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 133.
comedy film
Afraid of marriage, Simone ends her long-term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille. Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris, and also afraid of marriage, Mignon decides to separate from her young lover, Albert de Charelle.
musical film
Over the course of seven years, eleven New Yorkers affected by the events of September 11, 2001 are forced to confront themselves and the dreams that brought them to the city.
musical film, romantic comedy
Fledgling Broadway playwright Barry Granville (Ross Alexander) and his partner, songwriter Pinky Blair (Lee Dixon), get funding for their musical, contingent on hiring London stage star Jane Clarke as the lead. Greeting Clarke's ship from England at the pier in New York, the agent 'Katsy' Van Courtland mistakes an American college student, also named Jane Clarke (Ruby Keeler), for the British actress. Willing to try acting, the American Jane masquerades as the London star, and agrees to appear in the musical.
musical film
The story is about a woman named Julie, an airline hostess. She has decided to marry a South American millionaire named Rico Vargas, despite the efforts of her former boyfriend Lee Darling, a television star, to win her back. Rico's sister, Astra, tries to make a move on Lee, who responds only to make Julie jealous.
drama film, musical film
In 1900, a poor but promising French architect, Gaston de Nerac, living in London woos Joanne Rushworth, the daughter of a gentleman facing economic ruin through exposure of his financial wrongdoing. Count de Verneuil, a rival for the hand of Joanne promises to resolve the father's economic problems in return for the hand of Joanne. Gaston feels obliged to agree and returns to France taking with him Asticot, a young boy also living in the boarding house.
drama film, musical film
Jeff Carter has just returned from Europe eager to see his family. Charley Grady, his agent, informs Jeff that his wife Millie has divorced him and has remarried to millionaire Sam Rankin. Jeff discovers that his narcissistic ex-wife has sent Danny to a military boarding school because she would rather socialize with her friends.
musical comedy, musical film
crime film, musical film
Newly elected mayor Judy Joyner takes charge of a growing but corrupt small town.
musical film
musical film
musical film
A young woman who dreams of going to Hollywood and becoming a star, meets two window cleaners and falls in love with both of them.
musical film
A group of young adolescents: Celeste (Celeste Kellogg), Zach (Blake Michael), Ashton (Ashton Harrell) and Becca (Amanda Waters) that are entering middle school full of questions, doubts and fears, come together to form a club in an abandoned theater on Main Street. Inside the theater, they discover an interesting piece of their history, but also a seemingly homeless man named Charlie (Bill Cobbs), who connects with the kids through their mutual passion for musical theater. When the teens learn the theater is scheduled for demolition, they embark on a mission to save the town's landmark and to keep Charlie safe.
musical film
A Vermont farm girl Gwen Harding enrolls in the renowned Devereau dance school in New York. Her singing makes her semi-popular, and she is soon noticed by fellow student Richard "Slick" Ellis. Ellis' jealous girlfriend Brenda Allenby is soon involved.
Documentation, Musical
Western film, action film, musical film
thumb|Noah Beery, Jr. The Carson City Kid (Roy Rogers) is a stagecoach robber seeking vengeance on Morgan Reynolds (Bob Steele), the man who killed his brother. Reynolds is travelling with Laramie (Francis McDonald), a notorious half-breed outlaw.
musical comedy, musical film
Miss Hinklefink (Belle Mitchell) inherits a western ranch and, in order to spend the summer with Professor Owen Townley (Milton Kibbee), she invites students Freddie Trimball (Freddie Stewart), Dodie Rogers (June Preisser), Betty Rogers (Noel Neill), Lee Watson (Warren Mills) and Roy Donne (Frankie Darro) to spend their vacation on the ranch if Townley will help chaperone the kids. Real estate agent Tom Sneed (Hugh Prosser) tries to persuade her to send the kids home when desperadoes rob the bank. In the saloon, Sneed's henchman Charlie (Terry Frost) mistakes Freddie for a baby-faced killer, who was blamed for a murder actually committed…
musical film, propaganda film
The film is set in Merseyside where the battleship HMS Hercules is being built. War Reserve police officer George Carter aspires to become a member of the flying squad. A group of saboteurs are planning to blow it up.
musical film
Radio and TV personality Jack Jackson introduces a selection of sketches and musical items, linked by his demonstration of a fantastical computer with display screen. Acts include Glen Mason, Craig Douglas, Russ Conway and archive footage including excerpts from the 1952 film Down Among the Z Men. The film also features location shooting of London nightlife, and uncredited appearances by Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine.
musical film
In an attempt to bring a higher level of class and sophistication to VeggieTales, Archibald Asparagus requests and receives permission to run the show. The countertop is then modified with a faux fireplace and wing chair and Archibald introduces the first segment. This segment was intended to be a VeggieTales production of the Shakespearean play Hamlet with the help of Phillipe and Jean-Claude, The French Peas.
musical film
Husband-and-wife acting team Curtis and Eve Farnsworth have a daughter, Janie, who attends a very exclusive boarding school. Janie is frustrated because her parents pay more attention to acting than to her and because Chuck Grant, in charge of the school's upcoming musical production, tells Janie she can't act, can't dance and isn't glamorous enough to be in the show. Janie eventually becomes aware that her father's career is flourishing but her mother's is not.
musical comedy, musical film
Dick Kerrigan, a singer, goes on tour but can't give up his fascination with woman despite being newly married to Virginia. While he is away she is courted by her former suitor Ted Bronson who tries to persuade her to get a divorce.
musical film
Lee White, left alone while his wife Kit is out of town, moves in with her parents just to have some company. Lee is persuaded by father-in-law Harry to quit is job as a car salesman and come into the real-estate business with him. His first assignment is to sell a piece of land to Arthur Freeman, a wealthy property investor.
documentary film
The film first looks at Grigori Alexandrov, a director who made his career in the 1930s musicals. He directed the unlikely hit Jolly Fellows (1934), which had the backing of Maxim Gorky and the personal approval of Stalin. Alexandrov went on to create other propagandistic musicals, including Volga, Volga (1938), which details the story of peasants who boat to Moscow on the River Volga to become singers.