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51. Ovation (I) (2015)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Maggie Chase, now a passionate theater actress, must follow her mind or heart when she falls for a slick television star.
Director: Henry Jaglom | Stars: Tanna Frederick, James Denton, Stephanie Fredricks, Cathy Arden
Votes: 80
52. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis
Votes: 455
53. Nana (1926)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Romance
When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane, Werner Krauss
Votes: 965
54. La puritaine (1986)
86 min | Drama
The reunion of an estranged father and daughter is set against the backdrop of a theatrical production.
Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Bonnaire, Laurent Malet
Votes: 115
55. The Wet Parade (1932)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, History, Romance
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Dorothy Jordan, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Emma Dunn
Votes: 584
56. One Dangerous Night (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A "Lone Wolf" advenure. The Lone Wolf tries to clear himself of a charge of murdering a blackmailer.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Marguerite Chapman, Mona Barrie
Votes: 192
57. Murder in Times Square (1943)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Actor-playwright Cory Williams (Edmund Lowe) is sitting in a nightclub when Longacre Lil (Esther Dale), a Broadway vagrant, comes in and asks him for some money. He not only refuses her but... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, William Wright
Votes: 77
58. Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Guy Kibbee, William Gargan
Votes: 461
59. Affair with a Stranger (1953)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces that the marriage between now successful playwright William Blakeley and his wife Carolyn is breaking up, New York friends variously reminisce about how the two met and married.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Linda Douglas, Monica Lewis
Votes: 523
60. I Found Stella Parish (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason
Votes: 579
61. Cheating Blondes (1933)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A reporter sets out to prove that the woman who rejected his marriage proposal is a murderer. Meanwhile, she's hiding in plain sight: posing as her missing twin sister.
Director: Joseph Levering | Stars: Thelma Todd, Ralf Harolde, Inez Courtney, Milton Wallis
Votes: 77
62. Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Macon Jones
Votes: 104
63. Backstage (I) (1988)
94 min | Drama
The American pop singer Kate Lawrence wants a career as an actress. The only job she can find is playing the lead role in an Australian theatre production of The Green Year Passes.
Director: Jonathan Hardy | Stars: Laura Branigan, Michael Aitkens, Noel Ferrier, Rowena Wallace
Votes: 70
64. Nancy Drew: Labyrinth of Lies (2014 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew investigates a series of thefts from a museum in Greece.
Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Julia Stockton, Katherine Grant-Suttie, Beau Prichard
Votes: 48
65. Mother Knows Best (1928)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A stage-actress mother and her daughter wage a battle of wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Louise Dresser, Barry Norton, Albert Gran
Votes: 15
66. Fired Wife (1943)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
In this comedy, a husband and wife want to keep their marriage a secret on professional grounds, and are consequently pursued romantically by an 'other man' and 'other woman', resulting in awkward complications.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Diana Barrymore, Walter Abel
Votes: 30
67. Un soupçon d'amour (2020)
92 min | Drama
Geneviève Garland, famous actress, is acting in « Andromaque » by Racine, with her husband André. She feels a deep malaise to play this part and cede it to her friend Isabelle, which is her... See full summary »
Director: Paul Vecchiali | Stars: Marianne Basler, Fabienne Babe, Jean-Philippe Puymartin, Ferdinand Leclère
Votes: 64
68. The Flemish Vampire (2007)
100 min | Horror
Frank, a vet, discovers that his daughter has a lesbian relationship. When he tries to confront her rehearsal of a play named "The Flemish Vampire" something unexpected happens.
