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Musical
Men of Novgorod AKA Novgorodtsy (1943) Boris Barnet, Evgeniy Grigorev, Olga Yakunina, Ekaterina Sipavina
The story of a French pilot, shot down by the Nazis and falling into a partisan detachment in the Novgorod region. Read More »
Lyana (1955) Boris Barnet, Kyunna Ignatova, Aleksandr Shvorin, Muza Krepkogorskaya
Young musicians live and perform in a Moldovan collective. The state awards to 3 boys are secretly Read More »
State Fair (1962) José Ferrer, Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin
Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. Read More »
Lisztomania (1975) Ken Russell, Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas
This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt Read More »
Rock Around the Clock (1956) Fred F. Sears, Bill Haley, The Platters, Ernie Freeman Combo
Orchestra manager Steve Hollis realizes that big-band music is dead. Read More »
Let the Good Times Roll (1973) Robert Abel, Sidney Levin, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino
This lively documentary celebrates 1950s rock ‘n’ roll, both through archival clips Read More »
The Singing Thief AKA Da dao ge wang (1969) Cheh Chang, Lily Ho, Jimmy Lin Chong, Chia Essie Lin
A jewel thief decides to turn over a new leaf. He starts anew as a professional singer. Read More »
Life Begins (1932) James Flood, Elliott Nugent, Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon
At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives Read More »
The Phantom Fiend AKA The Lodger (1932) Maurice Elvey, Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb
A maniac is terrorizing London, stalking and murdering street-women at night. Read More »
Jazz ’34 (1996) Robert Altman, Geri Allen, Harry Belafonte, Ron Carter
Musicians remember the Kansas City jazz scene, paying homage to the legends of the genre. Read More »
Kansas City (1996) Robert Altman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte
Robert Altman’s jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. Read More »
Square Dance Jubilee (1949) Paul Landres, Don ‘Red’ Barry, Mary Beth Hughes, Wally Vernon
In the early days of television, Don Blake and partner Sam are sent west to look Read More »
My Blue Heaven (1950) Henry Koster, Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she’s pregnant, but miscarries. Read More »
Daddy Long Legs (1955) Jean Negulesco, Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore
On a trip to France, millionaire Jervis Pendleton sees an 18 year old girl in an orphanage. Read More »