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51. Charley's Aunt (1941)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jack Benny, Kay Francis, James Ellison, Anne Baxter

Votes: 683

52. Twenty Plus Two (1961)

Passed | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill, Jacques Aubuchon

Votes: 554

53. Lucky Partners (1940)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two strangers share a sweepstakes ticket and then embark on an "imaginary" honeymoon with their "winnings".

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Ronald Colman, Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson, Spring Byington

Votes: 1,109

54. The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

An agitated and desperate man spares no expense in insisting that Mason represent him against a neighbor's howling dog and act as executor of his will.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell

Votes: 1,027

55. The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)

Unrated | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding, Leslie Perrins, Jane Carr

Votes: 805

56. Sweet Killing (1993)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.

Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside

Votes: 124

57. Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons (1960)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A golddigger inspires her older lover to murder wealthy women for the finances to keep her happy.

Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: George Sanders, Corinne Calvet, Jean Kent, Patricia Roc

Votes: 247

58. The President's Mystery (1936)

Approved | 80 min | Drama

A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent

Votes: 211

59. Riders of the Purple Sage (1925)

Passed | 56 min | Action, Drama, Western

A Texas Ranger searches for his kidnapped sister.

Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: Tom Mix, Beatrice Burnham, Arthur Morrison, Seessel Anne Johnson

Votes: 242

60. The White Cockatoo (1935)

Passed | 73 min | Mystery

Sue Tally waits for a brother she hasn't seen in twenty years to meet her in a French hotel. By proving her identity, she'll share in a $2,000,000 inheritance. But others are anxious to get a share of the money too.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez, Ruth Donnelly, Minna Gombell

Votes: 242

61. The Menace (1932)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: H.B. Warner, Walter Byron, Bette Davis, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 629

62. White Tiger (1923)

Passed | 86 min | Drama

Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery

Votes: 255

63. Men Without Souls (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Johnny Adams arrives in a brutal prison under an assumed name after deliberately framing himself in order to kill White, a captain of the guards, because he had beaten Johnny's father to ... See full summary »

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barton MacLane, John Litel, Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford

Votes: 83

64. The Man Who Found Himself (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Drama

A "high flying" surgeon learns a few valuable life lessons at the hands of a beautiful nurse.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Phillip Huston, Jane Walsh

Votes: 308

65. Holiday in Havana (1949)

73 min | Comedy, Musical

Carlos Estrada, a busboy in a Cuban hotel who wants to become a composer, is rebuffed by Mama Valdez when he tries to get her daughter, singer-dancer Lolita Veldez, to use one of his songs.... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Mary Hatcher, Ann Doran, Steven Geray

Votes: 128

66. Once a Lady (1931)

80 min | Drama

"Once a Lady" is a 1931 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Guthrie McClintic and starring Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello, and Jill Esmond. The film, produced and distributed by ... See full summary »

Director: Guthrie McClintic | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Ivor Novello, Jill Esmond, Geoffrey Kerr

Votes: 60

67. Rogue's March (1953)

Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.

Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 169

68. The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

To boost listener ratings, radio personality Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe) encourages sponsors, of his murder mystery radio show, to offer a reward to anyone who can locate safe cracker Jimmy... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Terry, Gloria Dickson, Roman Bohnen

Votes: 127

69. The Sound and the Shadow (2014)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

An allergy-ridden, eavesdropping sound engineer and his boisterous new roommate are thrust into a missing girl case when he discovers clues to her disappearance in his neighborhood recordings.

Director: Justin Paul Miller | Stars: Joseph E. Murray, Mary Kate Wiles, Alex Anfanger, Rhomeyn Johnson

Votes: 81

70. Lily Meets Charlie (2019)

13 min | Short, Drama

Lily, a young escort arrives at the hotel room of a new client, Charlie. To both their surprise, they happen to know each other already.

