8 Femmes

8 Femmes

Genres: Musical / Comedy / Crime
Year: 2002

Language : French
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Danielle Darrieux / Catherine Deneuve / Emmanuelle Béart / Isabelle Huppert / Fanny Ardant /  Virginie Ledoyen


One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it his powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters?

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Bathing Beauty

Bathing Beauty
Genres: Comedy / Musical
Year: 1944
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Red Skelton / Esther Williams / Basil Rathbone / Bill Goodwin / Jean Porter / Nana Bryant / Carlos Ramírez / Ethel Smith / Lina Romay / Harry James Orchestra / Helen Forrest
Songwriter Steve Elliott is about to marry Caroline Brooks. A strange woman who's been paid by Steve's agent to say she's his wife interrupts the ceremony. An angry Caroline gets her old job back teaching at a girl's college. Determined to win her back, Steve enrolls in the school to become its only male student. ..

Funny Face

Funny Face

Genres: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Year: 1957 
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Fred Astaire / Audrey Hepburn / Iphigenie Castiglioni / Alex Gerry / Ruta Lee / Sue England / Virginia Gibson / Jean Del Val / Sunny Hartnett / Suzy Parker / Dovima / Robert Flemyng / Michel Auclair / Kay Thompson
Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott, the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.

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Fame

Fame

Genres: Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical
Year: 2009

Director: Kevin Tancharoen

Cast: Kay Panabaker / Walter Perez / Naturi Naughton / Asher Book / Kherington Payne / Collins Pennie / Kristy Flores / Paul McGill / Bebe Neuwirth / Paul Iacono / Charles S. Dutton / Cody Longo / Kelsey Grammer / Anna Maria Perez de Tagle / Megan Mullally

An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

Les bien-aimés

Les bien-aimés
Genres : Drama  / Musical / Romance
Year : 2011

Director: Christophe Honoré

Cast : Catherine Deneuve / Ludivine Sagnier / Chiara Mastroianni / Louis Garrel / Milos Forman / Paul Schneider 

In London, a mother and daughter navigate their respective romances; Madeline rekindles an affair from thirty years earlier, while her daughter Vera is caught between a musician who cannot commit and her ex, who still pines for her.

Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark

Genres: Drama / Musical
Year: 2000
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Björk / Catherine Deneuve / David Morse / Peter Stormare / Joel Grey / Cara Seymour / Vladica Kostic / Jean-Marc Barr / Vincent Paterson / Siobhan Fallon / Zeljko Ivanek / Udo Kier / Jens Albinus / Reathel Bean / Mette Berggreen

Selma has emigrated with her son from Central Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life feels tough she can pretend that she is in the wonderful world of musicals...just for a short moment.

Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge!

Genres: Romance / Musical / Drama 

Year: 2001  

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman /  Kylie Minogue / David Wenham / Lara Mulcahy / Natalie Mendoza / Christine Anu / Caroline O'Connor / Kerry Walker / Matthew Whittet / Jacek Koman / Garry McDonald / Richard Roxburgh / Jim Broadbent / John Leguizamo / Ewan McGregor

The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine. But her affections are also coveted by the club's patron: the Duke .

Burlesque

Burlesque

Genres: Romance / Musical / Drama
Year: 2010
Director: Steve Antin
Cast: Terrence Jenkins / David Walton / Glynn Turman / Dianna Agron / Stanley Tucci / Kristen Bell / Peter Gallagher / Alan Cumming / Julianne Hough / Cam Gigandet / Eric Dane / Christina Aguilera / Cher / Chelsea Traille
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it. Tess, a retired dancer and owner of the venue, struggles to keep the aging theater alive, facing all kinds of financial and artistic challenges. With the Lounge's troupe members becoming increasingly distracted by personal problems and a threat coming from a wealthy businessman's quest to buy the spot from Tess, the good fortune seems to have abandoned the club altogether.

Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

Genres: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Year: 2008
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Cast:Meryl Streep / Amanda Seyfried / Stellan Skarsgård / Pierce Brosnan / Nancy Baldwin / Colin Firth / Heather Emmanuel / Colin Davis / Rachel McDowall / Ashley Lilley / Julie Walters / Christine Baranski / Ricardo Montez / Mia Soteriou / Enzo Squillino Jr.

Set on a colorful Greek island, the plot serves as a background for a wealth of ABBA songs. A young woman about to be married discovers that any one of three men could be her father. She invites all three to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna, who was once the lead singer of Donna and the Dynamos. In the meantime, Donna has invited her backup singers, Rosie and Tanya.

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. 

