Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "torch-singer"

1. Road House (1948)

Passed | 95 min | Action, Drama, Film-Noir

A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark

Votes: 3,162

2. Show Boat (1951)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Family, Musical

The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown

Votes: 5,381

3. Dark City (1950)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Gamblers who "took" an out-of-town sucker in a crooked poker game feel shadowy vengeance closing in on them.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger

Votes: 2,697

4. Hot Saturday (1932)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods

Votes: 1,374

5. The Hucksters (1947)

Passed | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou

Votes: 1,995

6. Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)

R | 90 min | Comedy

An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge.

Director: Mark Rucker | Stars: Charles Busch, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley, Angela Paton

Votes: 2,137

7. The Man I Love (1946)

96 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music

A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Martha Vickers

Votes: 1,328

8. Love Bites (2001)

Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly bodyguards into the office of the host, ... See full summary »

Director: Antoine de Caunes | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Asia Argento, Gérard Lanvin, Gilbert Melki

Votes: 1,460

9. The Houston Story (1956)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In Houston, a man working as an oil driller comes up with a scheme for stealing millions of dollars worth of oil from the fields. He insinuates himself with a local mobster in order to get financing for his scheme.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Gene Barry, Barbara Hale, Edward Arnold, Paul Richards

Votes: 429

10. The Helen Morgan Story (1957)

Not Rated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Ann Blyth, Paul Newman, Richard Carlson, Gene Evans

Votes: 869

11. Lost Angel (1943)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and... See full summary »

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale

Votes: 614

12. Society Lawyer (1939)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 283

13. I'm Much Obliged (1936)

Approved | 22 min | Comedy, Musical, Short

The Morning Daily newspaper's Mr. Inquisitive column - which has the tagline "I'm Much Obliged" - is holding a contest: tell Mr. Inquisitive what you would like to do, and those stories ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: George Dobbs, Ian Maclaren, Vera Van, Lester Cole & His Texas Rangers

Votes: 155

14. The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)

Not Rated | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A visit to a Hollywood nightclub, featuring caricatures of, among others, Walter Winchell, Hugh Herbert, W.C. Fields, Katharine Hepburn, Ned Sparks, Johnny Weissmuller, Lupe Velez, John ... See full summary »

Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Jeane Cowan, Verna Deane, Melvin J. Gibby, Bernice Hansen

Votes: 606

15. Eighteen (2005)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama

On his eighteenth birthday, Pip receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the ghosts of the past.

Director: Richard Bell | Stars: Paul Anthony, Brendan Fletcher, Clarence Sponagle, Mark Hildreth

Votes: 665

16. The Strip (1951)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.

Director: László Kardos | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest, James Craig

Votes: 728

17. Torch Singer (1933)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer.

Directors: Alexander Hall, George Somnes | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ricardo Cortez, David Manners, Lyda Roberti

Votes: 789

18. Take a Chance (1933)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

From a team 2 girls and 2 not-straight men, a girl leaves to be a star, other stays to keep the boys straight. The star comes back with a producer, who falls in love with the girl who stayed. There are hurdles, the 2 men, and her IOU.

Directors: Monte Brice, Laurence Schwab | Stars: James Dunn, June Knight, Lillian Roth, Cliff Edwards

Votes: 63

19. Laughing Sinners (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance

Cabaret performer Ivy Stevens in an affair with a low-rent traveling salesman is dumped in a 'Dear Jane' letter and finds solace in joining the Salvation Army.

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau

Votes: 795

20. Murder on Diamond Row (1937)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector (Edmund Lowe) hunts a killer diamond fence--The Squeaker (Sebastian Shaw).

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd, Tamara Desni

Votes: 267

21. Convicted (1938)

Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Police Detective Burns (Charles Quigley) is helping Jerry Wheeler (Rita Hayworth), a night-club singer, track down the killer of a gold-digger, for which crime her brother, "Chick," (Edgar ... See full summary »

Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, Marc Lawrence, George McKay

Votes: 182

22. Convention Girl (1935)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A cabaret hostess is broken-hearted because she loves a gambler who does not love her.

Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Rose Hobart, Weldon Heyburn, Sally O'Neil, Herbert Rawlinson

Votes: 54

23. It Can't Last Forever (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a newspaper gossip-columnist, Carol Wilson, get ... See full summary »

Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Betty Furness, Robert Armstrong, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 66

24. Man Against Woman (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named... See full summary »

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jack Holt, Lillian Miles, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon

Votes: 22

25. Boy of the Streets (1937)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Maureen O'Connor, Kathleen Burke, Robert Emmett O'Connor

Votes: 217

26. Burning Gold (1936)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Jim Thornton is an independent wildcat driller in Califonia who hits a gusher and overnight riches, and marries his sweetheart that is a singer at a local saloon. But he can't handle being rich, and the marriage is on the rocks.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Judith Allen, Lloyd Ingraham, Frank Mayo

Votes: 24

27. Hollywood on Parade No. A-1 (1932)

Passed | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Short dance and song numbers, often from current releases, along with curiosities about the movie stars conform this series of short subjects.

Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Fredric March, Ben Turpin, Mitzi Green, Ginger Rogers

Votes: 35

28. Jilted (1969)

99 min | Drama

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Director: Su Yang | Stars: Chun Yang, Lan-Hua Tang, Hung Li, Shao Chun Chao

29. Swing Banditry (1936)

Passed | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

A swing band takes extraordinary measures to appear on a radio program.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: George Stoll, Georgie Stoll and His Orchestra, Maurice Cass, Virginia Dale

Votes: 90

30. That's My Story! (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

A reporter desperate for a story tries to interview a gangster's girlfriend jailed in a small town. He gets himself thrown in the same jail and runs into a female reporter with the same ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Claudia Morgan, William Lundigan, Herbert Mundin, Hobart Cavanaugh

31. Roaming (1931)

Passed | 10 min | Short, Music

A medicine show singer finds her love.

Director: Casey Robinson | Star: Ethel Merman

Votes: 15

32. The Julie London Special (1968 TV Special)

Music

Sultry-voiced Julie London hosts and performs an hour of music with banjo playing Mickie Finn and folk/pop singers Chad and Jeremy.

Director: Dick Ross | Stars: Julie London, Jeremy Clyde, Mickie Finn, Chad Stuart

33. The Star Reporter in Hollywood (1936)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Music

In this entry to the Hollywood Star Reporter series (reporting only on stars with Paramount contracts or connections at the time), Ted Husing drops in on Bennie Bartlett and is surprised to... See full summary »

Director: Leslie M. Roush | Stars: Benny Bartlett, Dorothy Lamour, Joey Rardin, Vera Marshe

34. The Gigolo Racket (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Drama, Musical

As a publicity stunt, a musical comedy star announces her engagement to a young man she believes is a gigolo, with whom she eventually falls in love.

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Helen Morgan, Reed Brown Jr., John Hamilton, Winifred Harris

Votes: 15

35. Tuned Out (1935)

Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Ruth, is on tour and singing on the radio, unknown to her husband, as The Dixie Song Bird. Herbert Rawlinson, her husband writes the Dixie Song Bird a fan letter that indicates he may a bit... See full summary »

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Ruth Etting, Herbert Rawlinson, Renee Whitney, Vernon Dent

36. Rooftop Frolics (1937)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Musical, Comedy

Occupants of two contrasting rooftops merge to put on a musical show. Representing the tenement roofers are singer Peg La Centra, child accordian player Gina Valenti and the dance team of ... See full summary »

Director: Ben K. Blake | Stars: Al Cooper, Peg La Centra, Kirk Alyn, Gina Valente

37. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: Run for Doom (1963)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A young doctor continues to date a beautiful showgirl in spite of warnings that her three previous marriages ended badly for her past husbands.

Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Gavin, Diana Dors, Scott Brady

Votes: 452

38. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 1 (1993)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The second of two beautiful women is murdered on a train, and the primary suspect is an amnesiac man. A psychologist, Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, an old friend of the second victim, is brought in to help.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Rob Palmer, Jeffrey Robert, Andy Devine

Votes: 544

39. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Steve Lawrence and Sally Struthers (1975)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights of this edition with guests Steve Lawrence and Sally Struthers include: "The Boring Twenties" (a spoof of the 1939 gangster movie "The Roaring Twenties").

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Steve Lawrence

Votes: 63

40. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Call Me Lucky/Torch Song (1978)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Career gambler Harry Beamus' dream of winning every game he plays has a monkey wrench thrown into it by the arrival of his son; and Edith Garvey wants to be a successful 1920's torch singer, like her grandmother.

Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Richard Dawson, Kathryn Holcomb

Votes: 96

41. Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode: Six Lessons from Madame LaGrange (1970)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War

Hogan and a German singer try and stop the arrest of local Allied agents.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary

Votes: 171

42. McMillan & Wife (1971–1977)
Episode: An Elementary Case of Murder (1972)

TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Numerous bits of evidence indicate McMillan's former girlfriend shot and killed her husband, but the commissioner wants all of the facts before an arrest is made.

Director: Robert Michael Lewis | Stars: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Votes: 141

43. The Streets of San Francisco (1972–1977)
Episode: A String of Puppets (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Det. Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas, Claude Akins, Lola Falana

Votes: 111

44. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: The Carpenters and Tim Conway (1971)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights of this show with guests Tim Conway and the Carpenters include: a salute to old radio shows, and Carol and the Carpenters performing "Do You Know the Way to San José".

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 32

45. Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode: Chapter Forty-Six: The Red Dahlia (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Betty investigates a string of suicides; Jughead comes face-to-face with Hiram's alleged mistress; Archie spirals out of control.

Director: Gregory Smith | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 1,285