Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Saturday, 14 December 2013

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise
Genres: Comedy / Music
Year: 2012
Language : English
Director: Todd Graff
Cast:  Queen Latifah / Dolly Parton / Keke Palmer / Jeremy Jordan / Dexter Darden / Courtney B. Vance / Jesse L. Martin / Kirk FranklinAngela Grovey / Andy Karl / Dequina Moore / Kris Kristofferson / Paul Woolfolk / Francis Jue / Roy Huang

Storyline : 

"Joyful Noise" is the story of a small town choir out to win a national competition despite overwhelming odds. A story of faith and determination by the choir leaders (Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton) and the young talent who give their all to win God's praise and beat the competition for the grand prize. 

Monday, 18 November 2013

The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard
Genres: Drama / Music / Romance
Year: 1992
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Kevin Costner / Whitney Houston / Gary Kemp / Bill CobbsRalph Waite / Tomas Arana / Michele Lamar Richards / Mike Starr / Christopher Birt / DeVaughn Nixon / Joe Urla /Tony Pierce / Charles Keating / Robert Wuhl / Debbie Reynolds / Danny Kamin / Ethel Ayler / Sean Cheesman / Nathaniel Parker / Jennifer Lyon-Buchanan


 A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's secret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Dirty Dancing Havana Nights

Dirty Dancing Havana Nights
Genres: Drama / Romance / Music
Year: 2004
Director: Guy Ferland
Cast:Sela Ward / Romola Garai / Diego Luna / Donato Poveda / Charlie Rodriguez / Wilmer Cordero / Tommy Kavelin / Chris Engen / Polly Cole / Mya / René Lavan / Mika Boorem / Jonathan Jackson 

In November 1958, the American teenager Katey Miller moves with her parents and her younger sister to Havana. Her father is an executive of Ford expatriated to Cuba, and Katey is an excellent high school senior student that misses her friends. The family is lodged in a fancy hotel, where Katey accidentally meets the local teenage waiter Javier Suarez. Later she sees Javier dancing in a public square and they become friends, but he is fired from the hotel because her acquaintances have seen them together.

Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Pitch Perfect

Pitch Perfect
Genres: Comedy / Music / Romance
Year: 2012
Director:Jason Moore
Cast: Anna Kendrick / Brittany Snow / Rebel Wilson / Skylar Astin / Ben PlattAnna Camp / Alexis Knapp / Ester Dean / Hana Mae Lee / Kelley Jakle / Wanetah Walmsley / Shelley Regner / Caroline Fourmy / Nicole Lovince / Adam DeVine

The Barden Bellas are a collegiate, all-girls a cappella singing group thriving on female pop songs and their perfect looks. After a disastrous failing at last year's finals, they are forced to regroup. Among the new recruits is freshman Beca, an independent, aspiring DJ with no interest in the college life. But after she meets Jesse, from the rival all-male a cappella group, Beca has a new outlook and takes it upon herself to help the Bellas find their new look and sound and get back into the competition.

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Flashdance

Flashdance
Genres: Music / Romance / Drama
Year: 1983 
Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Jennifer Beals / Michael Nouri / Don Brockett / Lucy Lee Flippin / Micole Mercurio / Philip Bruns / Malcolm Danare / Belinda Bauer / Ron Karabatsos / Lee Ving / Kyle T. Heffner / Sunny Johnson / Lilia Skala /  Cynthia Rhodes / Durga McBroom


Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling!

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Io, Don Giovanni

Io, Don Giovanni
Genres: Drama / History / Music
Year: 2009
Director: Carlos Saura
Cast: Tobias Moretti / Eulàlia Ramon / Sergi Roca / Anna Saura Ramón / Francesco Barilli / Lorenzo Balducci / Elena CucciSebastiano Lo Monaco / Sylvia De Fanti / Javier Munzò / Franco Interlenghi / Emilia Verginelli / Lino Guanciale / Ketevan Kemoklidze  / Cristina Giannelli
Venice. 1763. The writer Lorenzo Da Ponte leads a dissolute life. He was a priest but his amorous adventures too many forced him into exile in Vienna. Helped by 'friend and mentor Giacomo Casanova, da Ponte knows Salieri, the composer preferred by the King, and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Looking for an opportunity to thwart the rise of Mozart, Salieri Mozart convinced to take on the unknown libertine as librettist. The restlessness erotic-sentimental Da Ponte in Vienna feed his inspiration, giving rise to one of the most bold and powerful compositions Mozart: Don Giovanni.

