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51. Christmas Next Door (2017 TV Movie)
TV-G | 86 min | Family, Romance
A famous MGTOW author is forced to look after his niece and nephew over the holidays and, with the help of his Christmas-loving neighbor, he learns to find love and the Christmas spirit.
Director: Jonathan Wright | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Fiona Gubelmann, Brittany Bristow, Jenna Weir
Votes: 2,833
52. The Girl Next Door (1987)
95 min | Drama, Romance
Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.
Director: Alberto Salvá | Stars: Reginaldo Faria, Flávia Monteiro, Débora Duarte, Sérgio Mamberti
Votes: 230
53. Destiny (1997)
135 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are ... See full summary »
Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Nour El-Sherif, Layla Olwi, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari
Votes: 3,206
54. The Impossible Years (1968)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The eldest daughter of a Professor of Psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, and great embarrassment, for her father with her free-willed and uninhibited lifestyle.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: David Niven, Lola Albright, Chad Everett, Ozzie Nelson
Votes: 802
55. Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
106 min | Biography, Drama, History
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home.
Director: Maria Schrader | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Tómas Lemarquis, Aenne Schwarz, Valerie Pachner
Votes: 2,668 | Gross: $0.08M
56. Christmas Truce (2015 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Drama
An American soldier and a Belgian woman fall in love during a brief holiday truce amid the Battle of the Bulge. When fighting resumes, they promise to reunite on the first Christmas after the war ends if they're both alive.
Director: Brian Skiba | Stars: Craig Olejnik, Ali Liebert, Kate Vernon, Josh Blacker
Votes: 507
57. I Am Watching You (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Romance, Thriller
Writer, Nora Nichols finds inspiration by watching her neighbor Lucas' escapades from her bedroom window. But things take an interesting turn when she realizes he's been watching too.
Director: Maureen Bharoocha | Stars: Madeline Zima, Brian Ames, Lilan Bowden, Lesley-Anne Down
Votes: 398
58. Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
95 min | Crime, Drama
The year is 1962. Erik, his newly acquainted friend Edmund and his grown-up brother Henry are going to spend their summer holiday in a fairly decayed house just near the lake Genesaret. One... See full summary »
Director: Martin Asphaug | Stars: Anton Lundqvist, Jesper Adefelt, Jonas Karlsson, Johan H:son Kjellgren
Votes: 2,789
59. Youngblood Hawke (1964)
Unrated | 137 min | Drama
Arthur Hawke works as a coal truck driver in Kentucky, he in the process trying to protect his widowed mother Sarah Hawke's property rights against his wealthy and cutthroat paternal uncles... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Eva Gabor
Votes: 445
60. L'alcova (1985)
86 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Lilli Carati, Annie Belle, Laura Gemser, Al Cliver
Votes: 638
61. Hope at Christmas (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Divorced Sydney inherits a house from her grandma. Seeing it with her 8 y.o. daughter, she stops at the bookstore and meets a single teacher there. She ends up helping out there for the Christmas season.
Director: Alex Wright | Stars: Scottie Thompson, Ryan Paevey, Erica Tremblay, Colleen Winton
Votes: 1,629
62. The Skin of Sorrow (2010 TV Movie)
98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A naive young man and his deal with the devil.
Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Thomas Coumans, Annabelle Hettmann, Julien Honoré, Mylène Jampanoï
Votes: 661
63. The Winter Palace (2022 TV Movie)
85 min | Romance
A novelist with writer's block becomes the caretaker at an empty winter chateau to finish her book. The owner, a prince, suddenly shows up with his royal entourage, and her job as the caretaker includes taking orders from the royal group.
Director: T.W. Peacocke | Stars: Danica McKellar, Neal Bledsoe, Jennifer Wigmore, Zarrin Darnell-Martin
Votes: 976
64. Love Upstream (2021 TV Movie)
TV-G | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Author Charlotte, a Chicago city girl heads to the wilderness of Minnesota to write her new book. Her guide, Rob, doubts Charlotte's skills. However, they realize they have more in common than not - and find themselves falling in love.
Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Kimberly-Sue Murray, Steve Lund, Nadine Whiteman, Jeff Teravainen
Votes: 657
65. The Lady Gambles (1949)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett
Votes: 1,066
66. Promise Her Anything (1966)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
A young lady has been widowed and left with a baby son to bring up alone. She decides that the baby needs a father figure and decides to marry a psychologist. She hides her son with an ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Robert Cummings, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 622
67. Cat and Mouse (1975)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A very unorthodox police inspector is assigned to investigate a millionaire's mysterious death.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Serge Reggiani, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 462
68. Sister Aimee (2019)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
America’s most famous evangelist is a woman looking for a way out. Fed up with her own success, and swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico, she finds herself on a wild road trip to the border. Based on true events. Mostly made up.
