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Musical
see all genres ›All talking! All singing! All dancing! The sound era brought with it an immediate flood of musical comedies, one genre that movies had hitherto been unable to translate from the stage, and nearly every global cinematic culture in turn came up with its own unique variations on the form.
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Genres / Music / Musical
SUB-GENRES · Hollywood
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All's Fair at the Fair
A yokel couple visiting the World's Fair (a huge attraction of a kind we no longer have these days) marvel at the new-fangled wonders on display. Among the fanciful inventions they enjoy here are an “orange drink” machine that actually grows and juices fruit instantaneously. They also go from dowdy to glam...Start your free trial to watch
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Ants in the Plants
This backyard kingdom of the ants is a very civilized place, with all mod cons and Munchkin-like voices raised in cheerful song. But there's an eternal threat: that dreaded foe, the anteater. The insects deploy all their ingenuity to outwit him, engaging in a war not too far removed from the realities of...Start your free trial to watch
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Barnum
A leaping, spinning and singing Michael Crawford stars as the world's greatest showman, Phineas T. Barnum, in Harold Fielding's rousing Victoria Palace production of the smash circus musical BARNUM. Hailed as “the definitive Barnum,” Crawford delivers beautiful songs and show-stopping circus moments, one after another. The...Start your free trial to watch
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Be Yourself
Comic chanteuse Fannie Brice stars as a nightclub singer in love with a thick-witted boxer (Robert Armstrong) in this delightful musical from the dawn of the talkies. Highlighted by five musical numbers co-written by Billy Rose (including "When a Woman Loves a Man"), BE YOURSELF showcases the unique blend of sophisticated...Start your free trial to watch
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A Car-Tune Portrait
A well-heeled lion conductor introduces a musical performance to correct the misapprehension that “we of the cartoon animal kingdom are lacking in the finer sensibility.” Alas, all those bows and horns prove too much temptation for his orchestra to resist in this delightful Fleisher Studios cartoon.Start your free trial to watch
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Chickens in the Shadows
In 1979, Toasters ‘N’ Moose formed, put out one album and disbanded. Now thirty years later, their old manager has brought them together again for a three-day tour of Northern California. Featuring their now classic hit “Taste the Biscuit” and live performances of many more great songs, our cameras follow...Start your free trial to watch
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Cinderella 2000
Drive-in movie legends Al Adamson and Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN) created some of the most outrageous, colorful and beloved 'B' pictures ever to hit the silver screen. Adamson's CINDERELLA 2000 takes the popular Brothers Grimm fairy tale into the farthest reaches of a way-out future and puts an Orwellian spin on...Start your free trial to watch
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Dancing on the Moon
The opening shot echoes the Georges Méliès classic A TRIP TO THE MOON. But, in the case of this Fleischer Studios cartoon, the moon-bound rocket is the “Honeymoon Express.” A zoologically diverse assortment of newlyweds dance their way to a space vacation (except Mr. Cat is left playing solitaire when he...Start your free trial to watch
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Dear Arabella
Ancestors of music videos, YANKEE DOODLER, ROSIE THE RIVETER, and DEAR ARABELLA were made during World War II for coin-operated jukebox devices found in restaurants, bars, and train stations. On built-in glass screens, they projected 16mm films of artists performing popular tunes. These examples, although not in perfect...Start your free trial to watch
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Fuse
In Bosnia, still experiencing the effects of the breakup of Yugoslavia, everyday activities in the small town of Tesanj are thrown into a tailspin over an impending visit by American president Bill Clinton. A brothel is turned into a "cultural center." The mayor's ledgers are burned. Even the local firemen are forced to unite...Start your free trial to watch
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The Great Gabbo
One of Hollywood's earliest (and most peculiar) musicals, THE GREAT GABBO stars Erich von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue (Betty Compson), against a backdrop of singularly strange numbers (including "Icky" and the spider-and-fly-themed "Caught in a Web"). Director James...Start your free trial to watch
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Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
A full-fledged song-and-dance, tap-and-jazz musical, Damien Chazelle’s GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH boldly recasts the 1940s MGM musical tradition in a gritty, verite style, resulting in an exuberant celebration of romance and music and one of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year of its...Start your free trial to watch
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Hawaiian Birds
This Fleischer Studios “Color Classic” finds a couple of island birds' habitats briefly invaded by some “Big City Orioles” who act like a big band. The lady of one of the pair is seduced away to the promise of stardom, requiring her mate follow to the mainland to reclaim his by-now-disillusioned love. During the Great...Start your free trial to watch
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Hold It!
Do you know what the kitty cat is up to when you're not looking? A neighborhood of housecats unhappily put outside in the cold for the night get up to plenty in this Fleischer "Color Classic" when they form a swinging chorus of feline yowlers, tormenting at least one canine in the process.Start your free trial to watch
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I Am Jesus Christ
Jesus is back on Earth at Christmas only to find it’s become less about him and more about Santa and presents. Undaunted, he takes a job as a "Store Santa" to get the true meaning of Christmas out to the kids. But the modern world is no place for an out-of-touch savior. Can Jesus take back his holiday?Start your free trial to watch
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe replete with musical numbers and...Start your free trial to watch