Sunday, 28 July 2013

La Bamba

La Bamba
Genres: Drama /  Music  / Biography
Year: 1987
Director:Luis Valdez
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips / Esai MoralesRosanna DeSoto / Elizabeth Peña / Danielle von Zerneck / Joe Pantoliano / Rick Dees / Marshall Crenshaw / Howard Huntsberry / Brian Setzer
This is the true story of Ritchie Valens, a young rock and roll singer who tragically died in a plane crash at age 17. The film follows Ritchie from his days in Pacoima, California where he and his family make a meager living working on farms to his rise as a star. The film also focuses on Ritchie's friendship and rivalry with his older brother Bob Morales and his relationship with Donna Ludwig, his girlfriend.


  • English
  • Spanish
  • Italian

Sunday, 21 July 2013

Dance with Me

Dance with Me
Genres: Drama / Romance / Music
Year: 1998
Director:Randa Haines
Cast: Vanessa Williams / Chayanne / Kris Kristofferson / Joan PlowrightJane Krakowski / Beth Grant / Harry Groener / William Marquez / Scott Paetty / Rick Valenzuela
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship...

Wednesday, 10 July 2013

Listen to Your Heart

Listen to Your Heart
Genres : Drama / Music / Romance
Year: 2010
Director: Matt Thompson
Cast : Alexia Rasmussen / Kent Moran / Cybill Shepherd / Shirley Knight / Frank Watson / Ernie Sabella /  Lisa Benner / Amy Lockwood / Matthew Albrecht
Danny  has an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. But with unwaivering optimism, for Danny, "every day is a great day to be alive." It's love at first sight when Danny meets Ariana , a wealthy hearing-impaired girl from Greenwich, CT who tragically cannot hear the music she inspires him to write. Ariana is torn between hanging onto the shelter her controlling mother  provides and fighting for a love that, if just given the chance, might just change her life....

The Blues Brothers

The Blues Brothers
Genres:Music / Comedy / Action
Year:1980
Director: John Landis
Cast:John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd / Carrie Fisher / Alan Rubin / Matt Murphy / Lou Marini / Tom Malone / Willie Hall / Murphy Dunne / Donald Dunn / Steve Cropper / Aretha Franklin / Ray Charles / Cab Calloway / James Brown 
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days.....

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

The Rose

The Rose
Genres: Drama / Music
Year: 1979
Director: Mark Rydell
Cast: Bette Midler / Alan Bates / Frederic Forrest / Harry Dean Stanton / Barry Primus / David Keith / Sandra McCabe / Will Hare / Rudy Bond / Don Calfa / James Keane / Doris Roberts / Sandy Ward / Michael Greer / Claude Sacha
Bette Midler plays "Rose", an artist strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. The film follows Rose's career during her last tour. Her rock and roll lifestyle of Drugs, Sex, and Rock and Roll and constant touring lead her to an inevitable breakdown.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams
Genres : Biography / Drama / Music
Year : 1985
Director : Karel Reisz
Cast : Jessica Lange / Ed Harris  /  Ann Wedgeworth / David Clennon /  James Staley / Gary Basaraba / John Goodman
Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash.

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever
Genres: Music / Drama
Year: 1977 
Director: John Badham
Cast: John Travolta / Karen Lynn Gorney /  Lisa Peluso / Nina Hansen / Sam Coppola / Martin Shakar / Julie Bovasso / Bruce Ornstein / Donna Pescow / Paul Pape / Joseph Cali / Barry Miller /  Denny Dillon 
Nineteen-year-old Brooklyn native Tony Manero lives for Saturday nights at the local disco, where he's king of the club, thanks to his stylish moves on the dance floor. But outside of the club, things don't look so rosy. At home, Tony fights constantly with his father and has to compete with his family's starry-eyed view of his older brother, a priest. Nor can he find satisfaction at his dead-end job at a paint store.

