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1. A Man Called Otto (2022)

PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama

Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, John Higgins

Votes: 159,162 | Gross: $62.47M

2. Gran Torino (2008)

R | 116 min | Drama

After a Hmong teenager tries to steal his prized 1972 Gran Torino, a disgruntled, prejudiced Korean War veteran seeks to redeem both the boy and himself.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her

Votes: 815,627 | Gross: $148.10M

3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Kelley, Jeffrey Tambor

Votes: 291,720 | Gross: $260.04M

4. A Man Called Ove (2015)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

Director: Hannes Holm | Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll

Votes: 68,603 | Gross: $3.48M

5. On Golden Pond (1981)

PG | 109 min | Drama

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon

Votes: 34,906 | Gross: $119.29M

6. American Splendor (2003)

R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose

Votes: 52,406 | Gross: $6.00M

7. An Idiot Abroad (2010–2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Adventure, Comedy

British comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their simple and closed-minded friend Karl Pilkington on a trip around the world to experience a variety of people and cultures.

Stars: Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Richard Yee

Votes: 34,371

8. Medicine Man (1992)

PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alejandre

Votes: 24,810 | Gross: $45.50M

9. And So It Goes (2014)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A self-absorbed realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he's suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Michael Douglas, Diane Keaton, Sterling Jerins, Annie Parisse

Votes: 15,294 | Gross: $15.16M

10. The Lady in the Van (2015)

PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond

Votes: 32,023 | Gross: $10.02M

11. This Beautiful Fantastic (2016)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman who dreams of becoming a children's book author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.

Director: Simon Aboud | Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Tom Wilkinson

Votes: 13,241 | Gross: $0.04M

12. A Christmas Carol (1951)

TV-PG | 86 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns

Votes: 25,742

13. Get Low (2009)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Mystery

A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

Director: Aaron Schneider | Stars: Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black

Votes: 24,042 | Gross: $9.18M

14. The Mountain Men (1980)

R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

A pair of grizzled frontiersmen fight Indians, guzzle liquor and steal squaws in their search for a legendary valley 'so full of beaver that they jump right into your traps' in this fanciful adventure.

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht

Votes: 2,611

15. Murder She Said (1961)

Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice

Votes: 8,584

16. Move Over, Darling (1963)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

After being lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 6,496

17. Elsa & Fred (2014)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A withdrawn senior experiences life in new ways when he begins spending time with the free-spirited woman who lives across the hall.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Marcia Gay Harden, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 3,737

18. The Good Heart (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

A cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.

Director: Dagur Kári | Stars: Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Bill Buell, Boði

Votes: 5,176 | Gross: $0.02M

19. The Circle (1925)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama

An unhappy woman considers leaving her dull husband for another man.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Malcolm McGregor, Alec B. Francis, Eugenie Besserer

Votes: 707

20. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis

Votes: 8,980

21. A Christmas Carol (1999 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy

An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.

Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice

Votes: 10,922

22. Smart People (2008)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.

Director: Noam Murro | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Thomas Haden Church, Sarah Jessica Parker, Elliot Page

Votes: 23,493 | Gross: $9.50M

23. If I Had a Million (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft

Votes: 2,306

24. The Valley of Decision (1945)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance

An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 2,376

25. Unfinished Song (2012)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Grumpy pensioner Arthur honors his recently deceased wife's passion for performing by joining the unconventional local choir to which she used to belong, a process that helps him build bridges with his estranged son, James.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Terence Stamp, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave

Votes: 7,977 | Gross: $1.70M

26. The Counterfeit Coin (1955)

127 min | Drama, Romance

Pivoting around a shiny counterfeit gold sovereign freshly milled from the clandestine workshop of an otherwise honest goldsmith, four brief vignettes of human imperfection; seduction; fate; desire, and devotion inextricably interweave.

Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Vasilis Logothetidis, Ilia Livykou, Mimis Fotopoulos, Sperantza Vrana

Votes: 3,122

27. Paulette (2012)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Director: Jérôme Enrico | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Carmen Maura, Dominique Lavanant, Françoise Bertin

Votes: 7,617 | Gross: $0.03M

28. The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

PG | 98 min | Comedy

A suddenly-unemployed company executive suffers a nervous breakdown, and his supporting wife tries everything to console him and pick up the slack.

Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson

Votes: 3,855

29. Back from Eternity (1956)

Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Drama

After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk

Votes: 1,638

30. Humboldt County (2008)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.

Directors: Darren Grodsky, Danny Jacobs | Stars: Jeremy Strong, Fairuza Balk, Peter Bogdanovich, Vicky Monroe

Votes: 2,811 | Gross: $0.08M

31. The Grinch Musical! (2020 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 120 min | Family, Musical

A live-action TV adaptation of the Broadway stage musical based on the Dr. Seuss classic "How The Grinch Stole Christmas." As the citizens of Whoville prepare to welcome the holidays, the ... See full summary »

Directors: Julia Knowles, Max Webster | Stars: Matthew Morrison, Denis O'Hare, Booboo Stewart, Claire Machin

Votes: 980

32. Spring and Port Wine (1970)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working-class Bolton.

Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: James Mason, Diana Coupland, Hannah Gordon, Susan George

Votes: 993

33. The Backup Dancer (2016)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

A story about love and loss. And maybe one day - love again.

