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1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures' biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public perception if only to please their adoring fans and bring people into the m…ovie theaters. In reality, Don barely tolerates her, while Lina, despite thinking Don beneath her, simplemindedly believes what she sees on screen in order to bolster her own stardom and sense of self-importance. R.F. Simpson, Monumental's head, dismisses what he thinks is a flash in the pan: talking pictures. It isn't until _The Jazz Singer (1927)_ (qv) becomes a bona fide hit which results in all the movie theaters installing sound equipment that R.F. knows Monumental, most specifically in the form of Don and Lina, have to jump on the talking picture bandwagon, despite no one at the studio knowing anything about the technology. Musician Cosmo Brown, Don's best friend, gets hired as Monumental's ideas man and musical director. And by this time, Don has secretly started dating Kathy Selden, a chorus girl who is trying to make it big in pictures herself. Don and Kathy's relationship is despite their less than friendly initial meeting. Cosmo and Kathy help Don, who had worked his way up through the movie ranks to stardom, try make the leap to talking picture stardom, with Kathy following along the way. However, they have to overcome the technological issues. But the bigger problem is… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | silent filmmaking slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | falling in love blackmail seduction gangster jealousy betrayal friendship |
| Mood: | film history rain satire |
| Locations: | los angeles california airplane accident america kitchen nightclub motorcycle new york city |
| Characters: | american film director actress love triangle actor musician dancer boy singer friend |
| Period: | 20th century 1920s |
| Story: | theater curtain orchestra conductor movie fan straw hat man wearing a wig theatre audience hidden microphone clown costume pearl necklace spinning newspaper hollywood california piano player kissing in the rain famous song sword fight …title based on song tap dancing reference to a tale of two cities reference to calvin coolidge spontaneous choreography reference to king lear ziegfeld follies comic villainess movie magazine wind machine tossing coin hollywood mogul new concept type casting studio backlot reference to al jolson reference to george bernard shaw driving off a cliff stage door grauman's chinese theater chorus girl toreador title sung by character talkie noises gutter compliment pacing jalopy funny accent pratfall lamp post sound recording streetlight inside joke sound stage screening room war filmmaking speakeasy flapper cheesecake lifting an adult into the air lifting a female into the air musical filmmaking theatrical agent marquee black and white segues into color fiddler movie premiere film premiere dubbing fiddle cigarette holder heartbeat vaudeville raincoat candelabra reference to moses talent agent musical instrument streetcar trolley tarantula morning sign reference to shakespeare's romeo and juliet sitting whipped cream dignity fedora curtain publicity acrobatics treadmill biplane overhead camera shot broadway manhattan new york city stuntman lip synching fashion show obsessive love movie studio burlesque pun knocked unconscious megaphone unconsciousness true love billboard harmonica comedy team table jewelry bush contract flat tire poster violinist recording studio dressing room laughing extortion insult cane tuxedo film producer rainstorm black and white debut irony partner fan movie theatre stupidity orchestra violin ladder audience movie star watching a movie lifting someone into the air hat performance cake street applause henchman reference to william shakespeare casino ballet film within a film glasses wig pianist statue suitcase umbrella fired from the job costume microphone femme fatale necklace montage video camera california candle newspaper manhattan new york city piano apostrophe in title lie book secret sword slow motion scene song crying punctuation in title party singing explosion title spoken by character dancing flashback (See All) |
Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the silent film, George Valentin. The star reacts graciously and Peppy plants a kiss on his cheek as they are surrounded by photographers. The headlines demand: "Who's That Girl?" and Peppy is insp…ired to audition for a dancing bit-part at the studio. However as Peppy slowly rises through the industry, the introduction of talking-pictures turns Valentin's world upside-down. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | silent filmmaking slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | falling in love jealousy friendship |
| Mood: | film history rain |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | film director actress actor dancer friend |
| Period: | 20th century 1920s |
| Story: | orchestra conductor theatre audience hollywood california sword fight tap dancing talkie screening room flapper marquee movie premiere film premiere movie studio megaphone poster dressing room …tuxedo film producer black and white fan movie theatre orchestra ladder movie star watching a movie applause film within a film statue fired from the job microphone montage newspaper slow motion scene crying dancing (See All) |
Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain …in each other threaten to rip them apart. (Read More)
| Locations: | los angeles california nightclub |
| Characters: | actress musician dancer singer |
| Story: | hollywood california piano player studio backlot stage door fedora overhead camera shot lip synching contract recording studio dressing room movie theatre audience watching a movie applause pianist …fired from the job video camera piano slow motion scene song party singing dancing flashback (See All) |
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 mak…e 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 over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | betrayal friendship |
| Locations: | motorcycle new york city |
| Characters: | actress actor dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience tap dancing chorus girl broadway manhattan new york city billboard contract poster cane partner applause reference to william shakespeare wig pianist umbrella costume …newspaper manhattan new york city piano lie book song crying party singing dancing (See All) |
