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1. The Dreamers (2003)
NC-17 | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Anna Chancellor
Votes: 131,665 | Gross: $2.53M
2. Persona (1966)
Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
Votes: 131,014
3. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
In 1968, the night of Halloween brings mayhem in a small town when a group of friends discovers a notebook written by a mysterious girl that foretells terrifying events.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams
Votes: 85,320 | Gross: $68.95M
4. Convoy (1978)
PG | 110 min | Action, Drama
Truckers form a mile-long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young
Votes: 18,617 | Gross: $45.00M
5. F Is for Family (2015–2021)
TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Follow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV.
Stars: Bill Burr, Laura Dern, Justin Long, Debi Derryberry
Votes: 41,219
6. Call Jane (2022)
R | 121 min | Drama, History
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Director: Phyllis Nagy | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara
Votes: 6,133
7. Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
Widowed Liz Garfield and her son Bobby change when mysterious stranger Ted Brautigan enters their lives.
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem
Votes: 41,067 | Gross: $24.19M
8. Mirror Mirror (I) (1990)
R | 104 min | Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl begins receiving black magic power through an antique mirror that drips blood, not realizing the mirror is controlled by demonic forces.
Director: Marina Sargenti | Stars: Karen Black, Yvonne De Carlo, William Sanderson, Rainbow Harvest
Votes: 2,200
9. The Late Shift (1996 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A dramatization of the rivalry between David Letterman and Jay Leno over which of them would succeed Johnny Carson as the host of "The Tonight Show".
Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Kathy Bates, Bob Balaban
Votes: 3,782
10. The Gay Deceivers (1969)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Danny and Elliot avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they have to act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.
Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Kevin Coughlin, Brooke Bundy, Lawrence P. Casey, Jo Ann Harris
Votes: 880
11. O.K. (1970)
80 min | Drama, War
A four-man US fire-team on patrol seizes a dying young Vietnamese girl and continue to torture, rape and kill her. One soldier refuses to take part and reports the incident.
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Gustl Bayrhammer, Hartmut Becker, Rolf Castell, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 206
12. What the Day Owes the Night (2012)
162 min | Drama, Romance
Algeria in the 1930s. Nine-year-old Jonas was placed in the care of his uncle in Oran. He befriends the youth of Rio Salado. Emily is loved by all. The love that grows between Jonas and Emily is influenced by the country's conflicts.
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Nora Arnezeder, Fu'ad Aït Aattou, Anne Parillaud, Vincent Perez
Votes: 3,981
13. Jacknife (1989)
R | 102 min | Drama
Two Vietnam vets search for the strength to face up to their horrific war experiences, but their friendship begins to splinter when one becomes romantically involved with the other's sister.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Robert De Niro, Kathy Baker, Ed Harris, Sloane Shelton
Votes: 6,512 | Gross: $2.05M
14. Jack Strong (2014)
Not Rated | 128 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The most spectacular Polish spy of the Cold War era, Colonel Ryszard Kuklinski, informs Americans about the Communist Bloc's top secrets in the face of the upcoming martial law.
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski | Stars: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov
Votes: 5,359
15. Getting Straight (1970)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Vietnam vet and former social radical is conflicted by his desire to become a teacher and his sympathy with anti-establishment student protests.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $3.86M
16. Mickey and the Bear (2019)
R | 88 min | Drama
Faced with the responsibility to take care of her addict, veteran father, headstrong teen Mickey Peck keeps her household afloat.
Director: Annabelle Attanasio | Stars: Camila Morrone, James Badge Dale, Calvin Demba, Ben Rosenfield
Votes: 1,789
17. Old Boyfriends (1979)
R | 103 min | Drama
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out the former boyfriends who left the biggest impacts on her life, mostly in negative ways.
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, John Belushi, Keith Carradine
Votes: 601
18. International Velvet (1978)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Family, Sport
Velvet's orphaned niece Sarah follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman
Votes: 1,639
19. Crypt of Dark Secrets (1976)
R | 71 min | Crime, Horror
A witch resurrects a murdered Vietnam vet and takes revenge on his killers.
Director: Jack Weis | Stars: Ronald Tanet, Maureen Ridley, Herbert G. Jahncke, Wayne Mack
Votes: 297
20. To Dance with the White Dog (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
An unusual love story in which a strange white dog appears and helps Sam Peek, a Georgia tree farmer, cope with the loss of his wife, Cora. Stars Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. From the Hallmark Hall of Fame Collection.
Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Christine Baranski, Terry Beaver
Votes: 686
21. The Christmas Card (2006 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama, Romance
US soldier visits the town from where an inspirational Christmas card was sent to him by a church group that mails cards out to servicemen as a goodwill effort.
Director: Stephen Bridgewater | Stars: Edward Asner, John Newton, Alice Evans, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 4,528
22. The Ambassador (1984)
R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ellen Burstyn, Rock Hudson, Fabio Testi
Votes: 942
23. Troma's War (1988)
R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of assorted Americans survive a plane crash in a Caribbean island, and discover it is infested with crawling snakes and other venomous beasts. Even worse, terrorists are preparing a full out war on America with a biological weapon.
Directors: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Carolyn Beauchamp, Sean Bowen, Rick Washburn, Patrick Weathers
Votes: 2,454
24. When You're Strange (2009)
R | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A look at the late '60s and early '70s rock band The Doors, including rare exclusive footage.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Johnny Depp, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek
Votes: 10,276 | Gross: $0.24M
25. 1985 (2018)
85 min | Drama
A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Director: Yen Tan | Stars: Cory Michael Smith, Virginia Madsen, Michael Chiklis, Jamie Chung
Votes: 2,521
26. Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)
G | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin
Votes: 1,362 | Gross: $1.24M
27. Love Letters (1999 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
An ambitious U.S. Senator reflects back on his life after the death of a woman whom he loved and kept in contact with only through correspondence. The movie is told in flashbacks as the two... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Steven Weber, Laura Linney, Kirsten Storms, Tim Redwine
Votes: 757
28. Outside the Law (2010)
R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, War
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after WWII.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa
Votes: 4,121
29. Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018)
TV-14 | 133 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the life, work, activism and controversies of actress and fitness tycoon, Jane Fonda.
Director: Susan Lacy | Stars: Jane Fonda, Richard Nixon, Robert Redford, Nathalie Vadim
Votes: 2,675
30. USS Christmas (2020 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Mystery, Romance
Maddie, a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmas time where she meets a handsome naval officer and stumbles upon a mystery in the ship's archive room.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Jen Lilley, Trevor Donovan, Barbara Niven, Stefanie Butler
Votes: 1,717
31. A Good American (2015)
TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, History
How a group of NSA code-breakers had a chance of preventing 9/11.
Director: Friedrich Moser | Stars: William Binney, Jesselyn Radack, Kirk Wiebe, Diane Roark
Votes: 1,334
32. The Diplomat (2015)
TV-14 | 104 min | Documentary, Biography
THE DIPLOMAT tells the remarkable story of the life and legacy of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, whose singular career spanned fifty years of American foreign policy - from Vietnam to Afghanistan.
Director: David Holbrooke | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Christiane Amanpour, Rina Amiri, Kofi Annan
Votes: 347
33. Partner (1968)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
Bernardo Bertolucci, along with co-scenarist Gianni Amico, used Dostoievski's 1846, pre-imprisonment novella The Double: A Petersburg Poem, which they moved to Italy and updated to the pro-Vietcong student-protest present.
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Pierre Clémenti, Tina Aumont, Sergio Tofano, Giulio Cesare Castello
Votes: 933
34. ReMastered: Who Shot the Sheriff? (2018 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
The violent political suppression of the roots reggae movement in Jamaica told through an investigation into Jamaican politics and the CIA's involvement in the mysterious shooting of Bob Marley.
Director: Kief Davidson | Stars: Bob Marley, Arnold Bertram, Cindy Breakspeare, Nancy Burke
Votes: 1,737
35. Midnight Man (1995)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer (James Lew) starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer (Lorenzo Lamas) to fight back.
Director: John Weidner | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, James Lew, Mako, Eric Pierpoint
Votes: 430
36. Kwagga Strikes Back (1990)
92 min | Comedy
Kwagga Robbertse owns a farm shop in the fictional Southern African country of Nambabwe and usually cons foreign tourists by pretending to kill a lion, thus earning him the nickname 'Urumbo... See full summary »
Director: David Lister | Stars: Leon Schuster, Bill Flynn, Casper de Vries, Michelle Bestbier
Votes: 375
37. Hollywood, No Sex Please! (2018)
56 min | Documentary, History
The history of sexual mores in America and as shown in Hollywood films is examined, from early cinema through the Hays Code. The 1960s and the sexual revolution were a turning point in society, as reflected on screen.
