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1. Cats (1998 Video)
Not Rated | 120 min | Musical
"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy. One cat will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn. The cats introduce themselves.
Director: David Mallet | Stars: Elaine Paige, John Mills, Ken Page, Rosemarie Ford
Votes: 6,030
2. 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: 9,949
3. Othello (1965)
Unrated | 165 min | Drama
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Robert Lang, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,644
4. Oklahoma! (1999 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Musical, Romance, Western
Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Maureen Lipman, Hugh Jackman, Josefina Gabrielle, David Shelmerdine
Votes: 2,271
5. Love Never Dies (II) (2012)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Music, Musical
10 years has passed since a fire broke out in Paris, leaving only a mask behind - As the love story continues in Coney Island, NY, The Phantom's undying love has grown for the soprano ... See full summary »
Directors: Brett Sullivan, Simon Phillips | Stars: Ben Lewis, Anna O'Byrne, María Mercedes, Simon Gleeson
Votes: 3,147
6. Billy Elliot (2014)
R | 169 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Directors: Stephen Daldry, Brett Sullivan | Stars: Elliott Hanna, Ollie Jochim, Bradley Perret, Matteo Zecca
Votes: 1,985
8. Cabaret (1993 TV Movie)
106 min | Musical, Drama
A filmed stage production of the classic musical.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Jane Horrocks, Alan Cumming, Sara Kestelman, George Raistrick
Votes: 396
9. Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
PG | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Wallace Shawn, Phoebe Brand, George Gaynes, Jerry Mayer
Votes: 5,161 | Gross: $1.75M
10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime.
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods
Votes: 3,884
11. Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 165 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love,"... See full summary »
Director: Michael John Warren | Stars: Will Chase, Adam Kantor, Michael McElroy, Rodney Hicks
Votes: 4,456
12. Victor/Victoria (1995 TV Movie)
146 min | Comedy, Musical
A woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman.
Directors: Matthew Diamond, Blake Edwards, Goro Kobayashi | Stars: Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York
Votes: 2,206
13. Oh! Calcutta! (1972)
Not Rated | 123 min | Comedy, Musical
Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta! is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores. Most of the skits feature one or more performers in ... See full summary »
Directors: Guillaume Martin Aucoin, Jacques Levy | Stars: Raina Barrett, Mark Dempsey, Samantha Harper, Patricia Hawkins
Votes: 300 | Gross: $0.41M
14. The Pee-Wee Herman Show (1981 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 58 min | Comedy
Comedy special starring Pee-Wee Herman and his friends in an adult version of the children's television show, Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) before it even existed.
Directors: Paul Reubens, Marty Callner | Stars: Paul Reubens, John Moody, John Paragon, Tito Larriva
Votes: 1,875
15. To theatro tis Defteras (1970–2004)
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Spyros Konstadopoulos, Nikitas Tsakiroglou, Trifon Karatzas, Iakovos Psarras
Votes: 69
16. Camelot (1982 TV Movie)
150 min | Musical
Part of the cable series "HBO Theatre", this is a videotaped presentation of the 1980 Broadway revival of the musical.
Director: Marty Callner | Stars: Richard Harris, Andy McAvin, James Valentine, Meg Bussert
Votes: 441
17. On Golden Pond (2001 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Ethel (Dame Julie Andrews) and Norman Thayer (Christopher Plummer) are an old couple living "On Golden Pond". Their daughter, Chelsea Thayer Wayne (Glenne Headly), is forty-two-years-old, ... See full summary »
Directors: Ernest Thompson, Martin Pasetta | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Glenne Headly, Sam Robards
Votes: 542
18. True West (2002 TV Movie)
107 min | Drama
Filmed play about two very different brothers, one a criminal and the other a screen-writing family man who becomes appalled by his wayward brother's relationship with a producer.
Director: Gary Halvorson | Stars: Bruce Willis, Chad Smith, Andrew Alburger, Danielle Kennedy
Votes: 253
19. Pippin: His Life and Times (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, History, Musical
At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples life's pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life.
