Music Movies

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield…

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched “white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches” on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to…

When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to an ancient statue’s burial site. But…

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?…

A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight ‘6.5 Special’…

Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live ‘the life’. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He…

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family…

A filmed version of Aaron Copland’s most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

A live television adaptation of the popular musical about sharpshooter Annie Oakley joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and falling in love with her co-star, Frank Butler.

A teenager, recently in trouble with the police, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their Kentucky farm in order to rediscover life’s values.

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

An opportunistic singer woos a wealthy widow to boost his career.

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style…

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.

A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory’s boss to help oppose the workers’ demand for a pay raise.

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve…

A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way with the guitar.

Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it’s up to him to…

Two sisters are arrested for skinny-dipping on their way to Los Angeles and are sentenced to labor work on a farm.

A young woman in search of a lost identity, her long lost mother who abandoned her soon after her birth.

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle…

Rock-and-roller Arnie Haynes returns to his hometown as a hero to the teenagers. However, the mayor and other concerned adults have banned him from performing in his hometown because they…

Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss’ son. After getting fired from her job,…

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort…

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

At the end of the Civil War, a Confederate team is ordered to rob a Union payroll train but the war ends leaving these men with their Union loot, until…

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when…

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock ‘n’ roll palace for teens.

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva’s personal ambition…

Three sisters—Nunung, Nana and Nenny—are being raised by their grandmother in Jakarta after their mother’s death. Though the sisters’ father Sukandar lives with them, he is too involved in his…

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a…

The life story of the famous pianist and band-leader of the 1930s and 1940s.

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each ‘discovers’ the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises…

Two young men try to make it big as musicians.

A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico…