Movies by Genre - Music (58)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 8 X 8 - A Chess Sonata in 8 MovementsIt is a fairy tale for the subconscious based on the game of chess. Partly Sigmund Freud, partly Lewis Carroll. | 1955 | Jean Cocteau, Hans Richter | Music | 5.8 (285 votes) | 80 | 20240803 |
| AniaraAniara is one of the spaceships used for transporting Earth's population to their new home-planet Mars. But just as Aniara leaves the ruined Earth, she collides with an asteroid and is knocked off her course. | 1960 | Arne Arnbom | Music, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (28 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Appalachian SpringA filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed. | 1958 | Peter Glushanok | Music | 6.4 (230 votes) | 32 | 20240715 |
| Apple, TheIn 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs. | 1980 | Menahem Golan | Music, Musical, Sci-Fi | 4.3 (2.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bamboo Blonde, TheA beautiful blonde singer who has a one-time fling with an engaged pilot, is confused by his B-29 bomber crew to be his real fiancée, and her image ends up being painted on the nose of their aircraft, for good luck, as the "Bamboo Bl | 1946 | Anthony Mann (*) | Music, Romance, War | 5.8 (371 votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Bizet's DreamA 12 year old Parisian girl takes piano lessons from composer Georges Bizet and becomes captivated by his story of the gypsy Carmen. | 1994 | David Devine | Music, Drama, Family | 6.8 (51 votes) | 53 | 20231001 |
| Blank GenerationNada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or | 1980 | Ulli Lommel | Music, Drama | 4.9 (387 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| BravissimoThe master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice. | 1955 | Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Music, Comedy | 6.6 (201 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Broadway of Lerner and Loewe, TheThe Broadway partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Spanning three decades from 1942 to 1972, known for being behind stage successes as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon and Camelot. | 1962 | Norman Jewison (*) | Music | 8.3 (32 votes) | 60 | 20240214 |
| Broadway RhythmA reluctantly retired vaudevillian clashes with his producer son who thinks his father's entertainment is passe and audiences need something more sophisticated. Meanwhile the producer's father and sister secretly produce their own sh | 1944 | Roy Del Ruth | Music, Romance | 5.9 (288 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Broken PoetA journalist is sent to Paris by Rolling Stone magazine to investigate the rumour of an old rock star being alive after he is presumed to have committed suicide 40 years ago | 2020 | Emilio Ruiz Barrachina | Music | 6.3 (93 votes) | 106 | 20231016 |
| Carnegie HallA mother (Marsha Hunt) wants her son (William Prince) to grow up to be a pianist good enough to play at Carnegie Hall but, when grown, the son prefers to play with Vaughan Monroe's orchestra. But Mama's wishes prevail and the son app | 1947 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Music, Drama | 6.3 (331 votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Carnival in Costa RicaTwo pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time. | 1947 | Gregory Ratoff | Music, Romance | 5.9 (179 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Chance Encounter, A [Molto Bella]In the Sicilian town of Taormina, Italy, an aspiring poet in search of inspiration meets a folk singer trying to write a follow up to her breakout hit. | 2022 | Alexander Jeffery | Music, Romance | 6.3 (300 votes) | 91 | 20231116 |
| Christmas on MarsMajor Syrtis goes insane as he tries to improve morale in an abandoned colony on Mars through a Christmas pageant, where the first colonist baby will be born. | 2008 | Wayne Coyne, Bradley Beesley, George Salisbury | Music, Sci-Fi | 5.2 (811 votes) | 83 | 20231001 |
| Cover VersionsFour band members tell varying accounts of a night of sex, drugs, and murder before their first big show at a popular music festival. | 2018 | Todd Berger | Music, Mystery, Thriller | 5.4 (707 votes) | 87 | 20220822 |
| Devil-May-CareA Bonapartist falls for a Royalist. | 1929 | Sidney Franklin | Music, Romance, War | 6.3 (140 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Devil's Bride [Velnio nuotaka]A musical about the victory of love over the trickery of the Devil. A little devil Pinciukas is expelled from Hell and arrives to Baltaragis mill. In exchange for the mill owner's soul and the promise to have his daughter Jurga as a | 1974 | Arunas Zebriunas | Music, Musical | 8.4 (775 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Don't Knock the RockA disc jockey tries to prove to teenagers' parents that rock 'n' roll is harmless and won't turn their kids into juvenile delinquents. | 1956 | Fred F. Sears | Music | 5.7 (370 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Final Accord [Schlußakkord]A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into | 1936 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Music, Drama | 6.8 (147 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| From Today Until Tomorrow [Von heute auf morgen]It is late at night and a married couple has just returned home from a party, where they met a former school friend of the wife and a famous singer. The husband has been charmed by the seductive and elegant woman, and this makes him | 1997 | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Music, Comedy | 7.0 (155 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Giant, The [Jätten]nan | 2016 | Jennifer Waldo | Music | nan | 0 | 20220414 |
| Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, TheA rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate sc | 1980 | Julien Temple | Music | 6.4 (2.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Hangin' Out [Gib Gas - Ich will Spaß!] The girl Tina is sick of her Bavarian hometown. She wants to go with Tino who has to leave the village alone for dubious reasons. Tina follows him with her friend Robby on his scooter. | 1983 | Wolfgang Büld | Music, Comedy | 3.6 (428 votes) | 91 | 20240803 |
| High Strung Free Dance [Free Dance]A young choreographer casts a contemporary dancer and an innovative pianist in New York's most anticipated new Broadway show. | 2018 | Michael Damian | Music, Romance | 6.8 (2K votes) | 103 | 20220822 |
| Hootenanny HootA television director from New York travels to Missouri and learns about the hootenanny craze; he works to telecast a production of the event while his ex-wife works to win him back. | 1963 | Gene Nelson | Music | 5.2 (245 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| I'll Take RomanceAn opera manager tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano into performing in Buenos Aires. | 1937 | Edward H. Griffith | Music, Romance | 6.0 (130 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Intoxicated Life [Ongaku kigeki horoyoi jinsei]A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopperinto a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. | 1933 | Sotoji Kimura | Music | 6.2 (16 votes) | 77 | 20231223 |
| Jazz DaimyoShipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents. | 1986 | Kihachi Okamoto | Music, Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (80 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Lake Placid SerenadeOn a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslaw Haschek, of Vera Haschek, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonishes the warm-hearted people of her village with ... | 1944 | Steve Sekely | Music, Romance, Sport, War | 6.3 (52 votes) | 85 | 20240609 |
| Legend of the Stardust Brothers, The [Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu]In 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film. | 1985 | Macoto Tezuka | Music, Comedy | 6.7 (362 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Look-Out SisterA famous bandleader, suffering from overwork and exhaustion, goes to a sanitarium for a rest. While there he dreams of being out west at a dude ranch, where he finds himself involved in the beautiful owner's struggle to keep her r... | 1947 | Bud Pollard | Music, Western | 6.0 (62 votes) | 63 | 20240501 |
| Love, the Magician [El amor brujo]In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly | 1986 | Carlos Saura | Music, Drama | 7.0 (889 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| MaroaAn 11 year old petty criminal gets the chance to play in a youth orchestra. | 2005 | Solveig Hoogesteijn | Music, Romance | 6.5 (188 votes) | 102 | 20220414 |
| MexicanaIn order to dissuade teenage girls from mauling him at concerts, a Mexican "Frank Sinatra" pretends an American soprano is his wife, and even persuades her to pose as such. | 1945 | Alfred Santell | Music, Romance | 5.8 (27 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Mikado, TheIn a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum | 1960 | Norman Campbell, Martyn Green | Music | 7.0 (46 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Moses and AaronIn expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers - in extravagantly choreographed song and dance - towards chaos and sin. | 1975 | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Music, Drama | 6.8 (453 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Murder at the VanitiesA homicide detective with an eye for the ladies investigating a murder in Earl Carroll's Vanities allows the music review to continue during the investigation. | 1934 | Mitchell Leisen | Music, Mystery, Romance | 6.5 (750 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Never Too Young to RockIn the late 1970s, rock 'n' roll was banned from television. One young man, our hero, led the battle against the TV ban. He searched the country for the biggest rock groups to perform at a concert in support of his cause. But the ene | 1976 | Dennis Abey | Music | 5.3 (71 votes) | 99 | 20220414 |
