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 82.
musical film
Country singer Leanna Taylor struggles to escape from her controlling manager/boyfriend Hank, as well as her troubled past. After turning to her guitarist Bobby, Leanna finally faces her past, including her estranged mother and the death o…
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Documentation, Social Study, documentary film
Komödie, Western film, buddy film, comedy film, musical film
One night in 1885, Masked raiders led by Sam Hollis attack the "K" Ranch, where owner Wade Kingsley and partner Slim Mosley bravely defend their property after Matilda Kingsley and infant son Wade Jr. safely return east to New York, her ho…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Musical, Romance Film, biographical film, musical film
"Schani" is dismissed from his job in a bank. He puts together a group of unemployed musicians who wangle a performance at Dommayer's cafe. The audience is minimal, but when two opera singers, Carla Donner and Fritz Schiller, visit whilst …
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Christian music
Sarah Cain (Lisa Pepper), a thirty-something columnist at the fictional Portland Times in Portland, Oregon, has seen better days in her career. When her boss Bill (Elliott Gould) rejects her latest column, he reminds her that she once wrot…
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musical film
The film was essentially a reproduction of the stage revue with a thin plot added. This involved a producer and performer in financial trouble on opening night. A wealthy Texan, whose daughter is in the show, offers to help out on the cond…
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biographical film, musical film
In 1840s Vienna, Johann Strauss I (Nigel Patrick) is conducting an orchestra in a ballroom full of dancers, when he is interrupted by his furious estranged wife, who confronts him about the fact that his notorious mistress is planning to n…
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musical film
Leaving her dying father's bedside, singer Maisie (Kimbra) rushes to perform at an indie music gig in town. But as she sings the opening song, it is hard for her to ignore the heartfelt story she has just been told – the story of how her d…
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Documentation, Musical
Adventure, Komödie, Musical, musical film
Mike Malone, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (the "Mounties"), spots Rose Marie Lemaitre, a French Canadian orphan intent on living in the woods, near a river. Rose Marie sails away but Mike apprehends her, believing the wi…
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documentary film, musical film
Widely regarded as one of the first album-based longform music films, Imagine was a ground-breaking movie featuring a distinct visual treatment for every song, interspersed with occasional slices of Lennon and Ono's life together and impro…
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Musical, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy
thumb|thumbtime=16|Swing High, Swing Low (1937) Working her way as a hairdresser on board a liner traveling through the Panama Canal Zone, Maggie King brushes off a brash young soldier, "Skid" Johnson, on his last day in the Army. However,…
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Musical
The film opens from a vantage point over the rooftops, showing some of the morning occurrences through the windows of the houses. An unnamed young man dressed in a fashionable mod style prepares for the day from his rooftop flat and cycles…
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Musical, Romance Film, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Among the insurgent tribes of the Caucasus Mountains is the one occupying the village of Kashiar, led by Yegor, the bandit-singer. His marvelous voice is the pride of his people, and his cheerful songs serve as a gallant defiance against t…
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musical film, romantic comedy film
Christine Riverton Duncan attempts to play matchmaker for her lovelorn friend Ellen by pursuing Douglas J. Morrissen, Jr., the man whom Ellen loves, all the way to Idaho. While there, Christine decides to play a joke on Douglas.
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Komödie, comedy film, musical film
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. His big dream in life is to visit New York City while he is young. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground.
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Drama, Musical, musical film, teen film
Dori discusses with her friend Arabella that they are planning to attend the school prom. She is in love with an ambitious singer Tommy Rogers, but she rejects his offer to enter a talent contest sponsored by Alan Freed. However, when she …
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Musical, Romance Film, musical film
In 1899, the king of Marshovia, a small European country with financial difficulty, invites young, rich widow Crystal Radek to his country for the unveiling of a statue in honor of her dead husband Charlie, a Marshovian native. The king's …
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film, musical film
biographical film, musical film
As Jan and Dean rise to the top of the music industry, a horrible car accident leaves Jan incapacitated and their dreams shattered. With the help of Dean and others, Jan slowly recovers, learning again to walk and talk. A comeback to the m…
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Documentation, Essayfilm, documentary film
The found footage film tells the story of an archetypal human life using stock footage and images, sourced from various countries and taken over the course of a century. Sources include microscopic medical footage, portraits, and newsreels…
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musical film
Winter Rose, a troubled teenage orphan in Los Angeles, is forced to cope with her substance abuse problems when she gets a once in a lifetime chance to become an overnight international singing star.
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musical film
Murphy plays a successful Broadway musical comedy producer named Johnnie Demming. He needs a star for his new show. He's smitten with the glamorous film star, Helen Hoyt (Simms), and offers the part to her, but she turns him down because s…
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comedy film, musical film
At the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898, grumpy and overprotective Irish widower Dennis O'Grady has three daughters. The oldest, Katie, welcomes her husband James Moore, whom she has married in secret, home from the army. The younge…
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