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Guys and Dolls(1955)

NR
| 2h 30min | Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 96 votes)

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Robert Keith, Stubby Kaye, Vivian Blaine, ...

Shanghai Triad(1995)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama, Crime
3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Xiao-Xiao Wang, Fu Biao

Key Largo(1948)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 214 votes)

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and holds at gunpoint hotel owner James Temple, his widowed daughter-in-law Nora, and ex-GI Frank McCloud.

Directed by John Huston - With Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor, Thomas Gomez, ...
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Blonde Venus(1932)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 51 votes)

American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being cured. Wife Helen returns to night club work to attempt to raise the money and becomes popular as the Blonde Venus. In an effort to get enough money sooner, she prostitutes herself to millionaire Nick Townsend.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Sidney Toler, Sterling Holloway, ...

Pal Joey(1957)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

Directed by George Sidney - With Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Elizabeth Patterson, ...
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Morocco(1930)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 56 votes)

The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Francis McDonald, Ullrich Haupt, Sr., Emile Chautard, ...

Quién te cantará(2018)

2h 5min | Music, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 60 votes)

Lila, a famous retired singer, loses her memory after suffering an accident, just as she planned her return to the stage.

Directed by Carlos Vermut - With Najwa Nimri, Eva Llorach, Carme Elias, Natalia de Molina, Inma Cuevas, Vicenta N'Dongo, ...
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In the Family(2017)

2h 4min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 57 votes)

The neurotic Fikret and tavern singer Solmaz, whose 21 year long relationships end on the same day, meet through a funny coincidence. When Solmaz's daughter Zeynep decides to marry her lover from Adana, the ever-fearful Fikret ends up having to play the role of his life. Intended at first to be kept in the family, the wedding becomes a much bigger event upon the insistence of the groom's relatives. Can our heroes come to terms with the traditional Adana family who carry guns and own a kebab restaurant chain, and see the wedding through without mishaps?

Directed by Ozan Açıktan - With Gülse Birsel, Engin Günaydın, Demet Evgar, Devrim Yakut
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Odds Against Tomorrow(1959)

NR
| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame, Harry Belafonte, Shelley Winters, Richard Bright, ...

Waltz for Monica(2013)

1h 51min | Music, Drama
3.4/5 (with 20 votes)

"Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm.

Directed by Per Fly - With Edda Magnason, Sverrir Gudnason, Kjell Bergqvist, Cecilia Ljung, Johannes Wanselow, Hedda Stiernstedt, ...

Thunder Road(1958)

NR
| 1h 32min | Drama, Action, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin (Robert Mitchum) makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon (Trevor Bardette), but won't let his younger brother Robin (James Mitchum) join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan (Jacques Aubuchon), who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett (Gene Barry), who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

Directed by Arthur Ripley - With Gene Barry, Robert Mitchum, Keely Smith, Jacques Aubuchon, Trevor Bardette

I Walk Alone(1947)

1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

Directed by Byron Haskin - With Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas, Wendell Corey, George Rigaud, Marc Lawrence, ...
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Crossroads(1942)

NR
| 1h 23min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

Directed by Jack Conway - With William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone, Felix Bressart, H. B. Warner, ...

Black Rose Mansion(1969)

1h 31min | Drama
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive men's club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku - With Akihiro Miwa, Eitarō Ozawa, Masakazu Tamura, Kō Nishimura, Kikko Matsuoka, Yūsuke Kawazu, ...

Romance on the High Seas(1948)

NR
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Don DeFore, Doris Day, Oscar Levant, S. Z. Sakall, ...
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Blood Brothers(2007)

1h 35min | Drama, Crime
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.

Directed by Alexi Tan - With Daniel Wu, Liu Ye, Shu Qi, Tony Yang, Chang Chen, Li Xiaolu, ...
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The Grissom Gang(1971)

R
| 2h 8min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Robert Lansing, Irene Dailey, Connie Stevens, ...