The King And I

The King And I
Genres :  Drama / Family / Musical 
Year : 1956
Director:Walter Lang
Cast: Yul Brynner / Deborah Kerr  / Rita Moreno / Martin Benson / Terry Saunders / Rex Thompson / Carlos Rivas / Patrick Adiarte
 Mrs. Anna Leonowens and her son Louis arrive in Bangkok, where she has contracted to teach English to the children of the royal household. She threatens to leave when the house she had been promised is not available, but falls in love with the children. A new slave, a gift of a vassal king, translates "Uncle Tom's Cabin" into a Siamese ballet, expressing her unhappiness at being with the King. She attempts to escape with her lover. Anna and the King fall in love, but her British upbringing inhibits her from joining his harem.

Hair

Hair

Genres:Comedy / Drama / Musical
Year: 1979 
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: John Savage / Treat Williams / Beverly D'Angelo / Annie Golden / Dorsey Wright / Don Dacus / Cheryl Barnes / Richard Bright / Nicholas Ray / Charlotte Rae / Miles Chapin / Fern Tailer / Charles Denny / Herman Meckler / Agness Breen

This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Grease

Grease

Genres: Musical / Romance
Year: 1978 
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John / Stockard Channing / Jeff Conaway / Barry Pearl / Michael Tucci / Kelly Ward / Didi Conn / Jamie Donnelly / Dinah Manoff / Eve Arden / Frankie Avalon / Joan Blondell / Edd Byrnes / Sid Caesar

A musical about teens in love in the 50's! It's California, 1959 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, but when they go back to school, what either of them don't know is that they both now attend Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black-jacket greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo. When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally, Danny isn't the same Danny at the beach. They try to be like each other so they can be together.

Lambada

Lambada
Genres: Drama / Musical 
Year: 1990 
Director: Joel Silberg
Cast: J. Eddie Peck / Melora Hardin / Adolfo Quinones / Leticia Vasquez / Dennis Burkley / Rita Bland / Jimmy Locust / Gina Ravera / Matt Feemster / Kristina Starman / Basil Hoffman
Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.

Popaye

Popaye
Genres:Comedy  / Musical / Romance
Year:1980
Director:Robert Altman
Cast:Robin Williams /  Shelley Duvall / Ray Walston/ Paul Dooley / Paul L. Smith / Roberta Maxwell
Buff sailor-man Popeye arrives in an awkward seaside town called Sweet Haven. There he meets Wimpy, a hamburger-loving man; Olive Oyl, the soon-to-be love of his life; and Bluto, a huge, mean pirate who's out to make Sweet Haven pay for no good reason. Popeye also discovers his long-lost Pappy in the middle of it all, so with a band of his new friends, Popeye heads off to stop Bluto, and he's got the power of spinach, which Popeye detests, to butt Bluto right in the mush. Watch as Popeye mops the floor with punks in a burger joint, stops a greedy tax man, takes down a champion boxer, and even finds abandoned baby Swee' Pea. He's strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach!

Romance & Cigarettes

Romance & Cigarettes

Genres: Romance / Musical / Comedy
Year: 2005 
Director: John Turturro
Cast: Elaine Stritch / Barbara Sukowa / Christopher Walken / Aida Turturro / Mary-Louise Parker / Mandy Moore / Bobby Cannavale / Steve Buscemi / Kate Winslet / Susan Sarandon / James Gandolfini / Eddie Izzard / Amy Sedaris / P.J. Brown / Adam LeFevre
Down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges...

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Genres: Drama / Horror / Musical
Year: 2007
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp / Helena Bonham Carter / Alan Rickman / Timothy Spall / Sacha Baron Cohen / Jamie Campbell Bower / Laura Michelle Kelly / Jayne Wisener / Ed Sanders / Gracie May / Ava May / Gabriella Freeman / Jody Halse / Aron Paramor / Lee Whitlock

In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs.

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Hairspray

Hairspray

Genres: Romance / Musical / Comedy
Year: 2007 
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Jerry Stiller / Paul Dooley / Jayne Eastwood / Taylor Parks / Nikki Blonsky / Allison Janney / Elijah Kelley / Zac Efron / Brittany Snow / Queen Latifah / James Marsden / Amanda Bynes / Christopher Walken / Michelle Pfeiffer / John Travolta

Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy's mother Edna's dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next person on the Corny Collins show. With all of the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy makes it on the show, angering the evil dance queen Amber Von Tussle and her mother Velma.

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie
Genres: Musical / Family / Comedy

Year: 1963

Director:  George Sidney

Cast: Janet Leigh / Dick Van Dyke / Ann-Margret / Maureen Stapleton / Bobby Rydell / Jesse Pearson / Paul Lynde / Mary LaRoche
Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss a high school girl goodbye. Albert's mother will do anything to break him up with Rosie. Kim and Hugo, the high school steadies, live in Sweet Apple, Ohio where most of the action takes place. 

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.