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1. The Interview (II) (2014)

R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.

Directors: Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen | Stars: James Franco, Seth Rogen, Randall Park, Lizzy Caplan

Votes: 355,776 | Gross: $6.11M

2. Rent (2005)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Rapp

Votes: 55,988 | Gross: $29.08M

3. Malcolm & Marie (2021)

R | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A director and his girlfriend's relationship is tested after they return home from his movie premiere and face each other's turmoil during one long night.

Director: Sam Levinson | Stars: John David Washington, Zendaya

Votes: 41,269

4. It Could Happen to You (1994)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A police officer promises to share his lottery ticket with a waitress in lieu of a tip.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda, Rosie Perez, Wendell Pierce

Votes: 44,843 | Gross: $37.80M

5. Bamboozled (2000)

R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport

Votes: 12,382 | Gross: $2.27M

6. The Last Summer (2019)

TV-14 | 109 min | Comedy, Romance

Standing on the precipice of adulthood, a group of friends navigate new relationships, while reexamining others, during their final summer before college.

Director: William Bindley | Stars: K.J. Apa, Maia Mitchell, Norman Johnson Jr., Jacob Latimore

Votes: 14,343

7. Cecil B. Demented (2000)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Director: John Waters | Stars: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier

Votes: 16,696 | Gross: $1.28M

8. Detention (2011)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

As a copycat killer named after movie villain Cinderhella stalks the student body at Grizzly Lake High School, a group of co-eds band together to survive while serving detention.

Director: Joseph Kahn | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Dane Cook

Votes: 16,545

9. The Watermelon Woman (1996)

Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

Director: Cheryl Dunye | Stars: Cheryl Dunye, Guinevere Turner, Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson

Votes: 3,710

10. Rent: Live (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 134 min | Musical

The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.

Directors: Michael Greif, Alex Rudzinski | Stars: Vanessa Hudgens, Jordan Fisher, Tinashe, Kiersey Clemons

Votes: 2,035

11. Dear White People (2014)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The lives of four black students at an Ivy League college.

Director: Justin Simien | Stars: Tyler James Williams, Tessa Thompson, Kyle Gallner, Teyonah Parris

Votes: 26,584 | Gross: $4.40M

12. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997)

R | 86 min | Comedy

When a rookie filmmaker with the unfortunate name Alan Smithee realizes he's an unwitting studio puppet, being forced to make a big-budget action movie he knows is horrible, he steals the master reels and tries to make a deal.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Coolio, Chuck D, Eric Idle

Votes: 3,774 | Gross: $0.05M

13. Get on the Bus (1996)

R | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer

Votes: 6,053 | Gross: $5.73M

14. Southside with You (2016)

PG-13 | 84 min | Biography, Drama, History

Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.

Director: Richard Tanne | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Phillip Edward Van Lear

Votes: 10,140 | Gross: $6.30M

15. Inside the Rain (2019)

TV-MA | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Facing expulsion from college over a misunderstanding, a bipolar student indulges his misery at a strip club where he befriends a gorgeous, intelligent, outrageous woman and they hatch a madcap scheme to prove his innocence.

Director: Aaron Fisher | Stars: Ellen Toland, Aaron Fisher, Rosie Perez, Catherine Curtin

Votes: 355

16. Pledge (2018)

Unrated | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined.

Director: Daniel Robbins | Stars: Zachery Byrd, Phillip Andre Botello, Zack Weiner, Aaron Dalla Villa

Votes: 3,847

17. The First Monday in May (2016)

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary

Follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.

Director: Andrew Rossi | Stars: Anna Wintour, Andrew Bolton, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld

Votes: 1,960 | Gross: $0.53M

18. The Cinema Snob Movie (2012 Video)

Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

When an exploitation filmmaker goes undercover as a pretentious film snob to obtain proper filming permits, he is thrust into a strange mystery surrounding the very secretive film commission.

Director: Ryan Mitchelle | Stars: Brad Jones, Jake Norvell, Jillian Zurawski, Ryan Mitchelle

Votes: 483

19. Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)

R | 78 min | Comedy, Romance

A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.

