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1. Wishbone (1995–1998)
TV-Y | 30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
An intelligent and witty dog imagines himself in the role of characters from classic books and gets involved in similar real-life adventures.
Stars: Larry Brantley, Jordan Wall, Christie Abbott, Adam Springfield
Votes: 4,392
2. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
3. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 94
4. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Al Goodman, Eddie Cantor
Votes: 591
5. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
60 min | Drama
A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
Stars: Ed Herlihy, Vaughn Taylor, Valerie Cossart, Dan Morgan
Votes: 223
6. TV teatar (1956– )
Drama
Live transmissions of theater plays.
Stars: Mihailo 'Misa' Janketic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Predrag Ejdus, Miodrag Radovanovic
Votes: 16
7. Omnibus (1952–1961)
55 min | Drama, History, Music
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
Stars: Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, Joseph N. Welch, Helen Hayes
Votes: 218
8. Television Theater (1953– )
Drama
Series of television plays.
Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert
Votes: 92
9. The Miser (1980)
125 min | Comedy
An incredible miser fights against the whole world to multiply his wealth.
Directors: Louis de Funès, Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Franck Cabot-David, Hervé Bellon, Georges Audoubert
Votes: 5,182
10. To theatro tis Defteras (1970–2004)
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Spyros Konstadopoulos, Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Trifon Karatzas, Iakovos Psarras
Votes: 68
11. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
12. Don Juan (1998)
104 min | Comedy, Romance
Spain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan the nobleman and his valet, Sganarelle, roam the countryside on horseback, on the run and lost... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Weber | Stars: Jacques Weber, Michel Boujenah, Emmanuelle Béart, Penélope Cruz
Votes: 520
13. Estudio 1 (1965–2016)
Drama
Stars: Ana María Vidal, Fernando Delgado, José Bódalo, Luisa Sala
Votes: 91
14. Tartuffe (1925)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Votes: 2,714
15. Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1990)
Comedy
Stars: Edward Sanderson, Bernard Durand, Robert Manuel, Jacques Ardouin
Votes: 71
16. Bicycling with Molière (2013)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
Two actors. One play. Can the differences between the two egocentric men be put aside for the sake of friendship and theatre?
Director: Philippe Le Guay | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Lambert Wilson, Maya Sansa, Camille Japy
Votes: 3,157 | Gross: $0.06M
17. Theatre Night (1985–1990)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 58
18. Festival (1960–1969)
60 min | Drama
Festival is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television
Stars: Gillie Fenwick, Gerard Parkes, Eric House, Douglas Rain
Votes: 19
19. Le tartuffe (1984)
140 min | Comedy, Drama
Blinded by admiration, Orgon, a property-owning French man, brings the poor and insincere Tartuffe into his home and arranges for his daughter to marry him. Various members of the family attempt to have Tartuffe thrown out.
Director: Gérard Depardieu | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, François Périer, Yveline Ailhaud, Paule Annen
Votes: 173
20. Tartuffe, or The Impostor (1983 TV Movie)
Comedy
Televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
Director: Bill Alexander | Stars: Lesley Sharp, Sylvia Coleridge, Stephanie Fayerman, Sara Mair-Thomas
Votes: 59
21. NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949– )
Family, Music
Televised broadcasts of performances by NBC Opera Theatre. an opera company owned and operated by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The company had been formed for the purpose of ... See full summary »
Stars: Virginia Haskins, Ralph Herbert, Leon Lishner, Elaine Malbin
Votes: 24
22. The bourgeois gentleman (1982)
135 min | Comedy
Monsieur Jourdain, upstart enriched and naive, dreams of being recognized in high society. To this end, he hires masters of music, dance and philosophy. The madness of honors, decorations, power has taken hold of our bourgeois.
Director: Roger Coggio | Stars: Michel Galabru, Rosy Varte, Roger Coggio, Ludmila Mikaël
Votes: 72
23. Il malato immaginario (1979)
107 min | Comedy
During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
Director: Tonino Cervi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Giuliana de Sio, Stefano Satta Flores
Votes: 245
24. Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004 Podcast Series)
Comedy, Drama, History
Podcast based on original scripts and radio adaptations of stage dramas, novels, reports and poetry.
Stars: Andrzej Mastalerz, Krzysztof Wakulinski, Marcin Przybylski, Leon Charewicz
Votes: 12
25. L'avaro (1990)
117 min | Comedy
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of ... See full summary »
Director: Tonino Cervi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Valérie Allain, Franco Angrisano
Votes: 368
26. Tartuffe (1978 TV Movie)
114 min | Comedy
Directors: Kirk Browning, Stephen Porter | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Ruth Livingston, Patricia Elliott, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 51
27. Le bourgeois gentilhomme (2009 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy
Monsieur Jourdain,a rich bourgeois ,wants to imitate the aristocrats .He hires masters,to teach him music,dance, philosophy and fencing.But his wildest dream is his daughter ,Lucile, ... See full summary »
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Christian Clavier, Michèle Bernier, Constance Dollé, François Vincentelli
Votes: 34
28. Le misanthrope (2017)
180 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Don Kent | Stars: Yves Gasc, Éric Génovèse, Florence Viala, Loïc Corbery
Votes: 9
29. L'école des femmes (1973 TV Movie)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
A man makes clumsy attempts to marry his naive young ward.
