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1. Spellbound (1945)

Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 52,304 | Gross: $7.00M

2. Hallam Foe (2007)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.

Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Jamie Bell, Ruth Milne, John Paul Lawler, Claire Forlani

Votes: 13,138 | Gross: $0.06M

3. Easter Parade (1948)

G | 103 min | Musical, Romance

A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller

Votes: 11,105 | Gross: $9.03M

4. Topper (1937)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, Billie Burke

Votes: 8,334

5. Libeled Lady (1936)

Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance

When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy

Votes: 8,928

6. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)

Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence

Votes: 5,874

7. 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: 1,110

8. The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Jack Benny, Alexis Smith, Dolores Moran, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 1,520

9. All in a Night's Work (1961)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

Tony Ryder takes over his dead uncle's media empire while trying to keep quiet the mysterious circumstances of his death in a Palm Beach hotel room.

Director: Joseph Anthony | Stars: Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Cliff Robertson, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 973

10. The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Tom Lawrence, who has inherited his brother's sobriquet of "The Falcon," is framed for the theft of war bonds and murder.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Tom Conway, Harriet Nelson, Jane Randolph, Edgar Kennedy

Votes: 809

11. The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

Director: George S. Kaufman | Stars: William Powell, Ella Raines, Peter Lind Hayes, Arleen Whelan

Votes: 709

12. Guilty Bystander (1950)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Mary Boland, Sam Levene

Votes: 1,081

13. Fast and Furious (1939)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman

Votes: 876

14. The Saint in Palm Springs (1940)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Inspector Fernack asks Simon to watch over an old friend who's carrying $200,000 worth of postage stamps, but the friend is killed, and the stamps stolen.

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan Hale

Votes: 808

15. A Bride for Henry (1937)

Passed | 58 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

A stood-up bride uses her lawyer as a stand-in for her absent, unreliable fiancé, hoping to get a quick divorce after the media interest dies down. In time, she realizes that she might have wed the right man--but it might be too late.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Anne Nagel, Warren Hull, Henry Mollison, Claudia Dell

Votes: 311

16. The Devil's Holiday (1930)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

A savvy city girl is hired to sugar an earnest farm boy into a business deal, but loses her heart.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 257

17. Woman Wanted (1935)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another auto. Ann escapes and ends up in the vehicle of Tony Baxter, a lawyer who has eyes for her.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone, Louis Calhern

Votes: 542

18. Convention City (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

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Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Mary Astor

Votes: 104

19. Honeymoon Hotel (1934)

TV-G | 7 min | Family, Animation, Musical

After introducing the small town Bugtown, inhabitated by bugs, this short shows what happens to two honeymooning lovebugs at the Honeymoon Hotel in town, due to the fact, that their love is a little bit to hot.

Directors: Earl Duvall, Friz Freleng | Stars: Bernard B. Brown, Shirley Reed, The Rhythmettes, The Varsity Three

Votes: 274

20. Room and Bird (1951)

Passed | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short

Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird are pets of tenants in the Spinsters Arms Hotel, where pets aren't allowed. As they try to keep out of sight of the landlord, Sylvester discovers Tweety and chases him in and out of the hotel rooms.

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet

Votes: 615

21. The Great Hotel Murder (1935)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Crime novelist Roger Blackwood competes with hotel house detective Andy McCabe in solving a murder by poisoning at a medical convention.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Rosemary Ames, Mary Carlisle

Votes: 81

22. Sky Murder (1940)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A body is found in a locked airplane compartment and a German female refugee is a suspect. Passenger detective Nick Carter is convinced she didn't do it and works to solve the mysterious murder.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Karen Verne, Edward Ashley

Votes: 460

23. Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy

With husband Dennis preoccupied with a business deal, Carmelita decides to teach him a lesson by running off to Reno and filing for divorce.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods, Elisabeth Risdon

Votes: 248

24. Detectives (1928)

70 min | Comedy, Mystery

Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellhop--who has always dreamed of being a ... See full summary »

Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Marceline Day, Tenen Holtz

Votes: 31

25. Melody in Spring (1934)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Charlie Ruggles plays a souvenir-buff in quest of a real Swiss cowbell.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Lanny Ross, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern

Votes: 44

26. Love in High Gear (1932)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Romance

A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Harrison Ford, Alberta Vaughn, Tyrell Davis, Arthur Hoyt

Votes: 88

27. Bigger and Better (1930)

TV-G | 19 min | Comedy, Short

The boys get jobs in a department during summer vacation so they'll be near the girls.

Director: Edgar Kennedy | Stars: Mickey Daniels, Grady Sutton, David Sharpe, Mary Kornman

Votes: 46

28. Fuddy Duddy Buddy (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Looking for a tennis opponent at the swanky Outstretched Palms Hotel, Mr. Magoo mistakes a walrus for a fellow guest and takes him onto the court.

Director: John Hubley | Stars: Jim Backus, Billy Bletcher

Votes: 76

29. Dollar Dizzy (1930)

Passed | 26 min | Short, Action, Comedy

Charley and Thelma are millionaires, each trying to elude suitors who are trying to marry them for their money.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Edgar Kennedy, James Finlayson

Votes: 130

30. Riding on Air (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Guy Kibbee, Florence Rice, Vinton Hayworth

Votes: 143

31. The Inch Man (1951–1952)

30 min | Drama

Adventures of a house detective in a London hotel.

Stars: Robert Ayres, Hamlyn Benson, Joan Harben, Faith Bailey

32. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1920)

50 min | Comedy

When his wife Angelica decides that she cannot love her husband unless her women friends are chasing after him, Reggie Irving sends scented love letters to himself to make Angelica jealous.... See full summary »

Director: Edward Dillon | Stars: Eugene Pallette, Ruth Stonehouse, Kathleen Kirkham, Charles West

33. Wine, Women and Sauerkraut (1927)

20 min | Comedy, Short

Unable to pay their hotel bill, a group of chorus girls devise a plan to slip by the hotel's house detective. Complications ensue.

Director: Jess Robbins | Stars: Nick Stuart, Claire Cannon, George Gray, Fred Walton

34. All Business (1936)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy

A henpecked jewelry salesman gets into hot water when he visits a pretty young woman's hotel apartment to make a sale of his jewelry line.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Ford Sterling, Josephine Whittell, Kitty McHugh, Edgar Dearing

35. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode: Never Bathe on Saturday (1965)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

While on their second honeymoon, Laura gets her toe stuck in a hotel bathtub faucet and Rob can't get through the locked bathroom door to free her.

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

Votes: 330

36. The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode: Florence's New Job: Part 1 (1981)

TV-PG | 49 min | Comedy

George woos hotel magnate Arthur Claymore to get his business. But Claymore offers Florence a well-paying executive job that includes awarding dry cleaning contracts. So George selfishly tries to persuade her to accept the job.

Director: Bob Lally | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Votes: 76

37. What's My Line? (1950–1967)
Episode: Terry Moore (1955)

30 min | Family, Game-Show

The regular panel, Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf, appear this evening. The first contestant is a New York City woman named Virginia Hall. Miss Hall is the ... See full summary »

Director: Franklin Heller | Stars: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf

Votes: 40

38. Big Shamus, Little Shamus (1979– )
Episode: Pilot (1979)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Brian Dennehy, Doug McKeon, George Wyner, Morgan Fairchild