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 his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. …As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
| Themes: | seduction jealousy |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | film director actress love triangle actor dancer boy singer |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | sound stage screening room talent agent film producer movie star film within a film pianist costume microphone candle piano lie song crying singing …dancing flashback (See All) |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o…f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | musician dancer boy singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience piano player title based on song musical instrument harmonica recording studio dressing room laughing movie theatre audience microphone montage piano lie book …secret song crying party singing dancing flashback (See All) |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early …flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy friendship |
| Locations: | los angeles california nightclub new york city |
| Characters: | actress love triangle musician dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience screening room recording studio dressing room applause film within a film wig pianist fired from the job microphone montage piano song crying party …singing title spoken by character dancing (See All) |
By a twist of fate, the clumsy, yet good-hearted aspiring actor, Hrundi V. Bakshi, is invited to Fred Clutterbuck's big party, after ruining utterly the set of his latest feature film. However, unbeknownst to the host, Bakshi is present at the gathering, merrily mingling with the hand-picked guests …in his magnificent hi-tech villa, where the drinks are flowing and everybody is in high spirits. But much to everyone's surprise, when Bakshi accidentally has his first-ever sip of alcohol, only God knows how this well-thought party is going to end up. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | film director actor musician singer |
| Story: | straw hat hollywood california candelabra megaphone tuxedo film producer movie star hat wig pianist candle piano slow motion scene party singing …explosion dancing (See All) |
Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the… Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | nightclub motorcycle new york city |
| Characters: | musician dancer singer friend |
| Story: | title based on song title sung by character lifting an adult into the air ladder lifting someone into the air pianist suitcase piano book slow motion scene song crying punctuation in title party singing …dancing flashback (See All) |
Fred and Mick, two old friends, are on vacation in an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film director, is still working. They look with curiosity and tenderness on their children's confused lives, Mick's enthusiastic young writers, and the… other hotel guests. While Mick scrambles to finish the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career. But someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in love friendship |
| Characters: | film director actress actor musician dancer boy singer friend |
| Story: | orchestra conductor jewelry violinist cane irony fan orchestra applause wig microphone montage newspaper lie song singing …explosion title spoken by character dancing (See All) |
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar ('Harvey Korman' (qv)), a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town d…emands a new sheriff from the Governor ('Mel Brooks' (qv)). Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff ('Cleavon Little' (qv)) in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | film director actor musician dancer singer |
| Story: | theatre audience grauman's chinese theater funny accent sound stage marquee movie studio pun movie theatre stupidity orchestra film within a film piano song singing explosion …dancing flashback (See All) |
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 wasn't 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 Chicago. (Read More)
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musician singer |
| Period: | 20th century 1920s |
| Story: | tap dancing chorus girl flapper lifting an adult into the air vaudeville publicity extortion lifting someone into the air femme fatale newspaper lie title spoken by character |
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's se…cret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in love seduction jealousy betrayal friendship |
| Locations: | los angeles california kitchen nightclub |
| Characters: | actress musician dancer singer |
| Story: | famous song curtain dressing room tuxedo rainstorm audience street secret sword slow motion scene song party singing explosion title spoken by character …dancing (See All) |
Begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost dema…nds they keep giving his protege lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? (Read More)
| Characters: | musician dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience sword fight chorus girl black and white segues into color dressing room black and white lifting someone into the air costume candle sword slow motion scene singing explosion title spoken by character dancing …flashback (See All) |
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. (Read More)
| Themes: | seduction |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | film director actress dancer singer |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | theatre audience violinist movie theatre violin watching a movie film within a film umbrella montage candle newspaper song crying singing explosion dancing |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha…nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | silent filmmaking |
| Themes: | falling in love friendship |
| Mood: | film history |
| Characters: | film director actress actor musician dancer boy friend |
| Story: | theatre audience poster movie theatre orchestra ladder audience watching a movie applause statue montage newspaper book secret slow motion scene crying …explosion dancing flashback (See All) |
When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They sh…ow up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. (Read More)
| Themes: | seduction gangster betrayal |
