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1. Total Recall (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin
Votes: 355,342 | Gross: $119.39M
2. The Rider (2017)
R | 104 min | Drama, Western
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Director: Chloé Zhao | Stars: Brady Jandreau, Mooney, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau
Votes: 20,686 | Gross: $2.42M
3. Stage Door Canteen (1943)
Passed | 132 min | Comedy, Romance, War
A young soldier arrives in NYC and, before heading overseas to WWII, visits Stage Door Canteen, where famous actresses and entertainers volunteer to entertain soldiers.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker
Votes: 1,835
4. Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A romantic teenage girl is adopted by a pair of elderly siblings in turn-of-the-century Canada.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley
Votes: 1,444
5. Go, Johnny, Go! (1959)
G | 75 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Alan Freed, Jimmy Clanton, Sandy Stewart, Chuck Berry
Votes: 483
6. The Powers Girl (1943)
Approved | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Two sisters living in New York City aspire to become high-profile models.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, Carole Landis, Dennis Day
Votes: 100
7. Paramount on Parade (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Music
A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting ... See full summary »
Directors: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf, Rowland V. Lee, Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes, Victor Schertzinger, A. Edward Sutherland, Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper
Votes: 383
8. Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
Passed | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Musical in which two singing sisters set up a canteen to entertain soldiers, their enterprise funded by a mysterious wealthy admirer
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Gloria DeHaven, José Iturbi
Votes: 933
9. The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
Passed | 87 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
After a dead body turns up in the home of a famous actress, two reporters (who also happen to be in love with one another) compete to get the real scoop.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: George Brent, Joan Blondell, Adele Jergens, Jim Bannon
Votes: 350
10. The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor
Votes: 257
11. College Humor (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Music
A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 243
12. Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy
In 1923, two young ladies depart unescorted for a tour of Europe, meeting two eligible men aboard ship. Their great naivety and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many comic misadventures.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Charles Ruggles, Dorothy Gish
Votes: 181
13. Nashville Rebel (1966)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Down a dusty road in the deep South, wanders a young man, Arlin Grove, with a guitar and his earthly belongings on his back, just released from the U.S. Army, with no place to go. When a ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Sheridan | Stars: Waylon Jennings, Mary Frann, Tex Ritter, Sonny James
Votes: 126
14. Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
With a full Hollywood background and settings, but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 132
15. Make Me a Star (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Merton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Actress Flips gives him a ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Ben Turpin
Votes: 649
16. From Nashville with Music (1969)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Music
In this FICTIONAL film, filled with FICTIONAL people doing FICTIONAL things, Mabel (Marilyn Maxwell) and Arnold (Leo G. Carroll), a couple of sophisticated swells from New York City, are on... See full summary »
Directors: Eddie Crandall, Robert Patrick | Stars: Marilyn Maxwell, Leo G. Carroll, Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, Marty Robbins
Votes: 22
17. Ice Capades Revue (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Promoter Ann Porter (Ellen Drew) decides to start her own ice show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin (Harold Huber) who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart (Richard Denning), a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Ellen Drew, Richard Denning, Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen
Votes: 28
18. Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Judy works for a pittance as a char in her aunt's hotel. To add spice to her life she enrolls in a charm course but it's a scam. Soon the swindlers show up and plan to use her to con her aunt out of her money.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jil Jarmyn, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 126
19. Mr. Music (1950)
Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary conspire to get him back on track.
Director: Richard Haydn | Stars: Bing Crosby, Nancy Olson, Charles Coburn, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 261
20. The Big Beat (1958)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.
Director: Will Cowan | Stars: William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant, Jeffrey Stone
Votes: 66
21. A Song for Miss Julie (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Music, Romance
A Broadway writing team visits the granddaughter and great-great-granddaughters of a songwriter for his life story. An old diary holds interesting stories, but granny is protective of the family reputation. New romance complicates things.
Director: William Rowland | Stars: Shirley Ross, Barton Hepburn, Jane Farrar, Roger Clark
Votes: 55
22. Sitting Pretty (1933)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Chick Parker and Pete Pendleton are songwriters en route from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune, joined by lunch-wagon proprietor Dorothy.
