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1. La La Land (2016)
PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons
Votes: 671,102 | Gross: $151.10M
2. Respect (2021)
PG-13 | 145 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Director: Liesl Tommy | Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tituss Burgess
Votes: 17,839
3. Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)
PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill
Votes: 13,951 | Gross: $4.95M
4. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,584
5. Stormy Weather (1943)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African-American entertainers of the early 1900s.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Katherine Dunham and Her Troupe
Votes: 2,888
6. Low Down (2014)
R | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1970s jazz scene.
Director: Jeff Preiss | Stars: John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close, Peter Dinklage
Votes: 2,214 | Gross: $0.04M
7. Up in Arms (1944)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Musical
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Danny Kaye, Dana Andrews, Dinah Shore, Constance Dowling
Votes: 1,123
8. Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,455
9. Birth of the Blues (1941)
Passed | 87 min | History, Music, Romance
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee
Votes: 457
10. Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things (2019)
TV-14 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The times and life of the unique Ella Fitzgerald.
Director: Leslie Woodhead | Stars: Ella Fitzgerald, Norma Miller, Ray Brown Jr., Laura Mvula
Votes: 577
11. So This Is College (1929)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Biff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Elliott Nugent, Robert Montgomery, Cliff Edwards, Sally Starr
Votes: 284
12. Jack Frost (1934)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Family
A young grizzly bear, undaunted by his mother's warnings of the coming winter, runs away from home only to be confronted by Old Man Winter himself.
Directors: Ub Iwerks, Shamus Culhane, Al Eugster
Votes: 493
13. The Black Network (1936)
20 min | Musical, Short
Brutus Johnson, owner of the Porter Pullman Shoe Polish Company, sponsors the Porter Pullman Shoe Polish Variety Program on the Black Network Broadcasting Co. Mezzanine Johnson, Brutus' ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Nina Mae McKinney, The Nicholas Brothers, The Washboard Serenaders, Emmett 'Babe' Wallace
Votes: 179
14. Book Revue (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
As the literary characters come to life in a bookstore at night, Daffy Duck sings and dances before being chased by the Big Bad Wolf.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 1,538
15. Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 124
16. To Hare Is Human (1956)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Wile E. Coyote consults a "Univac Electric Brain (Do It Yourself)" in his efforts to catch Bugs.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 845
17. Hot Cross Bunny (1948)
7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
At Eureka Experimental Hospital, a doctor plans to switch the characteristics of a chicken into the brain and a rabbit, into each other. Bugs Bunny was registered as the experimental rabbit, Number 46.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 655
18. Michael Buble's Christmas in the City (2021 TV Special)
TV-G | 43 min | Comedy
Michael Bublé takes the stage for special performances and comedy sketches along with some other artists.
Director: Liz Patrick | Stars: Michael Bublé, Leon Bridges, Camila Cabello, Jimmy Fallon
Votes: 92
19. The Penguin Parade (1938)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Cliff Nazarro, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 171
20. A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Louis Armstrong, Fanny Belle DeKnight, Sidney Easton
Votes: 209
21. Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Short, Music, Musical
Cab Calloway performs two numbers at the Cotton Club, then takes his friends down to Harlem for a jitterbug party.
Director: Fred Waller | Stars: Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Lena Horne, Avon Long
Votes: 83
22. Little Red Jiving Hood (2005)
11 min | Musical, Short
In a deep deep forest lives a little girl with a Little Red -- wait a minute. You know the story. But not quite like this!
Director: Ben Hillman | Stars: Dai Ban, Luke Ban, Leah Fischer, Maizy Hillman
23. The Darktown Strutters Ball (1942)
4 min | Short, Music
The Charioteers perform the classic title song in this early music video format.
Stars: The Charioteers, Billy Williams
24.
The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode:
Hot Lips Hannigan
(1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
It's Fred's responsibility this time around to assemble an act for Amateur Night at his and Barney's club.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 375
25.
The Richard Pryor Show (1977)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1977)
60 min | Comedy
Richard Pryor is a Star Wars bartender, a spaghetti western anti-hero, the U.S. President, Mojo the Snake Handler, and a serviceman visiting Club Harlem.
Director: John Moffitt | Stars: Richard Pryor, Jeff Corey, Paula Kelly, Sam Laws
Votes: 45
26.
Sanford and Son (1972–1978)
Episode:
The Stand-In
(1975)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
The Sanfords welcome Fred's buddies Bow Legs and Al, who are bringing their song, dance and comedy act to an LA nightclub. When Al hurts his back, Fred and Lamont step up and step out in ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, LaWanda Page, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 135
27.
Popeye the Sailor (1960–1962)
Episode:
The Wiffle Bird's Revenge
(1961)
TV-G | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The magical Wiffle bird casts a spell over Wimpy that changes him into a werewolf whenever he says the word "hamburger".
Director: Seymour Kneitel | Star: Jack Mercer
Votes: 54
28.
Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode:
Toony the Crooner
(2021)
TV-PG | Animation, Comedy
Toony revisits his prior career as a jazzy nightclub singer to pay off a gambling debt to Mob Lobster, and winds up inking a record deal: Zipping Along (1953), Solid Serenade (1946), Let It Be Me (1936), No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935), Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950).
Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein
Votes: 6
29.
Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1959–1962)
Episode:
The Spots Off a Leopard/Invasion of Earth by Robots/Cecil Meets the Singing Dinasor
(1962)
29 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Beany and Cecil hunt for Old Spot the Leopard. Cecil confronts a pair of Venusian robots - a mother robot and her baby. The gang sets out to capture a singing dinosaur.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Jim MacGeorge, Irv Shoemaker