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1. Blast from the Past (1999)

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

A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter.

Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek

Votes: 71,791 | Gross: $26.49M

2. Swingers (1996)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham, Jon Favreau, Ron Livingston

Votes: 88,178 | Gross: $4.51M

3. The Karate Kid Part II (1986)

PG | 113 min | Action, Family, Sport

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.

Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio, Pat E. Johnson, Bruce Malmuth

Votes: 98,968 | Gross: $115.10M

4. Velvet (2013–2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Romance

A feel-good, compelling Spanish story of a fashion house in Madrid in the late 50's, which is scene to money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, counter-plots involving its owners, customers and residential employees.

Stars: Paula Echevarría, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Manuela Velasco

Votes: 6,800

5. Swing Kids (1993)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Music

A group of teens adores forbidden music in Nazi Germany just before the outbreak of World War II.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey

Votes: 17,361 | Gross: $5.63M

6. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,823 | Gross: $0.19M

7. Niagara (1953)

Not Rated | 92 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter

Votes: 19,745

8. A Day at the Races (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones

Votes: 14,588

9. Quintuplets (2004–2005)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy

Parents Bob (Andy Richter) and Carol (Rebecca Creskoff) work hard to raise their very different teenage quintuplets.

Stars: Andy Richter, Rebecca Creskoff, Ryan Pinkston, Johnny Lewis

Votes: 1,100

10. Bachelor Mother (1939)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Romance

An unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job.

Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson

Votes: 4,612

11. 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

12. Love N' Dancing (2009)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance

2002: Jake Mitchell is the defending World West Coast Swing Champion. He's got everything going for him: looks, personality, and style. He's at the top of his game when he and his partner ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Nicola Royston, Brandi Tobias, Brian Lucero, Tom Malloy

Votes: 1,930

13. Assassination Tango (2002)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

An aging hitman gets a contract to kill a General in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But when his mark becomes unavailable, he becomes involved in Argentinian tango culture.

Director: Robert Duvall | Stars: Robert Duvall, Luciana Pedraza, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker

Votes: 3,385 | Gross: $0.97M

14. Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)

PG | 105 min | Documentary, Family, Music

The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.

Director: Marilyn Agrelo | Stars: Heather Berman, Emma Therese Biegacki, Eva Carrozza, Evangelina Carrozzo

Votes: 3,552 | Gross: $8.12M

15. Hipsters (2008)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Young people struggle to do things their way in the 1950s.

Director: Valeriy Todorovskiy | Stars: Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Evgenia Brik, Maksim Matveev

Votes: 5,311

16. Orchestra Wives (1942)

Approved | 98 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about ... See full summary »

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, Lynn Bari

Votes: 1,147

17. Swing (I) (2003)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A struggling musician happens upon a nightclub that's frozen in time.

Director: Martin Guigui | Stars: Constance Brenneman, Innis Casey, Tom Skerritt, Jacqueline Bisset

Votes: 214

18. Reform School Girl (1957)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama

A young man steals a car and ends up involved in a pedestrian fatality. The only witness is a girl he had just met. He threatens her life if she talks, so when she refuses to tell what she knows, she is sent to reform school.

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Gloria Castillo, Ross Ford, Edd Byrnes, Ralph Reed

Votes: 308

19. Janie (1944)

Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Romance, War

Janie is a scatterbrained, high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an Army camp just outside town. Janie and her ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Alan Hale

Votes: 490

20. Back Home (2001 TV Movie)

98 min | Drama

At the beginning of World War II, Rusty is sent to America by her parents to keep her safe. Now the war is over, it's time for her to come home. While she is glad to see her mother, Peggy, ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Massey | Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Jessica Fox, Kate David, Skye King

Votes: 69

21. Delinquent Daughters (1944)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama

A town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: June Carlson, Fifi D'Orsay, Teala Loring, Mary Bovard

Votes: 409

22. Sleeping Beauty (2016)

82 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

In the Kingdom of Letonia, Prince Egon has only one thing in mind: finding Sleeping Beauty and breaking her spell. But his father, the King, does not agree.

Director: Adolfo Arrieta | Stars: Niels Schneider, Agathe Bonitzer, Mathieu Amalric, Tatiana Verstraeten

Votes: 114

23. The Reconquest (2016)

108 min | Drama

Manuela and Olmo meet again in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love.

