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1. Rocketman (I) (2019)

R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

Director: Dexter Fletcher | Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard

Votes: 195,455 | Gross: $96.37M

2. The Thing Called Love (1993)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Newcomers to the country-music business seek love and stardom.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock

Votes: 8,776 | Gross: $1.03M

3. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf

Votes: 16,892 | Gross: $11.80M

4. Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Music

An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier

Votes: 8,345 | Gross: $3.49M

5. Kill Your Friends (2015)

Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

An A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.

Director: Owen Harris | Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Thomas Conroy, James Corden, Georgia King

Votes: 10,042

6. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Passed | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn

Votes: 1,799

7. Privilege (1967)

103 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, William Job

Votes: 1,324

8. Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Music

A college co-ed tries to balance her time writing songs and dealing with her publisher who tries to pursue her.

Director: Sidney Miller | Stars: Mary Ann Mobley, Joan O'Brien, Nancy Sinatra, Chris Noel

Votes: 535

9. The Great Waltz (1938)

Passed | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Fernand Gravey) - 'Jonahi' to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered ... See full summary »

Directors: Julien Duvivier, Victor Fleming, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 1,307

10. Lady Be Good (1941)

Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

A composer and his songwriter wife clash as they succeed in working together, writing hit Broadway shows, but fail in their marriage to the point of getting divorced twice.

Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern, Robert Young, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 1,182

11. I Dream of Jeanie (1952)

Approved | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy

Votes: 250

12. South of Dixie (1944)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

To save their music publishing firm from bankruptcy, Bll "Brains' Watson creates a colorful life-story about his partner, Danny Lee, representing him as a descendant of Louisiana's famous ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Anne Gwynne, David Bruce, Jerome Cowan, Ella Mae Morse

Votes: 14

13. Brazil (I) (1944)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A songwriter struggles to produce another successful hit for the National Brazilian song contest.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Tito Guízar, Virginia Bruce, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Livingston

Votes: 222

14. Break of Hearts (1935)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance

Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. ... See full summary »

Director: Philip Moeller | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 669

15. The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

Directors: William K. Howard, Sam Wood | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Jeanette MacDonald, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 472 | Gross: $0.99M

16. Naughty But Nice (1939)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, Helen Broderick

Votes: 363

17. House of Ricordi (1954)

110 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all of Italy.

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Roland Alexandre, Myriam Bru, Elisa Cegani, Andrea Checchi

Votes: 115

18. Stars Over Broadway (1935)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Al is a down-on-his-luck promoter who is thinking of taking the final bow when he meets singing porter Jan. He sees something in Jan so he signs him to a contract. Al works odd jobs to pay ... See full summary »

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Jane Froman, James Melton, Jean Muir

Votes: 208

19. Children of Pleasure (1930)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Successful songwriter falls for society girl who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his girl-Friday is the one he really loves until it is almost too late. Although he is ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Lawrence Gray, Wynne Gibson, Judith Wood, Kenneth Thomson

Votes: 193

20. Sing While You Dance (1946)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ellen Drew, Bob Haymes, Andrew Tombes, Edwin Cooper

Votes: 27

21. Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)

Approved | 82 min | Music, Romance

One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. On re-issue, all ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: John Carroll, Susan Hayward, Gail Patrick, Eve Arden

Votes: 178

22. Here Comes the Band (1935)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The songwriter Ollie Watts goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by the unscrupulous music publisher Mr. Simmonds. Ollie brings his girlfriend and singer Margaret ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Ted Lewis and His Orchestra, Ted Lewis, Virginia Bruce, Harry Stockwell

Votes: 83

23. 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

24. Dizzy Dames (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Lillian Bennett runs a theatrical boarding house in New York City. She doesn't want her débutante daughter Helen Bennett, reared in finishing schools away from New York, to know of her own ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Florine McKinney, Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney

Votes: 62

25. Good Morning, Judge (1943)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music

A songwriter is sued for libel, and when he gets to court he discovers that his girlfriend is the plaintiff's attorney.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Mary Beth Hughes, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 24

26. Jazz Heaven (1929)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Johnny Mack Brown, Clyde Cook, Joseph Cawthorn

Votes: 177

27. Trente et quarante (1946)

105 min | Comedy, Musical

The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon ... See full summary »

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Georges Guétary, André Alerme, Martine Carol, Jean Parédès

Votes: 26

28. Let's Go Steady (1945)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

College kids crooner Roy Spencer (Jackie Moran), eccentric dancer Mable Stack (June Preisser), mimic Henry McCoy (Jimmy Lloyd) and singer Shack Edwards (Mel Torme) , having been conned by ... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Jackie Moran, June Preisser, Jimmy Lloyd, Mel Tormé

Votes: 17

29. Sing Me Goodbye (1950)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Biography, Music

This 'Pacemaker" short is a short---very short---musical biography of radio, records and nightclub singer Kitty Kallen, who sings several of her lost popular songs, while Myron McCormick, ... See full summary »

Director: Justin Herman | Stars: Kitty Kallen, Myron McCormick

30. Spike Milligan on Treasure Island WC2 (1961)

24 min | Short, Comedy

Treasure Island in this instance is Tin Pan Alley where pop songs are launched on their brief and hopeful successful careers, First the creators play their song to a publisher. If he likes ... See full summary »

Director: Gerard Bryant | Stars: Sam Costa, Joe Loss, Spike Milligan, Marion Ryan

31. The Song Plugger (1930)

22 min | Short, Music

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Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Joe Frisco, Arthur Brooks, Leo Donnelly, James Dunn

Votes: 28

32. Yankee Doodle Home (1939)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Musical, Comedy

Nick and Vince, a song writing team, are fired from their jobs at a publishing house when a foreign producer arrives looking for "hot" numbers. Vince dons a disguise and poses as a foreign ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Nick Lucas, Vince Barnett, Jean Walters, Nathaniel Shilkret

33. Kansas City Kitty (1944)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Amiable, wisecracking piano teacher Polly becomes involved with some shady music publishers. She also happens to be infatuated with her music-loving dentist Henry, who is not quite as ... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Joan Davis, Bob Crosby, Jane Frazee, Erik Rolf

Votes: 54

34. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: King Arthur in Mr. Roarke's Court/Shadow Games (1982)

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

Ralph Rodgers' quest to meet his legendary hero goes awry when King Arthur is somehow transported to the present; and country singer Sarah Jean Rawlins wants to make one last record with her boyfriend -- who is believed to be dead.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Linda Blair, Wendy Schaal

Votes: 64

35. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: The Sound of Bleeding Gums (2022)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Comedy

Lisa meets the son of the late Bleeding Gums Murphy and tries to improve his life.

Directors: Mike B. Anderson, Chris Clements | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 703

36. Les échos du cinéma (1961–1962)
Episode: Episode #1.51 (1961)

26 min | Short, Talk-Show

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Director: Jean Guillon | Stars: Normand Champoux, René-Louis Lafforgue, Henri Marchal, Raymond Rouleau