Movies and TvShows featuring "theatrical-manager" theme.

Hedwig, a transgender rock musician from East Berlin, forms a rock band called The Angry Inch. As she tours the US, she reveals her life story, including her botched sex change operation and her relationship with a US soldier. The film explores themes of identity, sexuality, and self-acceptance.

In this Christmas movie, Kermit the Frog is faced with the possibility of losing his theater unless he can show how important friendship and love are. With the help of an angel, Kermit is transported to an alternate reality where he never existed. He realizes the value of his life and his relationships and learns a valuable lesson about what really matters.

In 1940s New York, a young man with a gift for the violin faces obstacles in his career and love life due to his overbearing and possessive mother. As he strives for success as a concert violinist, he must navigate the complexities of his relationships and find a way to break free from his mother's manipulative grip.

The Comeback is a supernatural horror movie about a theatrical manager who returns to London and falls in love with his secretary. Strange and haunting events start to occur in the penthouse where they live, revealing the supernatural powers at play. As the manager's wife and other characters are murdered, a masked killer emerges from the shadows. The movie combines elements of giallo, slasher, and cult director styles, creating a psychotronic film filled with gore and suspense. Revenge and the search for the truth drive the plot forward, leading to a terrifying climax in a country home.

Callas Forever is a biographical drama that tells the story of the famous opera singer, Maria Callas. The movie explores her struggles, successes, and her legacy in the world of opera. It showcases her relationship with her audience, her love for music, and her dedication to her craft.

This film depicts the passion and frustration of young people who dream of becoming popular rock musicians. Dohyun neglects his studies because he is only interested in one thing - rock music. He comes to Seoul to work and ente rs a band. he meets his future manager, Jeewoo, and makes his debut as a singer. However, the production of his first album is cancelled because it is considered 'not commercial' enough. Dohyun returns to his hometown, depressed. Jeewo, however, finds him and helps him open his first gig after weeks of practice. The gig turns out to be a complete failure. Dohyun and his friends sing in the middle of the street with pedestrians as their spectators. The film ends with Dohyun frustrated over his unsuccessful career as a rock musician.

A show troupe is engaged by Judge Culliman, who is running for Governor, to enhance his political campaign. When the inebriated Judge has to be replaced in doing his campaign speech by the troupe crooner, Eric Land, his political backers decide that they want him to run for Governor in the Judge's place. Romance, music, political corruption and the election results follow.

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

Interrupted Melody is a biographical drama based on the life of Marjorie Lawrence, a famous opera singer. The story follows her journey from a sheep farm in Australia to becoming a renowned opera star. Along the way, she faces various challenges, including a crippling illness and a turbulent marriage. Despite the obstacles, Marjorie's determination and love for music help her overcome adversity and achieve success.

In Hollywood Party, a wild and hilarious party takes place in Hollywood, filled with comedic chaos, musical numbers, and unexpected encounters. The story follows a group of characters including a con-man, a singer, an actress, and a millionaire as they navigate through the night of entertainment and find themselves caught up in absurd situations. With a touch of pre-code glamour and a hint of a taming of the shrew theme, Hollywood Party delivers a musical extravaganza that will leave the audience laughing and tapping their feet.

An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.

An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.

Melodrama about the professional and romantic problems of an aspiring singer.

Bread is a socially engaged drama which follows the fate of a woman struggling to pull herself out of poverty as she’s ruthlessly exploited by a string of men.

J. D. Forbes, head of the almost-bankrupt Four Star Studios in Hollywood contacts band leader Kay Kyser, who puts on a radio and-live theatre program called "The Kollege of Musical Knowledge," to appear in films. When manager Chuck Deems gets the studio offer, he and band members Ginny Simms, Sully Mason, Ish Kabiddle, Harry Babbitt and the others are all fired up at the prospect of going to Hollywood and working in the movies, but band-leader Kay is all against it and says his old grandmother has told him to stay in his own back yard, but he relents. Once there, Stacey Delmore, a Four Star associate producer left in charge of the studio while Forbes is out of town, discovers that the screenplay writers have prepared a script that has Kay Kyser playing a glamorous lover in an exotic European setting.

Rockabye is a pre-Code romantic drama film about a theatrical manager who falls in love with a stage actress while trying to balance her career and personal life. When she becomes involved in a trial as a witness, she must make difficult choices that will impact her relationships and her future.

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a small town where she's courted by an infatuated and naive local teenager.

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.

Natrang is a drama film set in a village where a poor laborer, after the death of his father, joins a theater troupe. He faces struggles in training, tour bus politics, and rumors of his homosexuality. The film explores themes of poverty, dirty politics, and the power of art.

A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a "blast." His girlfriend, Alicia, is a romantic who's losing her soul to the drug, and E-Max is a street hustling pimp who is trying to scoop young Linda into his motley legion of harlots. Hoover Blue, earth mother to all the addicts, attempts to pound some knowledge into the starry-eyed Linda while Cody tries to help young P-Air get his hustle on to record a hip hop track and make it big. But when Cody's real son, Terry, tracks him down to tell him his wife has passed away, Cody doesn't even recognize him at first and then can't help him with postmortem affairs. After five years of crack addiction, Cody wants to get straight and do right by Terry, but the harder he struggles to escape the park, the more it closes in on him.