Movie Releases by Genre
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Krush Groove
October 25, 1985
In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces the label's records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn't have the money to press records, he borrows money from a street hustler. At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run both compete for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E.
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Sweet Dreams
October 11, 1985
The story of Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange), the velvet-voiced country music singer who died a tragic death at the height of her fame.
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Follow That Bird
August 2, 1985
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun
April 12, 1985
Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) is new in town and soon meets Lynne (Helen Hunt), who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.
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The Slugger's Wife
March 29, 1985
A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife.
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The Last Dragon
March 22, 1985
In New York City, a young man searches for a Master to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the Glow.
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The Cotton Club
December 14, 1984
The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
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No Small Affair
November 9, 1984
16 y.o. Charles loves to photograph. A cute girl's photo ends up in his camera. He later sees the older Laura singing in a bar. He takes a lot more photos of her and ends seeing her again, wishing to help her career.
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Stop Making Sense
October 18, 1984
A concert film of the rock band Talking Heads.
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Songwriter
October 14, 1984
Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is a country music star who has become fed up with the industry. With some help from an old friend (Kris Kristofferson) he attempts to right some wrongs and get back at the ruthless promoter who swindled him.
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Amadeus
September 12, 1984
Amadeus portrays the rivalry between the genius Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the jealous court composer (F.Murray Abraham) who may have ruined Mozart's career and shortened his life.
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Purple Rain
July 27, 1984
The Kid (Prince) meets an aspiring singer, Apollonia, and finds that talent alone isn't all that he needs. A complicated tale of his repeating his father's self destructive behavior, losing Apollonia to another singer (Morris Day), and his coming to grips with his own connection to other people ensues. [Warner Bros.]
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Electric Dreams
July 20, 1984
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
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Rhinestone
June 22, 1984
A country music star must turn an obnoxious New York cabbie into a singer in order to win a bet.
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Beat Street
June 8, 1984
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
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Streets of Fire
June 1, 1984
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
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Breakin'
May 4, 1984
A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.
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This Is Spinal Tap
March 2, 1984
Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
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Footloose
February 17, 1984
A teenager (Kevin Bacon) from the big city moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the town.
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Unfaithfully Yours
February 10, 1984
A composer suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover.
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Eddie and the Cruisers
September 23, 1983
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album. (Original music performed by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.)
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Staying Alive
July 15, 1983
The sequel to "Saturday Night Fever," finds Tony Manero (Travolta) six years later working as a waiter and trying to land a gig on Broadway.
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Still Smokin
May 6, 1983
Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the rest of the hosts have a VERY limited budget. They are actually expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, so our heroes gets to be Mr. Burt and Mr. Dolly. We follow them around Amsterdam, at their hotel, (still) smokin' joints and doing shows.
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Koyaanisqatsi
April 27, 1983
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.
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Flashdance
April 15, 1983
Flashdance is the story of Alex Owens, a fiercely determined and beautiful 18-year-old woman, who works as a welder by day and dancer at a local bar at night. The film sparkles with the music of the '80s including the No.1 hit song sung by Irene Cara ("Flashdance-What A Feeling") and "Maniac" sung by Michael Sembello. We follow Alex's struggle to gain independence, find love, and realize her dream-to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance. (Paramount Pictures)
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Wild Style
March 18, 1983
South Bronx graffiti artist Zoro is commissioned to paint a backdrop for a hip-hop concert.
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Tender Mercies
March 4, 1983
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
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Honkytonk Man
December 15, 1982
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
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Smithereens
November 19, 1982
A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
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Let's Spend the Night Together
October 15, 1982
Hal Ashby's film chronicles The Rolling Stones' shows in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey during their 1981 US tour.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High
August 13, 1982
Amy Heckerling's chronicle of a year in life of a group of teenagers at a Southern Calfornia high school in the 1970s is based on Cameron Crowe's undercover experiences and has clearly set the bar for all teen comedies to shoot for.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall
August 6, 1982
A confined but troubled rock star (Pink - Bob Geldof) descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation.
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Diva
April 16, 1982
Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer - from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops - after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez).
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Victor Victoria
March 19, 1982
A struggling female soprano (Julie Andrews) finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
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The Decline of Western Civilization
July 5, 1981
The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
June 5, 1981
A small town stud (Dennis Quaid) wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister (Kristy McNichol) works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.
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This Is Elvis
April 10, 1981
The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.
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American Pop
February 13, 1981
The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.
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The Jazz Singer
December 19, 1980
The son of a Jewish Cantor (Neil Diamond) must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.
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The Apple
November 21, 1980
In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.
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The Idolmaker
November 14, 1980
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
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The Blues Brothers
June 20, 1980
Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.
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Fame
May 16, 1980
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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Coal Miner's Daughter
March 7, 1980
The biography of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer who came from poverty to achieve worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changed the sound and style of country music forever.
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Roller Boogie
December 21, 1979
Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
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All That Jazz
December 20, 1979
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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The Rose
November 7, 1979
The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star (Bette Midler) who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
August 24, 1979
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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Jubilee
May 9, 1979
Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
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Up in Smoke
September 15, 1978
Cheech & Chong unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.
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The Buddy Holly Story
May 18, 1978
The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.
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The Last Waltz
April 26, 1978
Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary chronicles The Band's farewell concert on November 25, 1976 in San Francisco.
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand
April 21, 1978
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
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Renaldo and Clara
January 25, 1978
Bob Dylan on tour with the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975; concert footage, documentary interviews and bizarre improvised character scenes.
