
Music movies
Stories where rhythm and melody take center stage, including biographies of legends and dance-filled spectacles.
Subgenres include: Narrative Musical, Jukebox Musical, Concert Film.

562. The Man Who Cried
Romance Drama Music War Romantic Epic2000•1h 36min
France, United Kingdom
Director: Sally Potter
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A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
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563. Center Stage
Drama Music Professional Drama Dance-Centered Music Film2000•1h 55min
United States
Director: Nicholas Hytner
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A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
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564. High Fidelity
Drama Comedy Romance Music Romantic Comedy2000•1h 53min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Stephen Frears
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After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
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The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) go on a quest to find a fallen wishing star to help Dot with her illness. Unfortunately the rest of the town, including an evil king, also hear about the star and want to get to it first to have their own wishes come true. It's a race against time and it's up to the three zany siblings to get there first.

566. Topsy-Turvy
Drama Music Comedy History1999•2h 40min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Mike Leigh
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.