Director: Jonás Trueba | Stars: Francesco Carril, Itsaso Arana, Candela Recio, Pablo Hoyos

Votes: 952

24. Can't Stop Dancing (1999)

90 min | Comedy

A Topeka, Kansas fun park dance troupe led by a 260 pound dancer (Ben Zook) learns that the park is going to close. Their leader convinces the group, now named "The Stupendous Six", to join... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen David, Ben Zook | Stars: Ben Zook, Melanie Hutsell, Margaret Cho, Bruce Daniels

Votes: 162

25. Swing It... Baby! (1979)

Drama, Music

Swing it hot. Swing it big. Swing it fast. Swing it--oh, "Swing It, Baby!"

Director: Al Quinn | Stars: Romeo Vasquez, Vilma Santos, Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto

26. The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America (2012)

90 min | Documentary, Biography

A documentary on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, and Harlem's Savoy Ballroom.

Director: Jeff Kaufman | Stars: Van Alexander, Bruce Barnes, Louie Bellson, Rocky Carroll

Votes: 33

27. Hollywood Picnic (1937)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.

Directors: Arthur Davis, Sid Marcus | Stars: Leone Le Doux, Anna Lee, Danny Webb

Votes: 73

28. Booked Out (2012)

86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Booked Out follows the quirky exploits of the Polaroid loving artist Ailidh as she spies and photographs the occupants of her block of flats. Jacob, the boy next door who comes and goes ... See full summary »

Director: Bryan O'Neil | Stars: Sylvia Syms, Kathryn Kelly, Rollo Weeks, Claire Garvey

Votes: 99

29. The W.A.S.P.

Drama, History, Romance | Announced

During World War II, General Hap Arnold tasks legendary aviatrix Jackie Cochran to form an all-female paramilitary aviation organization, called the Women's Airforce Service Pilots, or W.A.S.P.

30. Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Scott Durham, a suave promoter, has made a racket out of producing charity benefits with his wife Evelyn, and then deducting so much money from the gross that very little is left for the ... See full synopsis »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Ruth Terry, Johnny Downs, Barbara Jo Allen, Billy Gilbert

Votes: 15

31. Spreadin' the Jam (1945)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Musical

A young woman who is unable to pay her rent gets some unexpected help from her fellow tenants who organize a rent party complete with rousing swing music and lots of dancing.

Director: Charles Walters | Stars: Jan Clayton, Ben Lessy, Helen Boyce, Les Brown

Votes: 137

32. Somewhat Secret (1939)

Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

At the Dimsdale Hall Finishing School, Assistant Dean Emily Godsall declares that any student who associates herself with swing music will be severely punished. Complications develop when ... See full summary »

Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: Mary Howard, Benny Rubin, Tom Collins, Mary Bovard

Votes: 121

33. Swing Cat's Jamboree (1938)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Music

"Swing cat" Louis Prima and his jazz quintet play songs and accompany featured singers and dancers.

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Louis Prima, Shirley Lloyd, Ted Gary, Mitzi Dahl

Votes: 160

34. Hi-Ho Hollywood (1938)

Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

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Director: William Watson | Stars: Harriet Hutchins, Margaret Johnson, Hugh Cameron, Lola Pierce

35. Swing 46: The Last Swingin Supper Club (2023)

Not Rated | 17 min | Documentary, Short

Swing 46 is one of the last swingin supper clubs. It was born on Restaurant Row NYC, forged in a city that never sleeps during the retro swing renaissance in 1997. 27 years later, Swing 46 is still standing tall, this is a snapshot of it.

Director: Jay Kay | Stars: John Akhtar, Michelle Collier, George Gee, Ralph G. Giordano

36. Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Crime, Drama, Music | Announced

A jitterbug love story woven between the lives and times of legendary black entertainers, black and white thugs, and the common man in swinging 1930's Harlem.

37. True Family (2012)

54 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

From the ravages of post-Katrina New Orleans a new generation of musicians rises. They play traditional Jazz and make a living by busking in the streets. We follow Meschiya Lake, a young ... See full summary »

Director: Tao Nørager | Stars: Giselle Anguizola, Chance Bushman, Charlie Halloran, John Joyce

38. DanceCrazy Presents: Learn to Dance Swing Volume 2 - A Complete Beginner's Guide to Swing Dancing (2007 Video)

90 min | Music

Learn to Dance Swing for Beginners.

