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Crime, Komödie, Musical, musical film
American movie star Johnny Tyrone goes to Baghdad to premiere his new picture. He is seduced by the lovely Aishah while on a plane, then kidnapped by a man named Sinan who wants Johnny to help him kill the king in the fictional town of Bar…
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Komödie, Musical, boxing film
Well-meaning and mild-mannered milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Kaye) meets Polly Pringle (Mayo), a beautiful, but out-of-work, singer, whilst on his rounds early in the morning. He tries to get her a job at the club where his sister Susie (Vera…
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biographical film, drama film, musical film
Austrian composer Franz Schubert flees from Vienna to avoid conscription, ending up in Hungary where he falls in love.
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experimental film, musical film, romance film, science fiction film
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Meek, aging, hypochondriac stage producer J.J. Hobart, who always thinks he is about to die, is going to mount a new show, but his partners Morty Wethered and Tom Hugo lost the money for the show in the stock market. On the advice of choru…
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documentary film, musical film
Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, musical film
During World War II, a young Christa Päffgen watches Berlin being bombed from a distance. In 1988, Päffgen—now known as Nico—is living in Manchester. Having risen to fame as a model and a singer for the Velvet Underground, she is tired of …
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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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Musical, drama film, musical film, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Sally (1929) Sally Green is an orphan who had been abandoned as a baby at the Bowling Green telephone exchange. While living in an orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing after being taught by an old woman. In an att…
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Komödie, musical film, romantic comedy
Three sisters living in Switzerland hear their father is going to marry a younger woman in New York City so they travel there to prevent it. Their plan involves getting a man to seduce her father's fiancée. They accidentally hire a genuine…
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children's film, musical film
Isabelle Palmer, a 9-year-old dancer and aspiring fashion designer from Washington, D.C., studies at Anna Hart Performing Arts School with her older sister Jade and her best friend Luisa. Although Isabelle loves her sister, she often gets …
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
Betsy Brown is released from an orphanage into the care of Pop Shea, her parents' friend who runs a boarding house for theatrical performers. Sarah Wendling, the curmudgeon owner and next-door neighbor of the building, detests "show people…
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musical film, romance film
The film is a reworking of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, in which the tragic heroine is obsessed with an American pilot.
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Jane Richards is a new teacher beginning her career at a rural black elementary school in Alabama. One of the students in her fourth-grade class is C.T. Young who, although bright and generally not a troublemaker, is uninterested in school…
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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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musical film
The plot is based on the uncut long-form edit of the movie. The original was split into 11 separate music videos, each released individually, beginning with the music video for "The Phoenix" and ending with "Save Rock and Roll"; despite it…
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Komödie, comedy film, musical film
John Cardwell, a trombone player, is only one of a large group of unemployed musicians. He tries unsuccessfully to gain an interview and audition with Leopold Stokowski, but not to disappoint his daughter, Patricia (Patsy), he tells her th…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, Social Drama, drama film, romance film
The Khan family are originally from Pakistan but have lived in the UK for forty years. Tariq and Sadia live in Glasgow with three children: the eldest daughter, Rukhsana, lives strictly according to the family's Muslim faith and is also re…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, musical film
After serving time in Sing Sing, Eddie Ellison (James Dunn) marries his fiancée Kay (Claire Trevor) and eventually the two have a daughter they name Shirley (Shirley Temple). Eddie helps his friend, and former convict, Larry Scott (Ray Wal…
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Musical
A Christmas Story Live! is based on "the short stories of humorist Jean Shepherd and is set in 1940's Indiana. It follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his unrelenting desire to get his hands on a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas".
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concert film, pop music
Komödie, musical film, romantic comedy
At the Côte d'Azur nightclub in Monte Carlo, American entertainer Jack Martin is a hit with his singing, dancing and impressions. One night, everyone in the club flocks to a television to watch famed aviator Captain Henri Duran land in Nic…
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Documentation, documentary film
Komödie, comedy film, musical film
In turn-of-the-century Oakland, California, the teenaged Myrtle McKinley (Betty Grable) is expected to follow high school by attending a San Francisco business college. Instead, she takes a job performing with a traveling vaudeville troupe…
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