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Saturday Night Fever
December 16, 1977
John Travolta stars as a local disco kingpin at the peak of his popularity. Once a week, after six full days of work in a Brooklyn paint store, Tony (Travolta) douses himself with Brut cologne, dons a floral bodyshirt, gabardine pants and platform shoes - and ritualistically prepares himself for "Saturday Night Fever." Through the influence of Stephanie - his more sophisticated dance partner - and Tony's brother - a disillusioned priest - Tony begins to question the way his views life and the narrowness of his perspective. (Paramount Pictures)
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New York, New York
June 21, 1977
An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.
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A Star Is Born
December 17, 1976
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
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Bound for Glory
December 5, 1976
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
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The Song Remains the Same
October 20, 1976
A documentary of a Led Zeppelin tour mixed with live concert footage, a unique fantasy, and interviews with the band members. And yes, there's some violin bow mixed in.
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Nashville
June 11, 1975
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.
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Phantom of the Paradise
November 1, 1974
A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.
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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII
April 24, 1974
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
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The Harder They Come
February 8, 1973
Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate circumstances by shady record producers and corrupt cops, he finally achieves notoriety—as a murderous outlaw. Boasting some of the greatest music ever produced in Jamaica, The Harder They Come brought the catchy and subversive rhythms of the Rastas to the U.S. in the early 1970s. [The Criterion Collection]
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Lady Sings the Blues
October 12, 1972
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
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Snoopy Come Home
August 9, 1972
When Snoopy receives a letter from a girl named Lila, who's in a hospital, he goes on a journey with Woodstock to see her.
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Cabaret
February 13, 1972
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. (Warner Bros.)
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200 Motels
November 10, 1971
The great Frank Zappa's outrageous psychedelic precursor to today's music videos features "The Mothers of Invention" wreaking havoc in a typical American town. Ringo Starr narrates.
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The Aristocats
December 24, 1970
With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
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Gimme Shelter
December 6, 1970
Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment.
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
June 17, 1970
Three girls come to Hollywood to make it big, but find only sex, drugs and sleaze.
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Let It Be
May 13, 1970
The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
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Woodstock
March 26, 1970
It happened on a small farm in upstate New York, for three remarkable days of mud and happiness in 1969, when over half a million people came together to celebrate life, love, and music--Woodstock. One camera crew was there, in the middle of everything, recording the live performances of many of the greatest singers and musicians of the era, and the joy, peace and rock 'n' roll experienced by hundreds of thousands.
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Sweet Charity
February 14, 1969
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
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Monterey Pop
December 26, 1968
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the first Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast that included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic vérité style, D. A. Pennebaker captured it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar, Jimi Hendrix burning his. [Janus Films]
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The Producers
March 18, 1968
Down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock is forced to romance rich old ladies to finance his efforts. When timid accountant Leo Bloom reviews Max's accounting books, the two hit upon a way to make a fortune by producing a sure-fire flop. The play which is to be their gold mine? "Springtime for Hitler."
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Valley of the Dolls
December 15, 1967
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.
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Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
May 17, 1967
Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
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Variety Lights
May 6, 1965
A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
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Roustabout
November 11, 1964
After a singer loses his job at a coffee shop, he finds employment at a struggling carnival, but his attempted romance with a teenager leads to friction with her father.
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A Hard Day's Night
August 11, 1964
Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night, in which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever.
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Cléo from 5 to 7
September 4, 1962
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
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Paris Blues
September 27, 1961
During the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.
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Ocean's 11
August 4, 1960
Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
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Jailhouse Rock
November 8, 1957
After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.
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A Face in the Crowd
June 1, 1957
An Arkansas drifter becomes an overnight media sensation. As he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
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The Burmese Harp
January 21, 1956
A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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Limelight
October 23, 1952
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
June 13, 1952
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
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Young Man with a Horn
March 1, 1950
A young trumpeter enjoys highs (musical success, fame, and fortune) and lows (sour marriage, death of his mentor, bout with alcoholism).
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Melody Time
May 27, 1948
An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.
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It Happened on Fifth Avenue
April 19, 1947
A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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The Man I Love
January 11, 1947
A homesick, no-nonsense lounge singer decides to leave New York City to spend some time visiting her two sisters and brother on the West Coast. Eventually she falls in love with a down-and-out ex-jazz pianist.
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Make Mine Music
August 15, 1946
Animation done to contemporary popular music.
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Anchors Aweigh
August 1, 1945
Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, a musical set in Los Angeles.
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The Horn Blows at Midnight
April 28, 1945
Falling asleep during the Paradise Coffee ("The Coffee that Makes You Sleep") Program, the band's third trumpeter dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth. But Osidro and Doremus, two fallen angels enjoying the physical pleasures of an earthly existence, try to steal Athanael's trumpet, enlisting the aid of suave jewel thief Archie Dexter. Athanael fumbles his first try when he saves Archie's accomplice, Fran, from suicide. His second chance seems doomed when he's forced to leave his trumpet as security for a meal he can't pay for. But he gets it back just in time for a final confrontation with his desperate adversaries, dangling with them from the roof, only seconds from Midnight.
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Meet Me in St. Louis
January 1, 1945
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
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Going My Way
May 3, 1944
When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
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Phantom of the Opera
August 27, 1943
A disfigured violinist haunts the Paris Opera House.
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Saludos Amigos
February 6, 1943
"A brief, 40-minute feature commissioned by the U.S. government as part of its 'Good Neighbor' policy toward its neighbors to the south." - The A.V. Club. Disney animators tour South America and present four animated shorts inspired by their trip.
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Road to Morocco
November 10, 1942
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
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