Directors: Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg | Stars: Barbara Scaff, Linda Williams, Craig Detweiler, Adrian Lyne
Votes: 134
38. The Wedding Chapel (2013)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Family
After a breakup and a failed exhibition, artist Sarah visits her mom. Her dead grandma's house and the church are to give way to a new mall. Is it too late to save them and for the women to find happiness?
Director: Vanessa Parise | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Shelley Long, Mark Deklin, Barclay Hope
Votes: 479
39. Beyond the Call of Duty (1992)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, War
While leading a maverick band of warriors behind enemy lines, a U.S. Army Commander is forced to lead a beautiful American journalist through the treacherous Mekong River Delta aboard a ... See full summary »
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Eb Lottimer, Jillian McWhirter, Vic Trevino
Votes: 152
40. Word Is Out (1977)
124 min | Documentary, Biography, History
26 diverse lesbian and gay people are interviewed about their lives and the challenges they experience in a homophobic culture. A groundbreaking documentary is now an artefact of a different time.
Directors: Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein | Stars: Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow
Votes: 539
41. The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show (2020)
TV-14 | 75 min | Documentary, History
For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.
Director: Yoruba Richen | Stars: Gina Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb, Taylor Branch
Votes: 186
42. The Man with the Wooden Face (2017)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Hien Le makes a living as a lottery ticket salesman in Vinh Long despite his deformed face, impaired hearing and emerging lung condition.
Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Dui Le, Hien Le, James Nguyen
Votes: 48
43. Bob Dylan: Band of the Hand (1986 Music Video)
5 min | Action, Music
Music video (entirely edited from stylized film clips with added strobe effects) for Bob Dylan's rebellious theme song from Band of the Hand (1986) featuring Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and Stevie Nicks.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Debra Byrd, Bob Dylan, Stephen Lang, Esther Marrow
Votes: 17
44. Mourir à 30 ans (1982)
95 min | Documentary
Romain Goupil records his years of militancy and disappointment as the new world they fought for doesn't come. He praises his missing friend Michel Recanati who committed suicide at 30 years.
Director: Romain Goupil | Stars: Alain Bureau, Pierre Goupil, Romain Goupil, Sophie Goupil
Votes: 240
45. Rifftrax Live: Hobgoblins (2021)
TV-14 | 117 min | Comedy
Back in the era of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Hobgoblins nearly destroyed Mike and the Bots. But the combined powers of Bill, Mike and Kevin will turn this wretched chunk of cheese into comedy gold.
Director: Don Carr | Stars: Bill Corbett, Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson
Votes: 35
46. Sonny Barger Confronts VDC (1965)
6 min | Documentary, Short
Ralph "Sonny" Barger - President of the Oakland Chapter of the Hell's Angels - I volunteer a group of loyal Americans for behind the line duty in Vietnam. We feel that a crack group of trained guerrillas could demoralize the Viet Cong.
Stars: Sonny Barger, Ron Jacobson, Tom Thomas, Tiny Walker
Votes: 6
47. Pan Hanoi (2022)
11 min | Documentary, Short
The documentary about the life of Chinh Do Xuan, a Vietnamese immigrant in Poland who opened a bar in Gdansk in the 80s - and it still operates to this day.
Director: Wojtek Godek | Stars: Chinh Do Xuan, Piotr Jaworski, Megi Malinowska, Szymon Suchar
49.
The Sentinel (1996–1999)
Episode:
The Switchman
(1996)
TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Crime
After spending years in the Peruvian jungle during his tour in Army Special Forces, Cascade PD Detective James Ellison developed hyperactive senses, which came back to him five years after ... See full summary »
Director: Danny Bilson | Stars: Richard Burgi, Garett Maggart, Kelly Curtis, Bruce A. Young
Votes: 352
50.
Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode:
The Radical
(1978)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A shoplifting suspect turns out to be a wanted 1960s-era radical, whose raging about the Vietnam War stirs up passions and polarizes the precinct. An overweight burglar becomes the butt of jokes.
Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Jack Soo
Votes: 124