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51. A Little Night Music (1977)
PG | 124 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
An actress, her married ex-lover, her current lover's wife and other guests gather at a circa-1900 estate.
Director: Harold Prince | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down
Votes: 920
52. The Great White Hope (1970)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen
Votes: 2,816 | Gross: $2.70M
53. Death of a Salesman (1951)
115 min | Drama
An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 1,198
54. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods
Votes: 3,900
55. Skylight (2014)
135 min | Drama
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.
Directors: Stephen Daldry, Robin Lough | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy, Matthew Beard, Michael Bott
Votes: 612
56. National Theater Live: Cyrano de Bergerac (2019)
160 min | Drama, Romance
An intense, raw and deep revival of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac by the Jamie Lloyd Company.
Directors: Jamie Lloyd, Tony Grech-Smith | Stars: James McAvoy, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Eben Figueiredo, Michele Austin
Votes: 497
57. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Romance
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley, Richard Travis
Votes: 8,997
58. Gone Are the Days! (1963)
G | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Webster | Stars: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Godfrey Cambridge, Hilda Haynes
Votes: 213
59. The Entertainer (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright
Votes: 3,749
60. National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
160 min | Drama
When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.
Directors: Carrie Cracknell, Matthew Amos | Stars: Marion Bailey, Hubert Burton, Yolanda Kettle, Helen McCrory
Votes: 335
61. State of the Union (1948)
Approved | 124 min | Comedy, Drama
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 4,174
62. A Midsummer Night's Dream (I) (2019)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young lovers, a troupe of actors, and fairies have romantic encounters in the forest on summer's night.
Director: Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Oliver Chris, Gwendoline Christie, David Moorst, Isis Hainsworth
Votes: 630
63. The Member of the Wedding (1952)
TV-G | 93 min | Drama, Family
Her older brother's wedding forces preteen tomboy Frankie to face her own immaturity.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz
Votes: 1,590
64. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2018)
185 min | Drama
Live theatrical production of Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'.
Directors: Benedict Andrews, Tim Van Someren | Stars: Artinis Aliaj, Nya Berg, Max Bloom, Yasmin Boys
Votes: 338
65. Of Mice and Men (2014)
149 min | Drama
This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heart-breaking testament to the bonds of friendship.
Director: Anna D. Shapiro | Stars: James Franco, Chris O'Dowd, Jim Norton, Jim Parrack
Votes: 195
66. National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
180 min | Drama
As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Directors: Benedict Andrews, Nick Wickham | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Clare Burt, Lachele Carl, Branwell Donaghey
Votes: 1,137
67. Death of a Salesman (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
An abridged award-winning television adaptation of a famous play about an aging travelling salesman who's on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His job is gone, and his family hates him for never being there. He tries mending things with them.
Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, James Farentino, Albert Dekker
Votes: 689
68. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Approved | 133 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.
Directors: William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt | Stars: James Cagney, Dick Powell, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale
Votes: 3,910
69. Angels in America: Part I - Millennium Approaches (2017)
220 min | Drama
The National Theatre's live theatrical production of Tony Kushner's play 'Angels in America' about New Yorkers grappling with the AIDS crisis during the mid-1980s.
Directors: Marianne Elliott, Bridget Caldwell | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane
Votes: 803
70. Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Not Rated | 126 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Brooklyn answering service operator becomes involved in the lives of her clients, including a struggling playwright with whom she begins to fall in love.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 3,826 | Gross: $6.16M
71. Macbeth (2013)
140 min | Drama
As Macbeth rides home from battle, three witches prophecise that he will soon rise in power to become King of Scotland. Aided by his wife, the pair will stop at nothing to seal their fate.
Directors: Rob Ashford, Tim Van Someren | Stars: David Annen, Andy Apollo, Elliot Balchin, Nari Blair-Mangat
Votes: 429
72. Present Laughter (2019)
Not Rated | 180 min | Comedy
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine's colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control, as he becomes engulfed by an escalating identity crisis.
Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Nicole Agada, Kitty Archer, Enzo Cilenti, Joshua Hill
Votes: 370
73. National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
227 min | Drama, History
Two aging fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble.
Directors: Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Sinéad Cusack, Danny Webb, Kirsty Bushell
Votes: 405 | Gross: $0.19M
74. Marat/Sade (1967)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, History, Music
In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Ian Richardson
Votes: 2,675
75. National Theatre Live: All My Sons (2019)
Not Rated | 165 min | Drama
America, 1947, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. But their contented lives are about to shatter. A figure from the past forces long buried truths to the surface lying bare the price of their American dream.
Directors: Jeremy Herrin, Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Jenna Coleman, Bill Pullman, Sally Field, Colin Morgan
Votes: 274
76. Call Me Madam (1953)
Approved | 114 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders
Votes: 1,466
77. National Theatre Live: No Man's Land (2016 TV Movie)
170 min | Drama
Following their hit run on Broadway, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham's Theatre, London.
