Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cotton-club-manhattan-new-york-city"

1. The Cotton Club (1984)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee

Votes: 19,566 | Gross: $25.93M

2. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999 TV Movie)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Dorothy Dandridge's way to fame and fortune as a dancer, singer and actress.

Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé

Votes: 3,921

3. Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly, Chazz Palminteri

Votes: 41,832 | Gross: $13.38M

4. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway, George Cukor | Stars: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo

Votes: 4,809

5. What War May Bring (2010)

120 min | Drama

Ilva runs her stepfather's Eden Palace cinema in wartime Paris against a background of Resistance activities, the frequent sight of less fortunate Parisians being shipped east in ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Audrey Dana, Dominique Pinon, Raphaël Haroche, Samuel Labarthe

Votes: 753

6. Sophisticated Ladies (1982 TV Movie)

Musical

In his review for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that " ...the new musical revue at the Lunt-Fontanne, is an [Duke] Ellington celebration that just won't quit until it has won over ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Smuin | Stars: Hinton Battle, Paula Kelly, Phyllis Hyman, Terri Klausner

Votes: 14

7. Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)

Not Rated | 10 min | Musical, Short

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.

Director: Fred Waller | Stars: Cab Calloway, Sidney Easton, Fredi Washington, Floyd Marmon

Votes: 275

8. Once Upon a Time in Harlem

Crime, Drama, Music | Announced

A jitterbug love story woven between the lives and times of legendary black entertainers, black and white thugs, and the common man in swinging 1930's Harlem.

9. Fits and Benefits (1938)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Set in a theater and Harlem's Cotton Club. Mary Lou Cook and the Merry Macs perform "Mama, I Wanna Make Rhythm" and Carolyn Marsh sings "Stardust"; The Eight Men of Manhattan weigh in with ... See full summary »

Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Mary Lou Cook, Judd McMichael, Ted McMichael, Joe McMichael

10. American Masters (1985– )
Episode: Lena Horne: In Her Own Voice (1996)

TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Even in her eighties, the legendary Lena Horne has a quality of timelessness about her. Elegant and wise, she personifies both the glamour of Hollywood and the reality of a lifetime spent battling racial and social injustice.

Director: Susan Lacy | Stars: Gail Lumet Buckley, Ossie Davis, Luther Henderson, Lena Horne

Votes: 110

11. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Return to the Cotton Club/No Friends Like Old Friends (1983)

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

Charles Whelan wants to make it big at the Cotton Club but meets Linda Bell, another struggling performer. Doreen Murphy wants to impress her female college friends with material wealth but learns a lesson about human relations.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Johnny Brown, J.D. Cannon

Votes: 54

12. The Irish Mob (2008–2016)
Episode: Owney Madden: Duke of the Westside/John 'Red' Hamilton and the Dillinger Gang (2008)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Notorious gangsters Owner "Killer" Madden and John "Red" Hamilton, who led similar lives that ended quite differently.

Director: Dathaí Keane | Stars: Michael Walsh, T.J. English, John Beatty, William Kennedy

Votes: 9

13. White Collar (2009–2014)
Episode: Empire City (2013)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Neal and Peter investigate Mozzie's claims of taxi cab forgery and money laundering. Which leads to back to a jazz club owner.

Director: Tim DeKay | Stars: Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason

Votes: 674

14. America's Book of Secrets (2012–2021)
Episode: The Drug Wars (2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary

This episode uncovers the conspiracies behind America's 40-year drug campaign. Why does the U.S. Government classify marijuana and heroin as equally dangerous drugs, and will the move by ... See full summary »

Stars: Jonathan Adams, Darrell Issa, Jason Howerton, Michael Levine

Votes: 47