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1. Paddington 2 (2017)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Director: Paul King | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins
Votes: 94,019 | Gross: $40.44M
2. What Women Want (2000)
PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking.
Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda
Votes: 222,380 | Gross: $182.81M
3. Flawless (2007)
PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1960s London, an elderly janitor convinces a glass-ceiling constrained executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 26,350 | Gross: $1.20M
4. The Cry of the Owl (2009)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A troubled young man retreats from the big city and his ex-wife for the tranquility of a small town. He is drawn into a relationship with a young woman whose boyfriend goes missing, leaving the new arrival as a suspect.
Director: Jamie Thraves | Stars: Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles, Karl Pruner, Phillip MacKenzie
Votes: 5,155
5. Stay the Night (2022)
89 min | Drama, Romance
A failed work opportunity prompts chronically single Grace to pursue a one night stand with a stranger. Turns out he's an on-the-outs professional athlete in town with a problem of his own. Maybe they can help each other.
Director: Renuka Jeyapalan | Stars: Andrea Bang, Joe Scarpellino, Humberly González, Raymond Ablack
Votes: 732
6. It! (1967)
Unrated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After one of their storehouses burns down, museum director Grove and his assistant Pimm find that everything, except for one statue, has been destroyed. Not long afterward, Grove is found ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert J. Leder | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Jill Haworth, Paul Maxwell, Aubrey Richards
Votes: 1,541
7. Term of Trial (1962)
Approved | 130 min | Drama
A British high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher, but after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault.
Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Roland Culver, Frank Pettingell
Votes: 866
8. Black Legion (1937)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Votes: 3,919
9. Money No Enough (1998)
98 min | Comedy
A boisterous, on-the-nose comedy about three cash-strapped Singaporeans living in government projects: Chew Wah-keong (scripter Jack Neo), a married-with-kids 40-year-old who's permanently ... See full summary »
Director: T.L. Tay | Stars: Jack Neo, Mark Lee, Henry Thia, John Cheng
Votes: 253
10. Confidentially Connie (1953)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Family
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Calhern) comes to Maine to visit his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college poetry instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Walter Slezak
Votes: 406
11.
Good Times (1974–1979)
Episode:
Junior the Senior
(1974)
TV-PG | 26 min | Comedy
It looks like J.J. will be held back a grade.
Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: Esther Rolle, John Amos, Ja'net DuBois, Ralph Carter
Votes: 97
12.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Hard Knocks
(1989)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Switek sinks into drunkenness and self-destructive behavior after a dangerous mobster forces him to talk his indebted quarterback buddy into throwing a game to pay off his own enormous gambling debts.
Director: Vern Gillum | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 287
13.
Profit (1996–1997)
Episode:
Chinese Box
(1997)
45 min | Crime, Drama
An impending F.B.I. raid due to a subsidiary company selling missile parts to an enemy country gives Profit chances to creates destructive future gains and put him in a good light with Mr. Gracen.
Director: David Greenwalt | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr
Votes: 73