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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 69.
biographical film, drama film, musical film
The film follows notorious musician Serge Gainsbourg's exploits from his upbringing in Nazi occupied France through his rise to fame and love affairs with Juliette Gréco, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin to his later experimentation with re…
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, fantasy film, musical film
Fourteen-year-old Ulysses lives with his mother, Amara, and younger brother. Because his father has recently died, his father's sister, the conservative Aunt Rose, agrees to help take care of Ulysses and his brother while their mother is a…
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Musical, children's film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film
In Victorian England, Charles Dodgson is a scholar and teacher at Christ Church, Oxford who enjoys photography, cinema, and spending time with the young daughters of Dr. Liddell, the Dean. The stuffy Vice Chancellor thinks little of Dodgso…
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Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
In 1885, in the kingdom of Marshovia, Count Danilo, the captain of the royal guard, spots the widowed Madame Sonia during a military parade. One night, Danilo hands Sonia a self-written letter expressing his romantic affection, but she dec…
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fantasy film, musical film
When Tip's witch guardian Mombi threatens to granitize him, Tip evades Mombi and flees to the Emerald City with his recently animated companion, Jack Pumpkinhead. Along the way, he meets up with General Jinjur, leader of the Army of Revolt…
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Fantasy, Musical, adventure film, fantasy film, musical film
Thomas Whitman is a 75-year-old former musician who has lapsed into a coma after years of suffering from multi-infarct dementia. As he is clinging to his life while his estranged daughter Gem ponders on signing a do not resuscitate order, …
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Komödie, Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Ellie Andrews is kidnapped by her father Texas cattleman A. A. Andrews after she has eloped with Jacques Ballarino, an international playboy.
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comedy film
The film opens at the fictional Eagle Peak castle in Hollywood, where evil scientist Victor Gaghan is creating his S Club clones. Meanwhile, the real S Club arrive in Barcelona for their last show of their whirlwind tour. After spending th…
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Christmas film, Komödie, Musical, comedy film
Holly is excited to audition for the Snow Belles, a Christmas-themed pop group founded by her late mother. However, lead Belles singer Marci denies Holly a chance to audition when she shows up late. Nevertheless, Holly takes to the stage a…
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drama film, musical film
A group of young-adult friends arrives at Wonder-villa, a new resort, at night. Playing with a spirit board, they unwittingly summon the spirits of five children they had encountered earlier that day (not knowing that they were dead). The …
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
Cynthia Glenn (Esther Williams) is a swimming instructor in Los Angeles, where she lives with her scatterbrained aunt and uncle Nona and Hobart (Spring Byington and Henry Travers). While demonstrating a dive, she catches the eye of an inte…
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
left|thumb|Full film After years of hopeful struggle as a comedian/waiter at Blackies Cafe, Al Stone is on his way to stardom. One night, he sings a song he wrote for his long time crush Molly, impressing the head of a Broadway theater tha…
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Musical, Romance Film, romance film
Jed King is the son of successful country music legend, David King. Jed meets Rose, the daughter of a vineyard owner, and marries her. He writes a song about her that propels him to stardom.
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Documentation, Event Documentary, Social Study, documentary film
The title of the film was inspired by conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, who coined the phrase "shut up and sing" in such context earlier; it was the title of her 2003 book Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the…
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Komödie, Musical, Sci-Fi, adventure film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, thieves, and hard-boiled interplanetary traders such as Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee), an astronaut from Earth who deals in rare goods, living or otherwise. …
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film
At the turn of the twentieth century, traveling salesman Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby) takes multiple journeys to Vienna, Austria, hoping to sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Early one morning, Marjorie Lawrence leaves her family sheep farm in Winchelsea, Australia to catch a train and attend an operatic singing competition in Geelong. The next morning, Marjorie's father Bill learns from the newspaper she had w…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
Lionel Q. Devereaux and his alluring girlfriend, Brazilian singer Carmen Navarro, have been engaged for 10 years. They are highly unsuccessful vaudeville performers, due to Lionel's total lack of talent.
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
A voiceover briefly describes the Sunset Strip, its clubs, and its unusual status as an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County patrolled by its sheriffs. Police officers are seen going to an apartment building where a young gunshot vict…
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musical film
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman whom he follows onto a luxury liner, where he discovers that she is an English heiress who fled her home and is being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To …
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Komödie, Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
World-famous Italian tenor opera singer Giorgio Fini is in Boston for a concert when he gets a phone call asking him to perform at The Met. The call brings up bad memories from his disastrous appearance there seven years earlier. It scares…
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Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film
Jeremy Jones (Benson) is a shy, bespectacled, Jewish fifteen-year-old living in a New York City apartment with his parents, who are busy with their own pursuits and leave him mostly on his own. He attends a private high school that focuses…
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adventure film, children's film, comedy film, musical film
The local woodlanders are carrying on with their everyday life as normal until one morning when two men Harry and Joe start clearing the entire forest with their tractor. The animals evacuate as many trees fall down, and more trees are cut…
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Musical, comedy film, musical film
The story is framed by testimony in the court of Judge Murdock, where Dixie Crane is seeking a divorce. He asks how the principals first met and the first flashback begins...Eddie Crane a young composer, is struggling with a tune he has ju…
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