Director: Emma-Kate Croghan | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Alice Garner, Matt Day, Matthew Dyktynski

Votes: 2,075 | Gross: $0.21M

20. Two Days (2003)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

Paul Miller has struggled as an actor in Hollywood for years, and now he's had enough. In two days, he's going to kill himself. But in true Hollywood style, he's hired a film crew to chronicle his last moments.

Director: Sean McGinly | Stars: Adam Scott, Karl Wiedergott, Mark Phinney, Paul Rudd

Votes: 1,019

21. Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019)

Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary

A look at the history of black horror films and the role of African Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.

Director: Xavier Burgin | Stars: Rusty Cundieff, Ernest R. Dickerson, Robin R. Means Coleman, Jordan Peele

Votes: 2,100

22. Basic Values: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's (1993 TV Movie)

60 min | Comedy

Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s. She illustrates this with clips from (fake) current hit films and music videos.

Director: David Jablin | Stars: Kimberly Beck, Greg Evigan, Kenneth Mars, Peter Jurasik

Votes: 31

23. The Dying Gaul (I) (2005)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

Director: Craig Lucas | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, Ryan Miller

Votes: 2,482 | Gross: $0.34M

24. Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (2021)

80 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A look at the life and work of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.

Director: Francesco Zippel | Stars: Gian Luca Farinelli, Chuck D, Amma Asante, Kwame Kwei-Armah

Votes: 206

25. How Jack Became Black (2018)

84 min | Documentary

The births of Jack and June, the third multiracial generation in filmmaker Eli Steele's family, coincided with a startling projection: by 2050, at least 20% of all Americans will ... See full summary »

Director: Eli Steele | Stars: Justin Gordon, Eli Steele, Louis Armstrong, Jesse Jackson

Votes: 64

26. Jay-Z Feat. Alicia Keys: Empire State of Mind (2009 Music Video)

5 min | Music

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Director: Hype Williams | Stars: Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Spike Lee

Votes: 104

27. Behind the Scenes (V) (2017)

161 min | Documentary

An archival collection of behind the scenes from various films in different years.

Director: Mohammad Mohammadian | Stars: Woody Allen, Noah Baumbach, Tim Burton, Lee Isaac Chung

Votes: 127

28. Cinefile: Made in the USA (1993 TV Movie)

78 min | Documentary

Documentary on the American independent film scene.

Directors: Paul Joyce, Chris Rodley | Stars: Robert Altman, Allison Anders, Paul Bartel, Gary Beer

Votes: 20

29. The Oscars® Are Officially No Longer the Oscars® (2019 Video)

49 min | News

A YouTube documentary in the form of a rant on the Academy's political agenda and white guilt.

Star: Atheism Is Unstoppable

Votes: 19

30. The Machine (2011 Video)

19 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

Eric Cornelius is having a bad day until he is approached by an old man claiming to be a time traveler. Skeptical and thinking the old man is crazy, he is shocked by what he discovers.

Director: Michael C. Poole | Stars: Danny Morris, Terence J. Burke, Clarissa Thibeaux, Eren Yar

Votes: 17

31. On the Set of No. 2 (2007 Video)

13 min | Documentary, Short

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Stars: Mia Blake, Ruby Dee, Taungaroa Emile, Toa Fraser

32. Public Enemy feat. Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane: Burn Hollywood Burn (1990 Music Video)

4 min | History, Music

Public Enemy, Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane go to the cinema to watch old movies featuring racist stereotypes of black people which they comment on in the song.

Director: Lionel C. Martin | Stars: Louise Beavers, Willie Best, Big Daddy Kane, Chuck D

Votes: 27

33. Murder Blohc: Based on True Jack Boyz Stories (2020)

26 min | Short, Crime

Macc Litton (Macc Dundee) is a cold-blooded American gangster, and not the sort of man you want to cross. When Macc's brother (J-Shep) winds up dead, Litton carves a bloody trail of revenge through the failed crew that was the Jack Boyz.

Directors: Ian Cranston, Ethan Michaels | Stars: Cheff Dee, Macc Dundee, Simeon J. Grays, Nathaniel Grayson

34. Jimmy Somerville Feat. June Miles Kingston: Comment te dire adieu (1989 Music Video)

4 min | Short, Music

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Director: Steve McLean | Stars: Jimmy Somerville, June Miles-Kingston

35. Tour of a Black Planet (1991 Music Video)

Documentary, Music

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Director: Moses Edinborough | Stars: Harry Allen, Anthrax, Joey Belladonna, Frank Bello

Votes: 14

36. Animaniacs (1993–1998)
Episode: Taming of the Screwy (1993)

Not Rated | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Mr. Plotz tasks Scratchansniff with bringing the Warners in line so they might appear at a huge gala to schmooze some Japanese investors.

