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pop / contemporary
The Phantom of the Opera
Joel Schumacher · 2004
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Dreamgirls
Bill Condon · 2006
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
The Greatest Showman
Michael Gracey · 2017
Biopic sobre Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), un empresario circense estadounidense que fundó el "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus", conocido como "el mayor espectáculo en la tierra".
Mamma Mia!
Phyllida Lloyd · 2008
Versión cinematográfica del popular musical de ABBA. Una joven que ha crecido en una pequeña isla griega, ha sido educada por una madre rebelde y poco convencional, que siempre se ha negado a revelarle la identidad de su padre. Cuando, por fin, parece que la joven está a punto de saberlo, aparecen tres posibles candidatos.
Dirty Dancing
Emile Ardolino · 1987
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.
Saturday Night Fever
John Badham · 1977
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
Grease
Randal Kleiser · 1978
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Moulin Rouge!
Baz Luhrmann · 2001
París, alrededor de 1900. El mundo ha sido conquistado por la revolución de Bohemia. Satine, la estrella más rutilante del Moulin Rouge, encandila a toda la ciudad con sus bailes llenos de sensualidad y su enorme belleza. Atrapada entre el amor de Christian, un joven escritor, y la obsesión del duque, lucha por hacer realidad su sueño de convertirse en actriz. Pero, en un mundo en el que vale todo excepto enamorarse, nada es fácil.
Footloose
Herbert Ross · 1984
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he's living in a place where music and dancing are illegal.
auteur / dark
Chicago
Rob Marshall · 2002
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Jim Sharman · 1975
Cuando una pareja regresa de la boda de unos amigos, estalla una violenta tormenta y el coche se les avería. Así las cosas, no tienen más remedio que refugiarse en un castillo, donde el doctor Frank-N-Furter vive entregado a la fabricación de una especie de Frankenstein.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mario Gas · 1995
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
social / dramatic
Hairspray
Adam Shankman · 2007
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore's most popular dance show - The Corny Collins Show - and lands a prime spot. Through her newfound fame, she becomes determined to help her friends and end the racial segregation that has been a staple of the show.
Les Misérables
Tom Hooper · 2012
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg · 2021
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Cabaret
Bob Fosse · 1972
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
concept-driven
La La Land
Damien Chazelle · 2016
Scris și regizat de Damien Chazelle, filmul urmărește povestea Miei, o actriță aspirantă și a lui Sebastian, un muzician îndrăgostit de jazz, care se zbat să atingă succesul într-un oraș în care prea multe vise și inimi sunt frânte zi de zi. Plasat în Los Angeles-ul zilelor noastre, printre decoruri cuceritoare și momente muzicale fascinante, filmul surprinde bucuriile, dar și dezamăgirile cotidiene a doi tineri în încercarea lor de a-și îndeplini visele
golden age
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Howard Hawks · 1953
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen · 1952
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
To Watch
Follies
Andy Sommer · 2013
The first Broadway production of the Tony Award winning musical Follies was presented during 1971 in New York City. Since its premiere, performances of Follies have been staged across the United States, England, Ireland and Australia. It would take over 40 years for the French premiere of the Stephen Sondheim musical about a Broadway theatre in decline. Performed in Toulon, the French premiere of Follies featured an international cast and was staged at the Toulon Opera House in 2013.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy · 1964
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Hadestown
Brett Sullivan
In a post-apocalyptic world inspired by New Orleans, the tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice is intertwined with the complex relationship of Hades and Persephone. Eurydice, struggling with poverty, is lured to the industrial underworld of Hadestown by Hades, while Orpheus, a struggling musician, ventures down below to bring her back.
Into the Woods
Rob Marshall · 2014
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Fiddler on the Roof
Norman Jewison · 1971
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
Hair
Miloš Forman · 1979
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Norman Jewison · 1973
As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.
My Fair Lady
George Cukor · 1964
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
South Pacific
Joshua Logan · 1958
Can a girl from Little Rock find happiness with a mature French planter she got to know one enchanted evening away from the military hospital where she is a nurse? Or should she just wash that man out of her hair? Bloody Mary is the philosopher of the island and it's hard to believe she could be the mother of Liat who has captured the heart of Lt. Joseph Cable USMC. While waiting for action in the war in the South Pacific, sailors and nurses put on a musical comedy show. The war gets closer and the saga of Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque becomes serious drama.
Carousel
Henry King · 1956
Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard that there is a problem with his family: namely with his wife Julie Bigelow, née Jordan, and his child he hasn't met. He would now like to head back to Earth to assist in rectifying the problem; but before he may go, he has to get permission from the gatekeeper by telling him his story. Adapted from the Rodgers and Hammerstein hit Broadway musical.
Oklahoma!
Fred Zinnemann · 1955
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
tick, tick... BOOM!
Lin-Manuel Miranda · 2021
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
Rent
Chris Columbus · 2005
In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise · 1965
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell · 2001
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Fosse
Matthew Diamond · 2002
Fosse is a three-act musical revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse. The musical was conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr., Chet Walker, and Ann Reinking. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2000. In 2002, Fosse, featuring Reinking and Ben Vereen, was aired as part of the "Great Performances — Dance In America" series on PBS television. This filmed Broadway tribute strings together acclaimed director/choreographer Bob Fosse's "greatest hits."
All That Jazz
Bob Fosse · 1979
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
