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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 58.
Komödie, Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Eccentric multimillionaire Ezra Ounce, whose main purpose in life is raising American morals through a nationwide campaign, wants to be assured that his fortune will be inherited by upstanding relatives. He visits his cousin Matilda Heming…
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Musical, musical film
While on leave, sailor Ted Barker meets Nora Paige at the Lonely Hearts Club, which is owned by Jenny Saks, the wife of fellow sailor Gunny Saks. Ted instantly falls in love with Nora. Ted later meets Broadway star Lucy James aboard a subm…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film, romance film
The film starts off in the year 1827 with Beethoven dying in his bed during a thunderstorm and his copyist Anna Holtz arrived on time to see him and tell she finally heard his fugue before he passes. The story then shifts back to 1824 as B…
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Komödie, Sport, comedy film, musical film
M. Harry Smilac, once a successful music promoter, is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his sole client, the rock band Kick. Behind on his car payments and owing a large amount to a banker, he reluctantly accepts a …
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Animated Film, Komödie, Musical
Mickey Mouse's concert band is performing a concert in a park. As the film opens, they are being applauded for having just played music from Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold's Zampa. They next begin Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell overture.
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Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Robert "Bob" Davis is a well-known American dancer with a weakness for betting on the horses. After he loses his money gambling in Buenos Aires, he goes looking for a job with Eduardo Acuña, the wealthy owner of a nightclub. Acuña, however…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
Barry Nichols, Joy Henderson, Sybil Wren, and Angèle Ducros were formerly members of the cabaret dance troupe Barry Nichols and Les Girls. Years after the group has dissolved, Sybil, now Lady Wren, publishes a tell-all memoir recounting he…
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crime film, drama film, hood film, musical film
Clarence Jenkins (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson), who lives with his mother Donna (Kar) and his gifted brother Shocka (Elijah "Strong-E" Williams), works in a supermarket after having his dreams of playing basketball professionally destroyed du…
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Concert film, documentary film, musical film, rock music
rock music
musical film
Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, romance film
The Winfield family lives in small-town Indiana as daughter Marjorie's boyfriend William Sherman returns from military duty in World War I. Their unstable romance provides the backdrop for other family crises, caused mainly by son Wesley's…
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Musical, Romance Film, musical film
Amos Babcock Bellamy and Ben Hucklebee scheme to get their respective children, Luisa and Matt, to fall in love. Knowing they will resist their fathers' interference, the two men use reverse psychology and fabricate a feud, building a wall…
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Komödie, drama film, musical film
Rebecca and her stepfather Henry Kipper (William Demarest) are among a crowd of parents and daughters hoping to win a singing contest aimed at finding "Little Miss America." The winner will represent a cereal company in an advertising camp…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
Witty Ruth and pretty Eileen Sherwood, sisters from Columbus, Ohio, relocate to New York City and settle in a rundown basement studio apartment in a Greenwich Village building owned by Papa Appopoulos. Ruth aspires to be a writer, while Ei…
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Komödie, musical film, romantic comedy
left|thumb|Mae West performing her burlesque dance in front of men, from the film's trailer Tira works as a burlesque dancer and occasional lion tamer in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend, pickpocke…
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comedy film, musical film, romance film
Feeling adrift, British-Indian teenager Pavan is unsure how to come to terms with his present and future life. His grandfather and mother want him to become the first person in their family to attend and graduate from college, however Pava…
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LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Romance Film, musical film
Helen works in a chicken factory in present-day North Wales, while caring for Gwen, a mother-figure in her life. However, the return of her adolescent crush, Joanne, regains some of the joie de vivre she has lost, even though Joanne is bat…
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Komödie, Musical, buddy film, comedy film, musical film
Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
The movie runs as a long flashback in the 1890's in New York City and opening with Biff Grimes (James Cagney) as an unsuccessful dentist on a Sunday without work. Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson), an old partner, nemesis and rival makes a desp…
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Drama, Musical, drama film
David, a showbiz artist, performing in nightclubs in Los Angeles, learns that his father who is pastor of an evangelical church in Atlanta is sick, and decides to go home. He learns that Frank has become the second of his father, and that …
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Komödie, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film
When singer Guy Lambert and his entourage travel from Swinging London to Antwerp on a tour, he is followed by Jill Conway, a beautiful but unworldly heiress, and Claire Dunham, a sexy, sophisticated socialite. Complicating matters are a pa…
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musical film
The short opens to an orchestral rendition of Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home" (1851), immediately setting the scene in the rural South of blackface minstrelsy. The setting is Lazy Town, perhaps the laziest place on Earth. Neither the …
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Western film, parody film
Sheriff Sugar Wolf (Utsler) returns to his hometown after many years to find that it has been taken over by Big Baby Chips (Bruce), a ruthless gambling tycoon who has run the downtrodden town of Mud Bug with his gang of thugs, which includ…
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