Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ingenue"

1. Rocketman (I) (2019)

R | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

Director: Dexter Fletcher | Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard

Votes: 194,814 | Gross: $96.37M

2. 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: 130,712 | Gross: $51.27M

3. Enchanted (2007)

PG | 107 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil Queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

Director: Kevin Lima | Stars: Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey

Votes: 217,358 | Gross: $127.81M

4. Gigi (1958)

G | 115 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.

Directors: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold

Votes: 24,508

5. A Room with a View (1985)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance

Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands

Votes: 47,884 | Gross: $20.97M

6. The Suite Life of Zack & Cody (2005–2008)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Comedy about identical twins living at the Tipton Hotel with their single mother who is a lounge singer at the hotel.

Stars: Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Brenda Song, Ashley Tisdale

Votes: 39,909

7. Any Given Sunday (1999)

R | 162 min | Drama, Sport

A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Al Pacino, Dennis Quaid, Cameron Diaz, James Woods

Votes: 125,912 | Gross: $75.53M

8. Smash (2012–2013)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Musical

More drama occurs behind the scenes than on stage, as the team prepares an ambitious Broadway musical on the life of Marilyn Monroe.

Stars: Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Katharine McPhee, Christian Borle

Votes: 18,074

9. DragonHeart (1996)

PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite

Votes: 101,817 | Gross: $51.37M

10. To Have and Have Not (1944)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir

During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran

Votes: 38,015

11. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)

Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Comedy

Three go-go dancers holding a young girl hostage come across a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert. After learning he's hiding a sum of cash around, the women start scheming on him.

Director: Russ Meyer | Stars: Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams, Ray Barlow

Votes: 16,132

12. A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, Music

A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau

Votes: 17,102

13. 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: 9,944

14. The Last Metro (1980)

PG | 131 min | Drama, Romance, War

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.

Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andréa Ferréol

Votes: 15,825

15. Footlight Parade (1933)

Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell

Votes: 6,096 | Gross: $3.49M

16. Love in the Afternoon (1957)

Not Rated | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn, Maurice Chevalier, John McGiver

Votes: 17,070

17. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Passed | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf

Votes: 16,867 | Gross: $11.80M

18. An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth... See full summary »

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong

Votes: 3,024 | Gross: $0.26M

19. A Patch of Blue (1965)

Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford

Votes: 9,537

20. The Phantom of the Opera (1990– )

168 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

Christine Daaé, a talented young singer, after being discovered by the well-known playboy Comte Philippe de Chagny, is sent by her new patron to the Paris Opera to receive classical training.

Stars: Teri Polo, Charles Dance, Burt Lancaster, Adam Storke

Votes: 1,734

21. Movie Movie (1978)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Sport

Three movie genres of the 1930s--boxing films, World War I aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals--are satirized using the same cast.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Eli Wallach

Votes: 1,281

22. Bettie Page Reveals All (2012)

R | 101 min | Documentary, Biography

The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.

Director: Mark Mori | Stars: Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis, Dita Von Teese

Votes: 1,631 | Gross: $0.10M

23. A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

A kabuki actor's mistress hatches a jealous plot to bring down her lover's son.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Takeshi Sakamoto, Chôko Iida, Kôji Mitsui, Emiko Yagumo

Votes: 3,464

24. Dancers (1987)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Musical

A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Leslie Browne, Tommy Rall

Votes: 353 | Gross: $1.19M

25. Variety Lights (1950)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

Directors: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina, John Kitzmiller

Votes: 3,862

26. You'll Find Out (1940)

Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

The manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 1,450

27. Faubourg 36 (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Music, Musical

When Chansonia, a nightclub, is shut down by the landlord, the stage manager Pigoil is forced to look for a new job. He finds hope when he discovers a young woman with a lovely singing voice.

Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder

Votes: 2,935 | Gross: $0.85M

28. Tammy and the Doctor (1963)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance

A Los Angeles doctor falls for a Mississippi girl working as a nurse's aide in his hospital.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Margaret Lindsay

Votes: 794

29. Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

Stagestruck adolescent learns about love the hard way while interning in Cleveland summer stock during the early '50's.

Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Frank Langella, Glynnis O'Connor, Tom Hulce, Jerry Stiller

Votes: 330 | Gross: $0.06M

30. Hot Saturday (1932)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance

A pretty but virtuous small-town bank clerk is the victim of a vicious rumor from an unsuccessful suitor that she spent the night with a notorious womanizer.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Cary Grant, Nancy Carroll, Randolph Scott, Edward Woods

Votes: 1,374

31. The Brat (1931)

60 min | Comedy

A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Sally O'Neil, Alan Dinehart, Frank Albertson, William Collier Sr.

Votes: 215

32. The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, Warner Oland, Fredric March

Votes: 203

33. Tess of the Storm Country (1922)

Unrated | 137 min | Drama, Romance

Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill; a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young ... See full summary »

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope, David Torrence

Votes: 517

34. The Glass Cage (1964)

84 min | Mystery

Two detectives investigate the murder of a local businessman by a mysterious woman.

Director: Antonio Santean | Stars: Arlene Martel, John Hoyt, Elisha Cook Jr., Bob Kelljan

Votes: 120

35. The Special Need (2013)

84 min | Documentary

Searching for the first time, the three friends Enea, Carlo and Alex are dfinding a whole lot more than they were looking for.

Director: Carlo Zoratti | Stars: Carlo Zoratti, Alex Nazzi, Enea Gabino

Votes: 283

36. Barbe-Bleue (1951)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

What to do when you are nicknamed Bluebeard and you have lost your your sixth wife? Marry a seventh one of course! This time around, Count de Salfère has chosen young Aline, the innkeeper's... See full summary »

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Cécile Aubry, Pierre Brasseur, Jean Debucourt, Ina Halley

Votes: 75

37. Sweet Games of Last Summer (1970 TV Movie)

66 min | Drama

The story of a freckle-faced washerwoman in whom a whole group of friends take an interest, with a sensual undertone of summer fun.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jana Plichtová, Frantisek Velecký, Peter Debnar, Milan Lasica

Votes: 130

38. Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)

Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography

A chronicle of the life and career of silent film star Mary Pickford.

Director: Nicholas Eliopoulos | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Walt Disney, Amelia Earhart, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Votes: 223

39. Hollywood Here We Come (1934)

Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Short

A couple of young hopefuls trek to Hollywood with correspondence school diplomas. They ride the freight train and encounter a radio star traveling incognito.

Director: Archie Gottler | Stars: Arthur Jarrett, Inez Courtney, Joan Gale

40. Mon premier french cancan (1999 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

Documentary about a dancer rehearsing for her Moulin Rouge debut.

Director: Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Laurence, Thierry Outrilla, Janet Pharaoh

41. Les folies amoureuses (1957 TV Movie)

63 min | Comedy

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Director: Jean Kerchbron | Stars: Évelyne Dandry, François Darbon, Tony Jacquot, Nelly Vignon

42. American Masters (1985– )
Episode: Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A documentary on Gene Kelly.

Director: Robert Trachtenberg | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Fred Astaire, Jeanine Basinger, Betsy Blair

Votes: 376

43. The Frank Sinatra Show (1957–1960)
Episode: Take Me to Hollywood (1957)

30 min | Drama, Music

A talent scout assigned to turn an inexperienced actress into a polished performer finds himself falling in love with his pupil.

Director: Richard Dunlap | Stars: Frank Sinatra, John Angelo, Celia Lovsky, Maurice Manson

Votes: 11

44. École des vedettes (1956–1963)
Episode: Episode dated 18 April 1960 (1960)

67 min | Music, Talk-Show

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Director: Marcel Bluwal | Stars: Aimée Mortimer, Pierre Fromont, Jacques Charon, André Chazel

45. The Great (2020–2023)
Episode: War and Vomit (2020)

TV-MA | 49 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A sudden turn of events moves Catherine closer to either becoming Empress or being executed.

Director: Ben Chessell | Stars: Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Sacha Dhawan

Votes: 1,077

46. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Family Sketch Show (1970)

TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family

Season finale/Family show. A takeoff on home interior magazines. A husband-wife team struggle over their income tax forms. Carol plays an ingenue who ruins a big dramatic scene for great actor Harvey Korman.

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 40