Costumes
by road-traveled | created - 24 Dec 2015 | updated - 19 Sep 2018 | PublicNot found on IMDb: My Home, My Song. 2005. The Music and Dance of Taiwan's Aborigines. 2 disc DVD set. More than 10 distinct languages. Documentary began in 1990. Director : Yu Kan-Ping.
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1. Moulin Rouge (1952)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Director: John Huston | Stars: José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier
Votes: 6,530 | Gross: $11.81M
Academy Award winner - best costume design, art direction, set decoration. Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertes. BSC, best cinematography, Oswald Morris.
2. Doo Wop 50 (1999 TV Movie)
Documentary, Music
Original vocal groups from the 1950s and early 1960s sing their hits.
Director: George Veras | Stars: Jerry Butler, Lee Andrews, Vito Balsamo, Jimmy Beaumont
Votes: 51
Suits and shoes - dressed to the max. Colorful suits.
3. The Story of the Costume Drama (2008– )
60 min | Documentary
This documentary series looks at the enduring appeal of the British costume drama genre, and features clips and interviews with both the stars and those who worked behind the camera.
Stars: Keeley Hawes, Alex Kingston, Charity Wakefield, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 59
4. Rize (2005)
PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Music
Rize chronicles a dance movement that rises out of South Central Los Angeles with roots in clowning and street youth culture.
Director: David LaChapelle | Stars: Tommy the Clown, Larry Berry, Dragon, Jassy Marie
Votes: 3,348 | Gross: $3.28M
Clowning and Krumping clothing. South Central Los Angeles.
5. Zoot Suit (1981)
R | 103 min | Drama, Musical
When barrio leader Henry Reyna and his friends are unjustly convicted on circumstantial evidence, activist lawyers Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant racially motivated miscarriage of justice to win them their freedom.
Director: Luis Valdez | Stars: Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $3.26M
6. Blood on the Moon (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
Unemployed cowhand Jim Garry is hired by his dishonest friend Tate Riling as muscle in a dispute between homesteaders and cattleman John Lufton.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 3,503
Barbara Bel Geddes wears a buckskin double breasted jacket with fringe, slacks and hat.
7. Go West Young Man (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady
Votes: 781
The Senator has a nice paisley smoking jacket
8. Brodeuses (2004)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Claire (Nymark), an unmarried pregnant teenager, finds an odd relation in Madame Mélikian (Ascaride), an older woman grieving over the death of her son.
Director: Éléonore Faucher | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Lola Naymark, Jackie Berroyer, Thomas Laroppe
Votes: 1,542 | Gross: $0.03M
Armenian embroidery.
9. Mr. Lucky (1943)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gambler has plans to swindle money from a charity program, but starts to have second thoughts when he falls for a rich society girl.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Cary Grant, Laraine Day, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 3,539
Grant learns to knit, then his driver takes up knitting.
10. Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The author of a controversially racy best-selling book tries to hide her celebrity status from her provincial small-town neighbors, who would be scandalized if they knew.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Irene Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Thomas Mitchell, Thurston Hall
Votes: 2,953
Lots of bows, feathers and polka dots
11. My Little Chickadee (1940)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Western
After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran
Votes: 3,064
Mae with a polka dot, bustled dress and polka dot umbrella.
12. Daughters of the Dust (1991)
TV-PG | 113 min | Drama, History, Romance
A languid, impressionistic story of three generations of Gullah women living on the South Carolina Sea Islands in 1902.
Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula Hoosier
Votes: 3,293 | Gross: $1.64M
1902 celebration on a southern white sand beach. Gorgeous gowns.
13. Enchanted April (1991)
PG | 95 min | Drama
Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker
Votes: 7,139 | Gross: $13.20M
1920s Italian hillside home above the ocean. 1920s costumes and bathing outfits.
14. Russian Ark (2002)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
Votes: 21,830 | Gross: $0.04M
1913 formal state ball.
15.
Smithsonian World (1984–1988)
Episode:
The Way We Wear
(1988)
TV-PG | Documentary
Director: David Grubin
16. The Moth (1997– )
152 min | Drama
Set in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has died. That leads to a total new set of circumstances in his life.
Stars: Jack Davenport, David Howey, Janet Dale, Sally Grey
Votes: 693
1913 England
17. Memphis the Musical (2011)
Not Rated | 165 min | Musical
Memphis is set in the places where rock and roll was born in the 1950s: the seedy nightclubs, radio stations and recording studios of the musically-rich Tennessee city. With an original ... See full summary »
Director: Don Roy King | Stars: James Monroe Iglehart, Todrick Hall, Chad Kimball, Paul McGill
Votes: 284
Southern 1950s era clothing. Memphis.
18. The Valley of Decision (1945)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance
An Irish maid falls for the son of her wealthy boss, though their disapproving fathers and a bitter strike at the steel mill complicate matters.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, Donald Crisp, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 2,376
19. The Wedding Dress (2001 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
As a wedding dress is passed down through five couples, it weaves a magical spell playing a part in each of their love stories.
Director: Sam Pillsbury | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Margaret Colin, Tyne Daly, Kathryne Dora Brown
Votes: 543
20. Middlemarch (1994)
54 min | Drama, Romance
Middlemarch is a story of provincial life on the brink of momentous change and a deeply moving saga about a group of people striving to give meaning and value to their lives during the Industrial Revolution.
Stars: Douglas Hodge, Juliet Aubrey, Trevyn McDowell, Jonathan Firth
Votes: 2,757
21. The Badlanders (1958)
Approved | 85 min | Western
Released from the Yuma Prison in 1898, ex-killer John McBain wants to go straight while ex-robber Peter Van Hoek seeks revenge but their destinies eventually converge in the mining town of Prescott.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Katy Jurado, Claire Kelly
Votes: 1,688
Kelly has a grey skirt with black tassles in back, interesting black trim. Quite a few interesting western outfits.
22. Texas (1941)
Passed | 93 min | Western
Two young men head west in search of fortune and adventure.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft
Votes: 1,450
23. It Started in Paradise (1952)
88 min | Drama
As she rises in the fashion world, a talented dress designer loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Jane Hylton, Ian Hunter, Terence Morgan, Muriel Pavlow
Votes: 62
24. Strictly Ballroom (1992)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Pat Thomson
Votes: 29,423 | Gross: $11.74M
25. A Savage Life in Fashion (2004)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary
Percy Savage started fashion PR, introduced Saint-Laurent to Dior, created the Mary Quant explosion, invented fashion video and established London Fashion Week. A Savage Life in Fashion, a ... See full summary »
Director: Winston Cuthbert | Stars: Hilary Alexander, Jocelyn Bain-Hogg, Leonore Benson, Wendy Dagworthy
26. Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
Director: Richard Press | Stars: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors, Editta Sherman
Votes: 5,670 | Gross: $1.51M
27. Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown (2014)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A look at the music career of musician James Brown beginning with his first hit song, "Please, Please, Please," in 1956.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: James Brown, Christian McBride, Bobby Byrd, Greg Tate
Votes: 1,497
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