Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "forced-to-sing"

1. Superbad (2007)

R | 113 min | Comedy

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Bill Hader

Votes: 633,051 | Gross: $121.46M

2. Beetlejuice (1988)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe

Votes: 340,293 | Gross: $73.71M

3. Pitch Perfect (2012)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.

Director: Jason Moore | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp

Votes: 330,835 | Gross: $65.00M

4. Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

R | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After the Kingsman's headquarters is destroyed and the world is held hostage, an allied spy organization in the United States is discovered. These two elite secret agencies must band together to defeat a common enemy.

Director: Matthew Vaughn | Stars: Taron Egerton, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Channing Tatum

Votes: 363,309 | Gross: $100.23M

5. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

NC-17 | 124 min | Crime, Drama

At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard

Votes: 41,760 | Gross: $7.72M

6. The Nightingale (I) (2018)

R | 136 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Aisling Franciosi, Maya Christie, Baykali Ganambarr, Addison Christie

Votes: 35,667 | Gross: $0.39M

7. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

Passed | 93 min | Horror

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe

Votes: 20,114 | Gross: $3.75M

8. Respect (2021)

PG-13 | 145 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

Director: Liesl Tommy | Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tituss Burgess

Votes: 17,848

9. Rock & Rule (1983)

PG | 77 min | Animation, Fantasy, Music

A malevolent rock star kidnaps a singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon, and her band must help her stop him.

Director: Clive A. Smith | Stars: Don Francks, Paul Le Mat, Greg Salata, Susan Roman

Votes: 4,033 | Gross: $0.03M

10. Follow That Bird (1985)

G | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. Unhappy, he runs away from there, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.

Director: Ken Kwapis | Stars: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Richard Hunt

Votes: 5,645

11. Mothra (1961)

Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity. Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyôko Kagawa, Yumi Itô

Votes: 5,302

12. In a Glass Cage (1986)

Unrated | 110 min | Drama, Horror

A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría

Votes: 5,047

13. The Lodgers (2017)

R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel and Edwards to their home, in punishment for their ancestors' sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house.

Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley

Votes: 9,651

14. Play (I) (2011)

118 min | Drama

An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The ... See full summary »

Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Anas Abdirahman, Sebastian Blyckert, Yannick Diakité, Sebastian Hegmar

Votes: 6,554

15. Mouchette (1967)

Not Rated | 81 min | Drama

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Nadine Nortier, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Marie Cardinal, Paul Hébert

Votes: 12,992

16. Black Caesar (1973)

R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin

Votes: 3,894

17. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Music

An acid-scarred composer has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer to his London sewer hide-out.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Thorley Walters

Votes: 3,729

18. Act of Vengeance (1974)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A group of women learn martial arts, in order to punish a sadistic serial rapist, who wears hockey mask.

Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: Jo Ann Harris, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Lisa Moore

Votes: 1,076

19. Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Approved | 79 min | Sci-Fi, Horror

Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney, Michael Mark

Votes: 2,890

20. Hollywood Horror House (1970)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to take over the large estate.

Director: Donald Wolfe | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, David Garfield, Gale Sondergaard, Virginia Wing

Votes: 536

21. Svengali (1931)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp, Bramwell Fletcher

Votes: 2,500

22. Orphans of the Storm (1921)

Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee

Votes: 5,480 | Gross: $0.79M

23. The Ape Woman (1964)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Achille Majeroni, Elvira Paolini

Votes: 974

24. Killpoint (1984)

R | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An L.A. cop investigating the rape and murder of his wife traces the crime to a psycho biker gang that smuggles guns. He teams up with an FBI agent to stop them and catch his wife's killers.

Director: Frank Harris | Stars: Leo Fong, Richard Roundtree, Cameron Mitchell, Stack Pierce

Votes: 408

25. I Love Dries (2008)

80 min | Comedy

This movie is about a couple that kidnaps a famous singer to use his seed for the baby they want. The woman is crazy about the singer and the man is sterile. That this leads to stupid situations is a given.

Director: Tom Six | Stars: Dries Roelvink, Rene de Wit, Rikkie de Wit, Sugar Lee Hooper

Votes: 293

26. Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula (1998 Video)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

When two people have disappeared, the mysterious Tarantula is suspected.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Michelle Bauer, Linnea Quigley, Amber Newman

Votes: 293

27. Black Rat (2010)

TV-MA | 76 min | Drama, Horror

Six classmates receive an e-mail from Asuka; who supposedly committed suicide. Later that night they all get together in a classroom and are surprised by a person wearing a bloody rat mask.... See full summary »

Director: Kenta Fukasaku | Stars: Misaki Yonemura, Hiroya Matsumoto, Rina Saito, Haruka Shimizu

Votes: 366

28. Street Angel (1937)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.

Director: Muzhi Yuan | Stars: Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Jiting Wang

Votes: 945

29. Poslední propadne peklu (1982)

83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The story is set in the early 17th century and revolves around a magic bottle, from which one drop can fulfill one wish. The current owner is obliged to sell it on, but for half the price. ... See full summary »

Director: Ludvík Ráza | Stars: Michaela Kudlácková, Ivan Vyskocil, Bruno O'Ya, Ludek Munzar

Votes: 94

30. 7:35 de la mañana (2003)

8 min | Musical, Short

A woman enters a restaurant one morning - only to be met with silence instead of people talking.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Marta Belenguer, Nacho Vigalondo, Antonio Tato, Borja Cobeaga

Votes: 2,602

31. Premika (I) (2017)

90 min | Comedy, Horror

People who can't sing get haunted by a ghost called Premika that lives in a karaoke booth.

Director: Siwakorn Charupongsa | Stars: Kidakarn Chatkaewmanee, Gena Desouza, Nutthasit Kotimanuswanich, Todsapol Maisuk

Votes: 227

32. Anjuman (1970)

180 min | Drama

Anjuman is a tragic character, based on the courtesan lives of women in South Asia. Its about a "Tawaiif" or a courtesan falling in love and her tragic ending.

Director: Hasan Tariq | Stars: Deeba Begum, Sabiha Khanum, Santosh Kumar, Lehri

Votes: 39

33. Love and Curses (1938)

8 min | Family, Animation, Short

An aging hero is looking through the photo album and remembering the Gay 90's, and in particular a picnic interrupted by villainous Roger St. Clair, who tries to tempt Emily to the big city... See full summary »

Directors: Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: Mel Blanc, Mildred Carroll, Bill Days, Ben Hardaway

Votes: 140

34. Betty Boop's Museum (1932)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Koko takes Betty to the museum, where she's locked in overnight and forced to sing at the skeletons' dance.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, William Henning | Stars: Billy Murray, Mae Questel

Votes: 238

35. Pearl of the Desert (2019)

82 min | Documentary

Moti Khan, a musically gifted child from the lower caste Muslim Manganiyars of the Thar Desert, is forced to sing and play music for their ancestral patrons in order to survive.

Director: Pushpendra Singh | Stars: Moti Khan Manganiyar, Nijre Khan Manganiyar, Anwar Khan Manganiyar

Votes: 22

36. La sierva (2017)

10 min | Short, Drama

An evangelist minister uses his daughter to attract believers, forcing her to sing in his church.

Director: Sebastian Leonel Loran | Stars: Ailín Salas, Daniel Valenzuela

Votes: 9

37. The Great Pretender (2010)

7 min | Short, Comedy

A man, lost in his professional and personal life, walks alone in a forest. Along his path, he meets two 'agents,' who are doubles of himself. They grill him about his acting profession, ... See full summary »

Director: Jesse Wakeman | Star: Jesse Wakeman

38. Alias (2001–2006)
Episode: Double Agent (2003)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

When a young CIA agent dies, suspicion immediately falls on her parter and lover, agent Jim Lennox. But after Sydney rescues Lennox from captivity, She trikes up an instant connection as ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Olin | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Michael Vartan, Bradley Cooper

Votes: 540

39. Man from Atlantis (1977–1978)
Episode: Siren (1977)

48 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Mark believes a series of sonic "attacks" to be the song of a siren. He finds a young siren held prisoner on a submarine and must free her from the underwater pirates.

Director: Edward M. Abroms | Stars: Patrick Duffy, Neville Brand, Alan Fudge, Laurette Spang

Votes: 49

40. Adventures of the Gummi Bears (1985–1991)
Episode: A Gummi in a Gilded Cage (1985)

TV-Y | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

Sunni is kidnapped by a flock of ugly bird-like creatures known as Carpies, whose king wants her for a song bird. The other Gummies must use their new flying machine to get to the top of the mountain and rescue her.

Director: Art Vitello | Stars: June Foray, Katie Leigh, Lorenzo Music, Noelle North

Votes: 113

41. Twilight-Tober-Zone (2020– )
Episode: Mr. Denton On Doomsday (2020)

TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Al Denton, once a feared gunslinger, now the town drunk, is humiliated daily by Dan Hotaling - a local bully - who forces him to sing "How Dry I Am" for a drink as a source of amusement. ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Banasiak | Star: Walter Banasiak

42. KiDs Beach Club (2021– )
Episode: Humility: Pharaoh Refuses to Listen (2022)

Family

When her teacher forces her to sing in front of the class, a messy game of "egg smashing" helps Veronica pursue humility before she misses out on an incredible opportunity. Hulu hoops are ... See full summary »

Director: John McGlothlin | Stars: Jason Earls, Jordan Thomas, Mark Winter, Elyjah Kodua