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1. Theater Camp (2023)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy

The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.

Directors: Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman | Stars: Ben Platt, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Jimmy Tatro

Votes: 16,185

2. Frank (II) (2014)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.

Director: Lenny Abrahamson | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Moira Brooker

Votes: 82,375 | Gross: $0.64M

3. Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Approved | 125 min | Comedy, Romance

Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr

Votes: 8,611 | Gross: $5.00M

4. Undiscovered (2005)

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

A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in LA.

Director: Meiert Avis | Stars: Kip Pardue, Carrie Fisher, Shannyn Sossamon, Pell James

Votes: 2,926 | Gross: $1.07M

5. The Bridge (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Drama, Romance

Two new students at nearby Belmont University, Ryan and Molly, meet the first day of classes and become study partners. The Bridge, a local bookstore, becomes a close part of their lives as their relationship grows.

Director: Mike Rohl | Stars: Katie Findlay, Wyatt Nash, Ted McGinley, Faith Ford

Votes: 1,589

6. You and I (2011)

R | 100 min | Drama

Two teenage girls, Janie who is American and Lana who is Russian, fall in love after meeting at a t.A.T.u concert and are swept into a dangerous world of obsession, drug abuse and murder.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Mischa Barton, Shantel VanSanten, Anton Yelchin, Alex Kaluzhsky

Votes: 2,428

7. Imaginaerum (2012)

86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A coma sends an old man into his childhood's sinister fantasy world, where he must fight dementia and gain back his memories before it's too late.

Directors: Stobe Harju, Mark Roper | Stars: Francis X. McCarthy, Glenda Braganza, Helene Robbie, Ilkka Villi

Votes: 6,656

8. Three Little Words (1950)

Passed | 102 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical

The story of the successful Tin Pan Alley songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby is told loosely and lightheartedly.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl

Votes: 2,059 | Gross: $2.80M

9. K-11 (2012)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama

A record producer comes around after binging on drink and drugs. He finds himself in a section of the Los Angeles County Jail reserved for homosexuals, which is ruled by a transgender woman named Mousey.

Director: Jules Stewart | Stars: Goran Visnjic, Kate del Castillo, D.B. Sweeney, Portia Doubleday

Votes: 1,776

10. Bathing Beauty (1944)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical

A contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin

Votes: 1,880

11. The Miracle Woman (1931)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer

Votes: 2,263

12. The Way to Mandalay (2018)

110 min | Biography, Drama, Music

John Mogensen's (1928-77) private and professional life as a Danish musician.

Director: Ole Bornedal | Stars: Rasmus Bjerg, Henrik Noël Olesen, Harald Kaiser Hermann, Rikke Louise Andersson

Votes: 1,253

13. French Postcards (1979)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The believable, fresh-faced characters are naive American college students; armed with their French-English dictionaries they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.

Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker, David Marshall Grant, Valérie Quennessen

Votes: 853

14. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Passed | 127 min | Comedy, Musical

Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis

Votes: 2,135

15. A Heavenly Christmas (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Upon her untimely death, a workaholic who never put much value into the joys of Christmas finds herself recruited to be a Christmas Angel -- and is assigned a hard luck case that she accidentally falls in love with.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Kristin Davis, Eric McCormack, Shirley MacLaine, Jaeda Lily Miller

Votes: 2,097

16. Swiss Miss (1938)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Musical

Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.

Directors: John G. Blystone, Hal Roach | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King

Votes: 2,328

17. Bad 25 (2012)

Not Rated | 131 min | Documentary, Music

A documentary on Michael Jackson and the legacy of his record "Bad".

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Michael Jackson, Glen Ballard, John Barnes, Jennifer Batten

Votes: 2,414

18. Lucky Me (1954)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy Jr.

Votes: 895

19. Red Dog (2019)

105 min | Documentary

Early 1980's, the only family toddler Luke knew were the strippers, bouncers, and outcasts that called OKC's rowdiest strip club home.

Director: Casey Pinkston | Stars: Dierks Bentley, Janet Cartmill, Charles Dick Jr., Luke Dick

Votes: 567

20. Livet är en schlager (2000)

108 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Mona Bergström is a sweet Melodifestivalen-obsessed woman in her 30's. She is married to an unemployed man and they have 4 daughters, all named after her favorite Swedish Melodifestivalen ... See full summary »

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Helena Bergström, Jonas Karlsson, Thomas Hanzon, Björn Kjellman

Votes: 2,387

21. Outlaw Blues (1977)

PG | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Tina helps Bobby, an ex-convict who goes after the country music star who stole his song and made it a hit.

Director: Richard T. Heffron | Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford, James T. Callahan

Votes: 498

22. Songs for While I'm Away (2020)

112 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

The story of how a young black boy from working class 1950's Dublin, became Ireland's Greatest Rock Star. As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman.

Director: Emer Reynolds | Stars: Phil Lynott, Sarah Lynott, Cathleen Lynott, Jerome Rimson

Votes: 536

23. Prodigal Daughters (1923)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, Theodore Roberts

Votes: 27 | Gross: $0.20M

24. Her Wedding Night (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

An American movie star vacationing in France gets mixed up with a songwriter, mistaken identity, and winds up married to someone she doesn't know.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charles Ruggles, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 65

25. I Love You All (1980)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman invites all four men she loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times.

