Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "diva", "singing"

1. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 130,798 | Gross: $51.27M

2. Marie Antoinette (2006)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.

Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Steve Coogan

Votes: 122,082 | Gross: $15.96M

3. The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

PG | 107 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Intrepid reporter Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a treasure hunt for a sunken ship commanded by Haddock's ancestor.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg

Votes: 243,435 | Gross: $77.59M

4. The Bodyguard (1992)

R | 129 min | Action, Drama, Music

A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs

Votes: 147,863 | Gross: $121.95M

5. Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 59,617 | Gross: $27.38M

6. Annette (2021)

R | 141 min | Drama, Music, Musical

A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.

Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell

Votes: 22,731

7. I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.

Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Saoirse Ronan, Tracey Ullman

Votes: 19,478

8. Quartet (2012)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.

Director: Dustin Hoffman | Stars: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay

Votes: 21,215 | Gross: $18.39M

9. 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: 8,326 | Gross: $3.49M

10. Topsy-Turvy (1999)

R | 160 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith

Votes: 13,488 | Gross: $6.20M

11. The Rose (1979)

R | 125 min | Drama, Music, Romance

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.

Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton

Votes: 9,255 | Gross: $29.20M

12. The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)

Not Rated | 137 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorizes the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves.

Directors: Nick Morris, Laurence Connor | Stars: Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, Wendy Ferguson

Votes: 9,952

13. Bel Canto (I) (2018)

TV-MA | 100 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A world-renowned opera singer becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform for a wealthy industrialist in South America.

Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Julianne Moore, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch, Ryô Kase

Votes: 3,756 | Gross: $0.08M

14. Being Julia (2004)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Maury Chaykin, Jeremy Irons

Votes: 12,934 | Gross: $7.74M

15. The Country Girl (1954)

Unrated | 104 min | Drama, Music

A director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross

Votes: 6,683

16. Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)

PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill

Votes: 13,967 | Gross: $4.95M

17. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

Not Rated | 128 min | Fantasy, Music, Musical

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars

Votes: 3,953 | Gross: $0.09M

18. 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

19. Barbie in 'A Christmas Carol' (2008 Video)

TV-Y | 76 min | Animation, Family

Barbie stars in her first holiday movie in this heart-warming adaptation of the classic Dickens story filled with cherished Christmas carols, fabulous fashions and lots of laughs!

Director: William Lau | Stars: Kelly Sheridan, Morwenna Banks, Melissa Lyons, Prudence Edwards

Votes: 3,337

20. Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)

102 min | Comedy, Music, War

Bourdelle, a family of musicians, refuse to play for Germans during the war. They would like to liberate France using all possible means.

Director: Jean-Marie Poiré | Stars: Christian Clavier, Michel Galabru, Roland Giraud, Gérard Jugnot

Votes: 3,399

21. Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)

R | 90 min | Comedy

An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge.

Director: Mark Rucker | Stars: Charles Busch, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley, Angela Paton

Votes: 2,138

22. Vedo nudo (1969)

117 min | Comedy

Seven episodes light-heartedly revolving around sexuality and eros with seven funny characters all played by great Nino Manfredi.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Véronique Vendell, Umberto D'Orsi

Votes: 529

23. Marguerite (2015)

R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience acts as if she was the diva she believes she is.

Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret

Votes: 5,675 | Gross: $0.51M

24. Callas Forever (2002)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The last days of legendary opera singer Maria Callas.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan

Votes: 2,455 | Gross: $0.45M

25. Tito and Me (1992)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.

Director: Goran Markovic | Stars: Dimitrije Vojnov, Lazar Ristovski, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Anica Dobra

Votes: 6,135 | Gross: $0.14M

26. A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000 TV Movie)

PG | 120 min | Comedy, Musical, Fantasy

In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas spirits who would change her miserly ways for the better.

Director: Richard Schenkman | Stars: Vanessa Williams, Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas, John Taylor, Brian McNamara

Votes: 1,378

27. Shirley (2011 TV Movie)

60 min | Biography, Drama

In 1938 mixed race baby Shirley Bassey, her mother and eight siblings are living in a poor area of Cardiff after her father is imprisoned for sexual offences. The teen-aged Shirley will ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Teague | Stars: Ruth Negga, Lesley Sharp, Babou Ceesay, Victoria Pugh

Votes: 203

28. Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990)

115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, ... See full summary »

Director: Phillip Borsos | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore

Votes: 414

29. One Night of Love (1934)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Mary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie

Votes: 748

30. Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas (2001 TV Special)

90 min | Documentary, Music

Britney Spears dazzles television views as HBO presents her "Dream Within A Dream" World Tour.

Director: Marty Callner | Stars: Britney Spears, Skip Dorsey, Jon Voight, Slam Hammett

Votes: 1,099

31. Cain and Mabel (1936)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 2,068

32. Music in the Air (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealousy angle when a naive young couple comes along.

Director: Joe May | Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Douglass Montgomery, June Lang

Votes: 1,027

33. Everybody Does It (1949)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her... See full summary »

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Celeste Holm, Charles Coburn

Votes: 322

34. The Song of Separation (1940)

75 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

An attractive Athenian woman holidaying on Hydra falls in love with a local fisherman and steals him from his girlfriend to promote him as a singer in Athens' music clubs.

