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1. Seven Psychopaths (2012)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken
Votes: 274,099 | Gross: $15.02M
2. High Noon (1952)
PG | 85 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 110,271 | Gross: $9.45M
3. Evan Almighty (2007)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, Johnny Simmons
Votes: 155,222 | Gross: $100.46M
4. Rustin (2023)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen
Votes: 12,577
5. The Beguiled (1971)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War
While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris
Votes: 19,229
6. Frost/Nixon (2008)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Sam Rockwell
Votes: 112,516 | Gross: $18.59M
7. Nixon (1995)
R | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris
Votes: 32,745 | Gross: $13.56M
8. The Scarlet Letter (1995)
R | 135 min | Drama, Romance
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Lisa Andoh
Votes: 16,301 | Gross: $10.40M
9. Path to War (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 165 min | Biography, Drama, War
In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill
Votes: 4,121
10. Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
PG | 154 min | Drama, History, Western
The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo
Votes: 6,456
11. Einstein and Eddington (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.
Director: Philip Martin | Stars: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Benjamin Uttley
Votes: 7,644
12. Angel and the Badman (1947)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
Director: James Edward Grant | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 6,673
13. Crossfire (1947)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Votes: 9,712 | Gross: $1.30M
14. Bedlam (1946)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser
Votes: 4,379
15. High Noon (2000 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Western
On his last day in office, town marshal Will Kane gets married and plans to retire on a farm but news that paroled killer Frank Miller is coming to get revenge on Kane changes the marshal's retirement plans.
Director: Rod Hardy | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Susanna Thompson, Reed Diamond, Maria Conchita Alonso
Votes: 548
16. Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Drama, History
Alone yet Not Alone is based on the inspirational, true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, two immigrant sisters forced to embark on a journey of faith that will lead them through the darkness of war into the light of freedom.
Directors: Ray Bengston, George D. Escobar | Stars: Kelly Greyson, Natalie Racoosin, Clay Walker, Jenn Gotzon
Votes: 975 | Gross: $0.67M
17. Angel and the Bad Man (2009 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A notorious gunfighter renounces violence upon falling in love with a Quaker woman, but must pick up his guns again when an old foe returns.
Director: Terry Ingram | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Deborah Kara Unger, Luke Perry, Terence Kelly
Votes: 517
18. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Passed | 144 min | Drama, History
Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann
Votes: 503
19. 56 Up (2012)
Not Rated | 144 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.
Directors: Michael Apted, Paul Almond | Stars: Michael Apted, Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Votes: 2,471 | Gross: $0.70M
20. Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Story of the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, William Walcott, Clara Bow
Votes: 401
21. Conviction (2002 TV Movie)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
True story about author and activist Carl Upchurch, a hardcore felon who managed to educate himself and developed a spiritual awakening during one of his numerous stints inside prison.
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan | Stars: Omar Epps, Dana Delany, Bentley Mitchum, Charles S. Dutton
Votes: 376
22. The Winds of Autumn (1976)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1884, an eleven-year-old Quaker boy sets out on his own to seek revenge against a gang of outlaws who senselessly murdered his family.
Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Jack Elam, Jeanette Nolan, Andrew Prine, Earl E. Smith
Votes: 329
23. The Deep Six (1958)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, War
Called to active duty during World War II, U.S. Navy Reserve lieutenant Alec Austin struggles to do his military duties while observing his Quaker beliefs, to the dismay of his comrades.
Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Dianne Foster, William Bendix, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 530
24. Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
83 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
Directors: Nancy D. Kates, Bennett Singer | Stars: Bayard Rustin, Dorothy Jackson, John Rodgers, Louis John
Votes: 226
25. Dear America: Standing in the Light (1999 TV Movie)
TV-Y7 | 29 min | Drama, Family, History
A teenage Quaker farm girl is abducted by Indians in 1750s Pennsylvania.
Director: Stacey Stewart Curtis | Stars: Madeleine Bergeron, C. David Johnson, Jane Johanson, Jennifer Podemski
Votes: 86
26. The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
How a liberated teacher brought women's suffrage to Wyoming in 1869.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Loretta Young, Robert Preston, Edward Arnold, Frank Craven
Votes: 167
27. A Prayer in the Dark (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama
The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in upstate New York; matriarch Emily runs the local bank. Years ago, she and her family took in troubled young Jimmy Flood to protect him ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Lynda Carter, Teri Polo, Phillip Jarrett, Michael A. Miranda
Votes: 128
28. Friendly Persuasion (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Clifton James, Michael O'Keefe
Votes: 36
29. The Fighting Coward (1924)
66 min | Comedy
Tom Rumford was born in the South but raised by pacifist Quaker relatives in the North and taught not to fight. When he returns to the South as a young man, he is tormented by the local ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Noah Beery, Cullen Landis
Votes: 58
30. Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1985)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Documentary of Charlie Clements, a Vietnam War pilot who was convinced by his experiences in the war that he should become a doctor working behind enemy lines.
Director: Deborah Shaffer | Stars: Charlie Clements, Richard Nixon
Votes: 69
31. The Baroness and the Pig (2002)
95 min | Drama
A wealthy American Quaker woman rebels and marries a French baron for love. A plan to start a Parisian salon with a distinctively democratic air brings conflict with her new surroundings ... See full summary »
Director: Michael MacKenzie | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Caroline Dhavernas, Colm Feore, Bernard Hepton
Votes: 200
32. It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School (1996)
80 min | Documentary
The groundbreaking film that addresses anti-gay prejudice by providing adults with practical lessons on how to talk with children about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people. Part of The Respect for All Project.
