
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.

511. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Comedy Music Parody Music Biopic2007•1h 36min
United States
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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512. August Rush
Family Drama Music Family Drama Narrative Musical2007•1h 54min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
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Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
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513. You, the Living
Drama Comedy Music Satire Narrative Musical2007•1h 29min
Denmark, France
Director: Roy Andersson
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In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
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The East High Wildcats are gearing up for big fun as they land the coolest summer jobs imaginable. Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor have scored sweet gigs at the Lava Springs Country Club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family. Sharpay's first rule of business: Get Troy. As Troy experiences a life of privilege he's never known, will he give up the Wildcats and Gabriella to rise to the top?
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515. Stomp the Yard
Drama Music Coming-of-Age Drama Dance-Centered Music Film2007•1h 54min
United States
Director: Sylvain White
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After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.
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516. Once
Drama Music Romance Narrative Musical Passionate Romance2007•1h 25min
Ireland, United States
Director: John Carney
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A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.
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517. La Vie en Rose
Music Drama Music Biopic Historical Drama2007•2h 20min
Czechia, France
Director: Olivier Dahan
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From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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518. Dreamgirls
Drama Music Entertainment Industry Drama Narrative Musical2006•2h 10min
United States
Director: Bill Condon
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A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
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In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away.
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520. Step Up
Music Drama Romance Crime Dance-Centered Music Film2006•1h 44min
United States
Director: Anne Fletcher
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Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.

