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 76.
musical film, romance film
As young Korean War veteran Jerry Golding scales the heights of showbusiness, he breaks the heart of his father David, who had hoped that Jerry would instead follow in the footsteps of six consecutive generations of cantors in their family…
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Komödie, Musical, Romance Film, fantasy film, musical film
In the pastoral country of Patria, young Yolanda Acquaviva celebrates her birthday in a convent among her fellow students. She has turned 18, and must now take over management of her family fortune, formerly overseen by her Aunt Amarilla. …
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
Producer Harry Eberhart offers unemployed Broadway musical director and past nemesis Elwin "Bix" Bixby the job of staging the annual 100th Night show at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Eberhart wishes for his ta…
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Komödie, Musical, musical film
In New York at the dawn of the 20th century, Angela Collins is known as the "Belle of New York" and attracts attention for her beauty and singing. Her wealthy matron Mrs. Phineas Hill believes that Angela's singing is a distraction.
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musical film
Dorothy (Joy Dunstan) is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band, Wally (Graham Matters) and the Falcons. Suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as…
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Christmas film, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
In what is being billed as "The Race of the Ages", the new forty-million-dollar "radio-powered" Streamlined Ocean Liner S.S. Gigantic ("America's Challenge for Crossing Record") is about to race its rival, the slightly smaller traditional …
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musical film
The singing group the 5 Ovations perform at a talent contest. A rival group, The Wiggies' father sabotages another group's performance. In the dressing room, the Ovations encounter Alanna Wannabe, a pesky little girl who desperately wants …
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Fantasy, Komödie, fantasy film, musical film
Athanael (Jack Benny), the third trumpet player in the orchestra of a late night radio show sponsored by Paradise Coffee (motto: "It's Heavenly"), falls asleep listening to the announcer, who is doing his best to prove it is "the coffee th…
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Drama, children's film, musical film, romantic comedy
Elle Daniels has dreamed of being a famous singer-songwriter for as long as she can remember. On the day of her audition for Berklee, the plane her parents are travelling in crashes. Crushed, Elle moves in with her uncle, Allen, who runs a…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, musical film
Harry Van, an American World War I veteran, tries to reenter show business and ends up in a faltering mentalist show with Madame Zuleika, an inept, aging alcoholic. While performing in Omaha, Nebraska, he is wooed by Irene, a trapeze artis…
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Concert film, musical film
Musical, biographical film, comedy film, musical film
In the late 1800s, young Paul Dresser runs away from his parents' home in Indiana to become a musician against the wishes of his strict father, who wants Paul to become a minister instead. In his first foray as an entertainer, Paul is unkn…
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Drama, drama film, musical film
Joanna, a wide-eyed, naïve art student in Swinging London, has a romantic fling with her teacher, aspiring painter Hendrik Casson. She eventually leaves him for impoverished Dominic while her gold-digging friend Beryl takes up with the qui…
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documentary film, musical film
Devin Ratray is a musician and besotted admirer of Condoleezza Rice, 'Condi,' who travels across America, learning more about Rice from those who knew her. He speaks to her childhood friends in Birmingham, Alabama. In Denver, Colorado, he …
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musical film, romantic comedy
Francis plays Libby Caruso, who has spent a whole month trying to get into show business with her singing, yet hasn't succeeded. Libby then decides to retire and get a job where she can meet the right man and get married. She is interested…
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Komödie, comedy film
After meeting in the Navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, 11 times, but was always rejected because of a bad knee. However, he keeps trying so that he can impress women.
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Adventure, Komödie, musical film, parody film, slapstick, swashbuckler film
Biographical picture, Komödie, Musical, biographical film, musical film, romance film
Waltzes from Vienna begins with the sound of a fire brigade horn and the clip-clop of horses’ hooves, as the firemen race towards a fire at Ebezeder's Café. Upstairs from the café, Resi and Schani are oblivious to the danger, lost in a lov…
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Horror comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy horror, musical film, slasher film
In 2004, Broadway diva Kylie Swanson opened the musical The Haunting of the Opera (a reference to real-life musical The Phantom of the Opera) to a packed audience. However, that same night, she was murdered backstage by an unknown assailan…
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Musical, fantasy film, musical film
The Pied Piper is first spotted working magic in Hamelin by a disabled boy, Paul, and playing his signature tune "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Paul tells his best friend, the schoolteacher Truson (who bears an uncanny resemblance to …
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musical film
In the middle-America community of West Rome, Oklahoma, Eddie is employed as a delivery boy. A self-styled authority of Ancient Roman history, Eddie bemoans the fact that the local shanty community is about to be wiped out by scheming poli…
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Musical, musical film, romantic comedy
Melinda Howard is an entertainer traveling by ocean liner from England to surprise mother, Broadway singer Jessica Howard, in New York City. Melinda believes that her mother lives in a mansion, but Jessica's alcoholism has reduced her to s…
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Musical, Romance Film, romance film
The film is set in London’s multicultural Camden Town, where Simone is a single parent caring for her daughter. Both smart and self-sufficient, she is focused at her hair salon job, and prioritises her daughter above all else. Simone is mo…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
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