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Cirque du Soleil: Kooza (2008) Cirque du Soleil presents KOOZA, the story of an innocent and charming clown who strives to find his own place in the world. The Innocent's journey introduces him to a panoply of comic characters. Between strength and fragility, laughter and chills, and turmoil and har

A Christmas Love Story (2019) A youth choir director (Chenoweth) needs to write a big song for the Christmas Eve show but "finds herself distracted" when a boy with a golden voice (Kevin Quinn) joins her choir, which will come as news to his widowed father (Wolf).

Marianne Leonard Words of Love 2019 An in depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen

The Leprechauns Christmas Gold 1981 An Irish sailor is stranded on an island full of Leprechauns and soon finds himself aiding them in protecting their gold from a greedy Hag

The Take That comeback performance at Manchester in 2006, featuring all the big hits including Pray, Everything Changes and Back for Good

Everything I Have Is Yours (1952) Pregnancy forces one half of a married song- and- dance team to find a new Broadway partner.

Education Entertainment Recreation live at Alexandra Palace 2021 The bands only UK gig of 2018, where they delighted fans with over two hours of classics, hits from their album Music Complete and Joy Division covers

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (2017) A documentation of the influences that went on to help create the seminal album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Flower Drum Song (1961) Chinese stowaway Mei Li (Miyoshi Umeki) arrives in San Francisco with her father to meet her fiancé, wealthy nightclub owner Sammy Fong (Jack Soo), in an arranged marriage, but the groom has his eye on his star singer Linda Low (Nancy Kwan). This film version of the Rodgers

Jonah: The Musical (2017) In this filmed stage play, the prophet Jonah receives a long-awaited fresh word from God, but is dismayed to realize that God wants to show mercy to the Ninevites, whom Jonah hates.

Megadeth: Countdown to Extinction Live (2013) Megadeth celebrate the 20th anniversary of their legendary album Countdown To Extinction by performing the album from beginning to end at the Fox Theater in Pomona, CA on December 7th, 2012...

Living on Soul (2017) Filmed during their three-night, sold-out residency at the historic Apollo Theater, this hybrid docu-concert film features the late great Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and the rest of the Grammy-nominated Daptone Records family.

Shrimpcrawl (2013) An English musicologist discovers an audio tape of ancient, mesmerizing music,called Shrimpcrawl, that leads him south, to the salt marshes of Florida. He finds a remote group that has kept alive the intoxicating 'music of the grass'. A charismatic leader uses the music and other

ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME is a wildly inventive musical adventure that tells the story of a sleep deprived single mom who struggles to balance her family and career as a video game music

Shine (2017) Two Puerto Rican brothers from New York's Spanish Harlem and the street's best Salsa dancers, are separated after a tragedy only to reunite years later on opposing sides of gentrification.

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932) A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'.

My Prairie Home (2013) Canadian indie-folk musician Rae Spoon is followed on a concert tour via Greyhound bus through the prairies where they (a self-proclaimed pronoun as he or she are inadequate) grew up. Theirs is a life of dichotomies: being born biologically female, but identifying emotionally

Strauss Great Waltz (1934) Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous when a rich and beautiful contessa asks Schani to write a waltz for her. Schani writes and plays it, but he is always loy

Hallelujah (1929) In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps game. He loses $100, the money he got for the sale of his family's entire cotton crop. His brother Spunk is mortally wounded in the shoot-out which follows. Zeke

Fishermans Friends One and All 2022 A sequel to the hit U K film

The Complete Truth About DeEvolution (1993) Devo, the seminal concept band, made a career out of setting to music video their dada-gone-camp theory of De-Evolution and its rebuke of corporate culture. This is a collection of Devo's ...

Sam Butera and the Witnesses perform several Twist numbers to save a small New Orleans nightclub and raise the bail to get Louis Prima out of jail

Appointment in Bray (1971) In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in B

Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (2002) Through a chronological history of the South African liberation struggle, this documentary cites examples of the way that music was used in the fight for freedom. Songs united those who were being oppressed and gave those fighting a way to express th

The Gold Diggers (1983) An avant-garde exploration of a woman's life.

