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The Quiet American (2002)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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77
75
7.5
/20828/
72
/364/
70
/347/
3.7
/19656/
92
/26/
78
/247/

High Sierra (1941)
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
75
7.4
/129222/
75
/3995/
72
/1492/
3.8
/145296/
82
/83/
84
/10751/
69
/21/
cc age 10+

A League of Their Own (1992)
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
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66
7.0
/5673/
69
/107/
62
/95/
3.5
/8126/
100
/7/
72
/56/

Lured (1947)
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
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70
65
6.9
/7589/
73
/179/
69
/86/
3.8
/16341/
80
/10/
73
/232/
53
/6/

Sweet Charity (1969)
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
65
6.5
/27910/
63
/535/
63
/581/
3.2
/42384/
82
/28/
58
/381/

Killer's Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
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63
6.6
/4348/
60
/52/
57
/45/
3.2
/1193/
75
/8/
71
/55/
52
/8/

Cannery Row (1982)
Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giving them both a renewed chance at life.
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63
6.0
/5828/
62
/132/
55
/84/
3.2
/4432/
87
/15/
41
/59/
60
/12/

Swing Shift (1984)
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated.
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6.5
/7305/
64
/84/
62
/83/
3.2
/1687/
51
/87/
49
/253/
60
/30/

The White Countess (2005)
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
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70
59
7.1
/5148/
70
/75/
67
/52/
3.4
/2526/
71
/7/
75
/95/

Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
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.
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48
5.7
/6695/
57
/157/
57
/147/
3.0
/5375/
40
/5/
43
/64/
53
/8/

Paradise Alley (1978)
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.
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48
7.3
/5095/
73
/136/
70
/148/
3.5
/1984/
59
/3/

The Con Artists (1976)
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
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42
6.8
/2707/
70
/30/
62
/36/
3.4
/2340/
58
/164/

Deadline at Dawn (1946)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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40
7.1
/1974/
65
/20/
65
/21/
3.4
/1356/
68
/113/

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
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37
6.7
/2333/
64
/35/
57
/33/
3.3
/1226/
50
/6/
52
/24/

The Quiet American (1958)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
poster
59
30
6.4
/1157/
61
/23/
65
/19/
3.4
/2369/
40
/5/
56
/8/

The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
In the early ’40s, a San Francisco prostitute is run out of town just as World War II has begun to intensify. She settles down in Hawaii, hoping to start a new life.
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68
29
6.6
/669/
61
/10/
51
/15/
3.4
/1010/
95
/20/
67
/1/

Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
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28
6.4
/1821/
64
/23/
61
/29/
3.1
/1027/
61
/10/

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
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27
6.5
/1127/
58
/17/
67
/17/
55
/41/

Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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23
6.6
/1200/
66
/28/
60
/33/
3.2
/877/
29
/3/

The Lady Gambles (1949)
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
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14
5.6
/468/
58
/15/
45
/15/
2.9
/718/

Accused of Murder (1956)
A police detective finds himself entangled in the web of the underworld when he falls in love with a nightclub singer accused of murdering a crooked lawyer.
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13
5.7
/285/
81
/8/
56
/5/
62
/22/

Son of the Gods (1930)
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the socialite (Constance Bennett) he loves learns of his heritage.
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13
6.4
/306/
50
/7/
68
/4/
83
/15/

Copacabana (1985)
In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge, they both start finding fame. However, fate steps in and she is swept to Havana to work in a splashy nightclub act where she is convinced she will find her stardom. Instead, she finds Rico, a suave gangster and the club owner.
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61
12
6.5
/493/
71
/5/
45
/4/
33
/68/

Ringside Maisie (1941)
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 down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.
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10
6.2
/399/
64
/11/
59
/15/
3.3
/239/
44
/5/

Appointment with Crime (1946)
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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55
8
6.6
/436/
50
/1/
63
/10/
44
/3/

Bolero (1934)
The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.
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?
6.2
/27/

Dance Hall Marge (1931)
Taxi dancer Marjorie Beebe has just gotten engaged to jealous Harry Gribbon. She's taking a week at the beach, and off she goes, to meet wealthy Frank Eastman. But Gribbon haunts her, and she tries to preserve her honor, and indeed her life.
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54
?
6.2
/263/
65
/2/
36
/5/

