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1. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 65,888 | Gross: $58.97M
2. Foul Play (1978)
PG | 116 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A San Francisco librarian picks up a hitchhiker whose car has broken down, which leads to her being stalked and hunted by shady individuals. A cop she briefly met during a function eventually comes to her rescue.
Director: Colin Higgins | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts
Votes: 16,935 | Gross: $45.00M
3. The Pirate Movie (1982)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
A 1980s take-off of The Pirates of Penzance which centers on a noble pirate who leaves his profession and falls in love with a fiery young maiden.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Richard Franklin | Stars: Kristy McNichol, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Bill Kerr
Votes: 4,801
4. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
R | 160 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith
Votes: 13,476 | Gross: $6.20M
5. That's Entertainment! (1974)
G | 135 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
Various MGM stars from yesteryear present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50-year history.
Director: Jack Haley Jr. | Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Peter Lawford
Votes: 5,423 | Gross: $26.89M
6. Kismet (1955)
Approved | 113 min | Adventure, Musical, Fantasy
A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.
Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen | Stars: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone
Votes: 1,683
7. Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)
101 min | Musical
Pseudonym Dr. Falke pursues his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna, an operetta adaptation involving occupying powers' protagonists, not a staged production but a cinematic reimagining.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Anton Walbrook, Dennis Price, Ludmilla Tchérina
Votes: 468
8. Absolution (1978)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two boys try to drive a strict priest mad with their confessed sins at a boarding school in England.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly
Votes: 1,896
9. Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-12 (2005 Video)
R | 43 min | Short, Drama, Music
The first twelve chapters of R. Kelly's rap opera in which a one-night stand triggers a series of revelations about the sexual deceits of its characters.
Directors: R. Kelly, Jim Swaffield | Stars: R. Kelly, Cat Wilson, Rolando Boyce, LeShay N. Tomlinson
Votes: 2,183
10. The Merry Widow (1934)
Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a small kingdom's main taxpayer leaves for Paris, its king dispatches a dashing count to win back her allegiance.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Marcel Vallée
Votes: 3,257
11. The Climax (1944)
Passed | 86 min | Horror, Music, Thriller
A demented physician becomes obsessed with a young singer whose voice sounds similar to his late mistress.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 1,036
12. That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
G | 133 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
The second installment in the "That's Entertainment" trilogy features more classic scenes from MGM's vast musical library with the addition of comedy and drama films.
Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 2,435 | Gross: $6.54M
13. Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: David Redden, Michael Wager, Robert Powell, Gael Hammer
Votes: 302
14. Naughty Marietta (1935)
Passed | 105 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In order to avoid a prearranged marriage, a rebellious French princess sheds her identity and escapes to colonial New Orleans, where she finds an unlikely true love.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 1,539
15. The Pirates of Penzance (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 122 min | Comedy, Musical
A young man named Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must ... See full summary »
Directors: Wilford Leach, Joshua White | Stars: Kevin Kline, G. Eugene Moose, Rex Smith, Patricia Routledge
Votes: 450
16. The Mikado (1939)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Kenny Baker, John Barclay, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville
Votes: 826
17. Rose-Marie (1936)
Passed | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical
An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Reginald Owen, Allan Jones
Votes: 1,402
18. Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
Stagestruck adolescent learns about love the hard way while interning in Cleveland summer stock during the early '50's.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller
Votes: 329 | Gross: $0.06M
19. That's Entertainment! III (1994)
G | 113 min | Documentary, Family, Musical
Third installment in the "That's Entertainment" series, featuring scenes from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929," "Brigadoon," "Singin' In The Rain," and many more MGM films.
Directors: Bud Friedgen, Michael J. Sheridan | Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 1,771 | Gross: $0.27M
20. Cynthia (1947)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S.Z. Sakall, Mary Astor
Votes: 696
21. Gilbert and Sullivan (1953)
Not Rated | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The common career of W.S. Gilbert,a barrister turned comic writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer turned converted against his will to light music, who wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie, Martyn Green
Votes: 270
22. Make a Wish (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
While at summer camp in the Maine woods, little Bobby Breen befriends composer Basil Rathbone, who left the city to try and break his creative block, and is soon playing matchmaker for his widowed singer mother and Rathbone.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone, Marion Claire, Henry Armetta
Votes: 209
23. The Vagabond King (1930)
104 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve. His ... See full summary »
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth
Votes: 230
24. Gusarskaya ballada (1962)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, War
A young girl decides to join a Husar squadron and fight against Napoleon. Dressed as a man she has a hard time adjusting to the rude Husar life styles.
