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1. Die Dreigroschenoper (2016 TV Movie)
Crime, Drama, Musical
Director: Felix Breisach | Stars: Tobias Moretti, Florian Boesch, Angelika Kirchschlager, Nina Bernsteiner
Votes: 9
2. Monitor (1958–1965)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Fortnightly arts show from the BBC, covering the worlds of theatre, film, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture and music.
Stars: Huw Wheldon, Jonathan Miller, John Berger, Robert Robinson
Votes: 97
3. Live from Lincoln Center (1976– )
180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed performances from the famous performing arts center in New York City.
Stars: Beverly Sills, Audra McDonald, Louis Perry, Zubin Mehta
Votes: 284
4.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
(1994)
TV-G | 91 min | Music, Musical
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: William S. Burroughs, Betty Carter, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello
Votes: 187
5. The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
180 min | Musical
This is the 1977 television recording of the Rise and Fall of Managing by Kurt Weill
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Chorus, James Levine, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Charles Anthony
Votes: 47
6.
The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977– )
Episode:
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(1979)
Musical
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Teresa Stratas, Richard Cassilly, Astrid Varnay, Cornell MacNeil
Votes: 12
7. Television Theater (1953– )
Drama
Series of television plays.
Stars: Jerzy Trela, Krzysztof Globisz, Krystyna Janda, Jan Englert
Votes: 91
8. Street Scene (1997 TV Movie)
Musical
Director: José Montes-Baquer | Stars: Dean Anthony, Claudia Ashley, Rachel Beabout, Field Blauvelt
Votes: 18
9. Lady in the Dark (1954 TV Movie)
85 min | Musical
Fashion magazine executive becomes unable to make decisions both at work and in her personal life. She skeptically seeks psychological help, where she recalls her musical dreams featuring people in her life, past and present.
Director: Max Liebman | Stars: Ann Sothern, James Daly, Luella Gear, Paul McGrath
Votes: 27
10. Frank Sinatra in Japan: Live at the Budokan Hall, Tokyo (1985 TV Special)
G | 70 min | Music
Frank Sinatra live on stage in Japan's famous Budokan Hall.
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Don Baldwin, Mark Barnett, Irv Cottler
Votes: 34
11. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 896
12. Milos Kopecký: Mackie Messer (1960 Music Video)
3 min | Short, Crime, Music
A gruesome ballad about English serial killer 'Mack the Knife' from Kurt Weill's The Three-Penny Opera, sung by Czech actor Milos Kopecký.
Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Jana Kopecká
Votes: 34
13.
Monitor (1958–1965)
Episode:
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill/Jack Yeats
(1961)
45 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Todays theme is Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Lotte Lenya, Huw Wheldon
Votes: 15
14. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
15.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(2007)
TV-G | 133 min | Music, Musical
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean Griffey, Robert Wörle
Votes: 26
16. The Seven Deadly Sins (1993 TV Movie)
47 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Anna I and Anna II set out on a seven year journey that takes them through a series of varied life experiences while their parents and two brothers remain behind.
Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Teresa Stratas, Nora Kimball, Howard Haskin, Peter Rose
Votes: 19
17. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
60 min | Drama
Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, et cetera.
Stars: Elmer Davis, Charles Dingle, Richard Bishop, Joan Chandler
Votes: 50
18. The Threepenny Opera (1931)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel
Votes: 2,543
19. Opernführer (1965– )
Musical
Stars: Marcel Prawy, Anneliese Rothenberger, Norman Foster, Maria Kouba
Votes: 5
20. Mahagonny (1980)
Unrated | 141 min
A mathematical analysis of Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass, expressed in terms of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Director: Harry Smith | Stars: Rose Feliu-Pettet, Allen Ginsberg, Lotte Lenya, Jonas Mekas
Votes: 31
21. Musical TV Theater (1970– )
Musical
Stars: Sándor Palcsó, György Melis, Péter Korcsmáros, Dénes Gulyás
Votes: 15
22. Die Dreigroschenoper (2004 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Director: Ulrich Waller | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Christian Redl, Eva Mattes, Stefanie Stappenbeck
Votes: 16
23. Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1998 TV Movie)
156 min | Drama, Comedy, Music
Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved elephants, commodified sex and licensed gluttony.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Gwyneth Jones, Cornelius Smith, Wilbur Pauley, Catherine Malfitano
Votes: 28
24. Down in the Valley (1983 TV Movie)
51 min | Musical
Director: Frank Cvitanovich | Stars: Van Hinman, Hutton Cobb, Linda Lou Allen, Phil Brown
Votes: 8
25. Weill: Street Scene (2019 Video)
160 min | Music
A musical version of Elmer Rice's play in which twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Directors: Jérémie Cuvillier, John Fulljames | Stars: Patricia Racette, Paulo Szot, Mary Bevan, Jeni Bern
Votes: 12
26. You and Me (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Film-Noir
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Votes: 1,632
27. One Touch of Venus (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. However, the problems begin when Venus falls in love with him.
