Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "troupe"

1. A Bug's Life (1998)

G | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A misfit ant, looking for "warriors" to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.

Directors: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton | Stars: Kevin Spacey, David Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere

Votes: 314,973 | Gross: $162.80M

2. Inland Empire (2006)

R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern

Votes: 62,498 | Gross: $0.75M

3. Time Bandits (1981)

PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 68,438 | Gross: $42.37M

4. To Be or Not to Be (1942)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance, War

During the German occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart

Votes: 43,131

5. Knightriders (1981)

R | 146 min | Action, Drama

A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their "King's" delusions of grandeur.

Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Ed Harris, Gary Lahti, Tom Savini, Amy Ingersoll

Votes: 5,476

6. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)

Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

The adventures of four young lovers, a group of amateur actors and their interactions with fairies come to light in a moonlit forest.

Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Nicholas Selby, Hugh Sullivan

Votes: 880

7. Snow White (2012)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Director: Pablo Berger | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Emilio Gavira, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina

Votes: 11,646 | Gross: $0.28M

8. Fanaa (2006)

Not Rated | 168 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice?

Director: Kunal Kohli | Stars: Aamir Khan, Kajol, Rishi Kapoor, Tabu

Votes: 35,098 | Gross: $2.10M

9. Love Happy (1949)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls while thwarting diamond thieves.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Ilona Massey

Votes: 3,085

10. The Magician (1958)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand

Votes: 10,966

11. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui, Emiko Yagumo

Votes: 3,466

12. Natarang (2010)

127 min | Drama

A poor working man loses his job and decides to start a theater troupe.

Director: Ravi Jadhav | Stars: Atul Kulkarni, Kishore Kadam, Sonalee Kulkarni, Priya Arun Berde

Votes: 2,223

13. Mystery at the Burlesque (1949)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder.

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Garry Marsh, Jack Livesey, Jon Pertwee, Eliot Makeham

Votes: 134

14. Mr. Thank You (1936)

76 min | Comedy, Drama

A friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu | Stars: Ken Uehara, Ryuji Ishiyama, Einosuke Naka, Michiko Kuwano

Votes: 1,276

15. Noviembre (2003)

104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives in Madrid intent on creating "a performance which is freer.

Director: Achero Mañas | Stars: Óscar Jaenada, Ingrid Rubio, Javier Ríos, Juan Díaz

Votes: 4,535

16. Sumurun (1920)

Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist

Votes: 823

17. Alegría (1999)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Fantasy

The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque de Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen.

Director: Franco Dragone | Stars: René Bazinet, Frank Langella, Mako, Julie Cox

Votes: 585

18. Kagekiha opera (2016)

90 min | Drama, Romance

A Japanese LGBT love story set in a small female only theater group, based on a semi-autobiographical novel "Kokan" by Junko Emoto.

Director: Junko Emoto | Stars: Saori, Arisa Nakamura, Yuki Sakurai, Suzuka Morita

Votes: 26

19. Piece of Cake (2015)

121 min | Drama, Romance

Shino is the type of girl that is easy and available to men. She detests being alone. She cheats and moves on even to new regions. Shino meets her new neighbour Kyoshiro who just happens to... See full summary »

Director: Tomorô Taguchi | Stars: Mikako Tabe, Gô Ayano, Tôri Matsuzaka, Fumino Kimura

Votes: 166

20. Khadak (2006)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.

Directors: Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth | Stars: Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Banzar Damchaa, Tserendarizav Dashnyam

Votes: 967 | Gross: $0.00M

21. Phantom of the Theatre (2016)

13+ | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A haunted theatre, filled with the vengeful spirits of a tragically-trapped performance troupe murdered in a fire 13 years ago, waits for the once-grand palatial playhouse to re-open with a new show - and bring in new victims.

Director: Wai-Man Yip | Stars: Ruby Lin, Yo Yang, Simon Yam, Gangshan Jing

Votes: 416 | Gross: $0.02M

22. Izu no odoriko (1963)

87 min | Drama, Romance

Adapted from a famous short story in Japan, The Izu Dancer is the story of a male teenager on vacation in the Izu peninsula who encounters a thirteen-year-old girl who is part of a ... See full summary »

Director: Katsumi Nishikawa | Stars: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada, Hideki Takahashi, Yôko Minamida

Votes: 64

23. Frisky (1954)

97 min | Comedy, Romance

The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.

Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Roberto Risso

Votes: 891

24. Social Decay (1932)

62 min | Drama

Stelios Tatasopoulos directs the first film of social realism in Athens of the 1930s. Drugs, gangs, prisons, strikes, and also clashes with the police.

Director: Stelios Tatasopoulos | Stars: Stelios Tatasopoulos, Danai Grizou, Tasos Kefalas, Joly Garbi

Votes: 116

25. Curtain Call at Cactus Creek (1950)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price

Votes: 127

26. The Imperfect Lady (1946)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance

While touring with a dance troupe in 1892, Millicent Hopkins meets Clive Loring who is campaigning for Parliament in the English Midlands. They fall in love and Millie remains behind at her... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Cedric Hardwicke, Virginia Field

Votes: 94

27. Sensation Hunters (1933)

73 min | Drama

Dale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna

Votes: 211

28. Bright Lights (1935)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Joe and Fay Wilson are a happily married vaudeville team. But when a reporter discovers, that one of the chorus girls in the troupe is a slightly eccentric heiress, who bugs sometimes out ... See full summary »

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Ann Dvorak, Patricia Ellis, William Gargan

Votes: 261

29. The Bob Hope Christmas Special (1970 TV Special)

90 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music

Bob and crew entertain military personnel at stops through Southeast Asia and Europe.

