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1. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Music
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Director: Stephan Elliott | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp, Rebel Penfold-Russell
Votes: 55,238 | Gross: $11.22M
2. Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
TV-14 | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History
A profile of the life of Adolf Hitler with a unique slant, as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National Socialist German Workers Party prior to World War II.
Stars: Peter Stormare, Friedrich von Thun, Peter O'Toole, Zoe Telford
Votes: 23,664
3. Flower Drum Song (1961)
Approved | 133 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Benson Fong, Jack Soo
Votes: 3,715 | Gross: $10.90M
4. Then Barbara Met Alan (2022 TV Movie)
67 min | Biography, Drama
Tells the story of Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, two disabled cabaret artists who met in1989 and became the driving force behind Direct Action Network - whose protests pushed disability rights into the spotlight.
Directors: Bruce Goodison, Amit Sharma | Stars: Ruth Madeley, Arthur Hughes, Philippa Cole, Reece Pantry
Votes: 255
5. The Lost City (2005)
R | 144 min | Drama, Romance
A wealthy Havana club owner and his family are torn apart by the violent sociopolitical upheaval brought about by the transition from the dictatorial regime of Batista to the Marxist revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1950s Cuba.
Director: Andy Garcia | Stars: Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros
Votes: 9,925 | Gross: $2.48M
6. Playing for Time (1980 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Music
Female prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp (Auschwitz) are spared from death in return for performing music for their captors.
Directors: Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski
Votes: 2,884
7. Watch Me When I Kill (1977)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A pharmacist is murdered, and a woman happens to see the culprit leave the scene. She soon finds herself being stalked by the killer, and when her boyfriend tries to discover who the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Bido | Stars: Corrado Pani, Paola Tedesco, Franco Citti, Fernando Cerulli
Votes: 1,416
8. The Oscar (1966)
Approved | 119 min | Drama
Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker
Votes: 1,463
9. The Bridge Part 2 (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama
A storm has demolished The Bridge book store. Charlie and Donna will soon lose it from lack of funds but Charlie's accident leaves him in a coma. Meanwhile, Molly and Ryan can't forget the best time of their lives together at The Bridge.
Director: Mike Rohl | Stars: Katie Findlay, Wyatt Nash, Ted McGinley, Faith Ford
Votes: 1,110
10. Up to His Ears (1965)
Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy
The farcical adventures of an unhappy, sometimes suicidal, billionaire Arthur Lempereur in Hong Kong and the Himalayas.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Maria Pacôme, Valérie Lagrange
Votes: 2,327
11. Mondo New York (1988)
Unrated | 83 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
The dark-side tour includes performance artists, a cockfight, a slave auction, someone biting a chicken's head off.
Director: Harvey Keith | Stars: Joey Arias, Rick Aviles, Charlie Barnett, Joe Coleman
Votes: 244 | Gross: $0.19M
12. Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)
102 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Milos Kopecký, Václav Lohniský
Votes: 1,994
13. Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977)
90 min | Comedy, War
Two soldiers stationed in Singapore set off in pursuit of the fairer sex instead of carrying out their orders. Soon after their arrival on the exotic island, the two visit a local brothel and there encounter a pair of lusty nurses.
Director: Norman Cohen | Stars: Robin Askwith, Nigel Davenport, George Layton, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 206
14. Scusi, lei è normale? (1979)
90 min | Comedy
A moralistic judge declares war on pornography. His gay nephew, who lives with a transvestite, tries to save himself and also protect his friend Ana, a porn actress.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Renzo Montagnani, Ray Lovelock, Anna Maria Rizzoli, Salvatore Jacono
Votes: 128
15. La course à l'échalote (1975)
95 min | Comedy
An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.
Director: Claude Zidi | Stars: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Doelnitz
Votes: 1,151
16. Zlocin v dívcí skole (1966)
107 min | Comedy, Crime
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the... See full summary »
Directors: Jirí Menzel, Ivo Novák, Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jan Preucil, Petr Kostka, Jana Gýrová
Votes: 106
17. The Best Pair of Legs in the Business (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
With his life crumbling around him in a dingy holiday camp, middle-aged female impersonator Sherry Sheridan stays rooted in the past. But will his son Alan, and long-suffering wife Mary, stay with him?