Young Bride (1932)
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
poster
?
7.9
/24/

No Dogs (2021)
Set against the backdrop of the Watsonville race riots that set central California ablaze in 1930, Filipino American Marisol seeks shelter at Carl’s diner. Neither of them can foresee where that violent night will take them, or what secrets will be revealed.
poster
?
6.5
/25/
60
/1/

Gang War (1928)
Saxophone player Clyde meets a woman named Flowers, and teaches her to dance. He later discovers that gangster boss "Blackjack" is also in love with her. "Blackjack" is also battling gang boss Mike Luego in a violent turf war.
poster
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4.1
/15/
10
/1/
40
/1/

Mobs, Inc. (1956)
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 dance hall girl, who, together with a big operative, are thwarted in attempting a robbery; a racketeer fleecing a book publisher on a Trans-Atlantic voyage, and the tripping up of the plans of a phony land syndicate.
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5.6
/35/
100
/1/

Sweetheart of the Navy (1937)
Singer Joan Whitney, called the "Sweetheart of the Navy" by sailors, is struggling to re-open the Snug Harbor Cafe. After her partner, Richard, skips town with the money owed to their creditors, the club opens unceremoniously. Two of Joan's sailor friends, Andy and Pete, offer to help her raise money for the club by staging a fight with Bumper Martin, boxing champion of the fleet. At Andy's request, straight-laced yeoman Eddie Harris replaces him in the upcoming fight. Andy and Pete then intimidate or coerce the sailors into betting on the fight, promising to give Joan the profits. Navy Commander Lodge, who is grooming Eddie for the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is against the fight, however, and Joan decides to "vamp" Eddie to make him fight.
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49
?
5.2
/128/
60
/1/
38
/4/

Dance Hall (1929)
A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her.
poster
?
6.6
/19/
50
/1/

Stowaway (1932)
On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. She is soon discovered by second mate Tommy and they quickly fall in love, but with first mate Groder lurking around will their lives work out in the end?
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72
?
6.5
/309/
60
/1/
80
/3/

Child of Manhattan (1933)
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 Vanderkill estates. To reassure his aunt Sophie, Vanderkill visits Loveland to determine whether it is as disreputable as Sophie suspects. There he meets a dime-a-dance girl, Madeleine MacGonagal, who charms him with her quaint proletarian accent. They begin a secret affair, which turns into a secret marriage when pregnancy ensues. When the baby fails to survive, Madeleine decides that since he had married her only for the baby's sake, she should make haste to Mexico to secure a divorce. There she meets Panama Canal Kelly, a former suitor who now owns a silver mine. Her plans for divorce and quick remarriage are complicated when Vanderkill arrives to confront her.
poster
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6.0
/25/
70
/1/

Man Bait (1927)
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. She takes a job as a taxi-dancer in a dime-a-dance joint, and meets and falls in love with a rich playboy, Jeff Sanford, and he with her. Jeff is now faced with convincing his society-parents that he has made a wise choice.
poster
?
3.8
/54/
10
/1/
30
/1/

Taxi Boy (1986)
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.
poster
58
?
6.4
/502/
58
/8/
68
/5/
43
/2/

My Man and I (1952)
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad check.
poster
34
?
3.9
/149/
15
/2/
50
/3/

Dancing with Danger (1994)
A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.
poster
?
6.0
/52/
60
/2/
10
/1/

Stan Kenton and His Orchestra (1947)
A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.
poster
57
?
6.3
/417/
63
/6/
47
/7/

Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
poster
71
?
6.5
/221/
66
/3/
70
/3/

Panama Flo (1932)
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
poster
59
?
6.2
/694/
50
/7/
62
/4/
3.2
/236/

Twenty Plus Two (1961)
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?
poster
49
?
6.9
/200/
70
/3/
10
/1/

Asleep in the Feet (1933)
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
poster
64
?
6.4
/143/
63
/3/
70
/3/

The Nickel-Hopper (1926)
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
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60
?
6.1
/280/
55
/2/
70
/1/

Blind Date (1934)
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.
poster
62
?
6.2
/520/
61
/7/
65
/6/

Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.
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58
?
6.3
/139/
60
/1/
53
/3/

Paid to Dance (1937)
Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.


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