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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SUB-GENRES · Hollywood
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A Hard Day's Night
Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the United States scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, in which the...Watch Movie
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Huntingdon's Hero
HUNTINGDON'S HERO is a "local talent film" made in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. The good-natured and charming HUNTINGDON'S HERO was made in the eponymous central Pennsylvania college town by Donald Newland, an itinerant filmmaker active in the 1920s through the mid-1930s, who...Watch Movie
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Opera Jawa
Setyo and Siti live a peaceful life as husband and wife, selling earthenware in their village. But when Setyo is called away on business, a flirtatious butcher, Ludiro, takes advantage of Siti's loneliness to seduce her. Tempted by song and dance, Siti initially refuses his advances but...Watch Movie
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The Last Time I Saw Macao
A wonderfully mysterious, shape-shifting feature from celebrated filmmakers João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO is a detective tale that blends film noir, documentary footage and personal travelogue to intoxicating effect. Following a...Watch Movie
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Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley crafted most of SITA SINGS THE BLUES by herself, a remarkable fact when you consider the labor force required of most feature-length animated films. SITA’s eclectic layering of personal history, epic myth and saucy musical numbers is held together by Paley’s...Watch Movie
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Something to Sing About
Though one of Warner Brothers' most popular stars, James Cagney was often at odds with his studio, complaining that they worked him harder and paid him less than many smaller box-office names. Walking out during one contract dispute in 1938, he made two independent features,...Watch Movie
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A Night in a Dormitory
Top-billed Ginger Rogers, three years before her initial career-making teaming with Fred Astaire, was just dipping her tapping toes in the movies when she made this Pathé melody comedy. Having already conquered vaudeville and Broadway, she is introduced here under her own name...Watch Movie
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Taxation Nation
Why is our tax system so complicated? Teachers have long relied on educational cartoons with catchy songs to simplify everything from grammar to government. Can a cartoon conquer a challenge like today’s tax system, with its ever-changing, 75,000 pages of laws? With retro flair, TAXATION NATION...Watch Movie
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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...Watch Movie
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The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!
A series of disappearances turns out to be linked to a maddened amusement arcade fortuneteller, Madame Estrella, who throws acid in the faces of the men who refuse her, then keeps them as disfigured monsters locked in the back room of her carnival booth. When teen lay-a-bout...Watch Movie
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Stille Nacht II
A three minute animated choreography with an ethereal pop soundtrack by the remarkable band His Name Is Alive. With a typically eccentric cast of a ragged doll, a white rabbit and a manic ping-pong ball, Stephen and Timothy Quay construct a hypnotic, beguiling and vaguely menacing ballet,...Watch Movie
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The Point
Directed and animated by Academy Award®-winner Fred Wolf, with story and songs written by Grammy Award®-winner Harry Nilsson, narrated by Ringo Starr and including many colorful characters voiced by a bevy of talented actors, THE POINT is an enchanting fable for the whole family to enjoy! Years...Watch Movie