| Characters: | love triangle musician dancer boy singer |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | pearl necklace tossing coin speakeasy flapper theatrical agent ladder cake henchman wig suitcase candle newspaper lie song party …singing title spoken by character dancing (See All) |
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This 'soon-to-be-unfortunate' soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find… out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann's new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. But Carl has another plan in mind. (Read More)
| Locations: | airplane accident new york city |
| Characters: | film director actress actor |
| Story: | screening room lifting an adult into the air vaudeville acrobatics biplane broadway manhattan new york city true love film producer rainstorm ladder movie star lifting someone into the air film within a film manhattan new york city dancing |
The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco during the early stages of WWII. Despite the pressure he constantly receives from the local authorities, Rick's cafe has become a kind of haven for refugees seeking to obtain illicit letters that …will help them escape to America. But when Ilsa, a former lover of Rick's, and her husband, show up to his cafe one day, Rick faces a tough challenge which will bring up unforeseen complications, heartbreak and ultimately an excruciating decision to make. (Read More)
| Themes: | betrayal friendship |
| Locations: | america nightclub |
| Characters: | love triangle musician singer |
| Story: | piano player famous song sitting extortion tuxedo rainstorm casino pianist piano singing title spoken by character dancing flashback |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar…ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
| Themes: | seduction |
| Characters: | musician dancer singer |
| Story: | theatre audience jewelry fan orchestra audience lifting someone into the air cake applause wig femme fatale montage candle sword slow motion scene song …crying party singing dancing (See All) |
SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early '80s, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, th…e eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as God's 'chosen ones' and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other 'worldlies,' listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Will's mind is blown wide open and he's easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters' diabolical home movie. Will's imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carter's complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious roller-coaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendshi… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | actor dancer boy friend |
| Story: | movie fan theatre audience movie premiere stuntman movie theatre movie star film within a film wig statue umbrella video camera candle lie book secret …crying party title spoken by character dancing flashback (See All) |
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director 'Edward D. Wood Jr. (I)' (qv) is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous 'Bela Lugosi' (qv) and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker… is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | film director actress actor friend |
| Story: | man wearing a wig hollywood california film premiere cigarette holder movie studio dressing room film producer black and white film within a film title spoken by character |
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enc…hanted. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | blackmail jealousy |
| Characters: | love triangle singer |
| Story: | famous song sword fight candelabra true love rainstorm reference to william shakespeare wig montage candle piano sword slow motion scene party singing explosion …title spoken by character dancing flashback (See All) |
Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." Based on the Broadway musical based on …the novel. (Read More)
| Themes: | seduction friendship |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | nightclub new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle dancer boy singer friend |
| Story: | cheesecake dressing room orchestra wig montage lie song singing dancing |
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from e…xile back to London. John is a morally-corrupt drunkard and a sexually- active cynical poet. When the King asks John to prepare a play for the French ambassador so as to please him, John meets the aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her into a great star. He falls in love with her and she becomes his mistress. During the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls into disgrace with the court. When he was thirty-three years old and dying of syphilis and alcoholism, he converts to being a religious man. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in love friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | actress actor dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience fiddler insult cane irony orchestra audience applause reference to william shakespeare fired from the job candle sword song singing title spoken by character …dancing (See All) |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith 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, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s…oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
| Locations: | nightclub new york city |
| Characters: | musician singer |
| Period: | 20th century 1920s |
| Story: | title based on song recording studio dressing room orchestra audience street pianist microphone california manhattan new york city piano song singing flashback |
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 Massa…chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
| Themes: | falling in love jealousy friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | nightclub new york city |
| Characters: | dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience title based on song title sung by character megaphone poster dressing room fan performance microphone montage california newspaper manhattan new york city slow motion scene song …crying party singing explosion title spoken by character dancing (See All) |
