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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 9.
Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Lounge singer Deloris Wilson, performing as Deloris Van Cartier in a club in Reno, Nevada, struggles with her career as she engages in an affair with the club's married owner, gangster Vince LaRocca. After receiving a shallow gift she reco…
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Dance Film, Romance Film, dance film, drama film, musical film, romance film
thumb|150px|Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri star in Flashdance Alex Owens is an 18-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, who lives with her male pit bull dog, Grunt, in a converted warehouse. She aspires to become a professional …
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Destiny, Komödie, Political Drama, Satire On War, comedy drama, comedy film, war film
In 1965, Airman First Class Adrian Cronauer arrives in Saigon to work as a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Service. Private Edward Garlick takes him to the radio station, where his attitude and demeanor contrast sharply with those of many st…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Animation, Military Film, Musical, Satire On War, action film, marionette film, romantic comedy film, satirical film, war film
Team America, an international organization dedicated to counterterrorism, defeats a group of Islamic terrorists in Paris, but are very reckless and destroy the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre in the process. The team include…
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Christmas film, Computeranimation, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Musical, comedy film, fantasy film, jukebox musical, live-action/animated film, musical film
Talking chipmunk brothers Alvin, Simon, and Theodore reside in a fir tree, which is cut down and driven to Los Angeles after record label JETT Records purchases it as a Christmas tree. Meanwhile, struggling songwriter Dave Seville has his …
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Ray Charles Robinson is raised in poverty in Florida by his mother, Aretha. Learning to play piano at an early age, Ray is haunted by the accidental death of his younger brother George, who drowns in their mother's washbasin. Ray loses his…
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Animation, Komödie, Musical, adventure film, buddy film, children's film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, family film, fantasy film, musical film
Max Goof is an average teenager who pines after his classmate Roxanne, idolizes pop star Powerline and has a tense relationship with his clumsy and old-fashioned father Goofy, whom he fears he may end up taking after when he grows up, havi…
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Biographical picture, Musical, biographical film, drama film, musical film
During the summer of 1957 in Northern California, Richard "Richie" Steven Valenzuela is a 16-year old Mexican-American boy who lives with his mother, Concepcion "Connie" Valenzuela, and his younger brothers and sisters. His family is poor,…
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Destiny, Psychodrama, drama film, musical film
After Alex Marshall's suicide, his fellow University of Michigan alumni and close friends attend his funeral at the Tidalholm plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the visit, everyone stays with Sarah and Harold Cooper. His other …
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LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Romance Film, Sex Film, drama film, erotic film, romance film
Having met at a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club gig Matt and Lisa, an exchange student, have sex, the next day she leaves for work. Matt narrates the relationship from the future, where he is a climatologist in Antarctica. After seeing The Von…
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Dance Film, Musical, crime film, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction film, superhero film
Christmas film, Musical, Romantic Comedy, drama film, musical film
thumb|300px|left|Margaret O'Brien and Judy Garland perform the song "Under the Bamboo Tree" in Meet Me in St. Louis The backdrop for the film is St. Louis, Missouri, in the year preceding the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair.
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Drama, drama film, musical film
Washed-up, alcoholic country singer-songwriter Mac Sledge awakens at a run-down Texas roadside motel and gas station after a night of heavy drinking. He meets the owner, a young widow named Rosa Lee, and offers to perform maintenance work …
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Drama, Fantasy, Musical, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, musical film
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer attempting to balance staging his latest Broadway musical, NY/LA, while editing a Hollywood film he has directed, The Stand-Up. He is an alcoholic, a driven workaholic who chain-smokes cig…
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Musical, Psychodrama, drama film, musical film, trial film
In Washington State in 1964, Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant, has moved to the United States with her 12-year-old son Gene Ježek. They live a life of poverty as Selma works at a factory with her good friend Kathy, whom she nicknames Cvald…
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Animation, children's film, fantasy film, musical film
In the summer of 1948, English boy James Henry Trotter is a young orphan having ended up in the care of his two domineering aunts Spiker and Sponge after his parents were eaten alive by a rhinoceros. One day, after rescuing a spider from h…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, buddy film, children's film, fantasy film, flashback film, musical film
Red Puckett arrives at her Granny's house, where Wolf W. Wolf, an anthropomorphic gray wolf, has disguised himself as the latter. As Wolf attacks Red, a bound Granny jumps out of a closet before a woodsman named Kirk bursts through the win…
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Cartoon, adventure film, children's film, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
In a park in England, a young girl named Alice listens distractedly to her sister's history lesson. As she begins daydreaming of a nonsensical world, she spots a waistcoat-wearing White Rabbit passing by, who complains of being late. Alice…
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Fantasy, adventure film, children's film, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
In a small Italian village in 19th century, a vagrant cricket named Jiminy Cricket enters the home of a widowed elderly woodcarver named Geppetto, who lives with his pet kitten Figaro and goldfish Cleo. Geppetto has completed work on a pup…
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Fairy-Tale Film, Romantic Comedy, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
In the kingdom of Frell, the misguided and obnoxious fairy godmother Lucinda Perriweather bestows the "gift" of obedience on newborn Ella of Frell, causing her to instantly and literally obey any command she is given. On her deathbed, Ella…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, musical film
Amy Winehouse is raised in a Jewish family, with her father Mitch and her grandmother Cynthia both sharing their love for music and singing. Amy's friend Tyler hands his manager Nick a demo tape of Amy's recording and he is impressed by he…
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drama film, romantic comedy
In London, film student Sue McKinley discovers the diary of her grandfather, James, who served as a British Army colonel in the 1930s. James oversaw the execution of Indian freedom fighters Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajgur…
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Biographical picture, Musical, Romantic Drama, biographical film, drama film, flashback film, musical film
The film begins in 1968 with Johnny Cash performing at Folsom State Prison. As the audience of inmates cheer him on, Cash waits backstage near a table saw, which reminds him of his early life. Two decades earlier, in 1944, 12-year-old John…
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Musical, fantasy film, musical film, romantic comedy
Sonny Malone, a struggling self-employed illustrator residing in Los Angeles, has failed to find passion in his art. He tears up one of his sketches and tosses the pieces out his studio window; the wind transports them toward a wall mural …
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