Directors: Debra Chasnoff, Helen Cohen | Stars: Bob Smith, Brian Stover
Votes: 96
33. Ein langer Ritt nach Eden (1971)
80 min | Western
Two gringos arrive in a ghost town named Cripple, where they meet two Quaker couples from Pennsylvania. The Quakers live simply in a hut surviving on watered down soup and bread. Soon it ... See full summary »
Director: Günter Hendel | Stars: Michael Eder, Günter Hendel, Karin Heske, Ingrid Steeger
Votes: 31
34. Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2009)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Before the 30th anniversary, Vancouver's Gay Pride Parade director examines relevance of Pride celebrations internationally. He travels to places where Pride is steeped in protest to ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Christie | Star: Ken Coolen
Votes: 142
35. Quakers: That of God in Everyone (2015)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
Though many are familiar with the Quaker names such as William Penn, Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Boone and Johns Hopkins, lesser-known Quakers also impacted society in significant ways. These ... See full summary »
Director: Isaac Stambaugh | Stars: Ken Strunk, Jeff Arnold, Cathy Barney, Lucas Bentley
Votes: 19
36. Quakers: The Quiet Revolutionaries (2018)
108 min | Documentary, History
Activists say they stand on the shoulders of their Quaker forebears as they plan non violent action campaigns. They speak coming out of a gathered silence in hopes of building the kingdom ... See full summary »
Director: Janet P. Gardner | Stars: Richard Nurse, Andrew Muir, Sandra Rose Timson, Jason Cutts
Votes: 12
37. The Reward of Patience (1916)
50 min | Drama
When rich civil engineer Robert Penfield goes to a small Quaker town in Pennsylvania to supervise a job, he meets Patience, who soon falls in love with him, but Robert is engaged to Edith, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Louise Huff, John Bowers, Lottie Pickford, Kate Lester
38. Billy Graham: God's Ambassador (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
The life and times of the evangelist Billy Graham are the subject of this documentary.
Director: Michael Merriman | Stars: John Akers, Cliff Barrows, Ralph Bell, Richard Bewes
Votes: 76
39. The Volunteer (1917)
50 min | Drama
Madge Evans, World Film Corp. juvenile star, is sent to her Quaker grandparents, Timothy and Tabitha Mendenhall, when her father and mother go to serve in World War I. After bidding ... See full summary »
Director: Harley Knoles | Stars: Madge Evans, Henry Hull, Muriel Ostriche, Victor Kennard
40. Beauty's Worth (1922)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Snobbish Henry Garrison flirts with Prudence, but actually disdains her for her lack of worldliness and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Aileen Manning, Martha Mattox, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Votes: 913
41. That of God (2009)
53 min | Documentary
Explores the Quaker principle of "that of God in everyone" through the spiritual journey of one Canadian Quaker, Jane Orion Smith.
Director: Chanda Chevannes | Stars: Marc Forget, Janet Ross, Beverly Shepard, Jane Orion Smith
42. Her Father's Pride (1910)
11 min | Short, Drama
The old father in this Biograph story was possessed of such unreasonable pride as to cause much misery and heartache. We cannot consistently call it pride, but rather, narrow prejudice. Mr.... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Stephanie Longfellow, W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Charles West
44. The Dancing Girl (1915)
Drama
Drusilla Ives, a young Quaker girl living on an isolated island, leaves to become the servant of the spendthrift Duke of Guisenberry in London, who is the Lord of her village. She finds ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Florence Reed, Fuller Mellish, Lorraine Huling, Malcolm Williams
45. New Worlds for Old: Quaker Relief in Stricken Europe (1923)
Documentary
Director: Hubert Wilkins
46.
The Magical World of Disney (1954–1997)
Episode:
The Liberators
(1987)
Unrated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A slave convinces a young man to help him escape to Canada, so he poses as the boy's slave to do so. They meet other escaping slaves and help them get to the Underground Railway in Ohio, where they are helped by a Quaker.
Director: Kenneth Johnson | Stars: Robert Carradine, Larry B. Scott, Cynthia Dale, Renée Jones
Votes: 64
47.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
Caution: Easter Bunny Crossing
(1970)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
In the series' only Easter-themed episode, a Quaker woman convinces Hoss to pose as the Easter bunny for the orphanage. While wearing a rabbit costume, Hoss must try to foil the efforts of ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, David Canary
Votes: 104
48.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Wild One
(1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Hoss wants a wild stallion for breeding. He's having second thoughts about the partner he chose until he meets his wife.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 120
49.
Branded (1965–1966)
Episode:
Leap Upon Mountains....
(1965)
22 min | Western
Jason helps a widowed woman after he discovers some men are trying to force her to sell her land.
Director: Harry Harris | Stars: Chuck Connors, Joan Leslie, John Ireland, Chris Alcaide
Votes: 42
50.
Bronco (1958–1962)
Episode:
The Soft Answer
(1959)
60 min | Western
Cattlemen and sheep men are in dispute over grazing. Bronco doesn't want to get involved but has to step in before a range war breaks out, mainly because Billy the Kid wants to back the sheep men who refuse to use guns in the fight.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Ty Hardin, Nancy Gates, Leo Gordon, Ray Stricklyn
Votes: 30