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1. 8½ (1963)

Not Rated | 138 min | Drama

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo

Votes: 125,150 | Gross: $0.05M

2. The Honeymoon Killers (1970)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An obese, embittered nurse doesn't mind if her toupee-wearing boyfriend romances and fleeces other women, as long as he takes her along on his con jobs.

Directors: Leonard Kastle, Donald Volkman | Stars: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts

Votes: 5,828 | Gross: $0.46M

3. 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: 5,422 | Gross: $26.89M

4. Down Argentine Way (1940)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

An American girl on vacation in Argentina falls for a wealthy racehorse owner.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 1,364

5. Girl on the Run (1953)

64 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.

Directors: Arthur J. Beckhard, Joseph Lerner | Stars: Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Harry Bannister

Votes: 258

6. I Married a Woman (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama

Advertising executive Marshall Briggs finds his work in conflict with his love-life with fashion model Janice Blake.

Director: Hal Kanter | Stars: George Gobel, Diana Dors, Adolphe Menjou, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 458

7. You're Never Too Young (1955)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical

When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Diana Lynn, Nina Foch

Votes: 1,688 | Gross: $7.48M

8. Playmates (1941)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music

For the sake of a lucrative radio contract, John Barrymore agrees to turn bandleader Kay Kyser into a Shakespearian actor.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez, Ginny Simms

Votes: 347

9. Cuban Pete (1946)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Ethel Smith, Joan Shawlee, Beverly Simmons

Votes: 50

10. Right Cross (1950)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Sport

Two boxing promoters compete to sign up Mexican-American prizefighter Johnny Monterez who, despite his talent, is ashamed of his heritage and boxes on borrowed time due to a permanent hand injury.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 527

11. Honeymoon for Three (1941)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, nevertheless agrees to a tete-a-tete with a former college fling, loopy Danish girl Julie who is married to ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, George Brent, Charles Ruggles, Osa Massen

Votes: 589

12. Four Jacks and a Jill (1942)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.

Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Ray Bolger, Anne Shirley, June Havoc, Desi Arnaz

Votes: 225

13. Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)

Passed | 97 min | Music, Romance

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Celeste Holm

Votes: 195

14. It's Great to Be Alive (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An aviator who crash-landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of masculitus.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Raul Roulien, Gloria Stuart, Edna May Oliver, Herbert Mundin

Votes: 87

15. Brazil (I) (1944)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A songwriter struggles to produce another successful hit for the National Brazilian song contest.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston

Votes: 217

16. Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (1934)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Music

Several members of MGM's 'galaxy of stars' attend an evening of music and a fashion show.

Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Leo Carrillo, The Debutantes, Eduardo Durant, Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band

Votes: 228

17. Belle of Old Mexico (1950)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Kip Armitage III, a young college professor, travels south to Mexico, to follow through on his pledge to a dying WWII army buddy, to adopt his young daughter, Rosita. But when he gets south... See full summary »

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Estelita Rodriguez, Robert Rockwell, Dorothy Patrick, Thurston Hall

Votes: 36

18. Dizzy Dames (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Lillian Bennett runs a theatrical boarding house in New York City. She doesn't want her débutante daughter Helen Bennett, reared in finishing schools away from New York, to know of her own ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney

Votes: 62

19. La Conga Nights (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music

Henry I. Dibble, Jr. (Hugh Herbert)is a dizzy millionaire playboy who loves rhumba music. Thorns in his side are his four maiden sisters Faith (Hugh Herbert), Hope (Hugh Herbert), Charity (... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Ferike Boros

Votes: 17

20. Almost Married (1942)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

To avoid a costly breach of contract suit, a rich young man marries a nightclub singer.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, Eugene Pallette, Elizabeth Patterson

Votes: 22

21. Criminals of the Air (1937)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a ... See full summary »

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Rosalind Keith, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet

Votes: 94

22. Hit Parade of 1951 (1950)

Passed | 85 min | Musical

7 tunes enliven a contrived plot: While raising cash to pay a debt, a Vegas gambler tricks a night club crooner there who looks like him to play him for a bit.The gambler's Latina girlfriend opens the eyes of the prissy crooner.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Marie McDonald, Estelita Rodriguez, Frank Fontaine

Votes: 22

23. Blonde from Brooklyn (1945)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music

Returning soldier Dixon Harper meets cute with promising radio singer Susan Parker. Susan is mistaken for a heiress to a southern plantation by blustery colonel Farnsworth and she ignores wise cracking friend Diane to see the ruse through.

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, Thurston Hall, Mary Treen

Votes: 94

24. Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)

Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Music

The Brian Sisters are also featured in this short.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Reginald Denny, George Hamilton, Louis & Celeste, Connee Boswell

Votes: 325

25. Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Joan Daley (Joan Davis), a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry (Jinx Falkenburg) and Lois Morgan (Joan Woodbury), when the Cuban sister-act, ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg, Joan Woodbury, Fortunio Bonanova

Votes: 28

26. Hollywood Funtime, Program 2 (1940)

47 min | Fantasy, Music, Musical

Seventeen unrelated short films or movie clips mostly involving either Spanish-style music and dancing, erotica or burlesque.

Stars: Amalia Aguilar, Virginia Bell, Betty Blue, Carlos

27. A Trip to Paris (1938)

Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The Jones Family goes to Paris to celebrate Father and Mother's 25th anniversary. Adventures include love and spy rings.

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russell Gleason

Votes: 21

28. She's for Me (1943)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: David Bruce, Grace McDonald, Lois Collier, George Dolenz

Votes: 16

29. Allergic to Love (1944)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

In an arranged marriage, the prospective bride discovers she gets hay-fever whenever her future husband is near.

