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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 344 films · Page 11.
Komödie
Charlie is jobless and has few prospects for employment. He tries to steal food from a lunch cart and is nearly caught by a police officer, avoiding arrest by doing some fancy rolling back and forth under a fence. Later, Charlie saves a st…
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Dance Film, Drama, drama film
By day, Kevin Laird is a respected schoolteacher in Beverly Hills. By night, he slips away to a gritty warehouse in East Los Angeles, where local barrio kids gather to dance the lambada. Kevin dazzles the crowd with his moves and earns the…
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Dance Film, comedy film, drama film, war film
Virgie (Temple) lives with her mother (Morley) and father, Confederate Army captain Herbert Cary (Boles), on a slave plantation in the Antebellum South. During her sixth birthday party, Cary learns that the American Civil War has begun and…
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science fiction film
The film is about the youth perpetrator Victor, who spends his time lifting weights, dancing and torturing people. When he hits his friend Scum Baby, he calls the police. Victor gets the choice to go to jail or undergo a behavioral change.
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dance film
In the mid 1960s Philadelphia, Perry Parker is a local dance-show host who aspires to rival Dick Clark. Del Green is an honors student who dreams about dancing with Vicky, the show's most popular dancer who attends a parochial school. Howe…
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Dance Film, drama film
Lauryn Kirk is an aspiring dancer. As there are no dance schools in her hometown of Glenwood, Indiana, Lauryn says goodbye to her brother Joel and departs for Chicago to audition for a famous dance school. Joel works as a mechanic in the f…
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Drama, Musical, drama film, teen film
Sam Russell tells the story of her best friend Jules Michaels. They met at the age of 6 in a dance class. Over the years they become best friends.
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Dance Film, Documentation, documentary film
Rize is a documentary following an interview schedule of two related dancing subcultures of Los Angeles called clowning and krumping. The first series of interviews introduces, describes and develops the dance style known as clowning. A de…
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Dance Film, Romance Film, romance film
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Drama, drama film, musical film, romance film
Sally, a filmmaker and screenwriter suffering from writer's block, is dissatisfied with her film project, a murder mystery called Rage, which features the fashion industry. Taking a break, she travels to Paris, where she sees the dancer Pa…
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Dance Film, biographical film, drama fiction, drama film, historical film, musical film
The film opens in the cold Saint Petersburg with a scene where Anna as a young girl observes through a window young dancers practicing. Although she catches a cold, Anna decides that she does not merely want to be a dancer but that she wan…
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Dance Film, musical film, romance film
In a nightly escape from his day job as a mechanic, Rico enters his true element: the wild exuberance of "La Luna", a salsa club located in East Los Angeles, California. Dreaming of making himself and Vicky, his girlfriend, the "King and Q…
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Dance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Unable to afford the tuition needed to fund her private school education, Rayanna or Raya (Rutina Wesley) returns to her family home in the city while reluctantly re-evaluating her future. Upon learning that the top prize for an upcoming s…
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coming-of-age film, musical film, romance film, teen film
A college campus springs to life when the local radio station announces the official opening of the step competition season. As the fraternities and sororities work to recruit the best talent, the heat is on to win big prize money and camp…
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dance film, drama film, musical film
Samantha quits her job to open her own aerobics studio and competes with a larger club's lead instructor to become an instructor on a local fitness television show.
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Dance Film, Romantic Comedy, musical film
During World War II, Flying Tiger triple ace Lieutenant Fred Atwell and his almost-as-successful comrades, Reginald "Reg" Fenton and Richard "Dick" Merlin, are brought back to the United States for a ticker tape parade and a ten-day "leave…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, h…
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dance film
With barely anything to live for, Emman Toledo, a former dancer, is just about to start his life all over again. He holds the good memories of his past dearly, knowing he will never be able to bring back his better days. An unlikely opport…
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children's film
The film celebrates the relationship between a small girl named Emily (voiced by Emily Osborne), and her kindly but ailing grandfather (voiced by Peter Ustinov), along with a dog. Emily's playful innocence is contrasted with Granpa's incre…
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Komödie, Musical
The film is set in Stoke-on-Trent in 1974. Joe McCain, 17 and restless, is bored with the flatline tedium of a life that seems like it's going nowhere, spending his Saturday nights in a dead pub called The Purple Onion and trying to rob th…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Drama, Political Drama
The film portrays the early life of the director in his home city, Alexandria.
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, romance film, teen film
In 1961 Long Island, 10-year-old Alice Bloom is infatuated with 17-year-old Sheryl O'Connor, who lives across the street. She often watches her from her bedroom window. Alice starts to copy every detail about Sheryl, including her perfume …
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Horror, Musical, horror film, silent film, vampire film
In 1897, a visitor from the East, Count Dracula, arrives in London and is inadvertently invited into the home of Lucy Westenra. She is bitten by Dracula, and taken by his curse. Lucy's behavior becomes more erratic leading her to bite her …
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Dance Film, Komödie
Hasidic Rabbi and amateur Hora dancer, Moshe Yehuda (Jos Laniado), enters a televised tango competition to save his Hebrew School from bankruptcy. But there is one big dilemma: in Orthodox Judaism, a married man is not allowed to touch a w…
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