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1. Moonstruck (1987)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello
Votes: 69,038 | Gross: $80.64M
2. Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music, Romance
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale
Votes: 36,031 | Gross: $25.54M
3. ...All the Marbles (1981)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Small timer female wrestling team "The California Dolls" and their manager must face the hardship of their sport and life to suceed.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Burt Young
Votes: 2,424
4. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,850 | Gross: $2.54M
5. Lisztomania (1975)
R | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Music
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr
Votes: 3,131
6. The Dinner Party (2020)
116 min | Horror, Thriller
A budding playwright and his wife attend a dinner party hosted by wealthy, cultural elites, who have promised to bankroll the writer's latest play to Broadway, but, in fact, have darker designs in mind for the couple.
Director: Miles Doleac | Stars: Jeremy London, Bill Sage, Sawandi Wilson, Sherri Eakin
Votes: 7,805
7. The Ship Sails On (1983)
PG | 128 min | Drama, History, Music
In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Votes: 6,764
8. Alex: The Life of a Child (1986 TV Movie)
Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Drama
Alexandra Deford, a precious and precocious girl, was just eight years old when she died in 1980 following a battle against the debilitating effects of cystic fibrosis, the number-one ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Gennie James, Danny Corkill
Votes: 248
9. X-Rated Girl (1971)
R | 110 min | Comedy
A frustrated musician makes a career out of his wife's beautiful body.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Laura Antonelli, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Elsa Vazzoler
Votes: 577
10. The Royal Opera House: Andrea Chenier (2015)
174 min | History, Musical, Romance
Director: Jonathan Haswell | Stars: Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Zeljko Lucic, Denyce Graves
Votes: 25
11. Gianni Schicchi, Opera by Giacomo Puccini (2015 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Musical
It's mid-twentieth century Florence. Wealthy Buoso Donati has just died in his bed, his extended family the only people around him at the time. Rumors abound within the family that he has ... See full summary »
Directors: Matthew Diamond, Woody Allen | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Andriana Chuchman, Meredith Arwady, Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Votes: 44
12. Il Trovatore (2014)
Unrated | 145 min | Drama, Musical
Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore One of the most enduringly popular operas in the repertoire, Il Trovatore was first seen at Rome's Teatro Apollo in 1853. Together with Rigoletto and La ... See full summary »
Director: Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Daniel Barenboim, Plácido Domingo, Davit Gharibyan, Florian Hoffmann
Votes: 29
13. Il compagno Don Camillo (1965)
93 min | Comedy
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Leda Gloria, Gianni Garko
Votes: 1,988
14. One Last Dance (2006)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name.
Director: Max Makowski | Stars: Francis Ng, Lung Ti, Vivian Hsu, Joseph Quek
Votes: 637
15. Madame Butterfly (1954)
114 min | Drama, Musical
A churlish American Navy officer deserts his Japanese geisha bride, then returns with a second white wife and demands custody of the geisha's biracial child.
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi, Michiko Tanaka, Ferdinando Lidonni
Votes: 46
16. Tosca (1941)
105 min | Drama, Musical
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom.
Directors: Carl Koch, Jean Renoir | Stars: Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon, Rossano Brazzi, Carla Candiani
Votes: 120
17. Turandot (1987 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: James Levine, Éva Marton, Plácido Domingo, Leona Mitchell
Votes: 156
18. No One Sleeps (2000)
R | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Was the AIDS virus created during an experiment gone awry at the Pentagon top security genetic laboratory? Stefan, an East German medical student whose father was a high-ranking AIDS scientist in the former GDR, is determined to find out.
