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Musical movie titles
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| Rating: 8.9 |
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Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. |
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| Rating: 8.4 |
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Glorious classic film musical. 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen. Offscreen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina's romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl Kathy Selden. With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided to turn Don and Lina's new film into a "talkie" and a musical at that. The only problem is Lina's voice, which mere words cannot describe. Thus, Kathy is brought on to dub her speaking and singing voice in secret, and Don's on top of the world. But then Lina finds out... |
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| Rating: 8.3 |
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Howdy Ho! Mr. Hankey, everybody's favorite piece of poo, is here to show us his line up of holly jolly Christmas songs! There's S.D. Kluger singing the Mr. Hankey theme, then we've got Mr. Mackey singing Carol of the Bells, Eric Cartman singing "O Holy Night", Jesus Christ and Santa Claus singing a medley of Christmas jingles, and even Mr. Garrison wishes all the religions of the world a Merry fucking Christmas! It really is a Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, a Krazy Kwanza, and all the rest! |
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| Rating: 8.3 |
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year. |
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| Rating: 8.3 |
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When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog Toto, to run away. A cyclone appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return, she begins to travel to the Emerald City where a great wizard lives. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help them, before the Wicked Witch of the West catches up with them. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) becomes a victim of dark Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) who has pushed her out of the magic kingdom. Giselle finds herself in the middle of a busy street of modern New York City. She must return back to her realm as quickly as possible to marry Prince Edward (James Marsden) but for the present she needs some help to orient herself in the real world with its lack of magic. Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a divorced lawyer, comes to the pretty stranger's aid. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the "Circle of Life". |
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| Rating: 8.0 |
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Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is tired of the same old thing every year. He wanders into the woods and finds some holiday trees and each has a town in it. He goes to the Christmas one and finds himself in Christmas Town. He likes the idea, tells the town to the citizens and they decide to make their own Christmas with their own twist. |
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| Rating: 7.9 |
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Prince Adam was cursed to a beast form by Enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for others. The one way he could break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal from his enchanted rose fell, which would bloom until his twenty-first birthday. But who could ever learn to love a beast? Ten years later, Maurice, an inventor from a nearby village, becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast's castle, the Beast imprisons him for trespassing. His daughter Belle, a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him trapped in the castle and offers her place in his stead. The Beast accepts with a promise she'll remain in the castle forever. In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult and stubborn. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding you can change and learning you were wrong. |
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| Rating: 7.9 |
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For teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), school is a real yawn. She somehow tolerates her boring classes just to race home to catch her favorite dance show on TV. Despite her overweight, Tracy is obsessed with her dream of someday appearing on "The Corny Collins Show." When the chance to partake in the show arrives, the aspiring dancer immediately takes the auditions. To her great joy, Tracy lands a spot on the show and quickly pursues stardom. However, she must overcome many obstacles she faces on her path. |
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| Rating: 7.9 |
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This classic Christmas stop-motion animated feature narrates the tale of a shy, young reindeer whose Christmas spirit is discouraged because his strange shiny red nose has made him an outcast among other reindeer and the whole Christmastown. Rejected and dampened by their inability to fit in, Rudolph (voiced by Billie Mae Richards) and his friend Hermey (voiced by Paul Soles), the Elf who wants to become a dentist, set off for their own adventures. In the end our brave and kind friends will overcome prejudice and save Christmas. But before that many exciting events, wonderful meetings and miraculous places lie ahead, such as the scary Abominable Snowmonster, the island of Misfit Toys in the Arctic wilderness and the Santa of course! |
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| Rating: 7.9 |
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Tim Burton's musical with Johnny Depp playing Sweeney Todd, who was wrongly imprisoned and now returning to London to take revenge upon the man who destroyed his happy past. Todd opens a barber shop named 'The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'. The shop is quite ill-famed as its clients regularly disappear without a trace. The barber's lover Mrs. Lovett (Bonham Carter) is known for her delicious meat pies but nobody connects this fact with the shop's reputation. |
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| Rating: 7.9 |
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from god" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time? |
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| Rating: 7.9 |
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A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing the amphibian royalty. With the help of a trumpet-playing alligator, a Cajun firefly, and an old blind lady who lives in a boat in a tree, Naveen and Tiana must race to break the spell and fulfill their dreams. |
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| Rating: 7.8 |
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The first, and by far most memorable full-length animated feature from the Disney Studios, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" may have been superseded technically by many of the films that followed it. But its simple story of a charming little princess saved from the evil deeds of her wicked step-mother, the queen, by a group of seven adorable dwarfs made history when it was first released in December, 1937 and has since become an incomparable screen classic. |
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| Rating: 7.7 |
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by 'Gene Wilder'(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by 'Jack Albertson' (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done? |
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| Rating: 7.7 |
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In 1899 a young talented poet, Christian (Ewan McGregor), comes to Paris, Montmarte, where he plunges into the bohemian world of freedom, sex, drugs and love. Soon enough, Christian falls fathoms deep in love with Satin (Nicole Kidman), the most gorgeous Parisian courtesan and the Moulin Rouge's highest paid star. Meanwhile, the Duke (Richard Roxburgh), a wealthy nobleman, is also obsessed with Satin. He is determined to invest in the Moulin Rouge's latest musical in order to have Satin. However, Satin reciprocates Christian's affection, and they must conceal their love affair. Unfortunately, they are fated never to be happy: Satin is ill with consumption so she is not long for this world... |
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| Rating: 7.7 |
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The modern-day adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette, is set in New York's Upper West Side where two violent gangs, the Anglo Jets, headed by Riff (Russ Tamblyn), and the Puerto Rican Sharks, led by Bernardo (George Chakiris), vie for control of the streets. Tony (Richard Beymer), a founder of the Jets and Riff's best friend, and Maria (Natalie Wood), Bernardo's younger sister who has arrived from Puerto Rico, find themselves caught in the crossfire. Despite hostility between their friends and relatives, they fall in love with each other at first sight and begin dating secretly. However, their ardent love affair has a tragic end... |
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| Rating: 7.7 |
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This sparkling Eastern story tells about the adventures of Aladdin, who is a poor but kind boy who falls in love with Princess Jasmine. He will try to win over the heart of the beautiful Princess, simultaneously being obliged to find the Magic Lamp in the depths of the dangerous cave. He should also stop Jafar, who is a cruel vizier craving for the Lamp and for Jasmine's love. |
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| Rating: 7.7 |
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It is the city of Berlin in 1930, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Enter into this chaos an American cabaret dancer, working at the downtown "Kit-Kat club" where anything goes on the stage. Into this young dancer's life come several characters such as a rich German politician, a young Jewish man struggling with his identity, an Englishman teacher from London, and of course the all-knowing, all-seeing Master of Ceremonies. |
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