Music Movies
Rhythm on the River

Rhythm on the River

Rhythm on the River
IMDb: 6.8
92

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Play Girl

Play Girl

Play Girl
IMDb: 6.3
77

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
One Night in the Tropics

One Night in the Tropics

One Night in the Tropics
IMDb: 6.3
82

Jim “Lucky” Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a ‘love insurance policy’, that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry…

Genre: Comedy, Music
My Love Came Back

My Love Came Back

My Love Came Back
IMDb: 6.3
85

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through his employee Tony so…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Music in My Heart

Music in My Heart

Music in My Heart
IMDb: 6
70

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell
IMDb: 6.4
127

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Genre: Drama, Music
Let George Do It!

Let George Do It!

Let George Do It!
IMDb: 6.4
82

Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British…

Genre: Comedy, Music, War
Irene

Irene

Irene
IMDb: 6.3
101

Upholsterer’s assistant Irene O’Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate. Charmed by her, Don anonymously purchases Madame Lucy’s,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Her Second Mother

Her Second Mother

Her Second Mother
IMDb: 5.5
89

A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents’ kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry
IMDb: 6.8
67

Aided by musicians at the Grand Ole Opry, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks takes on a group of crooked politicians.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way

Down Argentine Way
IMDb: 6.4
89

The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular…

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
IMDb: 7.3
102

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse

The Boys from Syracuse
IMDb: 5.8
73

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the concerns The efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Anthipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet

Bitter Sweet
IMDb: 5.7
94

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Barnyard Follies

Barnyard Follies

Barnyard Follies
IMDb: 6.1
67

A country orphanage puts on a show with some musicians to save their 4H club from being shut down by greedy politicians.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Trouble Brewing

Trouble Brewing

Trouble Brewing
IMDb: 6.3
87

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
IMDb: 6.9
90

Three sisters who believe life is going to be easy, now that their parents are back together, until one sister falls in love with another’s fiancé, and the youngest sister…

Swanee River

Swanee River

Swanee River
IMDb: 6.1
84

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing…

Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
IMDb: 6.9
93

In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures later, they marry and then abandon comedy to attempt a dancing career together. While they’re…

Genre: Music, Romance
St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues
IMDb: 6.2
92

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Spook Sport

Spook Sport

Spook Sport
IMDb: 6.7
8

It’s midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move…

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot
IMDb: 6.6
65

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Ride ’em, Cowgirl

Ride ’em, Cowgirl

Ride ’em, Cowgirl
IMDb: 5.7
53

Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his…

Genre: Music, Western
The Mikado

The Mikado

The Mikado
IMDb: 6.3
91

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month’s time, Ko-Ko…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Let’s Be Famous

Let’s Be Famous

Let’s Be Famous
IMDb: 5.5
83

An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Honolulu

Honolulu

Honolulu
IMDb: 6.5
84

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico
IMDb: 6.5
71

Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay’s shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and…

Fisherman’s Wharf

Fisherman’s Wharf

Fisherman’s Wharf
IMDb: 5.6
72

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman’s life in San Francisco until Carlo’s widowed sister-in-law, Stella, shows up with her brat-son, Rudolph,…

First Love

First Love

First Love
IMDb: 7
84

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She’s hardly received with open arms, especially…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Balalaika

Balalaika

Balalaika
IMDb: 6.2
102

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

Genre: Music, Romance
Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms
IMDb: 6.3
93

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and…

Genre: Comedy, Music
At the Circus

At the Circus

At the Circus
IMDb: 6.8
87

Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10,000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter’s accomplices steal the money so he can take over the circus. Antonio…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Under Western Stars

Under Western Stars

Under Western Stars
IMDb: 5.8
65

In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a…

Genre: Action, Music, Western
Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory
IMDb: 6.4
75

Steve Merrick is an out of work writer who stays home and plays house husband while his wife goes to work for her former fiancé and Merrick’s publisher who is…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
That Certain Age

That Certain Age

That Certain Age
IMDb: 6.5
95

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton…

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Terror of Tiny Town

The Terror of Tiny Town

The Terror of Tiny Town
IMDb: 4
62

In a wild west community populated entirely by residents with dwarfism, the Larson and Preston familes have been in a generations-long feud, recently strained by the actions of cattle rustler…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Western
Sweethearts

Sweethearts

Sweethearts
IMDb: 6.2
114

The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Sing, You Sinners

Sing, You Sinners

Sing, You Sinners
IMDb: 6.6
88

Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only…

Mad About Music

Mad About Music

Mad About Music
IMDb: 7.1
100

A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
The Lady Objects

The Lady Objects

The Lady Objects
IMDb: 5.4
66

A former college football hero and his college sweetheart get married. Marital turmoil ensues as her criminal law practice soars while he cannot get his career as an architect off…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance