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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,133 films · Page 99.
crime film, drama film
Eleven-year-old Des and his friends engage in a variety of illegal activities including vandalism, stealing, lighting fires, mugging people and using drugs. In Canada the age of criminal responsibility is twelve. Des takes advantage of thi…
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musical film
Waitress Pansy Botts (Charlotte Greenwood) places an ad in the Pilot's Gazette for a husband, offering a $500 reward, but is unsuccessful. At the nearby airfield, inventor Rusty Krouse (Bert Lahr) has built the "Aerocopter", intending to e…
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musical film
Documentation, Musical, Road Movie, documentary film
Released 40 years after Elvis Presley's death in 1977, the film follows documentarian Eugene Jarecki as he travels in a 1963 Rolls-Royce Phantom V once owned by Elvis Presley to various cities across America, including Tupelo, Mississippi,…
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musical film, romance film
A military school cadet (Boone) wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the "Mardi Gras" parade. The two fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publi…
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musical film, romantic comedy
Cynthia Pilgrim is the top typewriting (i.e. typing) student of the first graduating class of the Packard Business College in New York City, and as such she is offered a position as a typewriter (i.e. typist) with the Pritchard Shipping Co…
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musical film
Musical, musical film
The story takes place in France in the Middle Ages. King Louis XI, hoping to enlist the French peasants in his upcoming battle against the Burgundians, appoints François Villon king of France for one day. Despite being successful against t…
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musical film
In wartime California, Rosie Warren and her best friend, Vera Watson, must share a rented room with two men who work the other shift at the local factory. Rosie keeps the living arrangements a secret from her jealous fiancee. When Rosie fa…
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musical film, romantic comedy
Bruno wakes up in bed next to Caroline, his long-time crush. But tomorrow she's off for school in France, and maybe she only granted this miracle as a parting gift for her long-time friend. So tonight—tonight is Bruno's last chance.
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musical film, romantic comedy
documentary film, musical film
On December 11, 1964, at the age of 33, Cooke was shot and killed by Bertha Franklin, the manager of the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles, California. ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke explores the mystery behind the murder through in…
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fantasy film, musical film, sponsored film
Komödie, comedy film
The annual battle of the bands is raging. Two rival high schools, Malibu High School and Coldwater Canyon High, have two hot bands; The Firecats and Racer. When the lead singers of both bands, Piper (Mary Beth Evans) and Rick (Greg Bradfor…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, musical film
Stan and Ollie are musicians traveling across the U.S. as "The Original Zoot Suit Band". During their journey, they encounter Chester Wright who purports to possess a revolutionary pill capable of converting water into fuel.
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy
Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) is a vagabond American artist in Mexico who can't pay his hotel bill. Louise Fuller (Grace Moore) is an acclaimed classical singer recently expelled from the U.S. to Mexico on an expired visa, and desperate to get…
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musical film
thumb|right| Publicity Still from Diamond Horseshoe featuring from left to right William Gaxton, Phil Silvers, and Dick Haymes|alt=three men in suits standing in from of a brick wall. Joe Davis Sr. performs in a big nightclub called Billy …
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Komödie, boxing film, musical film, romantic comedy
Waitress-turned-Broadway star Mabel O'Dare and garage-mechanic-turned-prize fighter Larry Cain dislike each other intensely, but press agent Aloysius K. Reilly cooks up a phony romance between them for publicity. Inevitably, the two fall i…
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comedy film, drama film, musical film, romance film
The film takes place in several periods which at times interweave. In 1964, Madeleine is an assistant in a Parisian shoe-shop. As a result of a misunderstanding and to increase her income she becomes an occasional prostitute.
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musical film
Trinity and Brother Dave are a pair of demons looking for a party to break up. They come across a party in Harlem. Although Trinity is eager, Dave warns him not to touch it.
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musical film
comedy film
Three petty officers have returned from Korea on the battle cruiser , and disembark for long-awaited shore leave in California. Skip Edwards and Joe Carter have no money due to losses in a crap game, but their shipmate Francis "Moby" Dicke…
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musical film, silent film
thumbtime=0:02|thumb|left|The film Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty. The film remains one of the earliest s…
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musical film, romantic comedy
Lupo falls in love with an Italian woman who rejects him, insisting that she will only marry a great opera singer. Lupo travels to Italy in hopes of learning how to sing opera.
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