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Bohemian Rhapsody Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become...

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A Star Is Born A Star Is Born (2018)
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers - and falls in love with - struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer - until Jack coaxes her into the...

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8 Mile 8 Mile (2002)
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within...

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The Greatest Showman The Greatest Showman (2017)
Orphaned, penniless but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American Phineas Taylor Barnum will always be remembered as the man with the gift to effortlessly...

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Walk The Line Walk The Line (2005)
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley,...

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Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing (1987)
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional...

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Elvis Elvis (2022)
From his childhood in Tupelo, Mississippi to his rise to stardom starting in Memphis, Tennessee and his conquering of Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley becomes the first rock 'n roll star and...

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Straight Outta Compton Straight Outta Compton (2015)
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had:...

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Rocketman Rocketman (2019)
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

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The Phantom Of The Opera The Phantom Of The Opera (2004)
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors...

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Once Once (2006)
A guy and a girl meet on the streets of Dublin while she, a Czech immigrant flower seller, listens to him perform as a guitarist/vocalist street musician. Although it is something totally different...

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West Side Story West Side Story (1961)
West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy "Romeo and Juliet". The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs--the white Jets led by Riff and the...

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The Doors The Doors (1991)
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film...

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West Side Story West Side Story (2021)
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

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Footloose Footloose (1984)
Big-city teenager Ren relocates from Chicago to the small rural town of Bomont, where its inhabitants have imposed an unjust ban on Rock 'n' Roll and dancing. Feeling trapped and confused, Ren...

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Pink Floyd: The Wall Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
Rock star Pink Floyd is a tortured soul. Because of his childhood, he has always tried to make meaningful emotional connections to other living creatures. That childhood includes not having a male...

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Flashdance Flashdance (1983)
Juggling between two odd jobs to make a living, Alex, an eighteen-year-old welder by day and a go-go dancer by night, is a passionate performer who aspires to become a professional ballerina....

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Cats Cats (2019)
In the metropolitan underbelly, a tribe of unruly and anthropomorphic cats, the Jellicles, approach their yearly ceremony. The tribe must elect one of their ranks to achieve spiritual...

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Rent Rent (2005)
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a...

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Footloose Footloose (2011)
Being a teenager is tough, and no one knows this better than Ren McCormack, a city kid with a strong feeling for music. Ren's life changes when he moves to a small town where rock-n-roll and...

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In The Heights In The Heights (2021)
In the Heights centers on a variety of characters living in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, on the northern tip of Manhattan. At the center of the show is Usnavi, a bodega owner who looks...

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Hedwig And The Angry Inch Hedwig And The Angry Inch (2001)
Hedwig, born male as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked...

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Danny Collins Danny Collins (2015)
Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him...

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Selena Selena (1997)
The true story of Selena, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.

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Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
High school senior Katey moves to Havana in November 1958, when her dad gets a promotion at Ford. She meets a local waiter, who introduces her to sensual Cuban music/dance. They enter a big dance...

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Purple Rain Purple Rain (1984)
A young man with a talent for music has begun a career with much promise. He meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his...

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I Wanna Dance With Somebody I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022)
A joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest female R&B pop vocalists of all time, tracking her journey from obscurity to musical...

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A Star Is Born A Star Is Born (1954)
Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before...

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Dear Evan Hansen Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of self-discovery and acceptance following the...

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Bob Marley: One Love Bob Marley: One Love (2024)
The story of how reggae icon Bob Marley overcame adversity, and the journey behind his revolutionary music.

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I Still Believe I Still Believe (2020)
Based on Camp's memoir of the same title, it focuses on Camp's romance with his first wife, Melissa, whom he married in October 2000 despite knowing she was dying. The couple were informed after...

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The Color Purple The Color Purple (2023)
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the...

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A Star Is Born A Star Is Born (1976)
Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer, Esther Hoffman, after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at one of his shows and she...

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The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall (2011)
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Cameron Mackintosh produced a unique, spectacular staging of the musical on a scale which had never been...

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The Lure The Lure (2015)
One dark night, at water's edge, a family of musicians encounter aquatic sirens Silver and Golden. After assuring the family that they won't eat them up, the winsome sirens are recruited to join...

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Jem And The Holograms Jem And The Holograms (2015)
As a small-town girl catapults from underground video sensation to global superstar, she and her three sisters begin a journey of discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.

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Phantom Of The Opera Phantom Of The Opera (1943)
Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch...

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Dirty Dancing Dirty Dancing (2017)
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the...

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Cats Cats (1998)
Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS, the most famous musical of all time, first exploded onto the West End stage in 1981. 'Memory', one of its many classic songs, became an instant worldwide hit. Since then...

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Elvis Elvis (1979)
This biopic traces Elvis Presley's life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

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Elvis Elvis (2005)
A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley, from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (1982)
Sweeney Todd returns to London after being deported to find out what happened to his wife and child at the hands of Judge Turpin. When he learns of their terrible fate, he joins fortunes with Mrs....

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Under The Cherry Moon Under The Cherry Moon (1986)
Two cousins from Miami, Florida are in the Mediterranean, enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman, Mary Sharon, set to inherit fifty million...

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Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square Dolly Parton's Christmas On The Square (2020)
Regina "Scrooge" is selling her small hometown with a short eviction notice to its tenants just before Christmas. She inherited the town half a year ago when her dad died. A mall will be built...

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Graffiti Bridge Graffiti Bridge (1990)
It's got that Purple Rain feeling through and though. And it's got The Kid, too! For the first time since Purple Rain, Prince is back as The Kid. And where he goes, there's music! With Thieves in...

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A Christmas Carol: The Musical A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate...

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Here And Now Here And Now (2018)
Documentary director Fabien Constant's debut narrative feature film features Sarah Jessica Parker as a New York singer who receives a devastating brain tumor diagnosis a day before an important...

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Gumnaam Gumnaam (1965)
At a night club, seven people (five men and two women) are told they have won the a raffle prize and are instructed to board a small plane that will take them to their holiday destination. Instead,...

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Waitress: The Musical Waitress: The Musical (2023)
Waitress, the Musical - Live on Broadway is a heartwarming story that follows the life of Jenna Hunterson, a pie-maker and waitress stuck in an unfulfilling marriage in a small town. Jenna finds...

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Yellow Rose Yellow Rose (2019)
Rose, an undocumented 17 year old Filipina, dreams of one day leaving her small Texas town to pursue her country music dreams. Her world is shattered when her mom suddenly gets picked up by...

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