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr., David Bruce, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 20

30. The Gay Senorita (1945)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Business development prompts an effort to drive out the residents of the Mexican portion of a California town. Against the move is the growing love for a senorita.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Jinx Falkenburg, Jim Bannon, Steve Cochran, Corinna Mura

Votes: 20

31. Cuban Fireball (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Estelita is an entertainer in a Cuban cigar-factory and gets into trouble for mimicking her employer, but is fawned over after she inherits $20,000,000. On her way to Los Angelese to ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Estelita Rodriguez, Warren Douglas, Mimi Aguglia, Leon Belasco

Votes: 22

32. So Does an Automobile (1939)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

At Betty Boop's Auto Hospital, the cars are treated for various humanlike ailments.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall | Star: Mae Questel

Votes: 128

33. He Loved an Actress (II) (1938)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who ... See full summary »

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Lupe Velez, Ben Lyon, Wallace Ford, Jean Colin

Votes: 41

34. Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

In this fictional film in which performers using their own name do fictional things with fictional people there is no one playing 'Self', but there is a record-company talent scout, Bill ... See full summary »

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dámaso Pérez Prado, Perez Prado Orchestra, The Mary Kaye Trio, Mary Kaye

Votes: 46

35. Cuban Rhythm (1941)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Pete Smith, Madeline Pollard, Mickey Alvarez

Votes: 67

36. Let's Make a Night of It (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Musical

The exclusive Boydell family, members of the "400" set, suddenly became owners of two nightclubs; the father, Henry Boydell, comes into one, "The Silver Spoon," as the payment of a business... See full summary »

Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, June Clyde, Claire Luce, Fred Emney

Votes: 34

37. Cavalcade of Dance (1943)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Music

Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Veloz, Yolanda, Art Gilmore

Votes: 155

38. El carnaval del diablo (1936)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

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Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Fortunio Bonanova, Blanca de Castejón, Enrique de Rosas, Juan Torena

39. Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939)

TV-G | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Two girls sneak into a Hollywood club in order to get a look at stars. When they enter a conga line contest they get more than they expect.

Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: Sally Payne, Mary Treen, Eduardo Chavez, Frank Albertson

Votes: 57

40. Hal Kemp and His Orchestra (1941)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Music

Hal Kemp leads his orchestra in four popular songs.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Hal Kemp, Robert Allen, Janet Blair, Randy Brooks

Votes: 35

41. Rhumba Land (1939)

Approved | 19 min | Short, Music

A Universal-musical short headlining Wini Shaw, who sings two numbers in her intriguingly throaty voice, including "The Lady in Red." Vivien Fay does a dance turn, as does comic-dancer ... See full summary »

Director: Larry Ceballos | Stars: Wini Shaw, Vivien Fay, James Clemens, Darryl Harpa

42. El gran Gato (2003)

105 min | Documentary, Biography, Musical

A musical documentary that rummages around in the memories left by the extraordinary composer, lyricist and singer Gato Pérez, while attending his songs performed by popular voices of the Spanish current musical scene.

Director: Ventura Pons | Stars: Luis Eduardo Aute, Maria del Mar Bonet, Tonino Carotone, Àngel Casas

Votes: 29

43. Connee Boswell and Ada Leonard (1952)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

Ada Leonard and Her All-Girl Orchestra furnish the music for the vocals by Connee Boswell, Bob Hopkins, and the Freddie Slack Trio. Anita Aros breaks out her violin and plays 'Brahm's Fifth... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Connee Boswell, Ada Leonard, The Ada Leonard All-Girl Orchestra, Bob Hopkins

44. Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians (1944)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Music

An entry in Vitaphone's "Melody Master Bands" series, featuring Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians Orchestra, the house band at The Royal Hawaiian Hotel. In addition to some hula dancing ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Gould | Stars: Harry Owens, Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians

45. Dick Jurgens and His Orchestra (1952)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

This "Name Band Musical" spotlights the Dick Jurgens Orchesta opening with "Day Dreams Come True at Night" followed by "Mama's Gone Goodbye." A Cuban act, the Facundo Rivero Quintet comes ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Dick Jurgens, Claudette Thornton, Al Galante, Facundo Rivero

46. Perez Prado and His Orchestra (1952)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

One of the earliest American-produced films featuring Perez Prado (evidently known as Domatos Perez Prado---which my Texas keyboard can't show the accent marks---everywhere but in the ... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Dámaso Pérez Prado, Allen Cole, Dorothy Dorben, Perez Prado Orchestra

47. Rhumba Rhythms (1942)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Music

A Universal musical short, featuring Latin-American music, with Carlos Molina and His Orchestra; The Herrera Twins, Maria Antonia and Maria Esther, from "Down Mexico Way"; The Guadalajara ... See full summary »

Director: Larry Ceballos | Stars: Carlos Molina, Luís de Campos, The Herrera Sisters, Maria Antonia Herrera

Votes: 8

48. Beloved Youth of Many Days - Stories About Mlimani Park Orchestra (2023)

111 min | Documentary

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Director: Frank Gunderson

49. Bright and Breezy (1956)

Approved | 16 min | Musical, Short

Charley Barnet and his Orchestra provide the music, while the King Sisters (Alyce, Donna, Louise and Yvonne), Romo Vincent and the Sportsmen Quartet handle the sings on such numbers as "You... See full summary »

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: Charlie Barnet, Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, The King Sisters, Alyce King

50. Machito and Orchestra (1946)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Music

The first Columbia Pictures short (not feature film) in Sepia Tone highlights Machito and His Rhumba Band. It opens with "Machito Yego," followed by "Tamo." Betty Reilly sings "Tierra Va ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Foster | Stars: Machito, Machito's Rhumba Band, Betty Reilly, Paul Vario