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1. Seinfeld (1989–1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy

The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York City stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York City friends.

Stars: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander

Votes: 352,115

2. Miracle (2004)

PG | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History

The true story of Herb Brooks, the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Soviet squad.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathan West, Noah Emmerich

Votes: 58,960 | Gross: $64.38M

3. La Bamba (1987)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña

Votes: 36,466 | Gross: $54.22M

4. Valley of the Dolls (1967)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate

Votes: 9,757 | Gross: $44.43M

5. The Cobbler (2014)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A cobbler, bored of his everyday life, stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to become other people and see the world in a different way.

Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Adam Sandler, Melonie Diaz, Steve Buscemi, Method Man

Votes: 60,446

6. The Dark Corner (1946)

Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens

Votes: 5,215

7. Holiday Inn (1942)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

Directors: Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen | Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale

Votes: 17,637 | Gross: $8.18M

8. Murder at the Vanities (1934)

Passed | 89 min | Crime, Music, Musical

A homicide detective with an eye for the ladies, investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities, allows the music revue to continue during the investigation.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle

Votes: 976

9. Paper Heart (2009)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn't fully understand: Love.

Director: Nicholas Jasenovec | Stars: Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera, Jake Johnson, Gill Summers

Votes: 8,592 | Gross: $1.27M

10. Stage Door Canteen (1943)

Passed | 132 min | Comedy, Romance, War

A young soldier arrives in NYC and, before heading overseas to WWII, visits Stage Door Canteen, where famous actresses and entertainers volunteer to entertain soldiers.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Cheryl Walker, William Terry, Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker

Votes: 1,831

11. Africa Screams (1949)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck

Votes: 4,058

12. Go, Johnny, Go! (1959)

G | 75 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.

Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Alan Freed, Jimmy Clanton, Sandy Stewart, Chuck Berry

Votes: 483

13. Swing Out, Sister (1945)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Penelope Mariman works as a singer at Club Colby, a Broadway nightclub, under the name of Donna Leslie, as her blue-blooded family in Connecticut believes she is attending school in New ... See full synopsis »

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Rod Cameron, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Frances Raeburn

Votes: 18

14. Delightfully Dangerous (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Louise Beavers

Votes: 329

15. The Harlem Globetrotters (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Sport

Abe Saperstein, owner/manager of the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional basketball team, signs Billy Townsend, an All-American, to play with the "Globetrotters."... See full summary »

Directors: Phil Brown, Will Jason | Stars: Harlem Globetrotters, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Dandridge, Bill Walker

Votes: 250

16. Cuban Pete (1946)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Ethel Smith, Joan Shawlee, Beverly Simmons

Votes: 50

17. You Can't Have Everything (1937)

Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger

Votes: 276

18. The Star Maker (1939)

Approved | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Music

This is a film based on the life of Gus Edwards, a well-known vaudeville composer, entertainer and producer.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, Linda Ware, Ned Sparks

Votes: 115

19. The Powers Girl (1943)

Approved | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Two sisters living in New York City aspire to become high-profile models.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, Carole Landis, Dennis Day

Votes: 100

20. Out of This World (1945)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

After struggling to become a success, Betty Miller and her all-girl orchestra finally hit pay dirt when crooner Herbie Fenton comes on board. Problems arise when Betty and her girls try to ... See full summary »

Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Diana Lynn, Cass Daley

Votes: 171

21. George White's Scandals (1934)

Passed | 1 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Opening with a credit line that reads "Entire production conceived, created and directed by George White," a film evolves where the only plot line is a thin backstage romance between Jimmy ... See full summary »

Directors: Thornton Freeland, Harry Lachman, George White | Stars: Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 107

22. Lillian Russell (1940)

Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold

Votes: 581

23. George White's Scandals (1945)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Music

This Broadway revue is about two love affairs. The romance between the comedienne Joan Mason and Jack Evans of Boston is easily disturbed by Jack's cynical sister Clarabelle Evans, who is ... See full summary »

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Joan Davis, Jack Haley, Phillip Terry, Martha Holliday

Votes: 246

24. Dangerous Blondes (1943)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A crime fiction writer and his wife investigate murders that are occurring at a fashion photography studio.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Edmund Lowe, John Hubbard

Votes: 399

25. One in a Million (1936)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Family, Music

American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Adolphe Menjou, Don Ameche, Ned Sparks

Votes: 337 | Gross: $2.00M

26. George White's 1935 Scandals (1935)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Vacationing Broadway producer George White stops off in a small Georgia town to send a telegram and, seeing his name in lights on a local theater, is scandalized over the unauthorized use. ... See full summary »

Directors: George White, Harry Lachman, James Tinling | Stars: Alice Faye, James Dunn, Ned Sparks, Lyda Roberti

Votes: 189

27. Wake Up and Live (1937)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Satire on radio, built around the supposed feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and journalist Walter Winchell.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 159

28. Music Man (1948)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In New York City, Italian American songwriting brothers Phil and Freddie Russo turn out one successful song after another for their publisher, Sanders. One day, Freddie and Phil accept an ... See full synopsis »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Freddie Stewart, Phil Brito

