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1. Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Approved | 128 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon
Votes: 4,284
2. All About Eve (1950)
Passed | 138 min | Drama
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Votes: 138,894 | Gross: $0.01M
3. Lili (1953)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Votes: 3,946
4. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,235 | Gross: $0.30M
5. Running with Scissors (2006)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
A teenage boy comes of age in the 1970's, sent by his neurotic, pretentious mother to live with a jolly, vulgar psychiatrist and his eccentric extended family.
Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Joseph Cross, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Gwyneth Paltrow
Votes: 23,175 | Gross: $6.75M
6. American Dreamz (2006)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Music
A popular television music talent competition hosted by a pompous egomaniac becomes the setting for an assassination attempt when the President of the United States becomes a celebrity judge in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe
Votes: 25,235 | Gross: $7.19M
7. The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical
A married musical team splits up so the wife can become a serious actress.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke
Votes: 3,506
8. The Stranger Beside Me (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.
Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Billy Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Suki Kaiser, Brenda James
Votes: 1,036
9. My Favorite Spy (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
A burlesque comic, who resembles an international spy, is recruited by the government and sent to Tangier to retrieve a sensitive microfilm before it's captured by hostile foreign agents.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Hedy Lamarr, Francis L. Sullivan, Arnold Moss
Votes: 1,350
10. Case of the Missing Hare (1942)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs' home in a hollow tree is marred when the magician, Ala Bahma, plasters his show posters all over it. Bugs goes to the show to heckle.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,238
11. The Divine Garbo (1990 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary, Biography
Glenn Close hosts this documentary featuring film clips, still photographs and rare behind-the-scenes footage that reveal how the mysterious legend Greta Garbo's film career reflected her life.
Director: Susan F. Walker | Stars: Glenn Close, Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Aristotle Onassis
Votes: 69
12.
The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode:
Andy Discovers America
(1963)
TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, Family
Opie's reinterpretation of Andy's encouragement lands Andy in hot water with Opie's new teacher, Miss Helen "Old Lady" Crump.
Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier
Votes: 380
13.
The Munsters (1964–1966)
Episode:
The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
(1966)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Munsters inherit $10,000. Herman and Grandpa spend half on an invention, and Lily and Marilyn open a beauty shop.
Director: Ezra Stone | Stars: Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, Pat Priest
Votes: 194
14.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Brain of Colonel Barham
(1965)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
For the Mars space program, scientists transplant he brain of an embittered, egotistical, dying colonel into a computer, with predictable, inhuman results.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Grant Williams, Elizabeth Perry, Anthony Eisley, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 379
15.
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode:
Second Sight/Chocolate Soldier
(1997)
TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman that's recovering from a kidney transplant starts having visions of a woman in danger and a strange octagonal fiery symbol. A disturbed cult leader with a harem of female followers has the power to mesmerize any woman he wants.
Director: Milan Cheylov | Stars: Paul Miller, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox
Votes: 24
16.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Walking on Water: Part 1
(2003)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
DNA evidence clears a man of the murder of his adopted fisherman stepfather eleven years earlier, but who killed him and who was responsible for the simultaneous disappearance of three female family members?
Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose
Votes: 166
17.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Pusher
(1996)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A seemingly unmotivated murderer, who can apparently talk his victims into killing themselves is on the loose and it is up to Mulder and Scully to study the clues left to them by the person and capture him.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Robert Wisden
Votes: 4,944
18.
Psych (2006–2014)
Episode:
American Duos
(2007)
TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Shawn & Gus are hired to protect a reality-show judge who has escaped a series of attempts on his life.
Director: John Landis | Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson
Votes: 1,679
19.
Monk (2002–2009)
Episode:
Mr. Monk Joins a Cult
(2008)
TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A good Samaritan witnesses a cult style murder but the evidence doesn't add up. Mr. Monk goes undercover with the "Siblings of the Sun" to solve the crime.
Director: Anton Cropper | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,169
20.
Devil May Care (2021)
Episode:
The Influencer
(2021)
TV-MA | Animation, Comedy
The denizens of Hell get addicted to McKinley's viral videos, and nothing will ever be the same.
Director: Gary Ye | Stars: Alan Tudyk, Asif Ali, Pamela Adlon, Stephanie Beatriz
Votes: 36
21.
Bless the Harts (2019–2021)
Episode:
Dance Dance Resolution
(2021)
TV-14 | Animation, Comedy
Jenny takes a mother/daughter moment too far when Violet shows an interest in learning how to dance; Wayne takes Betty to a flea market with the hope she'll give him some well-deserved recognition.
Directors: Albert Calleros, Valerie Fletcher, Michael Baylis | Stars: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell, Ike Barinholtz
Votes: 47
22.
Svengoolie (1995– )
Episode:
Mystery of the Wax Museum
(2021)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Christopher M. Faulkner | Stars: Rich Koz, Doug Scharf, Jim Barton, Kevin Fleming
Votes: 12
23.
Rabbit Hole (2023)
Episode:
Gilgamesh
(2023)
TV-MA | 44 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Weir receives a message from Valence, which makes him question everything--including his father.
Director: Batan Silva | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Meta Golding, Enid Graham, Rob Yang
Votes: 635
24.
Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode:
The Manson Family
(2012)
45 min | Documentary, Crime
In 1967, charismatic ex-con Charles Manson sent his trained followers to kill seven people under the premise of igniting a race war.
Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Barbara Hoyt, Charles Manson, Simon Wells, Sandi Gibbons
Votes: 27
25.
Svengoolie (1995– )
Episode:
Gargoyles
(2017)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Christopher M. Faulkner | Stars: Rich Koz, Doug Scharf, Jim Barton, Gretchen Neidhardt
Votes: 21
26.
The Crown (2016–2023)
Episode:
Cri de Coeur
(2019)
TV-MA | 59 min | Biography, Drama, History
As her marriage falls apart, Princess Margaret finds solace in the arms of a much younger landscape gardener. The Queen and the nation celebrate Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.
Director: Jessica Hobbs | Stars: Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Daniels
Votes: 3,974