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1. No Hard Feelings (2023)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

On the brink of losing her home, Maddie finds an intriguing job listing: helicopter parents looking for someone to bring their introverted 19-year-old son out of his shell before college. She has one summer to make him a man or die trying.

Director: Gene Stupnitsky | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick

Votes: 163,853

2. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

PG-13 | 192 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang

Votes: 498,537 | Gross: $659.68M

3. Spectre (I) (2015)

PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his most recent missions.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes

Votes: 467,731 | Gross: $200.07M

4. Do the Right Thing (1989)

R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson

Votes: 112,951 | Gross: $27.55M

5. Papillon (1973)

R | 151 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon

Votes: 138,720 | Gross: $53.27M

6. Office Christmas Party (2016)

R | 105 min | Comedy

When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand...

Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck | Stars: Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, Jennifer Aniston

Votes: 88,366 | Gross: $54.77M

7. Come to Daddy (2019)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.

Director: Ant Timpson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Garfield Wilson, Madeleine Sami

Votes: 20,511

8. Your Eyes Tell (2020)

123 min | Drama, Romance

A tragic accident lead to Akari's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. Akari has also lost her family. She meets Rui a former kick boxer, ... See full summary »

Director: Takahiro Miki | Stars: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Ryûsei Yokohama, Kyôsuke Yabe, Jun Fubuki

Votes: 1,783

9. Blackway (2015)

R | 90 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

An ex-logger comes to the aid of a woman who returns to her hometown in the Pacific Northwest and finds herself harassed and stalked by a former cop turned crime lord.

Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig

Votes: 10,730 | Gross: $0.02M

10. The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure

Sumuru, a megalomaniacal femme fatale, makes a bid for world domination by eliminating male leaders and replacing them with her sexy female agents.

Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 1,325

11. Instinct (1999)

R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller

When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell, who left society to live in the jungle, is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder to get through to him.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney

Votes: 34,333 | Gross: $34.10M

12. In This Corner (and Other Corners) of the World (2016)

PG-13 | 129 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A spirited 18-year-old woman is married off to a man she barely knows as she combats the daily struggles of living in Hiroshima during World War II.

Director: Sunao Katabuchi | Stars: Non, Ava Pickard, Kenna Pickard, Karen Strassman

Votes: 12,532 | Gross: $0.17M

13. Stop-Loss (2008)

R | 112 min | Drama, War

A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.

Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rob Brown

Votes: 20,914 | Gross: $10.91M

14. Lady Hyde (2022)

78 min | Horror, Thriller

A woman with latent psychotic tendencies, unhinged by her doctor husband's suicide, takes violent revenge on members of the medical establishment responsible for his death.

Director: Jason Rudy | Stars: Liz Clare, Marylin Monroach, Bob Moricz, Jason Rudy

Votes: 53

15. The Sergeant (1968)

R | 108 min | Drama

A story of a brilliant master sergeant with a great career behind him and transferred to yet another post, his attraction to a younger man eventually overrides him, to a point where his latent homosexuality, finally emerges.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law, Ludmila Mikaël, Frank Latimore

Votes: 702

16. Pucked (2006)

R | 83 min | Comedy, Sport

A failed lawyer uses credit cards to finance a women's ice-hockey league.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Jon Bon Jovi, Estella Warren, David Faustino, Curtis Armstrong

Votes: 1,204

17. Blackbelt (1992)

R | 85 min | Action

Ex-cop protects a singer from a psycho serial killer.

Directors: Charles Philip Moore, Rick Jacobson | Stars: Don Wilson, Deirdre Haj, Matthias Hues, Richard Beymer

Votes: 786

18. Racket Girls (1951)

Unrated | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.

Director: Robert C. Dertano | Stars: Peaches Page, Timothy Farrell, Clara Mortensen, Rita Martínez

Votes: 1,122

19. Flexing with Monty (2010 Video)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Macho bodybuilding big brother uses little brother's smarts en route to becoming head of an athletic department till a nun's visit causes a permanent change to their interlocked relationship.

Director: John Albo | Stars: Rudi Davis, Trevor Goddard, Venus Le Dome, Melinda Peterson

Votes: 312

20. The Pawnshop (1916)

TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Short

Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.

Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand

Votes: 3,714

21. Best Laid Plans (2012)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama

David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the ... See full summary »

Director: David Blair | Stars: Stephen Graham, Lee Ingleby, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David O'Hara

Votes: 1,603

22. Pier 23 (1951)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Private detective finds himself framed for the murders of a wrestler and a crooked referee, then for the murder of a mystery man posing as a new parolee from Alcatraz.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage, Edward Brophy, Richard Travis

Votes: 161

23. WrestleMania VI (1990 TV Special)

217 min | Action, Sport

Sixth WrestleMania on April 1st, 1990 at the SkyDome in Toronto, Canada, making it the first WrestleMania to be held outside of the United States. The main event of is "the Ultimate Challenge" - Hulk Hogan against the Ultimate Warrior.

Director: Kerwin Silfies | Stars: Jim Hellwig, Hulk Hogan, André René Roussimoff, Tonga Fifita

Votes: 1,135

24. WWF WrestleFest (1991 Video Game)

Unrated | Sport

WWF (Now WWE) wrestling game released in 1991 on arcade machines.

Director: Shinichi Saitou | Stars: Hulk Hogan, Jim Hellwig, Robert Remus, Jake Roberts

Votes: 59

25. Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two Tribes (1984 Music Video)

5 min | Music

A wrestling match between then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group members and an eagerly belligerent assembly of representatives ... See full summary »

Directors: Lol Creme, Godley & Creme, Kevin Godley | Stars: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Graham K. Furness, Peter Gill, Jill Goldston

Votes: 66

26. UFO Kidnapped (1984)

TV-G | 51 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Alasdair and Kevin, two teenage boys out camping in the Ontario woods, are abducted by a spaceship and held with two other captives, a cat burglar and a teenage intellectual, by two aliens ... See full summary »

Directors: Geoffrey Darby, Roger Damon Price | Stars: Alasdair Gillis, Kevin Kubusheskie, Les Lye, Klea Scott

Votes: 100

27. See You Tomorrow, Everyone (2013)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

After Satoru Watarai graduated from elementary school, he dropped out of school and decided to live within his apartment complex, never to venture outside. Satoru Watari then meets his old ... See full summary »

Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura | Stars: Gaku Hamada, Bengal, Ami Hachiya, Haru

Votes: 332

28. WWF Superstars (1987 Video Game)

Unrated | Sport

Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, 'The Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase (non playable), Macho Man Randy Savage, The Honky Tonk Man, Andre the Giant (non playable), The Big Boss Man, and 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan all battle to be champions.

Director: Yoshihisa Kishimoto | Stars: Hulk Hogan, Jim Hellwig, Randy Savage, Ray Traylor

Votes: 62

29. WCW vs. NWO: World Tour (1997 Video Game)

E | Action, Sport

WCW vs. NWO: World Tour features professional wrestlers from the WCW and NWO stables, and uses the revolutionary "grappling system." Fight in a range of match modes, or enter a league or tournament mode which remained unique to the game.

Stars: Aiichirou Hosoi, Kenichi Kanno, Erika Kitazato, Kiyoshi Nishino

Votes: 114

30. TNA iMPACT! (2008 Video Game)

T | Action, Sport

TNA iMPACT is the first video game released by the professional wrestling promotion, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The game was developed by Midway Studios in Los Angeles and published by Midway Games.

Stars: Kurt Angle, Retesh Bhalla, Jeremy Borash, Steve Borden

Votes: 139

31. Lovelesson (2018 Music Video)

4 min | Music

To love women or to love men, it's just two sides of the same game.

Director: Max Abrossimov | Stars: Thomas Van Praet, John Wannehag

32. 227 (1985–1990)
Episode: Toyland (1987)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Mary, Rose, and Pearl are fund-raising for a toy drive for children sick in the hospital. Sandra donates a teddy bear and asks Mary for a ride to the mall. Mary and Lester go to the toy ... See full summary »

Director: Gerren Keith | Stars: Marla Gibbs, Hal Williams, Alaina Reed-Hall, Jackée Harry

Votes: 46

33. Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–2000)
Episode: The Tale of the Lonely Ghost (1992)

Not Rated | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A girl who desperately wants to be friends with her snotty cousin and her group of friends agrees to spend the night in the haunted house next door to become part of the group.

Director: D.J. MacHale | Stars: Laura Bertram, Pauline Little, Laura Levin, Sheena Larkin

Votes: 1,144

34. Batman Beyond (1999–2001)
Episode: The Last Resort (2000)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Terry investigates a troubled child reform camp that is more like a prison.

