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Backdraft

1991

Ron Howard

Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

action drama

ron howard well done firefighters

Rating: 6.663 Votes: 1,154 Budget: 75,000,000

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The First Wives Club

1996

Hugh Wilson

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!

divorce women revenge

Rating: 6.7 Votes: 648 Budget: 26,000,000

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The Three Musketeers

1973

Richard Lester

The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a king's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the king. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the cardinal.

action adventure comedy

witty swashbuckler classic

Rating: 6.8 Votes: 219

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Hairspray

2007

Adam Shankman

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.

comedy drama musical

musical high school broadway

Rating: 6.667 Votes: 2,245 Budget: 50,000,000

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Becoming Jane

2007

Julian Jarrold

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.

drama romance

jane austen james mcavoy romance

Rating: 7.304 Votes: 1,021 Budget: 16,500,000

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Ghostbusters II

1989

Ivan Reitman

Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.

comedy fantasy sci-fi

ghosts comedy dan aykroyd

Rating: 6.521 Votes: 3,626 Budget: 37,000,000

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How to Steal a Million

1966

William Wyler

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.

comedy crime romance

audrey hepburn peter o'toole heist

Rating: 7.505 Votes: 475

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1408

2007

Mikael Håfström

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

drama horror thriller

stephen king supernatural john cusack

Rating: 6.666 Votes: 3,622 Budget: 25,000,000

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Young Frankenstein

1974

Mel Brooks

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

comedy fantasy

gene wilder mel brooks parody

Rating: 7.928 Votes: 2,670 Budget: 2,800,000

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Frankenstein

1931

James Whale

Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from body parts of the deceased. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but, confused and traumatized, it escapes into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc. Frankenstein searches for the elusive being and eventually must confront his tormented creation.

drama horror sci-fi

mad scientist based on a book gothic

Rating: 7.525 Votes: 1,228 Budget: 291,000

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1994

Kenneth Branagh

Based on Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

drama horror sci-fi

gothic frankenstein writer: mary shelley

Rating: 6.418 Votes: 1,029 Budget: 45,000,000

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Night Watch

2004

Timur Bekmambetov

Among normal humans live the Others possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day Moscow the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a Night Watch of light forces, among them Anton, the movie's protagonist, try to control them and limit their outrage

action fantasy horror

vampires great cinematography alternate reality

Rating: 6.26 Votes: 600 Budget: 10,000,000

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

1994

Tom Shadyac

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!

jim carrey comedy goofy

Rating: 6.53 Votes: 4,917 Budget: 15,000,000

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Doctor Dolittle

1998

Betty Thomas

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

eddie murphy animals talking family comedy

Rating: 5.688 Votes: 2,664 Budget: 71,000,000

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The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967

Roman Polanski

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

comedy horror

campy quirky roman polanski

Rating: 7.074 Votes: 584 Budget: 2,000,000

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Chances Are

1989

Emile Ardolino

Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.

comedy romance

Rating: 6.7 Votes: 227 Budget: 16,000,000

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It Happened One Night

1934

Frank Capra

A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

comedy romance

screwball comedy frank capra oscar (best picture)

Rating: 7.877 Votes: 972 Budget: 325,000

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Top Hat

1935

Mark Sandrich

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

comedy musical romance

fred astaire astaire and rogers eric blore

Rating: 7.373 Votes: 236 Budget: 609,000

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Modern Times

1936

Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

comedy drama romance

social commentary anti-authoritarian charlie chaplin

Rating: 8.322 Votes: 3,097 Budget: 1,500,000

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

1939

Frank Capra

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to Washington, many shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss.

james stewart classic politics

Rating: 7.932 Votes: 834 Budget: 1,500,000

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Wuthering Heights

1939

William Wyler

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.

drama romance

based on a book oscar (best cinematography)

Rating: 7.233 Votes: 210

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His Girl Friday

1940

Howard Hawks

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

comedy romance

dialogue driven cary grant talky

Rating: 7.411 Votes: 645

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The Lady Eve

1941

Preston Sturges

It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.

comedy romance

screwball comedy criterion barbara stanwyck

Rating: 7.258 Votes: 256

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My Darling Clementine

1946

John Ford

Wyatt Earp and his brothers Morgan and Virgil ride into Tombstone and leave brother James in charge of their cattle herd. On their return they find their cattle stolen and James dead. Wyatt takes on the job of town marshal, making his brothers deputies, and vows to stay in Tombstone until James' killers are found. He soon runs into the brooding, coughing, hard-drinking Doc Holliday as well as the sullen and vicious Clanton clan. Wyatt discovers the owner of a trinket stolen from James' dead body and the stage is set for the Earps' long-awaited revenge.

criterion john ford

Rating: 7.452 Votes: 311

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