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Amazon Prime Video
89
IMDb 57
8.6
/542956/
84
/9018/
82
/4666/
4.4
/608314/
94
/97/
95
/14068/
89
/17/
cc age 9+

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
poster
83
8.1
/128148/
77
/1729/
78
/1136/
4.1
/67018/
97
/98/
94
/2708/
73
/9/
cc age 8+

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.
poster
81
7.9
/78038/
78
/1367/
76
/995/
4.0
/50946/
86
/35/
92
/2414/
cc age 11+

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
poster
81
7.8
/29883/
76
/525/
75
/429/
3.8
/23003/
94
/78/
88
/620/
cc age 8+

You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
79
7.7
/15518/
76
/300/
73
/229/
4.0
/23801/
100
/29/
89
/226/
78
/12/

Ball of Fire (1941)
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
poster
fuboTV
78
7.7
/20444/
75
/460/
71
/187/
3.6
/18520/
94
/17/
85
/931/
76
/9/
cc age 6+

The Music Man (1962)
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
poster
81
76
7.7
/9756/
74
/219/
72
/166/
3.9
/15795/
100
/13/
86
/145/

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
poster
MGM Plus
71
7.5
/50160/
72
/1102/
69
/647/
3.7
/39224/
69
/39/
83
/1332/
59
/10/
cc age 8+

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
poster
Disney Plus
70
7.1
/122865/
73
/7833/
72
/5256/
3.7
/299967/
64
/33/
70
/5755/
66
/12/
cc age 4+

The Aristocats (1970)
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
poster
fuboTV
70
7.0
/7676/
70
/158/
61
/71/
3.4
/2928/
72
/25/
76
/160/
cc age 13+

Murphy's Romance (1985)
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
poster
70
67
7.2
/8289/
76
/253/
67
/97/
3.4
/6493/
67
/6/
75
/415/

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)
Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
66
7.2
/7692/
69
/110/
68
/109/
3.6
/10082/
86
/29/
75
/91/

Twentieth Century (1934)
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.
poster
65
6.4
/2596/
70
/96/
61
/67/
3.1
/1346/
59
/119/

The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
An eccentric millionaire and his grandchildren are embroiled in the plights of some forest gnomes who are searching for the rest of their tribe. While helping them, the millionaire is suspected of being crazy because he's seeing gnomes! He's committed, and the niece and nephew and the gnomes have to find him and free him.
poster
72
64
7.2
/5792/
71
/117/
69
/73/
3.5
/5031/
86
/7/
67
/72/

I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.
poster
Kanopy
73
64
7.1
/5373/
75
/99/
67
/97/
3.4
/2033/
88
/8/
71
/98/

Teacher's Pet (1958)
A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.
poster
73
63
7.2
/4569/
73
/87/
66
/71/
3.5
/2493/
80
/5/
78
/44/

State of the Union (1948)
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
poster
70
60
7.1
/4175/
73
/123/
69
/83/
3.4
/3341/
72
/389/

The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
poster
69
60
7.1
/4343/
66
/75/
66
/77/
3.5
/4653/
83
/12/
64
/45/

The Sniper (1952)
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.
poster
74
60
7.0
/3255/
70
/72/
62
/72/
3.7
/5042/
100
/13/
72
/25/

Moonrise (1948)
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
poster
Disney Plus
67
60
6.5
/5005/
70
/175/
67
/180/
3.1
/3459/
73
/3139/
cc age 7+

The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
The Garrisons are the "proud parents" of three adorable dachshund pups - and one overgrown Great Dane named Brutus, who nevertheless thinks of himself as a dainty dachsie. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles - and viewers to howls of laughter!
poster
68
50
6.8
/3488/
66
/58/
65
/51/
3.3
/1642/
80
/5/
65
/16/

Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
poster
67
49
6.5
/3810/
67
/63/
63
/96/
3.2
/947/
83
/6/
63
/25/

Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942)
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
poster
54
48
5.9
/3792/
57
/123/
57
/82/
2.8
/5016/
67
/9/
29
/44/
56
/5/

The Invisible Woman (1940)
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
poster
The Roku Channel
58
48
5.6
/2656/
60
/102/
54
/68/
3.0
/5459/
78
/9/
45
/32/

Strange Behavior (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
poster
MGM Plus
53
46
5.4
/3898/
60
/112/
47
/81/
2.8
/2493/
67
/9/
35
/58/

