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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 47.
Komödie, Musical, Romance Film, musical film, romantic comedy
Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with cheerful 18-year-old resident Julie André. He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefac…
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Cartoon, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
The film, celebrating the 70th anniversary of Felix the Cat, opens in the Kingdom of Oriana where Princess Oriana, ruler of the kingdom, has been informed by a local fortune-teller Pearl that her evil uncle, the Duke of Zill, is invading t…
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Concert film, concert film, documentary film, musical film
Musical, comedy drama, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
Bobby James and his friends ("Phones", "Hoppy", "Gordo", and several others) skate to work on the Venice beach boardwalk. Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills, Terry Barkley, a genius flautist is also heading towards the beach in her Excalibur Phae…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Komödie, musical film
In 1925 Rachel Schpitendavel, an innocent Amish girl from rural Pennsylvania, arrives in New York's Lower East Side hoping to make it as a dancer. Rachel's dances are based on Bible stories. She auditions at Minsky's Burlesque, but her dan…
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Coming Of Age, drama film, musical film
Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome, a dated tourist museum, called the House of Tomorrow with his futurist grandmother, Josephine. Sebastian longs to leave his isolated existence which quickly changes when he meets Jared Whitco…
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Adventure, adventure film, children's film, musical film
In Britain in 1858, Professor Paganel, a scientifically thinking French geography professor, finds a bottle containing a note which he believes to have been written by the missing Captain John Grant. Paganel and Grant's two teenaged childr…
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Musical, children's film, musical film
The film begins with an introduction that highlights its interactive aspect and introduces the Oogieloves: Goobie, Zoozie, and Toofie. The Oogieloves wake to prepare a surprise birthday party for their living pillow Schluufy, with the aid …
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Political Satire, Silly Movie, comedy film, musical film
On the morning after his re-election, U.S. President Joseph Staton decides to read the newspaper for the first time in four years. This starts him down a slippery slope.
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Musical, children's film, fantasy film, musical film
Alice is a little girl living in England. One day, she sees a white rabbit, follows it and ends up getting swept away in a rabbit hole to Wonderland, a place unlike anything she has seen before. There, Alice finds a door and realizes it is…
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Musical, musical film, romantic comedy film
In the early 20th-century, financial problems force young Boston widow Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire) and her 3 children to move out of their home. Nancy (Hayley Mills), the dramatic but kind-hearted eldest child, remembers a large yello…
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Horror comedy, Musical, comedy horror, parody film, romantic comedy
In the 1930s, Larry Abbot and Vickie Pearle are performers on a hit radio show, Manhattan Mystery Theater, who are about to be married. Over the previous few weeks, Larry has been plagued by stammering and forgetting his lines, as well as …
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comedy film, musical film
Set in 1972, Heartbreak Hotel follows Marie Wolfe (played by Tuesday Weld), a single mother who runs a boarding house with her teenage son Johnny (played by Charlie Schlatter) and young daughter Pam (played by Angela Goethals). When Marie …
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Drama, Historie, biographical film
During Mao's Cultural Revolution, 11-year-old Chinese boy Li Cunxin resides in a rural village commune in Shandong Province, destined to labour in the fields. As often occurred in those times, government officials fanning out across the na…
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Komödie, Musical, boxing film, comedy film, musical film
The film is introduced by George "The Burns" Burns, who tells viewers that they are about to see an old-style double feature. In the old days, he explains, movies were in black-and-white except sometimes "when they sang it came out in colo…
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Animal Documentary, Fake Documentary, Komödie, comedy film
Samuel L. Jackson narrates the story about a group of male penguins that make a seventy-mile trek to go to their breeding grounds, where females are waiting to have sex with them. These penguins include Carl (Bob Saget) and Jimmy (Lewis Bl…
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Dance Film, crime film, drama film, musical film
Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.
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Drama, Komödie, Musical
Religious drama, drama film, musical film
Grace Trey is an 18-year-old Christian teenager with religious parents who take her to youth group and church every Sunday. Grace's father, Johnny, does not let her play and sing her own way when she is anywhere. Johnny is strict about his…
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film, musical film
Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, musical film, romance film
After his mother’s death, Rafael Infante travels from Santiago, Cuba, to Houston, Texas, to work as a handyman for John Burnett, his estranged father, who owns a dance studio. At the studio, Rafael quickly forms friendships with dancer Bea…
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comedy drama, musical film
Act I In County Durham, the 1984–85 coal miners' strike is just beginning ("The Stars Look Down"). Motherless eleven-year-old Billy is required to stay behind after his boxing class and finds his way into a ballet class run by Mrs Wilkinso…
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Adventure, Musical, musical film, pirate film
In the 1830s, young Manuela Alva longs to escape her small Caribbean village of Calvados and fantasizes about being swept away by the legendary pirate Macoco, also known as "Mack the Black". However, her stern aunt Inez has arranged for he…
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