Director: David Sheehan | Stars: Ben Vereen, William Katt, Leslie Denniston, Benjamin Rayson
Votes: 605
20. Hamlet (I) (1964)
191 min | Drama
The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but performed in front of a live audience.
Directors: Bill Colleran, John Gielgud | Stars: Richard Burton, Hume Cronyn, Alfred Drake, Eileen Herlie
Votes: 519
21. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2002 Video)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Madea helps out her granddaughter after her husband leaves her.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Curtis Blake, Marva King, Ty London, Tamela J. Mann
Votes: 1,701
22. The Elephant Man (1982 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Biography, Drama
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
Director: Jack Hofsiss | Stars: Philip Anglim, Kevin Conway, Penny Fuller, Richard Clarke
Votes: 310
23. Friend of the World (2020)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Director: Brian Patrick Butler | Stars: Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott
Votes: 89
24. All the Way Home (1981 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Sally Field, William Hurt, Ned Beatty, Ellen Corby
Votes: 107
25. Peter Pan (2000 TV Special)
Not Rated | 105 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
The fabled children's story show from Broadway produced for television.
Directors: Glenn Casale, Gary Halvorson | Stars: Barbara McCulloh, Cathy Rigby, Paul Schoeffler, Elisa Sagardia
Votes: 616
26. The Iceman Cometh (1960 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Jason Robards, Myron McCormick, Tom Pedi, James Broderick
Votes: 386
27. Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975)
PG | 104 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
Directors: Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt | Star: James Whitmore
Votes: 575 | Gross: $11.00M
28. Sei pezzi facili (2022– )
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Valerio Aprea, Valerio Mastandrea, Massimo De Lorenzo, Paolo Calabresi
Votes: 27
29. Barnum! (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Musical
Barnum the musical traces Phineas Taylor Barnum's career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the circus which was called The Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum is a ... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Coe, Terry Hughes | Stars: Michael Crawford, Eileen Battye, Michael Heath, Christina Collier
Votes: 237
30. Play (2001)
16 min | Drama, Short, Fantasy
The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Alan Rickman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliet Stevenson, Ray Donn
Votes: 699
31. Home Is Where the Heart Is (2013)
PG-13 | 150 min | Drama
The Anderson family returns home for a family gathering. Their parents have a surprise for their children. Tragedy strikes at the moment they least expect it. At this crucial turning point ... See full summary »
Director: Michael McCorkle | Stars: Stephanie Baker, DeShaude Barner, Joe Blunt, Audria P. Crowder
32. Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1990)
Comedy
Stars: Edward Sanderson, Bernard Durand, Robert Manuel, Jacques Ardouin
Votes: 71
33. Beyond the Fringe (1964 TV Special)
Not Rated | 66 min | Documentary, Comedy
A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1962) and subsequently in London (Fortune Theatre) and Broadway.
Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore
Votes: 176
34. Endgame (2000 TV Movie)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Director: Conor McPherson | Stars: Michael Gambon, David Thewlis, Jean Anderson, Charles Simon
Votes: 349
35. St. John in Exile (1986)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
One of Jesus disciples, John has been punished in exile to the island of Patmos. He is all alone and has time to reflect and tell us about his life, faith and troubles. This is a one man ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Curtis | Star: Dean Jones
Votes: 250
36. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (2000 TV Movie)
88 min | Comedy
Three guys, one dead playwright, and 37 plays, all in under two hours. In this universally acclaimed theater experience, Adam Long (one of the troupe's founding members), Reed Martin, and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Kafno | Stars: Adam Long, Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor, Daniel Singer
Votes: 810
37. Friends and Lovers (2005 Video)
Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
What happens when friends cross the line and become lovers? Lies fly, emotions erupt, and the stage is set for a totally uncensored, hilarious, and outrageously entertaining adventure in ... See full summary »
Director: Je'Caryous Johnson | Stars: Leon, Miguel A. Núñez Jr., Mel Jackson, Monica Calhoun
Votes: 105
38. 42nd Street (1986)
154 min | Musical
Filmed for NHK TV, a young chorus girl from Allentown dreams of making it big in an up-coming musical extravaganza from the famed director Julian Marsh.