Director: Jochen Hick | Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Irit Levi, Jim Thalman, Richard Conti
Votes: 318
19. Il Mefistofele (1989 TV Movie)
137 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele, his best-known work, was first performed in 1868. Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera has Faust as an ageing hippie, smoking ... See full summary »
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Paata Burchuladze, Ottavio Garaventa, Adriana Morelli, Silvana Mazzieri
Votes: 42
20. La Traviata (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Music, Romance
La Traviata stands or falls on its lead singers and in Norah Amsellem and Rolando Villazon this 2005 Salzburg Festival performance has a pair whose electric interactions and brilliant ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Anna Netrebko, Helene Schneiderman, Diane Pilcher, Rolando Villazón
Votes: 232
21. Macbeth (II) (2011)
170 min | Drama, Music
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Sue Judd | Stars: Simon Keenlyside, Raymond Aceto, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Elisabeth Meister
Votes: 33
22. Cosi Fan Tutte (2005 TV Movie)
179 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director: Stéphane Metge | Stars: Erin Wall, Elina Garanca, Stéphane Degout, Shawn Mathey
Votes: 23
23. Viva Vivaldi (2000 TV Special)
106 min | Music
The spectacular mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli is joined by the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico in a program of baroque music from composer Antonio Vivaldi, "The Red Priest". The concert ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini, Enrico Onofri, Mario Bianchi
Votes: 47
24. Cavalleria rusticana (1982 TV Movie)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Turridu is spotted by his wife, Santuzza, returning from the home of his lover, Lola. He is also seen on the road by Lola's husband, Alfio. While he suspects nothing, Santuzza knows exactly... See full summary »
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Yelena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo, Renato Bruson, Fedora Barbieri
Votes: 237
25. La Rondine (2009)
150 min | Music, Romance
A thoroughly Italian work inspired by Viennese operetta, this rarely performed Puccini gem tells the story of love between a kept woman from high society and a naïve younger man of moderate... See full summary »
Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Misha Didyk, Anna Christy, Gerard Powers
26. Tosca Live from the Royal Opera House (2011)
131 min | Drama, Music
ACT I Rome, June 1800. Cesare Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, rushes into the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle. After finding the key his sister has hidden for him, he hides in ... See full synopsis »
Director: Jonathan Haswell | Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Lukas Jakobski
Votes: 47
27. La Traviata (2000 TV Movie)
Music, Romance
Director: Pierre Cavassilas | Stars: Eteri Gvazava, José Cura, Rolando Panerai, Raphaëlle Farman
Votes: 79
28. Elixir of Love (1947)
75 min | Musical
An aging quack who promotes a love potion revisits a village, where a youth recalls to him in flashback how he had brought the lad's parents together years before.
Director: Mario Costa | Stars: Nelly Corradi, Loretta Di Lelio, Tito Gobbi, Gino Sinimberghi
Votes: 43
29. Così fan tutte (2006 TV Movie)
210 min | Comedy, Musical
A philosopher demonstrates his theory by entrapping 2 sisters to abandon their recently departed soldier fiances for new men, really their fiances in disguise. Their maid assists in multiple roles, and by encouraging them to stray.
Director: Francesca Kemp | Stars: Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni, Nicolas Rivenq
Votes: 28
30. Madama Butterfly (II) (2004 TV Movie)
142 min | Drama, Musical
Puccini's Madama Butterfly - the composer's self-proclaimed favourite work and certainly one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire - is brought to life at the worldfamous Arena di ... See full summary »
Director: George Blume | Stars: Alessandro Battiato, Mina Blum, Carlo Bosi, Fiorenza Cedolins
Votes: 7
31. La Traviata (2007 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama, Music, Musical
In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo ... See full summary »
Director: Maria Paola Longobardo | Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Ramón Vargas, Roberto Frontali, Natascha Petrinsky
Votes: 23 | Gross: $0.20M
32. Turandot (I) (1983 TV Movie)
116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Ghena Dimitrova, Nicola Martinucci, Cecilia Gasdia, Ivo Vinco
Votes: 28
33. Andrea Chénier (1973 TV Movie)
110 min | Music
Stars: Franco Corelli, Celestina Casapietra, Piero Cappuccilli
Votes: 13
34. Ernani (1982 TV Movie)
138 min | Drama, Music
Director: Preben Montell | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Renato Bruson, Nicolai Ghiaurov
Votes: 31
35. Rigoletto a Mantova (2010 TV Movie)
125 min | Drama, Music
Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Cavassilas | Stars: Plácido Domingo, Julia Novikova, Vittorio Grigòlo, Nino Surguladze
Votes: 74
36. La Bohème (2003 TV Movie)
113 min | Music, Drama, Romance
During the 1830s in Paris, a group of starvjng artists share poverty, happiness, love, sickness, death, and grief.
