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1. Unfaithful (2002)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan
Votes: 98,583 | Gross: $52.80M
2. Good Omens (2019– )
TV-MA | 55 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The End of the World is coming, which means a fussy Angel and a loose-living Demon who've become overly fond of life on Earth are forced to form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon.
Stars: David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Miranda Richardson, Jon Hamm
Votes: 112,794
3. The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Romance
Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco
Votes: 467,766 | Gross: $109.45M
4. Into the Wild (2007)
R | 148 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden
Votes: 658,808 | Gross: $18.35M
5. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 157,203 | Gross: $20.16M
6. The Worst Person in the World (2021)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Renate Reinsve, Anders Danielsen Lie, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner
Votes: 98,239
7. Notting Hill (1999)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A set of circumstances makes Anna Scott, a famous actress, fall in love with William Thacker, owner of a bookstore in Notting Hill. But the paparazzi's fascination with her complicates their bond.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans
Votes: 342,840 | Gross: $116.09M
8. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
G | 84 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.
Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti, Rex Everhart
Votes: 480,095 | Gross: $218.97M
9. Top Secret! (1984)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke
Votes: 73,173 | Gross: $20.50M
10. Hugo (2011)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 337,048 | Gross: $73.86M
11. Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)
R | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.
Director: Leigh Janiak | Stars: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald
Votes: 94,437
12. Yentl (1983)
PG | 133 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Director: Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff
Votes: 15,909 | Gross: $40.22M
13. The Big Sleep (1946)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers
Votes: 90,593 | Gross: $6.54M
14. The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp
Votes: 27,568 | Gross: $17.37M
15. Oliver Twist (2005)
PG-13 | 130 min | Crime, Drama
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Barney Clark, Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice
Votes: 34,305 | Gross: $1.99M
16. Bright Star (2009)
PG | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox
Votes: 28,718 | Gross: $4.44M
17. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
R | 106 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.
Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone
Votes: 56,220 | Gross: $8.80M
18. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Gemma Jones
Votes: 47,558 | Gross: $3.25M
19. Fading Gigolo (2013)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Director: John Turturro | Stars: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofía Vergara
Votes: 25,488 | Gross: $3.76M
20. The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A stuffy author enters into an explosive relationship with his neighbor, a foul-mouthed, freewheeling prostitute.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Allen Garfield
Votes: 4,409 | Gross: $23.68M
21. Alone (2008)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Tells about those people whose lives have been isolated by modern lifestyles; It is also Foods, mothers, old songs and love that this movie is consists of.
Director: Çagan Irmak | Stars: Cemal Hünal, Melis Birkan, Yildiz Kültür, Asli Aybars
Votes: 22,846
22. Where Time Began (1977)
PG | 87 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Also known as "The Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth" in the UK. The film is partially dubbed in English, but it has good cinematography.
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Kenneth More, Pep Munné, Ivonne Sentis, Frank Braña
Votes: 736
23. The Answer Man (2009)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A reclusive author of spiritual books is pursued for advice by a single mother and a man fresh out of rehab.
Director: John Hindman | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Lauren Graham, Lou Taylor Pucci, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 7,298 | Gross: $0.03M
24. I Spit on Your Grave (1959)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After the lynching death of his black brother in Memphis, a light-skinned African-American, heads to a small Southern town, where he draws the attention of a heiress, and learns that the place is as racist as his hometown.
Director: Michel Gast | Stars: Christian Marquand, Antonella Lualdi, Fernand Ledoux, Renate Ewert
Votes: 300
25. Losers' Club (2011)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kaan and Mete, co-hosts of a mid 1990s radio show called Kaybedenler Kulübü (Losers' Club), struggle to deal with their daily lives after their show becomes an instant hit. Kaan meets ... See full summary »
Director: Tolga Örnek | Stars: Nejat Isler, Yigit Özsener, Ahu Türkpençe, Idil Firat
Votes: 25,494
26. Ticket to Heaven (1981)
PG | 108 min | Drama
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph L. Thomas | Stars: Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Meg Foster, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 872
27. The Tasting (2022)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Jacques is divorced and runs a small wine shop, on the verge of bankruptcy. Hortense, determined not to end up single and involved in the association, walks into his store one day and decides to sign up for a tasting workshop.
Director: Ivan Calbérac | Stars: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Mounir Amamra, Eric Viellard
Votes: 904
28. A Young Emmanuelle (1976)
103 min | Drama
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes ... See full summary »
Director: Nelly Kaplan | Stars: Sami Frey, Ann Zacharias, Françoise Brion, Micheline Presle
Votes: 333
29. Lines of Wellington (2012)
Not Rated | 151 min | Drama, History, War
On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, ... See full summary »
Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, Marisa Paredes, John Malkovich
Votes: 1,571
30. Elysia (Valley of the Nude) (1933)
TV-MA | 46 min | Drama
A reporter is assigned to write an article on a nudist camp.
