Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment.
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Martin Henderson, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Daniel Gillies, Indira Varma
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Holky z porcelánu / Girls from a Porcelain Factory (1974)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
The fifteen year old Maruska (Lenka Korínková) starts as a new staff in the porcelain warehouse. For the boss Svetla (Míla Myslíková) it is the last straw. She asked to extend her staff consisting of four girls and a retired lady by a man, not a child. The kind and ever fussy Svetla, battling in vain with overweight decides to leave her position and to take another one in the office. As soon as she finds out that the position will be taken by Arnost Jarolím (Josef Langmiler), she insists on a hand over inventory.
Starring: Míla Myslíková, Marie Rosulková, Lenka Korínková, Marta Raslová, Dagmar Havlová, Jelena Juklová
Director: Juraj Herz
My Fair Lady (1964)
Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Gloriously witty adaptation of the Broadway musical about Professor Henry Higgins, who takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform unrefined, dirty Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady, and fool everyone into thinking she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the credit and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he's grown accustomed to her face and can't really live without it.
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett
Director: George Cukor
Une chambre en ville / A Room in Town (1982)
Drama | Musical
In this musical melodrama set against the backdrop of a workers' strike in Nantes, a young woman who wishes to leave her brutish husband for an earthy steelworker, though he is involved with another. Unbeknownst to the girl, the object of her affection boards with her no-nonsense baroness mother.
Starring: Dominique Sanda, Danielle Darrieux, Richard Berry, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Stévenin
Director: Jacques Demy
L'homme orchestre / The Band (1970)
Comedy | Musical
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans' nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the fath…
Starring: Louis de Funès, Franco Fabrizi, Paul Préboist, Olivier De Funès
Director: Serge Korber
Office / Design for Living / Hua li shang ban zu (2015)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Billion-dollar company Jones & Sunn is going public. Chairman Ho Chung-ping has promised CEO Chang, who has been his mistress for more than twenty years, to become a major shareholder of the company. As the IPO team enters the company to audit its accounts, a series of inside stories start to be revealed. Lee Xiang, a new hire at Jones & Sunn, brings with him youthful ideals and dreams. Within the neoliberal market, the logic of intrigue rules, complicated by entanglements of love-hate relationships, which weaves a power play and a pathos-laden tragedy inside the office.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Sylvia Chang, Eason Chan, Wei Tang, Siu-Fai Cheung
Director: Johnnie To
Love & Peace / Rabu ＆ Pisu (2015)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
In the summer of 2015 in Tokyo, Japan. Ryoichi dreamed of becoming a punk rocker when he was younger, but became a timid salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He has feelings for Yuko, but he can't tell her how he feels. One day, he has a fateful meeting with a turtle on the rooftop of a department store. He names the turtle Pikadon and he adores it, but his co-workers laugh at him. Ryoichi throws Pikadon into the toilet. He regrets what he did. The turtle though goes through sewerage and meets an old man who lives in the underground. Something then happens.
Starring: Hiroki Hasegawa, Kumiko Asô, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Shion Sono
Idlewild (2006)
Crime | Drama | Musical | Romance
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
Starring: André Benjamin, Antwon Andre Patton, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Cicely Tyson
Director: Bryan Barber
The Court Jester (1955)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical
A traveling actor is mistaken for a medieval rebel.
Starring: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick
Director: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
London Road (2015)
Adventure | Musical | Mystery | Thriller
London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
Starring: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Kate Fleetwood, Eloise Laurence
Director: Rufus Norris
She Lights Up Well (2014)
Comedy | Musical
An out-of-work actress moves back in with her parents and directs a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" to try and save the community theater.
Starring: Joyce Wu, Tsai Chin, Sean Kleier, Brian Yang
Director: Joyce Wu
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection (2015)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Short
A collection of 12 Disney short films.
