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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 44.
Drama, Musical, drama film
In 1970s sectarian Belfast in the midst of The Troubles, Terri Hooley is a DJ who opens a record shop "on the most bombed half-mile in Europe". He is a music-lover, idealist, radical and rebel. He is inspired by the new underground punk sc…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, musical film
During World War I, Lili Smith is a beloved English musical star and a secret German spy, much admired by the French and British pilots who she mixes with at the Cafe Can-Can. One American, Major Larrabee, woos her with a gypsy serenade ou…
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Drama, Romance Film, musical film, romance film
Since getting divorced, having just completed her memoirs, Baroness Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (previously Baroness Dudevant, successful and notorious writer of sensational romance novels) has been living in Paris under the pseudonym Geo…
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Arranged Documentary, Documentation, Event Documentary, Musical, documentary film, musical film
Romance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Naive country girl Lili arrives in a provincial town in hopes of locating an old friend of her late father, only to find that he has died. A local shopkeeper offers her employment, then tries to take advantage of her. She is rescued by a h…
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Musical, Sci-Fi, musical film, science fiction film
"John Williams" is an alien Alphoid, who has adopted human form and lived on earth for millennia. Galactic Control instructs him to investigate a strange vibration they have detected coming from planet Earth. The sound is being produced by…
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Drama, Musical, biographical film, documentary film, drama film, musical film
Komödie, Musical, comedy drama
Tom Heath, a withdrawn teenager living in South London with his single mother Mary, dreams of becoming a rock musician. At school he is bullied by classmates, especially his rival Damien, and retreats into fantasies of stardom while hiding…
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Musical, musical film
The camera pans over a Heaven somewhere beyond the clouds. The residences of great showmen gone to their eternal reward are shown: Shakespeare, whose home looks like the Globe Theater; P.T.Barnum, whose residence in the afterlife resembles…
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Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
The film follows a diverse group of mostly middle-class residents of Los Angeles through emotional ups and downs in their lives, loosely connected to each other through a restaurant. In the first story, Mamie reluctantly agrees to work wit…
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, crime film, drama film, hood film
Gross Out Film, Silly Movie, comedy film
Nick Taylor's girlfriend, Caitlin, breaks up with him on the day of their graduation from university, and he humiliates himself at the ceremony by begging her to take him back. Nick's friend Shane Simpson persuades him to attend the Giant …
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Animation, musical film, teen film
In this film, Barbie is portrayed as a typical American teenager who is a sophomore in high school who encounters the problems that real-life teens often encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip and getting involved in school activiti…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, trial film
When call girl Claudia Draper kills client Allen Green in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur Kirk attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent by Dr. Herbert Morrison in order to avoid a public scandal. Claudia knows …
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Komödie, comedy film, musical film
Professor Lawrence "Larry" Mackay and his wife Kate are struggling with four young sons in a tiny two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Months before, they had announced their intention to move to a house in the country, but have not bee…
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Musical
Musical, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
American actress and sex symbol Marlo Manners has just married for the sixth time. She and new husband Sir Michael Barrington depart for a honeymoon suite at a posh and exclusive London hotel reserved for them by her manager, Dan Turner. T…
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Concert film, musical film, progressive rock
The film attempts to portray the craziness of life on the road as a rock musician, and as such consists of a series of unconnected nonsense vignettes interspersed with concert footage of the Mothers of Invention. Ostensibly, while on tour …
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Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, science fiction film
A group of medical students observe Dr. Daniel Jekyll perform brain surgery at Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Hubert Howes, the world's richest man, watches a recording of the procedure from his hospita…
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Biographical picture, drama film, musical film
Young, introverted Steven Patrick Morrissey is a sullen, dissatisfied, and shy teen growing up in Manchester in the 1970s. Withdrawn and a loner, he goes out to listen to music at night and then submits letters and reviews to music newspap…
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Romance Film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Two young people in love, musician Chad Bixby and Sarah "Salome" Davis, are forced apart despite the latter's pregnancy. They marry others, but are brought back together by chance. A downtrodden blues singer mothers Bixby while guiding his…
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Christmas film, Musical, musical film
In a small town, Regina is ready to evict everyone on Christmas Eve to make way for a mega-mall. Dolly Parton is tasked as the angel to help change her mind and help change the lives of everyone that lives there.
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Concert film, Documentation, concert film, musical film, thriller film
Amid aerial footage of Vancouver and BC Place, a radio DJ publicizes Metallica's concert. An overweight heavy-metal fan drives into the empty parking lot, and climbs on the car's hood, whooping and laughing. Trip, a roadie for Metallica, s…
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Concert film, Musical