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1. Blazing Saddles (1974)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Western

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman

Votes: 152,568 | Gross: $119.50M

2. The Rocketeer (1991)

PG | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.

Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton

Votes: 61,789 | Gross: $46.70M

3. Manhattan (1979)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy

Votes: 147,326 | Gross: $45.70M

4. Café Society (2016)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Blake Lively

Votes: 81,329 | Gross: $11.10M

5. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)

PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.

Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser

Votes: 9,997

6. Save the Tiger (1973)

R | 100 min | Drama

A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton

Votes: 5,613 | Gross: $2.33M

7. No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A crafty serial killer plays a game of cat-and-mouse with a harried police detective trying to track him down.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart

Votes: 2,567

8. Next Stop Wonderland (1998)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An unlucky in love nurse finds her life taking a detour when her mother places a personals ad in the paper, while on the other side of Boston, a plumber is trying to change careers.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Callie Thorne

Votes: 5,131 | Gross: $3.39M

9. Hollywood Capers (1935)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Beans sneaks in to a Hollywood movie studio lot, where he gets into a heap of trouble.

Director: Jack King | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Bernice Hansen, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 526

10. The Hard Way (1943)

Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Embittered, ambitious Helen Chernen sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson

Votes: 1,493

11. The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987)

G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Care Bears and Alice set out to stop an evil wizard from taking over Wonderland.

Director: Raymond Jafelice | Stars: Bob Dermer, Eva Almos, Dan Hennessey, Jim Henshaw

Votes: 1,283 | Gross: $2.61M

12. Book Revue (1946)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

As the literary characters come to life in a bookstore at night, Daffy Duck sings and dances before being chased by the Big Bad Wolf.

Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach

Votes: 1,538

13. Honolulu (1939)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen

Votes: 760

14. Clock Cleaners (1937)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are cleaning a large clock. Among the complications: Mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn't want to leave, Donald gets tangled up in the main-spring, and Goofy is inside the bell when the clock strikes four.

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash

Votes: 2,942

15. Hollywood Mouth (2008)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama

In Hollywood, a film buff gets involved with selling a Faberge egg.

Director: Jordan Mohr | Stars: Michael Abruscato, Katy Baker, Sam Bologna, Veli Erturk

Votes: 714

16. Stand-ins (1997)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

A group of dysfunctional, disappointed actresses congregate in a Hollywood bar circa 1937.

Director: Harvey Keith | Stars: Katherine Morris, Costas Mandylor, Jordan Ladd, Daphne Zuniga

Votes: 198

17. Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)

Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation

Various Mother Goose rhymes are portrayed by Hollywood stars for example, Old King Cole's fiddlers three are the Marx Brothers, and Humpty Dumpty is W.C. Fields, who falls while tormenting ... See full summary »

Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Al Bernie, Thelma Boardman, Beatrice Hagen, Ann Lee

Votes: 638

18. The Simian Line (2000)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

In addition to declaring that Katharine's (Lynn Redgrave) head and heart line are hopelessly fused into one "simian line", eccentric palm reader/fortune-teller Arnita (Tyne Daly) makes a ... See full summary »

Director: Linda Yellen | Stars: Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan, Harry Connick Jr., Cindy Crawford

Votes: 424

19. Train Ride to Hollywood (1975)

G | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Fantasy

Harry Williams, of the r&b band, Bloodstone, is about to go onstage, when he's hit on the head. We follow his dream, as the other band members become conductors aboard a train filled with ... See full summary »

Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Willis Draffen Jr., Charles Love, Charles McCormick, Harry Williams

Votes: 106

20. The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)

Not Rated | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Jeane Cowan, Verna Deane, Melvin J. Gibby, Bernice Hansen

Votes: 607

21. Christmas Carol (1978 TV Movie)

55 min | Comedy, Fantasy

In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebeneezer Scrooge (played by Rich as W.C. Fields) hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past (played by Rich as Humphrey Bogart)... See full summary »

Director: Trevor Evans | Star: Rich Little

Votes: 413

22. Little Blabbermouse (1940)

Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short

A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads tours of a drugstore for other mice. We see a number of products living up to their names: vanishing cream, reducing pills, sleeping powders, smelling ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bill Days, Bill Thompson, Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce

Votes: 165

23. Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014)

84 min | Drama

A film buff discovers strange goings-on at a movie museum and elsewhere in Hollywood.

