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Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Marcus Carl Franklin, Heath Ledger, Kris Kristofferson, Don Francks, Roc LaFortune, Larry Day, Paul Cagelet, Brian R.C. Wilmes, Pierre-Alexandre Fortin, Richie Havens, Tyrone Benskin
Storyline: Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor a folk singer an electrified troubadour Rimbaud Billy the Kid and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylans music behind their adventures soliloquies interviews marriage and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads the artist becoming someone else. Jack the son of Ramblin Jack Elliott finds Jesus;...
Director: Jim Fall
Stars: Hilary Duff, Adam Lamberg, Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine, Jake Thomas, Ashlie Brillault, Clayton Snyder, Alex Borstein, Yani Gellman, Brendan Kelly, Carly Schroeder, Daniel Escobar, Jody Racicot, Peter Kelamis, Terra C. MacLeod
Storyline: Teen queen Lizzie McGuire grows up a bit and hits the big screen in this comedy drama based on the popular Disney Network series. Lizzie McGuire and her best friends Kate Gordo and Ethan have just graduated from middle school and to celebrate theyre taking part in a class trip to Rome Italy. Eager to celebrate their new maturity as high school students Lizzie and her pals hope...
Director: Arne Glimcher
Stars: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Pablo Calogero, Scott Cohen, Desi Arnaz Jr., Mario Grillo, Ralph Irizarry, Pete Macnamara, James Medina, Marcos Quintanilla, Tito Puente, J.T. Taylor, William Thomas Jr.
Storyline: Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother the business manager and the ladies man. Nestor is the brooding songwriter who cannot forget the woman in Cuba who broke his...
Director: Anthony Minghella
Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Jenny Howe, Carolyn Choa, Bill Paterson, Christopher Rozycki, Keith Bartlett, David Ryall, Stella Maris, Ian Hawkes, Deborah Findlay, Alan Rickman, Vania Vilers, Arturo Venegas, Richard Syms, Michael Maloney
Storyline: Once upon a time there were two people in love their names were Nina and Jamie. They were even happy enough to be able to live happily ever after not often the case and then Jamie died. Nina is left with a house full of rats and handymen a job teaching foreigners English and an ache that fills the night...
Director: Claude Sautet
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Élisabeth Bourgine, Brigitte Catillon, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Claude Bouillaud, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Dominique De Williencourt, Jeffrey Grice, Luben Yordanoff, Nanou Garcia, François Domange, Van
Storyline: Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel and a friend of her husbands who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is...
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Rob Reiner, Kimberly Stringer, Chazz Dominguez, Shari Hall, R.J. Parnell, David Kaff, Tony Hendra, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Bruno Kirby, Jean Cromie, Patrick Maher, Ed Begley Jr., Danny Kortchmar
Storyline: In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary interspersed with powerful performances of Taps pivotal music and profound lyrics candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage...
Director: Mike Leigh
Stars: Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith, Roger Heathcott, Wendy Nottingham, Stefan Bednarczyk, Geoffrey Hutchings, Timothy Spall, Francis Lee, William Neenan, Adam Searle, Martin Savage, Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Kate Doherty
Storyline: 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: Malcolm D. Lee
Stars: Bow Wow, Chi McBride, Meagan Good, Wesley Jonathan, Marcus T. Paulk, Rick Gonzalez, Jurnee Smollett, Brandon T. Jackson, Khleo Thomas, Kellita Smith, Mike Epps, Charles Q. Murphy, Nick Cannon, Paul Wesley, Daniel Yabut
Storyline: 1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age comedy as X and his friends who rule their local rink are shocked when their home base goes out of business. Heading over to the Sweetwater Roller Rink they find their modest talents are at first no competition for their trick skaters and pretty girls who follow their every...
Director: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Stars: Phil Harris, Glen Campbell, Eddie Deezen, Kathryn Holcomb, Toby Scott Ganger, Stan Ivar, Christian Hoff, Jason Marin, Christopher Plummer, Sandy Duncan, Will Ryan, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ellen Greene, Sorrell Booke, Dee Wallace
Storyline: A little boy named Edmond learns that the crowing of Chanticleer the rooster did not make the sun rise as everyone thought. But when a flood threatens his familys farm Edmond sets off to get Chanticleer to make the sun rise and save the day or the rain will keep coming down forever. Edmond gets turned into a kitten during this adventure for no apparent reason other than that cats...