Directors: Sean Mathias, Robin Lough | Stars: Sean Mathias, Ian McKellen, Damien Molony, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 363
78. Blue Denim (1959)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Fairly-typical 1950s teenagers Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard find their lives turned upside-down when Janet becomes pregnant. Arthur is desperate to tell his parents of the predicament ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Carol Lynley, Brandon De Wilde, Macdonald Carey, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 671
79. Without Love (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
In Washington, D.C. during World War II, Jamie Rowan enters into a loveless marriage with scientist Pat Jamieson and becomes his assistant. Struggles bring them closer together.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 2,720
80. King Lear (2014)
210 min | Drama, History
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Directors: Sam Mendes, Robin Lough | Stars: Saif Al-Warith, Waj Ali, Nathan Ampofo, Paul Anthoney
Votes: 185
81. King Lear (1970)
GP | 137 min | Drama
King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia refuses to idly flatter the old man, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Susan Engel
Votes: 940
82. War Horse (2014)
135 min | Drama
Based on Michael Morpurgo's novel and adapted for the stage by Nick Stafford, War Horse takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.
Directors: Marianne Elliott, Tom Morris, Tim Van Someren | Stars: Nigel Allen, Derek Arnold, Alex Avery, Alistair Brammer
Votes: 358
83. Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Sloane, a manipulative lodger, joins Kath's household. Kemp recognizes Sloane as a murderer. Sloane kills Kemp. The story takes an unexpected turn regarding Sloane's fate, deviating from conventional justice.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery, Alan Webb
Votes: 748
84. The Audience (2013)
173 min | Biography, Drama
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
Directors: Stephen Daldry, Robin Lough | Stars: Helen Mirren, Paul Ritter, Edward Fox, Richard McCabe
Votes: 521
85. National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
180 min | Comedy, Drama
Local hangman Harry is unaware of the recent abolition of hanging in Great Britain, and everyone, including his old assistant Syd, and the peculiar Mooney, are just dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news.
Directors: Matthew Dunster, Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Josef Davies, James Dryden, Johnny Flynn, Tony Hirst
Votes: 197
86. National Theatre Live: Othello (2013)
198 min | Drama
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Robin Lough | Stars: Jonathan Bailey, Sandy Batchelor, Adam Berry, David Carr
Votes: 184
87. National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy (2022)
180 min | Drama
Fiennes is brilliant portraying Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), a very powerful and charismatic urban planner, whose career spanned over 40 years. Early in his career, Moses claimed to want to ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Alisha Bailey, David Bromley, Ralph Fiennes, Alana Maria
Votes: 98
88. National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night (2017)
203 min | Comedy
Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare's classic comedy of mistaken identity. A ship is wrecked on the rocks. Viola is washed ashore but her twin brother Sebastian is lost. ... See full summary »
Directors: Simon Godwin, Robin Lough | Stars: Tamara Lawrance, Daniel Ezra, Oliver Chris, Brad Morrison
Votes: 504
89. I Am a Camera (1955)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
In Weimar-era Berlin, an aspiring writer strikes up a friendship with a vivacious, penniless singer.
Director: Henry Cornelius | Stars: Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, Ron Randell
Votes: 658
90. National Theatre Live: Julie (2018)
95 min | Drama
Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party, which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survival.
Directors: Carrie Cracknell, Matthew Amos | Stars: Vanessa Kirby, Eric Kofi Abrefa, Thalissa Teixeira, El Anthony
Votes: 163
91. National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge (2015)
115 min | Drama
In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.
Directors: Ivo van Hove, Nick Wickham | Stars: Emun Elliott, Phoebe Fox, Michael Gould, Richard Hansell
Votes: 253
92. National Theatre Live: Antony & Cleopatra (2018)
220 min | Drama, History
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.
Directors: Simon Godwin, Tony Grech-Smith | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Okonedo, Tim McMullan, Tunji Kasim
Votes: 503
93. The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy
A Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Susan Hayward, James Mason, Julie Newmar, Robert Paige
Votes: 398
94. National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler (2017)
145 min | Drama
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
Director: Nick Wickham | Stars: Kate Duchêne, Chukwudi Iwuji, Éva Magyar, Sinead Matthews
Votes: 227
95. Never Too Late (1965)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy
Fifty-something Edith Lambert is thrilled to find out that she's going to have a baby. Her husband Harry, however, is less enthusiastic.
Director: Bud Yorkin | Stars: Paul Ford, Connie Stevens, Maureen O'Sullivan, Jim Hutton
Votes: 545
96. National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar (2018 TV Movie)
135 min | Biography, Drama
Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat's popularity, the educated elite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of Rome.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Tony Grech-Smith | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, David Morrissey, Adjoa Andoh
Votes: 284
97. National Theatre Live: Yerma (2017 TV Movie)
114 min | Drama
The extraordinary Billie Piper plays Her, a woman driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child. Simon Stone creates a radical new production of Lorca's achingly powerful masterpiece.
Directors: Simon Stone, Tony Grech-Smith | Stars: Billie Piper, John Macmillan, Brendan Cowell, Maureen Beattie
Votes: 273
98. Edward, My Son (1949)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald
Votes: 1,413
99. Hamlet (I) (1964)
191 min | Drama
The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Directors: Bill Colleran, John Gielgud | Stars: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie
Votes: 522
100. National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2018)
210 min | Drama
The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness.
Directors: Rufus Norris, Tim Van Someren | Stars: Nadia Albina, Michael Balogun, Stephen Boxer, Anne-Marie Duff
Votes: 108