Directors: Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann | Stars: Michael Mosley, Julie White, Nathan Zellner, Amy Hargreaves
Votes: 248
69. Mr. Write (2016 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Romance
When the executives at Heartstrings Press wants to drop Michael Rothchild's (Corey Sevier) next romance book, junior editor, Dori Shephard (Charlotte Sullivan), argues her way into working ... See full summary »
Director: Rick Bota | Stars: Charlotte Sullivan, Corey Sevier, Christie Laing, Preston Vanderslice
Votes: 577
70. Reunited at Christmas (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Tasked with penning a Christmas novel, a successful writer returns to her late grandmother's home for a family reunion during the holiday season.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Nikki Deloach, Mike Faiola, Eileen Pedde, Andrew Airlie
Votes: 1,377
71. The C Word (2015 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A woman writes a blog about her experience with terminal cancer.
Director: Tim Kirkby | Stars: Sheridan Smith, Paul Nicholls, Stephanie Vogt, Tom Hutch
Votes: 537
72. Women in Temptation (2010)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Lenka Vlasáková, Eliska Balzerová, Vojtech Dyk, Veronika Khek Kubarová
Votes: 812
73. The White Tower (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure
A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 1,019
74. On Strike for Christmas (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
Joy Robertson goes "on strike for Christmas" because her husband and sons are wrapped up in their own pursuits and providing no help whatsoever with the many Christmas preparations.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Daphne Zuniga, David Sutcliffe, Victor Zinck Jr., Evan Williams
Votes: 971
75. No Time for Love (2009)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
When career focused Malou meets Bohemian Simon she realizes that opposites DO attract and that it's really only when you're open to the unexpected, that you truly live and feel life.
Directors: Theis Mølstrøm Christensen, Lasse Spang Olsen | Stars: Tuva Novotny, Dejan Cukic, Robert Hansen, Solbjørg Højfeldt
Votes: 526
76. Whole New Thing (2005)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson is enrolled at his local high school. The intelligent and androgynous youth confounds his classmates and captures the attention... See full summary »
Director: Amnon Buchbinder | Stars: Aaron Webber, Robert Joy, Rebecca Jenkins, Daniel MacIvor
Votes: 1,313 | Gross: $0.01M
77. Dalva (1996 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Romance
When she was a teenager, a woman got pregnant and wound up giving up the baby up for adoption. Now, 21 years later, she sets out to find her now-grown child.
Director: Ken Cameron | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Peter Coyote, Rod Steiger, Carroll Baker
Votes: 147
78. Måste gitt (2017)
97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Respected suburb guy in Stockholm who lives in criminality but want to be an actor. By coincidence he dropped his diary and was found by Lena Endre who thinks its great and want to publish it...
Director: Ivica Zubak | Stars: Can Demirtas, David Nzinga, Jörgen Thorsson, Selma Caglar
Votes: 1,339
79. Father to Be (1979)
107 min | Comedy
Bosse works at an advertising agency while working on the novel of the century. At a burger restaurant he meets Lena, and before he knows it, she is pregnant. Bosse starts thinking that his... See full summary »
Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Magnus Härenstam, Anki Lidén, Micha Gabay, Lis Nilheim
Votes: 368
80. Unforgivable (2011)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama
A crime writer living in Venice while working on his new novel meets and soon marries his real-estate agent. Relocated to a remote house on Sant'Erasmo Island, his obsession with his wife's daily whereabouts takes a dark turn.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry, Adriana Asti
Votes: 826 | Gross: $0.15M
81. A Place Among the Living (2003 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Christian Vadim, Thierry Gibault, Valérie Kaprisky, Cécile Bois
Votes: 118
82. María (y los demás) (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Ever since her mum died, María has taken care of her father and her siblings. That's why her father's announcement of marriage to his nurse brings María's world crashing down around her. At the age of 35, she'll have to change her fate.
Director: Nely Reguera | Stars: Bárbara Lennie, José Ángel Egido, Pablo Derqui, Vito Sanz
Votes: 883
83. A Christmas Cruise (2017 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When her best friend invites her along on a holiday-themed sail, an aspiring novelist unexpectedly finds the love of her life onboard.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Vivica A. Fox, Jessica Morris, Kristoff St. John, Rib Hillis
Votes: 616
84. Papusza (2013)
G | 131 min | Biography, Drama
The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Directors: Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze | Stars: Jowita Budnik, Zbigniew Walerys, Antoni Pawlicki, Artur Steranko
Votes: 1,419
85. All or Nothing (2017)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
The lives of three best friends - Linda, Vanda and Edo - get all tangled by four attractive men.