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Irène Jacob, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik, Aleksander Bardini, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Janusz Sterninski, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas, Louis Ducreux, Claude Duneton, Lorraine Evanoff, Guillaume de Tonquedec, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Storyline: Veronika lives in Poland. Veronique lives in Paris. They dont know each other. Veronika gets a place in a music school works hard but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point Veroniques life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a...
Director: Steve Kloves
Stars: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab, Xander Berkeley, Dakin Matthews, Ken Lerner, Albert Hall, Terri Treas, Gregory Itzin, Bradford English, David Coburn, Todd Jeffries, Gregory James, Nancy Fish
Storyline: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play schmaltzy music and have never needed a day job. Times are changing and dates are becoming more difficult to get so they interview female singers. They finally decide on Susie Diamond a former escort who needs some refinement but the act begins to take off again. While the act is now successful both...
Director: Ron Underwood
Stars: Usher Raymond, Chazz Palminteri, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Robert Costanzo, Robert Davi, Matt Gerald, Anthony Fazio, Geoff Stults, Chris Tardio, Kevin Hart, K.D. Aubert, Isis Faust, Nick Mancuso, Page Kennedy, Deezer D
Storyline: A successful DJ manages to rescue a powerful mobster one night. In order to repay him the mobster gives him the task of protecting his...
Director: James Lapine
Stars: Judy Davis, Hugh Grant, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Julian Sands, Ralph Brown, Georges Corraface, Anton Rodgers, Emma Thompson, Anna Massey, David Birkin, Nimer Rashed, Fiona Vincente, John Savident, Lucy Speed
Storyline: Novelist George Sand Judy Davis falls in love with composer Frédéric Chopin Hugh Grant. She tries to profess her love for him at a weekend hosted by a pretentious artistically minded duchess for famous musicians artists and writers of the day. The gentle and sickly Chopin is wary of the outspoken Sand but finds himself strangely drawn to her as...
Director: Kevin Spacey
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Greta Scacchi, Caroline Aaron, Peter Cincotti, William Ullrich, Michael Byrne, Matt Rippy, Gary Whelan, Jake Broder, Tayfun Bademsoy, Tomas Spencer
Storyline: Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin 1936-1973 is making a movie about his life. Hes volatile driven by the love of performing ambition perfectionism and belief that hes living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly then Splish Splash puts him at the top of the charts and on Bandstand. He...
Director: Russ Meyer
Stars: Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John Lazar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Erica Gavin, Phyllis Davis, Harrison Page, Duncan McLeod, James Iglehart, Charles Napier, Henry Rowland, Princess Livingston
Storyline: This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls 1967. An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success but luckily for us they sink into a cesspool of decadence. This film has a sleeping woman performing on a gun which is in her mouth. It has women posing as men. It has lesbian sex scenes. It is also written by Roger Ebert who had become...
Director: Olivier Dahan
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gérard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allégret, Marc Barbé, Caroline Sihol, Manon Chevallier, Pauline Burlet, Elisabeth Commelin, Marc Ga
Storyline: An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow Édith Piaf 1915-1963. Her mother is an alcoholic street singer her father a circus performer her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20 shes a street singer discovered by a club owner whos soon murdered coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls and then...
Director: Julian Jarrold
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost, Linda Bassett, Jemima Rooper, Robert Pugh, Ewan Hooper, Stephen Marcus, Mona Hammond, Kellie Bright, Joanna Scanlan, Geoffrey Streatfield, Leo Bill, Gwenllian Davies
Storyline: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business but he never thought that he would take his fathers place. Yet the untimely death of his father places him in that position only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing. While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen...
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass, Marian Seldes, Maggie Moore, Michael Cumpsty, Bill McHenry, Richard Kind, Tzahi Moskovitz, Amir Arison, Neal Lerner, Ramon Fernandez, Frank Pando, Waleed Zuaiter
Storyline: In Connecticut lonely widowed Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University where he is to give a lecture about a paper on which he is co-author....
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Stars: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis , Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock, K.T. Oslin, Anthony Clark, Webb Wilder, Earl Poole Ball, Deborah Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Katy Moffatt, Jo-El Sonnier, Pam Tillis, Kevin Welch, Trisha Yearwood
Storyline: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a song writer. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry head over heels but start to regret it very...
Director: Dagen Merrill
Stars: Luke Arnold, Alexa Vega, Rhys Wakefield, Timothy Hutton, Che Timmins, John Clark, Leo Taylor, Andy McPhee, George Kapiniaris, Ebony Ween, Adam Groecke, Peter Lamb, Todd Telford,
Storyline: Tommy a gifted teenager composer dreams of being accepted into the famous Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Unfortunately a good band is hard to find in the middle of Outback Australia - until a strange incident involving flying watermelons leads him to a group of talented prison...
Director: Mark Herman
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson, Peter Martin, Sue Johnston, Mary Healey, Melanie Hill, Lill Roughley, Peter Gunn, Stephen Moore, Kenneth Colley, Olga Grahame
Storyline: In existence for a hundred years Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine. But the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit open and the future for town and band looks bleak. Although the arrival of flugelhorn player Gloria injects some life into the players and bandleader Danny continues to exhort them to continue in the national competition frictions and...
Director: Edward Burns
Stars: Edward Burns, Heather Burns, John Leguizamo, Matthew Lillard, Donal Logue, Jay Mohr, Brittany Murphy, Shari Albert, Jessica Capshaw, Spencer Fox, Kevin Kash, Amy Leonard, Arthur J. Nascarella, John F. O'Donohue, Joe Pistone
Storyline: The story follows the misadventures and confusion of a groom Ed Burns and his four groomsmen the week before a wedding. Wrestling with issues of fatherhood honesty and growing up the five thirty-somethings discover their extended adolescence might be finally coming to a...
Director: Jim Henson
Stars: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Charles Grodin, Diana Rigg, John Cleese, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov, Jack Warden, Steve Whitmire
Storyline: Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again and this time frame Miss Piggy. Its up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to...
Director: Michael Dowse
Stars: Paul Kaye, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan, Mike Wilmot, Neil Maskell, Monica Maja, Pete Tong, Ron Lloy Hugh Elliston, Dan Antopolski, Tim Plester, Paul Spence, David Lawrence, Steve Oram, Geffen Strummer Kaye, Borja Galban-Fear
Storyline: Former musician Frankie Wilde is a legend within the Ibiza club scene for being the most inspired DJ around. On top of that he has a beautiful model wife named Sonja Slowinski although many within his social circle dont see her as being a good influence on him. But Frankie has disappeared from the Ibiza club scene now for a year with most only speculating that his life has...
Director: Elaine May
Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin, Jack Weston, Tess Harper, Carol Kane, Fijad Hageb, David Margulies, Rose Arrick, Julie Garfield, Cristine Rose, Robert V. Girolami, Abe Kroll
Storyline: Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA the Emir of Ishtar and the rebels trying to overthrow his...
Director: Adam Shankman
Stars: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, Nikki Blonsky, Taylor Parks, Jayne Eastwood, Paul Dooley, Jerry Stiller
Storyline: Tracy Turnblad an overweight teenager with all the right moves is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin much to Tracys mother Ednas dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny...
Director: Jim McBride
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Winona Ryder, John Doe, Stephen Tobolowsky, Trey Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Steve Allen, Lisa Blount, Joshua Sheffield, Mojo Nixon, Jimmie Vaughan, David Ferguson, Robert Lesser, Lisa Jane Persky, Paula Person
Storyline: The story of Jerry Lee Lewis arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance remarkable talent and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the...
Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Johnny Murphy, Ken McCluskey, Andrew Strong, Colm Meaney, Anne Kent, Andrea Corr
Storyline: Jimmy Rabbitte che vive di piccoli espedienti in un quartiere proletario di Dublino si e messo in testa di organizzare una band musicale per rinverdire i fasti del rythm&blues e del soul. Grazie ad un annuncio sul giornale Rabbitte comincia a selezionare giovani dal lavoro precario ma pieni di talento: Dean Fay Outspan locchialuto Steven Clifford Deco il ciccione senza...
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Hoskins, James Remar, Nicolas Cage, Allen Garfield, Fred Gwynne, Gwen Verdon, Lisa Jane Persky, Maurice Hines, Julian Beck, Novella Nelson, Laurence Fishburne
Storyline: The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club those that ran it and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so...
Director: John Landis
Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie Hall, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy, Alan Rubin, Carrie Fisher
Storyline: After the release of Jake Blues from prison he and brother Elwood go to visit The Penguin the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to...