20 movies like The Helen Morgan Story, ordered by similarity : Till the Clouds Roll By(1946), Scott Walker: 30 Century Man(2006), Tonight We Sing(1953), I'll See You in My Dreams(1951), Deep in My Heart(1954), The Great Victor Herbert(1939), Look for the Silver Lining(1949), Lady With Red Hair(1940), La môme(2007), The Jolson Story(1946), Nico, 1988(2017), Beloved Infidel(1959) ...
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1957
118 Minutes
Ann Blyth Paul Newman Richard Carlson Gene Evans Alan King Cara Williams Virginia Vincent Walter Woolf King Dorothy Green Edward Platt Warren Douglas
singer broadway producer broadway star bootlegger boyfriend alcoholic bleak melodramatic brooding broadway theater hospital new york city chicago nightclub carnival musical performance rise to stardom alcoholism romance helen morgan
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
6.4/10
Musical, Biography
USA
1946
132 Minutes
Robert Walker Van Heflin Lucille Bremer Dorothy Patrick Judy Garland Kathryn Grayson Lena Horne Tony Martin Dinah Shore Frank Sinatra June Allyson
composer mentor daughter producer sweetheart singer charming confident moving new york city theater ship london countryside nightclub songwriting ambition broadway romance competition
Biography of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern (Robert Walker). Unable to find immediate success in the U.S., Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick).
7.2/10
Biography, Documentary, Music
UK
2006
96 Minutes
musician david bowie executive interviewee creative offbeat studio paris new york city music scott walker alcohol rise to stardom drugs performance rise transformation fall 2000s
A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker.
5.8/10
Biography
USA
1953
109 Minutes
impostor wife ballerina opera singer violinist broadway star melodramatic uplifting ukraine russia new york city broadway performance show business opera rise 1910s
Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music.
Biography
1951
110 Minutes
Doris Day Danny Thomas Frank Lovejoy Patrice Wymore James Gleason Julie Oshins
lyricist songwriter wife producer composer star creative amusing moving chicago office household new york city theater hollywood, calif. gus kahn songwriting show business marriage family
Songwriter Gus Kahn (Danny Thomas) and his wife (Doris Day) have problems as he pens hit tunes like "It Had to Be You."
6.4/10
Biography
USA
1954
132 Minutes
Jose Ferrer Merle Oberon Helen Traubel Doe Avedon Walter Pidgeon Paul Henreid Tamara Toumanova Paul Stewart Isobel Elsom David Burns Jim Backus
composer wife singer musician melodramatic charming theater new york city music romance success love rise 1920s
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
6.4/10
Biography
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Allan Jones Mary Martin Walter Connolly Lee Bowman Susanna Foster Judith Barrett Jerome Cowan John Garrick Pierre Watkin Richard Tucker Hal K. Dawson
husband singer composer doctor opera singer wife emotional melodramatic small town new york city switzerland opera house stage show business troubled marriage fame doomed romance mentorship victor herbert love
A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1949
100 Minutes
June Haver Ray Bolger Gordon MacRae Charles Ruggles Rosemary DeCamp Lee Wilde Lyn Wilde
dancer vaudevillian husband songwriter broadway star parent emotional inspiring spectacular ohio london stage new york city broadway theater backstage family broadway show business world war i tragic death
This musical biopic chronicles the vaudeville-to-Broadway story of 1920s' star Marilyn Miller (June Haver). From her start on the boards in Findlay, Ohio, Marilyn sings and dances her way ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1940
81 Minutes
Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley Laura Hope Crews Helen Westley John Litel Victor Jory
actress actor producer socialite ex-husband son melodramatic powerful chicago new york city courtroom theater boarding house divorce child custody adultery theater ambition mother/son relationship love
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a ... See full summary »
7.6/10
Biography, Drama
France|UK|Czech Republic
2007
140 Minutes
Marion Cotillard Clotilde Courau Jean-Paul Rouve Sylvie Testud Pascal Greggory Jean-Pierre Martins Emmanuelle Seigner Gérard Depardieu Catherine Allégret Caroline Sihol Alban Casterman
friend singer musician grandmother club owner boxer engaging melodramatic incredible spectacular brothel normandy, france street hollywood, calif. city nightclub music edith piaf troubled childhood friendship
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
7.2/10
Biography
USA
1946
128 Minutes
Larry Parks Evelyn Keyes William Demarest Bill Goodwin Ludwig Donath Tamara Shayne John Alexander Jo-Carroll Dennison Ernest Cossart Scotty Beckett William Forrest
cantor singer actor vaudevillian performer entertainer charming endearing playful rousing synagogue theater nightclub movie studio washington, d.c. backstage al jolson father/son relationship show business career vs. family
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson, a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star, falls in love with a... See full summary »
6.7/10
Biography, Music, Drama, History
Italy|Belgium
2017
94 Minutes
Trine Dyrholm Sàndor Funtek Anamaria Marinca Karina Fernandez Calvin Demba Gordon John Sinclair Thomas Trabacchi Francesco Colella
singer songwriter musician manager son rock star brooding emotional moving raw tense gripping europe stage restaurant road vehicle interview room isolation music business
The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
6.1/10
Biography
USA
1959
123 Minutes
Gregory Peck Deborah Kerr Eddie Albert Philip Ober Herbert Rudley John Sutton Karin Booth Ken Scott
author columnist editor actress producer doctor melodramatic passionate england new york city los angeles movie studio apartment chicago f. scott fitzgerald writing alcoholism sheilah graham fame hollywood
Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.
