Movies (142) tagged by 'Theater'
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Aaja Nachle (2007)
Dia is a divorced mom living in New York and must go back to India after she receives news that her guru is on his death bed. When she arrives she finds he is g...
All About Eve (1951)
Stage star Margo Channing is friend to playwright Lloyd Richards and his wife Karen, in love with director Bill Samson, and the idol of Eve Harrington who beco...
Collateral Beauty (2016)
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these ...
Henry's Crime (2010)
Released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, an ex-con targets the same bank he was sent away for robbing.
Synecdoche, New York (2009)
All is not well in the Caden household; Caden is troubled with symptoms of illness while Adele is emotionally distant.
When Adele takes Olive and her clo...
Diary of a Mad Black Woman The Play (2002)
Madea helps out her granddaughter after her husband leaves her.
Shine a Light (2008)
In autumn 2006 the Rolling Stones gave two concerts at Beacon Theatre in New York. Here, in the 2,800-seater old Broadway theatre that opened ...
Noises Off... (1992)
Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He's desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, an...
Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)
Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End an...
Looking For Richard (1996)
Director Al Pacino juxtaposes scene's from Richard III, scenes of rehearsals for Richard III, and sessions where parties involved discuss the play, the times t...
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Director Ingmar Bergman had intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER to be his final theatrical film and a summing-up of sorts of his entire cinematic career. (It was fol...
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
David Niven meets his match when he crosses Doris Day's path and questions her ambitions. Niven plays a drama critic who copes with his wife's remodeling plan...
Hero and the Terror (1988)
Chuck Norris stars as Detective Danny O'Brien who, three years ago, captured Simon Moon, a psychotic killer. But Moon is always on the loose in O'Brien's nigh...
Shiva (1989)
Shiva is a new student in the community college. He is welcomed by a group of collegians, including the lovely Asha, to whom Shiva is instantly attracted to. Sh...
The Man Who Knew Too Little (1998)
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels aro...
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy ...
The Pirate (1948)
Manuela Alva (Judy Garland) is unhappily engaged to Don Pedro (Walter Slezak), the mayor of her town. When a circus arrives, she's enchanted b...
Stage Fright (1987) (1987)
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns...
Bigger Than the Sky (2005)
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de ...
Shirin (2008)
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Pe...
Prairie Home Companion, A (2006)
A private investigator (Kevin Kline) keeps tabs on the proceedings as guests, cast and crew (Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Woody Harrelson) of ...
What's Up, Scarlet? (2005)
Unfortunately, Trevor realises that what goes up must come down when he accidentally takes a ride in the fire station's hot air balloon.
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972)
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac.
The Illusionist (2010)
A French ILLUSIONIST finds himself out of work and is of a dying breed of stage entertainers. He is faced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe ...
A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After th...
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
The behind-the-scenes shenanigans of a burlesque show set the stage for this mixture of comedy, music, sex appeal, and murder. While sardonic comedian Biff Br...
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them that Bill...
Will There Really Be a Morning (1983)
Based on the fast and frantic life of actress Frances Farmer tracing her life from her childhood in Seattle, through her college years, her flirtation with radi...
Passing Strange (2009)
"Passing Strange The Movie" tells the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbrin...
Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
The second entry into the Deadlands Zombie movie series follows 6 strangers seeking refuge inside a local movie theater when the US government purposely releas...
Theater of Blood (1973)
Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting t...
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)
A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking ...
Murder! (1930)
The police find the actress, Diana Baring, near the body of her friend. All the circumstantial proofs seems to point to her and, at the end of the trial, she i...
The Tender Trap (1955)
Charlie Reader is a successful theater agent. He is also successful with young ladies. One day he is visited by his old friend Joe, married with three children....
Opening Night (1978)
A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing le...
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". Al...
The Red Shoes (1983) (1983)
The story of a little girl name Karen who was very poor and was given a pair of red shoes made of cloth to keep her feet warm in the winter. When her mother die...
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn head a flamboyant theatrical troupe that travels across the West in 1880, trying desperately to entertain audie...
A zsarnok szíve avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon (1981)
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Theatre of Death (1967)
Christopher Lee stars in this British shocker as Phillipe Darvas, the leader of the Theatre of Death, a Grand Guignol theater troupe in Paris. Attracted to on...
Molière (2007)
Imprisoned for debt, playwright Molière is rescued by an aristocrat who needs his help in order to seduce a young marquise.
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1981)
In this extraordinarily faithful stage version of the second Oz book, the only major deletions were things unperformable on stage (The Jackdaw's nest and the Gr...