Director: Jordan Mohr | Stars: Sam Bologna, Alexander Des Combes, Ronald Duthweiler, Matthew Glaser

Votes: 698

24. Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967)

G | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short

Merlin, a W.C. Fields-like mouse, puts on a magic show in front of an audience of one cat. Merlin does some bad magic tricks for the feline before he realizes he's a mouse.

Director: Alex Lovy | Star: Daws Butler

Votes: 116

25. Cracked Ice (1938)

Not Rated | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short

It's ice skating time. After a few generic ice-skating gags, we get to the main story. An animal falls through the ice, and a pig doing W.C. Fields (W.C. Squeals, apparently) calls for help... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Danny Webb

Votes: 357

26. Scent of Love (1970)

52 min | Fantasy

A Scientist and his buddy develop a potent sex drug which the test out on some unsuspecting women.

Director: Hardi Burton | Stars: Kathy Hilton, William Howard, Jim, Casey Larrain

Votes: 12

27. At Your Service Madame (1936)

TV-Y | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A W. C. Fields look-a-like con man tries to get the money out of the safe of a rich widow, but her children are making it a little bit too difficult and dangerous.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bernice Hansen, Tedd Pierce, Martha Wentworth

Votes: 131

28. The Merry Old Soul (1933)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Oswald the Rabbit gathers some of the greatest entertainers of the age to cure Old King Cole of the blues.

Directors: Walter Lantz, William Nolan | Stars: Tex Avery, Walter Lantz

Votes: 302

29. The Colonel's Bequest (1989 Video Game)

Unrated | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

College student Laura Bow is invited by her friend Lillian to come along to a family gathering. The members of the family begin to mysteriously disappear, what is happening at this mansion in Southern Louisiana?

Directors: Chris Iden, Roberta Williams

Votes: 67

30. A Star Is Hatched (1938)

8 min | Animation, Family, Short

Emily the chicken, lives in Hickville but dreams of Hollywood. Her chance comes when director J. Megga-Phone happens to drive past and gives her his card. She makes her way to Hollywood, ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Tommy Bond, Bill Days

Votes: 225

31. The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (1937)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A program for radio KUKU set in the woods, mostly starring birds as caricatures of celebrities of the day. The MC is bandleader Ben Birdie, heckled by Walter Finchell. Wendell Howell ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Lorraine Bridges, Peter Lind Hayes

Votes: 378

32. Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go Hollywood (2004 Video)

9 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

A documentary about the parodies of Hollywood films.

Directors: Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Rudolf Ising, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Hawley Pratt, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Keith Scott, Leonard Maltin, Jerry Beck, Chuck Jones

Votes: 188

33. Shop Look & Listen (1940)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Short

J.T. Gimlet's department store is closed, and the mice are going on a tour, led by the same W.C. Fields mouse as in Little Blabbermouse (1940). First, the shoe department, where we see ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Bill Thompson

Votes: 147

34. Fistic Mystic (1969)

G | 6 min | Family, Western, Animation

Merlin the Magic Mouse and his sidekick Second Banana find themselves in a small western town, where they encounter a nasty western bully. Second Banana ends up in the boxing ring with the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Larry Storch

Votes: 92

35. Cupid Gets His Man (1936)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Colonel Dan Cupid and his matchmaking babies bring together two very difficult people: a prudish spinster and a bulbous-nosed dyspeptic.

