Music movies

Hadestown: The Musical (2026)

musical film

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

LGBTQ-related film, Musical, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy film

Hansel Schmidt is a gay, East German teenager who loves rock music and is stuck in East Berlin until he meets Sergeant Luther Robinson, an American soldier. Luther proposes marriage to Hansel, persuading him to undergo sex reassignment sur…

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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

Action, Adventure, Christmas film, Fantasy, Space Opera, adventure film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

On Life Day, Chewbacca, accompanied by Han Solo, is headed home to see his family. Along the way, the duo is chased by two Star Destroyers, but they escape into hyperspace. Meanwhile, on Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's family is preparing for his re…

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What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film

Raised in Nutbush, Tennessee in the early 1950s, Anna Mae Bullock returns home from church one day to see her mother Zelma leaving and taking her elder sister Alline with her. She is distraught over this and is consoled by her grandmother …

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Rent (2005)

Coming Of Age, Melodrama, Monumental Film, Musical, drama film, musical film

The movie starts with 8 friends (Mark, Roger, Mimi, Collins, Angel, Maureen, Joanne, and Benny) standing on a stage in front of an empty audience singing "Seasons of Love". On Christmas Eve 1989, aspiring filmmaker Mark Cohen and his roomm…

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The Jerk (1979)

Komödie, screwball comedy film

Navin Johnson, a homeless person sleeping in a stairwell in Los Angeles, addresses the camera directly to tell his life story. The white adopted son of black sharecroppers in Mississippi, Navin grows to adulthood naïvely unaware of these c…

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Gigi (1958)

Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy film

The film is set in the year 1900, during the Belle Époque at the turn of the 20th century. While in the Bois de Boulogne, Honoré Lachaille remarks that in Paris, marriage is not the sole option for wealthy young bon vivants like his nephew…

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Save the Last Dance (2001)

Dance Film, Drama, Musical, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film

17-year-old Sara Johnson, a promising ballet dancer in suburban Chicago, hopes to be admitted to the Juilliard School and implores her mother to attend the audition. She fails the audition and soon learns that her mother was killed in a ca…

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Be Cool (2005)

Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film

Ernesto "Chili" Palmer, restless and disenchanted with filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing the Russian mob publicly kill his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a small independent record label. Chili offers to help Tommy's wi…

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24 Hour Party People (2002)

Musical, biographical film, comedy film, drama film, musical film

In 1976 television presenter Tony Wilson sees the Sex Pistols perform at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall for the first time. Inspired, Wilson starts a weekly series of punk rock shows at a Manchester club, where the newly formed Joy …

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Crazy Heart (2009)

Musical, Social Drama, drama film, musical film

Otis "Bad" Blake is a 57-year-old alcoholic singer-songwriter who was once a country music star. He now earns a modest living by performing in small-town bars across the southwestern United States. Having a history of failed marriages (fou…

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Footloose (2011)

Dance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film

After a night of partying, an intoxicated Bobby Moore and his friends are killed when their car collides head-on with a truck on a bridge on their way home to the town of Bomont, Georgia. The tragedy prompts his father Shaw Moore, the town…

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Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film, teen film

Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen lives with social anxiety and depression. His therapist Dr. Sherman recommends that he write letters to himself detailing why "today will be a good day." Evan's mother, Heidi, suggests that he ask people to s…

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)

Fake Documentary, Musical, Satire On Media, comedy film

Conner Friel, a musical prodigy, forms a pop rap group dubbed "The Style Boyz" with his childhood friends, Lawrence Dunn and Owen Bouchard. They almost instantly gain fame in the music industry and inspire many modern musicians, who extol …

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O'Dessa (2025)

Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film

O'Dessa is set in a post-apocalyptic future where plazma, a toxic, flammable substance similar to oil, has poisoned the landscape. Media mogul Plutonovich rules the airwaves from "Onederworld", a private island where dissenters are torture…

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For Your Consideration (2006)

Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, musical film

The film follows the production of Home for Purim, a low-budget drama film about a Jewish family in the Southern United States in the 1940s. The cast consists of character actress Marilyn Hack as the family's dying matriarch; veteran actor…

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The Dirt (2019)

Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film

In 1973, Frank Carlton Feranna Jr. walks away from his mother Deana after years of abuse and moves from Seattle to Los Angeles in 1978. After a failed attempt to connect with his biological father who abandoned the family at birth, Frank l…

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Urban Cowboy (1980)

Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film

Buford "Bud" Davis moves to Pasadena, Texas for a job at the oil refinery where his uncle, Bob Davis, works. Bud wants to earn enough money to buy land near his hometown of Spur. While staying with Bob and his family, Bud embraces the loca…

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Jersey Girl (2004)

Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, melodrama, romantic comedy

Ollie Trinké is a media publicist based in New York. He falls in love with Gertrude Steiney and the two get married. After becoming pregnant, Gertrude dies from an aneurysm and complications during childbirth.

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Spellbound (1945)

Mysterie, drama film, film noir, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film

Dr. Constance Petersen is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a mental hospital in Vermont, accused by an unsuccessful suitor colleague of being icy and unemotional. The hospital's director, Dr.

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Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film

In 1976, amidst armed political conflict that is affecting daily life in Jamaica, Bob Marley announces that he will perform at Smile Jamaica Concert, promoting peace amongst the warring factions. While preparing for the concert, Marley, hi…

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High School Musical 2 (2007)

High School Comedy Film, Musical, comedy drama, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy film, teen film

On the last day of school, the students of East High look forward to summer vacation ("What Time Is It?"). Wildcats captain Troy Bolton, still dating Gabriella Montez following their lead roles in the school's winter musical, is desperatel…

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Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

Drama, Musical, Mysterie, drama film, musical film, mystery film

Television news reporter Maggie Foley investigates the mysterious disappearance of cult rock star Eddie Wilson. Flashbacks dramatize Eddie's life and the rise and fall of his band, the Cruisers. The band gets its start at a club in Somers …

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Winnie the Pooh (2011)

Cartoon, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film

The film's setting takes place inside a book, which tells about the adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends Winnie the Pooh (Pooh for short), Piglet, Rabbit, Eeyore, Tigger, Owl, Kanga, and Roo, who all live in the Hundred Acre Woo…

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