Genres: Family, Musical, Drama
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Starring: Howard Da Silva, Blythe Danner, William Daniels, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, John Cullum, Roy Poole
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single "nay" vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are ...
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Year: 1951
Country: USA
Director: George Sidney
Starring: Leif Erickson, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion
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When Julie la Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom (their marriage is illegal because of Julie's mixed blood),their places are taken by Magnolia Hawks, the Captain's daughter, and Gaylord Ravenal, a gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago, where they live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke Gay feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Rosario Dawson, Anthony Rapp, David Fine, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Darryl Chan, Jesse L. Martin
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Based on Puccini's 'La Boheme', 'Rent' tells the story of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. Among the group are our narrator, nerdy love-struck filmmaker Mark Cohen; the object of Mark's affection, his former girlfriend, Maureen Johnson; Maureen's Harvard-educated public interest lawyer and lesbian lover Joanne Jefferson; Mark's roommate, HIV-positive musician and former junkie, Roger Davis; Roger's new girlfriend, the HIV-positive drug addicted S&M dancer, Mimi Marquez; their former roommate, HIV-positive computer genius Tom Collins; Collins' HIV-positive drag queen...
Genres: Adventure, Family, Musical
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: Phil Weinstein
Starring: Sean Astin, Kathy Najimy, Jodi Benson, Maurice LaMarche, Keith Carradine, Charles Fleischer, Jean Smart
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
The mail in the north used to be delivered by dogsled, but the success of airplane delivery leaves Balto and the other sled dogs feeling neglected. However, when a delivery plane crashes on a mountain side, the sled dogs get the opportunity to show their worth. This story also prominently features Balto's son, Kodi, who was among the puppy litter that we met in Balto II: Wolf Quest.
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Year: 1955
Country: USA
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Starring: John Carradine, Edward Ashley, Angela Lansbury, Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Parker
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The throne of rightful king of England, the small babe with the purple pimpernel birthmark, has been usurped by the evil King Roderick. Only the Black Fox can restore the true king to the throne--and all he needs is the king's key to a secret tunnel. And while he's trying to steal it, someone has to change the king's diapers. The task falls to Hawkins, the gentlest member of the Fox's band. The Fox's lieutenant, Maid Jean, guards Hawkins and the babe while they travel, but when they meet the King's new jester on the road, they decide to initiate a daring plan for Hawkins to replace him, become an intimate at the court, and steal the key. So, ...
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Starring: Rita Moreno, Robert Banas, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Ned Glass, Bert Michaels, Natalie Wood
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This movie transplants the classic tale of "Romeo and Juliet" to New York City in the 1950s. The two feuding families are replaced by brawling street gangs. The Montagues become the Anglo Jets, led by Riff, and the Capulets become the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo. At a dance, Tony, former leader of the Jets and Riff's best friend, and Maria, Bernardo's little sister, see each other across the room and it's love at first sight. With opposition from both sides, they meet secretly and their love grows deeper. However, the gangs are plotting one last rumble, a fight that will finally end the battle for control of the streets. Will Tony an...
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Director: Sylvain White
Starring: Brian J. White, Meagan Good, Laz Alonso, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Columbus Short, Chris Brown, Jermaine Williams
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
After the death of his brother, An expert street dancer goes to Georgia to attend Truth University. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he joins in his fraternity's effort to win a step dancing competition.
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Jayne Eastwood, James Marsden, Christopher Walken, Allison Janney, Zac Efron, John Travolta, Paul Dooley
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad and her best friend Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Director: Bob Fosse
Starring: Michael York, Liza Minnelli, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
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Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall 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 sings.
Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical
Year: 2004
Country: USA
Director: William Lau
Starring: Kelly Sheridan, Ian James Corlett, Mark Hildreth, Brian Drummond, Martin Short, Alessandro Juliani, Pam Hyatt
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In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Based on the story by Mark Twain, Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper features Barbie in an exciting dual role as a princess and a poor village girl - two girls who look amazingly alike. The girls' paths are fated to cross when Princess Anneliese is captured and Erika, her look-alike, must try to save her. Can Erika pretend to be the Princess and foil her captor, the evil Preminger? And what of the handsome King Dominick, who falls in love with Erika, mistaking her f...
Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical
Year: 2004
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Mike Fallows
Starring: Neil Crone, Alessandra Cannito, Scott McCord, Stevie Vallance, Robert Tinkler, James Rankin, Andrew Sabiston
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Funshine Bear travels to Joke-a-lot where the people there crown him king.
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Year: 2002
Country: USA
Director: Seth Kearsley
Starring: Adam Sandler, Cole Sprouse, Rob Schneider, Peter Dante, Ellen Albertini Dow, Kevin Nealon, Blake Clark
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Adam Sandler invites you to share some holiday cheer in the new, no-holds-barred musical comedy Adam Sandler's 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 for the youth basketball league or go to jail. Davey thinks he's gotten off easy until he meets Whitey Duvall, the eccentric, elf-like head referee. The mismatch between Whitey's good heart and never-ending optimism and Davey's constant troublemaking s...
Genres: Musical, Drama, Biography
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus, Julian Littman, Olga Merediz
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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 workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina.
Genres: Family, Musical, Romance
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Starring: Mary Kay Bergman, Tom Hulce, Jim Cummings, Kevin Kline, David Ogden Stiers, Demi Moore, Corey Burton
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves r...
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Year: 2008
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters, Christine Baranski, Amanda Seyfried, Enzo Squillino Jr.
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The 20-year old bride-to-be Sophie Sheridan finds in her mother's diary that the strangers Sam, Harry or Bill might be her father. The needy Sophie dreams on having her father walking with her to the altar on her wedding with Sky in the Greek Kalokairi Island and she invites the three men to her wedding as if she were her mother Donna. Sophie believes she will immediately recognize her father in the trio of guests. Donna owns a simple hotel in the island and used to sing with her friends Rosie and Tanya, who also arrives in Kalokairi for the wedding, in their band Donna and the Dynamos. When Donna sees her former three lovers together in her ...
Year: 2005
Country: USA
Director: Susan Stroman
Starring: David Huddleston, Matthew Broderick, Michael McKean, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Nathan Lane, Debra Monk
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New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has...
Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family
Year: 2007
Country: USA
Director: Kevin Lima
Starring: Fred Tatasciore, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Julie Andrews, Idina Menzel, Patrick Dempsey, Jeff Bennett
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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 doesn't 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 charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Garry Marshall
Starring: John Heard, Bette Midler, Lainie Kazan, Carol Williard, Barbara Hershey, Marcie Leeds, Phil Leeds
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When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man.
Genres: Thriller, Musical, Horror
Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Timothy Spall, Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jody Halse, Sacha Baron Cohen
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
After hard years in exile for a crime he didn't commit, Benjamin Barker, now Sweeney Todd, returns to London to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. In his anger, Sweeney goes on a murderous rampage on all London. With the help of Mrs. Lovett, he opens a barber shop in which he lures his victims with a charming smile before casually ending their lives with a flick of his razor across their necks. But not one man nor ten thousand men killed can satisfy Sweeney's lust for vengeance on those who've caused his years of pain.
Genres: Musical, Romance, Drama
Year: 1933
Country: USA
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Allen Jenkins, George E. Stone, Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it's aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies--never mind musicals--just don't get any better than this.