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1. Little Women (2019)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen
Votes: 246,339 | Gross: $108.10M
2. Something's Gotta Give (2003)
PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.
Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet
Votes: 129,257 | Gross: $124.73M
3. The Producers (2005)
PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Votes: 44,791 | Gross: $19.38M
4. Persepolis (2007)
PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux
Votes: 100,230 | Gross: $4.45M
5. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Director: Callie Khouri | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner
Votes: 20,961 | Gross: $69.60M
6. Love the Coopers (2015)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
The intertwined stories of four generations of Coopers unfold right before the annual family reunion on Christmas Eve. Can they survive the most beautiful time of the year?
Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Ed Helms
Votes: 26,788 | Gross: $26.28M
7. Girl Most Likely (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
A failed New York playwright awkwardly navigates the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News.
Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Kristen Wiig, Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, Darren Criss
Votes: 16,034 | Gross: $1.38M
8. The Savages (2007)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Director: Tamara Jenkins | Stars: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman
Votes: 38,642 | Gross: $6.61M
9. Landline (I) (2017)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1995, a teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan discovers that her father is having an affair.
Director: Gillian Robespierre | Stars: Jenny Slate, Jay Duplass, Abby Quinn, John Turturro
Votes: 4,910 | Gross: $0.94M
10. Amour Fou (2014)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. ... See full summary »
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink, Stephan Grossmann, Sandra Hüller
Votes: 1,749 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Black Butterflies (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama
In Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.
Director: Paula van der Oest | Stars: Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer, Graham Clarke
Votes: 2,354
12. Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
Votes: 1,938
13. The Arbor (2010)
Unrated | 94 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Natalie Gavin, Parvani Lingiah
Votes: 2,135 | Gross: $0.02M
14. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M
15. French Exit (1995)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
This movie attempts a persiflage on the Hollywood film industry, depicting two young authors, struggling on their way to their first successful screenplay: Right from the beginning - when ... See full summary »
Director: Daphna Kastner | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Jonathan Silverman, Molly Hagan, Vince Grant
Votes: 188
16. Tarnished Reputations (1920)
50 min | Drama
While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty, induces the girl to pose for him. An ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert Blaché, Alice Guy, Léonce Perret | Stars: Dolores Cassinelli, Alan Roscoe, Georges Deneubourg, Ned Burton
17. U People (2009)
76 min | Documentary, Music
What do you get when over the course of 2 days in an unassuming brownstone in Brooklyn with 30 women across sexualities and transfolk of color? History.
Directors: Olive Demetrius, Hanifah Walidah | Stars: DJ Ayden, Nakita Bermudez, Tara Bethea, Gloria Bigelow
Votes: 14
18. Bread (1918)
60 min | Drama, Romance
A naïve country girl ventures to New York to become a star, but faces poverty and disillusionment when a lecherous theatre manager attempts to take advantage of her.
Director: Ida May Park | Stars: Edward Cecil, Gladys Fox, Kenneth Harlan, Mary MacLaren
Votes: 55
19. Perfect Ending (1944 TV Movie)
Drama
A drama set in a Hollywood apartment, involving a female playwright and her efforts to get a scenario finished as well as the triangle situation in which she was involved.
Director: Fran Harris | Stars: Dorothy Jacobson, Elmira Roessler, Ruth Shames
20. Five Million Witnesses (1965)
93 min | Crime, Mystery
During the TV premiere of the detective story by Petr Tarantík (Miroslav Machácek) called Case for Three Murderers, a popular actor dies in the midst of live broadcasting, in front of the ... See full summary »
Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Radovan Lukavský, Jan Tríska, Miroslav Machácek, Rudolf Hrusínský
Votes: 28
21. Jak se delá divadlo (1969 TV Movie)
31 min | Comedy
Director: Jirina Pokorná-Makoszová | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Vlastimil Brodský, Martin Ruzek, Jirina Jirásková
Votes: 11
22.
Family Ties (1982–1989)
Episode:
The Play's the Thing
(1988)
TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The local theater is producing a radical, largely autobiographical play that Steven wrote in the 1960s. He wants Elyse to play the lead, as she did originally, but becomes consumed by jealousy of her leading man.
Director: Debbie Allen | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman
Votes: 100