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Origin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
AdventureThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Bisexuality-related films,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about prostitution,
Transgender in film,
Films about automobiles,
Musical films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Road movies,
Erotic thriller films,
Buddy films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films about religion,
LGBT-related filmActors Felicity Huffman,
Kevin Zegers,
Graham Greene,
Fionnula Flanagan,
Danny Burstein,
Burt YoungRating73%
One week before her vaginoplasty, Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman) receives a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old jailed in New York City. He asks for Stanley Schupak (Bree's birth name), claiming to be her son., 2h6
Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Films about music and musicians,
Le blues,
Musical filmsActors Roger E. Mosley,
Paul Benjamin,
Madge Sinclair,
Albert Hall,
Art Evans,
Ernie HudsonRating71%
The story follows Leadbelly during the early years when he worked to be a far famed singer/composer. In flashbacks, it follows his first marriage, his going to different places including a brothel, and recounts the many times he got into trouble with the law, including landing in jail for an accidental murder he never meant to commit., 1h50
Directed by Sam PeckinpahOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
AdventureThemes Transport films,
Films about the labor movement,
Films about automobiles,
Trucker films,
Musical films,
Road movies,
Chase filmsActors Kris Kristofferson,
Ali MacGraw,
Ernest Borgnine,
Burt Young,
Seymour Cassel,
Madge SinclairRating62%
In the Arizona desert, truck driver Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald is passed by a woman in a Jaguar E-Type, which leads to an encounter with a sheriff's deputy. Proceeding on his way, Rubber Duck runs into fellow truck drivers Pig Pen/Love Machine and Spider Mike, when another "trucker" informs them over the C.B. that they are okay to increase their speed. The "trucker" turns out to be cold county Sheriff "Dirty Lyle" Wallace, a long-time nemesis of the Duck, who extorts them for $70 each. , 3h5
Directed by S. ShankarOrigin IndeGenres Drama,
Comedy,
ActionThemes Films about music and musicians,
Politique,
Musical films,
Political filmsActors Rajinikanth,
Shriya Saran,
Suman,
S. Manivannan,
Vivek,
Prof. Solomon PappaiahRating74%
Sivaji (Rajinikanth), an Indian software systems architect, returns to India from the United States. He aims to establish a non-profit trust called the Sivaji Foundation to build a network of hospitals and educational institutions to serve the poor free of charge. However, Adiseshan (Suman), an influential businessman, sees Sivaji as his competitor with the fact of the matter being that he runs profit-making educational institutions and hospitals. Sivaji is forced to bribe the corrupt civil service, but eventually, the bribes demanded become so high that he has to mortgage his house and sell his car to pay them. When Sivaji goes to court, he loses the case filed against him by Adiseshan regarding the methods Sivaji had used to open his foundation as a result of bribing numerous government officials. Simultaneously, Sivaji falls in love with a girl named Tamizhselvi (Shriya Saran). However, upon asking for his horoscope, an astrologer warns that their union will result in Sivaji's death. When Tamizhselvi refuses the proposal due to her concern for Sivaji, he calms her fears and convinces her to marry him., 1h35
Directed by Adam CollisOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Musical filmsActors Simon Baker,
Darren E. Burrows,
Anna Friel,
Nick Stahl,
Rory Cochrane,
Adam GoldbergRating56%
Sunset Strip tells the story of a number of music industry artists, all in the span of 24 hours on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Michael secretly pines for Tammy. She is busy sleeping with the up-and-coming country rocker Glen Walker and the rock star Duncan. Zach and his band are opening at the Whisky a Go Go for Duncan Reed and the Curb. In these 24 hours, they all cross paths pursue their dreams., 1h52
Origin USAGenres Drama,
Musical theatre,
Action,
Adventure,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Hip hop films,
Musical filmsActors Ryan Guzman,
Briana Evigan,
Alyson Stoner,
Adam G. Sevani,
Izabella Miko,
Mari KodaRating59%
Sean (Ryan Guzman) and his crew the Mob from the previous film are in Los Angeles trying to make a living from dancing, but are turned down at every audition. After being refused at another audition, the Mob visit a club where they are noticed and challenged to a dance battle by another crew, the Grim Knights. The Grim Knights win the battle and the Mob decides to pack up and leave Los Angeles and return to Miami, thinking there is nothing left for them and that they aren't ready for Los Angeles., 1h10
Origin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Tom Pittman,
Malcolm Atterbury,
Peter Leeds,
Stanley Adams,
Byron Foulger,
Ron GansRating34%
Marv Grant is a high school student who lives with his deadbeat, alcoholic father. At school he begins dating the attractive Betty Alexander (Virginia Aldridge), who eventually manipulates him into writing her English class term paper for her. Marv does this, but the subterfuge is easily uncovered by the professor. Betty fails the class, and the professor withdraws his recommendation from Marv's college application, without which Marv has no chance of earning a scholarship. In anger, Betty throws Marv over and returns to her old boyfriend, Vince, revealing that she had only been using Marv from the beginning., 1h45
Directed by Walter ReischOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Adventure,
MusicalThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Yvonne De Carlo,
Jean-Pierre Aumont,
Eve Arden,
Brian Donlevy,
Terry Kilburn,
William ChingRating63%
Rimsky-Korsakov, a midshipman in the Imperial Russian Navy, secretly yearns to be a composer, but naval regulations prevent him from doing so. He uses a stopover in Tangiers to work on his next composition, Scheherazade (which is actually a symphonic suite but in the film is a ballet), with the tacit support of his captain. There he meets Cara de Talavera and her mother, and romantic events and complications ensue. He has to leave to return home to Russia, where his ballet is staged, but Cara unexpectedly turns up as one of the dancers, and they are reunited., 1h53
Directed by Vincente MinnelliOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Jazz films,
Musical filmsActors Gene Kelly,
Leslie Caron,
Oscar Levant,
Georges Guétary,
Nina Foch,
Madge BlakeRating71%
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is now an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend and neighbor, Adam Cook (Oscar Levant), is a struggling concert pianist who is a longtime associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). At the ground-floor bar, Henri tells Adam about his cultured girlfriend. Jerry joins them later, before going out to sell his art., 1h47
Directed by George SidneyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Films about music and musicians,
Transport films,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Kathryn Grayson,
Ava Gardner,
Howard Keel,
Joe E. Brown,
Marge Champion,
Gower ChampionRating68%
The basic plot remains the same as in the stage play and the 1936 film version. When the Cotton Blossom, Cap'n Andy Hawks's show boat, arrives in a Mississippi town to give a performance, a fistfight breaks out between leading man Steve Baker (Robert Sterling), and Pete (Leif Erickson), the boat's engineer who has been making passes at Steve's wife, leading lady Julie La Verne (Ava Gardner). But Cap'n Andy (Joe E. Brown) pretends to the assembled crowd that the two were really previewing a scene from one of the boat's melodramas. But Pete knows a dark secret about Julie, and he runs off to tell the local sheriff.