Director: Filopoimin Finos | Stars: Labros Konstadaras, Linda Miranda, Alekos Livaditis, Evgenia Danika

Votes: 43

35. Spark: A Burning Man Story (2013)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Action, Biography

Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a... See full summary »

Directors: Steve Brown, Jessie Deeter | Stars: Harley K. Dubois, Marian Goodell, Larry Harvey, John Law

Votes: 593 | Gross: $0.12M

36. Akropol (1996)

125 min | Musical, Drama

This musical shows of the Acropole dominated Greek theater during the 1950s and 60s. Acropole follows Prince, the self-made producer of this unusual and mythic theater, and Lakis, the ... See full summary »

Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Lefteris Voyatzis, Stavros Paravas, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Themis Bazaka

Votes: 177

37. Timeless: Live in Concert (2001 TV Special)

127 min | Music

Barbra greets the new millennium looking back at the past.

Directors: Don Mischer, Barbra Streisand | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Lauren Frost, Savion Glover, Randee Heller

Votes: 304

38. Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2012)

PG | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

A documentary on Broadway legend Carol Channing.

Director: Dori Berinstein | Stars: Carol Channing, Eddie Albert, Loni Anderson, Julie Andrews

Votes: 293 | Gross: $0.01M

39. The Opera Lover (1999)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy

When George Krikkos, middle-aged, divorced, Greek American selling vegetable produce for his father in Chicago, hears that his childhood love is returning to town to sing, his own love of opera reawakens, and reignites his singing career.

Directors: Ron Lazzeretti, Venturino Liberatore | Stars: Tom Bastounes, Megan Moore Burns, Pat Healy, Bob Altman

Votes: 137 | Gross: $0.00M

40. Leyla Gencer: La Diva Turca (2019)

85 min | Documentary

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts had commemorated one of the most important opera singers of the 20th century, Leyla Gencer in 2018, on the 10th anniversary of her death with ... See full summary »

Director: Selçuk Metin | Stars: Leyla Gencer, Melahat Behlil, Simge Büyükedes, Franca Cella

Votes: 77

41. Maria Callas: La Divina - A Portrait (1988 TV Movie)

91 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A decade after his original film on her, Tony Palmer returns to the subject of Maria Callas, this time for ITV's flagship arts show.

Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Carlo Maria Giulini, Tito Gobbi

Votes: 82

42. Divas Live: An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Music (1998 TV Special)

80 min | Documentary, Music

The most famous female artists in popular music perform.

Director: Michael Simon | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Patricia Arquette, Mariah Carey, Bill Clinton

Votes: 299

43. David Walliams Celebrates Dame Shirley Bassey (2016 TV Special)

65 min | Biography, Comedy, Music

Ahead of her 80th birthday in Janurary 2017, comic actor David Walliams hosts this special night of entertainment paying tribute to Welsh diva Dame Shirley Bassey. Featuring songs, interviews and comedy sketches.

Director: Steve Smith | Stars: Shirley Bassey, David Walliams, Simon Callow, Jocelyn Jee Esien

Votes: 13

44. Rainbow Over Broadway (1933)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Ex-vaudeville performer Trixie makes a come-back, and threatens to thwart the ambitions of her song-writing step-children, Bob and Judy.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Joan Marsh, Frank Albertson, Lucien Littlefield, Grace Hayes

Votes: 55

45. Cuky Luky film (2017)

Comedy

They could not be more different - Cuky is a wannabe blogger, Luky a star desperate for love.

Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Petra Polnisová, Zuzana Sebová, Diana Mórová, Lukás Latinák

Votes: 114

46. An Audience with Shirley Bassey (1995 TV Special)

60 min | Music

The Welsh star Shirley Bassey proves that she really is a diva of the show business world when she performs her most popular hits and answers questions from a celebrity audience.

Director: Nigel Lythgoe | Stars: Shirley Bassey, Lionel Bart, Mary Hayley Bell, Max Bygraves

Votes: 34

47. Tosca: A Tale of Love and Torture (2000 TV Movie)

85 min | Documentary, Music

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Director: Trevor Graham | Stars: Roderick Brydon, Joan Carden, Vincent Colgiuri, Cathy Dadd

48. Il Menù (1999)

4 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

A comical juxtaposition of great composers and musicians with pasta noodles.

Director: Matt Hornburg | Stars: Measha Brueggergosman, Jessica Lloyd, John Weinzweig

49. The Real Place (2009)

6 min | Animation, Short

Cam Christiansen gives playwright John Murrell's imagination free rein, suspending the laws of time and space to create a visual accompaniment to his flights of poetic fancy.

Director: Cam Christiansen | Stars: Denise Clarke, Micheal Green, Maureen Hodgan, John Murrell

Votes: 24

50. The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode: Carmen (1987)

172 min | Musical

Gypsy Carmen picks soldier Don Jose as her latest conquest, costs him his career, takes up with a toreador while he's in jail, recruits him for the smuggling ring, and foresees her own death.

Director: Brian Large | Stars: James Levine, Agnes Baltsa, Leona Mitchell, José Carreras

Votes: 115