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51. Eight Days a Week (I) (1997)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Peter loves his next door neighbour Erica and, on the advice of his grandfather, decides to camp out on her front lawn for the entire summer, or until she agrees to go out with him. His ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Davis | Stars: Joshua Schaefer, Keri Russell, RD Robb, Mark L. Taylor
Votes: 3,522 | Gross: $0.03M
52. Jezebel's Kiss (1990)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
Young woman comes to a small town and starts to take vengeance through seduction and manipulation for the grave injustice that was done to her family a long time ago.
Director: Harvey Keith | Stars: Katherine Barrese, Malcolm McDowell, Meredith Baxter, Meg Foster
Votes: 343
53. 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: 9,754 | Gross: $1.30M
54. Family Business (1989)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama
An ex professor offers Adam $1,000,000 to "get" some plasma from a high tech company's lab. Adam asks his criminal grandpa for help. Can they convince Adam's now honest dad to join?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick, Rosanna DeSoto
Votes: 13,849 | Gross: $12.20M
55. Rhapsody in August (1991)
PG | 98 min | Drama, War
Three generations' responses to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima
Votes: 7,601 | Gross: $0.52M
56. Totem (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.
Director: Marcel Sarmiento | Stars: Kerris Dorsey, Ahna O'Reilly, James Tupper, Lia McHugh
Votes: 2,262
57. The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
PG | 99 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by their ancestor, a dark-haired, red-robed woman who is said to take seven lives every hundred years.
Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Masé
Votes: 3,243
58. Liuben (2023)
109 min | Drama, Romance
Victor returns to his childhood home in Bulgaria for his grandfather's funeral, and decides to stay for the summer.
Director: Venci Kostov | Stars: Dimitar Nikolov, Bojidar Iankov Asenov, Dimitar Banenkin, Stoyan Radev
Votes: 212
59. How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (2021–2022)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Suddenly summoned to a fantasy world and betrothed to a princess, Kazuya Souma is crowned the new king. Unlike those before him, he won't be using swords and magic to rule; will administrative reform really get this kingdom back on track?
Stars: Yûsuke Kobayashi, Inori Minase, Show Hayami, Ikumi Hasegawa
Votes: 2,233
60. Innocence and Desire (1974)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Vittorio Caprioli, Lionel Stander, Anna Maria Pescatori
Votes: 286
61. Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Hahn | Stars: Joe Colligan, Carmen Argenziano, Noelle North, Anthony De Longis
Votes: 2,540 | Gross: $3.36M
62. Sweet Land (2005)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
Director: Ali Selim | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski
Votes: 4,159 | Gross: $1.71M
63. Knuckleball (II) (2018)
89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12-year-old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Director: Michael Peterson | Stars: Michael Ironside, Munro Chambers, Luca Villacis, Kathleen Munroe
Votes: 2,003
64. Saint Ralph (2004)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Saint Ralph is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth-grader who outran everyone's expectations except his own in his bold quest to win the 1954 Boston Marathon.
Director: Michael McGowan | Stars: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Tilly, Michael Kanevsky
Votes: 6,346 | Gross: $0.80M
65. Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Votes: 13,901 | Gross: $3.27M
66. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 10,059
67. Big Eden (2000)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Big Eden is a small, fictional northwestern Montana town.
Director: Thomas Bezucha | Stars: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher
Votes: 4,921 | Gross: $0.51M
68. Yellow Sky (1948)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Western
A pistol-packing tomboy and her grandfather discover a band of bank robbing bandits taking refuge in the neighboring ghost town.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark, Robert Arthur
Votes: 5,785
69. Hester Street (1975)
PG | 89 min | Drama, Romance
In 1896, a Russian Jewish woman immigrates to New York's Lower East Side to reunite with her Americanized husband, but has difficulty assimilating.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: Steven Keats, Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh
Votes: 1,899 | Gross: $5.00M
70. A Ring of Endless Light (2002)
TV-G | 88 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Based on a novel by Madeline L'Engle. During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.
Director: Greg Beeman | Stars: Mischa Barton, Ryan Merriman, Jared Padalecki, Scarlett Pomers
Votes: 1,451
71. With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie Guillemin
Votes: 11,976 | Gross: $3.82M
72. What They Had (2018)
R | 101 min | Drama
Bridget returns home at her brother's urging to deal with her ailing mother and her father's reluctance to let go of their life together.
Director: Elizabeth Chomko | Stars: Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner
Votes: 4,756 | Gross: $0.26M
73. Baaria (2009)
Not Rated | 163 min | Comedy, Drama
Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina
Votes: 8,009 | Gross: $0.00M
74. The Last Bath (2020)
95 min | Drama
A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religion, family and love become entangled.
Director: David Bonneville | Stars: Anabela Moreira, Martim Canavarro, Margarida Moreira, José Manuel Mendes
Votes: 342
75. Night and Day (1946)
Approved | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms
Votes: 3,213
76. The Road Home (1999)
G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng, Yulian Zhao
Votes: 13,944 | Gross: $1.28M
77. The Leather Boys (1964)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
An immature teenager marries a young biker but becomes disenchanted with the realities of working-class marriage--and her husband's relationship with his best friend.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton, Gladys Henson
Votes: 1,036
78. The Fighter Pilot (2013)
144 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A young woman and her brother explore the history of their grandfather, who died in WW2. They start contacting the men who flew with him, asking them about who he was.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Haruma Miura, Mao Inoue, Gaku Hamada
Votes: 2,835
79. Napoleon and Samantha (1972)
G | 92 min | Adventure, Drama
Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.
