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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, war film
Jinx Roberts, an arrogant but talented stunt pilot, and his assistants Blackie and Heathcliff, are fired from a carnival air show after a disagreement with the owner. Jinx decides to join the Army Air Corps, and he, Blackie and Heathcliff …
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
Doc Jenkins is a country and western composer, who employs devious tricks to extricate himself from his legal entanglement with a Nashville gangster entrepreneur who takes all the profits from his songs. Fed up with life touring and making…
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Biographical documentary, Musical, rockumentary
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, romance film
At the court of the Mikado, the emperor orders his son, Nanki-Poo, to marry Katisha, an elderly courtier, or perish on the scaffold. Nanki-Poo flees and disguises himself as a poor minstrel. Later, in the town of Titipu, he inquires about …
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
French journalist Nada Lumiere and rising New York City musician Billy have a volatile relationship, frequently fighting and breaking up and then reuniting shortly after. Both have a detached approach to relationships, with Billy prone to …
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Komödie, Musical, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
Pinky Wingate (Judy Garland) is worried about her widowed mother, Dottie (Mary Astor), who is pursuing a loveless relationship with the town's banker, knowing he can help her fund her children's lives. To help her realize this, Pinky and h…
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comedy drama, drama film, musical film
The film plot is substantially changed from that of the Broadway musical. Victor Florescu is a composer desperately trying to get his operetta to opening night. First his leading lady leaves, taking the bulk of their budget with her.
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biographical film, musical film
In 1905, singer Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) impresses songwriter and performer Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) at a cabaret run by Dan Costello. Jack offers to get Nora an audition for vaudeville, unaware of Dan's feelings for her. After Nora …
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Dance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Jessica Donovan is engaged to workaholic Kent and they decide to take dancing classes for their wedding. However, Kent is so busy with his work that he misses all of the lessons. Jessica, however, develops a liking for dancing, and ultimat…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film
musical film, romantic comedy
musical film
The film tells the story in pictures accompanied by the entire Brave record minus "Paper Lies" and the final song "Made Again". On the recording, it is left ambiguous as to whether the main character, played by Josie Ayers, commits suicide…
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musical film
The original plot is more-or-less adhered to, with some significant alterations. Benny is depicted as a comic Bob Hope-like coward, but not as a sissy. El Khobar's alter ego is that of a mild-mannered (but not squeamish) Latin tutor and an…
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Biographical documentary, documentary film, musical film
Film Noir, crime film, drama film, musical film
Pépé le Moko leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah district of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France. Inez, his girlfriend, is infuriated when Pépé flirts with Gaby, a French tourist who is …
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Documentation, Komödie, Musical, documentary film, musical film
When the National goes on tour in 2010, singer Matt Berninger invites his younger brother Tom to tour with them as part of the crew. Tom aspires to be a filmmaker and documents the National being on tour, as well as the process of himself …
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musical film
A young actress, Carole Beaumont, is wooed by actor-producer Charles King but she is unsure how she feels about him. During an air raid in the Blitz, a bomb explosion rocks the cafe and Carole is knocked unconscious. In her confused state,…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film
Using Whitney Houston's death on February 11, 2012 as a starting point, the documentary investigates Houston's history and her emotional connections with her family and friends. The film uses archive footage from Houston's 1999 World Tour …
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Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Tallulah Winters is a dancing star who is hired to perform on an ocean liner. Before she leaves, she is recruited by what she believes is a branch of the American government and asked to smuggle a prototype explosive mine out of the countr…
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Musical, Romance Film, aqua-musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Richard Herald is a famous opera singer and father to Richard Herald II, who has recently returned from fighting in the war and now prefers to be known as Dick Johnson. Dick has been engaged to socialite Frances Allenbury since before he l…
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drama film, romance film
Major Terry O'Neill (William Powell) returns to Baltimore in 1919, after the end of World War I, expecting to get his old newspaper night editor job back. However, the paper has recently changed owners, the job has been filled, and his fri…
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musical film
In 1902 Red Bank, New Jersey, sisters of modest means Pam, Liz, and Myra Charters inherit a chicken farm from their aunt. They soon discover that the windfall is not quite enough to finance their dreams of attracting and marrying millionai…
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Musical, drama film, musical film, romance film
Katie and Lily Blaine are a singing-sister act playing the vaudeville circuit. Songwriters Skeets Harrigan and Harry Calhoun see star potential in the sister act.
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musical film
While their submarine is docked in New York City, three sailors on liberty invest the money they've earned at sea in a Broadway musical and its up-and-coming star. Choirboy Jones (Gordon MacRae) carries a gunnysack stuffed with $50,000 in …
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