Le theâtre de la jeune lune (1980)
Coverage of the activities of the American group Théatre de la Jeune Lune, during the spring and summer of 1980 in Paris. Integrated by both American and French...
Daydreams (1922)
Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girl's father he can succeed. He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination. She sees a ...
Kids in America (2005)
A diverse group of high school students band together to peacefully stick it to their overbearing principal.
Pointed Heels (1929)
Show-Girls Can't Stay Married! See why! A thrilling love drama-Greater than "The Shopworn Angel"
Curtain Up (1952)
In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the ...
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar (1980)
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Tales of the Night (2011)
Tales of the Night weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, to the Land of the Dead. From the imagin...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (2015)
A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema...
Coming of Age in Cherry Grove: The Invasion (2014)
Founded in 1869, Cherry Grove (Fire Island, NY) is considered by most to be the first openly LGBTQ community in the United States. It has become known as one of...
Omero (1982)
Omero, a former teacher who has just retired, decides to leave Rome, where he taught for 30 years and to get back to Sicily, the place where he was born. Alice,...
1915 (2015)
Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.
Alibi (1929)
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under sus...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (2000)
Three guys, one dead playwright, and 37 plays, all in under two hours. In this universally acclaimed theater experience, Adam Long (one of the troupe's founding...
Madeline's Madeline (2018)
A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
Bright Lights (1930)
A successful Broadway star ready to retire from her wild career announces her engagement. But her tumultuous past isn't done with her yet.
Curtain at Eight (1933)
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a stage actor.
In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after ...
The Passionate Friends (1949)
The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Then Mary Justin meets Steven Stratton again and they have one last...
Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home (2003)
Comedian Bill Maher's Tony Award-nominated Broadway standup show, Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home, will return to New York, July 17-19, 2003. The final perfo...
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
A Bread Factory, Part One (2018)
After 40 years of running their community arts space, The Bread Factory, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple--performa...
Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, a promising young theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
Dzi Croquettes (2009)
A Brazilian Theater group that through talent, irony and humor confronted the Brazilian violent dictatorship in the 1970's revolutionizing the gay movement worl...
Grief Street (1931)
Alvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way ...
Kids in the Hall Tour of Duty (2002)
The Canadian comedy troupe reunite at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, B.C, performing from their 2002 Tour. Features some of their most memorable sket...
Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002)
Stories of how the film Evil Dead, The (1981) rose up very high against the accusations of the 'Video Nasties' of the 1980's in the UK. Many controversial films...
The Grand Horror (2006)
Six people, trapped inside an old theater, must fight for their lives against malevolent spirits that aren't happy to see trespassers.
Slash Dance (1989)
A female cop goes undercover as a dancer at an old theater to catch a serial killer who has been murdering women auditioning for a musical.
Qi xiao fu (1988)
The story of Beijing Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students.
The Last Laugh (2020)
A stand-up comedian on the verge of breakout success must make a terrible choice when he discovers a murderer on the loose in the theater where he's about to pe...
The Golden Coach (1952)
In Peru in the eighteenth century. Camilla, the star of a theater company, hesitates between three men. The Viceroy gives her his magnificent golden coach. A yo...
Jazzgossen (1958)
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater in the beginning of the 1920s. Whatever he does becomes a success. He falls in love with a dance...
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003)
Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.
Morning Glory (1933)
When a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate succ...
Noir (2021)
NOIR transports you back to a time of black and white movies of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's New York City, a single spotlight illuminates a detective sat at...
The Affairs of Susan (1945)
Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancee summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one d...
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979)
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days...
Silly Scandals (1931)
In a vaudeville act, Betty Boop (with dog's ears) sings "You're Drivin' Me Crazy;" Bimbo sneaks into the show and runs afoul of a stage hypnotist.
Nobody's Fool (1986)
Cassie has a miserable job in a bar, is lonely and depressed. Her boyfriend left her when she told him that she's pregnant. After several failed suicide att...
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)
In this short subject (which mostly represents a departure from Disney's traditional approach to animation), a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock o...
The Ten Commandments: The Musical (2006)
The story of Moses from the bible in musical form, filmed live at the Hollywood Kodak Theater.
Jak byc kochana (1963)
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of ...
Rita Rio and Her Orchestra (1939)
The first and only female leader in the Big Band era. Lots and swing and dancing.
Tankhouse (2022)
After being blacklisted from the NYC theatre industry, two Upper East Side New Yorkers, Tucker and Sandrene, decide their only course of action is to move to Fa...
Sarah joue un loup garou (2017)
On the stage of her high school drama class 17-year-old Sarah gives it all. When she performs, there is an instant of suspense in which she appears to transform...