| On Your ToesA young hoofer quits vaudeville to become a composer and hooks up with a Russian ballet troupe. | 1939 | Ray Enright | Music, Comedy | 5.6 (216 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| One Night of LoveMary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy a | 1934 | Victor Schertzinger | Music, Romance | 5.7 (591 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Our Beloved Month of August [Aquele Querido Mês de Agosto]Docu-drama about Portuguese social life in the countryside during the busy month of August | 2008 | Miguel Gomes | Music, Romance | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Play It Loud! [Verschwende deine Jugend]The year is 1981, the German New Wave is at the peak. Harry, otherwise Sparkasse trainee, wants to make it big as a manager of the band of his friends, Apollo Schwabing. He has booked the band as the opening act for a concert wher... | 2003 | Benjamin Quabeck | Music, Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (1.1K votes) | 97 | 20240105 |
| Puttin' on the RitzA vaudeville and nightclub performer becomes successful and forgets who his friends really are. | 1930 | Edward Sloman | Music, Romance | 5.6 (156 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Riders Of DestinyBad guy Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do in the other ranchers. Government agent Saunders shows up undercover to do in Kincaid and win the heart of one of his victims Fay Denton. | 1933 | Robert N. Bradbury | Music, Romance, Western | 5.5 (1.1K votes) | 53 | 20211228 |
| Running Out of Lucknan | 1987 | Julien Temple | Music | nan | 4 | 20220423 |
| Satie and SuzanneAs the waters of the river Seine overflow their banks and surround a Parisian café, composer Erik Satie nurtures bittersweet memories of his one-time lover Suzanne Valadon. | 1994 | Tim Southam | Music | 6.9 (17 votes) | 53 | 20211228 |
| Sensations of 1945Father and son press agents fail to see things eye to eye, in the final screen appearance of comedian W.C. Fields. | 1944 | Andrew L. Stone | Music, Romance | 6.2 (151 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Strange Case of Alice Cooper, TheAlice Cooper's live concert stage-show, based on his 1978 album, From the Inside. | 1979 | Unknown | Music | 8.2 (97 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| SweetieA chorus girl inherits a men's college where her boyfriend is a star football player. | 1929 | Frank Tuttle | Music, Romance, Sport | 6.7 (79 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Swingers' Paradise [Wonderful Life]A group of (literally) drifting popsters find themselves involved in a grim sand-and-sandals desert movie. They reckon a few song-and-dance numbers would liven things up. | 1964 | Sidney J. Furie | Music, Musical, Romance | 5.4 (303 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Thérèsenan | 1986 | Don Coutts | Music | nan | 90 | 20220723 |
| They Shall Have MusicA boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day. | 1939 | Archie Mayo | Music, Drama, Family | 6.9 (435 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Transcendents, TheA dark comedic fairytale exploring the absurd and the all too real. | 2018 | Derek Ahonen | Music, Mystery, Thriller | 5.6 (2.2K votes) | 96 | 20230715 |
| Uncommon Women... and OthersWhile at an impromptu reunion lunch, five women reminisce and relive their college days at Mount Holyoke, and weigh their goals and aspirations against their lives. | 1979 | Merrily Mossman, Steven Robman | Music, Musical | 7.1 (203 votes) | 90 | 20240306 |
| VanitiesFilmed theatrical production of hit Broadway play. | 1981 | Gary Halvorson | Music | 9.1 (88 votes) | 0 | 20220822 |
| You Can't Take It with YouA man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family. | 1984 | Kirk Browning, Ellis Rabb | Music, Musical | 8.1 (144 votes) | 116 | 20240427 |
| You're a SweetheartHal Adams tries to win the heart of Broadway star Betty Bradley. | 1937 | David Butler | Music, Romance | 5.8 (110 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |