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A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
FR #571 | Movie | Drama, Music | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, Chinese
Director
Kaige Chen
Writer
Pik-Wah Lee, Wei Lu
Cast
Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong LI
Plot
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Michelle, a disabled girl who can't see, hear, or speak, suffering in a world that has given up on her. But when the teacher Debraj enters her life, he becomes a ray of hope that she might pursue her passions and have a normal life.
Rufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side th...
FR #729 | Movie | Drama, Music | India | Bengali, English
Director
Satyajit Ray
Writer
Tarashankar Banerjee, Satyajit Ray, Santi P. Choudhury
Cast
Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi
Plot
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
FR #741 | Movie | Drama, Music | Ireland, USA | English, Czech
Director
John Carney
Writer
John Carney
Cast
Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova, Hugh Walsh
Plot
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
An Indian Air Force pilot rescues a Pakistani girl stranded in India. Years later, a lawyer seeks to unravel the truth behind the pilot's mysterious imprisonment in Pakistan for over two decades, during which he remained silent.
FR #967 | Movie | Comedy, Music | USA | English, Italian
Director
Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding
Writer
George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, James Kevin Mcguinness
Cast
Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx
Plot
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
The tale begins in the final days of the British Raj in India. A cohort of engineering students graduate a few months before Independence. Satyapriya and Naren are among the graduate engineers. The principality of Bhawanigarh is r...
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
FR #1100 | Movie | Documentary, Music | Belgium, Germany | English
Director
Adrian Maben
Cast
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright
Plot
British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheater in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.
FR #1232 | Movie | Mystery, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Bimal Roy
Writer
Ritwik Ghatak, Rajinder Singh Bedi
Cast
Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johnny Walker
Plot
A young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
FR #1282 | Movie | Drama, Music | Ireland, UK | English, French
Director
John Carney
Writer
Simon Carmody, John Carney
Cast
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Plot
A young lad notices a beautiful girl who begins to occupy his thoughts. While struggling with poverty, personal relationships and life's woes, he starts a band, hoping to catch her attention.
Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.
Prem and Nisha meet and fall in love at the wedding of their elder siblings, but their plans to be together are put in jeopardy when Nisha's sister dies, leaving behind a baby.
FR #1444 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Kannada, Tamil
Director
S.R. Puttana Kanagal
Writer
S.R. Puttana Kanagal, Ta. Ra. Subba Rao, Chi Udayashankar
Cast
Ambarish, Arathi, K.S. Ashwath
Plot
This is the tale of an angry young man with flavours of Teacher-student relationship, the stubbornness of Ramachari(protagonist) and his attempts at having a romantic relationship.
FR #1515 | Movie | Drama, Music | UK, USA | English
Director
Bryan Singer
Writer
Anthony Mccarten, Peter Morgan
Cast
Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
Plot
With his impeccable vocal abilities, Freddie Mercury and his rock band, Queen, achieve superstardom. However, amidst his skyrocketing success, he grapples with his ego, sexuality and a fatal illness.
FR #1576 | Movie | Drama, Music | Czech, France | French, English
Director
Olivier Dahan
Writer
Isabelle Sobelman, Olivier Dahan
Cast
Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Plot
Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
FR #1643 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | UK, USA | French, German
Director
Richard Lester
Writer
Alun Owen
Cast
John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, George Harrison
Plot
Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.
FR #1682 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Gulzar
Writer
Gulzar, Bhushan Banmali, Kamleshwar
Cast
Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Om Shivpuri
Plot
A medical student, Amarnath meets and falls in love with the daughter of a herbal medicine healer, Chanda while preparing for his exams in Darjeeling. He returns to Calcutta to sit his exams. Fast forward two decades Amarnath sets...
FR #1862 | Movie | Drama, Musical | USA | English, Hebrew
Director
Norman Jewison
Writer
Sholom Aleichem, Arnold Perl, Joseph Stein
Cast
Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Plot
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
FR #1943 | Movie | Action, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Subhash Ghai
Writer
Sachin Bhowmick, Rahi Masoom Reza
Cast
Rishi Kapoor, Tina Ambani, Simi Garewal
Plot
Ravi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from previous life and inquires about his family from first life and his evil wif...
The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.
FR #2055 | Movie | Documentary, Music | Germany, USA | English, Spanish
Director
Wim Wenders
Writer
Wim Wenders, Nick Gold
Cast
Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez
Plot
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in trium...
FR #2487 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Kalidas
Writer
Suhrid Kar, Ramesh Pant
Cast
Kishore Kumar, Madhubala, Pran Sikand
Plot
A diamond thief hides his loot on an innocent child, but the child turns out to be an adult posing as a youngster to purchase a half-priced train ticket. Now, the thief will have to outwit the eccentric in a series of wacky misadv...
FR #2518 | Movie | Drama, Music | USA, Germany | English
Director
Curtis Hanson
Writer
Scott Silver
Cast
Eminem, Brittany Murphy, Kim Basinger
Plot
Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
FR #2559 | Movie | Drama, Music | Australia, USA | English
Director
Baz Luhrmann
Writer
Baz Luhrmann, Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce
Cast
Tom Hanks, Austin Butler, Olivia Dejonge
Plot
The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
FR #2576 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Malayalam
Director
Sibi Malayil
Writer
A.K. Lohithadas
Cast
Mohanlal, Urvashi, Nedumudi Venu
Plot
The tale of two classical musician brothers: while the elder squanders his life and talent away, the younger one fulfills their joint responsibilities towards their family.
After marrying a poor woman, rich Rahul is disowned by his father and moves to London to build a new life. Years later, his now-grown younger brother Rohan embarks on a mission to bring Rahul back home and reunite the family.
FR #2691 | Movie | Romance, Musical | USA | English, French
Director
Charles Walters
Writer
Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Cast
Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford
Plot
A nightclub performer hires a naive chorus girl to become his new dance partner to make his former partner jealous and to prove he can make any partner a star.
FR #2866 | Movie | Drama, Music | USA, UK | English, Italian
Director
John Badham
Writer
Nik Cohn, Norman Wexler
Cast
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
Plot
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
FR #2899 | Movie | Drama, Music | Turkey | Turkish
Director
Cagan Irmak
Writer
Cagan Irmak, Taylan Atalay, Kamer Evren
Cast
Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Mehmet Gunsur, Kerem Bursin
Plot
An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.
Female radio reporter Marcia Jeffries turns folk-singing drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes into a powerful media star who becomes utterly detestable during his meteoric rise.
FR #2973 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Tamil, English
Director
K. Balachander
Writer
K. Balachander
Cast
Kamal Haasan, Gemini Ganesan, Seetha
Plot
Udhayamoorthi (Kamal Haasan), son of an orthodox Carnatic Musician, Marthandam Pillai, voices for social causes against his father's will and in a way gains the trust of local people and brings self-awareness in neighboring villages.
FR #2988 | Movie | Drama, Musical | Sweden, India | German, Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Herbert Grevenius, Birgit Tengroth
Cast
Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Plot
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
A girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.
FR #3304 | Movie | Comedy, Music | USA, Germany | English
Director
Richard Linklater
Writer
Mike White
Cast
Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack
Plot
After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.
FR #3386 | Movie | Drama, Music | Sweden, Denmark | English, Swedish
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
LIV Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt
Plot
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
Based on A.J.Cronin's 'Beyond This Place', this movie narrates the story of an untiring crusade for justice. A young man, learning about his father's wrongful implication in a fifteen-year-old murder, vows to bring the true crimin...
Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following which she leaves the house and befriends ...
Dr. Dharmesh (Rajendra Kumar) and Sita (Meena Kumari) are in love, and hope to marry on Dharmesh's return from abroad. When Dharmesh returns, he is devastated to find that Sita has married someone else. He then decides to devote t...
FR #3760 | Movie | Drama, Music | Belgium, Netherlands | English, Dutch
Director
Felix Van Groeningen
Writer
Johan Heldenbergh, Mieke Dobbels, Carl Joos
Cast
Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse
Plot
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
FR #3989 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Amarjeet
Writer
Sadashiv Brahmam, Vrajendra Gaur
Cast
Dev Anand, Nanda Karnataki, Simi Garewal
Plot
Devdutt Anand works in a company selling musical instruments, and is always late for work, infuriating his boss, I.S. Johar. Things change for the better when Johar finds out that Devdutt has a talent for writing poems, and he get...
A clash of two musical families, where in the end, music is the winner. When greed takes the front seat, manipulations shift gears. A race starts, a race that kills whatever comes across the way, a race that ultimately ends on the...
FR #4066 | Movie | Drama, Music | USA, France | English
Director
Oliver Stone
Writer
Randall Jahnson, Oliver Stone
Cast
Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle Maclachlan
Plot
Jim Morrison's life, from his LA film student days to his death in Paris. Val Kilmer delivers an uncanny portrayal, with vocals indistinguishable from Morrison's originals. It depicts Morrison's journey as the iconic 60s rock fron...
FR #4097 | Movie | Documentary, Music | USA | English, French
Director
Jonathan Demme
Writer
Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads
Cast
David Byrne, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir
Plot
A live performance of the band Talking Heads shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and featuring their most memorable songs.
FR #4157 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Gene Kelly
Writer
Michael Stewart, Thornton Wilder, Ernest Lehman
Cast
Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Plot
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
