A Band Called Impaled Rektum (2018), All You Need Is Cash (1978), The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1981), Allegro non Troppo (1976), The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), Padosan (1968), Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982), This Is Spinal Tap (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Musical Comedy movies.
Storyline: A young man is trying to overcome his fears by leading an unknown heavy metal band to the hottest metal festival in Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven, and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, band, underground music, music culture, independent film, musicians, music history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This seminal mockumentary satirizes the career of the Beatles via a fictional pop group called the Rutles. Commonly known as the "Pre-Fab Four," Barry Wom, Dirk McQuickly, Stig O'Hara and Ron Nasty are a gang of mop-topped goofballs from Liverpool, England, whose songs bewitch the entire world. But between hits like "Cheese and Onions" and "Doubleback Alley," the group ultimately implodes, leading to a bitter public breakup.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, mockumentary, satire, rock, tv movie, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Footage from two benefits includes skits, Eric Clapton, Sting, Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Pete Townshend.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, charity, uk, live performance, satire, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Italy's response to the Disney classical music/animation hybrid "Fantasia," this film features a series of cartoon shorts set to the likes of Claude Debussy, Joseph-Maurice Ravel and Antonio Vivaldi. The animated segments feature both the humorous and fantastical: an aged satyr attempts to regain its lost youth, a bee is interrupted mid-meal by two lovers, the myth of Adam and Eve is retold and more. In between cartoons, a filmmaker (Maurizio Nichetti) struggles to complete the film.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, music, comedy, satire, surrealism, italian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary presents highlights from four 1979 benefit performances given in support of Amnesty International. Spearheaded by Monty Python's John Cleese, they feature an array of primarily English talent ranging from comedian Peter Cook and fellow Python Michael Palin, to the Who's Pete Townshend and new-waver Tom Robinson. The film also features cameos by Scottish comedian Billy Connolly and, in a very early appearance, Rowan Atkinson of "Mr. Bean" fame.
Plot Keywords: comedy, charity, uk, satire, music, live performance, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bhola (Sunil Dutt) is a simple minded young man who has taken a vow to act according to the book of shashtras, which dictate that a man must marry when he is of the right age. He meets with lovely Bindu (Saira Banu) and falls head in love with her. Coincidentally, Bindu moves in next to his house. Bhola is thrilled, but soon despairs when he learns that Bindu has given her heart to Master Pillai (Mehmood). Bhola's friends Vidyapathi (Kishore Kumar), Banarasi (Mukri), and others belonging to an acting troupe, assist in hoodwinking Bindu to get attracted to Bhola, and thereby getting his love life back, but there are unexpected twists and turns, and Bhola's lies are exposed, making Bindu return to her plans to marry Master Pillai. Songs include: "Me chali me chali dekho pyar ki gali mujhe rokhe na koi..."; "Bhai bathur ab jaienge kitni door, najook najook meri jawani chalne se majboor..."; "Ik chatur naar karke singhar mere man ke duar ye goosath jaat..."; "Sarm ahti hai magar aaj yeh kahena hoga ab hamey aap ke kadmon main rahena hoga..."; "Kahena hai kahena hai akhir aaj ye tumse pehli baar, tum hi to lai ho jeevan me mere pyar pyar pyar....".—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, romance, bollywood, classic, indian cinema, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A collection of skits that made the Monty Python troupe famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, live performance, humor, british comedy, absurd, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
Plot Keywords: mockumentary, comedy, rock music, satire, british humor, band, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, musical film, classic film, 1930s, american film, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Asked by a producer (J.K. Simmons) to star in a reality TV show, comic Henry Phillips must decide whether his ultimate legacy will be telling jokes or becoming the butt of one.
Plot Keywords: comedy, independent film, satire, music, american film, sequel, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. A painting displayed at that party is stolen, and the Marxes help recover it. Well, maybe 'help' isn't quite the word I was looking for--this is the Marx Brothers, after all...
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, classic, slapstick, absurd, satire, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The boys' Army buddy, Eddie Smith, is killed in the trenches in France, leaving his baby girl an orphan. Back home after Armistice, they try to find Eddie's father and turn the child over to him. Unfortunately, they keep coming up with the wrong Smiths, and in the process disrupt a wedding by proclaiming the baby to be the groom's child. To evade the Welfare Association, they try to skip town, raising money for their escape by hocking their lunch wagon. But they accidentally knock the bank president unconscious and wind up being hunted down for bank robbery.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, war, musical, romance, brotherhood, friendship, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A mockumentary chronicling the rise and fall of NWH, a not particularly talented--or particularly bright but always controversial--hip-hop group.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, hip hop, satire, mockumentary, rap, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000 for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's already raised. Gwen secretly gives T.T.'s new partner Steve Bennett the $10,000 and asks him to double it. Later in a discussion with T.T., business partner Dick and client Van, about truth in business Steve bets the $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. Having already accepted an invitation for a weekend on T.T.'s houseboat, Steve is subjected to 24 hours of attempts to get him to lie or divulge the bet, which would lose him (and Gwen) the $10,000.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, musical, song and dance, classic, hollywood, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twenty-seven year old New York window washer, J. Pierrepont Finch, believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder simply and quickly. The Worldwide Wicket Corporation, the business in the office building whose windows he washes is, according to the book, the perfect type of business. There he meets secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who sees in Ponty (as she calls him) an unassuming man who she believes the corporate world will eat alive. But Ponty, memorizing what the book tells him, does quickly climb the corporate ladder but not by doing any real work. Ponty has a few obstacles along the way such as: Bud Frump who sees Ponty as a rival and is the nephew by marriage of the company president J.B. Biggley; Hedy La Rue, a curvaceous but simple woman who has a secret or not-so-secret tie to someone important in the company; Mr. Ovington, an executive who Ponty can't figure out; and Ponty possibly making a fatal error by not reading far enough ahead in the book. Ponty ultimately has to decide if climbing to the top of the ladder is worth stepping on all those along the way and risk losing the love of Rosemary. In the end telling the truth may set him free.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, workplace, satire, 1960s, ambition, office politics ...
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