Director: Carlo Battistoni | Stars: Marcelo Álvarez, Natale De Carolis, Matteo Peirone, Cristina Gallardo Domas
Votes: 19
37. Simply Actors (2007)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy
When undercover cops start losing their lives to drug lords who blame their demise on "poor acting", the Police Force counters by sending Hong Kong's Finest to acting school.
Directors: Hing-Ka Chan, Patrick Leung | Stars: Sui-Man Chim, Charlene Choi, Fai-Hung Chan, Fruit Chan
Votes: 276
38. Il Giasone (2012 Video)
198 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Director: Matteo Ricchetti | Stars: Christophe Dumaux, Katarina Bradic, Robin Johannsen, Andrew Ashwin
39. Manon Lescaut (1998 TV Movie)
126 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Manuela Crivelli | Stars: Maria Guleghina, Lucio Gallo, José Cura, Luigi Roni
Votes: 27
40. Anna Bolena (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 182 min | Drama, History
In the summer of 1830 the impresarios of Teatro Carcano contacted Donizetti and asked him to compose a new opera for the season's opening. At the moment of signing the contract Donizetti ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanca, Elisabeth Kulman, Francesco Meli
Votes: 48
41. Lucia di Lammermoor (I) (1983 TV Movie)
128 min | Drama, Music
Enrico wants sister Lucia to marry Arturo for political gain. Lucia loves his enemy Edgardo. When Edgardo is away, Enrico shows her a forged letter saying Edgardo is now married and to ... See full summary »
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, Paul Plishka
Votes: 69
42. Macbeth (2002 TV Movie)
140 min | Music, Drama
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Thomas Grimm | Stars: Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Luis Lima
Votes: 37
43. Lucrezia Borgia (2002 TV Movie)
139 min | Music, Drama
Director: Carlo Battistoni | Stars: Michele Pertusi, Mariella Devia, Marcelo Álvarez, Daniela Barcellona
Votes: 14
44. Le nozze di Figaro (II) (2006 TV Movie)
184 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The Countess and three servants conspire to embarrass the Count during an attempted infidelity. Complications ensue for the upcoming nuptials.
Director: Jonathan Haswell | Stars: Graciela Araya, Francis Egerton, Gerald Finley, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Votes: 41
45. Adriana Lecouvreur (2011)
151 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The story of a real 18th-century French actress, leading lady of the Comédie-Française in Paris, who was believed to have been poisoned by a love rival.
Director: François Roussillon | Stars: Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Olga Borodina, Alessandro Corbelli
Votes: 20
46. La Cenerentola (1983 TV Movie)
155 min | Fantasy, Music, Romance
When Prince Ramiro and Cenerentola meet, it is love at first sight.
Director: John Vernon | Stars: Kathleen Kuhlmann, Marta Taddei, Laura Zannini, Claudio Desderi
Votes: 18
47. La Bohème, Oper in vier Bildern (2012 TV Movie)
Unrated | 142 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
This Bohème was the talk of the 2012 Salzburg Festival, the first production of Puccini's timeless masterpiece ever given there, in a bold and meticulously observed contemporary staging. A ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Piotr Beczala, Anna Netrebko, Massimo Cavalletti, Nino Machaidze
Votes: 15
48. Pagliacci (1954 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama, Music
Director: Franco Enriquez | Stars: Franco Corelli, Mafalda Micheluzzi, Tito Gobbi, Mario Carlin
Votes: 12
49. Casta diva (1935)
87 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Young composer Vincenzo Bellini is still an unknown music student in Napoli when he finds in a maiden's eyes the inspiration for the aria that would become his most beloved one, "Casta Diva".
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Mártha Eggerth, Sandro Palmieri, Gualtiero Tumiati, Lamberto Picasso
Votes: 34
50. Macbeth (II) (1993 TV Movie)
149 min | Drama, Music
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Renato Bruson, Mara Zampieri, Goetz Rose, David Griffith
Votes: 33