Director: R. Kan Albay | Stars: Chahid Abdessalami, Nele Allaert, Jamal Boujouh, Yuri D. Brown
Votes: 46
69. A Love Story: The Story of 'To Have and Have Not' (2003 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
In the 40's Howard Hawks boasts that he can make a movie out of the worst thing Hemingway ever has written. When Hemingway asks, which novel he means, Hawks says To Have and Have Not. Jules... See full summary »
Stars: Leonard Maltin, Eric Lax, Robert Osborne, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 65
70. Change-moi ma vie (2001)
101 min | Drama
Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out afterwards to return some property and ... See full summary »
Director: Liria Bégéja | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Roschdy Zem, Fanny Cottençon, Sami Bouajila
Votes: 167
71. Snowed Under (1936)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Patricia Ellis
Votes: 461
72. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
When Public Enemy No. 3 Sonny McGann meets composer Bob Gunther, he gets the idea of having Bob write music to a poem he has written about his long-lost sweetheart Sadie McGlonsky. ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Jessie Ralph, Johnny Downs, Peggy Moran
Votes: 37
73. First Night Nerves (2018)
100 min | Drama
Cheng Cong, the matriarch of a wealthy Shanghainese family in Hong Kong, is financing the production of a new play in Hong Kong's venerable City Hall. The play is "Two Sisters", a retro ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Kwan | Stars: Sammi Cheng, Gigi Leung, Baihe Bai, Angie Chiu
Votes: 50
74. The Girl Friend (1935)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall
Votes: 51
75. Bread (1918)
60 min | Drama, Romance
A naïve country girl ventures to New York to become a star, but faces poverty and disillusionment when a lecherous theatre manager attempts to take advantage of her.
Director: Ida May Park | Stars: Edward Cecil, Gladys Fox, Kenneth Harlan, Mary MacLaren
Votes: 55
76. Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography
A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.
Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 223
77. Swedenhielms (1935)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
The Swedenhielms is an old aristocratic family. The head of the family is professor Rolf Swedenhielm. His three children Bo, Julia and Rolf Jr also live in the house. They also have an ... See full summary »
Director: Gustaf Molander | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Björn Berglund, Håkan Westergren, Tutta Rolf
Votes: 362
78. Beauty's Worth (1922)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Snobbish Henry Garrison flirts with Prudence, but actually disdains her for her lack of worldliness and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Aileen Manning, Martha Mattox, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Votes: 914
79. The Belle of Broadway (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both ... See full summary »
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Betty Compson, Tom Ricketts, Armand Kaliz, Edith Yorke
Votes: 107
80. The Red Shoes (I) (2010)
Drama, Romance
On the last day of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines in February 1986, 10-year-old Lucas Munozca finds himself swept up into a euphoric crowd that has entered the grounds of ... See full summary »
Director: Raul Jorolan | Stars: Marvin Agustin, Nikki Gil, Liza Lorena, Tessie Tomas
Votes: 14
81. Boyfriend Kourin! (2022– )
Comedy, Romance
Asahi is a 23-year-old boy who attracts everyone around him with his innocent smile, words and talent. Chatani Kashiko is a 35-year-old working for a small advertising agency and is someone who has low self-esteem.
Stars: Kaito Takahashi, Yuki Sakurai, Minami Tanaka, Ken Mitsuishi
82. Quickload (2013)
25 min | Short, Comedy, Mystery
Director: Petr Pekar | Stars: Martin Dedoch, Pavlína Skruzná, Martin Dvorák, Marek Ciccotti
Votes: 15
83. The Zero Hour (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Romance
A theater producer and his protege star fall in love and decide to wed. In route to their nuptials, tragedy strikes and the would-be groom ends up bound to a wheelchair. Nine years later, the wife tries to adopt a little girl.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Frieda Inescort, Otto Kruger, Adrienne Ames, Donald Douglas
Votes: 55
84. The Girl He Didn't Buy (1928)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Romance
Philip D'Arcy (William Eugene), the financial backer of a Broadway show offers to star Ruth Montaige (Pauline Garon), in the show but he has another reason for doing so. But Ruth, dumb but ... See full summary »
Director: Dallas M. Fitzgerald | Stars: Pauline Garon, Allan Simpson, Rosemary Cooper, Gladden James
85. Dance on Roses (1954)
119 min | Comedy, Drama
Marianne is a dancer at the Lilla Teatern, which is having such financial trouble that its existence is under threat. Marianne falls in love with Stig Broman, the owner of the theatre. ... See full summary »
Director: Schamyl Bauman | Stars: Sickan Carlsson, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Olof Winnerstrand, Dagmar Ebbesen
Votes: 38
86. Das traurige Leben der Gloria S. (2011)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A frustrated filmmaker turns to documentary making. A frustrated stage actress auditions as the protagonist for the documentary. Soon her fellow stage actors are recruited to complement Gloria Schultz's fake life.
