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1. A League of Their Own (1992)

PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna

Votes: 120,978 | Gross: $107.53M

2. Sweet Charity (1969)

G | 149 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.

Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis Jr.

Votes: 6,685 | Gross: $3.43M

3. Killer's Kiss (1955)

Not Rated | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Ready to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith, Jerry Jarrett

Votes: 25,998

4. Swing Shift (1984)

PG | 100 min | Drama, Romance, War

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward

Votes: 5,400 | Gross: $6.65M

5. The Quiet American (2002)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija

Votes: 29,726 | Gross: $12.99M

6. High Sierra (1940)

Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 19,225

7. Paradise Alley (1978)

PG | 107 min | Drama

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Frank McRae

Votes: 6,081

8. Lured (1947)

Approved | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff

Votes: 4,809

9. The White Countess (2005)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance

In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave

Votes: 6,969 | Gross: $1.67M

10. Cannery Row (1982)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance

Monterey, California in the 1940's. Cannery Row - the section of town where the now closed fish canneries are located - is inhabited primarily by the down and out, although many would not ... See full summary »

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae

Votes: 4,113 | Gross: $5.30M

11. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

Passed | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith

Votes: 4,739

12. Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An ex-convict and a woman fall in love, after she shoots her police Lt. boyfriend dead in self defense, and falsely leads him to believe that he did the shooting.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle, Ray Teal

Votes: 1,601

13. The Quiet American (1958)

TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A young naive American and a cynical older British diplomat disagree over politics in 1952 Vietnam and over a beautiful young native girl.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll

Votes: 2,099

14. The Lady Gambles (1949)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally, Edith Barrett

Votes: 1,055

15. Copacabana (1985 TV Movie)

96 min | Musical

Singer Tony loves dancer Lola in 1940s New York, but sinister Rico brings her to his nightclub in Havana.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Barry Manilow, Annette O'Toole, Estelle Getty, James T. Callahan

Votes: 286

16. I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Passed | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring - by robbing a resort hotel.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Votes: 1,616

17. Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

After a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.

Directors: Harold Clurman, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 2,134

18. Accused of Murder (1956)

Approved | 74 min | Film-Noir, Mystery

Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey

Votes: 393

19. Ten Cents a Dance (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Men pay a dime to dance with Barbara and her fellow taxi dancers. She marries Eddie and plans to quit dancing. Before she does, she meets a handsome and rich gentleman.

Directors: Lionel Barrymore, Edward Buzzell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane

Votes: 902

20. Two Seconds (1932)

67 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster

Votes: 1,300

21. Daughter of Shanghai (1937)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham

Votes: 546

22. Dancing with Danger (1994 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 100 min | Thriller

A Portland taxi-dancer, which is a term used for a dance hall employee whose job is to dance with patrons, is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

Director: Stuart Cooper | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Ed Marinaro, Miguel Sandoval, Pat Skipper

Votes: 133

23. Valentino (1951)

Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina, Joseph Calleia

Votes: 338

24. Taxi Dancers (1994)

Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A young woman arrives in Los Angeles and is forced to take a job as a 'taxi dancer' in a strip club to financially survive.

Director: Norman Thaddeus Vane | Stars: Sonny Landham, Robert Miano, Josie Boyd, Michele Hess

Votes: 36

25. Twenty Plus Two (1961)

Passed | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill, Jacques Aubuchon

Votes: 553

26. Appointment with Crime (1946)

Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.

Director: John Harlow | Stars: William Hartnell, Robert Beatty, Joyce Howard, Raymond Lovell

Votes: 344

27. Paid to Dance (1937)

Approved | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Government undercover agents William Dennis (Don Terry) and Joan Bradley (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells) are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from ... See full summary »

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Don Terry, Julie Bishop, Rita Hayworth, Arthur Loft

Votes: 126

28. My Man and I (1952)

Approved | 99 min | Drama

In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for, after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee with a bad check.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Shelley Winters, Ricardo Montalban, Wendell Corey, Claire Trevor

Votes: 459

29. Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)

64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Chester Morris, Nina Foch, Steve Cochran, Richard Lane

Votes: 381

30. Son of the Gods (1930)

Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Constance Bennett, Anders Randolf, E. Alyn Warren

Votes: 261

31. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Philip Dorn, Phil Brown

Votes: 469

32. Young Bride (1932)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A shy, naive New York children's librarian must become stronger and wiser after she discovers that her new husband is a liar, a cheat, and a fraud.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Eric Linden, Arline Judge, Roscoe Ates

Votes: 253

33. Blind Date (1934)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Ann Sothern, Neil Hamilton, Paul Kelly, Jane Darwell

Votes: 255

34. Child of Manhattan (1933)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Buck Jones, Jessie Ralph

Votes: 274

35. Panama Flo (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A New York chorus girl is coerced into keeping house for an oil man in South America to pay off a debt. Her boyfriend comes to get her but she finds out that he is only out for the oil man's money.

