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Explore stories told through song and musical performances.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 81.

Strike a Pose (2016)

Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, documentary film

The film follows the dancers during the 25 years since the tour. Some went on to act in film, TV and stage, and all of them kept dance in their lives. Some had to deal with AIDS, drug use and homelessness.

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957)

musical film, romantic comedy

Millionaire hotel mogul Ray Hunter flies to Rome to buy another property, the Regent. He is picked up at the airport by lovely Maria Martelli, who works for the hotel's owner, the Countess Alzani. Ray is reproached by the Countess for the …

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Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)

Musical, musical film

The President of the United States decides that the true cause of the Great Depression (raging when the film was released) is a loss of "optimism" as a result of a plot by financiers and bankers who are getting rich from the Depression. Th…

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Going Hollywood (1933)

Musical, Romance Film, musical film, romantic comedy

An infatuated school-teacher, Sylvia Bruce, follows Bill Williams, a popular crooner, to Hollywood where he is to make a picture. On board the train she obtains a job as maid to Bill's French fiancée and leading lady, Lili Yvonne, and meet…

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Albert (2016)

adventure film, animated film, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film

Albert, a small Douglas fir tree, sets out on an adventure to become the most famous Christmas tree in his hometown.

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Radio On (1980)

Drama, Musical, Social Drama, drama film, mystery film

The film is a journey through late 1970s Britain by way of a road trip from London to Bristol, with Robert, a DJ attempting to investigate the suicide of his brother.

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The Kissing Bandit (1948)

Komödie, Musical, Western, musical film

In the 19th century, Ricardo rides from Boston to California to inherit what he thinks is his deceased father's former job as an innkeeper. He is shocked to discover that the inn was a front for his father's criminal activities as "The Kis…

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Tonight and Every Night (1945)

Musical, musical film

thumb|left|300px|Promotional still from the film with Rita Hayworth as a musical theatre performer, and Jim Bannon as a Life photographer Near the end of the war, a photographer from Life magazine comes to the Music Box Theatre in London t…

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Orchestra Wives (1942)

Musical, musical film

Connie Ward is a young woman who on the spur of the moment marries Bill Abbott, a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's swing band. She soon finds herself at odds with the cattiness and petty jealousies of the other band members' spouses, as t…

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Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)

Musical, comedy film, musical film

Pop Webster is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny, who's in the Navy, that he's the studio's Executive Vice President…

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Very Annie Mary (2001)

Komödie, Musical, coming-of-age film, musical film

After her father suffers a stroke, a woman is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing once again.

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Two Sisters from Boston (1946)

Komödie, Musical, musical film

In the 1900s, Abigail, a young lady from Boston, leaves home to go to New York City for singing lessons in pursuit of her grand ambition to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. Unable to make ends meet, she takes a job singing in a Bowery beer…

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Sunny Side Up (1929)

comedy film, musical film, romance film

thumb|thumbtime=5|Sunny Side Up (1929) The film centres around a Will-they won't-they romance. Wealthy Jack Cromwell from Long Island runs off to New York City on account of his fiancee's relentless flirting. He attends an Independence Day…

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The Committee (1968)

Drama, Musical, Mysterie, drama film, musical film

The movie begins with the unnamed male protagonist in a car with a driver. The driver attempts conversation with the protagonist before deciding to pull over as he believes the engine is malfunctioning. While he is inspecting the engine, t…

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Heavenly Bodies (1984)

dance film, drama film, musical film

Samantha quits her job to open her own aerobics studio and competes with a larger club's lead instructor to become an instructor on a local fitness television show.

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The Beggar's Opera (1953)

adventure film, musical film

In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real perso…

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Maytime (1937)

Musical, drama film, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy

At a small town May Day celebration, elderly Miss Morrison (Jeanette MacDonald) tries to console her young friend Kip (Tom Brown), whose sweetheart Barbara (Lynne Carver) has been offered a job on the operatic stage. Later, Barbara goes fo…

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Sanky Panky (2007)

musical film

Genaro is a young Dominican man living in Los Praditos (Santo Domingo) with his mother and helping to run the family's small neighbourhood grocery store. Frustrated by his financial situation and convinced that his prospects in the Dominic…

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Wild Guitar (1962)

Musical, Tragic Comedy Film, musical film

Bud Eagle, a young singer-songwriter, arrives in Hollywood on a motorcycle. At Marge's Koffee Kup Cafe, he meets Vickie, an aspiring dancer, who quizzes him about his "gimmick" and promises to give him the "inside dope" on the music indust…

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Rio Rita (1929)

musical film, romantic comedy film

thumb|thumbtime=18|left|Rio Rita (1929; 1932 re-release cut version) Chick Bean, a New York bootlegger who comes to the Mexican town of San Lucas to get a divorce so he can marry Dolly. After the wedding, Ned Lovett, Chick's lawyer, inform…

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