Director: Tom Palmer | Star: Walter Tetley

Votes: 158

36. A Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd (1978)

G | 16 min | Documentary, Short, Music

A featurette sponsored by Pepsi-Cola that was originally intended to be released in Summer 1978 as a promotion for the Southern Rock outfit's planned musical roots LP. The plane crash in ... See full summary »

Director: Alan J. Shalleck | Stars: JoJo Billingsley, Allen Collins, Cassie Gaines, Steve Gaines

37. Hot Foot Lights (1945)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short

A W.C.Fields-type character runs a theatrical sideshow where various old-time "meller-drammers" are staged, and everything proceeds normally and to the audience satisfaction, until a young ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Swift | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dave Barry, Martha Raye, Betty Allen Trio

Votes: 15

38. Featherweight Champ (1953)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A devious fox comes to a small farm and tricks the ducks, chickens and roosters into coming with him, supposedly to the County Fair. It's up to Dinky Duck to come to the rescue.

Director: Eddie Donnelly

Votes: 19

39. A Case of Hypnosis (1952 TV Short)

12 min | Short, Comedy

Professor Lightskull and Doc Twiddle are chimpanzees dressed in clothes in this spoof of Holmes and Watson filmed at the World Jungle Compound.

Director: Jerry Courneya | Stars: Paul Frees, Daws Butler

40. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: How to Dial a Murder (1978)

TV-PG | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A behavioral psychologist whose wife died under suspicious circumstances trains his dogs to kill on command using a telephone.

Director: James Frawley | Stars: Peter Falk, Nicol Williamson, Kim Cattrall, Joel Fabiani

Votes: 2,556

41. Alien Nation (1989–1990)
Episode: Chains of Love (1989)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi

Sikes and Francisco seek an elusive Newcomer woman - all of whose dates wind up dead. George worries about Susan's fidelity.

Director: Harry Longstreet | Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland

Votes: 77

42. Batman (1966–1968)
Episode: The Joker Is Wild (1966)

TV-G | 25 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy

The Joker decides to fight fire with fire against Batman with a utility belt of his own.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton

Votes: 688

43. The Benny Hill Show (1969–1989)
Episode: Show 20 (1974)

TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy

Benny starts the show off by reading a poem, "Faith" by E.M. Barrister, then introduces Diana Darvey and accompanies her in the guise of percussionist 'El Sidney'; spy catcher Mervyn Cruddy... See full summary »

Director: John Robins | Stars: Benny Hill, Henry McGee, Bob Todd, Lesley Goldie

Votes: 55

44. The Benny Hill Show (1969–1989)
Episode: Show 32 (1978)

TV-14 | 51 min | Comedy

Benny starts off with a song about "Married Life," then he and Jackie Wright play Irish brothers who are barely understood on an interview show; an installment of "Digger Blue, Private Eye"... See full summary »

Director: Keith Beckett | Stars: Benny Hill, Henry McGee, Jackie Wright, Charles Stapley

Votes: 46

45. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: The Lady and the Tiger and the Lawyer (1964)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

A suave bachelor moves in next door, and Rob and Laura compete as matchmakers. Rob sets him up with Sally, and Laura arranges a date with her clumsy but sophisticated cousin.

Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews

Votes: 274

46. The Goodies (1970–1982)
Episode: Movies (1975)

Comedy

The boys take over a movie studio.

Director: Jim Franklin | Stars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Melita Clarke

Votes: 61

47. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: The Sins of the Fathers (1990)

TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The managing director and heir apparent to a venerable family-owned brewery in dire financial straits is found drowned in a vat of his own ale.

Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Andy Bradford, Trevor Martin

Votes: 813

48. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode: Kids (1992)

TV-14 | 54 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Lovejoy learns that his daughter is living with a middle-aged man and that a close friend has been duped into buying an expensive forged painting.

Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: Ian McShane, Phyllis Logan, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury

Votes: 66

49. Mod Squad (1968–1973)
Episode: Never Give the Fuzz an Even Break (1969)

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

Pete, Linc, and Julie go undercover to trap a suave, charming veteran con man. His latest targets are three gullible elderly widows.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews

Votes: 41

50. One Foot in the Grave (1990–2001)
Episode: I'll Retire to Bedlam (1990)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, Drama

Victor gets trapped in his shed for three hours thanks to a swarm of belligerent bees, has a prolonged sojourn at the optician's, then must babysit Iris's unruly kids.

Director: Susan Belbin | Stars: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Rebecca Stevens, Roger Hammond

Votes: 165