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, Ginger Rogers, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 195
23. Country Boy (1966)
G | 84 min | Comedy, Music
Singer Link Byrd, Jr. wants to join the Grand Ole Opry, and hooks up with a slippery-slick agent named "Fats" Jackson. Jackson makes him a star but ruins his reputation along the way.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Randy Boone, Sheb Wooley, Paul Brinegar, Paul Crabtree
Votes: 13
24. National Barn Dance (1944)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Made at the time when the National Barn Dance program, on radio station WLS (for World's Largest Store and owned by Sears & Roebuck) in Chicago, was as big on a national scale listening ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jean Heather, Charles Quigley, Robert Benchley, Mabel Paige
Votes: 19
25. Cuban Pete (1946)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Ethel Smith, Joan Shawlee, Beverly Simmons
Votes: 50
26. Scarlet River (1933)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film. Tom soon learns her foreman has been rustling and poisoning ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Furness
Votes: 226
27. Campus Rhythm (1943)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A radio songstress runs away from her sponsor and guardian to enroll in college under an assumed name.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Douglas Leavitt
Votes: 138
28. You're the One (1941)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In this 100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character, a singer named Bonnie Baker (Bonnie... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Bonnie Baker, Orrin Tucker, Albert Dekker, Edward Everett Horton
29. Always a Bridesmaid (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music
A detective working undercover joins a Lonely Hearts Club in order to to expose a swindler using it for nefarious reasons.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: The Andrews Sisters, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews
Votes: 49
30. Purple Heart Diary (1951)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
A trio of singers is entertaining wounded American soldiers during World War II. They encourage a mutilated soldier in his love for a nurse.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Frances Langford, Judd Holdren, Ben Lessy, Tony Romano
Votes: 31
31. The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Escaping from a Canadian prison farm, master thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) makes his way to Buffalo with Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), who supplies him with money needed for forged ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 196
32. Trocadero (1944)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
In this musical, two young people inherit their father's nightclub. The joint teeters on the brink of bankruptcy until they bring in exciting jazz music and entertaining acts ranging from comedy to cartoonists.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Rosemary Lane, Johnny Downs, Ralph Morgan, Dick Purcell
Votes: 145
33. A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Ken Murray, Rose Hobart, Elvia Allman, Blanche Stewart
Votes: 93
34. Jive Junction (1943)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Classically-trained young musician Peter Crane transfers from the Conservatory to Clinton High School, where he discovers that his music is in conflict to that of the high school's world of... See full summary »
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Dickie Moore, Tina Thayer, Gerra Young, John Michaels
Votes: 116
35. Hi, Buddy (1943)
Approved | 66 min | Music, Romance, War
A military-flavored, World War Two, song-and-dance B-feature in which a fund-raising effort save a boys club from being closed.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Dick Foran, Harriet Nelson, Robert Paige, Marjorie Lord
Votes: 21
36. The Greenman (2011)
82 min | Thriller
Director: Joe Shelby | Stars: Bill Laing, Clayton Hill, Sharon Hill, Tommy Lafitte
Votes: 16
37. Make Believe Ballroom (1949)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jerome Courtland, Ruth Warrick, Ron Randell, Virginia Welles
Votes: 64
38. The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She must overcome the suspicions of the other students in order to prove herself.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Lynne Overman
Votes: 62
39. Smoky River Serenade (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Musical
Developer J. Bricket Armstrong is out to buy up all the land in Hondo Valley. but rancher "Pop" Robinson won't sell his because of a promise he made his son, killed in WWII, and he also is ... See full summary »
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Ruth Terry, Paul Campbell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Virginia Hunter
Votes: 23
40. Adventure Girl (1934)
Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Drama
Young adventurer, Joan Lowell, with her elderly father, Nicholas Wagner, and two crew members, ex-marine William Sawyer and Otto Siegler, sail from New York to the Caribbean in their 48-... See full synopsis »
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Joan Lowell, Ula Holt, Bill Sawyer, Otto Siegler
Votes: 163
41. Week-End Pass (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
A run-away socialite "Babs" Bradley (Martha O'Driscoll), using an alias, wants to join the WACs, finds romance with a shipyard worker, Johnny Adams (Noah Beery Jr.), while dodging sheriffs, policemen and others who are searching for her.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr., George Barbier, Andrew Tombes
42. Disc Jockey (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Music
A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that television viewing is cutting down the size of the listening audience for radio programs, and ... See full summary »
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Ginny Simms, Tom Drake, Jane Nigh, Michael O'Shea
43. Hi Ya, Sailor (1943)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Donald Woods, Elyse Knox, Eddie Quillan, Frank Jenks
Votes: 23
44. Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In this fictional film in which performers using their own name do fictional things with fictional people there is no one playing 'Self', but there is a record-company talent scout, Bill ... See full summary »
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dámaso Pérez Prado, Perez Prado Orchestra, The Mary Kaye Trio, Mary Kaye
Votes: 46
45. Her Lucky Night (1945)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A fortune teller predicts Connie (Martha O'Driscoll) will find her true love sitting next to her in a movie theatre. Connie buys two tickets on an aisle and tosses one of them away...and hopes for the best.
Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews, Martha O'Driscoll
Votes: 55
46. Feudin' Rhythm (1949)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Western
Eddy Arnold (Eddy Arnold), singing star of the Ace Lucky (Kirby Grant) radio program gets involved when Ace's equipment for a television program is destroyed by a fire. Aces accepts the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Eddy Arnold, Gloria Henry, Kirby Grant, Isabel Randolph
Votes: 45
47. Follow the Band (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A farmer goes to New York to become a singer, has success and marries his neighbor's girl-friend.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leon Errol, Mary Beth Hughes, Eddie Quillan, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 48
48. Stars on Parade (1944)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Danny Davis (Larry Parks) and Dorothy Deane (Lynn Merrick) are two Hollywood hopefuls out to convince some movie producers that there is a great deal of undiscovered talent in Hollywood's ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Larry Parks, Lynn Merrick, Ray Walker, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 11
49. Swing Your Partner (I) (1943)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Set in a cheese factory and a radio station, Caroline Bird (Esther Dale), cheese factory owner and radio program sponsor, sets out to solve a mysterious crime by disguising herself and her ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Myrtle Wiseman, Scotty Wiseman, Barbara Jo Allen, Dale Evans
Votes: 16
50. So's Your Uncle (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Circumstances arise that result in a man impersonating his uncle. As the "uncle", he finds himself pursued by his girlfriend's aunt, who does not approve of their relationship.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Billie Burke, Donald Woods, Elyse Knox, Frank Jenks
Votes: 30