Annie (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
A modern retelling of the story, an orphan is adopted by a wealthy politician.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David Zayas
Director: Will Gluck
Saving Santa (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Santa's rival, Nevill Baddington, is informed of the North Pole's location after the hologram device designed to hide it malfunctions during a power cut. As he then hatches a plan to steal Santa's time-travelling sleigh for his own gain, it falls to the loyal and ambitious elf Bernard to save Christmas for good.
Starring: Martin Freeman, Tim Conway, Tim Curry, Ashley Tisdale, Joan Collins
Director: Leon Joosen, Aaron Seelman
Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
When two squabbling ex-married are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical The Taming Of The Shrew, life imitates art, art imitates life.
Starring: Ann Miller, Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Tommy Rall, Keenan Wynn, James Whitmore
Director: George Sidney
Collection of Shorts (1983-2011)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Short
This is a collection of few shorts from Disney.
Yentl (1983)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Steven Hill, Allan Corduner
Director: Barbra Streisand
Tři bratři / Three Brothers (2014)
Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
Three brothers leave their home to see the world. During their journey, young men as by miracle enter into famous fairy tales (Little Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Twelve Months) and face traps, unexpected moments and even love in a story full of humour and songs.
Starring: Katerina Kosová, Tomás Klus, Sabina Rojková, Vojtech Dyk, Gabriela Mícová
Director: Jan Sverák
We Are Kings (2014)
Musical
We Are Kings is a rock and roll/blues fable, a group of down and out musicians breaks through against all odds, with a little help from a friendly ghost. Starring Sammy Blue, Rita Graham, Bianca Ryan, Pryce Watkins, and Jonathon Boogie Long.
Starring: Sammy Blue, Bianca Ryan, Rita Graham, Boogie Long, Pryce D. Watkins
Director: Toby Hubner
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Stage Fright (2014)
Horror | Musical
A musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical theater.
Starring: Allie MacDonald, Meat Loaf, Minnie Driver, Douglas Smith, Brandon Uranowitz
Director: Jerome Sable
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Playboy Andy Mason, on leave from the army, romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she's starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific. Only trouble is, he gave her the assumed name of Casey. Andy's eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie's show troupe, at which she's sure to learn his true identity…and meet Vivian, his 'family-arrangement' fiancée.
Starring: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman
Director: Busby Berkeley
Walking on Sunshine / Holiday! (2014)
Musical | Romance
After a whirlwind romance while on holiday in Spain, Maddie accepts the proposal from Italian hunk Raf and starts planning a wedding in the sun. When her sister Taylor flies over to be with her, she is shocked to discover that Maddie's husband-to-be was also her holiday fling. As Taylor tries to ignore the feelings she still holds for Raf, Maddie's ex, Doug, shows up in an attempt to win her back. The soundtrack features music from the 1980s including 'Holiday' by Madonna, 'How Will I Know' by Whitney Houston and the film's title track, by Katrina and the Waves.
Starring: Annabel Scholey, Hannah Arterton, Giulio Berruti, Greg Wise, Katy Brand, Leona Lewis
Director: Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini
The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of diamond smugglers. The winners will collect a prize of $100,000. Kids and adults will enjoy this film made with musical numbers by the Chipmunks and the Chipettes.
Starring: Ross Bagdasarian Jr., Janice Karman, Dody Goodman, Susan Tyrrell, Anthony De Longis, Frank Welker, Nancy Cartwright
Director: Janice Karman
On the Riviera (1951)
Comedy | Musical
Jack Martin (Danny Kaye), an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera, does an impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran (Kaye, again) so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife (Gene Tierney) is fooled by it. When Duran's business interests compel him to be in London when he should be hosting a large soiree at his home, Martin is persuaded to impersonate Duran at the party. But matters threaten to get out of hand when Martin (as Duran) is confronted by several of the philanderer's women, and by Duran's ruthless business rival, M. Periton (Jean Murat).