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Reg Varney, Diana Coupland, Lee Montague, Jean Harvey
Votes: 249
18. Cop in Drag (1984)
96 min | Comedy, Crime
During a show held at Blue Gay, drag queen cabaret in the center of Rome, an artist of the restaurant is found dead. The investigations are entrusted to Inspector Giraldi.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Paco Fabrini
Votes: 305
19. Costa Azzurra (1959)
84 min | Comedy
Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous ... See full summary »
Director: Vittorio Sala | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Rita Gam, Antonio Cifariello, Elsa Martinelli
Votes: 170
20. The Secret Killer (1965)
89 min | Biography, Crime, Thriller
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
Director: Robert Hossein | Stars: Robert Hossein, Marie-France Pisier, Roger Dutoit, Annie Anderson
Votes: 535
21. Boulevard (1960)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Jojo has been living for a while in a room under the roof of a block of flats in Pigalle. He has chosen to leave home since he realized his stepmother has hated him from day one. Among his ... See full summary »
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Monique Brienne, Pierre Mondy, Magali Noël
Votes: 165
22. My Lucky Star (1938)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store's sports clerk (Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for a teacher (Greene) and gets expelled.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Sonja Henie, Richard Greene, Joan Davis, Cesar Romero
Votes: 212
23. Paddy O'Day (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Paddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth, Jane Darwell
Votes: 282
24. Nelly, the Spy (1981)
116 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
As the Nazis rise to power, a Greek music student arrives in 1936 Berlin and becomes a cabaret singer. When WWII breaks out in Europe, the successful performer must decide whether to pursue her dreams or join the Resistance to do her part.
Director: Takis Vougiouklakis | Stars: Aliki Vougiouklaki, Faidon Georgitsis, Danis Katranidis, Kaiti Lambropoulou
Votes: 250
25. Music for Madame (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A singer arriving in Hollywood is tricked by jewel thieves to distract a wealthy audience. After running away he'll have to find a way to prove his innocence to both the police and the ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Nino Martini, Joan Fontaine, Alan Mowbray, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 229
26. India Cabaret (1985 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
India Cabaret (1985) is a documentary by Mira Nair exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a... See full synopsis »
Director: Mira Nair
Votes: 148
27. Flight Into Darkness (1935)
111 min | Drama
Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, ... See full summary »
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 170
28. Soy immortal
90 min | Documentary | Filming
The life of Sophia Lamar, transgender woman who left Cuba in the 80's to become a famed member of the Club Kids movement. From Havana to New York, "Soy Immortal" follows Sophia on a journey from the shadows into the light.
Directors: Eytan Jan, Darius Kaufmann | Star: Sophia Lamar
29. Ein weites Herz - Schicksalsjahre einer deutschen Familie (2013 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, War
Set in Germany in the years leading up to and through WW2, this is the story of a courageous and headstrong young woman, Isa, and her family.
Director: Thomas Berger | Stars: Nadja Uhl, Iris Berben, Max von Thun, Friedrich von Thun
Votes: 35
30. The Cantor's Son (1937)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Musical
This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an "anti-Jazz Singer." Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish ... See full summary »
Directors: Ilya Motyleff, Sidney M. Goldin | Stars: Moyshe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Judith Abarbanel, Michael Rosenberg
Votes: 37
31. 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: 67
32. Zakázaný výlet (1981)
71 min | Drama, Family, Music
Director: Stepán Skalský | Stars: Pavlína Mourková, Hana Maciuchová, Jana Brezinová, Jaroslav Satoranský
Votes: 13
33. Studie jednoho strachu (1967 TV Movie)
46 min | Drama
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Irena Kacírková, Jirí Adamíra, Jaroslava Adamová, Vladimír Brabec
Votes: 16
34. Venus of Paris (1941)
140 min | Drama, Romance
The imaginary voyage of a woman gone blind on her former lover's boat.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant, Lucienne Le Marchand, Jean Aquistapace
Votes: 148
35. Upstairs (1919)
50 min | Comedy
A young woman works in the scullery of a grand hotel, and dreams of a life among its fashionable patrons.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Mabel Normand, Cullen Landis, Hallam Cooley, Edwin Stevens
36. La grande nuit (2020)
23 min | Short, Musical
Esma is a cabaret dancer in search of freedom. Hantirah, a future Syrian doctor with a future mapped out by his parents, is torn between his love for her and his commitment to his fiancee, a medical student like him.