Starring: Mark Wenn, Mike Gabriel, Roger Allers, Dean Wellins, Stevie Wermers-Skelton, Nathan Greno
Director: Geoffrey Jones, Alfre Woodard, Tim Hodge, Dave Murray, Carrie Harrington, Bill Farmer
I've Gotta Horse (1966)
Comedy | Musical
Billy Fury stars as himself in this crazy tale of a pop star and his love of animals. Billy, who already has quite an entourage of animals, decides to get himself a sheepdog. But much to the chagrin of his long-suffering manager, Billy returns with a thoroughbred racehorse, which he smuggles into the backstage area before a show. An argument ensues, but when the animal develops pneumonia Billy must choose between his love of the horse and his performing commitments.
Starring: Billy Fury, Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin, Marjorie Rhodes, Bill Fraser, Peter Gilmore
Director: Kenneth Hume
Shall We Dance (1937)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
A budding romance between a ballet master and a tapdancer becomes complicated when rumours surface that they're already married.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Jerome Cowan
Director: Mark Sandrich
Lucky Stiff (2014)
Comedy | Musical
A bachelor travels to Monte Carlo to claim an inheritance from his late rich uncle.
Starring: Jason Alexander, Dominic Marsh, Nikki M. James, Pamela Shaw, Dennis Farina, Don Amendolia
Director: Christopher Ashley
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The Bloody Indulgent (2014)
Comedy | Horror | Musical | Thriller
After killing a strip club owner, Burt, an indulgent Vampire with a zest for life hides out at an upscale drug den until strippers seeking revenge and flesh eaters from hell face off for a final showdown. This ultra naughty vampire musical is swirling with sexy Vampires, hot dancing, drug addled nymphettes and existential zombies. Gallons of blood are rounding out this French New Wave version of a Pulp Fiction meets Rocky Horror Picture Show romp.
Starring: Kevin Scott Richardson, Brandon Heitkamp, Brian Gaskill, Kenneth Hughes, Dylan Kenin, Diva Zappa, Clay Wilcox, Tracey Leigh
Director: Ken Roht
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tom thumb (1958)
Family | Fantasy | Musical
The Wonderful Musical Adventure Things are looking up for the woodcutter's lad named tom thumb. Of course, when you're a mere 5 1/2 inches tall, that's the only way things can look. The tiny hero overcomes hard luck and huge obstacles while saving his parents from harm in this beloved Best Special Effects Academy Award winner based on the brothers Grimm tale and produced and directed by trailblazing effects moviemaker George Pal. Russ Tamblyn plays the title role, bringing athletic enthusiasm to an imaginative story in which toys spring to life (but only for Tom!) and unoccupied shoes happily cavort. Peggy Lee composes two of the five songs. And Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers provide gleeful villainy. Good things do indeed come in small packages.
Starring: Russ Tamblyn, Alan Young, June Thorburn, Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles
Director: George Pal
Teen Beach 2 / Teen Beach Movie 2 (2015)
Family | Musical
Modern day teens Mack and Brady get a real world visit from Lela, Tanner, Butchy, and other surfer and biker pals from the beach party film within a film, West Side Story.
Starring: Maia Mitchell, Grace Phipps, Mollee Gray, Ross Lynch, Chrissie Fit, Garrett Clayto
Director: Jeffrey Hornaday
StarStruck (2010)
Comedy | Family | Musical
Down-to-earth Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles with nothing more in mind than visiting her grandparents while her sister Sara desperately wants to meet her favorite pop star, Christopher Wilde. When Sara convinces her younger sister to accompany her to a nightclub where Christopher is rumored to be performing, it is Jessica who gets to spend some time with the rising star after she meets Christopher, literally by accident. While showing Jessica his favorite sites around the city, Christopher realizes that following his heart might be more important than doing what's best for his career.
Starring: Sterling Knight, Danielle Campbell, Maggie Castle, Brandon Mychal Smith, Chelsea Kane, Matt Winston
Director: Michael Grossman
The Hobbit (1977)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
A wonderous animated version of J.R.R. Tolkein's classic about the magical world of Middle Earth and the adventures of lovable hobbit named Bilbo Baggins.
Starring: Orson Bean, Richard Boone, Hans Conried, John Huston, Otto Preminger, Brother Theodore
Director: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