Director: Audrey Gagneux | Stars: Tanya Reynolds, Barry Ward, Daniel Nicholas, Richard Tate

Votes: 172

71. The Melody Man (1930)

Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A Viennese composer Von Kemper (John St.Polis), who after murdering both his unfaithful wife and royal lover, flees to America with his young daughter Elsa (Alice Day). Eighteen years later... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: William Collier Jr., Alice Day, John St. Polis, Johnnie Walker

72. Cross-Country Romance (1940)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

Larry Smith is a young bacteriologist on his way from New York to San Francisco to work under an eminent scientist in China. He stops along the way at the North house to deliver a scroll ... See full synopsis »

Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper, Billy Gilbert

Votes: 278

73. You Can't Buy Everything (1934)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance

Hannah is so tight with her money that she takes her son, Donnie, to the charity ward a week after he hurts his leg. But she has always hoarded her money since her late husband wasted most ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: May Robson, Jean Parker, Lewis Stone, Mary Forbes

Votes: 225

74. Skull and Crown (1935)

Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Regis Toomey, Jack Mulhall, Molly O'Day

Votes: 112

75. Bitter Apples (1927)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance

John Wyncote's father dies, leaving him a bankrupt business. He instructs the family attorney, Thorden, to sell the business and all of his father's other interests. One of the now bankrupt... See full summary »

Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Monte Blue, Myrna Loy, Paul Ellis, Charles Hill Mailes

Votes: 32

76. Für Mord kein Beweis (1979)

96 min | Crime, Mystery

A week after a fight with her husband of 20 years, a woman's naked body is found in a lake. Was it an accident, suicide or - murder?

Director: Konrad Petzold | Stars: Winfried Glatzeder, Peter Bause, Wolfgang Penz, Udo Schenk

Votes: 38

77. 26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode: The Avenger (1958)

26 min | Western

A young man joins the Arizona Rangers and dedicates himself to becoming a quick draw artist. Rynning learns that the new lawman forged his letter of introduction and is only interested in ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Dale Cummings, Karl 'Killer' Davis

78. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Carl Reiner, Melba Moore (1972)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Carol welcomes guests Carl Reiner and singer Melba Moore. Highlights include: another installment of "Terminal Hospital"; a sketch about a writer who changes plots faster than his ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 44

79. Dallas (1978–1991)
Episode: Runaway (1978)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama, Romance

Young Lucy's upcoming birthday party has everyone excited for various reasons, except Lucy, who can't even invite her mother to the party. It's only after she decides to run away and takes ... See full summary »

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray

Votes: 209

80. Decoy (1957–1958)
Episode: Stranglehold (1957)

26 min | Crime, Drama

Casey moves into a seedy rooming house to try to befriend a woman whose boyfriend is a suspect in a robbery and murder, but she senses that something is not quite right.

Director: Don Medford | Stars: Beverly Garland, Joanne Linville, Arch Johnson, Bruce Gordon

Votes: 102

81. Follow the Sun (1961–1962)
Episode: The Hunters (1961)

60 min | Adventure

Gregory joins a safari and finds himself targeted for death.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Barry Coe, Skip Homeier, Lee Philips, Susan Harrison

82. The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode: Come Watch Me Die (1964)

TV-PG | 51 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Kimble is deputized to transport a suspected killer of a man and his wife, to the county seat, along with witnesses who want to lynch the prisoner.

Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: David Janssen, Robert Doyle, John Anderson, Russell Collins

Votes: 236

83. Matlock (1986–1995)
Episode: The Black Widow (1989)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After seven years in prison for killing his wife Ann, Ken Wilson gets out and finds her working in a real estate office. Anne soon turns up dead and Ken is tried, once again, for killing his wife.

Director: Christopher Hibler | Stars: Andy Griffith, Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Kene Holiday

Votes: 122

84. Stagecoach West (1960–1961)
Episode: Come Home Again (1961)

60 min | Western

Simon and Davey find Deborah Cotton and her daughter standing on the bank of river and agree to give them a ride into Outpost. The two women are fleeing a private detective who has been ... See full summary »

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Richard Eyer, Robert Bray, Lisa Kirk, James Coburn

Votes: 19

85. The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode: Shadow of the Past (1961)

30 min | Western

Billy introduces Pat to his current girlfriend and her father, Ben Wiley. Pat thinks he recognizes the man as the informer who ruined his attempt break out of a Confederate prisoner of war ... See full summary »

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, Nancy Reagan, Charles Aidman

Votes: 10

86. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Episode #2.14 (2019)

44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy revisit a seaside murder case from 1900 and catch up with the relative of the convicted man, who is now on the trail of a mysterious brother-in-law.