Director: Sharon Hakim | Stars: Tamara Saade, Aghiad Ghanem, Adam Hegazy, Osama Hantira
Votes: 23
37. Legenda, the Robber (1973)
91 min | Crime, Drama
It is 1905. The police director gets Jindrich Legenda (Eduard Cupák) shadowed as, yet Legenda had served his sentence for a burglary, the jewels have not been found. Russian revolution ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Steklý | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Vladimír Mensík, Eliska Balzerová, Bohuslav Cáp
Votes: 13
38. Tales from the Powder Room (2002)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Lola, a bitter, burnt-out drag queen dishes the dirt in this claymation, gin-soaked, stumble down memory lane. It ain't easy being gay... and clay...
Director: Darren Burgess
39. The Fortune Hunter (1927)
80 min | Comedy
Cafe bouncer Nat Duncan is astonished to see his old panhandling pal Handsome Harry visiting the cabaret in the company of a bejeweled matron. Harry persuades Nat that he too can marry ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Helene Costello, Clara Horton, Duke Martin
40. Zachvev strachu (1984)
Drama
After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution in 1848, one of its participants, the writer Frantisek Vinický, spent eight years in prison. After returning to Prague in 1857, Vinický... See full summary »
Director: Jaroslav Soukup | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Stefan Kvietik, Sona Dvoráková, Petr Kostka
Votes: 27
41. Firing Squad (1984 Video)
138 min | Comedy, Music
Directors: Peter Batey, Doug Livermore | Stars: Reg Livermore, Rifles, The Soup Line Orchestra
42. Sach mat (1964 TV Movie)
65 min | Drama
Director: Alfréd Radok | Stars: Josef Bek, Vladimír Branislav, Otto Budín, Rudolf Deyl
Votes: 22
43. Una mujer de Oriente (1950)
98 min | Crime, Drama
A secret agent investigates the death of the scientist who created a deadly ray only to find out his own wife is involved.
Director: Juan Orol | Stars: Rosa Carmina, Carlos López Moctezuma, Carlos Badías, Clifford Carr
44. The Hellion (1919)
50 min | Drama
Joseph and Helen Harper, who have spent their niece Blanche's inheritance, worry that Blanche's fiancé, wealthy George Graham, will no longer want her when he finds out that she has gone ... See full summary »
Director: George L. Cox | Stars: Margarita Fischer, Emory Johnson, Charles Spere, Henry A. Barrows
45. Klauni a vlastenci (1991 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama
Director: Hynek Bocan | Stars: Oldrich Vízner, Zdenek Zák, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jana Svandová
Votes: 9
46. The Hall of Mirrors: A Festival (1982)
58 min | Documentary
Short documentary feature examining the 1982 Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, South Australia. Performances that are featured include original archival footage of the State Theatre ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Hicks | Stars: Pina Bausch, David Hare, Jim Sharman, Patrick White
47. Kolmastoista koputus (1945)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Two Finnish naval captains face spies in Gothenburg harbor during the second world war.
Director: Ilmari Unho | Stars: Joel Rinne, Tauno Palo, Hilkka Helinä, Eine Laine
Votes: 62
48. The Reg Livermore Special: End of an Era (1981 TV Special)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Director: Peter Batey | Stars: Paul Griffiths, Reg Livermore, Peter Batey, Graham Beatty
49. Five Ways to Close Your Eyes (2013)
77 min | Drama
Four people take off their masks after the death of a young girl. The fable of a fox who met a rabbit.
Directors: Amanda Copstein, Emiliano Cunha, Filipe Matzembacher, Gabriel Motta, Abel Roland | Stars: Áurea Baptista, Lízia Bueno, Carlos Paixão, Ravel Andrade
Votes: 24
50. Head On: Paul Capsis Music Video (2005 Music Video)
6 min | Short, Music
Stars: Paul Capsis, The Capsicums