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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A princess is thrust onto the world stage. The tabloid media is captivated by her beauty and vulnerability. The globe's most celebrated monarchy is disrupted. This is the story of the most princess woman of the modern age as she struggles to ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot:
princess diana, broadway, historical character, historical figure, music, dancing, life, celebrity, theater, live performance, jazz, historical event ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. The story follows Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, absurd, interactive ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, teenager, social media, mental health, high school, social anxiety disorder, based on broadway musical, letter, mental illness, troubled teen, lie, love ...
Time:
2020s, future, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
broadway, love affair, love triangle, dancing, high society, adopted son, actress, lawyer, couples, estate, friends, master and servant ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
austria, europe, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted
Style:
funny, retro, hilarious, black and white, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, broadway, love, small town, dancing, theater, dating, turtle, secretary, singer, songwriter ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
ohio, usa, washington d.c., new york, columbus ohio
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58K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village, New York, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark ...
Style:
sentimental, stylized, lyrical, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, bohemian life, aids, lgbtq, gay, drug abuse, hiv, glbt, drug addiction, christmas, friendship, drag queen ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 2005, future, 90s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, new mexico ...
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and ...
Style:
gothic, stylized, gothic horror, sentimental, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
opera, obsession, disfigurement, musician's life, theater, destructive relationship, loneliness, disguise, dangerous attraction, prodigy, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1910s, year 2004, 2000s ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, london
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46K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from ...
Style:
clever, emotional, lyrical, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
infidelity, midlife crisis, filmmaking, memory, sexual fantasy, broadway, lifestyle, self discovery, femme fatale, dancing, couples, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 2009, 2000s, 1920s ...
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
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107K
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Style:
feel good, romantic, period piece, sweet, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, family outing, teens, kids ...
Plot:
class differences, high society, fall in love, cinderella story, love and romance, makeover, love story, opposites attract, rise to the top, aristocracy, dancing, culture clash ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1930s
Place:
london, england, britain, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Style:
period piece, sentimental, entertaining, retro, aesthetic ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot:
librarian, small town, dance, library, dancing, broadway, con artists, love, traveling salesman, fall in love, american history, town ...
Time:
1910s, year 1962, 20th century
Place:
iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
Style:
funny, stylized, humorous, witty, technicolor ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
business, broadway, satire, advertising, greed, marketing, economics, workplace, ambition, workplace romance, book, dance ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
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53K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style:
feel good, period piece, sentimental, entertaining, retro ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot:
orphan, little girl, child, redhead girl, broadway, dancing, childhood, dance, coming of age, wealth, love, orphanage ...
Time:
90s, year 1982, 1930s, 20th century, year 1933 ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Greece, Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the Take That musical, five best friends have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later, their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, sentimental
Plot:
boy band, loss of friend, group of friends, friendship, female friendship, pop music, nostalgia, second chance, concert, coming of age, pop culture, fan culture ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time. With their singular friendship now the fulcrum of their futures, they will need to truly see each other, with honesty and empathy, if they ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, epic, heartfelt, dark fantasy
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
witch, magic, power struggle, moral ambiguity, transformation, friendship, good versus evil, witchcraft, identity, sisterhood, adaptation, spectacle ...
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224K
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
Style:
fairy tale, absurd, sinister, crying, powerful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
bullying, wizard of oz, witch, magic, feminism, abuse of power, talking animal, prejudice, based on broadway musical, dancing, rebellion, fighting the system ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Queen Aggravain has ruled that none may marry until her son, Prince Dauntless marries. However, she has managed to sabotage every princess that come along. When Sir Harry and Lady Larken learn that they are going to be parents, wed or not, he goes ...
Style:
fairy tale, captivating, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
princess, true love, couples, imaginary kingdom, family relations, royal family, parents and children, wooing, love and romance, marriage, king, queen ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker ...
Style:
parody, cult classic, sexy, homoerotic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lgbtq, mad scientist, gay interest, transvestite, gay, gender, homosexual, castle, rock and roll, wedding, surrealism, dance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place:
transylvania, ohio
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hansel Schmidt, is a young East German boy, born and raised during the Cold War in communist East Berlin. In his 20s, he meets Luther Robinson, an older American soldier, who falls in love with Hansel and the two decide to marry, which will allow ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, lyrical, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gender, transvestism, transsexual, gay, gay interest, drag queen, transvestite, berlin wall, musician, self discovery, gender bending, lgbtqi ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 2000s, 90s, 80s
Place:
germany, east germany, berlin germany, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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 mother.
Style:
captivating, humorous, stylized, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
stripper, theater, dancing, burlesque, broadway, art, domineering mother, vaudeville, family relations, showbiz, ambition, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ohio, new york, texas, los angeles, seattle
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44K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on ...
Style:
stylized, thought provoking, psychedelic, cult classic, feel good ...
Plot:
hippie, nudity, counterculture, vietnam war, broadway, anti war, music, rock and roll, dancing, male nudity, commune, lsd ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, vietnam, new york, manchester, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
stripper, burlesque, dancing, mother daughter relationship, mother, theater, fame, domineering mother, ambition, broadway, based on broadway musical, theatrical agent ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style:
touching, witty, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
divorce, marriage, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showgirl, gambling debt, mother daughter relationship, gambler, theatrical producer, showbiz ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, baltimore, chicago ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Chinese stowaway Mei Li arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong, in an arranged marriage; but the groom has his eye on his star singer Linda Low. This film version of the Rodgers and ...
Style:
aesthetic, independent film, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, nightclub owner, marriage proposal, male male relationship, chinese new year, singer, dance, illegal immigration, arranged marriage, unrequited love, father son relationship, broadway ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
san francisco, china, california, usa
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255K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style:
sexy, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter’s whereabouts.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, horror musical, political, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, blackmail, poverty, beggar, theater, problem, music, musician, adaptation, social commentary, urban, irreverent ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, feel good
Plot:
live performance, theater, dance, fat girl, racism, equality, race, broadway, dancing, society, rivalry, social relations ...
Time:
60s, year 1962
Place:
baltimore, maryland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, light, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, cruise ship, amnesia, escapades, memory loss, mother and daughter, cruise, dating show, family relations, sea adventure, adventuress, humour ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
new york, hamburg germany
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Forever Plaid is an affectionate musical homage to the close-harmony 'guy groups' that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. This quartet of high-school chums, and their earnest dreams of recording an album, ended ...
Style:
tragicomedy, sentimental, heartfelt, retro, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
stage musical, showbiz, tribute, nostalgia, afterlife, friendship, car accident, rebirth, resurrection, dream, backstage, ghost ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Oliver Warbucks is going to be Knighted by the King. Annie and the gang stumbles onto a wicked scheme led ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, family comedy
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, orphan, superhero, christmas, disorder, family relations, friends, intrigue, rivalry, mischievous children, dishonesty, best friend ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe, buckingham palace, london
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6K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Annie has been living in an orphanage her whole life run by cruel Miss Hannigan. After unsuccessful escape attempts, Grace Farrell comes to take the child home to live two weeks with billionaire Oliver Warbucks during Christmas.
Style:
christmas special, emotional, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
orphan, adoption, redhead girl, christmas, youth, friendship, winter, dancing, child, orphanage, little girl, superhero ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, colorful, spiritual
Plot:
christmas, miraculous event, pregnancy, religions or cults, family relations, society, hopes, bible, black, holiday, black girl, black lives matter ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
baltimore, maryland, indiana
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