Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories told through song and musical performances.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 104.
Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
A young idealistic schoolteacher named Ruth Kirke is transporting a group of war orphans from South China to Calcutta when their steamship Tollare is torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific. Along with sailor Timothy Blake, they are the only pas…
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Musical, musical film
Bonny Kane and "Skid" Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway, while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increas…
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crime film, film noir
The story tells of Kenneth Holden (Dekker), a crooked investment businessman, who embezzles a large sum of money from an estate. He hopes to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress, Claire Worthington (Craig). However, Worthington…
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Crime, Musical, musical film
Major Fairclough is linked to an international criminal gang that uses the MV Galaxy (the ship which was the home of the pirate radio station Radio London) to smuggle stolen diamonds from the UK to Amsterdam. Fairclough blackmails Lester B…
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Musical, comedy film
Youngster Frankie (Gene Reynolds) and his small gang commit petty crimes in their New York City tenement neighborhood, such as stealing bicycles and taking money from other boys. One of those boys, Willy (Tommy Kelly), complains to his fat…
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musical film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Bright Lights (1930) Successful actress Louanne is giving her last performance before she retires to marry a rich man instead of the man whom she really loves, Wally Dean. As she is interviewed by reporters, she tells a …
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musical film
Musical, Romance Film, musical film
Three couples involved in budding romances are caught in the middle of a feud between two Mexican villages.
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musical film
musical film
Jack Carson produces a radio show. Mrs. Platt is the show's sponsor.
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Documentation, music documentary film
musical film
Fannie Brand, a spirited and talented girl from the tenements, works long hours in a factory to support herself and her little brother, Sammy. Her big break seems within reach when Landau, a director working for Broadway producer Waldo, ar…
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musical film, romantic comedy
In the 19th century, Molly Larkins, the girlfriend of rough-and-tumble canal-boat captain Jotham Klore, hires mild-mannered farmer Daniel Harrow to work on the boat. Molly and Dan fall in love and marry.
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Musical, comedy film, musical film, romance film
Set in late 19th century Vienna, the story focuses on the romance between music teacher Carl Linden (Nelson Eddy) and his prize pupil Sarah Milick (Jeanette MacDonald).
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Musical, drama film, music-themed film
Concert film, musical film
comedy drama, musical film
When the film begins, a musical show closed down before it has had a chance to open. Jimmie Doyle, who wrote the musical intends to rewrite it, and his girlfriend Dixie Dugan, fed up at wasting her time for a show that never opened, is int…
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Biographical documentary, Musical
The documentary exhibits how a music underdog rises to the top of the industry by staying true to their beliefs, through team collaboration, and the healing power of music. The documentary centers mental health, perseverance, vulnerability…
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Drama, Musical
Four women form a band named Bandits as part of an offender rehabilitation program in a German prison. Drummer Emma Moor, a former member of a jazz group, was abused by the bandleader and shot him. Angelika Angel Kleinschmidt is imprisoned…
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documentary film, musical film
musical film, prison film
musical film
Burlesque comic Ralph "Skid" Johnson, and specialty dancer Bonny Lee King, end up together on a cold, rainy night at a train station, after she fails an audition with a vaudeville company and he complains about her treatment by the impresa…
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Fantasy, Musical
biographical film, musical film