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Cabaret (1972)

PG ★ 7.4/10 124 min Music, Drama, Romance Germany, United States English
Director: Bob Fosse
Novels: Joe Masteroff, Christopher Isherwood
Screenplay by: Jay Presson Allen
Theatre Play: John Van Druten
Lyricist: Fred Ebb
Streaming: Not available
Life is a Cabaret.

Description

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

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Top Cast

Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli Sally Bowles
Michael York
Michael York Brian Roberts
Helmut Griem
Helmut Griem Maximilian von Heune
Joel Grey
Joel Grey Master of Ceremonies
Fritz Wepper
Fritz Wepper Fritz Wendel
Marisa Berenson
Marisa Berenson Natalia Landauer
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel Fräulein Schneider
Helen Vita
Helen Vita Fräulein Kost

Cabaret Appears on 27 Curated Movie Lists

Awards

Academy Awards: Best Actress
Academy Awards #48
Academy Awards: Best Director
Academy Awards #46
Golden Globe Award For Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Golden Globe Awards #53

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #462
AFI’S 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES — 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
American Film Institute #63
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures #319
National Board Of Review's Yearly Top 10
National Board of Review #537
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #100
Russian Culture Ministry’s 100 Recommended Films
Russian Culture Ministry #15

Critic Curated

Entertainment Weekly's Top 100 Movies as of 2013
Entertainment Weekly #72
Esquire's 16 Best Movie Musicals
Esquire #10
Indiewire's 65 Best Musical Movies Of All Time
IndieWire #09
Rolling Stone - The 100 Best Movies Of The 1970s
Rolling Stone #26
The 100 Best Movies Of All Time By Esquire
Esquire #63
The Observers Top 100 Film Moments 2
The Observer #86
The Telegraphs 500 Must See Films
The Telegraph #37

Filmmaker Curation

Baz Luhrmann's Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #28
David Fincher's Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #11
Edgar Wright's 1000 Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #444
Todd Haynes 50 Favorite Films
LaCinetek #36

Identity Theme

Your Queer Film Watchlist
British Film Institute #031

Letterboxd Lists

Letterboxd 120 Highest Rated 1970-1979 Films
Letterboxd #68
Showdown Its Complicated
Letterboxd Showdown #16
Showdown Stage Door
Letterboxd Showdown #06
Showdown Stage Fright
Letterboxd Showdown #14
Showdown The Sound Of Music
Letterboxd Showdown #16

Temporal Era Sets

100 Maverick Movies in the Last 100 Years by Rolling Stone Magazine
FilmSite.org #71

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