Friday, 14 June 2013

Cabaret

Cabaret
Genres: Musical / Music / Drama
Year: 1972 
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Kathryn Doby / Estrongo Nachama / Ricky Renée / Georg Hartmann / Ralf Wolter / Gerd Vespermann / Sigrid von Richthofen / Helen Vita / Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel / Marisa Berenson / Fritz Wepper / Joel Grey / Helmut Griem / Michael York / Liza Minnelli
Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings. 

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

La Môme (La Vie en Rose)

La Môme (La Vie en Rose)
The life story of singer Édith Piaf. 
Genres: Biography / Drama / Music
Year:2007 
Director: Olivier Dahan
Cast:Marion Cotillard / Sylvie Testud / Pascal Greggory / Emmanuelle Seigner / Jean-Paul Rouve / Gérard Depardieu
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Édith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache.

Saturday, 8 June 2013

Amadeus

Amadeus
Genres: Music / Drama / Biography
Year: 1984 
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Peter DiGesu / Milan Demjanenko / Roderick Cook / Martin Cavina / Barbara Bryne / Lisabeth Bartlett / Kenny Baker / Charles Kay / Jeffrey Jones / Christine Ebersole / Roy Dotrice / Simon Callow / Elizabeth Berridge / Tom Hulce / F. Murray Abraham
Antonio Salieri believes that Mozart's music is divine. He wishes he was himself as good a musician as Mozart so that he can praise the Lord through composing. But he can't understand why God favored Mozart, such a vulgar creature, to be his instrument. Salieri's envy has made him an enemy of God whose greatness was evident in Mozart. He is set to take revenge.

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Showgirls

Showgirls
Genres: Drama / Music
Year: 1995
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Cast:  Patrick Bristow / Al Ruscio / Greg Travis /  Alan Rachins / Robert Davi / Glenn Plummer / Gina Gershon / Kyle MacLachlan / Elizabeth Berkley / Michelle Johnston / Dewey Weber / Rena Riffel
Nomi Malone, a mysterious young girl with the ambition to dance embarks on a journey to Las Vegas to become a showgirl in a high-class hotel show. There she meets Molly, a seamstress at the Stardust Hotel and the two quickly become good friends. She gets a job as a lap dancer at the seedy Cheetah Club but after a chance meeting with Cristal Connors, the star of Goddess, the current show at the hotel where Molly works, Nomi manages to secure an audition for a spot on the chorus line.

Sunday, 26 May 2013

Footloose

Footloose
Genres:Romance / Music / Drama
Year: 2011
Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Julianne Hough / Kenny Wormald / Dennis Quaid / Andie MacDowell / Miles Teller / Ray McKinnon / Patrick John Flueger / Kim Dickens / Ziah Colon / Ser'Darius Blain / L. Warren Young / Brett Rice / Maggie Elizabeth Jones / Jayson Warner Smith / Mary-Charles Jones
City kid Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock 'n' roll and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

Friday, 26 April 2013

All That Jazz

All That Jazz
Genres: Drama / Fantasy  / Music
Year: 1979
Directors: Bob Fosse
Cast: Roy Scheider / Jessica Lange / Leland Palmer / Ann Reinking / Cliff Gorman / Ben Vereen / Erzsebet Foldi / Max Wright / Michael Tolan / Irene Kane
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer. 

Saturday, 20 April 2013

Madonna: Truth or Dare

Madonna: Truth or Dare
Genres: Music / Musical
Year: 1991
Director: Alek Keshishian
Cast: Madonna / Donna DeLory / Niki Harris / Luis Camacho / Oliver Crumes Jr. / Salim Gauwloos / Jose Guitierez / Kevin Alexander Stea / Gabriel Trupin / Carlton Wilborn / Sharon Gault
From the rain of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the music performer, from a prayer circle with the dancers before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.