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1. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 137,723
2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The lives and trials of a young single woman and her friends, both at work and at home.
Stars: Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper
Votes: 10,172
3. A Murder at the End of the World (2023)
TV-MA | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Darby Hart, a Gen Z amateur sleuth, attempts to solve a murder at a secluded retreat.
Stars: Emma Corrin, Brit Marling, Harris Dickinson, Raúl Esparza
Votes: 24,043
4. Storm Warning (1950)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran
Votes: 2,658
5. She Played with Fire (1957)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Violet Farebrother
Votes: 862
6. Remember the Night (1939)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 7,188 | Gross: $0.17M
7. The MacKintosh Man (1973)
PG | 98 min | Thriller
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews
Votes: 5,220 | Gross: $3.30M
8. School for Scoundrels (1960)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
Directors: Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott
Votes: 3,894
9. Lethal Weapon (1987)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 276,359 | Gross: $65.21M
10. Royal Flash (1975)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
Ne'er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed
Votes: 2,291
11. Clan (2012)
50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Four sisters conspire to kill their obnoxious brother-in-law but murder isn't easy especially when they have to contend with bad luck, the victim's senile mother and a pair of bumbling insurance investigators who can't afford to pay out.
Stars: Barbara Sarafian, Kristine Van Pellicom, Ruth Becquart, Maaike Neuville
Votes: 1,176
12. International Lady (1941)
Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The film opens with a German air raid over the skies of London, and moves to the attempts of the F.B.I. and Scotland Yard investigators trying to circumvent the attempts of a sabotage ring ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 262
13. A Simple Favor (2018)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells
Votes: 162,599 | Gross: $53.55M
14. Don't Look Back (2020)
90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a young woman overcoming her traumatic past is among several witnesses who see a man fatally assaulted and don't intervene, they find themselves targeted by someone, or something, out for revenge.
Director: Jeffrey Reddick | Stars: Kourtney Bell, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeremy Holm
Votes: 822
15. Brooklyn 45 (2023)
92 min | Drama, History, Horror
Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal.
Director: Ted Geoghegan | Stars: Anne Ramsay, Ron E. Rains, Jeremy Holm, Larry Fessenden
Votes: 2,175
16. There's Something in the Barn (2023)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
An American family fulfills their dream of moving back after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway.
Director: Magnus Martens | Stars: Martin Starr, Amrita Acharia, Kiran Shah, Townes Bunner
Votes: 4,237
17. Lady in the Lake (1946)
Passed | 105 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The lady editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully
Votes: 6,364
18. Fargo (2014–2024)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Various chronicles of deception, intrigue, and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. All of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Allison Tolman, Colin Hanks
Votes: 421,850
19. The Gathering (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A dying father pulls his torn family back together for a last Christmas.
Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton, Rebecca Balding, Sarah Cunningham
Votes: 811
20. Bush Christmas (1947)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.
Director: Ralph Smart | Stars: Chips Rafferty, John Fernside, Stan Tolhurst, Pat Penny
Votes: 526
21. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Family
A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Votes: 2,345
22. 101 Reykjavík (2000)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir
Votes: 9,937 | Gross: $0.01M
23. The Sunshine Boys (I) (1975)
PG | 111 min | Comedy
A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith
Votes: 6,693
24. Poison (II) (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Dev Patel, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 21,142
25. The Swan (II) (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A small brilliant boy is tormented by two large idiotic bullies.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Rupert Friend, Ralph Fiennes, Asa Jennings, Eliel Ford
Votes: 19,258
26. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
PG | 40 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 69,646
27. The Rat Catcher (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a rat catcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Richard Ayoade, Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Friend, Eliel Ford
Votes: 19,123
28. Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver | Stars: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 1,652
29. These Three (1936)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Two schoolteachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Merle Oberon, Joel McCrea, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 3,034
30. Mannekäng i rött (1958)
108 min | Mystery, Thriller
A model is murdered at a famous fashion house and the Hillmans start to investigate. Kajsa Hillman is employed as a model and discovers that several people had motives to kill the model, ... See full summary »
Director: Arne Mattsson | Stars: Anita Björk, Lillebil Ibsen, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré
Votes: 607
31.
Beyond Paradise (2023– )
Episode:
Christmas Special
(2023)
TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An eccentric burglar breaks into four homes over a winter's night and leaves things behind for the residents to find in the morning.
Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Chris Jenks, James Fleet, Sally Bretton, Kris Marshall
Votes: 311
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