Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "formal-ball"

1. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Detective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams

Votes: 480,920 | Gross: $186.85M

2. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer

Votes: 27,701 | Gross: $7.57M

3. Napoleon (1927)

330 min | Biography, Drama, History

A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky

Votes: 8,808

4. Anastasia (1956)

Unrated | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

An opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 9,330

5. Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime

When a successful, middle-class couple finds themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier

Votes: 4,888

6. Pygmalion (1938)

89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Directors: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr

Votes: 9,674 | Gross: $3.05M

7. A Winter Princess (2019 TV Movie)

TV-G | 82 min | Romance

Princess Carly, working incognito at a ski resort, must team up with the owner's brother, Jesse, to plan the resort's 50th anniversary celebration.

Director: Allan Harmon | Stars: Natalie Hall, Chris McNally, Casey Manderson, Brendon Zub

Votes: 2,106

8. Love, Once and Always (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Lucy clashes with Duncan, an ex from her teens, when they both inherit a historic mansion/estate. She wants to save it and Duncan wants to cash in.

Director: Allan Harmon | Stars: Amanda Schull, Peter Porte, Anna Van Hooft, Brittney Wilson

Votes: 1,395

9. Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Approved | 116 min | Western

During the Civil War, Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly supplies the Union with cattle until Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter's hungry men force Kelly to change his customers.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Holden, Richard Widmark, Janice Rule, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 2,738

10. Anna Karenina (1935)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance

The married Anna Karenina falls in love with Count Vronsky despite her husband's refusal to grant a divorce, and both must contend with the social repercussions.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Greta Garbo, Fredric March, Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 5,802 | Gross: $0.87M

11. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 2,414

12. A Royal Christmas Ball (2017 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 86 min | Drama, Romance

A bachelor king tries to reconnect with his old college sweetheart.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Tara Reid, Ingo Rademacher, Haley Pullos, Mira Furlan

Votes: 1,080

13. Anna Karenina (1985 TV Movie)

PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance

Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve, Paul Scofield, Ian Ogilvy

Votes: 372

14. Madame Bovary (2000 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent.... See full summary »

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville

Votes: 1,010

15. Flesh and the Devil (1926)

Passed | 112 min | Drama

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent

Votes: 4,635 | Gross: $1.61M

16. Bet on Revenge (2017)

121 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Ernõ Blaskovich lost everything after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Kincsem, a magnificent horse gives a purpose of his meaningless, self-destructing life. He gets a chance to gain everything back: revenge, love and fame.

Director: Gábor Herendi | Stars: Ervin Nagy, Andrea Petrik, Tibor Gáspár, József Gyabronka

Votes: 6,270

17. USS Christmas (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Mystery, Romance

Maddie, a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmas time where she meets a handsome naval officer and stumbles upon a mystery in the ship's archive room.

Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Jen Lilley, Trevor Donovan, Barbara Niven, Stefanie Butler

Votes: 1,717

18. One Royal Holiday (2020 TV Movie)

TV-G | 87 min | Drama, Romance

When Anna offers a stranded mother and son shelter in a blizzard, she learns that they are the Royal Family of Galwick. Anna shows the Prince how they do Christmas in her hometown, encouraging him to open his heart and be true to himself.

Director: Dustin Rikert | Stars: Laura Osnes, Krystal Joy Brown, Tom McGowan, Bradley Rose

Votes: 2,528

19. Casanova, Last Love (2019)

98 min | Drama, History, Romance

In the eighteenth century, Casanova, known for his taste for fun and play, arrived in London after having to go into exile. In this city of which he knows nothing, he meets several times a ... See full summary »

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Vincent Lindon, Stacy Martin, Valeria Golino, Julia Roy

Votes: 604 | Gross: $0.01M

20. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,159

21. Mission to Moscow (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, History, War

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oscar Homolka, George Tobias

Votes: 1,023

22. Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)

Approved | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A bellboy at a swanky New York hotel starts to ignore his girlfriend after meeting a beautiful European princess.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Robert Walker, June Allyson, Carl Esmond

Votes: 849

23. The Man in Grey (1943)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, History, Romance

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a 'brood sow,' he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place.

Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger

Votes: 1,595

24. The Duchess of Langeais (2007)

Unrated | 137 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli

Votes: 1,463 | Gross: $0.28M

25. Heartbeat (1946)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In Paris, a young woman runs away from a reform school, joins a pickpocket academy, and finds herself falling for the handsome diplomat she's been blackmailed into stealing from.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Melville Cooper

Votes: 826

26. The White Sister (1933)

Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman falls in love with a dashing officer, but becomes a nun when she believes him to be killed in battle.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lewis Stone, Louise Closser Hale

Votes: 485

27. Tonight's the Night (1954)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy

In the Irish village of Rathbarney, the aged squire is killed while hunting. His successor, O'Leary arrives in Rathbarney to take over his dead great uncle's estate.

Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald, George Cole

Votes: 609

28. Chasing the Deer (1994)

97 min | History, War

The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.

