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1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Votes: 2,230,240 | Gross: $107.93M
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Votes: 1,987,097 | Gross: $377.85M
3. Conan the Destroyer (1984)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Olivia d'Abo, Wilt Chamberlain
Votes: 85,593 | Gross: $31.04M
4. Ran (1985)
R | 160 min | Action, Drama, War
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
Votes: 136,805 | Gross: $4.14M
5. The Tourist (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Thriller
Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Timothy Dalton
Votes: 256,923 | Gross: $67.63M
6. 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: 100,467
7. Fool's Paradise (2023)
R | 98 min | Comedy
A fool for love becomes an accidental celebrity only to lose it all.
Director: Charlie Day | Stars: Charlie Day, Ken Jeong, Kate Beckinsale, Adrien Brody
Votes: 6,223
8. Father Figures (2017)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, fraternal twin brothers hit the road to search for him.
Director: Lawrence Sher | Stars: Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Glenn Close, Robert Mello
Votes: 21,424 | Gross: $17.50M
9. Hopscotch (1980)
R | 106 min | Adventure, Comedy
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty
Votes: 9,018
10. Assassination Nation (2018)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
Director: Sam Levinson | Stars: Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef
Votes: 21,871 | Gross: $1.96M
11. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
Approved | 126 min | Drama, Music
A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau
Votes: 17,251
12. Andrei Rublev (1966)
R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev
Votes: 57,215 | Gross: $0.10M
13. That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Votes: 24,922 | Gross: $0.06M
14. Twelfth Night (1996)
PG | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 6,428 | Gross: $0.59M
15. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 12,325 | Gross: $3.27M
16. Ikki tousen (2003– )
TV-MA | 325 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Seven rival high schools battle each other for victory and total supremacy. The students will do what ever it takes to come out on top and see their school leading the way.
Stars: Yûko Kaida, Masumi Asano, Satoshi Hino, Kei Shindo
Votes: 1,306
17. The Company (2007)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Romance
Real-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad.
Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 4,975
18. Fox and His Friends (1975)
Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven
Votes: 6,798
19. Fist of the North Star (1986)
Not Rated | 110 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In a post-nuclear hellscape, a master of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two kids and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to battle the tyrants who kidnapped his lover.
Director: Toyoo Ashida | Stars: Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Kenji Utsumi, Chikao Ôtsuka
Votes: 7,324
20. Girls Bravo (2004–2005)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Small for his age, Yukinari has been bullied and abused by girls all his life. Now in high school, he has developed a rare condition: whenever girls touch him, or even come close, he breaks... See full summary »
Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Mamiko Noto, Michelle Ruff, Carrie Savage
Votes: 1,025
21. L'été en pente douce (1987)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Fane wants nothing but a quiet countryside life with the woman and the sweet, brain damaged brother he loves. Envious neighbours however have plans of their own.
Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jacques Villeret, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Pauline Lafont, Guy Marchand
Votes: 800
22. The Voice of the Moon (1990)
Not Rated | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
The amusing and entertaining adventures of a recently released mental patient and his band of misfits, who discover conspiracies to participate in while looking for love.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi
Votes: 3,319
23. Flavia, the Heretic (1974)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror
A young woman forced into nun-hood by her corrupt father teams up with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill those who wronged her.
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, María Casares, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 1,225
24. Call Me Bwana (1963)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 882
25. King Lear (1983 TV Movie)
158 min | Drama
Aging King Lear invites disaster when he abdicates to his two disloyal and obsequious daughters while rejecting the one who truly loves him.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 873
26. Pigs in a Polka (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,054
27. Königlich Bayerisches Amtsgericht (1969–1971)
25 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Hans Baur, Georg Blädel, Franz Loskarn, Gustl Bayrhammer
Votes: 100
28. Holly - The Movie (1984)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Otto, a young man from East-Frisia, comes to the big city of Hamburg to make his fortune. Most of all he is engaged with two problems: How can he impress Silvia, a wealthy young girl; and ... See full summary »
Directors: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Elisabeth Wiedemann, Sky du Mont, Jessika Cardinahl
Votes: 4,637
29. 75 (2017)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith
Votes: 59
30. Dobrý voják Svejk (1957)
108 min | War, Comedy
Mrs Müllerova (E. Svobodova) informs her tenant Svejk (R. Hrusinsky) about the recent assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Svejk heads out to the local pub unaware that a secret police ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Steklý | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Svatopluk Benes, Frantisek Filipovský, Josef Hlinomaz
Votes: 1,468
31. Otto - Der Außerfriesische (1989)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Otto is the only one who is able to save his Frisian homeland, but he needs the help of his brother, who is abroad. But when his brother does not want to fulfill what he has sworn to do, Otto tries to convince him.
Directors: Marijan David Vajda, Otto Waalkes | Stars: Otto Waalkes, Barbara May, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Volkmar Kleinert
Votes: 2,759
32. The Winter's Tale (1999 TV Movie)
170 min | Comedy, Drama
William Shakespeare's play as performed by the Barbican Theater in 1999.
