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1. Dirty Dancing (I) (1987)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes
Votes: 256,482 | Gross: $0.62M
2. Angel Heart (1987)
X | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 95,838 | Gross: $17.19M
3. A Goofy Movie (1995)
G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Max makes a preposterous promise to a girl he has a crush on, his chances to fulfilling it seem hopeless when he is dragged onto a cross-country trip with his embarrassing father, Goofy.
Director: Kevin Lima | Stars: Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Jim Cummings, Kellie Martin
Votes: 62,747 | Gross: $35.35M
4. Happy Feet (2006)
PG | 108 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Directors: George Miller, Warren Coleman, Judy Morris | Stars: Elijah Wood, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Robin Williams
Votes: 200,028 | Gross: $198.00M
5. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Elaine Friedman
Votes: 27,131 | Gross: $3.12M
6. On the Road (2012)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams
Votes: 43,300 | Gross: $0.72M
7. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán
Votes: 104,788 | Gross: $16.78M
8. Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 51,948 | Gross: $0.75M
9. L.I.E. (2001)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay
Votes: 10,448 | Gross: $1.14M
10. Blind Date (1987)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A workaholic needs a date for a dinner with new important clientele, but who his brother sets him up with could lead to disaster.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels
Votes: 24,170 | Gross: $39.32M
11. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: François Damiens, Jean Dujardin, Khalid Maadour, Youssef Hamid
Votes: 23,115 | Gross: $0.30M
12. Damn Yankees (1958)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown
Votes: 3,445
13. Teacher's Pet (1958)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy, Romance
A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night-school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young, Mamie Van Doren
Votes: 4,855
14. The Bullocks (1953)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 19,910 | Gross: $0.10M
15. The Mambo Kings (1992)
R | 104 min | Drama, Music
Two Cuban brothers bring a new music to the 1950s USA. They are as different as the problems that await them.
Director: Arne Glimcher | Stars: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Pablo Calogero, Scott Cohen
Votes: 5,957 | Gross: $6.74M
16. Sylvie's Love (2020)
PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Director: Eugene Ashe | Stars: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King
Votes: 6,449
17. Judas Kiss (1998)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A couple and two hired hands kidnap a business owner for a four million dollar ransom. A woman is killed. Collateral damage? The F.B.I. gets involved.
Director: Sebastian Gutierrez | Stars: Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Carla Gugino, Simon Baker
Votes: 4,180
18. Zombi Child (2019)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her friends her family secret - not suspecting that it will push one of them to commit the irreparable.
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Louise Labèque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou
Votes: 2,592
19. Phffft (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
While pursing new companions, a former married couple keep running into each other all over town.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Jack Carson, Kim Novak
Votes: 1,998
20. Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983)
Not Rated | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Nadège Clair, Lisa Lyon
Votes: 1,155
21. The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Bull, Charles Goldner, Miles Malleson
Votes: 1,812
22. Christmas Dance (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Family, Romance
Jack (Andrew McCarthy) is an executive in a financial brokerage firm trying to impress the firms president, Drew Clayton (Chris Gillett), in hopes of a promotion. However, Jack is dating ... See full summary »
Director: John Bradshaw | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Michelle Nolden, Stephanie Anne Mills, Mary Long
Votes: 1,012
23. Love Scenes from Planet Earth (1998)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
Follows a divorced couple and their separate, cyclonic sexual escapades, and all of the spin offs.
Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Christoph Waltz, Heio von Stetten, Ann-Kathrin Kramer, Oliver Korittke
Votes: 937
24. El fantástico mundo de Juan Orol (2012)
94 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Juan Orol was born in Galicia, Spain at the end of the 19th century. As a child, his mother sent him away to Cuba, looking for a relative he never found. He grew up wildly and encroached in... See full summary »
Director: Sebastian del Amo | Stars: Roberto Sosa, Juan Manuel Bernal, Juan Carlos Bonet, Alfonso Borbolla
Votes: 208
25. El Benny (2006)
132 min | Drama, Musical
Based on the life of Benny Moré, the film concentrates on a period in the early 1950s when Moré leaves the orchestra of Duany and starts his own 'Banda Gigante'. In flashback we learn of ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Luis Sánchez | Stars: Rakel Adriana, Ulyk Anello, Renny Arozarena, Laura De la Uz
Votes: 78
26. Mambo Madness (1955)
Approved | 15 min | Short, Music
Features Tito Rodriguez and His Orchestra, exponents of the current dance craze. 'Killer' Joe Piro does some exhausting steps.
Director: Courtney Hafela | Stars: Tito Rodriguez, 'Killer' Joe Piro, Tito Rodriguez and His Orchestra, Killer Joe Piro and His Discotheque Dancers
27. Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In this fictional film in which performers using their own name do fictional things with fictional people there is no one playing 'Self', but there is a record-company talent scout, Bill ... See full summary »
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dámaso Pérez Prado, Perez Prado Orchestra, The Mary Kaye Trio, Mary Kaye
Votes: 46
28. High Voltage (2008)
Short, Fantasy
Director: Christina Soto | Stars: Jaina Lee Ortiz, Sara Moreno
29. Keiko no manbo: Chikan densha - norinige (1981)
60 min
Director: Minoru Inao | Stars: Rumi Sasaki, Mimi Sawaki, Rima Aono, Tako Hachirô
Votes: 15
30. Rhythm of the Mambo (1949)
Approved | 15 min | Short, Music
Clark Dennis, young singing star of radio and recordings, comes to the movie screen with Carlos Molina and his Orchestra. The background of the film is Latin-America with singing and dancing set to the same tempo.
Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Carlos Molina, Clark Dennis
31. Oliendo a Perro (2011)
80 min | Comedy
A lowlife photographer suspects his girlfriend is having an affair with a dog.
