Gene Kelly’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Gene Kelly has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1980s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Singin' in the Rain.
Recurring themes

Funny Face
1957
Music · Comedy

Bride & Prejudice
2004
Drama · Comedy

Valley Girl
2020
Comedy · Romance

Populaire
2012
Comedy · Romance

The Band Wagon
1953
Music · Comedy

StreetDance 2
2012
Music · Romance

Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023
Comedy · Drama

Student Of The Year
2012
Comedy · Drama

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly · With Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds

In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend fair, a web of near-misses and romantic longing brings ideal partners tantalizingly close—without their realizing it.
Dir. Jacques Demy · With Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.
Dir. Gene Kelly · With Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
Dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen · With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett

A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Dir. George Sidney · With Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, June Allyson

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant

Two sailors on shore leave head out for four days of partying – only to become involved in the affairs of an aspiring singer and her precocious nephew.
Dir. George Sidney · With Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly

A girl is engaged to the local richman, but meanwhile she has dreams about the legendary pirate Macoco. A traveling singer falls in love with her and to impress her he poses as the pirate.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak

Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village - Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order to preserve its peace and special beauty. The citizens go to bed at night and when they wake up, it's 100 years later. Tommy falls in love with a beautiful young woman, Fiona, and is torn between staying or going back to his hectic life in New York.
Dir. Vincente Minnelli · With Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.
Dir. Robert Greenwald · With Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck
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