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 105.
musical film
During a period in which Austria controlled Italy, during the Austro-Italian War of 1830, Colonel Vultow, leader of Austrian cavalry regiment, is sent to Italy to put down a revolt led by the Lombardian aristocracy. Vultow decides to go to…
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Queen Victoria sends Dick Deadeye, a sailor, to recover the "Ultimate Secret" from two thieves, the Sorcerer and his reptilian henchman, the Shameleon, who are trying to sell it to the Pirate King. At a military parade ("Entrance of the Pe…
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musical film
A boy (Melvin Van Peebles) travels from Chicago to New York to find adventure and riches, later crossing the ocean to Africa in order to reunite with his lover.
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Documentation, documentary film
musical comedy, musical film
Dick Martin manages a rock and roll group, The Wigglers (Bango, Jack and Bob). They are told by music store owner Mr Wolf that the group owes him $1,000 for their instruments and have to raise money. Martin tries to convince Susan, the cre…
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musical film
George Shelby, a boy from the Southern United States, comes to the city to dissuade Lila, his sweetheart, from embarking on a stage career and finally buys out the controlling interest in the revue so that he can fire her. On the opening n…
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Musical, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
In a shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennesse, Ernie Hollie marries Pearl Elliot. Businessman Mr. Slade invites himself to the wedding’s afterparty and demands to kiss the bride.
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documentary film, musical film
musical film, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=20|Lord Byron of Broadway (1930) Starting and ending relationships gives a composer (Charles Kaley) ideas for songs, until he meets and marries a woman Marion Shilling.
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drama film, musical film
The film is about the grandson of a recently deceased millionaire who mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated his grandfather. It was O'Connor's first film after he returned from military service in World War I…
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drama film, musical film, romance film
During World War II, Daisy Cooper (Rebecca Jenkins) returns home to her small Alberta town after she and her soldier husband, Teddy (Michael Ontkean), are split by the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. While waiting for the war to end and to…
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comedy film
Sach develops an uncanny ability to sing after having his tonsils removed, and Slip tries to get him hired at a neighboring nightclub, the Rio Cabana. Rebuffed but undaunted, Slip convinces Louie to convert his sweet shop into a nightclub,…
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musical film
Gambling is second nature to Kim Halliday (Russell), whose father taught her all its ins and outs. Unfortunately, he also left her broke, living in Rhode Island and working as a receptionist in a museum run by her aunt Clara (Lorne). A str…
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musical film
A female songwriter is invited to join a rock band. She's thrilled at first to be near the rock band's handsome leader. They embark upon an affair until she discovers he is stealing her songs.
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comedy film, musical film
Harvard-educated Danny Collins (Rudy Vallée) and street-wise Mike Armstrong (Richard Lane) team up after a chance meeting to form the most successful talent agency in New York City. Mike is in love with nightclub and Broadway singer France…
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Musical, musical film
Jake Macllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife Linda, Macllaney breaks up their marriage, pursues …
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music documentary film
Komödie, musical film, romantic comedy film
Spoiled socialite Doris Worthington (Lombard) is sailing the Pacific with her friend Edith (Merman) and her Uncle Hubert (Errol), while being courted by Prince Michael (Milland) and Prince Alexander (Henry). She is bored, however, and find…
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musical film, pirate film
Set in Boston in the 1820s, the film tells of dance teacher Jonathan Pride, shanghaied by pirates and forced to be a slave aboard his own ship. Jonathan is able to join a provisioning party that lands on the coast of California, then a par…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film, musical film
The film centers around the Sex Pistols 1978 tour of the United States which ended with the group breaking up. The tour was the only one the group played in the U.S. during their original run.
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musical film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Song o' My Heart (1930) Sean O'Carolon has retired as an Irish tenor to a village where an old love of his, Mary, resides with her children, Eileen and Tad. A once-famous opera singer, Sean has given up his career to liv…
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Western film, comedy film, musical film
Jack Benny resists the entreaties of bandleader Phil Harris to journey to Nevada, where Phil's sweetheart, Brenda Tracy, is waiting for her divorce, until Jack meets Joan Cameron, one of a trio of singing sisters. Believing that the only r…
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Musical, musical film
Ruby Summers (Betty Grable) is a burlesque queen in a successful dance hall in 1892 Chicago. The owner of the dance hall Mike (Phil Harris) has cheated his ex-partner Andy Clark (Victor Mature) out of a half interest in the business. Andy …
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independent film
Strangers opens in Berlin during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Rana Sweid (Lubna Azabal), a Palestinian from Ramallah currently living in Paris, meets Eyal Goldman (Liron Levo), an Israeli who grew up on a kibbutz, after they accidentally switc…
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