Director: Alexandro Aldrete | Stars: Alexandro Aldrete, David Colorado, Lizette Sánchez, Aline Marrero
Votes: 16
32. Mi Mambo! (2006 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary, Music
The film was produced by Pat Jaffe and Molly McBride and follows five young musicians from the Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts. This conservatory is the only school in America ... See full summary »
Directors: Pat Jaffe, Molly McBride | Stars: Oreste Abrantes, Lai Ara Reagans, Louis Bauzo, James Bosch
33. Perez Prado and His Orchestra (1952)
Approved | 15 min | Short, Music
One of the earliest American-produced films featuring Perez Prado (evidently known as Domatos Perez Prado---which my Texas keyboard can't show the accent marks---everywhere but in the ... See full summary »
Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Dámaso Pérez Prado, Allen Cole, Dorothy Dorben, Perez Prado Orchestra
34. Our Sister Mambo (2015)
Comedy, Romance
The Wongs are a middle-class family with four unmarried daughters. The father acts as the glue while Mambo, the third daughter and the protagonist, tries to get her sisters hitched.
Director: Wi Ding Ho | Stars: Michelle Chong, Moses Lim, Audrey Luo, Ethel Yap
Votes: 52
35. The Last Mambo King (2016)
Documentary, Short
Orlando Marin is a true New York original: a mambo master who's in the Stickball Hall of Fame.
Director: Sean Clark
36. Around the World Revue (1956)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Music
This 16-minute Universal-International musical featurette highlights entertainers of different countries or numbers by those who specialize in music associated with various countries of the... See full summary »
Director: George Robinson | Stars: Beryl Davis, Lorrie Collins, Larry Collins, Bernard Hilda
37. Osorubeki hiasobi (1959)
78 min | Drama
Director: Jun Fukuda | Stars: Yôsuke Natsuki, Daisuke Katô, Chieko Nakakita, Tatsuyoshi Ehara
38. Swingtime in Mexico (1952)
Approved | 9 min | Short, Music
Luis Arcaraz and his orchestra play while band-vocalist Evangelina Elizonda sings, and Carter and Valdez, a dance team performs on one number. Songs heard include "Tell Me Why", "Tabu" and "Trumpter Mambo."
Director: Juan José Segura | Stars: Luis Arcaraz, Evangelina Elizondo, Carter and Valdez
40.
I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode:
Small Wishes
(1993)
60 min | Drama
John Morgan shows his jealous side to Lilly's lover Joe Clay. Nathan is arrested on a wrongful drug charge and Forrest wins his murder case of Colonel Landers' wrongful death by two Ku Klux Klansmen.
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch
41.
What's My Line? (1950–1967)
Episode:
José Ferrer
(1955)
Family, Game-Show
Betty White fills in for Arlene Francis again this week and joins series regulars, Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen and Bennett Cerf. The first contestant to sign in is Mr. Merle Trantham, who... See full summary »
Director: Franklin Heller | Stars: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Betty White, Bennett Cerf
Votes: 34
42.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Auditions #3: Los Angeles
(2005)
TV-PG | Music, Reality-TV
Director: Nigel Lythgoe | Stars: Sandy Colton, Yesenia Adame, Michelle Brooke, Ayisha Burks
Votes: 25
43.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Top 20
(2006)
TV-PG | 120 min | Music, Reality-TV
The top 20 contestants are find out who they've been partnered with and perform before a live audience. Footage of rehearsals and interviews are shown.
Director: Don Weiner | Stars: Christina Androsenko, Dmitry Chaplin, Musa A. Cooper, Alex de Silva
Votes: 25
44.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Top 16
(2005)
TV-PG | Music, Reality-TV
The top sixteen dancers are partnered and perform on the big stage live. Each contestant reveals a little bit about their childhood dance experiences, along with childhood photos and videos.
Director: Don Weiner | Stars: Kamilah Barrett, Michelle Brooke, Artem Chigvintsev, Sandy Colton
Votes: 23
45.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Finale
(2006)
TV-PG | 120 min | Music, Reality-TV
The top 20 perform. The final four perform solos and reprise their favorite routines, as well as four of the judges' favorites. America's favorite dancer is revealed. Ciara and Fergie perform. Celine Dion has a message for the winner.
Director: Don Weiner | Stars: Cicely Bradley, Dmitry Chaplin, Ciara, Musa A. Cooper
Votes: 24
46.
3Below: Tales of Arcadia (2018–2019)
Episode:
There's Something About Gwen (of Gorbon)
(2019)
TV-Y7 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Stuart gets an unexpected visit from his ex-girlfriend. Krel helps Toby and Eli produce a short film, "Kleb or Alive," for a local contest.
Director: Johane Matte | Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, Nick Frost
Votes: 191
47.
Metropolis (1995– )
Episode:
Mambo in New York
(2005)
Documentary
Director: Gabor Harrach | Stars: Sandra Bergana, Mike Pena
48.
So You Think You Can Dance Canada (2008– )
Episode:
Top 18
(2008)
120 min | Music, Reality-TV
Directors: Don Weiner, Tina Apostolopoulos, Mike Bickerton, Karl DiPelino | Stars: Danny Arbour, Nicolas Archambault, Tre Armstrong, Lisa Auguste
Votes: 7
49.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Top 8 Perform
(2006)
TV-PG | 120 min | Music, Reality-TV
The top 8 perform.
Director: Don Weiner | Stars: Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, Alex de Silva, Tyce Diorio
Votes: 14
50.
Your Hit Parade (1950–1959)
Episode:
Episode dated 4 December 1954
(1954)
Family, Music
Director: Bill Colleran | Stars: Dorothy Collins, Snooky Lanson, Gisele MacKenzie, Russell Arms