music
Director: Sacha Gervasi
Stars: Robb Reiner, Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Tiziana Arrigoni
At 14 best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band Anvil hailed as the demi-gods of Canadian metal influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica Slayer and Anthrax despite never hitting the big time. Following a calamitous European tour Lips and Robb now in their fifties set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill...
Director: Mark Christopher Covino (as Mark Covino), Jeff Howlett
Stars: Bobby Hackney, David Hackney, Dannis Hackney
Before Bad Brains the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones there was a band called Death. Punk before punk existed three teenage brothers in the early 70s formed a band in their spare bedroom began playing a few local gigs and even pressed a single in the hoped of getting signed. But this was the era of Motown and emerging disco. Record companies found Deaths music - and band name - too...
Director: Irving Cummings
Stars: Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver
In 1904 Uncle Latsie comes to New York from Hungary with two little nieces who immediately take to cafe dancing. In 1912 theyre still at it but to pay Uncles card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. Singer Harry Fox whom they meet en route schemes to get them an audition with the great Hammerstein; but their resulting success takes them far out of Harrys league. Lots of songs with a...
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his familys vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US this is the life- story of George M. Cohan who produced directed wrote and starred in his own musical shows for which he composed his famous...
Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher
After their production Princess Ida meets with less-than-stunning reviews the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again which opens the way to The Mikado one of the duos greatest...
Director: Richard Whorf, Vincente Minnelli (uncredited)
Stars: Robert Walker, Van Heflin, Lucille Bremer
Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists including a condensed production of his most famous:...
Director: Charles Walters
Stars: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley
Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No its a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life -- a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. Can she sing and play the piano? She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can and learns quickly. Soon she is the...
Director: Brian Gibson
Stars: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes
Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...
Director: Stephen Kessler
Stars: Paul Williams, Robert Blake, Karen Carpenter
A documentary about legendary songwriter and 70s icon Paul...
Director: Ian Darling
Stars: Paul Kelly, Michael Barclay, Kasey Chambers
An intimate portrait of Paul Kelly Australias foremost singer-songwriter. In a career spanning more than thirty years he has documented the history of our country described its landscapes and cities and captured the lives and loves of its citizens. Kelly has written over 350 songs penned lyrics for many other singers co-authored songs and written for film. But like all great artists Paul...
Director: Emile Ardolino
Stars: Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb
Based on the autobiography of Gypsy Rose Lee this made-for-TV movie-previously a Broadway smash and a 1962 film-depicts the life and times of a stripper and her domineering...
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Stars: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder less obviously talented daughter Louise. However having her headlining as a stripper at Minskys Burlesque is not what she initially has in...
Director: Irving Cummings
Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander...
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Stars: Mark Wahlberg, American Authors, Guy Amir
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Director: James Bobin
Stars: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey
Flush with their revivals success Kermit the Frog and his friends are approached by Dominic Badguy to go on a world tour. Unknown to them this is all part of the sinister plan of Constantine the worlds most evil frog to become the greatest thief of all time. After making sure that Kermit is jailed as himself Constantine impersonates him to use the Muppets tour as cover for his scheme....
Director: Brad J. Silverman
Stars: AJ Michalka, Kelly Thiebaud, James Denton
Grace Unplugged is an Inspirational movie starring Amanda AJ Michalka as 18 year old Christian singer/songwriter Grace Rose Trey. Beautiful highly talented and restless Grace is so far undiscovered outside church. She performs there each Sunday with her gifted father Johnny the praise music director at Freedom Community Chapel a small town Alabama church. A former rock star Johnny Trey...
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Stars: Yong Joon Hyung, Ha Yun Soo, Kang Ha Neul, Ahn Nae Sang
A drama about behind-the-scenes stories of many people who want to become singers and how teenagers who have been hurt and scarred will be healed through music while find out about love friendship and their dreams along the journey. Yoon Sul Chan Yong Joon Hyung is vocalist of fictional band called Men in Black. His past have made him cold cynical and hot temper that get him in many...
Director: Nimród Antal
Stars: Dane DeHaan, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Trip a young roadie for Metallica is sent on an urgent mission during the bands show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal...
Director: Eric Bross
Stars: Desiree Ross, Megyn Price, Mary Kay Place
Musical icon and multiple Grammy Award winner Dolly Parton and Grammy Award nominated R&B singer and producer Brian McKnight star in this Lifetime Original Movie. The film follows a young Appalachian mountain girl Desiree Ross as she pursues her dream of becoming a country...
Director: Trevor White
Stars: Spencer Lofranco, Mary-Louise Parker, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Taissa Farmiga, Rosa Salazar, Michael Trotter, Ben Rosenfield, Aaron Opara, Taboo, Maria Broom, Robert F. Chew, James Burns, R. Emery Bright, Ken Arnold
The true story of James Burns who as a teenager goes from the suburban street gangs of Denver to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. In this unlikely setting James ultimately emerges with hope and a brighter...
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman
Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow huddled against the unforgiving New York winter he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own...
Director: Jeffrey Hornaday
Stars: Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Grace Phipps
Lifes a beach for surfers Brady and McKenzie -- until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the classic 60s beach party flick Wet Side Story where a full-blown rivalry between bikers and surfers threatens to erupt. There amidst a sea of surfing singing and dancing Brady and Mack accidentally change the storyline and the films dreamy hero and heroine fall for them instead of for...
Director: Jason Moore
Stars: Brian d'Arcy James, Sutton Foster, Christopher Sieber
Make room for ogre-sized family fun as the greatest fairy tale never told comes to life in a whole new way in this breathtaking Broadway musical adaptation of the hit movie...
Director: Leon Joosen, Aaron Seelman
Stars: Newell Alexander, Noel Clarke, Joan Collins
With dreams of being an inventor opportunist and eccentric elf Bernard D. Elf is made to feel a fool yet again when his innovative creation to bring back peoples favourite Christmas memories back to life fails miserably. However he is then presented with the perfect opportunity to prove his worth when Santa is kidnapped by the evil Neville Baddington and his demanding mother Vera who have...
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson
In a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes celebrated play the holiday musical drama BLACK NATIVITY follows Langston Jacob Latimore a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett. Unwilling to live by the...
Director: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley
When Walt Disneys daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book P.L. Travers Mary Poppins he made them a promise - one that he didnt realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But as...
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Stars: Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik
An intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage this inspiring feature film tells the remarkable story of Niall Zayn Liam Harry and Louis meteoric rise to fame from their humble hometown beginnings and competing on the X-Factor to conquering the world and performing at Londons famed O2 Arena. Hear it from the boys...
Director: Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
Stars: Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, Keith Richards
Located alongside the Tennessee River Muscle Shoals Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of Americas most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the Singing River as Native Americans called it the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing...
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Erik Palladino, Bianca Lawson
Six friends take a road trip to Galveston in an RV for the wedding of their friend Kelly. The driver Johnny gets lost and they arrive in the small town of Lovelock and his friends Sara Kate Melody Christian and David decide to spend the night in the Bed and Breakfast owned by the creepy Mr. Robert Wise. David has an argument with the chef of the inn Henri and when the chef is found dead...