Director: Alfred Gimeno | Stars: Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Frank Welker

Votes: 256

37. City Guys (1997–2001)
Episode: The Players (1999)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Comedy

After seeing Cassidy perform in a student film, Jamal and Chris decide to make their own movie and enter it in a film festival. But when their ideas clash, they end up competing with each ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Bonner | Stars: Wesley Jonathan, Scott Whyte, Caitlin Mowrey, Dionysio Basco

Votes: 11

38. The Critic (1994–2001)
Episode: L.A. Jay (1994)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

After writing a screenplay, Jay takes leave from his job and moves to Hollywood, where he is hired to write a sequel to a movie he hated.

Directors: Bret Haaland, Gregg Vanzo | Stars: Jon Lovitz, Nancy Cartwright, Christine Cavanaugh, Gerrit Graham

Votes: 131

39. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One Where Old Yeller Dies (1996)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Phoebe's world view is shattered when she learns how Old Yeller really ends. Monica becomes jealous when Richard starts hanging out with Chandler and Joey. Rachel panics when she learns that Ross has planned their whole life together.

Director: Michael Lembeck | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 5,324

40. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: That's for Me to Know (1991)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Dorothy learns that her father was not Sophia's first husband.

Director: Lex Passaris | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 382

41. The John Larroquette Show (1993–1996)
Episode: Love on the Line (1995)

Comedy

Disguising his online identity, John uses the internet to make a date with Catherine.

Director: John Whitesell | Stars: John Larroquette, Liz Torres, Gigi Rice, Daryl Mitchell

Votes: 36

42. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Guardian (1995)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A financial advisor is implicated in the drug overdose death of one of his client's children.

Director: Christopher Misiano | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 286

43. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Bart Gets Famous (1994)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Bart becomes an overnight sensation as the "I didn't do it" boy on Krusty the Clown's show.

Director: Susie Dietter | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 3,278

44. Sports Night (1998–2000)
Episode: Pilot (1998)

TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Dejected by his divorce and the state of sports, Casey contemplates leaving "Sports Night". Natalie has a crush on an applicant for an associate producer position.

Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Josh Charles, Peter Krause, Felicity Huffman, Joshua Malina

Votes: 224

45. Will & Grace (1998–2020)
Episode: Brothers, a Love Story (2001)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Romance

Will gets upset when his new boyfriend refuses to recognize him as his boyfriend when they're in public and introduces him as his brother. Grace tells him he should dump him but Will finds ... See full summary »

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes

Votes: 320

46. NFL Monday Night Football (1970– )
Episode: Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints (2006)

Sport

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Stars: Mike Tirico, Tony Kornheiser, Joe Theismann, Michele Tafoya

Votes: 15

47. Rules of Engagement (2007–2013)
Episode: Game On (2007)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Adam buys a new video-game which he and Russell can't stop playing. Jennifer discusses with Adam about him spending a lot on stuff for himself now that they are a couple. Audrey gets a ... See full summary »

Director: Ted Wass | Stars: Patrick Warburton, Megyn Price, Oliver Hudson, Bianca Kajlich

Votes: 524

48. Mad TV (1995–2016)
Episode: Episode #12.10 (2007)

TV-14 | Comedy

Sketches: The Fast, Music Video: My Chemical Romance "The Black Tirade", Commercial: Post-it, The King Henry Show, Dreamgirls, Commercial: Yusuf Islam's Greatest Hits, Crazy as Hell: News Stories of 2006, Elephant-Gorilla Conference.

Director: Bruce Leddy | Stars: Ike Barinholtz, Frank Caeti, Crista Flanagan, Nicole Randall Johnson

Votes: 33

49. Inside the Actors Studio (1994– )
Episode: Eddie Murphy (2006)

TV-PG | Talk-Show

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Stars: James Lipton, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Martin Lawrence

Votes: 46

50. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
Is Trump Tough Enough to Beat the Media on the Border (2019 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

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Stars: Andrew Klavan, John Miller