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1. American Honey (2016)

R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.

Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi

Votes: 46,631 | Gross: $0.66M

2. The Day After (1983 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum

Votes: 18,271

3. In Cold Blood (1967)

R | 134 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Two ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart

Votes: 29,270

4. Silver Streak (1976)

PG | 114 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh, Patrick McGoohan

Votes: 21,797

5. Dark Places (2015)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that tragic night.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Christina Hendricks, Chloë Grace Moretz

Votes: 47,860

6. The Lookout (2007)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher

Votes: 60,612 | Gross: $4.60M

7. Nurse Betty (2000)

R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.

Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear

Votes: 36,224 | Gross: $25.17M

8. The Big Land (1957)

Approved | 92 min | Romance, Western

Alan Ladd stars as a Kansas cattle rancher battling the elements and corrupt cattle buyers to build a railroad spur to the Rio Grande just after the United States Civil War.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Anthony Caruso

Votes: 687

9. The House on Pine Street (2015)

111 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A psychological horror film about a young woman coping with an unwanted pregnancy after moving into a seemingly haunted house.

Directors: Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling | Stars: Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles, Cathy Barnett, Jim Korinke

Votes: 2,591

10. Flying Hostess (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.

Director: Murray Roth | Stars: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, William Hall, Astrid Allwyn

Votes: 12

11. AIR: The Musical (2010)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three musical stories of people who feel out of place in the world, and of their longing to find a connection with someone else. A middle-aged African American sings to a new love in a ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Osbern | Stars: Ian Stark, Megan Carter, Granvile O'Neal, Brenda Harvey

Votes: 70

12. Wrestless: The MPW Documentary (2014)

103 min | Documentary

A documentary about Metro Pro Wrestling, an independent promotion based in Kansas City, Kansas, that follows the wrestlers, crew, and fans over the course of four months in the summer of 2013.

Director: Scott Kessler | Stars: Pierre Abernathy, Bradley Charles, Todd Countryman, Don Diablo

Votes: 11

13. Can You Imagine? (1936)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short

This short shows various curiosities of people and nature across the United States, in the style of the "Believe It or Not" series. Among the dozen subjects are Milwaukee's Monkey Island; a... See full summary »

Stars: Ray Saunders, William Shelton, Amos Emmanuel Kubick, Dickie McCollin

Votes: 50

14. Pioneers and Visionaries (2004 Video)

Documentary, Short

The early years of The University of Kansas Medical Center are portrayed in this short documentary about the men and women who created the school.

Director: Dan Ginavan | Star: Ron Willis

15. KCKPL's Stories on the Bus: Matt de la Peña reads Last Stop on Market Street (2017)

12 min | Short

Based on the Newbery Award (2016) winning book, "Last Stop on Market Street" is about a boy (CJ) and his grandmother (Nana) taking the public bus after Sunday services to a communal meal. ... See full summary »

Director: Eric J. Smith | Stars: Matt de la Peña, Roy J. Tucker, Sharon Hunt, Jeff Stocks

16. Stranger Than Fiction 6373: The Candy Kid (1941)

Approved | 9 min | Short, News

A six-year-old girl, Barbara Schultz, is an official candy-taster for a large candy manufacturer; Fredrick Kuhn of Philadelphia makes trinkets from peach pits; J. A. Sanders of Kansas City,... See full summary »

Directors: Thomas Mead, Joseph O'Brien | Stars: Alois Havrilla, Barbara Schultz, Frederick Kuhn, J.A. Sanders

17. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Fight Club (2000)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two strikingly similar women, who do not know one another, cause people to erupt into violence upon each other, whenever these two women come in contact. Mulder and Scully set out to solve ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Randall 'Tex' Cobb, Art Evans

Votes: 3,249

18. United States of Tara (2009–2011)
Episode: Trouble Junction (2010)

TV-MA | 27 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Tara soon comes to the realization that one of her alters, Buck, emerged and that she spent the night with an attractive waitress from the local pub. She desperately wants to keep that ... See full summary »

Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Toni Collette, John Corbett, Rosemarie DeWitt, Keir Gilchrist

Votes: 213