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1. The Mound Builders (1976 TV Movie)
Drama
Directors: Ken Campbell, Marshall W. Mason | Stars: Tanya Berezin, Brad Dourif, Stephanie Gordon, Trish Hawkins
Votes: 30
2. 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: 6,038
3. 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: 2,278
4. 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: 9,962
5. 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: 5,170 | Gross: $1.75M
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: 1,988
7. 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: 1,645
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: 399
9. 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: 4,458
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: 3,897
11. 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
12. 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: 3,152
13. 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: 1,879
14. 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: 2,210
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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: 606
18. 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
19. 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: 254
20. 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
21. Sei pezzi facili (2022– )
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Valerio Aprea, Valerio Mastandrea, Massimo De Lorenzo, Paolo Calabresi
Votes: 27
23. 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: 387
24. 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: 442
25. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2002 Video)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Madea helps out her granddaughter after her husband leaves her.
Directors: Tyler Perry, Chet Brewster | Stars: Curtis Blake, Marva King, Ty London, Tamela J. Mann
Votes: 1,706
26. 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
27. 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: 109
28. 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: 522
29. 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
30. Au théâtre ce soir (1966–1990)
Comedy
Stars: Edward Sanderson, Bernard Durand, Robert Manuel, Jacques Ardouin
Votes: 72
31. The Nightman Cometh Live! (2009 Video)
TV-MA | 50 min | Comedy
A live musical based on Charlie Kelly's musical, "The Nightman Cometh."
Stars: Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Glenn Howerton
Votes: 86
32. 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
33. 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: 578 | Gross: $11.00M
34. 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: 585 | Gross: $0.00M
35. 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: 171
36. 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: 129
37. 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
38. Romeo and Juliet (III) (2018)
Not Rated | 183 min | Drama
A long-simmering animosity between two families of Verona, the Montague's and the Capulet's, has recently boiled over, with members of the rival households brawling in the streets. One ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Sara Farb, Antoine Yared, Seana McKenna, Marion Adler
Votes: 25
39. Der Tod des Empedokles oder: Wenn dann der Erde Grün von neuem Euch erglänzt (1987)
132 min | Drama
The tragedy of the death of Empedocles, philosopher in Ancient Greece. Hölderlin's work adapted to cinema by Straub and Huillet.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Andreas von Rauch, Vladimir Baratta, Martina Baratta, Ute Cremer
Votes: 244
40. 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: 239
41. 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: 700
42. 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: 177
43. Pajama Tops (1983 TV Movie)
105 min | Comedy
French inspired farce about affairs, mistaken identities and similar hijinks.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Susan George, Robert Klein, Pia Zadora, Alan Scarfe
Votes: 55
44. 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: 173
45. 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: 214
46. Bash: Latter-Day Plays (2001 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 100 min | Drama
Three dark, one-act plays exploring of the complexities of evil in everyday life.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Ron Eldard, Calista Flockhart, Paul Rudd
Votes: 195
47. 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
48. The Gin Game (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
In a retirement home, a surly man and a withdrawn woman come to terms over a game of cards.
Director: Arvin Brown | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Annie Abbott, Sheila Rogers
Votes: 179
49. The Gin Game (1981 TV Movie)
83 min | Drama
Weller Martin challenges his new friend Fonsia Dorsey to a game of Gin. But is suddenly in for more than he wagers.
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn
Votes: 121
50. 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