Votes: 79

29. Syncopation (1929)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Morton Downey, Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter

Votes: 94

30. The Big Cage (1933)

Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Anita Page, Andy Devine, Vince Barnett

Votes: 68

31. The Thrill of Brazil (1946)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Steve, revue producer in Rio de Janeiro, is still in love with his ex-wife Vicki, his star Linda is in love with Steve and Tito is in love with Linda. Because of this they all get small problems.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Keenan Wynn, Ann Miller, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 155

32. From Nashville with Music (1969)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Music

In this FICTIONAL film, filled with FICTIONAL people doing FICTIONAL things, Mabel (Marilyn Maxwell) and Arnold (Leo G. Carroll), a couple of sophisticated swells from New York City, are on... See full summary »

Directors: Eddie Crandall, Robert Patrick | Stars: Marilyn Maxwell, Leo G. Carroll, Jose Gonzales-Gonzales, Marty Robbins

Votes: 22

33. Swing, Sister, Swing (1938)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Music

Broadway press agent Nap Sisler sees a chance to make a national hit with a new dance, "The Baltimore Bubble", created by Greenvale filling-station attendant Johnny Bennett. Nap promotes ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Ken Murray, Johnny Downs, Kathryn Kane, Eddie Quillan

Votes: 22

34. Argentine Nights (1940)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music

An all-girl band flees to Argentina to avoid their creditors.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz

Votes: 67

35. Broadway (1942)

Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Music

George Raft, playing himself, recalls his days on Broadway, where he acquired a reputation as a great dancer--and also one as a brawler, a ladies man and an associate of some of the city's most notorious gangsters.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Janet Blair, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 132

36. 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

37. This Is the Life (1944)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing the object ... See full summary »

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton

Votes: 74

38. Satchmo the Great (1957)

Approved | 63 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. ... See full summary »

Stars: Louis Armstrong, Edward R. Murrow, Leonard Bernstein, W.C. Handy

Votes: 23

39. Ice-Capades (1941)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Newsreel cameraman Bob Clemens, an avowed woman hater, is assigned to cover the Lake Placid exhibition of Karen Vadja, the Swiss ice Queen. He misses his plane and fails to get the footage ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: James Ellison, Jerry Colonna, Dorothy Lewis, Barbara Jo Allen

Votes: 79

40. Take It Big (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A rancher puts on a show to raise money so he can save his dude ranch from bankruptcy.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Harriet Nelson, Mary Beth Hughes, Richard Lane

Votes: 34

41. 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: 22

42. Black and Tan (1929)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Drama, Music

Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.

Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Fredi Washington, Hall Johnson Choir

Votes: 596

43. Bringing Up Father (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy

Maggie and her snooty society friends fool Jiggs and his buddies down at Dinty's tavern into not only signing a petition to close the bar, but they also trick them into taking the "temperaance" pledge to forsake all alcohol.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Tim Ryan, June Harrison

Votes: 46

44. Babes on Swing Street (1944)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Barber Joe Costello prefers to let his teenage daughter Trudy shave his customers while he plays the accordion. One day, Trudy's wealthy heiress friend, Carol Curtis, arrives at the ... See full synopsis »

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Ann Blyth, Peggy Ryan, Andy Devine, Leon Errol

Votes: 44

45. Sing for Sweetie (1938)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Sally Newton is in love with Lee Sullivan, a young tenor singer with Johnny Johnson's Orchestra, but her father prefers a stuffy young clerk as her suitor. She makes him taker her to the ... See full summary »

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Lee Sullivan, George Shelton, Frances McCoy, Robert Gray

Votes: 23

46. Disc Jockey (1951)

Passed | 77 min | Music

A radio disc jockey is about to lose his program's sponsor because the sponsor believes that television viewing is cutting down the size of the listening audience for radio programs, and ... See full summary »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Ginny Simms, Tom Drake, Jane Nigh, Michael O'Shea

47. Is Everybody Happy? (1943)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Music, War

This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Ted Lewis, Michael Duane, Nan Wynn, Larry Parks

Votes: 26

48. Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

In this fictional film in which performers using their own name do fictional things with fictional people there is no one playing 'Self', but there is a record-company talent scout, Bill ... See full summary »

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dámaso Pérez Prado, Perez Prado Orchestra, The Mary Kaye Trio, Mary Kaye

Votes: 46

49. Will You Stop! (1937)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy

Tim (Tim Ryan) has written what he thinks is a great skit about Antony and Cleopatra for the department store's annual employee show, but the boss insists on his goofy daughter (Irene Ryan) playing Cleopatra opposite Tim's Antony.

Director: William Watson | Stars: Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Hugh Cameron, Ed Garvie

Votes: 20

50. Slapsie Maxie's (1939)

Passed | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport

When a waiter accidentally KOs boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's nightclub, Rosenbloom arranges a boxing match between the reluctant waiter and the champ.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Maxie Rosenbloom, Johnnie Davis, Frank Faylen, Cully Richards

Votes: 111