Directors: Gregory Doran, Robin Lough | Stars: Steven Atholl, Ken Bones, Christopher Brand, Emily Bruni
Votes: 62
33. Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Court jester Bugs races against the Black Knight (Yosemite Sam) and his sneezing dragon in pursuit of the Singing Sword.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,917
34. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hashim Gari, Paul Askedall, Blaiden D. Cordle, Kyle Abraham
Votes: 1,317
35. Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
100 min | Comedy
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the... See full summary »
Director: Rainer Simon | Stars: Winfried Glatzeder, Cox Habbema, Franciszek Pieczka, Eberhard Esche
Votes: 78
36. Once Upon a Time (2008)
110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Set during the final days of the Japanese occupation of Korea, an adventurer and a jazz singer team up to steal a priceless diamond.
Director: Yong-ki Jeong | Stars: Lee Bo-young, Sung Dong-il, Kim Eung-soo, Jo Hie-bong
Votes: 331
37. The Hunchback Horse (1947)
57 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Adventures of Ivan the Fool and humpbacked horse in the world of kind magical creatures and cruel people.
Directors: Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya, Viktor Gromov, Ivan Ivanov-Vano | Stars: Georgi Chernovolenko, Alik Kachanov, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Georgiy Millyar
Votes: 1,156
38. Dos de abajo (1983)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
Two bricklayers find a hidden treasure in the construction site where they work, and become victims of a great persecution.
Director: Gilberto Gazcón | Stars: Valentín Trujillo, Andrés García, Blanca Guerra, Patricia Rivera
Votes: 31
39. Cyrano de Bergerac (1985 TV Movie)
176 min | Drama
The Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production of the story about the large-nosed swordsman/poet who writes love letters to Roxane, the woman he adores, to court her for the handsome Christian whom she loves.
Directors: Terry Hands, Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Jimmy Gardner, Richard Clifford, Robert Clare, Philip Dennis
Votes: 117
40. Vollidiot (2007)
102 min | Comedy
29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts circle around finding a new girlfriend after being left by his last one year ago. However, he finds the woman of his dreams in his most-hated coffee shop.
Director: Tobi Baumann | Stars: Oliver Pocher, Oliver Fleischer, Ellenie Salvo González, Anke Engelke
Votes: 2,455
41. Do Re Mi (1996)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three girls (Donna, Regine, Mikee) divided by personalities, cultural backgrounds and principles have one thing in common, their love for music.
Director: Ike Jarlego Jr. | Stars: Donna Cruz, Regine Velasquez, Mikee Cojuangco, Gloria Romero
Votes: 50
42. The Savage Girl (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy
A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Walter Byron, Harry Myers, Adolph Milar
Votes: 244
43. Nonstop Nonsens (1975–1980)
28 min | Comedy
There is a complete comic story in each episode, with Didi in the main role - as well as other, more brief, comedy sketches, also starring Didi.
Stars: Dieter Hallervorden, Rotraud Schindler, Kurt Schmidtchen, Gerhard Wollner
Votes: 296
44. Resturlaub (2011)
97 min | Comedy
Under false pretenses, Pitschi flees from a mutual holiday with his girlfriend on Mallorca only to escape to Buenos Aires and from the responsibilities of having a baby and building a house.
Director: Gregor Schnitzler | Stars: Maximilian Brückner, Mira Bartuschek, Antoine Monot Jr., Stephan Luca
Votes: 1,308
45. National Theatre Live: King Lear (2011)
156 min | Drama, History
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child's love rejected. As Lear's world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question.
Directors: Michael Grandage, Robin Lough | Stars: Michael Hadley, Paul Jesson, Alec Newman, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 44
46. King Lear (2016 Video)
180 min | Drama
Don Warrington stars as the tragic monarch in this acclaimed version of the Shakespeare play recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Director: Michael Buffong | Stars: Don Warrington, Alfred Enoch, Miltos Yerolemou, Rakie Ayola
Votes: 39
47. The Smart Aleck (1966)
98 min | Comedy
A young man pretends to be an idiot in order to win over the father of the woman he loves.
Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Dimitris Papamichael, Mariana Kourakou, Nikos Stavridis, Alekos Tzanetakos
Votes: 240
48. A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley (2019 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, History
Lucy Worlsey takes us back in time to see what it was like for the 12 days of Christmas in King Henry VIII day. From the food, presents, dress, dances, music, celebrations, customs and more... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sweasey | Stars: Tom Cosnel, Sean Cunningham, Annie Gray, Maria Hayward
Votes: 189
49. Sketch-up (1984–1997)
28 min | Comedy
A comedy series, in which Beatrice Richter and Dieter Krebs play several sketches in every episode. In Later Seasons Richter was replaced by Iris Berben.
Stars: Diether Krebs, Iris Berben, Beatrice Richter, Christoph Maria Herbst
Votes: 146
50. The Young Lady's Fool (1960)
67 min | Comedy, Romance
Entranced by the whimsical but spoiled young daughter of his boss, an honest but poor office accountant will find himself entangled in a seemingly fail-proof scheme behind his back. But who has the last word?
Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Jenny Karezi, Dinos Iliopoulos, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Stavros Xenidis
Votes: 633