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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 19.
Christmas film, Stop Motion, children's film
After a newsreel highlighting children preparing for the arrival of Santa Claus is shown, a postman named Special Delivery "S.D." Kluger is introduced. When Kluger's mail truck breaks down, he proceeds to tell the story of Santa in respons…
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Computeranimation, Dance Film, adventure film, children's film, family film, musical play
In the 1880s, eleven-year-old Félicie, an orphan girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina, but lacks formal training, runs away from her orphanage in rural Brittany, France, with her best friend, Victor, a young inventor, who has a crush on…
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Cartoon, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
In early 1900s Maine, an orphan named Pete flees from the Gogans – an abusive farm family that previously purchased him – with the assistance of an unseen force he calls Elliott. They call for him to return and promise they will treat him …
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, docudrama, drama film
The film opens with Michael Alig as a small-town outcast who lived with his mother before moving to New York. Michael learns about the New York party scene from James St. James, who teaches him the "rules of fabulousness", which revolve ar…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film
Attorney Walter Fielding and his classical musician girlfriend, Anna Crowley, learn that Walter's father, Walter Sr., has married a woman named Florinda, having fled the country after embezzling millions of dollars from their musician clie…
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
In the fall of 1964, 30-year-old Glenn Holland is a talented musician and composer living in Portland, Oregon. He decides to take a position as a music teacher at John F. Kennedy High School, so he can spend more time with Iris, his young …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Romance Film, drama film, musical film
Yentl Mendel is a woman living in an Ashkenazi shtetl named Yanev in Poland in 1904. Yentl's father, Reb Mendel (“Papa”), secretly instructs her in the Talmud despite the proscription of such study by women according to the custom of her c…
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Musical, Romance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film, war film
During World War II, the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines are preparing a counteroffensive against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the islands of the South Pacific.
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Dark Comedy, Gross Out Film, Silly Movie, comedy film, musical film
Six fish in a restaurant's tank greet each other, then see their friend being eaten. This leads them to question the meaning of life. In the first sketch, "The Miracle of Birth", maternity doctors ignore a woman in labour while trying to i…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1945, 13-year-old Loretta Webb is one of eight children of Ted Webb, a Van Lear coal miner raising a family with his wife in the midst of grinding poverty in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky (pronounced by locals as "Butcher Holler"). In 1948, …
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Komödie, Musical, Teen Comedy Film, drama film, musical film, teen film
High school freshmen Olivia White, Mohini "Mo" Banjaree, Charles "Charlie" Delgado, Stella Yamada, and Wendell "Wen" Gifford meet while in detention. When Miss Reznick, the music teacher supervising detention, leaves briefly, they tap out …
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Documentation, Musical, concert film, music documentary film
musical film, teen film
4 teen girls in ManhattanGalleria, Chanel, Aqua, and Dorindaperform at a children's birthday party as The Cheetah Girls. After the performance, Chanel rushes home to tell her mother about the show, but her mother is preoccupied preparing f…
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Komödie, comedy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
In New York City, a charismatic magician named Hector P. Valenti wants to audition for a national talent show but is constantly rejected. One day after a failed audition, he wanders into an exotic pet store, where he finds a singing baby c…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy
Nikhil "Nick" Arora, an Indian architect-turned-chef, and Ambar "Amby" Malhotra, a medical student and radio jockey, are two independent, modern Indians living in Melbourne, Australia. Nick was sent abroad to study architecture but pursues…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film alternates between the 1960s and the 1980s. The early timeline begins with a young Brian Wilson suffering a panic attack on an airplane. After recovering, Brian convinces his brothers Carl and Dennis to let him quit touring with t…
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Komödie, Musical, Satire
thumb|350x350px|Four stills from the film, (left to right and top to bottom) depicting the mock reaction video and anti-suicide talk, and images from the songs "All Eyes On Me" and "Goodbye". Burnham enters a small, spare room. All subsequ…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, teen film
Cherie Currie is a teenager in Los Angeles who desperately wants to be a rock star. She idolizes David Bowie and cuts her hair and does make-up so she will resemble Bowie's character Aladdin Sane. At her high school talent show, she lip sy…
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Komödie, comedy film, musical film
Jake Farris is a down home country singer from Tennessee stuck in a long-term contract performing at "The Rhinestone", a sleazy country music nightclub in New York City. Jake boasts to the club's manager, Freddie Ugo, that she can make any…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1956, 12-year-old Alabama native Lewellen lives in poverty with her stern, religious grandmother, who has taken it upon herself to raise the girl, as Lewellen's father, Lou, cannot provide her stability. Lou struggles with alcoholism, t…
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Dance Film, Drama, Musical, Romantic Drama, drama film, melodrama, musical film, romance film
Honey Daniels works as a bartender, a record store clerk and a dance teacher at a NYC community center run by her mother. She wants to become a hip hop choreographer, though her mother presses her to teach ballet uptown. Honey and her riva…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, hood film, musical film
In 1997, Biggie Smalls is shot and killed by a drive-by assailant. In the 1980s in Brooklyn, young Biggie sells crack with his friends D-Roc and Lil Cease. By 1990, Biggie's girlfriend Jan is pregnant, so he needs to make more money.
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Fairy-Tale Film, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
Orphaned at a young age, a young woman named Cinderella grows distracted while waiting upon her stepmother and her two stepsisters in the marketplace, where she meets a charming young man. Despite being apprehensive about introducing herse…
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Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is autistic and lives in New York City with his parents Linda and Thomas Schell. He is close to his father, who stimulates him with missions to hunt for clues to New York City's "lost Sixth Borough". The tasks he…
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