Director: Raymond Rouleau | Stars: Bernard Blier, Robert Rimbaud, Micheline Luccioni, Marc Eyraud
Votes: 56
30. Mnimyy bolnoy (1980 TV Movie)
122 min | Comedy
The hypochondriac person - a trouble for people around. If he is sick, then is deadly. If have looked askew at him, means have maleficiated. If the wife is cheerful, means - has fallen in ... See full summary »
Director: Leonid Nechaev | Stars: Oleg Efremov, Natalya Gundareva, Anatoliy Romashin, Galina Belyaeva
Votes: 45
31. Amphitryon (1935)
105 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. ... See full summary »
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Paul Kemp, Käthe Gold, Fita Benkhoff
Votes: 182
32. Dom Juan (1985 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
The French play based on the legend of Don Juan.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Michael Degen, Hilmar Thate, Birgit Doll, Erwin Faber
Votes: 43
33. All the World's a Stage (1984)
55 min | Drama
One man's journey through the theatre.
Stars: Ronald Harwood, Ian Saynor, Peter Gale, Peter Hall
Votes: 6
34. Les fourberies de Scapin (1981)
107 min | Comedy
Octave has married Hyacinthe during the absence of Argante, his father.
Director: Roger Coggio | Stars: Roger Coggio, Michel Galabru, Jean-Pierre Darras, Maurice Risch
Votes: 58
35. Dom Juan & Sganarelle (2015 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama
Dom Juan, naked, staggers cagily through an orgy he himself set up. A tearful Elvire suddenly appears and demands an explanation.
Director: Vincent Macaigne | Stars: Gérard Giroudon, Alain Lenglet, Julie Sicard, Loïc Corbery
Votes: 41
36. Tartuffe (1966 TV Movie)
102 min | Comedy
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying to seduce the young wife.
Director: Hans Dahlin | Stars: Gunn Wållgren, Olof Widgren, Tor Isedal, Isa Quensel
Votes: 11
37. Le débutant (1986)
86 min | Comedy
The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife. Particularly awkward, he will have to work to achieve his dream.
Directors: Daniel Janneau, Francis Perrin | Stars: Francis Perrin, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 79
38. Tartuffe (1992 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy
Tartuffe is hidden behind a mask of humility and fear of God. And there's a lot of people to believe that he's truly like that.
Director: Yan Frid | Stars: Mikhail Boyarskiy, Aleksandr Alekseev, Olga Belyavskaya, Igor Dmitriev
Votes: 110
39. Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1982–1985)
Drama
Broadcast of plays on a French public channel (Antenne 2).
Stars: Jean Piat, Cyrielle Clair, Daniel Ceccaldi, Robert Lamoureux
40. L'avare (1974 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: René Lucot | Stars: Michel Aumont, Simon Eine, Francis Huster, Françoise Seigner
Votes: 43
41. The Imaginary Invalid (2021 TV Movie)
31 min | Comedy
Argan is a well-to-do stingy hypochondriac. The physician Mr. Purgon and the apothecary Mr. Fleurant exploit his obsession in order to make money. His brother, Béralde, insists that Argan's... See full summary »
Director: Vassilis Oikonomou | Stars: Michalis Tamboukas, Anna Kirkadi, Panayiotis Petaroudas, Christina Mourati
42. Misantropen (1974 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates mankind because there is so much hypocrisy, deceit, and false flattery in the world.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Hanne Borchsenius, Benny Hansen, Holger Juul Hansen, Paul Hüttel
Votes: 89
43. Don Juan in Hell (1991)
91 min | Drama, Romance
Everything takes place in the times of Felipe II when he begins to lose all the lands conquered by his father Carlos I. Don Juan appears before this panorama, a man who will see his wishes fulfilled .
Director: Gonzalo Suárez | Stars: Fernando Guillén, Mario Pardo, Charo López, Héctor Alterio
Votes: 257
44. Dandin (1988)
113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dandin is a rich peasant who gets a noble title and a wife, but there is a man who not only courts the woman, but always makes a fool of him.
Director: Roger Planchon | Stars: Claude Brasseur, Zabou Breitman, Daniel Gélin, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 45
45. Hustruskolan (1983 TV Movie)
108 min | Drama
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's... See full summary »
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Allan Edwall, Lena Nyman, Björn Gustafson, Ulla Sjöblom
Votes: 128
46. Grande Teatro Tupi (1951–1964)
Drama
A tele theater where famous plays were adapted and staged, during the days before videotaped Brazilian television, and performed by a cast of accomplished actors.
Stars: Wanda Kosmo, Rita Cléos, Nydia Lícia, Rildo Gonçalves
Votes: 31
47. Le malade imaginaire (2008 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy
Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel, Wladimir Yordanoff, Didier Bénureau
Votes: 45
48. The Miser (1908)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short
Georges Méliès presents his version of Molière's classic play "L'avare" (The Miser). The brief fragments presents a greedy old man who keep turning down several people who come to him in ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 177
49. El gran Makakikus (1944)
Comedy, Drama
After making a large fortune, a shopkeeper intends to marry his daughter to an important man, even though she is in love with a rancher. To achieve his mission, he decides to take her to ... See full summary »
Director: Humberto Gómez Landero | Stars: Joaquín Pardavé, Miguel Arenas, Alfredo Varela, Dolores Camarillo
Votes: 45
50. Would-Be Gentleman (1958)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Filmed theater version of the Moliere classic: A well off but ignorant bourgeois tries to move into aristocratic society by learning music, dance, fencing, philosophy.He is conned by masqueraders pretending to be Turks.
Director: Jean Meyer | Stars: Jean Meyer, Louis Seigner, Jacques Charon, Robert Manuel
Votes: 42