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1. Brian's Song (1971 TV Movie)
G | 73 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden, Bernie Casey
Votes: 8,928
2. Cecil B. Demented (2000)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
Director: John Waters | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier
Votes: 16,701 | Gross: $1.28M
3. Glitter (2001)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A young singer dates a disc jockey who helps her get into the music business, but their relationship become complicated as she ascends to super stardom.
Director: Vondie Curtis-Hall | Stars: Mariah Carey, Eric Benét, Max Beesley, Da Brat
Votes: 24,107 | Gross: $4.27M
4. The White Meadows (2009)
92 min | Drama
Rahmat has been asked to meet the inhabitants of these islands to collect their tears. Although for years people have been giving their tears to Rahmat, no one knows exactly what he has been doing with them.
Director: Mohammad Rasoulof | Stars: Hassan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Shirvani
Votes: 1,069
5. Dangerous (1935)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Romance
An alcoholic actress who is considered a dangerous jinx is rehabilitated, but she then shows that she's as dangerous as ever.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 3,704
6. Rhino Season (2012)
88 min | Drama, Thriller
Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Caner Cindoruk
Votes: 7,311
7. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Passed | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,802
8. Captain January (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 1,503
9. Paddy O'Day (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Paddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth, Jane Darwell
Votes: 283
10. The Little Blonde Dead (1993)
95 min | Drama
Poet Valentijn comes in contact with his former teacher Mieke. After a brief relationship Valentijn leaves her. But when he later gets to know his son, a bond develops between the two.
Director: Jean van de Velde | Stars: Antonie Kamerling, Olivier Tuinier, Loes Wouterson, Gees Linnebank
Votes: 1,110
11. Redemption of the Heart (2015)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Alex Montoya is a man who has fallen away from the Christian faith. He finds himself in a destructive relationship and in financial debt which causes him to become involved in various con ... See full summary »
Directors: Sandon Yahn, Isaac Meeks | Stars: Crister De Leon, Melissa Dixon, David Morales, Joe Lambert
Votes: 74
12. The Seventh Commandment (1932)
65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
You shall not commit adultery. Also known as Sins of Love.
Directors: Dwain Esper, James P. Hogan | Stars: Stuart James, Victoria Vinton, George LeMaire, James Harrison
Votes: 12
13. By the Grace of... (2021)
89 min | Drama
Tells the autobiographical story of the director, Dylan Reid, testing positive for Huntington's Disease. The film follows Dylan as he discloses his diagnosis to his close friends but omits the information from his new girlfriend, Lizzie.
Director: Dylan Reid | Stars: Kate Cornelius, Frank Firke, Matt Fujibayashi, Elly Green
Votes: 48
14. Lady of Secrets (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Otto Kruger, Lionel Atwill, Marian Marsh
Votes: 79
15. The Fourth Commandment (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
Following a reversal in the Graham family fortune, a childhood love affair between Gordon Graham and Marjorie Miller is frustrated by the socially ambitious Mrs. Miller. After he graduates ... See full summary »
Director: Emory Johnson | Stars: Belle Bennett, June Marlowe, Henry Victor, Lee Willard
Votes: 22
16. Kimi wa umi o mita ka (1971)
83 min | Drama
Director: Yoshio Inoue | Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Jin Nakayama, Minako Sakaguchi, Michie Terada
17. Evidence (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Evidence is a 1929 Pre-Code crime drama film produced and distributed by the Warner Brothers. It is based on the 1914 Broadway play Evidence by J. duRocher MacPherson and L. duRocher ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Pauline Frederick, Lowell Sherman, William Courtenay, Myrna Loy
Votes: 31
18. The Crest of Man (1964)
119 min | Drama
Miko meets Mako when she was hospitalized for a bone cancer. They start writing to each other and continue to do it after she is hospitalized again.
Director: Buichi Saitô | Stars: Mitsuo Hamada, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Chishû Ryû, Tanie Kitabayashi
Votes: 29
19. Winter Game (2005 TV Movie)
140 min | Drama, Romance
Story about the relationship between 3 generations of one family. A son and a young woman, father and his dead friend's wife, grandfather and his new love interest who looks like his ... See full summary »
Directors: Nobuo Mizuta, Nobuo Suiden | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Kyoko Hasegawa, Hitoshi Ueki, Kanako Higuchi
20. Kathe kaimos kai dakry (1964)
87 min | Drama, Romance
With her father presumed dead during the German occupation in Athens and with an ailing mother, a poor secretary faces incarceration after a treasonous theft at the office. Only a kind friend can help her; however, is she truly guilty?
Director: Odysseas Kosteletos | Stars: Orestis Makris, Martha Vourtsi, Kostas Kakavas, Thanasis Mylonas
Votes: 27
21. P.S Please Forgive Me
20 min | Short, Drama | Post-production
Lily has wanted to find someone for her whole life. Lily and Zane seem like a perfect love story from picnics in the park and their office secret, except he's married. Zane finds the ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Brombacher | Stars: Jessica Chin King, Michael Masurkevitch, Scarlett Rose Taylor, Jasmine Sean
22. Bitter (2020 Video)
8 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Scott Murphy Scottyg | Stars: Mason Mullins, Aereol Murphy, Robert Donavan, Alan Hutchison