Show Boat

Jul 19, 1951

1h 47m

★ 6.2

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Overview

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Genres

Music

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Show Boat Trailers

Cast

Magnolia Hawks

Kathryn Grayson

Julie LaVerne

Ava Gardner

Gaylord Ravenal

Howard Keel

Cap'n Andy Hawks

Joe E. Brown

Ellie May Shipley

Marge Champion

Frank Schultz

Gower Champion

Steven Baker

Robert Sterling

Parthy Hawks

Agnes Moorehead

Pete

Leif Erickson

Joe

William Warfield

Chorus Girl (uncredited)

Linda Christian

Racetrack spectator (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

6.8

Prospero's Books

Aug 30, 1991

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.

7.6

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2

Jan 8, 2014

Step back into the imaginative and frankly terrifying world of Becky & Joe with Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. In this episode: Some things change over Time.

7.0

Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs

Jan 1, 1991

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

10.0

Estella Scrooge

Nov 27, 2020

Estella Scrooge is a Wall Street tycoon with a penchant for foreclosing. A hotelier in her hometown of Pickwick, Ohio has defaulted on his mortgage and as a Christmas gift to herself, Estella decides to deliver the sad news in person. Arriving at the Harthouse Hotel on Christmas Eve, Estella discovers that the mortgage holder is none other than her childhood sweetheart, Pip Nickleby. Always the humanitarian, Pip has generously transformed the property into a refuge for the distraught, disabled and displaced. A freak snowstorm forces Estella, much to her dismay, to take refuge at Harthouse. That night, as it happened to her ancestor Ebenezer long ago, she too is haunted by three visitations. And oh what uninvited overnight houseguests they are!

5.9

River of Fundament

Feb 12, 2014

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

6.1

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Jun 17, 1970

An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.

0.0

Liebe ist Geschmackssache

Jan 1, 1997

A director tries to get his porno musical off the ground.

6.4

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

Jun 18, 1999

A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignoring the ridicule he might have to face for this, he takes his wife to Italy in search of her love.

5.9

Dancing at Lughnasa

Sep 4, 1998

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

7.0

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK

Dec 7, 2006

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.

4.4

A Killing Affair

Sep 21, 1977

A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.

7.7

The Chorus

Mar 17, 2004

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

7.0

We Make Music

Oct 8, 1942

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional conflicts - his operas were flops, while his wive had one success after the other - they finally found out how they could help each other.

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5.0

Okay, José

Dec 7, 1935

A Salesman tries to locate a notorious Mexican bandit.

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0.0

Sweethearts and Wives

Jun 15, 1930

An aristocrat tries to prevent her sister's divorce by attempting to recover a diamond necklace, which is being used as incriminating evidence against her.

0.0

Sing While You Dance

Jul 25, 1946

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she falls in love with Johnny, and lands in jail, but she acquires the song, the job, and Johnny.

0.0

Dream Kitchen

Jul 7, 1999

A tale about isolation and lack of communication, the gap between the reality a teenage boy lives, and how he would like it be. He has a secret that he would like to tell his family, something that he has come to terms with and is about to affect the rest of his life. But how will they react?

7.1

You, the Living

Sep 21, 2007

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

5.0

Igelak (Frogs)

Dec 2, 2016

Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested on charges of embezzlement. Abandoned by his superior (who got him involved in the heist), Pello escapes from the court room and goes on the run. With no papers, no money and no family or friends he can trust, he changes identity so that he can stay undercover for a time. By chance he ends up hiding in a building that has been occupied by a group of people evicted from their homes who are fighting his bank. Pello gains their trust, all the time planning to steal money from them to pay for false documentation so that he can escape abroad and start a new life.