Director: Graham Holloway | Stars: Brian Blessed, Iain Cuthbertson, Matthew Zajac, Fish

Votes: 167

29. Atlantic Ferry (1941)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance

After their state-of-the-art steamship the "Gigantic" sinks a few minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David (... See full summary »

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power

Votes: 151

30. Ella Cinders (1926)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Ella Cinders, oppressed and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, wins a contest for a film role in Hollywood. When the contest turns out to be fraudulent, she determines to stay and achieve Hollywood stardom the hard way.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis, Doris Baker

Votes: 1,083

31. Between Two Women (1937)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

A young surgeon loves a married nurse, then meets and falls for an heiress with appendicitis.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn

Votes: 249

32. The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance

Paris is Burning. Under the iron fist of Robespierre, hundreds are executed, by the swift and bloodstained guillotine. Through these acts of injustice a new heroism is born - the League of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Director: Hanns Schwarz | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott, James Mason

Votes: 348

33. Honeymoon (1956)

93 min | Comedy, Romance

Lyudochka Odintsova, a graduate of the medical institute, the best singer and dancer of the course, wishing to stay in Leningrad, is marrying a Leningrad-based bridge engineer Alexey ... See full summary »

Director: Nadezhda Kosheverova | Stars: Lyudmila Kasatkina, Pavel Kadochnikov, Tatyana Pankova, Pavel Sukhanov

Votes: 113

34. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Foghorn (1958)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

At a celebration party, a recently engaged woman meets a charming man who causes her to question the direction of her life. She soon also causes him to question the direction of his life as well, albeit with fateful consequences.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Michael Rennie, Bartlett Robinson

Votes: 574

35. Murphy Brown (1988–2018)
Episode: I Would Have Danced All Night (1989)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Murphy can't understand why she isn't invited to the Inaugural Ball, and can't get anyone to take her.

Director: Barnet Kellman | Stars: Candice Bergen, Pat Corley, Faith Ford, Charles Kimbrough

Votes: 91

36. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode: The Path of Duty (1971)

TV-PG | 49 min | Drama

Elizabeth returns from studying abroad and the household are in a frenzy, preparing for Elizabeth's entrée into London society.

Director: Joan Kemp-Welch | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Angela Baddeley, Jean Marsh, Margaretta Scott

Votes: 124

37. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999–2000)
Episode: Ennui (2000)

TV-14 | 91 min | Adventure, Drama

After Marguerite's death, Percy's mourning makes him reluctant to take up as the Scarlet Pimpernel again. But a woman whom he recently rescued from the guillotine is determined to save her ... See full summary »

Director: Graham Theakston | Stars: Gillian Cally, Harry Meacher, Emily Bruni, Nicholas Gecks

Votes: 30

38. The Omid Djalili Show (2007–2008)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2007)

29 min | Comedy

Sketches: "Pride and Racial Prejudice"

Director: Michael Cumming | Stars: Omid Djalili, Alison Steadman, Kip Gamblin, Joanne King

Votes: 6

39. Lillie (1978)
Episode: Emilie (1978)

51 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Beautiful Emilie Le Breton, parson's daughter on the Isle of Jersey, is only 15 years old and a tomboy. Lillie's mother arranges a brief London visit to show Lillie a Season, but she is too... See full summary »

Director: John Gorrie | Stars: Francesca Annis, Anton Rodgers, Patrick Holt, Peggy Ann Wood

Votes: 32

40. Vanity Fair (1967– )
Episode: The Celebrated Battle Scene (1967)

50 min | Drama

Both Becky and Amelia are now married, but their union has seen their prospective spouses disinherited. As hardship bites in, George begins to regret his decision to marry Amelia and starts... See full summary »

Director: David Giles | Stars: Susan Hampshire, Marilyn Taylerson, Roy Marsden, John Moffatt

41. Sanditon (2019–2023)
Episode: Episode #2.5 (2022)

TV-14 | Drama, Romance

Lennox and Colbourne's rivalry over Charlotte comes to a head. Georgiana makes a decision that will impact her future. Edward's manipulation of Esther takes a dark turn. Alison realizes what she has been missing.

Director: Ethosheia Hylton | Stars: Turlough Convery, Kris Marshall, Charlotte Spencer, Jack Fox

Votes: 460

42. The Forsyte Saga (2002–2003)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2002)

TV-PG | 70 min | Drama, History, Romance

Realiazing he has lost Irene (Gina McKee), a vengeful Soames (Damian Lewis) sets out to ruin Bosinney's (Ioan Gruffudd) architectural career by charging him with mismanagement.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Gina McKee, Robert Lang, Damian Lewis, Ioan Gruffudd

Votes: 93

43. Scarlet and Black (1993)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1993)

79 min | Drama, Romance

Julien Sorel is now at the seminary at Besançon, initially believing that he has been abandoned by his lover Madame de Renal, but in fact her letters have been intercepted.

Director: Ben Bolt | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Zoe Hilson, Alice Krige, Christopher Fulford

Votes: 17

44. Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013–2014)
Episode: Heart of Stone (2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Will Scarlet and Anastasia pass into Wonderland only to discover it isn't what they imagined; the Red Queen gains her royal status.

Director: Paul A. Edwards | Stars: Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby

Votes: 305

45. The Gilded Age (2022– )
Episode: Let the Tournament Begin (2022)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama

As Ada and Aurora rush to stop Marian from making a huge decision, Bertha and Mrs Astor's clash impacts all of New York society. Season finale.

Director: Michael Engler | Stars: Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Louisa Jacobson, Denée Benton

Votes: 1,107