Starring: Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio, Jean Murat, Henri Letondal
Director: Walter Lang
All That Jazz (1979)
Drama | Fantasy | Music | Musical
Joe Gideon is the ultimate work (and pleasure)-aholic, as he knocks back a daily dose of amphetamines to juggle a new Broadway production while editing his new movie, not to mention ex-wife Audrey, steady girlfriend Kate (Ann Reinking), a young daughter, and various conquests. Joe cannot, however, avoid intimations of mortality from white-clad vision Angelique (Jessica Lange) that lead him to look back at his life as he heads for a near-inevitable coronary and his departure from this mortal coil with the appropriate razzle-dazzle.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen
Director: Bob Fosse
God Help the Girl (2014)
Drama | Musical | Romance
The youthful Eve is low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, particularly when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two other lost souls, the posh Cass and the fastidious James, and together they form a pop group.
Starring: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger
Director: Stuart Murdoch
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College Musical (2014)
Musical
The film follows college freshman Cooper (Sam Tsui) as he attempts to win the heart of his teaching assistant, Bianca (Allison Williams). Cooper is so enamored with Bianca that he cannot pay attention in English class during a midterm and is set to lose his college scholarship if his performance does not improve. Enter Nate (Miles Jacoby) and Lubo (Brennan Caldwell), Cooper's two roommates, who decide he must seduce his TA once and for all to boost his grade and overcome his insecurities about women. But Cooper ends up falling for his classmate Jackie (Julie Shain) instead, a girl he originally sees as a stepping stone in his path to romance with Bianca. In an additional twist, Jackie and Bianca are competing against each other in a prestigious essay contest, and Bianca turns into the movie's villain when her plans for winning the contest go awry. Without spoiling the rest, there has to be mention of a student with man-child syndrome (a fictional disease in which a grown man reverts to the mind and behavior of a child) who provides humor and is a crucial part of the plot. Being a musical, the film tells the story through a mix of spoken dialogue and spirited, vibrant song.
Starring: Sam Tsui, Julie Shain, Miles Jacoby, Brennan Caldwell, Allison Williams
Director: Kurt Schneider
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The North Star / Armored Attack! (1943)
Drama | Musical | Romance | War
When the school year ends, five friends from a small Ukrainian village decide to travel to Kiev. Their trip is cut short when German aircraft attack and their town falls under occupation. While many escape to the hills to form an anti-Nazi resistance group, a German doctor, Dr. Otto Von Harden (Erich von Stroheim), begins to use the children for medical experiments and as sources of blood transfusions for wounded German soldiers. Directed by Lewis Milestone, this story of valiant resistance stars Dana Andrews, Anne Baxter and Walter Huston as the Russian doctor who discovers the nefarious German plot. THE NORTH STAR was re-released in the midst of the Cold War as ARMORED ATTACK! The original references to the allied Russian military were excised and an overtly anti-Communist narration track was added.
Starring: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Jane Withers
Director: Lewis Milestone
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013)
Animation | Family | Musical
In the latest chapter in the Oz legacy, Dorothy returns to Kansas only to find it devastated by the tornado that had whisked her away to Oz. The home she has been so desperate to return to is severely damaged and the townspeople are packing up and moving out. But shortly after arriving, she is magically transported back to Oz. She finds out that Oz is in trouble and the people there need her help. Dorothy's old friends have disappeared and Oz is in a state of decay. As she journeys to find her friends, she encounters a number of new companions (and lots of problems).
Starring: Lea Michele, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Dancy, James Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt, Martin Short
Director: Will Finn, Dan St. Pierre
The Young Girls of Rochefort / Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Jacques Demy followed up THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli and Gene Kelly), THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema's preeminent dreamer.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, Jacques Perrin, Michel Piccoli
Director: Jacques Demy
The King and I (1956)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A schoolteacher goes to Siam to teach its King's children. During the course of her stay she enlightens the king to changing times and helps him reassess his relationship to one of his several wives. One of two flms shot in CinemaScope55.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno, Terry Saunders, Martin Benson, Rex Thompson
Director: Walter Lang
Muppets Most Wanted / The Muppets… Again! / The Muppets 2 (2014)
Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Musical
Whilst on a grand world tour, the Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit lookalike.
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Ty Burrell, Tina Fey, Steve Whitmire, Eric Jacobson, Dave Goelz
Director: James Bobin
