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| 1. 200 Motels Cinema (Year: 1971) |
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Less a movie than a purposely crude series of musical vignettes and inside jokes for die-hard fans, Frank Zappa informs viewers in the opening scene t ...
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| 2. 9 Songs Cinema (Year: 2004) |
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A relationship between a British scientist and an American student is chronicled through the concerts they saw and the love they made in this highly p ...
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| 4. A Hard Day's Night Cinema (Year: 1964) |
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During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Worki ...
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| 5. Across the Universe Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical foll ...
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| 8. Beat Street Cinema (Year: 1984) |
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Jon Chardiet plays a Puerto Rican youth who targets subway walls for his graffiti renderings. For a while, it looks as though Chardiet's problems will ...
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| 9. Blue Hawaii Cinema (Year: 1961) |
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One of Elvis Presley's most successful post-Army vehicles, Blue Hawaii casts Elvis as scion to a Hawaiian pineapple fortune. His snooty mother Angela ...
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| 10. Body Rock Cinema (Year: 1984) |
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Meant to cash in on the breakdancing mania of the early 1980s, this run-of-the-mill teen movie is undercut by casting Lorenzo Lamas in the role of Chi ...
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| 11. Boot Camp Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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| 12. Bottoms Up Cinema (Year: 1934) |
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| 13. Calendar Girl Cinema (Year: 1947) |
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In this Republic musical, all heck breaks loose when the girlfriend of an aspiring composer becomes a model for the starving artist who lives next doo ...
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| 14. Cat Ballou Cinema (Year: 1965) |
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This musical spoof of Westerns featured Lee Marvin in dual roles that won him a Best Actor Oscar. Jane Fonda stars as the title character, a prim scho ...
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| 15. Chicago Cinema (Year: 2002) |
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A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation ...
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| 16. Dancer in the Dark Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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Reportedly the third in acclaimed director Lars von Trier's "Golden Hearts" trilogy (preceded by Breaking the Waves and The Idiots), this f ...
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| 17. Dirty Dancing Cinema (Year: 1987) |
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A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jen ...
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| 18. Easter Parade Cinema (Year: 1948) |
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Fred Astaire had announced his retirement before the cameras began to roll on Easter Parade, but he decided to accept the film's leading role when its ...
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| 19. Everyone Says I Love You Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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Featuring a soundtrack filled with beloved "standard" songs such as "Just You, Just Me" and "My Baby Just Cares for Me," ...
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| 20. Evita Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue ...
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| 21. Fantasia Cinema (Year: 1940) |
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Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcere ...
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| 22. Fiddler on the Roof Cinema (Year: 1971) |
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Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yu ...
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| 23. Follow the Fleet Cinema (Year: 1936) |
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This lesser Astaire/Rogers vehicle is one of several screen versions of the venerable Hubert Osborne stage play Shore Leave. For reasons unknown, Fred ...
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| 24. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Cinema (Year: 1953) |
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is ...
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| 25. Go Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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| 26. Grease Cinema (Year: 1978) |
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"Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and a ...
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| 27. Hair Cinema (Year: 1979) |
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Milos Forman's adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a ...
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| 28. High School Musical Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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The captain of the East High basketball team and the key member of the academic club shock the student body by teaming to audition for the upcoming sc ...
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| 29. High School Musical 2 Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Kenny Ortega's High School Musical 2 reunites the cast from the hit made-for-Disney Channel original to tell another story in the lives of the musical ...
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| 30. Holiday Inn Cinema (Year: 1942) |
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby decide ...
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| 35. Little Shop of Horrors Cinema (Year: 1986) |
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It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Men ...
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| 36. Love Songs Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Though Love Songs (aka Les Chansons d'Amour) is not a film operetta per se, director Christophe Honor? and composer/lyricist/vocalist Alex Beaupain us ...
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| 37. Make A Wish Cinema (Year: 1937) |
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| 39. Oliver! Cinema (Year: 1968) |
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Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passage ...
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| 40. Once Upon a Mattress Cinema (Year: 2005) |
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A love-sick nobleman seeking to marry his sweetheart does his best to find his ruling prince a suitable bride so that he himself may wed in this scree ...
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| 41. Paint Your Wagon Cinema (Year: 1969) |
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After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With L ...
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| 42. Road to Nashville Cinema (Year: 1967) |
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Doodles Weaver finally gets a break at the Hollywood studio he works for; the big boss J.B. (Richard Arlen) sends him to Nashville to round up talent ...
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| 43. Sanky Panky Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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When a smooth-talking Caribbean lothario (Fausto Mata) attempts to win a visa by charming the many beautiful American and European tourists who freque ...
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| 44. Showtime Cinema (Year: 1955) |
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| 45. Silva Cinema (Year: 1981) |
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| 46. South Pacific Cinema (Year: 1958) |
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Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the clas ...
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| 47. Swades Cinema (Year: 2004) |
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A man searching for clues to his past pays a visit to the place where he was born in this drama laced with romance and music from India. Mohan Bhargav ...
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| 49. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Cinema (Year: 1982) |
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In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff ...
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| 50. The Commitments Cinema (Year: 1991) |
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"The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin ... so say it loud &m ...
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