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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: 68,577 | 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: 35,961 | 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: 2,413
4. 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: 3,121
5. 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: 34,772 | Gross: $2.54M
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, Sherri Eakin, Alli Hart
Votes: 7,796
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: 6,730
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: 249
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: 575
10. 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
11. 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: 1,980
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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: 319
15. 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: 32
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: 118
17. La Rondine (2008 TV Movie)
106 min | Music
Director: Tiziano Mancini | Stars: Fiorenza Cedolins, Fernando Portari, Sandra Pastrana, Emanuele Giannino
18. 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
19. Il trovatore (1978 TV Movie)
Music, Drama
The Count of Luna loves Leonora and is jealous of his rival, the troubadour Manrico.
Director: Ernst Wild | Stars: Herbert von Karajan, Piero Cappuccilli, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza Cossotto
Votes: 45
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: 231
21. Turandot (1987 TV Movie)
134 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: James Levine, Éva Marton, Plácido Domingo, Leona Mitchell
Votes: 156
22. 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
23. 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
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 scala di seta (1962)
71 min | Comedy, Music
Dormont is the teacher and guardian of the beautiful Giulia, and he is determined that she will marry Blansac despite her continual rejection of his advances. The fact is that Giulia is ... See full summary »
Director: Filippo Crivelli | Stars: Graziella Sciutti, Ferdinando Lidonni, Fernando Jacopucci, Margherita Rinaldi
26. 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: 635
27. 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
28. 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
29. Il trovatore (2002 TV Movie)
139 min | Music, Drama
Director: Brian Large | Stars: José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yvonne Naef, Verónica Villarroel
Votes: 40
30. Giulio Cesare in Egitto (2012 TV Movie)
249 min | Drama, Musical
This "dynamite new production" (Opera Today) of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto inaugurated Cecilia Bartoli's first season as Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012. "... See full summary »
Director: Olivier Simonnet | Stars: Andreas Scholl, Cecilia Bartoli, Anne Sofie von Otter, Philippe Jaroussky
Votes: 10
31. 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
32. 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
33. L'incoronazione di Poppea (1979)
164 min | Music, Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle | Stars: Rachel Yakar, Eric Tappy, Trudeliese Schmidt, Matti Salminen
Votes: 51
34. La Traviata (1992 TV Movie)
E | 146 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Director: Manuela Crivelli | Stars: Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni, Nicoletta Curiel
Votes: 15
35. 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
36. La Traviata (2000 TV Movie)
Music, Romance
Director: Pierre Cavassilas | Stars: Eteri Gvazava, José Cura, Rolando Panerai, Raphaëlle Farman
Votes: 79
37. Julius Caesar (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 206 min | Music
Director: Robin Lough | Stars: Sarah Connolly, Angelika Kirchschlager, Danielle de Niese, Christophe Dumaux
Votes: 64
38. Madama Butterfly (1986 TV Movie)
142 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Director: Derek Bailey | Stars: Yasuko Hayashi, Hack-Nam Kim, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Peter Dvorský
Votes: 30
39. Artaserse, Leonardo Vinci (2012 TV Movie)
201 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Louise Narboni | Stars: Concerto Köln, Diego Fasolis, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic
Votes: 9
40. 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
41. 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
42. 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
43. Il ritorno del cigno (2014 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography, History
A documentary on the life of the great composer Gioachino Rossini.
Director: Ettore Florio | Stars: Bruno Praticò, Alessandro Gimelli, Angela Pascucci, Paola Antonucci
44. Public Opinion (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Lois Wilson, Crane Wilbur, Shirley Grey, Luis Alberni
Votes: 21
45. L'Orfeo (1978)
102 min | Music, Drama
This opera tells the fable of Orpheus, a demigod with a talent for music. When his bride Eurydice dies, he decides to seek her soul in the Underworld. However, things will not be so easier than he initially thinks.
Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle | Stars: Philippe Huttenlocher, Dietlinde Turban, Rachel Yakar, Trudeliese Schmidt
Votes: 60
46. Il trovatore (I) (1957 TV Movie)
Drama, Music
Director: Claudio Fino | Stars: Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora Barbieri, Mario Del Monaco
Votes: 6
47. 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
48. 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
49. Aida (2004 TV Movie)
159 min | Drama, Music, Musical
Director: Benoît Vlietinck | Stars: Norma Fantini, Marco Berti, Ildikó Komlósi, Mark S. Doss
50. Don Pasquale (I) (2006 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Felix Breisach | Stars: Juan Diego Flórez, Ruggero Raimondi, Isabel Rey, Nello Santi