The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2010) Bruce Springsteen's "Darkness on the Edge of Town," released in 1978, was three years in the making, 10 songs chosen from 70 written and rehearsed during that period. Using archival footage from the studio and contemporary inte

The Kids Are Alright 1979 Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us an inside look at this famous rock group, The Who It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group to its major hit Who Are You, and features the last performance

Swanee River (1939) More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the ...

Seven Hills of Rome (1957) On a train to Rome, the American singer Marc Revere meets the Italian Raffaela. He notices that she intends to work and live at her uncle's. When he gives her a ride, it turns out that said uncle has moved to South America. So Revere offers her to live with him at his cous

Song of the Thin Man 1947 Nick and Nora Charles are asked by Phil Brant and Janet Thayar, who have just eloped, to help them after band leader Tommy Drake is killed at a society dance which Nick and Nora also attended The police are looking to arrest Brant for the murder and while he claims hes inno

Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989) The Leningrad Cowboys, a fictional Russian rock band, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

The New York Philharmonics Performance of Rodgers & Hammersteins Carousel (2013) Of all the greatest Broadway musicals, only Carousel gets me every single time, this more so than ever before: It literally drenched me in tears from start to finish. Blythe stands the tallest, and her anthem at the

27: Gone Too Soon (2018) Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment, but it was not until the ...

John Hodgman: Ragnarok (2013) On December 21, 2011, John Hodgman predicted that a series of major catastrophes would strike the planet in one year, ending life on earth as we know it. On December 21, 2012, he gathered his followers to a former warehouse on the shore of the Gowanus Canal to greet the

Crazy Westerners (1967) Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on. In her mission she is assisted by the Indian Chief Bisonte Seduto and by her friend

The Chocolate Soldier (1941) Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman and attempts to make Maria flirt with him - to test her loyalty to him - as the Russian, Karl makes a vigorous attempt to

Four Jills in a Jeep (1944) Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016) In the 20th Century, Frank Zappa made his mark as a musician unlike any other in America. With a wild eccentric iconoclastic attitude guiding his distinctive music, which it was itself guided by a firm intellectual integrity, Zappa made himself

The Rolling Stones Olé, Olé, Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (2016) The film follows the Rolling Stones across South America and Mexico and finally ends with their historical concert in Cuba. It begins with the band rehearsing and discussing what it takes to "get the rust out" before

Hollywood Fringe 2020 Two married, down on their luck, actors decide to put on a site specific play about their unsuccessful life in Hollywood

Ride Em Cowboy (1942) Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Play It Cool (1962) Stars Billy Fury (Britain's answer to Elvis Presley) and features cameos from some other stars from the sixties, with Bobby Vee, Helen Shapiro and Shane Fenton (better known as Alvin ...

Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends (2011) Hitman Returns was filmed before a sold out crowd last year at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The lineup of talent, lead by Foster as maestro of ceremonies, includes performances by Seal, Donna Summer, Martina McBride, Earth, Wind & Fire, Natali

Legs (2015) A Rock Star - LEGS (Eddie Steeples, My Name Is Earl) - finds out that his fortune has been gambled away and stolen by people that he trusted. His assistant Jen (Angela Bettis, Girl Interrupted) helps him to hide away in an abandoned mansion in the Hollywood Hills while he figures out wha

Syncopation (1942) Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Sch

Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944) The film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.

Lets Go Crazy (1951) A short musical featurette set in a nightclub combining variety acts with linking comedy sketches written by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan.

The Golden Age (2015) The Golden Age is a musical rockumentary about a subversive pop star named Maya. After getting dropped from his major record label, due to his outspoken views on religion and corporate greed, Maya spiraled out of control in a cycle of fear and excess. We follow his journey towa