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1. The Blues Brothers (1980)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy
Votes: 214,436 | Gross: $57.23M
2. Bros (I) (2022)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Romance
Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.
Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, Guy Branum, Miss Lawrence
Votes: 35,055
3. Sound of Metal (2019)
R | 120 min | Drama, Music
A heavy metal drummer's life is turned upside down when he begins to lose his hearing and he must confront a future filled with silence.
Director: Darius Marder | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff
Votes: 150,262
4. Freedom Writers (2007)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves and pursue education beyond high school.
Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn
Votes: 85,359 | Gross: $36.61M
5. Christiane F. (1981)
R | 138 min | Biography, Drama
A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Natja Brunckhorst, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck, Lothar Chamski
Votes: 29,400
6. Mr. Jones (2019)
119 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Votes: 16,239
7. Happening (2021)
R | 100 min | Drama
An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's novel of the same name, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Director: Audrey Diwan | Stars: Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro
Votes: 11,552
8. Irresistible (I) (2020)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A Democratic strategist helps a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
Director: Jon Stewart | Stars: Steve Carell, Rose Byrne, Chris Cooper, Brent Sexton
Votes: 23,443
9. 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: 17,093
10. Grandma (2015)
R | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.
Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer
Votes: 16,916 | Gross: $6.98M
11. The Boys of St. Vincent (1992 TV Movie)
93 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Brian Dooley, Philip Dinn
Votes: 1,976 | Gross: $0.20M
12. Movie Movie (1978)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport
Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Eli Wallach
Votes: 1,281
13. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Glenn Ford, Van Heflin, Felicia Farr, Leora Dana
Votes: 21,641
14. Cougars Inc. (2011)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Sam has been expelled from every school and is now looking for a creative way to pay for school. He finds it in escort business called Cougars, Inc., which gives him lessons he never expected.
Director: K. Asher Levin | Stars: Kyle Gallner, Sarah Hyland, Jim Belushi, Maeve Quinlan
Votes: 4,192
15. Wadjda (2012)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd
Votes: 21,472 | Gross: $1.35M
16. One Last Thing... (2005)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man with a terminal illness makes an unconventional request on local television.
Director: Alex Steyermark | Stars: Michael Angarano, Sunny Mabrey, Cynthia Nixon, Matt Bush
Votes: 4,401 | Gross: $0.01M
17. The Age of Shadows (2016)
TV-MA | 140 min | Action, History, Thriller
Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Gong Yoo, Song Kang-ho, Jeon Yeo-been
Votes: 11,037 | Gross: $0.54M
18. Middle of Nowhere (2008)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An irresponsible mother blows her eldest daughter's college fund on her youngest daughter's modeling campaign.
Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Eva Amurri, Anton Yelchin, Willa Holland, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 4,039
19. Save the Tiger (1973)
R | 100 min | Drama
A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton
Votes: 5,609 | Gross: $2.33M
20. Summer of Dreams (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama
Washed-up pop-star has to move back to her hometown and finds a new direction by teaching young music students at the local high school. Romance is not far behind.
Director: Mike Rohl | Stars: Debbie Gibson, Robert Gant, Pascale Hutton, Lane Edwards
Votes: 889
21. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
88 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.
Director: Alexandra Dean | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Jennifer Hom, Anthony Loder
Votes: 4,301 | Gross: $0.82M
22. Boys Town (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Family
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 6,353
23. I Wish (2011)
PG | 128 min | Drama
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Kôki Maeda, Oshiro Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Seinosuke Nagayoshi
Votes: 7,938 | Gross: $0.15M
24. Intergirl (1989)
151 min | Drama, Romance
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Director: Pyotr Todorovskiy | Stars: Elena Yakovleva, Tomas Laustiola, Larisa Malevannaya, Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Votes: 1,473
25. Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999)
110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A violent chain of events ensues as a jailed criminal arranges to buy a car from a shady car dealer, unaware that his partner in freedom has squandered most of the money from their last bank robbery on horse race betting.
Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Oliver Korittke, Markus Knüfken, Ralf Richter, Diether Krebs
Votes: 10,828
26. Dare to Be Wild (2015)
TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Irishwoman Mary Reynold's journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Director: Vivienne De Courcy | Stars: Emma Greenwell, Tom Hughes, Alex Macqueen, Janie Dee
Votes: 1,697
27. Within Our Gates (1920)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault
Votes: 3,624
28. Ajami (2009)
Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama
Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.
Directors: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani | Stars: Fouad Habash, Nisrin Siksik, Elias Saba, Youssef Sahwani
Votes: 6,529 | Gross: $0.62M
29. The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
107 min | Drama
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell
Votes: 560
30. Student Sex Workers (2019)
60 min | Documentary
Two-part documentary looking at the growing phenomena of British university students working in the sex industry to pay for their education as they attempt to pay off their student debt by stripping, escorting and filming pornography.
Stars: Janet Dibley, Ella Hughes, Carly Rae, Jasmine 'Loretta' Gordon
Votes: 21
31. The Courage to Love (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Vanessa Williams, Gil Bellows, Karen Williams, Lisa Bronwyn Moore
Votes: 531
32. Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
131 min | Drama
In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
Director: Bimal Roy | Stars: Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar, Murad
Votes: 2,244
33. The Cyclist (1989)
82 min | Drama
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit... See full summary »
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mahshid Afsharzadeh, Firouz Kiani, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mohammad Reza Maleki
Votes: 2,339
34. Birds in Paradise (1984 TV Movie)
45 min | Comedy
Playboy sex comedy about three girlfriends who inherit a luxurious yacht in the Florida Keys. They "just" need to pay 10,000 dollars each of the next four months to get it. They try everything to raise the money, even a treasure hunt.
Director: Kent Ames | Stars: Brenda David, Michael Buschel, Charles Gorson, Jennifer Inch
Votes: 34
35. Aunt Mary (1979 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Sport
A disabled woman starts a Little League baseball team to help the children in her poverty-stricken neighborhood.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Jean Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Harold Gould, Dolph Sweet
Votes: 209
36. The Sinner (1951)
83 min | Drama, Romance
Marina passes from a dysfunctional family to love with an unsuccessful artist. But he is going blind due to a brain tumor.
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Gustav Fröhlich, Änne Bruck, Robert Meyn
Votes: 387
37. Rent Boys (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
Berlin stories behind sex for money. Despised, stigmatised and suppressed to the fringe of society - this is the reality young, male prostitutes face in Berlin. Most of the hustlers are ... See full summary »
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Sergiu Grimalschi, Peter Kern, Master Patrick, Claudia Thomas
Votes: 269
38. Jud Süß (1940)
98 min | Drama
Infamous anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Ferdinand Marian, Kristina Söderbaum, Heinrich George, Werner Krauss
Votes: 3,367
39. Parnell (1937)
Passed | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, following from 1880 onward his struggle to secure Home Rule, pursued in prison, Parliament, and elsewhere. Emphasis is on the ... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 568 | Gross: $1.58M
40. One Good Turn (1931)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy
A kindly old widow serves a free meal to the penniless boys but her greedy landlord wants to evict her for non payment of her mortgage, prompting the boys to come to her rescue.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr, James Finlayson
Votes: 1,683
41. Jonny Vang (2003)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Three friends since childhood are trying to work out their complicated relationships. Jonny tries to be best friends with Magnus, Magnus tries to be married to Tuva, and Tuva tries to have sex with Jonny.
Director: Jens Lien | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Laila Goody, Fridtjov Såheim, Marit Andreassen
Votes: 1,522
42. Happily Ever After (1985 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 60 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Third-grader Molly Conway suffers depression when she finds out that her parents are getting divorced. She tries everything to get them back together, but mostly everything backfires. Eventually she accepts her new situation.
Directors: Bill Melendez, Steven Cuitlahuac Melendez | Stars: Carol Burnett, Danny DeVito, Carrie Fisher, Rhea Perlman
Votes: 58
43. Münchner Geschichten (1974– )
50 min | Comedy
Munich stories.
Stars: Günther Maria Halmer, Frithjof Vierock, Michaela May, Karl Maria Schley
Votes: 159
44. Soft Touch II (1988 TV Movie)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Playboy sex comedy about three girlfriends who inherit a luxurious yacht in the Florida Keys. They "just" need to pay 10 000 dollars each of the next four months to get it. They try everything to raise the money, even a treasure hunt.
Director: Kent Ames | Stars: Jeannine Louise, Sue Morrow, Jennifer Inch, Michael Buschel
Votes: 44
45. Kill the Moonlight (1994)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Music
Is the story of Chance, a fish hatchery worker, toxic waste cleaner and aspiring race car driver whose goal in life is to fix his stock car.
Director: Steve Hanft | Stars: Richmond Arquette, Jaime Colindrez, John Hanft, Steve Hanft
Votes: 42
46. Yellow (I) (1997)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Eight friends in Los Angeles spend their last evening together as they face graduation from high school and the onset of their adult lives. One of them gets in unexpected trouble when he ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Chan Lee | Stars: Michael Chung, Burt Bulos, John Cho, Jason Tobin
Votes: 222
47. Prostitution (1975)
102 min | Documentary
The director conducts a number of street interviews with prostitutes about their lives, and their costumers take a bashing out of this.
Director: Jean-François Davy | Stars: Claude Janna, Jocelyne Clairis, Dominique Erlanger, Foughali El Habib
Votes: 55
48. The Fat Albert Easter Special (1982 TV Movie)
G | 30 min | Animation, Family
With Easter approaching, Albert and friends decide to help Mudfoot clean up his house and pay the bills. When Rudy plays a poorly thought out practical joke on them, Mudfoot ends up in hospital.
Stars: Bill Cosby, Eric Suter, Gerald Edwards, Jan Crawford
Votes: 79
49. Adele Spitzeder (1972 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy
Director: Peer Raben | Stars: Ruth Drexel, Ursula Strätz, Rosemarie Fendel, Joachim von Mengershausen
Votes: 21
50. Clerow Wilson and the Miracle of P.S. 14 (1972 TV Movie)
30 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Clerow Wilson and his friends attempt to put on a play to raise money for their band uniforms.
Director: Corny Cole | Stars: Flip Wilson, Larry Oliver, Kenney Bell, Richard Wyatt Jr.
Votes: 16