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Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020)

6.5/10 Musical, Comedy

When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.

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Sailing Along (1938)

Sailing Along (1938)

6.8/10 Musical, Romance

Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a player in the world of high finance. An eccentric millionaire decides to do what he can to see that they achieve their dreams.

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Funny Lady (1975)

Funny Lady (1975)

6.3/10 Musical, Comedy

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.

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Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round (1937)

5.9/10 Musical, Comedy

Gangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.

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Maytime (1937)

Maytime (1937)

7.3/10 Musical

An aging opera singer looks back on her long life, including her relationships with her vocal teacher and a student.

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Across the Universe (2007)

Across the Universe (2007)

7.3/10 Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance

The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.

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Stormy Weather (1943)

Stormy Weather (1943)

7.3/10 Musical

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of the great African American entertainers of the early 1900s.

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

6.8/10 Musical, Comedy

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life in this fictionalized biopic of Margaret "Molly" Brown, who survived the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic.

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Metropolitan (1935)

Metropolitan (1935)

6.7/10 Musical

Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.

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My Dream Is Yours (1949)

My Dream Is Yours (1949)

6.6/10 Musical, Comedy

An agent must search for a new personality to replace a popular singer who refuses to renew his radio contract. He finds one in the form of a single mother, but complications soon occur.

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Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)

Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)

6.5/10 Musical, Comedy

Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham only to find back home that Police Gazette hack Samuel A. McGee has exposed her as former burlesque queen Rosie O'Grady. To get her own back she announces that Sam is in fact her real suitor. He in turn has a song about Rosie published and something of an Irish brawl develops via his pa...Read all

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The Great Waltz (1938)

The Great Waltz (1938)

6.5/10 Musical

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauss II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, inclu...Read all

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The Jazz Singer (1927)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

6.5/10 Musical

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

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Tin Pan Alley (1940)

Tin Pan Alley (1940)

6.4/10 Musical

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

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Saturday Church (2017)

Saturday Church (2017)

6.4/10 Musical, Drama, Gay & Lesbian

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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The Dolly Sisters (1946)

The Dolly Sisters (1946)

6.4/10 Musical, Romance

Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.

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Night and Day (1946)

Night and Day (1946)

6.2/10 Musical, Gay & Lesbian

A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

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Greenwich Village (1944)

Greenwich Village (1944)

6.1/10 Musical, Comedy

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

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