Director: Carl Harbaugh | Stars: Constance Allen, Betty De Salle, Bryan Foy, Hobart Glassey
Votes: 194
31. Ulysses (1967)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.
Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 979
32. A Bookshop in Paris (2021)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A librarian lives with his disabled daughter in his Parisian bookstore. Various characters will change their lives.
Director: Sergio Castellitto | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Bérénice Bejo, Matilda De Angelis, Clementino
Votes: 736
33. Spring Fever (2009)
116 min | Drama
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?
Director: Ye Lou | Stars: Hao Qin, Sicheng Chen, Wei Wu, Zhuo Tan
Votes: 1,645 | Gross: $0.01M
34. A Merry War (1997)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Wadham, Jim Carter
Votes: 1,548 | Gross: $0.30M
35. Le Sex Shop (1972)
X | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
The owner of a book shop in Paris suffers a personal crisis. In order to solve it he decides to convert his library into a sex shop, but the only effect is that he turns himself into a sexual obsessive.
Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Juliet Berto, Claude Berri, Francesca Romana Coluzzi
Votes: 362 | Gross: $0.31M
36. Challenge to Lassie (1949)
G | 76 min | Drama, Family
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen
Votes: 666
37. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, War
A Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1942 fights to maintain his stance of peace and acceptance of his fellow man despite the growing turmoil and atrocities created by the Germans. ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Charles Dance, Elina Löwensohn, Chad Lowe
Votes: 363
38. Nazi Agent (1942)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
A story of German-born identical twins (both played by Conrad Veidt), one a loyal American, and the other, a Nazi official.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher, Dorothy Tree
Votes: 804
39. Run, Waiter, Run! (1981)
88 min | Comedy
A comedy concerning a down on his luck bookshop owner with a penchant for women who decides to make some money by pretending to be a waiter and collecting cash from unsuspecting diners.
Director: Ladislav Smoljak | Stars: Josef Abrhám, Libuse Safránková, Daniela Bakerová, Zdenek Sverák
Votes: 2,260
40. Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 426
41. Fast and Furious (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
Votes: 876
42. Triptych (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Triptych is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle, a schizophrenic bookseller, her sister Marie, a singer and actress, and Thomas, a German neurologist and Maries future husband.
Directors: Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires | Stars: Frédérike Bédard, Lise Castonguay, Hans Piesbergen, Rebecca Blankenship
Votes: 208
43. My Friends, My Love (2008)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Mathias and Antoine become a modern-day odd couple when they move in together in London. But while establishing house rules is easy, handling relationships with the opposite sex is another matter!
Director: Lorraine Lévy | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Pascal Elbé, Virginie Ledoyen, Florence Foresti
Votes: 703
44. The Reckless Hour (1931)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Romance
In New York City, a young model is swept off her feet by a debonair, handsome young man. Unfortunately for her, he didn't want to get married but had been stringing her along. When she ... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Conrad Nagel, H.B. Warner, Joan Blondell
Votes: 242
45. Un mondo d'amore (2002)
86 min | Drama
The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of having seduced three paesan boys.
Director: Aurelio Grimaldi | Stars: Arturo Paglia, Gaetano Amato, Massimo Ferroni D'Andrea, Guia Jelo
Votes: 108
46. La petite Chartreuse (2005)
90 min | Drama
Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Marie-Josée Croze, Bertille Noël-Bruneau, Marisa Borini
Votes: 240
47. Chasing Yesterday (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance
An archaeologist is reminded of a past romance which sends him on a trip to the country, where he falls for the orphaned daughter of his former sweetheart.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anne Shirley, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 134
48. The Child of the Street (1957)
79 min | Drama
An eighteen-year-old bride realises that the past has come back to haunt her on her wedding day. Now, neither she nor her father can believe what the husband-to-be has discovered. Are the sins of the fathers visited upon the children?
Director: Frixos Iliadis | Stars: Anna Fonsou, Nikos Tzogias, Giannis Argyris, Nikos Rizos
Votes: 11
49. Ein Sommer in Salamanca (2019 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Very different sisters Rike and Nicola annually make a joint exotic voyage. This time chaotic do-gooder Nicola chose Salamanca, Spain, failing to tell she actually booked to a paying ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Keusch | Stars: Fernando Corral, Manuel Cortez, Patricia Aulitzky, Adolfo Assor
Votes: 70
50. Much Ado About Something (2001)
70 min | Documentary, Mystery
Did Christopher Marlowe write the works of Shakespeare?
Director: Michael Rubbo | Stars: Michael Rubbo, Bill Browning, Jonathan Bate, John Michell
Votes: 84