Director: Eldar Ryazanov | Stars: Larisa Golubkina, Yuriy Yakovlev, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 1,747
25. The Desert Song (1929)
Passed | 123 min | Action, Musical, Romance
The Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 126
26. The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
Directors: William K. Howard, Sam Wood | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 471 | Gross: $0.99M
27. Glass (2007)
Not Rated | 119 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hicks ("Shine") documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Philip Glass, Holly Critchlow, Chuck Close, JoAnne Akalaitis
Votes: 777 | Gross: $0.02M
28. H.M.S. Pinafore (1982 TV Movie)
95 min | Musical, Comedy
A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
Director: Rodney Greenberg | Stars: Peter Marshall, Frankie Howerd, Meryl Drower, Michael Bulman
Votes: 89
29. The Mikado (I) (1983 TV Movie)
116 min | Comedy, Musical
Escaping from a distasteful marriage, Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado, arrives in the town of Titipu - disguised as a musician. He has chosen Titipu because a beautiful girl, Yum-Yum, with... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Greenberg | Stars: William Conrad, Clive Revill, Kate Flowers, John Stewart
Votes: 104
30. 1. April 2000 (1952)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's ... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Waltraut Haas, Judith Holzmeister
Votes: 256
31. The Night Is Young (1935)
Passed | 81 min | Romance, Musical, Drama
Austrian Emperor Franz Josef has arranged a marriage for his nephew, the Archduke Paul Gustave - nicknamed Gustl - to the suitable Princess Matilda, a woman Gustl can't even remember. He is... See full summary »
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel
Votes: 283
32. Three from the Filling Station (1930)
99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Lilian Harvey, Heinz Rühmann, Oskar Karlweis
Votes: 877
33. The Mikado or the Town of Titipu (1987 TV Movie)
130 min | Comedy, Musical
A staging of "The Mikado" set in an English country hotel during the 1920s.
Director: John Michael Phillips | Stars: Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard Van Allan
Votes: 158
34. The Mikado (1967)
122 min | Musical
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Donald Adams, Philip Potter, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford
Votes: 102
35. Ruddigore (1983 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy, Musical
The Baronets of Ruddigore have been cursed by a witch. Each Baronet, in his turn, must commit a crime a day - or die in torture. To escape his dreadful fate, the latest Baronet, Sir Ruthven... See full summary »
Director: Barrie Gavin | Stars: Vincent Price, Keith Michell, John Treleaven, Donald Adams
Votes: 83
36. H.M.S. Pinafore (1997 TV Movie)
Musical, Comedy
A sailor falls for the daughter of his captain, while being unaware of the love a young country girl holds for him.
Directors: Peter Butler, Craig Schaefer | Stars: Jon English, Amanda Muggleton, Simon Gallaher, Rima Te Wiata
Votes: 80
37. Viennese Nights (1930)
92 min | Musical, Romance
In 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing. ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Vivienne Segal, Alexander Gray, Jean Hersholt, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 100
38. Broadway Serenade (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Drama
Mary Hale, a singer, and Jimmy Seymour, a pianist/composer, are a showbiz couple working in The Big Apple in small nightclubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Broadway producer Larry Bryant... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Lew Ayres, Ian Hunter, Frank Morgan
Votes: 286
39. The Dancing Years (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, operetta star, ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 80
40. Le chanteur de Mexico (1956)
103 min | Musical, Music, Romance
Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.
Director: Richard Pottier | Stars: Luis Mariano, Bourvil, Annie Cordy, Tilda Thamar
Votes: 200
41. Lost in the Stars (1974)
G | 97 min | Drama, Musical
Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques, Clifton Davis
Votes: 138
42. The Pirates of Penzance (1982 TV Movie)
98 min | Comedy, Musical
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last ... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Greenberg | Stars: Keith Michell, Alexander Oliver, Janis Kelly, Peter Allen
Votes: 90
43. Vienna Blood (1942)
106 min | Comedy, Music
Count Wolkersheim attends the 1815 Vienna Congress to negotiate,to the Countess joy. Political concerns and music mix in a waltzing city, their apparently opposite attitudes testing their love. Will she behave or will he learn to waltz?
Director: Willi Forst | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hans Moser, Theo Lingen
Votes: 167
44. The Mikado (II) (1983 TV Movie)
150 min | Comedy, Musical
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Directors: Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald | Stars: Gidon Saks, Henry Ingram, Eric Donkin, Richard McMillan
Votes: 133
45. Trembita (1968)
92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Summer 1947. The World War II has just died down. Unexpectedly and incognito a stranger shows up in a small village in Transcarpathia, situated near the very frontier. For some purpose he ... See full synopsis »
Director: Oleg Nikolayevsky | Stars: Evgeniy Vesnik, Olga Aroseva, Aleksey Chernov, Nikolay Trofimov
Votes: 136
46. Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931)
106 min | Comedy, Musical
Célestin, the organist in a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Raimu, Janie Marèse, André Alerme, Edith Méra
Votes: 77
47. Patience (1982 TV Movie)
Comedy, Musical
Reginald Bunthorne is a poet, adored by all the ladies - except one. Patience, a dairymaid, cannot understand what all the other ladies see in him and wonders what love is. However, despite... See full summary »
Director: Dave Heather | Stars: Donald Adams, Derek Hammond-Stroud, John Fryatt, Sandra Dugdale
Votes: 39
48. Every Little Thing (1997)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary. The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic, an asylum in the truest sense of the word, where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Votes: 216
49. The Pirates of Penzance (1985 TV Movie)
124 min | Comedy, Musical
Young Frederick leaves the zany band of pirates he was raised by to find true love and respectability, but when the Pirate King turns up to call on an old debt, Frederick must choose between the girl he loves and his sense of duty.
Directors: Norman Campbell, Brian Macdonald | Stars: Brent Carver, Jeff Hyslop, Caralyn Tomlin, Douglas Chamberlain
Votes: 72
50. Printsessa tsirka (1982 TV Movie)
149 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When a Prince is ignored by the young widow, Princess Feodora, he plans revenge by paying a masked acrobat, "Mister X", to pretend to be a nobleman, woo, and marry her, so that she will be disgraced in society as "the circus princess".
Director: Svetlana Druzhinina | Stars: Natalya Belokhvostikova, Igor Keblusek, Nikolay Trofimov, Yuriy Moroz
Votes: 148