Directors: Hannah Eastwood, Simon Cooper | Stars: Tony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass, David Radford

87. The Flash (2014–2023)
Episode: So Long and Goodnight (2020)

TV-PG | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After Black Hole hires Rag Doll to kill Joe, Singh suggests he go into the witness protection program; Ralph runs into Sue; Iris becomes suspicious of Eva.

Director: Alexandra La Roche | Stars: Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Carlos Valdes

Votes: 1,761

88. Better Call Saul (2015–2022)
Episode: Rock and Hard Place (2022)

TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama

Still on the run, Nacho is forced to choose where his loyalties lie. Saul must decide whether he wants to remain a "friend of the cartel" after his reputation is called into question. Gus and Mike ready the team for a meet.

Director: Gordon Smith | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Rhea Seehorn, Patrick Fabian

Votes: 33,475

89. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Stranger (2009)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detectives Stabler and Benson's suspicions arise when a teenage Jane Doe takes on two identities.

Director: David Platt | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Ice-T

Votes: 1,048

90. Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Episode: Part I (2022)

TV-14 | 53 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When agents of the Empire pose a new threat, Obi-Wan Kenobi emerges after years of hiding.

Director: Deborah Chow | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rupert Friend, Sung Kang, Moses Ingram

Votes: 25,807

91. Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Episode: Part III (2022)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Obi-Wan searches for allies as he attracts the attention of the Empire, threatening the locals.

Director: Deborah Chow | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Vivien Lyra Blair, Moses Ingram, Sung Kang

Votes: 25,145

92. Andor (2022– )
Episode: Aldhani (2022)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Out of options, Cassian is recruited for a dangerous mission to infiltrate an Imperial garrison.

Director: Susanna White | Stars: Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Denise Gough, Anton Lesser

Votes: 12,881

93. Andor (2022– )
Episode: The Axe Forgets (2022)

TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Cassian must carefully navigate the distrust inherent in being the new member of a secret operation.

Director: Susanna White | Stars: Kyle Soller, Kathryn Hunter, Diego Luna, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Votes: 12,162

94. Andor (2022– )
Episode: Announcement (2022)

TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The repercussions of the Aldhani heist reach all the way to Coruscant, while Cassian returns home.

Director: Benjamin Caron | Stars: Kyle Soller, Kathryn Hunter, Anna Ruben, Richard Lister

Votes: 11,869

95. Wednesday (2022– )
Episode: A Murder of Woes (2022)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Wednesday lands in trouble with Principal Weems, but that's just the start of her problems. To fight an ancient evil, she'll need all her friends' help.

Director: James Marshall | Stars: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane

Votes: 9,249

96. 1899 (2022)
Episode: The Calling (2022)

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Maura has terrible flashbacks and makes a shocking move. A sound leads some passengers to jump overboard. Maura makes a discovery about her father.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 4,817

97. U.S. Marshal (1958–1960)
Episode: The Man Who Lived Twice (1960)

26 min | Crime, Drama, Western

An eccentric millionaire thwarts a safecracker's attempt to steal the hundreds of thousands of dollars he has hidden in his wall safe. But after Morgan and his men round up the gang, the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: John Bromfield, James Griffith, Charles Watts, Robert Osterloh

Votes: 11

98. Only Murders in the Building (2021– )
Episode: I Know Who Did It (2022)

TV-MA | 38 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The question of who killed Bunny is finally answered, while a few others are raised.

Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Cara Delevingne

Votes: 4,301

99. Have You Seen This Man (2022)
Episode: A Hidden Life of Thieves (2022)

TV-MA | Documentary, Crime

John Ruffo appeared to be living an unremarkable life. But there was another John Ruffo, whose life was a hall of mirrors littered with secret identities, unlikely affiliations, outrageous allegations, and bogus companies.

Stars: Allison Altman, Matt Dallal, Jarred Harper, Eva Kantor

Votes: 19

100. Dating Death (2022)
Episode: Dating Death 1 (2022)

Documentary, Crime

In 1968, LA Police rescue a kidnapped girl, but the suspect escapes and reappears across the country using a new identity and praying upon women in New York City.

Stars: Rodney Alcala, Jill Barcomb, Chris Camacho, Cornelia Crilley

Votes: 14