Director: Amanda Sharp | Stars: Rose Leslie, Ray Liotta, Carmen Tonry, Alex Reznik

Votes: 1,011

34. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)

91 min | Family

When a heartbroken boy loses the precious wooden treasure that links him to his dead father, his worried mother convinces a carver to create a replacement.

Director: Bill Clark | Stars: Tom Berenger, Sarah Wildor, Thomas Briggs, Joely Richardson

Votes: 1,249

35. The Grandfather (1998)

PG | 151 min | Drama

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true and which one is bastard.

Director: José Luis Garci | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González

Votes: 2,087 | Gross: $0.05M

36. How About You (2007)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

A young British woman struggling with the direction of her life spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

Director: Anthony Byrne | Stars: Joss Ackland, Hayley Atwell, Orla Brady, Kevin Flood

Votes: 1,819 | Gross: $0.08M

37. One Frightened Night (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery

An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl, Wallace Ford

Votes: 454

38. Happier Times, Grump (2018)

118 min | Comedy, Drama

The Grump prepares to die: everything is done and his wife is dead. He's making his own coffin when life suddenly walks in: his granddaughter needs the wisdom and stubbornness of her ... See full summary »

Director: Tiina Lymi | Stars: Heikki Kinnunen, Satu Tuuli Karhu, Elina Knihtilä, Jani Volanen

Votes: 1,264

39. Radiator (2014)

93 min | Comedy, Drama

Radiator will have its British Premiere 58th London Film Festival on 15th October 2014 and features the oldest, oddest couple by a very long chalk. It is a darkly comic examination of family life, marriage, age and love.

Director: Tom Fisher | Stars: Daniel Cerqueira, Richard Johnson, Gemma Jones, Monty

Votes: 238

40. The Projectionist (2019)

94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.

Director: José María Cabral | Stars: Félix Germán, Cindy Galán, Lia Briones, Ana Maria Arias

Votes: 215

41. Ain't We Got Fun (1937)

Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short

The cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Hansen

Votes: 335

42. The Grouch (1952)

108 min | Comedy, Drama

A grumpy old man finds a baby on his doorstep and decides to adopt it, much to the amazement of the people in his neighborhood.

Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Orestis Makris, Mimis Fotopoulos, Dinos Iliopoulos, Georgia Vasileiadou

Votes: 132

43. Borrowed Time (2012)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A teenager with the wrong friends and a grumpy old man form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles.

Director: Jules Bishop | Stars: Phil Davis, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Juliet Oldfield, Warren Brown

Votes: 378

44. Lemonade (II)

Short, Drama | Completed

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Director: Brittany Meyerhardt | Stars: Robyne Richards, Eric Almassy, Jon Ray, Roy Major

45. Hollywood Remembers Walter Matthau (2001 TV Movie)

Documentary, Biography

Actor Walter Matthau is fondly remembered by his family, friends and colleagues in this Commemorative Spotlight Special. Walter Matthau's death in July 2000 saddened millions around the world who only knew him through his films. Following his passing, Matthau's family and friends felt the need to talk about the man they knew and loved as a father, a husband, a friend and a colleague. Made with ... See full summary »

Director: Dawn Ostlund | Stars: Richard Benjamin, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Mason Gamble

Votes: 14

46. Curmudgeon: The Five Stages of Hell (2008)

23 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

Witness the encounters of a curmudgeon, as he faces his five stages of hell.

Director: Lisa Coffelt | Stars: James Coffelt, Kyle Coffelt, Matthew Kirk, Suzie Lovedrop

47. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid (1955)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

While working as a department store 'Santa Claus', a paroled convict tries to help a troubled boy.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barry Fitzgerald, Virginia Gregg, Bobby Clark

Votes: 1,068

48. The Collector (2004–2006)
Episode: The Old Man (2004)

44 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A man who bargained for ten extra years of life looks for redemption in his past.

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Chris Kramer, Carly Pope, Ellen Dubin, Winston Rekert

Votes: 19

49. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: Everyone's a Critic (1999)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

When Niles lands a job as a magazine art critic, Frasier is jealous.

Director: Pamela Fryman | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 815

50. The Fugitive (1963–1967)
Episode: Man in a Chariot (1964)

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

An elderly law professor claims he could get Kimble off with a new trial, and has his students set up a televised mock trial to try and prove it.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: David Janssen, Kathleen Maguire, Robert Drivas, Ed Begley

Votes: 213