6.8/10
Music, Biography, Drama, History
UK|France|USA
2019
118 Minutes
Renée Zellweger Jessie Buckley Finn Wittrock Rufus Sewell Gemma-Leah Devereux Michael Gambon Bella Ramsey Andy Nyman Gaia Weiss Philippe Spall Fenella Woolgar
actress singer friend fan musician husband confident emotional dreamy moving film set hotel stage nightclub stardom fame dealing with fame rise love growing up
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
7.0/10
Biography
UK|France
1968
153 Minutes
Vanessa Redgrave James Fox Jason Robards Ivan Tchenko John Fraser Bessie Love Cynthia Harris Vladimir Leskovar Tony Vogel
dancer heir lover poet son daughter emotional spirited sultry london england stage france nice, france modern dance performance fame romance rebellion isadora duncan
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
7.0/10
Biography
USA
1945
139 Minutes
Robert Alda Joan Leslie Alexis Smith Charles Coburn Jacqueline Wells Albert Basserman Morris Carnovsky Herbert Rudley Rosemary DeCamp
composer brother mother professor singer al jolson confident creative moving new york city music store theater music hall los angeles george gershwin music family broadway romance illness
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
5.8/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2015
123 Minutes
Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Bradley Whitford David Krumholtz Cherry Jones Maddie Hasson Wes Langlois Wrenn Schmidt
singer country singer singer-songwriter womanizer american musician guitarist love interest wife child boy george girl hank williams jr. disheartening emotional engaging gripping sad united states alabama
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
6.3/10
Romance, Biography, Drama
USA
2016
81 Minutes
Tika Sumpter Parker Sawyers Vanessa Bell Calloway Jerod Haynes Alex Zelenka Donald Paul Gabrielle Lott-Rogers Jeremy Michael Pereira Deanna Reed-Foster Phillip Edward Van Lear TayLar
couple law student president adviser first lady man woman african-american african-american woman family charming cheeky emotional endearing heartwarming lighthearted chicago city romance first date
Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.
6.5/10
Biography
USA
1968
122 Minutes
Julie Andrews Richard Crenna Michael Craig Daniel Massey Robert Reed Bruce Forsyth Beryl Reid John Collin
singer playwright husband actor spirited melodramatic engaging theater england new york city entertainment fame marital problems debt rise transformation love 1940s
A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.
6.2/10
Biography
USA
1957
109 Minutes
Kim Novak Jeff Chandler Agnes Moorehead Charles Drake Larry Gates Virginia Grey Gene Lockhart Joe De Santis Murray Hamilton
dancer waitress actress carnival worker understudy passionate dark melodramatic broadway theater stage carnival new york city kansas city, mo. fame ambition betrayal show business alcoholism jeanne eagels wretched excess
The life of 1920s actress Jeanne Eagels.
7.7/10
Biography, Drama
UK|USA|Australia|Japan|France
2007
121 Minutes
Sam Riley Samantha Morton Craig Parkinson Alexandra Maria Lara Joe Anderson James Anthony Pearson Toby Kebbell Harry Treadaway Andrew Sheridan Robert Shelly
musician manager journalist wife dark sad brooding england household concert stage suicide marriage loneliness love triangle infidelity music fall rise love 1970s
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.
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