Directors: William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden
Votes: 1,646
28. Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
130 min | Biography, Drama
Against many odds, Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" becomes a phenomenal success. The film industry picks up the scent and seeks to make the master direct a film version of his "play... See full summary »
Director: Joachim Lang | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król
Votes: 711
29. Lost in the Stars (1974)
G | 97 min | Drama, Musical
Brock Peters (To Kill a Mockingbird) is Stephen Kumalo, a black South African minister searching the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son, Absalom.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques, Clifton Davis
Votes: 138
30. One Touch of Venus (1955 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
While in a museum of modern art, Rodney Hatch, a barber, places the engagement ring he bought for his girlfriend, Molly, on the finger of a statue of Venus. Magically the statue comes to ... See full summary »
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Janet Blair, Russell Nype, George Gaynes, Laurel Shelby
Votes: 52
31. Salute to France (1944)
34 min | Short
Three soldiers, an American, a Brit and a Frenchman, work to promote solidarity between their different military forces during World War II.
Directors: Garson Kanin, Jean Renoir | Stars: Claude Dauphin, Burgess Meredith, Philip Bourneuf, Georges Clemenceau
Votes: 71
32. Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
Approved | 74 min | Fantasy, Musical
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, George Seaton | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon
Votes: 301
33. Mack the Knife (1989)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
In nineteenth century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal, and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves, so her father, "the king of thieves", gets the gangster arrested.
Director: Menahem Golan | Stars: Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey
Votes: 410
34. NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949– )
Family, Music
Televised broadcasts of performances by NBC Opera Theatre. an opera company owned and operated by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The company had been formed for the purpose of ... See full summary »
Stars: Virginia Haskins, Ralph Herbert, Leon Lishner, Elaine Malbin
Votes: 24
35. Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, History, Musical
It's 1650 in New Amsterdam, and Brom Broeck, a young outspoken newspaper publisher is arrested for printing advanced opinions on the undemocratic rule of Governor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant. ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart
Votes: 199
36. Three Penny Opera (1963)
124 min | Drama, Musical
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Hildegard Knef, Gert Fröbe, Hilde Hildebrand
Votes: 210
37. Kniven (2010)
12 min | Short, Drama, Music
A dying serial killer struggles to escape his violent past, as the memories of his first victim takes over his mind.
Director: Eirik Smidesang Slåen | Stars: Tora Augestad, David Nicholas Frankson Bakken, Magnus Bjørnstad, Stian Carstensen
Votes: 19
38. Playa azul (1982)
90 min | Drama, Romance
A mature lady and her friends of holidays in Spain are seducing young boys.
Director: Jaime Jesús Balcázar | Stars: Juanita Brown, Bord Theed, José Febles, Helga Liné
Votes: 40
39. Lletres catalanes (1974–1979)
Drama
Stars: Rafael Anglada, Jordi Serrat, Joan Borràs, Vicenç Manel Domènech
40. A Ópera dos Três Vinténs (1993 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama
Stars: Sónia Aragão, Ana Bergano, Elisabete Boura, Céu Caetano
41. Happy End (1977 TV Movie)
127 min
Director: Manfred Wekwerth | Stars: Renate Richter, Wolf Kaiser, Heinz-Dieter Knaup, Christian Grashof
42. Die Dreigroschenoper (2021 TV Movie)
152 min | Musical
In 1928, 200 years after the London premiere of John Gay's "Beggar's Opera", Bertolt Brecht edited a new translation for the opening of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin and, at Lion... See full summary »
Directors: Torsten Fischer, André Turnheim | Stars: Herbert Föttinger, Maria Bill, Swintha Gersthofer, Claudius von Stolzmann
43. Song by Song (1977–1980)
45 min | Music
Stars: Ned Sherrin, David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Julia McKenzie
44. Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 137 min | Musical
Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money.
Director: Àlex Ollé | Stars: Jane Henschel, Measha Brueggergosman, Willard White, Donald Kaasch
46. Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2015)
171 min | Music
Director: Rhodri Huw | Stars: Anne Sofie von Otter, Peter Hoare, Willard White, Christine Rice
47. Street Scene (1992 TV Movie)
148 min | Music
A musical version of Elmer Rice's play in which twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
Director: Barrie Gavin | Stars: Terry Jenkins, Christine Bunning, Marian Martin, Melodie Waddingham
48. Happy End oder Wie ein kleines Heilsarmeemädchen Chicagos größte Verbrecher in die Arme der Gesellschaft zurückführte (1972 TV Movie)
88 min | Musical, Comedy
Director: Heinz Schirk | Stars: Margot Rothweiler, Siegfried Rauch, Paula Lepa, Siegfried Lorisch
49. The Swift Show (1948– )
30 min | Comedy, Music
Live music and light comedy featuring singer Lanny Ross. For the first 5 months, a quiz segment was included where contestants attempted to determine names, places and events from a series ... See full summary »
Stars: Lanny Ross, Milton Berle, Tommy Rall, Bob Smith
50. Cirkus Broadway (1989 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, Music
The Swedish rock band Eldkvarn conducted during the 1988 tent tour "Circus Broadway" together with a long line of Swedish artists such as Pugh Rogefeldt, Marie Fredriksson, Ratata, Peter ... See full summary »
Stars: Eldkvarn, Pugh Rogefeldt, Marie Fredriksson, Kajsa Grytt