Directors: Christine Groß, Ute Schall | Stars: Nina Kronjäger, Christine Groß, Margarita Broich, Inga Busch
Votes: 27
87. La belle de nuit (1934)
87 min | Drama
After he finds his woman is cheating on him with a war buddy, Claude happens to find her look-alike in the form of a prostitute, and plots to trick his rival by having the new woman impersonate the old.
Director: Louis Valray | Stars: Véra Korène, Aimé Clariond, Jacques Dumesnil, Paul Bernard
Votes: 34
88. Love Fever (1931)
20 min | Comedy, Short
An actress is rehearsing a death scene in her apartment, but her neighbors all think it's the real thing.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Mickey Daniels, Grady Sutton, David Sharpe, Thelma Todd
Votes: 80
89. Bellevue (1969 TV Movie)
Drama
Mr. Kraus never stopped being a good actor. Because he never was. His tragedy is that he never knew or suspected it. He never admitted that he had no talent. Of course, he was not ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Belka | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Blanka Bohdanová, Josef Abrhám, Josef Bláha
Votes: 17
90. The Misleading Lady (1920)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Jack Craigen, an engineer who has just finished a construction job in South Africa, returns to New York. There, at the home of his Uncle Cannell, he meets stage-struck society girl Helen ... See full summary »
Director: George Irving | Stars: Bert Lytell, Lucy Cotton, Frank Currier, Stephen Grattan
91. Stages: Peter Brook and the C.I.C.T in Australia (1980 TV Movie)
23 min | Documentary
Director: Robert Mellor | Stars: Kate Fitzpatrick, Peter Brook, Miriam Goldschmidt, Yoshi Oida
92. Caro Paolo (2013)
20 min | Short, Drama
Director: Donata Gallo | Stars: Marco Bellocchio, Anna Bonaiuto, Paolo Borsellino, Andrea Camilleri
93. South Australian Theatre Company's Production of Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1977 Video)
75 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Directors: Howard Rubie, Colin George | Stars: Colin George, Craig Ashley, Bruce Barry, Les Dayman
94. Call the Usual Suspects: The Craft of the Character Actor (2006 Video)
23 min | Short, History, Biography
Stars: Judith Anderson, Lauren Bacall, Rudy Behlmer, Humphrey Bogart
95. The Other Opera House (1973 TV Movie)
29 min | Documentary, History, Music
Director: John Worrall | Stars: Don Dunstan, Anthony Steele
96. Berlin mit dem Bus erfahren - Der 100er (2017 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Thomas Zimolong | Stars: Ulrich Deppendorf, Matti Klemm, Ruth Reinecke
97. Colpo di scena (2014– )
45 min
Stars: Pino Strabioli, Alessandro Gassmann, Filippo Timi, Franco Zeffirelli
98. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 109 (1918)
Documentary, Short
Subjects include: "In the Moonshine Country", "Stage Women's War Relief", "Magic for Home Use, No. 4", and the cartoon The Pinkerton Pup's Portrait (1918).
Director: P.D. Hugon
99. The Opening Night (1927)
Passed | 55 min | Drama
When theatrical producer Robert Chandler (E. Alyn Warren), believed drowned in a fishing accident, turns up as a lonely, broken amnesiac three months later, he arrives just in time to see ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Claire Windsor, John Bowers, E. Alyn Warren, Grace Goodall
100. The Soul of Broadway (1915)
Passed | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Grace Leonard, a typical woman of the New York stage, beautiful but old in sin, seduces William Craig, who becomes a thief in order to shower luxuries upon her. He is sentenced to prison ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Valeska Suratt, William E. Shay, Mabel Allen, Sheridan Block