Director: Evan Margolin | Stars: Eldon Bryce, Alison Hurwitz

39. An Evening of One Acts (2008)

22 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Structured like a night of questionable vaudeville, it's sole aim is to please; serving up song, dance, stunts, musical numbers, sex, nudity and vanity with tremendous verve.

Director: David J. White | Stars: Sarah Charlton, Matt Koster, David J. White, Gabe Wexler

Votes: 8

40. DanceCrazy Presents: Learn to Dance Swing Volume 1 - A Complete Beginner's Guide to Swing Dancing (2007 Video)

90 min | Music

Learn to Dance Swing for Beginners.

Director: Evan Margolin | Stars: Eldon Bryce, Alison Hurwitz

41. Swing Dancing with Teresa Mason (2002 Video)

45 min

Now you can join in all the excitement and learn to master the techniques of Swing dancing with ballroom dancing champion Teresa Mason. This informative dance class features the basic steps... See full summary »

Star: Teresa Mason

42. Two Shadows (1938)

20 min | Short, Comedy, Music

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Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Ken Paige, Roy Paige, Irene Beasley, Billy Bemis

43. Dinner with Floy Floy (2010)

2 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A young couple has become set in their ways creating boredom in their life. Over a quiet dinner they discuss the fact that they haven't gone dancing in quite a while. While she is ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Eriksson | Stars: Craig Avera, Jessica Perrault, Minn Vo

Votes: 6

44. 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001)
Episode: Shall We Dick? (2000)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Sally and Alissa become friends, much to the chagrin of Don and Tommy. Dick and Mary enter a dance contest, despite the fact Mary can't dance.

Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Votes: 290

45. The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
Episode: Lesson in Love (1982)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

Florence is having a string of bad luck with dates, so Louise plays Cupid for her when a police officer drops by collecting for charity and finds Florence attractive.

Director: Bob Lally | Stars: Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Votes: 63

46. Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003)
Episode: With Thee I Swing (2000)

TV-PG | 20 min | Comedy

Their effort to have some friends in common leads Maya and Elliott into trouble; Finch betrays a colleague in an effort to help Jack.

Director: Jean Sagal | Stars: Laura San Giacomo, George Segal, Wendie Malick, Enrico Colantoni

Votes: 127

47. Valerie (1986–1991)
Episode: Caught on a Hot Tin Roof (1986)

TV-G | Comedy, Family

Willie and Mark sneak onto the neighbors' roof to peek at their girl's 13th birthday slumber party. Meanwhile, David needs Valerie to teach him swing dancing for a date.

Director: Peter Baldwin | Stars: Valerie Harper, Jason Bateman, Dan Ponce, Jeremy Licht

Votes: 21

48. We'll Meet Again (1982)
Episode: The Big One (1982)

52 min | Drama, Romance, War

Mac and Sally's friendship grows despite disapproval from her greedy,selfish mother-in-law Ruby. Mario and Sid organize the Independence Day dance where Vi and Chuck agree to marry,Rosie ... See full summary »

Director: John Reardon | Stars: Susannah York, Michael Shannon, Ronald Hines, Lise Ann McLaughlin

Votes: 11

49. So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode: Los Angeles Auditions (2006)

TV-PG | 60 min | Music, Reality-TV

Dance auditions held at the historic Orpheum theater in Los Angeles. Some get tickets to go straight to Las Vegas, while others stick around to learn choreography. However, most are sent home, rejected.

Director: Nigel Lythgoe | Stars: Ryan Conferido, Chris Cuenza, Cat Deeley, Brian Friedman

Votes: 19

50. So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode: Top 14 Perform (2006)

TV-PG | 120 min | Music, Reality-TV

Unseen auditions and special clips are shown. Lil' C and the Neph Squad perform a krumping routine to "Spaz Meter" by The J-Squad. Top 7 couples perform.

Director: Don Weiner | Stars: Dmitry Chaplin, Musa A. Cooper, Cat Deeley, Jessica Fernandez

Votes: 15