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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 96.
Komödie, comedy film
Picking up where Leningrad Cowboys Go America left off, the band has settled in Mexico after charting a top ten hit there. However, many band members become alcoholics spending most of their day drinking tequila. Before long, more than hal…
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comedy drama, drama film, musical film
Joe Saunders and his brother Fred arrive in London from Leybourne in Kent, and go to the Elephant and Castle pub, the haunt of Tom Sayers, a leading boxer. While his brother, an aspiring boxer, is having a trial bout with Sayers, Joe Saund…
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comedy drama, musical film, romantic comedy film
Carlie and Terry are in a traveling vaudeville troupe with Eddie, the stage manager; Bonnie, a comedian; and Polly, the wardrobe mistress. Terry constantly falls in love with his leading ladies, and marries Daphne, a two-timing songstress.…
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musical film
Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on to an American radio program. Attracted to Ann, Arnaz and his band come to New York but com…
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Crime, Musical, musical film
thumb|left|The Paradise Night Club dressing room in Broadway thumb|Broadway ad from The Film Daily, 1929 thumb|thumbtime=1:33|Broadway (1929) Roy Lane and Billie Moore, entertainers at the Paradise Nightclub, are in love and are rehearsing…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, musical film
The film opens with naval scenes and a chorus of WAVES singing "The Navy Song" on stage, and continues with a sister act, the Allison Twins (both played by Betty Hutton), singing the same song in a night club. Identical, except that one is…
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biographical film, drama film, musical film
Komödie, Musical, musical film
Cliff and The Shadows travel to a Spanish town for a gig. When they arrive they are puzzled to find the area empty. They find out that a small bomb has accidentally been dropped on the town and the villagers have fled in panic that it will…
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Documentation, Drama Documentary, Musical
The film tells the story of ex-con musician Eddie Warmack, who is trying to re-establish himself as a musician, hoping that an elder in the craft, Poppa Harris, could help him while he evades a predatory music industry controlled by white …
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drama film, musical film
musical film
Dixiana Caldwell and her friends, Peewee and Ginger, are circus performers in the antebellum Southern United States. When Dixiana falls in love with a young Southern aristocrat, Carl Van Horn, she leaves the circus where she is employed an…
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musical film
Penny Hale is attending a private girls' school when she is informed that her enrollment has ended and she will be heading home to live with her widowed father, Jeff Hale. She accepts this revelation as good news, unaware that her father, …
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Musical, Romance Film, musical film
Frustrated singers Hannah Holbrook, Joyce Campbell and S. F. "Foxy" Rogers return dejectedly to New York on a bus after their engagement in Vermont, arranged by small-time promoter Lew Conway, was a huge flop.
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Musical, musical film
The movie is about two sisters growing up in Philadelphia in the 1870s. They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial Exposition.
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musical film, romantic comedy
Eddie, recently expelled from college, is mistaken for the gangster getaway driver in a heist. He flees to Mexico, pursued relentlessly by a detective. There he masquerades as a matador and performs in bullfights.
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Concert film
Komödie, Musical, musical film
Margaret "Maggie" Garret is the star of a new musical show, Glamour, having come up the hard way, following the family tradition of stage performance. She now earns a large salary but is devastated to learn that she is deeply in debt. She …
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Documentation, Musical, documentary film
musical film
In Danville, Connecticut, in June 1906, 17-year-old Richard Miller is about to graduate from high school, go to Yale, and step into the world of adults. He has a cynical view of the world because of all the books he has been reading. He ha…
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Concert film, Cultural Film, documentary film, rockumentary
Arranged Documentary, Documentation, Musical, documentary film
Young@Heart, a chorus of twenty-four senior citizens with an average age of eighty, is directed by the genial, but demanding, Bob Cilman. In preparation for a concert in their hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts, and their next European…
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musical film
In the Edwardian era music halls of London, popular singing star Harriet Green delights audiences with her coy rendition of "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow". Harriet, who has an illegitimate baby daughter that she keeps secret from the pu…
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Documentation, Musical, musical film
Dance Film, Musical, comedy drama, musical film, romance film, romantic comedy, teen film