Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical (2017), After the Rehearsal (1984), The Browning Version (1951), Finding Neverland (2004), Blood Wedding (1981), Orchestra Seats (2006), Nothing Like a Dame (2018), Prick Up Your Ears (1987) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Theatre movies.
Storyline: The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company (Polly Browne) is forced to understudy for the leading lady (Rita) at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director (Cecil B. DeThrill) is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza. Polly also happens to fall in love with the leading man (Tony) and imagines several fabulous fantasy sequences in which the director is free to exercise his capacity for over-the-top visuals in this charming 1920's era flick.—Bliss Blood <soundex@sccsi.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, satire, parody, theatre, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, music, musical, comedy, romantic, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a player in the world of high finance. An eccentric millionaire decides to do what he can to see that they achieve their dreams.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, romance, british, 1930s, theatre, dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A coming of age story about a shy teenage boy trying to escape from the influence of his domineering mother. His world changes when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, coming of age, british, family, youth, mother-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, british film, independent film, family, actor's life, meaning of life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Plot Keywords: biography, musical, historical, drama, romance, comedy, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Humble Maria (Claire Danes), who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup), takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II (Rupert Everett) lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, british, shakespeare, 17th century, gender, acting ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While shifting airports by bus in Africa, a group of passengers is driven to the middle of nowhere in the desert by the driver that is following a defective compass. They run out of gas and they reach a ghost village inhabited by a single man, Kanana. One passenger that has experience with desert gives five advices to the others to survive in the spot, among them to keep the spirit high, while he travels through the desert seeking for help. One intellectual in the stranded group suggests the performance of King Lear to keep the morale of the survivors. Along the days, while hope decreases, the tension increases among the survivors.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, survival, desert, isolation, human nature, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theatre, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, shakespeare, british, literature, theatre ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hank Smith, a brutish stoker on board a freighter, is appalled when Mildred Douglas, a society girl forced by circumstance to travel as a passenger, visits the stokehold and recoils at the filthy, sweating Hank. A powerhouse of a man with a primitive confidence, Hank has never been looked down on before nor suffered the insult "hairy ape" flung at him by the rich girl. At first he seeks vengeance for the insult, but broods over it until more than anything, he desires to understand it. When the ship reaches port, he seeks her out in her upper class surroundings, determined to grasp the meaning of the encounter.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, adaptation, theatre, working class, social class, identity crisis, film noir ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A vaudeville star has to leave her daughter with her dead husband's stuffy Boston parents while she makes a living. But when the daughter shows some talent, the mother become a stage mother and pushes her daughter into becoming a Broadway star. The mother is a monster with a heart of gold, and after breaking up the daughter's love affair, finally sees the error of her ways.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, drama, theatre, backstage, show business, mother-daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rosalind, the daughter of Duke Senior (the banished Duke), is raised at the court of Duke Frederick (who is younger brother to Duke Senior and took over his Dukedom), with her cousin Celia (daughter to Duke Frederick). She falls in love with a young man named Orlando, but before she can even think twice about it, she is banished by Duke Frederick, who threatens death if she comes near the court again. Celia, being Rosalind's best friend, goes with Rosalind (who is disguised as a boy, Ganymede) and Touchstone, the court's fool, to the forest of Arden. Upon their arrival in the forest, they happen upon Orlando and his manservant, who are fleeing the wrath of Orlando's eldest brother. What follows is an elaborate scheme devised by the cross-dressing Rosalind to find out the verity of Orlando's supposed passion for her, and to further capture his heart, through the witty and mischievous façade of Ganymede.—Jess D.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, shakespeare, adaptation, theatre, british, forest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A period movie, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family. The planned marriage suffers a last-minute upset when the would-be husband switches affections to the bride's sister.
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, british, period, drama, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Douglas is a lonesome record salesman and a true fan of the actress Sally Ross. Every day he writes her gleaming letters of love. But the only response he gets are formal letters. So his love turns into hatred.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, mystery, psychological, murder, stalking ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Screen luminaries Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Terence Stamp lead a stellar ensemble cast in this extraordinary, heartwarming rags-to-riches story set in 1930s England. A struggling young actress, a fledgling director and an ambitious playwright become embroiled in an emotional love triangle as they strive for recognition, fame and fortune in a world on the brink of World War II.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, love, british, retro, nostalgia ...
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