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Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Stars: Shaquille O'Neal, Francis Capra, Ally Walker
Being a lone young boy in the hood is dangerous and unpleasant. This is what Max experiences when he fools a gang of local toughs who cornered him at school. The gang finds out that the key he gave them is of no value in committing a robbery and they chase him through the streets of his neighborhood bent on revenge. He tries to escape by slipping into the open door of an old warehouse but...
Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman
Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical this film is a rock opera. There are no spoken lines everything is...
Director: John Sayles
Stars: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya Alafia
1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. Its a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner piano player Tyrone Pine Top Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man the chicken man and the landlord Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint away from Touissants the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar...
Director: Mel Brooks
Stars: Mel Brooks, Gregory Hines, Dom DeLuise
From the dawn of man to the distant future mankinds evolution or lack thereof is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor we learn what REALLY happened at the Last Supper the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution how to test eunuchs and what kind of shoes the Spanish Inquisitor...
Director: Patricia Birch
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Maxwell Caulfield, Lorna Luft
Return to rockin Rydell High for a whole new term! Its 1961 two years after the original Grease gang graduated and theres a new crop of seniors - and new members of the coolest cliques on campus the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but hes been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle don a leather jacket avoid a rumble with the leader of...
Director: Randal Kleiser
Stars: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
A musical about teens in love in the 50s! Its California 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach but when they go back to school what either of them dont know is that they both now attend Rydell High. Dannys the leader of the T-Birds a group of black-jacket greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies a group of pink-wearing...
Director: Robert Iscove
Stars: Kelly Clarkson, Justin Guarini, Katherine Bailess
Spring break in Miami is the scene. Its where surf-drenched guys cruise girls in bikinis and raucous parties rule day and night. Its the perfect time and place for three young women from Texas and a trio of college guys from Pennsylvania to find adventure and maybe even fall in love. In a Texas dive bar Kelly is singing her heart out to a few local yokels when her best friends Kaya and Alexa...
Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas
High-flying adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva Evita Duarte de Peron the wife of President Juan Peron who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the...
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Woody Allen, Goldie Hawn, Julia Roberts
Holden and Skylar are in love with each other. Skylar lives with a large and extended family on Manhattan. Her parents Bob and Steffi have been married to each other for many years. Joe a friend of theirs who has a daughter DJ with Steffi. After yet another relationship Joe is alone again. He flees to Venice and meets Von and makes her believe that he is the man of her dreams. However...
Director: Kevin Lima
Stars: Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden
The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesnt operate on a happily ever after basis Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a...
Director: Seth Kearsley
Stars: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Jackie Sandler
Adam Sandler invites you to share some holiday cheer in the new no-holds-barred musical comedy Adam Sandlers 8 Crazy Nights. Davey Stone a 33-year old party animal finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption-spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee...
Director: Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, 5 more credits
Stars: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, James Baskett
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs Jumbo veteran of the circus but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears and dubbed Dumbo. After being separated from his mother Dumbo is relegated to the circus clown acts; it is up to his only friend a mouse to assist Dumbo to achieve his full...
Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Selma has emigrated with her son from Central Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life feels tough she can pretend that she is in the wonderful world of musicals...just for a short moment....
Director: John Waters
Stars: Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, Amy Locane
Allison is a square good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker a Greaser or Drape in John Waters parlance. Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the 50s this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who though he is sent to juvie is determined to cross class and taste boundaries to get Allison...
Director: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson
Set back in the late 1800s in a Victorian village a man and woman by the names of Victor Van Dort and Victoria Everglot are betrothed because the Everglots need the money or else theyll be living on the streets and the Van Dorts want to be hight in society. But when things go wrong at the wedding rehearsal Victor goes into the woods to practice his vows. Just as soon as he gets them right he...
Director: Rob Marshall
Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere
Murderesses Velma Kelly a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together and Roxie Hart who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasnt going to make her a star find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s...
Director: Mark Dindal
Stars: Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole
Danny an ambitious singing/dancing cat goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie...
Director: Todd Graff
Stars: Don Dixon, Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat
Misfits in their lives back home a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored the kids spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore. Is talented golden-boy Vlad honest in his feelings about Ellen? Can cross-dressing Michael have a...
Director: Bob Fosse
Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem
Sally Bowles an American singer in 1930s Berlin falls in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club a nightspot where Sally...
Director: Joel Silberg
Stars: Lucinda Dickey, Adolfo Quinones, Michael Chambers
Breakin: A struggling young jazz dancer Lucinda Dickey meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features ICE-T in his film debut as a club...
Director: Rachel Perkins
Stars: Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Ernie Dingo
In the Summer of 1969 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back...
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White
Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town constantly trying to fend off the misplaced affections of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice Belles father causes the two to...
Director: William Asher
Stars: Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon
The first of the five official American-International Beach Party movies. Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee dont have much sex but they sing battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Look for Big Daddys...
Director: Chris Stokes
Stars: Marques Houston, Mekia Cox, Christopher Jones
A young businessman who lands a community service sentence falls in with a group of misfit kids who need mentoring. With the help of a pro instructor he works to get the kids ready for a big underground dance...
Director: John Huston
Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett
In the depths of the 1930s Annie is a fiery young orphan girl who must live in a miserable orphanage run by the tyrannical Miss Hannigan. Her seemingly hopeless situation changes dramatically when she is selected to spend a short time at the residence of the wealthy munitions industrialist Oliver Warbucks. Quickly she charms the hearts of the household staff and even the seemingly...
Director: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells
Stars: James Stewart, John Cleese, Amy Irving
Some time after the Mousekewitzs have settled in America they find that they are still having problems with the threat of cats. That makes them eager to try another home out in the west where they are promised that mice and cats live in peace. Unfortunately the one making this claim is an oily con artist named Cat R. Waul who is intent on his own sinister plan. Unaware of this the...
Director: Don Bluth
Stars: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Erica Yohn
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 hed be rid...
Director: Julie Taymor
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest the struggle for free speech and civil rights mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty whimsical and highly theatrical the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan the Detroit riots Vietnam and...
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux
One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent...
Director: Shinji Imaoka
Stars: Sawa Masaki, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita
Directed by pink-film veteran Shinji IMAOKA Lunch Box Frog Song shot by Christopher Doyle – the famed cinematographer behind Hero and countless films by Wong Kar Wai – and with music by Germany’s Stereo Total Underwater Love – A Pink Musical promises to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She is just about to be...