Director: Claude Berri | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gérard Depardieu, Serge Gainsbourg

Votes: 530

26. Banjo on My Knee (1936)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen

Votes: 674

27. Tangos Are for Two (1997)

PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A woman's voice says she was wife to Renzo Franchi and Carlos Gardel (1890-1935), Argentina's great tango singer. People say she's crazy. Her story unfolds. Buenos Aires, 1933: Juana Romero... See full summary »

Director: Jaime Chávarri | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Juan Echanove, Ulises Dumont

Votes: 341

28. Along Came Sally (1934)

84 min | Comedy, Musical

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Sam Hardy, Phyllis Clare, Billy Milton

Votes: 73

29. Bring Your Smile Along (1955)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Music

Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle) and ... See full summary »

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers, Lucy Marlow

Votes: 136

30. Paddy O'Day (1936)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Paddy O'Day is an Irish immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration officials.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jane Withers, Pinky Tomlin, Rita Hayworth, Jane Darwell

Votes: 281

31. Go for It, Baby (1968)

79 min | Comedy

A free-wheeling comedy, Zur Sache Schaetzchen chronicles a day in the life of Martin, a witty yet lazy songwriter who'd rather not get out of bed. During the opening sequence, Martin ... See full summary »

Director: May Spils | Stars: Werner Enke, Uschi Glas, Henry van Lyck, Rainer Basedow

Votes: 546

32. ReMastered: The Lion's Share (2018 TV Movie)

84 min | Documentary, Music

South African journalist Rian Malan searches for the original writers of the legendary song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

Director: Sam Cullman | Stars: Rian Malan, Solomon Linda, Delphi Linda, Elizabeth Linda

Votes: 716

33. Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

Unscrupulous agent Rush makes singing waiter Clayton a big radio star while Peggy, who has lost her own radio show, helps Clayton.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Pat O'Brien, Ginger Rogers, The Mills Brothers

Votes: 452

34. The French Way (1940)

90 min | Comedy, Romance

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Lucien Baroux, Micheline Presle, Saturnin Fabre, Gabrielle Dorziat

Votes: 122

35. Music Man (1948)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In New York City, Italian American songwriting brothers Phil and Freddie Russo turn out one successful song after another for their publisher, Sanders. One day, Freddie and Phil accept an ... See full synopsis »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Freddie Stewart, Phil Brito

Votes: 79

36. Geraldine (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Janey Edwards, working for Cambria Records, is managing the personal appearance tour of sobbing songster Billy Weber, and Janey is disgusted when Billy leaves her at Santa Fe College with ... See full summary »

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: John Carroll, Mala Powers, Jim Backus, Stan Freberg

Votes: 70

37. Strange Fruit (2002)

57 min | Documentary

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the ... See full summary »

Director: Joel Katz | Stars: Dorothy Thigpen, Milton Gabler, Farah Jasmine Griffin, C.T. Vivian

Votes: 107

38. The Big Beat (1958)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.

Director: Will Cowan | Stars: William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Gogi Grant, Jeffrey Stone

Votes: 66

39. The Girl Friend (1935)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall

Votes: 51

40. Spotlight (II) (2015– )

Comedy, Drama, Music

Spotlight is an Australian produced music-based web-series following the struggles of a Sydney-based singer as she tries to break into the competitive music industry and juggle a personal life with her ambitious schedule.

Stars: India Rose, Stephen Mahy, Emily McGowan, Adam Cleland

41. Four White Shirts (1987)

76 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Phone technician Cezars Kalnins in his free time composes songs and performs in a band created with his friends. However getting the band to perform in public has to go a long way in getting permissions.

Director: Rolands Kalnins | Stars: Uldis Pucitis, Dina Kuple, Liga Liepina, Arnolds Linins

Votes: 331

42. With Love and Kisses (1936)

Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Pinky Tomlin, Toby Wing, Kane Richmond, Arthur Housman

Votes: 31

43. Immigrants (2012 TV Movie)

47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

This sweaty bubbly TV action Drama series unfolds the thrillingly intense and sometime harsh lives of a few dispersed Israelis, trying to make it in the exuberant exhilarating, merciless ... See full summary »

Director: Gal Ziv | Stars: Guy Adler, Rohan Flypaper Alexander, Pazit Asor, Mali Hamami

Votes: 21

44. Love Etc. (2010)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, Romance

A documentary on a group of diverse couples, each in different stages of their relationships in New York City.

Director: Jill Andresevic

Votes: 129 | Gross: $0.01M

45. The Songwriter [Nashville] (2014)

Unrated | 42 min | Documentary, Short

The songwriter {Nashville} is a short documentary web series that captures the creative process of songwriting in action. Through real writing sessions and interviews these songwriters ... See full summary »

Director: Esteban Pedraza | Stars: James House, Rebecca Moreland, Blake Stratton, Danny Flowers

46. An Angel Comes to Brooklyn (1945)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

An angel returns to Earth to help a Broadway producer put on a show, so a struggling young actress will have a job.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Kaye Dowd, Robert Duke, David Street, Barbara Perry

Votes: 20

47. Smiling Irish Eyes (1929)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A pretty young violinist who travels from Ireland to America to seek fame and fortune on Broadway finds a bit more than she expected.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Colleen Moore, James Hall, Robert Homans, Claude Gillingwater

Votes: 54

48. The Yanks Are Coming (1942)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A bandleader alienates a crooner, a songwriter/arranger, and band members, both in their music work and in his attitude about service to country during wartime.

Director: Alexis Thurn-Taxis | Stars: Henry King, Mary Healy, Jack Heller, Maxie Rosenbloom

Votes: 71

49. Erään sävelmän synty - Odysseus (1974 TV Movie)

38 min | Documentary, Music

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Director: Erkki Aalto | Stars: Juice Leskinen, Mikko Alatalo, Harri Rinne, Pentti Penninkilampi

Votes: 8

50. Yankee Doodle Home (1939)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Musical, Comedy

Nick and Vince, a song writing team, are fired from their jobs at a publishing house when a foreign producer arrives looking for "hot" numbers. Vince dons a disguise and poses as a foreign ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Nick Lucas, Vince Barnett, Jean Walters, Nathaniel Shilkret