comedy
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Gaby Morlay, Ludmilla Dudarova, Lucien Baroux
Votes: 232
49. Tars and Stripes (1935)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Elmer Doolittle (Buster Keaton), an apprentice seaman doing training at the U. S. Navy's San Diego Training Station, can't seem to keep out of trouble or the brig. Most of his problems ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Vernon Dent, Dorothea Kent, Jack Shutta
Votes: 178
50. Train to Stockholm (2011)
69 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A peculiar young man returns to his birthplace - Sweden - with high hopes of finding love.
Director: Erik Reese | Stars: Mikael Ayele, Sonja Ghaderi, Anders Hörbo, Anya Tkachenco
Votes: 36