Director: Mort Lachman | Stars: Bob Hope, Connie Stevens, The Golddiggers, Teresa Graves

Votes: 26

30. Lucia (1998)

97 min | Drama, Mystery

A small opera company gathers together to celebrate the wedding of one's sister with a performance of the opera, Donizetta. Her brother hopes her new husband, a rich American tenor, will ... See full summary »

Director: Don Boyd | Stars: Amanda Boyd, John Daszak, Andrew Greenan, John Osborn

Votes: 65

31. Here Comes Cookie (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness

Votes: 178

32. Chasing Rainbows (1930)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bessie Love, Charles King, Jack Benny, George K. Arthur

Votes: 272

33. Flirting with Fate (1938)

Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

A show troupe led by Dan Dixon and traveling in a trailer is stranded in Paraguay. Dan is all set to be booked in the theatres controlled by Don Luis Garcia until Garcia discovers that Dan ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Leo Carrillo, Beverly Roberts, Wynne Gibson

Votes: 79

34. Rain or Shine (1930)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier Jr.

Votes: 459

35. Stella of the Theater: World Dai Star (2023– )

TV-14 | Animation, Drama, Music

After Dai Star stage performers exploded in worldwide popularity in the 20th century, 16-year-old Kokona Ootori follows her dream of becoming a World Dai Star by auditioning for the Sirius theatrical troupe.

Stars: Manaka Iwami, Ikumi Hasegawa, Sally Amaki, Maria Naganawa

Votes: 43

36. Diary of a Maniac (1993)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

Although he has great sex with Luigia, grifter Benito becomes obsessed with sex and starts fantasizing about and bedding every woman he sees. Eventually, this obsession consumes him.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Jerry Calà, Sabrina Ferilli, Valentino Macchi, Laetitia Laneri

Votes: 306

37. Sweethearts on Parade (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Her mother, Kathleen (Lucille Norman), ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Bill Shirley

Votes: 54

38. The Life of the Party (1937)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Dr. Molnac and his musical troupe; Beggs, the manager; Mitzi Martos, a singer; Mitzi's agent Pauline; society scion Barry Saunders and his "keeper" Oliver Goodwin, are en route to Santa ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Joe Penner, Gene Raymond, Harry Einstein, Harriet Nelson

Votes: 202

39. Painted Faces (1929)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver

Votes: 89

40. Medicine Ball Caravan (1971)

R | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, Music

Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to the hinterlands of the U.S.

Director: François Reichenbach | Stars: Tim Barnes, John Blakeley, Bonnie Bramlett, Alice Cooper

Votes: 59

41. Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is ... See full summary »

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 76

42. The Royal Rodeo (1939)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Musical, Romance

A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace.

Director: George Amy | Stars: John Payne, Lucile Fairbanks, Cliff Edwards, Scotty Beckett

Votes: 264

43. Rewards for the Tribe (2023)

85 min | Documentary, Musical

A bold, visually striking dance documentary that celebrates human connection and asks us to rethink our notions of perfection.

Director: Rhys Graham | Stars: Darcy Carpenter, Jianna Georgiou, Antony Hamilton, Benjamin Hancock

44. Goodbye Broadway (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. ... See full summary »

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorothea Kent

45. Upstage (1926)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A small-town girl with big ambitions hooks up with a vaudevillian, whose talent makes the act a success. Dolly thinks she is the reason until a handsome leading man discovers her looks exceed her talent and is soon out of work.

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Norma Shearer, Oscar Shaw, Tenen Holtz, Gwen Lee

Votes: 104

46. The Money Rich (1958)

88 min | Comedy

An unpretentious owner of a travelling sideshow who receives an immense fortune from his long-forgotten brother indulges himself in the sweet pleasures of dolce vita. But, will he remember his humble origins?

Director: Nikos Tsiforos | Stars: Vasilis Avlonitis, Giorgos Kabanellis, Thanasis Tzeneralis, Nikos Matthaios

Votes: 80

47. Tarantella napoletana (1953)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Musical

Combining musical and dance numbers with comedy sketches (performed by members of The Armando Curcio Company and The Gauthier Ballet Troupe)without any plot, this is more of a revue than a ... See full summary »

Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Clara Bindi, Clara Crispo, Vittoria Crispo, Dino Curcio

Votes: 10

48. One for the Book (1940)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

On a desktop with many books, familiar characters in literature (such as Captain Kidd, Huckleberry Finn, Robinson Crusoe, and Rip Van Winkle) come out of their books after dark. When the ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Betty Hutton, Hal Sherman, Miriam Grahame, Beaus & Belles

Votes: 142

49. Hong yan (2005)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama

Loneliness, saving face, and public mores. In 1983 in China, Yun is a bright schoolgirl who gets pregnant. She's expelled, her boyfriend leaves town, and her mother arranges the baby's ... See full summary »

Director: Yu Li | Stars: Xingrao Huang, Kechun Li, Yi Liu, Yizhu Wang

Votes: 308

50. Grzeszny zywot Franciszka Buly (1980)

98 min | Drama, Romance

Set in Silesia, a coalmining region of Poland in the 20's and 30's, between two world wars. The hero is a street performer. He is a quick- witted con-man belonging to a troupe of wandering actors roaming the countryside.

Director: Janusz Kidawa | Stars: Andrzej Grabarczyk, Jarek Antonik, Jerzy Cnota, Miroslaw Krawczyk

Votes: 86