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1. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, War

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart

Votes: 43,006

2. Unnatural (2015)

R | 89 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A morally ambiguous corporation experiments with genetic modification resulting in the creation of a man hunting creature. When it escapes, a group of unsuspecting cabin dwellers become its prey in a horrifying game of cat and mouse.

Director: Hank Braxtan | Stars: James Remar, Sherilyn Fenn, Ron Carlson, Ray Wise

Votes: 2,170

3. Night Will Fall (2014)

Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, History, War

Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.

Director: André Singer | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Jasper Britton, Leonard Berney, George Leonard

Votes: 3,449

4. A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Western

In 1876 Colorado, the Tomahawk and Western Railroad is expanding through the Rockies but some stagecoach operators, fearing a loss of revenue, plan to sabotage the railroad.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan

Votes: 767

5. Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A rueful wife (circa 1910) recalls 20 years of her husband's financial fumbles, as she keeps a boarding house to support the family.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Young

Votes: 287

6. Flirting with Fate (1938)

Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

A show troupe led by Dan Dixon and traveling in a trailer is stranded in Paraguay. Dan is all set to be booked in the theatres controlled by Don Luis Garcia until Garcia discovers that Dan ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Leo Carrillo, Beverly Roberts, Wynne Gibson

Votes: 79

7. Mystery at the Burlesque (1949)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey, Jon Pertwee, Eliot Makeham

Votes: 133

8. Bright Lights (1935)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out ... See full summary »

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ann Dvorak, Patricia Ellis, William Gargan

Votes: 261

9. Jinx (1919)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When the circus comes to town, the town's orphans are treated to an outing to see the show. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that,... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Mabel Normand, Florence Carpenter, Ogden Crane, Cullen Landis

Votes: 35

10. Hi'Ya Chum (1943)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Entertainers get stranded in a small boomtown and open up a restaurant.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz

Votes: 34

11. Beautiful But Broke (1944)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

When theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge) is inducted into the Army, he turns his currently-clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan (Joan Davis), who decides to ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Joan Davis, Jane Frazee, John Hubbard, Judy Clark

Votes: 84

12. Sweethearts on Parade (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Her mother, Kathleen (Lucille Norman), ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Bill Shirley

Votes: 53

13. My Best Gal (1944)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Kitty O'Hara (Jane Withers)has a good singing voice but will have nothing to do with trying to use it in the theatre or on the radio. She and her grandfather, Danny O'Hara (Frank Craven), ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Jane Withers, Jimmy Lydon, Frank Craven, Fortunio Bonanova

Votes: 43

14. Upstage (1926)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, ... See full summary »

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Norma Shearer, Oscar Shaw, Tenen Holtz, Gwen Lee

Votes: 104

15. Bring Your Smile Along (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Music

Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle) and ... See full summary »

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers, Lucy Marlow

Votes: 136

16. A Regular Trouper (1932)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Musical

A singer in a traveling troupe must cope with her fiancé, the show's owner/manager, transferring his affections to her pretty, younger sister who recently ran away from home to join the troupe.

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Ruth Etting, Eddie Lang, Edward Leiter, Wanda Perry

Votes: 85

17. Stop, Look and Listen (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Luther Meek, a young, goofy citizen of a small town, foils the manager of a stranded theatrical troupe from robbing the local bank and escaping with the loot, and wins the hand of the troupe's fair leading-lady in the process.

Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Larry Semon, Dorothy Dwan, Mary Carr, William Gillespie

Votes: 41

18. Painted Faces (1929)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver

Votes: 88

19. Wake Up and Dream (1934)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Music, Romance

The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Russ Columbo, Roger Pryor, June Knight, Catherine Doucet

Votes: 69

20. The Wise Guy (1926)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance

Guy Watson, known as a wise guy, decides to turn his traveling vaudeville troupe and tent into an evangelistic movement, and make more money preaching than acting. One of the troupers is ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Kirkwood, Mary Astor, Betty Compson, George F. Marion

Votes: 23

21. The Music Goes 'Round (1936)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

On a leave of absence from Broadway, Harry Wallace (Harry Richman), the star of a musical comedy, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Harry Richman, Rochelle Hudson, Walter Connolly, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 21

22. Show Folks (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Eddie Kehoe is a young vaudeville hoofer who thinks his inability to hit the big time is the fault of stage managers, agents, musicians...everybody but himself. Eddie likes to tell others ... See full summary »

Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, Carole Lombard, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 44

23. Polly of the Follies (1922)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance

Country girl goes to New York and becomes stage star.

Director: John Emerson | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Horace Knight, Thomas Carr, Harry Fisher

Votes: 18

24. Calling Scotland Yard: Falstaff's Fur Coat (1954)

Approved | 27 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

Because of his luxurious fur coat, a hammy actor becomes involved with crooks. His coat resembles the one that a gang's fence wears, and he is continually finding stolen jewelry in his coat... See full summary »

Director: Paul Dickson | Stars: Paul Douglas, Robert Adair, Peter Bathurst, Wilfrid Caithness

25. Crashin' Broadway (1933)

Not Rated | 59 min | Drama, Western

When Tad Wallace's act flops on Broadway, he joins a troop heading west. In a small town they run into Jeffries who has just burned down the theater. When Jeffries kills Griswold, Tad has a plan to trap him by using the talents

Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Rex Bell, Doris Hill, Harry Bowen, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 36

26. Meet the Navy (1946)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, War

During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates and the... See full summary »

Director: Alfred Travers | Stars: Lionel Murton, Margaret Hurst, John Pratt, Robert Goodier

Votes: 40

27. Hearts and Spangles (1926)

Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Steve Carris, a medical student, is expelled from college, disowned by his father and joins a circus. He makes friends with Peg Palmer, and makes an enemy of Barclay, who has a yen for Peg ... See full summary »

Director: Frank O'Connor | Stars: Wanda Hawley, Robert Gordon, Barbara Tennant, Eric Mayne