Director: Marta Ferencova | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Klára Issová, Michal Zebrowski, Lubo Kostelný
Votes: 507
86. Muj vysvlecenej denik (2012)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bittersweet teenage comedy based upon the best-selling novel written by a seventeen year old girl, Johana Rubinova. Johana (Veronika Khek Kubarová) lives with her father and stepmother. Her... See full summary »
Director: Martin Dolenský | Stars: Igor Bares, Sandra Cernodrinská, Jana Dopitová, Jan Antonín Duchoslav
Votes: 83
87. Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Guy Kibbee, William Gargan
Votes: 461
88. It's the Heart That Dies Last (2017)
103 min | Drama
Julien publishes an autobiography focusing on his childhood memories and his odd relationship with his long-estranged mother. His mother, who is unaware of the book's content, tries to reconnect with him and redeem the lost time.
Director: Alexis Durand-Brault | Stars: Gabriel Sabourin, Denise Filiatrault, Sophie Lorain, Paul Doucet
Votes: 260
89. Daniel (1971)
84 min | Comedy
After a one-year trip around the world, Twenty-year-old Daniel comes home to his extremely boring parents, who go along with their time in their own way. In their trendy clothes they make ... See full summary »
Director: Erik Terpstra | Stars: Peter Schaapman, Sylvia de Leur, Bob De Lange, André van den Heuvel
Votes: 32
90. La question (1977)
112 min | Drama, War
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Director: Laurent Heynemann | Stars: Jacques Denis, Nicole Garcia, Jean-Pierre Sentier, Françoise Thuries
Votes: 95
91. The Stalker's Apprentice (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Marcus Walwyn develops a fatal obsession for a young girl he meets on a train. Corrupted by a book he reads by the convicted serial killer Helmut Kranze he embarks on a murderous mission.
Director: Marcus D.F. White | Stars: Peter Davison, James Bolam, Paula Wilcox, Gideon Turner
Votes: 120
92. Vous habitez chez vos parents? (1983)
81 min | Comedy
Three generations, the Chic, the Bumpkin and the New confront in a bourgeois family in Paris.
Director: Michel Fermaud | Stars: Michel Galabru, Madeleine Barbulée, Claire Maurier, Sophie Caffarel
Votes: 37
93. Pesänlikaajat - erään kirjakohun anatomia (2021 TV Movie)
82 min | Documentary, History
In the autumn of 1981, a Finnish political book called Tamminiemen pesänjakajat was published. The collection of writings analyzed, in a sharp and malicious way, known politicians and ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Franck | Stars: Aarno Laitinen, Urho Kekkonen, Janne Virkkunen, Arto Astikainen
Votes: 86
94. Médecin-chef à la Santé (2012 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
A woman replaces a co-worker as a medical doctor at La Sante prison in Paris.
Director: Yves Rénier | Stars: Mathilde Seigner, Samuel Labarthe, Youssef Hajdi, Jérôme Robart
Votes: 37
95. Another Tale, Please (2023)
50 min | Documentary
It tells the story of an author who is trying to find his way of contributing and showcases what his contemporaries think about him and his work. As it follows Claes Lindhardt, in the year that he wrote 'Marco the Measuring Caterpillar'.
Director: Sumaya Ghiasi | Stars: Isabel Bilde, Sandrine Charrier, Jakob Garde, Claes Lindhardt
96. Hovory s TGM (2018)
80 min | Biography, Drama, History
On 26 September 1928, Karel Capek and President T.G. Masaryk meet in the gardens of Topolcianky castle to decide about the fate of their joint literary work. Their fiction film dialogue is ... See full summary »
Director: Jakub Cervenka | Stars: Jan Budar, Martin Huba
Votes: 176
97. Romantiko simeioma (1978)
84 min | Romance
The story of four fellow students who fall in love with the same girl, who has shook up their lives with her unexpected appearance as well as her enigmatic presence.
Director: Takis Kanellopoulos | Stars: Giorgos Mazis, Maria Perdiki, Giorgos Fourniadis, Kostas Lahas
Votes: 33
98. Cuky Luky film (2017)
Comedy
They could not be more different - Cuky is a wannabe blogger, Luky a star desperate for love.
Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Petra Polnisová, Zuzana Sebová, Diana Mórová, Lukás Latinák
Votes: 114
99. La mia crisi (2015)
4 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Mario Palladino | Stars: Nicola Palmieri, Mario Palladino, Gianmarco Verrone
100.
The Snoop Sisters (1972–1974)
Episode:
The Female Instinct
(1972)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are also mystery writers, try to track down the killer of a former movie star.
Director: Leonard Stern | Stars: Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, Charlie Callas, Jill Clayburgh
Votes: 216