Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "1920s", "waiter"

1. The Shining (1980)

R | 146 min | Drama, Horror

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers

Votes: 1,107,621 | Gross: $44.02M

2. Ratatouille (2007)

G | 111 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant.

Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava | Stars: Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm

Votes: 825,915 | Gross: $206.45M

3. There Will Be Blood (2007)

R | 158 min | Drama

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer

Votes: 641,580 | Gross: $40.22M

4. The Power of the Dog (2021)

R | 126 min | Drama, Western

Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Votes: 193,963

5. Some Like It Hot (1959)

Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft

Votes: 283,711 | Gross: $25.00M

6. Giant (1956)

G | 201 min | Drama, Western

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker

Votes: 42,270

7. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

Passed | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith

Votes: 4,746

8. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, RZA

Votes: 67,516 | Gross: $1.97M

9. Jules and Jim (1962)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino

Votes: 44,442

10. Max (I) (2002)

R | 106 min | Drama, War

A film studying the depiction of a friendship between an art dealer named Rothman and his student, Adolf Hitler.

Director: Menno Meyjes | Stars: John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker

Votes: 8,795 | Gross: $0.53M

11. The FBI Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Crime, Drama, History

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell

Votes: 3,881

12. Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999)

169 min | Drama, Romance, War

A lush, elegant epic taking us on a time-swirling trip down the infinitely complex labyrinth that is Marcel Proust's memory lane.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Vincent Perez, John Malkovich

Votes: 2,832 | Gross: $0.46M

13. I Served the King of England (2006)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel.

Director: Jirí Menzel | Stars: Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch, Marián Labuda

Votes: 8,194 | Gross: $0.62M

14. Blue Skies (1946)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

An ex-dancer and New York radio star narrates his love story for a band singer who loved a self-centered man who was unable to commit to his nightclub business or his family.

Directors: Stuart Heisler, Mark Sandrich | Stars: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe

Votes: 1,570

15. College (1927)

Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.

Directors: James W. Horne, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin

Votes: 5,478

16. Their Purple Moment (1928)

Passed | 22 min | Comedy, Short

Stan and Ollie hold out money from their paychecks from their shrewish wives so they can enjoy a night out on the town... with predictable results.

Directors: James Parrott, Fred Guiol | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Kay Deslys

Votes: 831

17. Born Reckless (1930)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, War

Hoping to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, William Harrigan, Marguerite Churchill

Votes: 562

18. Framed (1930)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde, William Holden

Votes: 324

19. Love Me Forever (1935)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A man who loves an aspiring opera singer is prepared to sacrifice everything to help her with her career, even though he knows she doesn't love him.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Grace Moore, Leo Carrillo, Robert Allen, Spring Byington

Votes: 148

20. From Soup to Nuts (1928)

20 min | Comedy, Short

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

Directors: Edgar Kennedy, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tiny Sandford, Dorothy Coburn

Votes: 1,149

21. Atlantic City (1944)

Approved | 87 min | Musical, Romance

Vaudeville acts are re-created in the story of how Atlantic City became a famous resort.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Constance Moore, Stanley Brown, Charley Grapewin, Jerry Colonna

Votes: 121

22. I Loved You Wednesday (1933)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Vicki Meredith, an American ballet student in Paris, falls in love with Randall Williams, another American studying architecture in Paris, and they set up light housekeeping together until ... See full summary »

Directors: Henry King, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Warner Baxter, Elissa Landi, Victor Jory, Miriam Jordan

Votes: 58

23. St. Louis Blues (1929)

Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Drama, Music

In her only known film appearance, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith witnesses her lover's betrayal, then sings a powerful rendition of the title song.

Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Bessie Smith, Jimmy Mordecai, Isabel Washington, Hall Johnson Choir

Votes: 471

24. The Girl Said No (1930)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler

Votes: 868

25. Red Wine (1928)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

Charles Cook, a husband with a multi-year itch, decides he will go out and whoop it up with the boys, but tells his wife it is a business meeting. His helpful friend Jack Scott introduces ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Cannon | Stars: June Collyer, Conrad Nagel, Arthur Stone, Sharon Lynn

26. Man Trouble (1930)

Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A hard-boiled nightclub owner saves a beautiful young girl from drowning. He promptly falls in love with her, but she prefers a younger, more-genteel lover.

Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Kenneth MacKenna, Sharon Lynn

Votes: 33

27. Med folket för fosterlandet (1938)

Approved | 106 min | Crime, Drama, History

This Svensk Film Production, released in the US in March of 1939 in a 105-minute version, depicts every noteworthy event (in the eyes of the filmmakers) in Sweden, from the death of King ... See full summary »

Director: Sigurd Wallén | Stars: Sigurd Wallén, Linnéa Hillberg, Åke Johansson, Hasse Ekman

Votes: 23

28. The Black Duck (1929)

Passed | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short

Okay, this is an entry in the "Aesop's Sound Fables" and is a version of the little-black-duck and the wolf-in-sheep's clothing fables about the sibling duck who was shunned because of his ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Terry

Votes: 61

29. The Way of All Men (1930)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A variety of broad-painted and unlikely characters are trapped in an underground café when a Mississippi River levee breaks and causes flood havoc above and below.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dorothy Revier, Robert Edeson, Anders Randolf

Votes: 26

30. Scarlet Pages (1930)

Passed | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does not know can find a way to save her.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Elsie Ferguson, Marian Nixon, John Halliday, Grant Withers

Votes: 140

31. That Model from Paris (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama

The original Plain Jane story that inspired many copycats. Shy secretary Jane removes her glasses and hat, transforming into a natural beauty. Unsavory characters push her into impersonating a French model. Confusion and romance ensue.

Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Marceline Day, Bert Lytell, Eileen Percy, Ward Crane

Votes: 86

32. A College Racket (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short

Some college students attend a nightclub, "The Pirate's Den", that the Dean of the college has declared off-limits to students. They start to wreck it in their playful mood when another ... See full summary »

Director: Harold Beaudine | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Betty Lorraine, Vernon Dent, Eddie Baker

Votes: 14

33. Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode: The Unbreakable Alibi (1983)

TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Monty Jones hires the Beresfords to help him win a bet and break a concocted alibi by beautiful Una Drake, who has agreed to marry him if he can.

Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Anna Nygh, Reece Dinsdale

Votes: 104

34. Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode: Strela (1989)

52 min | Crime, History

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Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Hana Maciuchová, Petr Cepek, Vlastimil Brodský, Ludek Munzar

Votes: 14