Macao(1952)

1h 21min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray - With Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame, Thomas Gomez, Brad Dexter, ...
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The Home Song Stories(2007)

1h 43min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Tom, now in his 40s, begins to write the memoirs of his 1960s childhood, as the little boy whose mother Rose was a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer. When Rose meets Aussie sailor Bill, they are quickly married, and she packs up Tom and his older sister May to head for Melbourne. The marriage just as quickly breaks up and Rose moves with the kids to Sydney. After a succession of male friends and little success, in 1971 Rose moves back to Melbourne, in an uncomfortable arrangement living again with Bill – and his mother. With Bill called away to sea, Rose takes up with young Chinese cook Joe, but despair and conflicts over May's relationship with Joe tear the family further apart. Little Tom is deeply hurt, but May's ongoing conflict with her mother takes a respite when Rose tells her daughter about her traumatic teenage years.

Directed by Tony Ayres - With Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yuwu, Irene Chen

The Purchase Price(1932)

NR
| 1h 8min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationship has a rocky start, but just as Joan realizes she's developing feelings for her husband, her old boyfriend arrives to win her back.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Lyle Talbot, David Landau, Hardie Albright, Murray Kinnell, ...
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Carnival Rock(1957)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama, Music
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Susan Cabot, Brian G. Hutton, Dick Miller, The Platters, The Shadows, Abby Dalton, ...
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Assignment Redhead(1956)

1h 19min | Crime, Drama
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.

Directed by Maclean Rogers - With Richard Denning
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The Man Who Died Twice(1958)

1h 10min | Crime
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of narcotics agents.

Directed by Joseph Kane - With Rod Cameron

Destiny(1944)

1h 5min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Framed for two crimes he didn't commit, and betrayed by his girl, Cliff Banks finds himself on the run from the police. Now distrustful of everyone, he finds a safe haven hiding out at a quaint country cottage under the care of a kindly old farmer and his daughter, a Cinderella-like blind woman who seems to be able to communicate with nature. There he is forced by their love to question his misanthropy.

Directed by Reginald Le Borg, Julien Duvivier - With Gloria Jean, Frank Craven, Frank Fenton, Minna Gombell, Selmer Jackson, Frank Hagney, ...

Accused of Murder(1956)

NR
| 1h 14min | Action, Thriller
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.

Directed by Joseph Kane - With David Brian, Vera Ralston, Virginia Grey, Lee Van Cleef, Frank Puglia, Elisha Cook Jr., ...

I Like it That Way(1934)

NR
| 1h 7min | Comedy, Romance / Love

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

Directed by Harry Lachman - With Gloria Stuart

The Man I Love(1946)

NR
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various ways with shady nightclub owner Nicky Toresca. Petey has what it takes to handle Nicky, but then she meets San Thomas, formerly great jazz pianist now on the skids, and falls for him hard.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, Andrea King, Carl Harbaugh, ...

Tahiti Honey(1943)

PG
| 1h 8min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
1.9/5 (with 1 vote)

The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe ('Dennis O'Keefe (I)' ), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon). a French-American girl singing in a nightclub is consumed with a desire to go to the United States. Things go from bad to worse for the band,. and they are faced with the necessity of either taking a girl singer into the group,which they all regard as bad luck, or starving. The band insists that she be dropped as soon as they can earn enough to catch a bot home. But Mickey falls in love with Suzie, and smuggles her on board the ship.

Directed by John H. Auer - With Simone Simon, Dennis O'Keefe, Lionel Stander, Dan Seymour, Eddie Kane

Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman(1947)

NR
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

Directed by Stuart Heisler - With Susan Hayward, Eddie Albert, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Carl Esmond, Carleton Young, ...
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Blue Angel Cafe(1989)

1h 29min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Raymond Derek is a up and coming hotshot young politician who seems to have it all. A great career, a wife, friends and a expensive home. But that all changes when he encounters sexy cabaret singer Angie. The two begin a steamy affair until the press find out and it becomes front page news. As his life falls to pieces, Raymond and Angie try to build a life together, but some things just weren't meant to last.

Directed by Joe D'Amato - With Tara Buckman, Laura Gemser
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