Ballerina / Leap! (2016)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Dane DeHaan, Maddie Ziegler, Carly Rae Jepsen, Elana Dunkelman, Julie Khaner
Director: Eric Summer, Éric Warin
La La Land (2016)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Musical | Romance
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J.K. Simmons, Sonoya Mizuno, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt
Director: Damien Chazelle
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Moana (2016)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right.
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Alan Tudyk, Auli'i Cravalho, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger, Temuera Morrison
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall, Chris Williams
Cinderfella (1960)
Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
This was Jerry Lewis' answer to the classic Cinderella story. When his father dies, poor Fella is left at the mercy of his snobbish stepmother and her two no-good sons, Maximilian and Rupert. As he slaves away for his nasty step-family, Maximilian and Rupert attempt to find a treasure Fella's father has supposedly hidden on the estate. Meanwhile, hoping to restore her dwindling fortunes, the stepmother plans a fancy ball in honor of the visiting Princess Charmein whom she hopes will marry Rupert. Eventually, Fella's Fairy Godfather shows up to convince him that he has a shot at winning the Princess himself.
Starring: Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Judith Anderson, Henry Silva, Robert Hutton, Anna Maria Alberghetti
Director: Frank Tashlin
Oklahoma! (1955)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance | Western
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.
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger, Eddie Albert
Director: Fred Zinnemann
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old family home, which is thought by neighborhood children to be haunted. Soon, two children, Tommy and Annika, venture into the house only to meet up with Pippi. The three soon become friends and get into various adventures together, including cleaning the floor with scrubbing shoes, dodging the "splunks", going down a river in barrels, and helping Pippi with the problem of having to go to a children's home. Older children will probably get the most out of this movie.
Starring: Tami Erin, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Eileen Brennan, Dennis Dugan, Dianne Hull
Director: Ken Annakin
Trolls (2016)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Lovable and friendly, the trolls love to play around. But one day, a mysterious giant shows up to end the party.
Starring: Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Russell Brand, Gwen Stefani
Director: Walt Dohrn, Mike Mitchell
The Dust Storm (2016)
Drama | Musical | Romance
On a business trip to Nashville, Brennan finds himself reunited with the "Girl" who had previously broken his heart. Now, for one weekend in the city's music scene, a past and present romance will be reborn and challenged.
Starring: Colin O'Donoghue, Kristen Gutoskie, Chris Carmack, Jim O'Heir, Valerie Jane Parker, Allee Sutton Hethcoat
Director: Anthony Baldino, Ryan Lacen
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree (2016)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
When Canterlot Highschool goes on a trip to Camp Everfree, they are surprised to find a magical force is causing strange things to happen around camp. With the help of the Mane 6 and especially Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle must confront the dark Midnight Sparkle within herself and embrace her newfound magical abilities to save the camp.
Starring: Tara Strong, Rebecca Shoichet, Ashleigh Ball, Andrea Libman, Tabitha St. Germain, Cathy Weseluck
Director: Ishi Rudell
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg / Les parapluies de Cherbourg (1964)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A young girl separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Jean Champion, Harald Wolff
Director: Jacques Demy
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani / This Youth Is Crazy (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani is the story of the relationship between two characters, Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor) & Naina (Deepika Padukone), at two separate but defining times in their lives… first, when they are just out of college and standing on the crossroads of multiple decisions that will shape who and what they become… and then later on, in their late-twenties when they meet again, holding on to certain fulfilled and certain unfulfilled dreams, at a crossroads of another nature this time… how these two characters affect, change, befriend and eventually fall in love with each other is the journey the film aspires to take us on.
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Kalki Koechlin, Aditya Roy Kapur, Poorna Jagannathan
Director: Ayan Mukerji
The Swan Princess: Princess Tomorrow, Pirate Today! / The Swan Princess 6 (2016)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical
With her parents away for the summer, fun-loving, young Princess Alise must spend her time with Queen Uberta, training to be the perfect, proper royal…But what she really wants is to become a swashbuckling pirate! Princess Alise sets sail with Lord Rogers, Jean-Bob the frog and Speed the turtle on a bold, high seas journey filled with amazing adventure, danger and discovery. After a shipwreck leaves the brave crew stranded on a wild, mysterious island, they meet Lucas, a young boy who has been living in seclusion. Now the faithful friends must work together to escape the island and the ferociously hungry creatures that dwell there.
Starring: Laura Bailey, Maxine Blue, Grant Durazzo, Kellen Goff, Jayden Isabel, Gardner Jaas
Director: Brian Nissen, Richard Rich
Rent (2005)
Drama | Musical | Romance
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera Rent tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. Rent is based on Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical, one of the longest running shows on Broadway. The raw and riveting musical stars Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Tracie Thoms and is directed by Chris Columbus.
Starring: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Idina Menzel
Director: Chris Columbus
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
A middle-aged man who lost his love for life rediscovers it by assuming a new identity in order to rekindle the romantic spark in his marriage.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Vinay Pathak, Anushka Sharma
Director: Aditya Chopra
Sarbjit (2016)
Biography | Drama | History | Musical
Biopic of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer residing at Bhikiwind, Punjab, near the Indo-Pak border, crossed the border after having a couple of drinks. However, he was mistaken to be an Indian spy and was sentenced to capital punishment. The film Sarabjit however will present the struggle that Dalbir went through while fighting for justice for her brother. Dalbir was very close to her brother and considered him like a son. All her efforts to free him went futile and her brother Sarabjit was killed by his jail inmates when Afzal Guru was killed in India.
Starring: Randeep Hooda, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Richa Chadha, Darshan Kumar, Shiwani Saini, Ankita Shrivastav, Ankur Bhatia
Director: Omung Kumar
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Crime | Drama | Musical
Selma, an earnest Czech woman who adores movie musicals, emigrates to the Pacific Northwest with her 10-year-old son. She finds a job in a pressing plant, interacts with the small town's various residents, and even lands a role in a local production of The Sound of Music while harboring a profound secret: she is on the verge of blindness due to a genetic disorder, and her son will faces the same fate without an operation. Tragedy soon befalls Selma.
Starring: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour
Director: Lars von Trier
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits / A Cinderella Story 4 (2016)
Family | Fantasy | Musical
A contemporary musical version of the classic Cinderella story in which the servant step daughter hope to compete in a musical competition for a famous pop star.
Starring: Jennifer Tilly, Sofia Carson, Thomas Law, David Ury
Director: Michelle Johnston
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Drama | Musical | Romance | Thriller
Musical Drama based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's celebrated musical phenomenon. The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a disfigured musical genius (Gerard Butler) who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with the lovely Christine (Emmy Rossum), the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Jennifer Ellison
Director: Joel Schumacher
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History | Music | Musical
In 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, Gilbert and Sullivan's latest work, "Princess Ida," receives lukewarm press. Sullivan rejects Gilbert's next idea as "topsy-turvy" and unbelievable, and although Gilbert tries to accomodate him, they cannot agree. Mired at a creative impasse, Gilbert and Sullivan can barely converse. Then, Gilbert's wife, Lucy "Kitty" Gilbert, drags him along to a Japanese exhibition–exposure to the very different culture begins inspiration to embark on the production of "The Mikado."
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Ron Cook, Timothy Spall
Director: Mike Leigh
For Love's Sake / Ai to makoto (2012)
Musical | Romance | Teen
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu , who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko , a gang member who eyes Makoto. Also Gamuko's leader, Yuki have eyes for Makoto too. Who will get Makoto?
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Emi Takei, Takumi Saitô, Ito Ohno, Sakura Andô
Director: Takashi Miike
