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 32.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, hood film, musical film
Rich Bower (Power) is a mover and shaker in the world of rap music (he's involved with a number of other licit and illicit business ventures as well), and his apartment is a favored meeting place for musicians, hangers-on, and hipsters who…
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Cartoon, Komödie, adventure film, buddy film, comedy drama, family film, musical film
The film opens with Tod and Copper chasing a cricket together. They see a line of trucks bringing the county fair to town, and Copper is mesmerized by the sound of dogs singing together in an old school bus with "The Singin' Strays" painte…
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Musical, fantasy film, musical film
From heaven, Billy Bigelow inquires about returning to earth for one day and recounts the story of his life and death in flashbacks. Billy, a rough-talking carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker, live in the small…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
In 1939, Kansas City, Missouri, young alto saxophone player Charlie "Bird" Parker performs at the Reno Club. However, his rapid and sporadic playing gets him jeered offstage. Moving to New York City, Charlie begins performing at different …
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Adventure, Fantasy, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film
In 1951, Pippi Longstocking, who travels around the world on the ship Hoptoad with her sailor father, Efraim, encounters a sudden storm caused by a volcanic eruption. After Efraim disappears into the sea, Pippi travels to the small coastal…
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Fantasy, Komödie, children's film
After Jimmy is wrongfully ejected from the school band for tripping, his flute transforms into a magical talking golden flute named Freddy and they venture on a journey. Orchestrated by Witchiepoo, Jimmy takes an evil boat to Living Island…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, comedy drama, drama film, musical film, romance film
A naive, unintelligent, socially inept, loud-mouth cowboy, Beauregard "Bo" Decker, and his friend and father-figure Virgil Blessing take the bus from Timber Hill, Montana, to Phoenix, Arizona, to participate in a rodeo. Virgil has encourag…
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Komödie, Musical, Romance Film, musical film, romantic comedy
Tony Hunter, once a famous star of musical comedies on stage and later on screen, is largely forgotten after three years without appearing in a film. He returns from Hollywood to New York. At Grand Central Terminal he is recognized but alm…
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Komödie, comedy drama, musical film
Flora, a single mother living in Dublin, is having trouble with her estranged son Max, a rebellious teenage petty thief. Encouraged by the Gardaí to find Max a hobby, Flora rescues an old guitar from a skip and, with the help of a Los Ange…
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Komödie, children's film, comedy drama, musical film, teen film
Brittany Aarons is a regular teenage girl, one of the many who has a crush on popular pop singer Jordan Cahill. However, she is bored of living a suburban existence and pines for excitement. At school, she meets a new girl, Natasha Kwon-Sc…
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Cartoon, LGBT-related television series, action film, animated film, fantasy film, melodrama, musical film, science fiction film
After an introduction from the Diamonds ("The Tale of Steven"), Steven Universe, now 16 years old, greets the citizens of the Gem Empire. The Diamonds want him to stay to fulfill his mother Pink Diamond's role as a leader alongside them ("…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film, musical film
Documentary about the lives of backing singers of big stars.
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Komödie, Musical, Romance Film, comedy drama, musical film
The story is told through song and takes place over a five-year period, from the beginning of Jamie and Cathy's relationship in 2009 to their divorce in 2014. It alternates between Cathy's songs and Jamie's songs. Cathy's songs start at th…
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Concert film, Documentation, concert film, music documentary film
Gimme Shelter is a film about the Rolling Stones live tour in 1969 and focuses on the free Altamont concert that rapidly descended into chaos and death. This documentary shows parts of the concerts, the violence, and the reaction after the…
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Concert film, Documentation, documentary film, rockumentary
The opening scene of the film has Bob Dylan displaying and discarding a series of cue cards bearing selected words and phrases from the lyrics to his 1965 song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (including intentional misspellings and puns). Th…
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Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy film, teen film
In 1978 Chicago, after the local roller rink the "Palisade Garden" closes down, 16-year-old Xavier Curtis Smith (known as 'X') and his friends Junior, Boo, Naps, “Mixed” Mike, along with his new neighbor Tori, spend their summer roller ska…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
God narrates the tale of Craig and Trevor, two straight, womanizing, misogynistic business salesmen who are, unbeknownst to them, identical twins separated at birth by their parents. When their companies undergo a merger, they finally meet…
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Horror, Komödie, Musical, Slasher Horror, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the early 1960s, a motown three-girl "Greek chorus" – Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon – introduce the film, warning the audience of some impending horror ("Prologue: Little Shop of Horrors"). Orphaned Seymour Krelborn and his co-worker, Au…
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Christmas film, Fantasy, Musical
The film follows the traditional plot of The Nutcracker. Act I Scene 1: The Stahlbaum Home alt=|left|thumb|Konstantin Ivanov's original sketch for the set of The Nutcracker (1892) It is Christmas Eve. Family and friends have gathered in th…
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Historie, Knights Tale, Komödie, Musical, musical film
King Roderick the Tyrant, having sent Lord Ravenhurst to slaughter the Royal Family of England, usurps the throne. The Black Fox and his band of rebels rescue the true king, an infant with the royal "purple pimpernel" birthmark on his back…
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Musical, drama film, musical film
thumb|left|Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell The "gold diggers" are four aspiring actresses: Polly, an ingenue; Carol, a torch singer; Trixie, a comedian; and Fay, a glamour puss. The film was made in 1933, during the Great Depression, and conta…
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Drama, children's film, comedy film, musical film, teen film
With Galleria away at Cambridge, Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua are left as a trio and are cast in the lavish Bollywood movie Namaste Bombay. The Cheetah Girls travel across the globe to India where they meet Rahim, the man cast as the lead, wh…
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Musical, Romance Film, romance film
Leo Borlock, a teenager in Mica, Arizona, wears a porcupine tie in remembrance of his late father. On each birthday, he receives a new porcupine tie from an unknown person. In high school, Leo plays trumpet in the marching band and helps h…
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Cartoon, animated film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
In 1862, Anna Leonowens and her son Louis sail from London to Bangkok, where Anna is to serve as teacher for the children of King Mongkut. Kralahome, the Prime Minister plotting to usurp the throne, attempts to prevent her arrival by using…
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