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to sta…y behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which was interrupted by the war. He may not be running from his work as a spy for the Germans as Caravaggio believes, but rather the memory of an affair he had with married Katherine Clifton, the love of his life, and the memory of a promise not totally fulfilled. Hana may also test her theory of her fates with love and death as she embarks on a relationship of her own with Kip Singh, a Sikh from India, whose unit has camped on the now overgrown lawn of the church. Their work entails sweeping for and di… (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy betrayal friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | airplane accident nightclub motorcycle |
| Characters: | dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience pearl necklace biplane obsessive love unconsciousness cane irony movie theatre watching a movie pianist statue candle piano lie book …song crying singing explosion dancing flashback (See All) |
Joe Young was a simple young man trying to spread the word of the Book of Mormon when he picked the wrong house to preach at! The owner, a porn director named Maxxx Orbison, tells his henchmen to kill the guy at the door who interrupted their scene, but Joe fights off the guards with great skill, wh…ich impresses Maxxx so much that he offers Joe the lead role in the movie he's making at the moment: Orgazmo, which is about a sex superhero who fights crime with his Orgazmorator, and ChodaBoy, his sidekick. Joe, against his beliefs, takes the job so that he can pay for the wedding he plans for himself and his fiancee, whom he doesn't tell about his risque new acting job. However, when the movie becomes an amazing hit just about everywhere and he finds out that Ben (ChodaBoy) has created a real Orgazmorator, Joe is in some serious hot water! (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | friendship |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | los angeles california nightclub |
| Characters: | film director actress love triangle actor singer friend |
| Story: | hollywood california megaphone dressing room partner film within a film montage lie book slow motion scene crying party singing dancing flashback |
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series …of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find." (Read More)
| Themes: | gangster betrayal friendship |
| Mood: | satire |
| Characters: | american musician singer |
| Story: | fiddle megaphone poster recording studio fan movie theatre audience watching a movie lifting someone into the air performance applause microphone secret crying singing …explosion dancing (See All) |
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fell…ow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking. (Read More)
| Themes: | seduction betrayal |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | actress actor dancer |
| Story: | orchestra conductor theatre audience orchestra suitcase costume femme fatale candle piano lie slow motion scene crying party dancing flashback |
Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian 'Andy Kaufman (I)' (qv). Kaufman, along with his role on _"Taxi" (1978)_ (qv), was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again, 'Jerry Lawler' (qv) (who plays hims…elf in the movie), a professional wrestler, got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had, Lawler prevailed with the piledriver, which is a move by spiking an opponent head-first into the mat. One of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on _"Late Night with David Letterman" (1982)_ (qv), got into fisticuffs with Lawler, and proceeded to sue NBC. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | nightclub new york city |
| Characters: | actor boy singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience hollywood california title based on song funny accent theatrical agent insult watching a movie cake wig fired from the job microphone manhattan new york city song singing |
A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both for…ever. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | kitchen nightclub |
| Characters: | musician dancer boy friend |
| Story: | overhead camera shot violinist cane violin ladder glasses suitcase candle newspaper lie sword slow motion scene crying explosion dancing …flashback (See All) |
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an ove…rnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world. (Read More)
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | film director actress |
| Story: | screening room film premiere movie studio movie theatre movie star watching a movie film within a film femme fatale montage slow motion scene singing |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg…eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | dancer singer friend |
| Story: | piano player fiddler obsessive love jewelry ladder applause umbrella candle piano secret sword song crying party singing …dancing (See All) |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
| Themes: | betrayal friendship |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | dancer boy singer friend |
| Story: | cane cake reference to william shakespeare wig umbrella costume microphone femme fatale newspaper lie book secret song singing dancing …flashback (See All) |
Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's accounting books, the two hit upon a way to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which is to be their gold mine? "Springtim…e for Hitler." (Read More)
| Locations: | motorcycle new york city |
| Characters: | actor dancer singer |
| Story: | theatre audience broadway manhattan new york city contract poster violinist applause costume manhattan new york city singing explosion dancing |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy betrayal |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle boy singer |
| Story: | obsessive love violinist orchestra violin pianist manhattan new york city piano lie song crying party singing flashback |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
| Themes: | blackmail friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | los angeles california new york city |
| Characters: | dancer boy singer friend |
| Story: | extortion tuxedo ladder wig suitcase umbrella video camera newspaper manhattan new york city secret song crying party singing dancing …flashback (See All) |
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with …each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | love triangle dancer singer friend |
| Story: | kissing in the rain fiddle harmonica rainstorm movie theatre audience watching a movie pianist candle newspaper piano book song crying singing …dancing flashback (See All) |
