Musical movies

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Nine (2009)

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Genres: Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Penélope Cruz | Marion Cotillard | Nicole Kidman | Ricky Tognazzi | Judi Dench | Sophia Loren | Giuseppe Cederna | Giuseppe Spitaleri | Kate Hudson | Elio Germano | Roberto Nobile | Stacy Ferguson | Andrea Di Stefano | Remo Remotti
Directors: Rob Marshall
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Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Musical
Countries: USA
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A former member of the Ku Klux Klan, General Lee Roy, now owns and runs a fast food chain ‘American Chicken Bunker’. His new store is located on a site that was the burial ground of Native Americans. He has leased this franchise to an African-American, Denny, and has hired a Jew-hating/chicken-loving employee, Carl Jr.; a Burkha-clad Muslim woman, Humus; a Mexican, Jose Paco Bell; a male named Arbie, who is now called ‘Daisy’ amongst others. He attends the official opening of the store amidst protests from the local community of atrocities carried out on chickens, and the Indian burial grounds’ desecration. Watch what happens when Lee Roy decides to pacify the protesters with free chicken meat.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Friday, February 26th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
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In August of 1940 in the English village of Pepperinge Eye, three cockney orphans are sent to live with Eglantine Price, who is studying to become an apprentice witch. When she receives a letter from the Correspondence College of Witchcraft in London, she and the children fly on a bed (by way of a magic bedknob) to London to meet the headmaster of the defunct school, Emelius Brown. At a townhouse where Mr. Brown is staying, Miss Price finds half of a book called THE SPELLS OF ASTOROTH. For the other half, they deal with a shady character known as the Bookman.

American Tail, An (1986)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Erica Yohn | Nehemiah Persoff | Amy Green | Phillip Glasser | Christopher Plummer | John Finnegan | Will Ryan | Hal Smith | Pat Musick | Cathianne Blore | Neil Ross | Madeline Kahn | Dom DeLuise
Directors: Don Bluth
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Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America, a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World, he keeps up hope, searching for his family, making new friends, and running and dodging the cats he thought he’d be rid off.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)

Monday, February 15th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Martin Landau | Jonathan Taylor Thomas | Geneviève Bujold | Udo Kier | Bebe Neuwirth | Rob Schneider | Corey Carrier | Marcello Magni | Dawn French | Richard Claxton | Griff Rhys Jones | John Sessions | Jean-Claude Drouot | Jean-Claude Dreyfus | Teco Celio
Directors: Steve Barron
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One of puppet-maker Geppetto’s creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someday. In order to accomplish this goal he has to learn to act responsibly. This film shows you the adventures on which he learns valuable lessons.

Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000)

Monday, February 8th, 2010
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. | Janice Karman | Maurice LaMarche | Miriam Flynn | Rob Paulsen | April Winchell | Elizabeth Daily | Frank Welker | Dody Goodman | Debbie Rothstein
Directors: Kathi Castillo
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It’s the Chipmunks’ third and final full-length feature! Alvin is struggling with nightmares of werewolves. Alvin believes that the new next-door neighbor Mr. Talbot is a werewolf. Of course, no one believes him. Meanwhile, the boys are working on the school production of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. When Alvin blows up the school auditorium, he is expelled from the production. Theodore is put in to rise his lack of confidence. Alvin and Simon are trying to discover the secret of Mr. Talbot. Will the play go as planned or will the Chipmunks mess it up?! And is Mr. Talbot a werewolf?

Rome & Jewel (2008)

Friday, February 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Nate Parker | Lindsey Haun | Allen Maldonado | Elijah Kelley | John Rubinstein | Cleavant Derricks | Greg Siff | Stephanie Dyann | Russell Howard | Cole Griffin | Ted Lyde | Alison Coster | Joe Palese | Les Feltmate | Thomas Magazeno
Directors: Charles T. Kanganis
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This modernization of Shakespear’s tragic love story Romeo and Juliette is set in Los Angeles against a backdrop of inter-racial romance.

The Return of the King (1980)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Orson Bean | Theodore Bikel | William Conrad | John Huston | Roddy McDowall | Brother Theodore | Paul Frees | Don Messick
Directors: Jules Bass
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This film adapts the final book of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy where the Hobbits, Frodo and Samwise, struggle through the barren land of Mordor to destroy the Ruling Ring in Mount Doom. At the same time, Gandalf and the others wage a desperate battle against the forces of Sauron at Minas Tirith, but Sauron seems to have the upper hand while the source of his power, the Ring, slowly threatens to corrupt its bearers.

Passing Strange (2009)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Breaker | Colman Domingo | Chad Goodridge | Stew | De'Adre Aziza | Eisa Davis | Rebecca Naomi Jones
Directors: Spike Lee
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A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.