Best "showgirl" Movies of All Time

52 movies found (page 1/2):

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1953)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 31min | Music, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 393 votes)

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Marcel Dalio, Norma Varden, Steven Geray, ...

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Only Angels Have Wings(1939)

FSK: 6+ years

| 2h 1min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Drama

3.7/5 (with 93 votes)

A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, ...

Viva Las Vegas(1964)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 25min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.

Directed by George Sidney - With Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair, Robert B. Williams, ...

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Flying Down to Rio(1933)

1h 29min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

Directed by Thornton Freeland - With Gene Raymond, Dolores del Rio, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Roy D'Arcy, Eric Blore, ...

Party Girl(1958)

1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.

Directed by Nicholas Ray - With Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, David Opatoshu, ...

The Lodger(1944)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 24min | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 37 votes)

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Directed by John Brahm - With Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Laird Cregar, Aubrey Mather, Cedric Hardwicke, Doris Lloyd, ...

The Grasshopper(1970)

1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.

Directed by Jerry Paris - With Jacqueline Bisset, Jim Brown, Joseph Cotten, Penny Marshall, Ed Flanders, Stanley Adams, ...

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox(1976)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Western

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Directed by Melvin Frank - With Goldie Hawn, George Segal, Thayer David, Richard Farnsworth, Conrad Janis, Roy Jenson, ...

The Shanghai Gesture(1941)

1h 39min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Victor Mature, Ona Munson, Albert Bassermann, Maria Ouspenskaya, ...

Noah's Ark(1928)

2h 15min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Anthony Coldeway - With Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Louise Fazenda, Paul McAllister, Myrna Loy, William V. Mong, ...

The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing(1955)

1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Broadway showgirl Evelyn Nesbit (Joan Collins) is the object of affection of two men: playboy architect Stanford White (Ray Milland) and wealthy but unstable Harry Thaw (Farley Granger). She marries Thaw, but White’s continued pursuit puts him in the path of Thaw’s volatile temper. Inspired by true events that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Ray Milland, Joan Collins, Farley Granger, Luther Adler, Glenda Farrell, Phillip Reed, ...

Waterloo Bridge(1931)

1h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.7/5 (with 16 votes)

In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy, a naive young American who enlisted in the Canadian army. After they fall for each other, Roy tricks Myra into visiting his family, who live in a country estate outside London, his mother having remarried to a retired British Major. Myra is reluctant to continue the relationship with Roy, he not aware of her past.

Directed by James Whale - With Mae Clarke, Douglass Montgomery, Doris Lloyd, Bette Davis, Ethel Griffies, Frederick Kerr, ...

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A Ticket to Tomahawk(1950)

1h 30min | Comedy, Music, Western

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.

Directed by Richard Sale - With Dan Dailey, Rory Calhoun, Walter Brennan, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Hunnicutt, ...

Speak Easily(1932)

1h 21min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A professor gets mixed up with chorus girls in a Broadway musical.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick - With Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Thelma Todd, Sidney Toler, Lawrence Grant, Henry Armetta, ...

The Playgirls and the Vampire(1960)

1h 10min | Horror

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Sexy nightclub dancers get trapped in a dark, creepy castle for the night.

Directed by Piero Regnoli - With Lyla Rocco, Alfredo Rizzo, Walter Brandi

The Big Street(1942)

1h 28min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.

Directed by Irving Reis - With Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette, Agnes Moorehead, George Cleveland, ...

Cassette Girl(2015)

8min | Animation, Action, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

In a futuristic world where militaristic robots known as the “Media Police” have outlawed entertainment and banned outdated media formats, a young woman and her robotic companion aim to recover vintage content stored on video cassettes and battle their evil robot overlords to protect “obsolete” media from being lost forever.

Shopworn(1932)

1h 12min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.

Directed by Nick Grinde - With Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, ZaSu Pitts, Oscar Apfel, Clara Blandick

Suzy(1936)

1h 33min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Directed by George Fitzmaurice - With Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Lewis Stone, Christian Rub, ...

Delusion(1991)

1h 40min | Crime

2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

In this fast-paced, noirish road movie, a computer expert embezzles half a million dollars and races off to Reno to start anew. Unfortunately, en route, he picks up a pair of hitchers and ends up entangled with a crazed couple who commandeer his car and leave him alone in the desert to die. As soon as he can, he hits the road to get revenge and to find his money before they do.

Directed by Carl Colpaert - With Jennifer Rubin

The Shopworn Angel(1938)

1h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love, War

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.

Directed by H. C. Potter - With James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Walter Pidgeon, Alan Curtis, Charles D. Brown, Charley Grapewin, ...

Man's Castle(1933)

1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Dickie Moore, ...

The Canary Murder Case(1929)

1h 22min | Crime, Mystery

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

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Directed by Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle - With William Powell, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur, Charles Lane, Gustav von Seyffertitz, E. H. Calvert, ...

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes(1955)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 39min | Comedy, Music

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

Directed by Richard Sale - With Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Eric Pohlmann, Ferdy Mayne, Gwen Verdon, ...

Desperate Cargo(1941)

1h 7min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When two showgirls decide to leave South America and head for home, they sweet talk the purser of a clipper ship into giving them berths. In the course of the voyage, a band of thieves attempts to take over the ship and make off with its cash cargo. The heroic purser has other ideas and weighs in to save the day.

Directed by William Beaudine - With Ralph Byrd