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 55.
After escaping from the circus, to which she was kidnapped as a baby who was the long lost princess, and then reunited with her and returned to her lost home, tiny Thumbelina (Jennifer Love Hewitt) sets out to find others of her diminutive…
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Dance Film, Komödie, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, teen film
Kate Parker is saying goodbye to her friends in Detroit, Michigan and her little sister Bella because she is leaving home to go to an audition for the greatest dance school in America, the American Ballet Academy. Kate doesn't make it and …
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
In the Montmartre district of Paris, a dance known as the can-can, considered lewd, is performed nightly at the Bal du Paradis, a cabaret where Simone Pistache is both a dancer and the proprietor. On a night when her lawyer and lover, Fran…
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Teen Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Andrea Marr (Dominique Swain) is a bright, straight-A, 18-year-old high school senior living a sheltered life in rural Washington. She has two close friends, bookish Darcy (Selma Blair) and rebellious aspiring rock star Cybil (Tara Reid). …
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dance film, documentary film, musical film
The film is structured around groups of excerpts from four of the most-noted dance pieces choreographed by Pina Bausch in the Tanztheater ("dance theater") style, of which she was a leading exponent. Bausch and Wenders had agreed upon whic…
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Christmas film, fantasy film, musical film
It's three days before Christmas Eve, as the conductor aboard the Toyland Express, Humpty Dumpty, meets two orphaned siblings, Jill and Jack, who are traveling from an orphanage and on their way to Toyland. After meeting Tom Piper and Mary…
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comedy drama, musical film
Sean and Mitchell are young adult brothers, having grown up in the rugged Australian steel city town of Newcastle. The father is a tough coal miner and they have no mother. Mitchell is a small-time criminal, while Sean dreams of being a pr…
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Musical, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film
Nightclub singer May Daly turns the heads of many men, including coatroom attendant Louis Blore and master of ceremonies Alec Howe. While May is in love with Alec, she persists in holding out for a wealthy husband due to her poor upbringin…
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Drama, Musical, musical film
With memories revolving around the family's cottage near Lake Simcoe, Glenn Gould recalls how in his childhood, he had ostensibly made the decision to become a concert pianist at age five. In fact, he believes his mother had already chosen…
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Drama Documentary, Psychodrama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film follows Mark David Chapman three months prior to the Lennon assassination and contains flashbacks to Chapman's earlier life and upbringing, while also exploring his infatuation with J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Ry…
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LGBTQ-related film, musical film
After finding a mail-order gun while riding in the desert, Zachariah and his best friend, Matthew the blacksmith, begin to play with it, and eventually decide to leave their small town and seek more colorful adventure as gunfighters. While…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, zombie film
In a small middle-America town in 1936, a group of parents have been gathered by a mysterious Lecturer for an assembly. The ominous Lecturer informs the parents that he has come to warn them about the evils of marijuana on their youth ("Re…
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Drama, Musical
Paul Vallée, a young French student, enjoys going to raves. He eventually partners with his friend Stan to form a DJ duo called Cheers around the same time as two of his other friends Guy-Man and Thomas form the DJ duo Daft Punk. He is hop…
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Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy film
In New York City, scientist Linda (Brie Larson) produces the genetically modified rice 9 with her father Eric (Scott Bakula) for the company Mogil. One of Mogil's executives, Evelyn (Tyne Daly), in a press meeting, celebrates the rice's nu…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Pepe is a hired hand, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director, Mr. Holt, buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss.
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
At the Totten Foundation of Music in New York City, mild-mannered Professor Hobart Frisbee and his six fellow musicologists have been compiling a comprehensive music encyclopedia for nine years. When their sponsor Miss Totten and her lawye…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Dan Churchill, Jr., a young playboy, is a headache for his concerned tycoon father. In hopes that isolation from girls will help Junior concentrate on his studies, Churchill senior takes Danny out of Yale University and packs him off to th…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, family film, musical film
In Queens, teenage orphan El works in his late mother's shoe store "Laces", now run by his stepfather Trey, who overworks El instead of his stepbrothers Zelly and Stacy. El closes the store early to join his best friend and fellow sneakerh…
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Adventure, Family Comedy, Romantic Comedy, buddy film, musical film, romantic comedy
A freighter explodes off the coast of North Africa under mysterious circumstances. All hands are accounted for save for stowaways Jeff Peters and Orville 'Turkey' Jackson, the latter's smoking habit causing the explosion. Upon reaching lan…
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children's film, musical film
An orphaned girl named Heidi is sent to live with her paternal grandfather by her maternal Aunt Dete, who has been looking after her since she was a baby. Her grandfather initially dislikes having her around because she interferes in his r…
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Cartoon, adventure film, musical film
In the Middle Ages, 10-year-old Prince Frederic is orphaned when his evil aunt Messina kills his parents in hopes of taking the throne for herself. Rather than killing the young prince, Messina transforms him into a frog. He escapes and sp…
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Dark Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Two people live unlucky in love in Boston: Erin, whose activist boyfriend Sean has just walked out on their relationship to help a Native American tribe fight off a land development deal, and Alan, a plumber struggling to pay off family ob…
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musical film
An audience watches a lavish Broadway revue featuring the "Song of the Gold Diggers" in an art deco gold mine with women in Ziegfeld-style costumes. Guitarist Nick Lucas next sings "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine". The chorus girls of t…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
It's a "typical day" in Dogpatch, U. S. A., a hillbilly town where Abner Yokum lives with his parents.
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