Director: Bernard McEveety | Stars: Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster, Johnny Whitaker, Will Geer
Votes: 1,099
80. Utama (2022)
87 min | Drama
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Candelaria Quispe, Placide Ali
Votes: 2,093
81. Hidden Places (2006 TV Movie)
G | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
Director: Yelena Lanskaya | Stars: Sydney Penny, Jason Gedrick, Shirley Jones, Logan Arens
Votes: 605
82. Lake Dead (2007)
R | 90 min | Horror, Thriller
Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin.
Director: George Bessudo | Stars: Tara Gerard, Vanessa Viola, Kelsey Wedeen, Alex A. Quinn
Votes: 3,838
83. Little Men (2016)
PG | 85 min | Drama
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease.
Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Paulina García, Theo Taplitz
Votes: 7,828 | Gross: $0.70M
84. En otro lugar (2022)
TV-MA | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Pedro, who is having a tough time, receives the news that his grandfather died. He inherits 2 cows and a donkey. He and his uncle go to the village where his grandfather lived. But this journey will end up as they never expected.
Director: Jesús del Cerro | Stars: Miguel Ángel Muñoz, Esmeralda Pimentel, Pablo Puyol, Litus Ruiz
Votes: 83
85. Extremedays (2001)
PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
As four lifelong friends, Will, Bryan, Matt, and Corey, are on the road trip they've been planning their whole lives, Corey's beloved grandfather unexpectedly dies. When going to claim ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Hannah | Stars: Dante Basco, Ryan Browning, A.J. Buckley, Derek Hamilton
Votes: 1,360 | Gross: $0.74M
86. Head Full of Honey (2018)
PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Drama
A man suffering from Alzheimer's embarks on a final road trip with his granddaughter.
Director: Til Schweiger | Stars: Nick Nolte, Matt Dillon, Emily Mortimer, Sophie Lane
Votes: 2,664 | Gross: $0.01M
87. Roommates (1995)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson and both their lives turn upside-down.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 2,002 | Gross: $12.10M
88. They Call Me Bruce (1982)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy
A goofy Korean finds his life hopelessly complicated with people continually confusing him with Bruce Lee.
Director: Elliott Hong | Stars: Johnny Yune, Margaux Hemingway, Raf Mauro, Pam Huntington
Votes: 1,862 | Gross: $16.89M
89. Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
The story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family.
Director: Yasemin Samdereli | Stars: Vedat Erincin, Fahri Yardim, Lilay Huser, Demet Gül
Votes: 7,234
90. The Trip to Greece (2020)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Rebecca Johnson
Votes: 4,765
91. The Young One (1960)
96 min | Drama
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Votes: 3,077
92. The Good Life (1996)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to ... See full summary »
Director: David Trueba | Stars: Fernando Ramallo, Lucía Jiménez, Luis Cuenca, Isabel Otero
Votes: 797
93. Bunny Drop (2011–2012)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A man adopts his six-year-old aunt and raises her as his own kid.
Stars: Hiroshi Tsuchida, Ayu Matsuura, Atsuko Mine, Noa Sakai
Votes: 3,863
94. Camp Hell (2010)
R | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Evil invades a children's spiritual retreat.
Director: George VanBuskirk | Stars: Dana Delany, Andrew McCarthy, Caroline London, Will Denton
Votes: 2,323
95. Desh Drohi (2008)
Not Rated | 140 min | Action, Thriller
Raja arrives in Mumbai looking for a job but ends up killing the brother of a local drug dealer. Realising the corrupt nature of politics, he goes on a killing spree and kills ten people in 24 hours.
Director: Jagdish A. Sharma | Stars: Kamal Rashid Khan, Gracy Singh, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Zulfi Sayed
Votes: 6,510
96. Northern Soul (2014)
R | 102 min | Drama, Music
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.
Director: Elaine Constantine | Stars: Elliot James Langridge, Steve Coogan, Antonia Thomas, James Lance
Votes: 4,297 | Gross: $0.01M
97. Red Dawn (1990)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
A Claustrophobic experience which involves a Mexican middle class family into the atrocities made by wild and heartless army forces whose main objective seems to be students who do not permit the 1968's Olimpic games' to develop normally.
Director: Jorge Fons | Stars: Héctor Bonilla, María Rojo, Jorge Fegán, Ademar Arau
Votes: 2,049
98. Seven Chances (1925)
Passed | 56 min | Comedy, Romance
A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
Votes: 11,781 | Gross: $1.30M
99. The Magic Carpet (1951)
Passed | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Using a magic flying carpet and a handful of friends, the son of a murdered Caliph must fight the usurper in order to win the throne of the Caliphate.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Lucille Ball, John Agar, Patricia Medina, George Tobias
Votes: 323
100. Mima (1991)
84 min | Crime, Drama
Mima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.
Director: Philomène Esposito | Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Nino Manfredi, Margarita Lozano, Vittoria Scognamiglio
Votes: 127