Strange Invaders (1983)
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.
poster
67
43
6.8
/2327/
75
/48/
64
/32/
3.3
/1112/
83
/6/
47
/23/

Golden Boy (1939)
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his parents. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
poster
69
35
7.0
/1932/
68
/28/
68
/25/
3.3
/502/
80
/5/
64
/13/
cc age 10+

Edison, the Man (1940)
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.
poster
57
35
6.5
/2676/
62
/40/
57
/37/
3.2
/681/
33
/9/
60
/27/

The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.
poster
MGM Plus
60
34
6.5
/1943/
52
/21/
60
/19/
3.3
/1012/
58
/288/

The Milky Way (1936)
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
poster
67
30
6.9
/1659/
70
/13/
68
/19/
3.4
/415/
61
/81/

Johnny Apollo (1940)
Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.
poster
fuboTV
59
30
6.4
/1387/
49
/17/
59
/21/
3.3
/742/
59
/1548/

Movie Movie (1978)
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
poster
50
28
5.2
/1109/
46
/13/
49
/21/
2.7
/1632/
60
/5/
41
/12/

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?
poster
61
28
6.9
/1925/
63
/20/
62
/13/
3.2
/601/
54
/192/

The Mating Game (1959)
Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins' farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn't paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for a day to try to estimate the income from the farm, but it isn't easy to calculate when the farmer has such a lovely daughter.
poster
The Roku Channel
62
27
4.7
/237/
56
/3/
48
/4/
100
/144/

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981)
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
poster
63
27
6.9
/901/
65
/20/
63
/17/
3.3
/639/
55
/48/

Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster Hanlon in a tavern back room. Kildare pursues Janet and enlists Hanlon to help her; the gangster's solution, not surprisingly, is violent.
poster
fuboTV
62
24
5.4
/1030/
59
/46/
59
/10/
3.5
/1292/
70
/14/

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inventor. When radiation in a nearby cave turns his girlfriend into a giantess, antics ensue as he tries to shrink her using one of his inventions.
poster
65
23
6.4
/376/
65
/2/
53
/3/
80
/127/

Three Girls About Town (1941)
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
poster
68
21
6.9
/822/
64
/9/
65
/8/
3.4
/677/
78
/18/

Blessed Event (1932)
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
poster
59
20
6.4
/576/
65
/2/
49
/7/
58
/134/

Second Fiddle (1939)
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
poster
57
20
6.1
/872/
47
/8/
55
/6/
3.2
/359/
60
/286/

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes English instruction, and Dobie's role in a chemistry lab explosion convinces Mr. Hammer he is right. Pansy is sent off broken-hearted to an Eastern school, but with the help of Happy Stella Kolawski's all-girl band, several hundred students and an enraged police force, Dobie secures Pansy's return to Grainbelt.
poster
57
19
6.7
/689/
50
/2/
58
/4/
56
/202/

Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.
poster
59
18
6.4
/832/
63
/8/
58
/8/
3.3
/394/
44
/57/

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?
poster
63
17
6.5
/835/
59
/14/
54
/14/
76
/12/

Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
A jolly, family-oriented railroad superintendent tries to get his act together when his love for the bottle starts to alienate him from his wife and oldest daughter. His younger daughter, however, still remains unflinchingly loyal to him, and they share many fun misadventures over the course of the movie.
poster
49
17
5.0
/1043/
54
/21/
45
/28/
2.9
/379/
42
/19/

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995)
By accident, the content of a computer encyclopedia is transferred into the brain of Dexter Riley, a less than average college boy. Because of his newly acquired knowledge he competes in a quiz show between various universities, where he sweeps all the points. A wiz kid from another university finds out about his cheated wisdom and does everything to discredit Dexter.
poster
MGM Plus
46
17
5.7
/528/
36
/6/
46
/11/
46
/1196/

Billie (1965)
A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.
poster
60
16
6.3
/873/
61
/16/
59
/17/
3.2
/553/
56
/6/

Mysterious Intruder (1946)
A private detective is hired to find a young heiress but finds himself accused of murder.
poster
55
16
6.2
/741/
60
/5/
58
/12/
3.1
/316/
36
/182/

Kentucky (1938)
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
poster
61
15
6.2
/879/
62
/8/
64
/16/
3.2
/403/
57
/8/

Miracles for Sale (1939)
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.


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