Directors: Ralph Murphy, Tay Garnett | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Robert Armstrong, Charles Bickford, Marjorie Peterson

Votes: 210

36. Gang War (1928)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A saxophone player Clyde, who busks on the San Francisco Bay waterfront. One night, he meets Flowers, and teaches her to dance, but finds that "Blackjack", the leader of a ruthless gang, is also in love with her.

Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Olive Borden, Jack Pickford, Eddie Gribbon, Walter Long

Votes: 24

37. No Dogs (2021)

16 min | Short, Drama

With the sound of gunfire in the distance, a Filipina woman seeks refuge in a diner run by a white supremacist.

Director: Randal Kamradt | Stars: Georgina Tolentino, Ian Coleman

Votes: 12

38. Dance Hall (1929)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A dance-trophy-winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe that he's in love with her.

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Olive Borden, Arthur Lake, Ralph Emerson, Margaret Seddon

Votes: 115

39. The Nickel-Hopper (1926)

37 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.

Directors: F. Richard Jones, Hal Yates | Stars: Mabel Normand, Michael Visaroff, Theodore von Eltz, Jimmy Anderson

Votes: 136

40. Asleep in the Feet (1933)

19 min | Comedy, Short

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Billy Gilbert, Eddie Dunn

Votes: 180

41. Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1947)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Music

A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.

Director: Jack Scholl | Stars: Stan Kenton, June Christy, Jerry Gale, Buddy Childers

Votes: 50

42. Stowaway (1932)

Passed | 54 min | Romance, Drama

A woman is forced to stowaway on a freighter in order to avoid going to jail as a mistaken street walker.

Director: Phil Whitman | Stars: Fay Wray, Leon Ames, Montagu Love, Lee Moran

Votes: 21

43. Ringside Maisie (1941)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling, Virginia O'Brien

Votes: 427

44. Man Bait (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance

Madge Dreyer is a sales girl in a large department store whose street-wise past long ago taught her how to handle any situation. A small adventure with her boss leads to her getting fired. ... See full summary »

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Marie Prevost, Kenneth Thomson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Louis Natheaux

Votes: 23

45. Sweetheart of the Navy (1937)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Singer struggles to make her new nightclub succeed in a naval port after her partner leaves with the funds but not the bills.

Director: Duncan Mansfield | Stars: Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhof, Bernadene Hayes

Votes: 34

46. Mobs, Inc. (1956)

Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con artistry. Included are tracking down a ... See full summary »

Director: William Asher | Stars: Reed Hadley, Marjorie Reynolds, Douglass Dumbrille, Don Haggerty

Votes: 12

47. Dance Hall Marge (1931)

21 min | Short, Comedy

A taxi dancer on a beach vacation pretending to be from high society meets a wealthy bachelor, unaware that her jealous fiance has followed her.

Directors: Del Lord, Mack Sennett | Stars: Harry Gribbon, Marjorie Beebe, Frank Eastman, Mildred Van Dorn

Votes: 18

48. Midnight Morals (1932)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A rookie cop falls for a "taxi dancer" in a dance hall, but his father has strong objections to the relationship.

Directors: B. Reeves Eason, E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Alberta Vaughn, Rex Lease, Charles Delaney, Beryl Mercer

49. Taxi Boy (1986)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

The meeting of Manuel, a lady's dancer, Petrus, an unfortunate gambler, and Corinne, a fast-food waitress. The drifting of three drop-outs, three solitary dreamers, adventurous waverers.

Director: Alain Page | Stars: Richard Berry, Claude Brasseur, Charlotte Valandrey, Evelyne Didi

Votes: 46

50. Broadway Gossip No. 3 (1932)

Passed | 9 min | Short

In the third of the "Broadway Gossip" series, columnist Leo Donnelly interviews former star 'Lillian Walker', now struggling to make a living on her small farm, and current star 'Mary Nolan... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Kane | Stars: Leo Donnelly, Lillian Walker, Mary Nolan, Madame Sylvia