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Heavy Metal
New YorkA Step Beyond Science Fiction — The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
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The Great Muppet Caper
England The 1980sKermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
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Pennies from Heaven
Illinois The 1930sThere's a world on both sides of the rainbow where songs come true and every time it rains, it rains... — A musical set in the great Busby Berkeley style. In Chicago during the depression, sheet music salesman, Arthur Parker, is trying to sell his products, but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.
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The Decline of Western Civilization
California The 1980sSee it in a theater.... where you can't get hurt. — 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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American Pop
Kansas California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sAll those years, all those dreams, all those sons... one of them is going to be a star. — The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
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Umrao Jaan
🇮🇳 India The 1840sAmiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and a renowned courtesan, Umrao Jaan.
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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Tennessee Georgia The 1980sYou're never too young to learn the score. — An aspiring country singer (Dennis Quaid) and his feisty younger sister/manager (Kristy McNichol) struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad. Mark Hamill and Don Stroud also star.
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Zoot Suit
California The 1940sAn american original. — Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez's critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
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Aiutami a sognare
The 1940sIn 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
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The Blues Brothers
Illinois The 1980sThey're on a mission from God. — Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back togther to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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Solo Sunny
🇩🇪 GermanySunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life as a whole. She begins a relationship with the amateur saxophonist and studied philosopher Ralph who writes her a very personal song - but his obsession with death and unfaithful lifestyle is not for her. After getting into a quarrel with a band member who harasses her and telling off a show-host she is thrown out of the band. Abandoned, she struggles to regain control over her life.
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Fame
New YorkIf they've really got what it takes, it's going to take everything they've got. — 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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The Jazz Singer
New York CaliforniaHis story will make you cry. His music will make you sing. His triumph will make you cheer. — Jess Robin dreams of a career in popular music, but his father, Cantor Rabinovitch, forbids it, insisting Jess live as a traditional Jew and inherit his position at the synagogue. With the help of friend and professional musician Bubba, Jess gets a chance to go to Los Angeles and have famous singer Keith Lennox record one of his songs. Defying both his father and his wife, Jess leaves New York to pursue his dreams.
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Coal Miner's Daughter
KentuckyShe became a singer because it was the only thing she could do. She became a star because it was the only way she could do it. — Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
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Roadie
TexasBands make it Rock...Roadies make it Roll! — A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
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Rude Boy
EnglandGrab the future... by its face! — Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political demonstrations and Clash concerts.
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Can't Stop the Music
New York CaliforniaThe Musical Comedy Smash of the 80's! — A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.
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The Competition
CaliforniaIf you're really in love... nothing's going to stand in your way — The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
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Blank Generation
New YorkNada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.
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The Apple
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1990sThe Power of Rock... In 1994 — In the glitzy, glittering futuristic world of 1994, music is king -- and the man who controls it is all-powerful malicious mogul Mr. Boogalow. Now he has his eye on two fresh-faced young singers, Alphie and Bibi, who score a hit at his WorldVision Song Festival and fall under the irresistible spell of fame, money, and temptation.
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Playing for Time
🇵🇱 PolandWhen a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
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Times Square
New YorkIn the heart of Times Square, a poor girl becomes famous, a rich girl becomes courageous, and both become friends. — Two ill-matched teenage girls form a punk band and soon have New York by its ears.
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The Conductor
🇵🇱 PolandA violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
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Rockshow
The 1970sIn Concert. On Film. At Last. — Paul McCartney and Wings in concert, 1976. Thirty songs are performed, spanning McCartney's career with Wings (prior to Rockshow) and The Beatles.
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Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave
Ohio The 1950sThis is a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. Stars Sean McCann, Dixie Seatle. (
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Quadrophenia
England The 1960sA Way of Life — Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
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Hair
New York Oklahoma Nevada The 1960sLet the sunshine in! — "Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. Claude heads to New York upon receiving his draft notice, leaving the family ranch in Oklahoma. He arrives in New York where he is rapidly indoctrinated into the youth subculture before reporting in for boot camp.