Director: Mark Bramble | Stars: Jamie Ross, Elizabeth Allen, Clare Leach, Lee Roy Reams
Votes: 14
39. A Talent for Murder (1984 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Comedy
A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Laurence Olivier, Hildegard Neil, Charles Keating
Votes: 171
40. The Oldest Living Graduate (1980 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
Aiming to get in his old man's good graces, Floyd arranges a city-wide celebration lauding Kincaid as the oldest living graduate of a nearby military academy. Instead, the festivities serve... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hofsiss | Stars: Henry Fonda, George Grizzard, Timothy Hutton, Cloris Leachman
Votes: 127
41. Return Engagement (1978 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Drama
A live-theater production which Dame Elizabeth Taylor stars as Dr. Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctantly agrees to rent a room in her ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Joseph Bottoms, Allyn Ann McLerie, Peter Donat
Votes: 119
42. Just Say Love (2009)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Romance
After what is supposed to be a no-strings hook up, two men discuss their dreams, what ideal happiness might be like, and maybe a future together.
Director: Bill Humphreys | Stars: Bill Humphreys, Matthew Jaeger, Robert Mammana
Votes: 582 | Gross: $0.00M
43. A Moon for the Misbegotten (1975 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama
In Connecticut in September 1923, the lives of three people collide: Josie, a domineering Irish woman with a quick tongue and a ruined reputation, her conniving father, tenant farmer Phil ... See full summary »
Directors: José Quintero, Gordon Rigsby | Stars: Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, Ed Flanders, Edwin McDonough
Votes: 170
44. Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! (1967 TV Special)
78 min | Documentary, Comedy
Recreating the one-man show he starred in on Broadway, 'Hal Holbrook' portrays Mark Twain as a 70-year old humorist who skewers politicians, newspapermen and so-called patriots in this 90 ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bogart | Star: Hal Holbrook
Votes: 213
45. Stage on Screen: The Women (2002 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
Roundabout Theatre's 2001 stage production of Claire Boothe Luce's all-female play `The Women;' aired on PBS.
Directors: Jay Sandrich, Judy Kinberg | Stars: Jason Alexander, Jen Davis, Kelly Mares, Mary Bond Davis
Votes: 135
46. Medea (I) (1983 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Medea (Zoe Caldwell) is in Corinth with Jason (Mitchell Ryan) and their two young sons. King Kreon wants to reward Jason for his exploits: he gives the hand of his daughter, Glauce, to Jason.
Director: Mark Cullingham | Stars: Zoe Caldwell, Judith Anderson, Mitchell Ryan, Jacqueline Brookes
Votes: 85
47. Memphis the Musical (2011)
Not Rated | 165 min | Musical
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original ... See full summary »
Director: Don Roy King | Stars: James Monroe Iglehart, Todrick Hall, Chad Kimball, Paul McGill
Votes: 284
48. The Little Death (I) (2010)
75 min | Drama
An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer (Courtney ... See full summary »
Director: Bret Wood | Stars: Cynthia Barrett, Jerilynn Bedingfield, Bruce Bennett, Claire Christie
Votes: 58
49. La garçonnière (2018 TV Movie)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Baxter has a nice apartment. It's just that other people keep wanting to use it.
Director: Dominique Thiel | Stars: Guillaume de Tonquédec, Claire Keim, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Jacques Fontanel
50. The Trial of the Moke (1978 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
"The Trial of the Moke" is about the first black man to graduates from West Point. Flipper is framed for embezzlement by his fellow cadets to drive him away. But Flipper wasn't going anywhere until he cleared his name.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Thalmus Rasulala, Franklyn Seales, Kristie Thatcher, Ron Frazier
Votes: 81