Peter is a composer and a likable sad sack who's devastated when his girlfriend of five years, Sarah Marshall, the star of a cheesy CSI-style crime show, dumps him. He weeps, he rails, he mopes. Finally, his step-brother Brian suggests Hawaii, so Peter heads for a resort on Oahu where, as he's check…ing in, he sees Sarah and her new beau, Aldous, a polymorphously perverse English rocker. The weeping and moping start again, until Peter is rescued by Rachel, a thoughtful hotel clerk who invites him to a luau and to hang out. Although he constantly runs into Sarah and Aldous, Peter starts to come alive again. Will Sarah realize what she's lost, and what about Rachel? (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy friendship |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | los angeles california |
| Characters: | actress musician singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience pearl necklace piano player treadmill recording studio microphone piano lie song crying singing flashback |
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses …this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | lifting an adult into the air lifting a female into the air musical instrument sitting flat tire laughing lifting someone into the air hat costume microphone video camera piano slow motion scene song singing …explosion title spoken by character dancing (See All) |
During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magi…c traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort. (Read More)
| Locations: | motorcycle |
| Characters: | musician dancer boy singer |
| Story: | megaphone poster audience lifting someone into the air performance street applause pianist necklace candle book secret sword song crying …singing explosion dancing (See All) |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu…dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | actress musician dancer singer |
| Story: | curtain rainstorm audience ballet film within a film costume microphone sword slow motion scene crying singing title spoken by character flashback |
Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater…'s enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him. (Read More)
| Themes: | gangster |
| Mood: | satire |
| Locations: | los angeles california new york city |
| Characters: | friend |
| Period: | 20th century |
| Story: | sword fight movie premiere film premiere pun fan movie theatre lifting someone into the air henchman film within a film statue manhattan new york city sword flashback |
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat comin…g from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether. Meanwhile, the life of Ali, a small-town girl from Iowa, is about to change dramatically. Hired by Tess as a waitress at the Lounge, Ali escapes a hollow past and quickly falls in love with the art of burlesque. Backed by newfound friends amongst the theater's crew, she manages to fulfill her dreams of being on stage herself. Things take a dramatic turn though when Ali's big voice makes her become the main attraction of the revue. (Read More)
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | los angeles california nightclub |
| Characters: | love triangle musician dancer |
| Story: | hollywood california vaudeville burlesque song party singing title spoken by character dancing |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat…e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
| Themes: | friendship |
| Locations: | los angeles california new york city |
| Characters: | love triangle dancer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience movie theatre watching a movie casino newspaper lie book secret crying party dancing |
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. They are put to the test, however, when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requir…ing genuine courage. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | slapstick comedy |
| Themes: | betrayal |
| Mood: | rain |
| Characters: | love triangle actor dancer boy friend |
| Story: | candelabra sitting table laughing lifting someone into the air hat wig femme fatale candle book sword explosion title spoken by character dancing flashback |
Aviator Andre Jurieux has just completed a record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring crowd, all he can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come to meet him. He is in love with Christine, the wife of aristocrat Robert de la Cheyniest. Robert himself i…s involved in an affair with Genevieve de Marras, but he is trying to break it off. Meanwhile, Andre seeks help from his old friend Octave, who gets Andre an invitation to the country home where Robert and Christine are hosting a large hunting party. As the guests arrive for the party, their cordial greetings hide their real feelings, along with their secrets - and even some of the servants are involved in tangled relationships. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy friendship |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | kitchen |
| Characters: | love triangle dancer singer friend |
| Story: | theatre audience cigarette holder applause pianist umbrella fired from the job costume newspaper piano lie secret song party singing dancing |
Biopic of J. Edgar Hoover told by Hoover as he recalls his career for a biography. Early in his career, Hoover fixated on Communists, anarchists and any other revolutionary taking action against the U.S. government. He slowly builds the agency's reputation, becoming the sole arbiter of who gets hire…d and fired. One of his hires is Clyde Tolson who is quickly promoted to Assistant Director and would be Hoover's confidant and companion for the rest of Hoover's life. Hoover's memories have him playing a greater role in the many high profile cases the FBI was involved in - the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the arrest of bank robbers like John Dillinger - and also show him to be quite adept at manipulating the various politicians he's worked with over his career, thanks in large part to his secret files. (Read More)
| Themes: | blackmail gangster friendship |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | american friend |
| Period: | 1920s |
| Story: | movie premiere extortion movie theatre ladder audience watching a movie hat applause fired from the job microphone newspaper book secret crying punctuation in title …explosion dancing flashback (See All) |
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