Here we've displayed a list of the best Cabaret films : The Battle of Warsaw 1920(2011), Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment(1999), Victor/Victoria(1982), French Cancan(1955), Madame Satã(2002), The Noose(1928), Coco Before Chanel(2009), The Jazz Singer(1927), Shine On, Harvest Moon(1944), State Secret(1950), Cabaret Balkan(1998), Suzy(1936) ... ...
War, Drama, History
UK
2011
116 Minutes
Borys Szyc Natasza Urbanska Michal Zebrowski Daniel Olbrychski Jerzy Bonczak Adam Ferency Boguslaw Linda Ewa Wisniewska
cavalryman dancer singer engaging warsaw rally battle cabaret poetry transformation 1920s
A brief canter through the life and work of one of Britain's most unbelievable artists.
Documentary
USA
1999
77 Minutes
dancer songwriter actor dance instructor lover pianist touching wild charming new york city club partnership show business homosexuality cabaret john wallowitch bertram ross love adventure 1990s
Shortlisted for the 1999 Academy Award, this non-fiction musical follows John Wallowitch, a star of New York cabaret and partner Bertram Ross, Martha Graham's lead dancer for 20 years. Together they formed the unforgettable cabaret duo "Wallowitch and Ross." A hidden gem of queer cinema recently preserved in the Academy Archives, you'll want to return to this magical little world time and time ... See full summary »
Comedy, Gay & Lesbian
UK|USA
1982
133 Minutes
Julie Andrews James Garner Robert Preston Lesley Ann Warren Alex Karras John Rhys-Davies Graham Stark Peter Arne Sherloque Tanney Michael Robbins
soprano performer gangster ex-boyfriend girlfriend bodyguard witty charming paris nightclub hotel apartment restaurant cross-dressing homosexuality poverty cabaret investigation performance quest
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Musical, Comedy
France|Italy
1955
102 Minutes
Jean Gabin Françoise Arnoul María Félix Anna Amendola Jean-Roger Caussimon Dora Doll Giani Esposito Gaston Gabaroche Franco Pastorino
producer star laundress owner mistress lighthearted cheeky engaging paris café cabaret performance infidelity dance jealousy love triangle underdog discovery rivalry rise
This comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge.
Biography, Drama
Brazil|France
2002
105 Minutes
Lázaro Ramos Marcélia Cartaxo Flávio Bauraqui Renata Sorrah Fellipe Marques Emiliano Queiroz Giovana Barbosa Ricardo Blat
transvestite prostitute performer hustler club owner unrestrained inspiring thrilling rio de janeiro nightclub cabaret integration race relations social change performance cross-dressing love rise transformation underdog
Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro.
Drama
USA
1928
75 Minutes
Richard Barthelmess Montagu Love Robert E. O'Connor Jay Eaton Lina Basquette Thelma Todd Ed Brady Fred Warren William B. Davidson Alice Joyce William Walling
blackmailer governor wife mother son father melodramatic shocking tense suspenseful death row city cabaret prison murder capital punishment blackmail father/son relationship crime family
A crook blackmails a governor because of knowing his wife's dark past.
Biography, Drama
France|Belgium
2009
105 Minutes
Audrey Tautou Benoît Poelvoorde Alessandro Nivola Marie Gillain Emmanuelle Devos Régis Royer Etienne Bartholomeus Yan Duffas Fabien Béhar Roch Leibovici Jean-Yves Chatelais
fashion designer seamstress cabaret performer businessman lover engaging emotional passionate orphanage cabaret paris france household fashion innovation creative process social climbing coco chanel class distinctions love
The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.
Musical
USA
1927
97 Minutes
Al Jolson May McAvoy Warner Oland Eugenie Besserer Otto Lederer William Demarest Roscoe Karns Richard Tucker Nat Carr William Walling Robert Gordon
cantor singer lover mother neighbor father melodramatic winsome uplifting lower east side manhattan, n.y. ghetto stage cabaret family home singing family traditions defiance acceptance father/son relationship
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Musical
USA
1944
111 Minutes
singer songwriter manager magician friend rival engaging melodramatic positive cabaret theater stage new york city music hall show business vaudeville marriage jealousy singing songwriting
Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1950
104 Minutes
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Glynis Johns Jack Hawkins Walter Rilla Karel Stepanek Herbert Lom Hans Moser
surgeon singer dictator intelligence officer spy thrilling melodramatic suspenseful balkans hotel government building operating room cabaret politics surgery kidnapping death americans abroad pursuit escape
Comedy, Drama
1998
102 Minutes
Miki Manojlovic Nebojsa Glogovac Ana Sofrenovic Dragan Nikolic Lazar Ristovski Velimir `Bata' Zivojinovic Nebojsa Milovanovic Mirjana Jokovic Sergej Trifunovic Milena Dravic Toni Mihajlovski
mother boyfriend taxi driver ex-convict drug dealer showman dark amusing suspenseful melodramatic garage belgrade, serbia bus taxi cabaret apartment poverty relationships love triangle city life
People, each representing an aspect of the Serbian character, spend a hectic and frightening night in a city.
Drama
1936
99 Minutes
Jean Harlow Franchot Tone Cary Grant Benita Hume Lewis Stone Reginald Mason Inez Courtney Greta Meyer David Clyde Elspeth Dudgeon Tyler Brooke
showgirl inventor aviator businesswoman spy engineer melodramatic emotional thrilling passionate paris london cabaret hospital front lines funeral world war i love triangle class distinctions airplane crash
Thinking a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris and marries a pilot (Cary Grant).
Drama
2001
131 Minutes
Tim Roth Jouko Ahola Anna Gourari Max Raabe Jacob Wein Udo Kier Herbert Golder Tina Bordhin Alexander Duda Klaus Haindl Hark Bohm
blacksmith nazi strong man jew con artist fascinating creative disturbing poland village berlin stage anti-semitism secret identity nazism performance cabaret holocaust fall rise
A club owner (Tim Roth) who supports the Nazi Party hires a Jewish strongman (Jouko Ahola) as an entertainer.