Musical Drama
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    Applause (1930)

    Stage director Rouben Mamoulian jolted the (at the time) moribund sound-film industry with...

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    Curly Top (1935)

    A Park Avenue millionaire (John Boles) adopts a frisky orphan (Shirley Temple) and her teenage...

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    The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

    The life and times of Broadway showman Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) and his two wives (Luise...

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    Show Boat (1951)

    The captain's daughter (Kathryn Grayson) marries a gambler (Howard Keel) who turns performer on a...

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    The Singing Fool

    A singing waiter (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), takes Broadway and...

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    Wonder Bar (1934)

    Performers waltz, tango, fight and flirt at Al Wonder's (Al Jolson) bar in Paris.

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    The Red Shoes

    Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic...

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    One Love

    A contemporary Jamaican 'Romeo and Juliet'

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    Yentl (1983)

    A young woman (Barbra Streisand) charms her bearded roommate (Mandy Patinkin) and a merchant's...

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    U-Carmen (2007)

    A lawman (Andile Tshoni) falls for the charms of a beautiful woman (Pauline Malefane) who involves...

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    The Death of a Composer: Rosa, A Horse Drama

    In this opera about the death of 10 different composers, all from mysterious circumstances, the...

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    Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)

    The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against...

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    The Saddest Music in the World (2004)

    During the Great Depression, a beer baroness (Isabella Rossellini) holds a competition to find the...

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    Vengo (2001)

    Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he...

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    Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1999)

    A musical about a young woman who enjoys the company of men, mostly their company in bed, much to...

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    Don't Let Go

    Jimmy Ray and Billy Joe Stevens are siblings in a rockabilly band. When Billy Joe is killed by a...

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    Glitter (2001)

    A singer (Mariah Carey) develops a volatile relationship with the disc jockey (Max Beesley) who...

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    Shout (1991)

    A hip teacher (John Travolta) brings rock 'n' roll to a teen (James Walters) and his pals at a home...

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    Candy Mountain (1988)

    A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to...

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    Snipes (2002)

    A teenager (Sam Jones III) must elude thugs who believe he is responsible for the disappearance of a...

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    Interrupted Melody (1955)

    Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) makes a comeback after being disabled by...

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    Love Me or Leave Me (1955)

    A 1920s Chicago mobster (James Cagney) bullies singer Ruth Etting (Doris Day) to Broadway and...

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    Greendale (2004)

    A small-town family (Sarah White, Eric Johnson, Ben Keith) deals with turmoil after one of its...

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    My Sister Eileen (1955)

    Two Ohio sisters (Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett) move to Greenwich Village, where one finds a publisher...

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    Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)

    The leader of a jazz band and his fellow musicians try to stand up to a gangster who's extorting...

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    Bizet's Carmen (1984)

    Georges Bizet's 1875 opera about Carmen, the colorful cigarette factory worker whose flirtations...

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    All That Jazz (1979)

    A Broadway choreographer (Roy Scheider) chain-smokes, pops pills and overworks his way to open-heart...

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    The Red Violin (1999)

    A specialist (Samuel L. Jackson) investigates the history and disparate owners of a centuries-old...

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    Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999)

    A gifted singer (Salman Khan) falls in love with a woman (Aishwarya Rai) who is about to enter into...

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    Birth of the Beatles (1979)

    British director Richard Marquand graduated from BBC documentaries to dramatized features with...