Director: Curt Geda | Stars: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Rachael Leigh Cook, John Ritter

Votes: 489

35. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Dark Side of the Moon (2000)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

In a session with her therapist, Daphne recalls (through flashbacks) a series of unfortunate events following the surprise shower that her fiancé, Donny, threw for her.

Director: David Lee | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 984

36. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996)
Episode: The Harder They Fall (1994)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Lisa's very protective father wants to scare Will out of having a relationship with her.

Director: Shelley Jensen | Stars: Will Smith, James Avery, Daphne Reid, Alfonso Ribeiro

Votes: 636

37. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987)
Episode: The Belles of St. Mary's (1983)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

LaRue makes a fool of himself with some high school girls; Belker endangers his relationship with Robin by trying to protect her.

Director: David Rosenbloom | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz

Votes: 153

38. The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode: A Case of Self-Defense (1982)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

Lionel and Jenny's apartment is burglarized and looted. George worries that the crime wave will spread to his "deluxe apartment in the sky" and is determined to buy some insurance ... in ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Lally | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Votes: 68

39. Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006)
Episode: Emancipation (2001)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Family

Being fed up with military school, Francis gets himself legally emancipated so he can go north to Alaska with his friend Eric and become a logger. This does not sit well at all with the family.

Director: James Simons | Stars: Jane Kaczmarek, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Masterson, Justin Berfield

Votes: 920

40. Married... with Children (1987–1997)
Episode: One Down, Two to Go (1990)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy

Tired of Al escorting her dates out through the doorway, "grown-up" Kelly gets her own apartment.

Director: Gerry Cohen | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse, Christina Applegate

Votes: 610

41. Married... with Children (1987–1997)
Episode: Poppy's by the Tree: Part 2 (1987)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy

After a hair-raising encounter with the maniac, Al decides to get the family out of town. But they realize that they are trapped at the motel by a storm and the locals are unwilling to help... See full summary »

Director: Linda Day | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Garrison, Amanda Bearse

Votes: 805

42. That '70s Show (1998–2006)
Episode: That Wrestling Show (1999)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kitty makes Red go to a wrestling show with the gang. Jackie becomes a door mat for Kelso. Midge convinces Kitty and Laurie to join her at "therapy."

Director: David Trainer | Stars: Topher Grace, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson

Votes: 1,341

43. Three's Company (1976–1984)
Episode: Coffee, Tea, or Jack (1978)

TV-PG | Comedy

An old flame who broke Jack's heart shows up unexpectedly. Chrissy attempts to persuade Jack to leave the girl to get him to his surprise birthday party at the Ropers'.

Director: Bill Hobin | Stars: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Audra Lindley

Votes: 205

44. Three's Company (1976–1984)
Episode: Mighty Mouth (1980)

TV-PG | Comedy

Jack tries to impress a female fitness instructor but gets into trouble when her bodybuilder brother disapproves.

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Richard Kline

Votes: 219

45. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Anasazi (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Votes: 5,542

46. Centurions (1986)
Episode: Found: One Lost World (1986)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Family

After a battle with the Centurions, Doc Terror's aircraft gets hit and crashes in the jungle. While scouring the area, Terror and Hacker stumble on a prehistoric world. Soon the doctor begins turning the dinosaurs into cyborgs.

Stars: Pat Fraley, Neil Ross, Vince Edwards, Ron Feinberg

Votes: 16

47. Home Movies (1999–2004)
Episode: The Art of the Sucker Punch (1999)

TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

After Jason is dragged through the mud by the school bully, Shannon, Brendon plots a rather selfish revenge match.

Director: Loren Bouchard | Stars: Brendon Small, H. Jon Benjamin, Melissa Bardin Galsky, Ron Lynch

Votes: 137

48. Lads Army (2002–2006)
Episode: Episode #3.5 (2005)

Comedy, History, Reality-TV

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Stars: Dennis Waterman, Chris Banns, Ben Haines, Les Harvey

49. Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode: Episode #2.9 (1977)

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, History, Romance

Sam consents to wrestle Sid Rouse at the fair in order to get Emma back to church and Warleggan agrees to stop harassing Drake in order to save his marriage.

Director: Roger Jenkins | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend, Ralph Bates

Votes: 24

50. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1981)

TV-14 | 33 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect find themselves thrown off the Vogon spaceship into the vacuum of space. Improbably, they are rescued 29 seconds later by the Starship Heart of Gold. This brand... See full summary »

Director: Alan J.W. Bell | Stars: Peter Jones, Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson

Votes: 268