The Dance of Life (1929)
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on ...
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.
The Dresser (1983)
Personal Assistant Norman (Sir Tom Courtenay) of deteriorating veteran actor Sir (Albert Finney) struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Le...
The Last Metro (1980)
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
A photographer for Life magazine comes to London to do a story on a local theater troupe which never missed a performance during World War II. Flashbacks also r...
Kobieta w kapeluszu (1985)
A psychological portrait of a young Polish theatre actress, searching for her own way in life. She plays a mechanical dancer in a play "Dance of the Marion...
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealou...
Spite Marriage (1929)
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that h...
Community Theater Christmas (2019)
A community theater competes for a state grant that is needed to keep the doors of the theater open. Meanwhile, they race to get their first, original Christmas...
The Devil to Pay (1930)
Spendthrift Willie Leyland again returns to the family home in London penniless. His father is none too pleased but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him sta...
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
A reporter, played by Dave Fleischer, interviews Max Fleischer about cartoon sensation Betty Boop. Max paints Betty, who comes to life and performs routines fro...
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of pr...
Theater Camp (2023)
The eccentric staff of a rundown theater camp in upstate New York must band together with the beloved founder's bro-y son to keep the camp afloat.
You Don't Know What You're Doin'! (1931)
Piggy was the Harmon/Ising studio's second attempt to create a star for the Merrie Melodies cartoon series. Piggy replaced Foxy. Foxy lasted for only three...
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)
Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with ...
Final Curtain (2005)
A group of actors are rehearsing a supposedly cursed play- When the body count rises the actors must ask themselves, is the curse real or is there a murderer am...
Shakespeare High (2011)
Executive produced by Kevin Spacey, Shakespeare High is an inspiring documentary that follows a diverse group of California high school students as they compete...
Children of Paradise (1945)
The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her.
Bröderna Mozart (1986)
An opera director tries to put on a highly unconventional production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, but the cast and crew think all his ideas are terrible.
Hanussen (1988)
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discove...
Mrs. Sundance (1974)
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that the Sundance Kid may still be alive.
Someone to Love (1987)
A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews ea...
The Final Curtain (2007)
A group of college theater students sneak into the Baxter University theater at night to initiate the 'frosh meat'. Something goes terribly wrong. The n...
Depois do Universo (2022)
Follows Nina, a talented pianist who has lupus. She forges an unexpected yet strong connection with Gabriel, one of the doctors on the team who takes care of he...
Sidewalks of London (1938)
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles (Charles Laughton), who recites dram...
The Impersonator (1961)
In a small English town a schoolmistress meets a sergeant from the nearby U.S. airforce base and they decide on a date. When they miss each other at a cafe as a...
We Are Not Princesses (2018)
Antigone, ancient Greek heroine, ignites the spirits of 4 Syrian women living in Beirut's refugee camps.
Il mostro dell'opera (1964)
A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges th...
Everybody's an Actor, Shakespeare Said (1968)
An east London youth drama group improvises scenes based upon their everyday life under the tutelage of Joan Littlewood
Asakusa Kid (2021)
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.
Double Harness (1933)
A woman tricks a playboy into marrying her and then tries to make him legitimately fall in love with her.
Becoming Mike Nichols (2016)
Filmmaker Mike Nichols sits down with theater director Jack O'Brien to discuss his personal life and professional work.
The Night Rider (1962)
Tim is the boss of a trail-herding crew consisting of Kentucky, a cook who plays the guitar, Joe, and Marty, a young, impressionable cowhand who longs for the g...
The Space - Theatre of Survival (2019)
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of The Space th...
It's Love Again (1936)
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter inven...
Yannick (2023)
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in...
La fin du jour (1939)
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has bee...
The Comedy Monster (2014)
The Comedy Monster Donzilla performs live in front of a theater crowd with his casuistic style of Comedy. The Comedy Monster is the newest addition of Donzilla&...
Sing Sing (2024)
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story o...
The AIDS Show (1986)
Artists Involved with Death and Survival, The Aids Show, theatre dealing with the impact of AIDS on friends and family; musical, dramatic and comedic scenes fro...
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre (2023)
Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson and other film luminaries look back at LA's historic Egyptian Theatre as it returns to its former movie palace glory.
Grazie ragazzi (2023)
Antonio is a passionate but often unemployed actor. Faced with a lack of job offers, he accepts a job as a teacher in a theater workshop within a prison.
Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play. (2024)
Follows Jeremy O. Harris as he workshops and mines Slave Play, the play that thrust him into the spotlight.
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