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The Muppet Movie
California Florida Georgia New Mexico The 1970sMore entertaining than humanly possible — A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
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The Rose
Tennessee The 1960sShe gave and gave, until she had nothing left to give — Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
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Rock 'n' Roll High School
The 1980sWill your school be NEXT? — 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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Elvis
Nevada The 1970s The 1950sThe King lives on! — This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
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Radio On
England The 1970sSet in 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.
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Don Giovanni
🇮🇹 Italy The 18th CenturyScreen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties. He will not change his ways So, he is sucked down into hell by evil spirits. High drama, hysterical comedy, magnificent music!
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The Bat
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sEisenstein gets in trouble for shooting a grouse. He is told that he must go to prison for his crime. However, his friend has invited him to an aristocratic ball. Eisenstein, despite being married, wants to go to the ball to meet women. Eisenstein lies to his wife. He tells her that he is going to prison but actually he goes to the ball. His story arises the suspicion of his wife. His wife devises a plot to catch her womanizing husband.
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The Birth of the Beatles
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyThe excitement of being there when it first happened! — Birth of The Beatles is a 1979 biopic motion picture, produced by Dick Clark Productions and directed by Richard Marquand. Focuses on the early history of 1960s rock band The Beatles. It was released only nine years after the announced break-up of The Beatles themselves, and is the only Beatles biopic to be made while John Lennon was still alive. The film tries very hard to be accurate, opening with a written statement read out by a narrator stating the authenticity of the production, emphasising as it put it: "former Beatle, Pete Best" acting as technical advisor.
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Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
New York The 1970sA movie about people who do stuff that is not normal — Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.
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Nocturna
New York 🇷🇴 RomaniaFrom Transylvania to Manhattan… She'll Get Under Your Skin! — Hard times have fallen on the Transylvanian House of Dracula. To help pay the taxes, Castle Dracula has been converted into the Hotel Transylvania. Dracula himself is aging and toothless, being cared for by his granddaughter Nocturna. When Nocturna books a disco group to play The Claret Room and winds up falling in love with one of the backup guitarists, a mortal named Jimmy, she notices that she is able to see her reflection when she dances, so she decides to follow Jimmy to New York in search of mortality.
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Voices
New JerseyA love story beyond words. — Oscar-nominee Amy Irving ("Crossing Delancy," "Carrie") stars as a deaf woman who falls in love with an aspiring rock singer, even though she is unable to hear him sing.
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Ernesto
🇮🇹 Italy The 1910sErnesto (Martin Halm) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. When the boy finds himself participating in an arranged marriage with the female twin of one of his male lovers, he finally makes the choice that will determine the direction of his subsequent sex life.
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Cha Cha
🇳🇱 NetherlandsBank robber Herman Brood becomes a rock and roll star with the help of Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich.
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The Divine Emma
The 1910sThe opera lady singer Ema Destinnová is in all her splendor at the American stages. But in Europe there rages war and she decides to return home to Bohemia.
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Paper Wheat
SaskatchewanThis film, based on the play of the same name, portrays the harsh lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on the Prairies.
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Rockers
🇯🇲 JamaicaIt's Dangerous — Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston, plans to make money selling records. After his prized motorcycle is stolen, his plans fall through and he's forced to adapt.
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The Buddy Holly Story
New York Texas The 1950sHis Story Will Have You Singing, Laughing, Crying, Cheering And Stomping Your Feet. — A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.
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The Wiz
New York The 1970sFrom the book that's an American tradition… from the smash-hit Broadway show… the entertainment of the year! — Dorothy Gale, a shy kindergarten teacher is swept away to the magic land of Oz where she embarks on a quest to return home
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KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
CaliforniaThe tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans into robots in his laboratory at an amusement park. It just so happens that he plans to uses the KISS concert as a platform to unleash his plan on the world. KISS must use their special powers to stop him.
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Jubilee
England The 1970sSex, drugs and punk rock. Add violence and time travel and you have Jubilee. — Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
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American Hot Wax
New York The 1950s1959. New York City. The battleground was Rock and Roll. It was the beginning of an era. You shoulda been there. — This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Freed was a source of great controversy: criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the "devil's music"; hated by racists for promoting African American music for white consumption; persecuted by law enforcement officials and finally brought down by the "payola" scandals.
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FM
CaliforniaNo Static At All! — Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play; running the station the way they want to, it has made them a ratings success.
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