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Plot Summary:
Forever Plaid is an affectionate musical homage to the close-harmony 'guy groups' that reached the height of their popularity during the 1950s. This quartet of high-school chums, and their earnest dreams of recording an album, ended (symbolically, and even literally) in death, when their cherry red '54 Mercury collided with a bus filled with Catholic schoolgirls on their way to see the Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. The girls were fine. The play begins with the wondrous and wondering Plaids returning from the afterlife for one final chance at musical glory.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Magic Show (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Magic Show is a one-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob Randall. It starred magician Doug Henning. Produced by Edgar Lansbury, it opened on May 28, 1974 at the Cort Theatre in Manhattan, and ran for 1,920 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Henning was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and director Grover Dale was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical. In 2001, a filmed performance staged especially for the cameras in 1980, directed by Norman Campbell at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, was issued on DVD by Image Entertainment. This production, originally intended for cinema release, differed notably from the original Broadway production, with several of the most memorable songs, such as "West End Avenue" and "Solid Silver Platform Shoes", removed. Doug Henning reprised his original starring role, while Didi Conn co-starred as Cal.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
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Nunsense (1993)
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An unfortunate convent cooking accident causes most of the order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken to die of botulism. Before all of the deceased sisters can be buried, Reverend Mother Superior (Rue McClanahan) buys a camcorder and VCR for the convent - resulting in not having enough money to bury the four remaining sisters (which, by the way, are temporarily being stored in the freezer). In order to raise money to bury the four dead sisters, the Little Sisters of Hoboken (well, what's left of them) put on a riotous revue packed with hilarious, show-stopping song and dance numbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
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It's a Complex World (1991)
Plot Summary:
A band of would-be terrorists threaten to blow up the Heartbreak Hotel, Providence's most notorious rock club. Featuring extended live performances by The Young Adults and Morris Brock.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Let's Make Love 2 (1989)
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Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
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It's All Judas' Fault (2009)
Plot Summary:
A prison-set musical about a female theater director who sets up a reinterpretation of the Crucifixion.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
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The Hit (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: campy
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It Was Beyond the Narva Gate (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Applause (1973)
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An aspiring actress, whose sugar-coated appearance belies her ruthless drive, worms herself into the life of an aging star and schemes to replace her on the stage as the star of a new play.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Apollo Goes on Holiday (1968)
Plot Summary:
Prince Jan is spying on beautiful tour guide Elena from his helicopter while touring Greece. He escapes from his entourage and joins the girl's group, posing as a humble visitor. The two fall in love, but Prince Jan, knowing that he has duties and responsibilities to his country, leaves her, never revealing his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
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The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Special (2020)
Plot Summary:
The story of two queens who set out to create a classic Christmas TV variety show, but just can’t agree on how. DeLa tries her hardest to uphold the cheery Christmas traditions of her childhood. Meanwhile, Jinkx is much more interested in bawdy jokes, cute boys, and boozy libations.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: christmas special, independent film, slapstick comedy, queer cinema, campy
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Hot Summer (1968)
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The 1968 East German film Heißer Sommer brought six million East Germans into the theaters and today is regarded as one of the greatest DEFA films. Actors Frank Schobel and Chris Doerk were made famous from the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: East Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
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Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, exotic
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Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963)
Plot Summary:
Nightclub singer Eddie and comedian Tommy, working in a roaring twenties style club, meet and being dating publicist Allison and photographer Cynthia, respectively. They soon discover that the women spend weekends at a nudist club which the guys disapprove.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, independent film
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The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Plot Summary:
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the same name that also starred Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Those who remember that film, which had the benefit of retakes and editing, a lavish production budget, and the spaciousness of a Hollywood studio, may find this video less polished. On its own terms, it is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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Ah, Vaudeville, Vaudeville... (1980)
Plot Summary:
A romantic love story set in a good old XIX century in the best traditions of Russian vaudevilles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 67 min
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1973)
Plot Summary:
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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A Little Night Music (1977)
Plot Summary:
"Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik goes to see an old flame, the famous actress Desiree Armfeldt. Desiree is getting tired of her life, and is thinkin of settling down, and sets her sights on Fredrik, despite his marriage, and her own married lover Count Carl-Magnus. She gets her mother to invite the Egermans to her country estate for the weekend. But when Carl-Magnus and his wife Charlotte appear, too, things begin to get farcical (Send in the Clowns), and the night must smile for the third time before all the lovers are united." Written by Kathy Li.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: West Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fun
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Shock Treatment (1981)
Plot Summary:
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, allegory, spoof, horror musical, black comedy, horror comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous
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Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006)
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Tony Bennett: An American Classic was an Emmy Award-winning television special celebrating the life of musical icon Tony Bennett on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Directed by Rob Marshall (Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago), it charts Bennett’s career by faithfully re-creating venues from his past, from the downtown Greenwich Village club where he was discovered, to the Columbia recording studios of the early 60's, from rat pack Las Vegas to Carnegie Hall. Bennett is joined for each number by the artists that collaborated with him on his Duets album, with musical performances by Barbra Streisand, John Legend, k.d. lang, Chris Botti, Diana Krall, Juanes, Elton John, Michael Bublé, Stevie Wonder and Christina Aguilera.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating
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At Long Last Love (1975)
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Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, art deco, neo screwball comedy
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, sexy
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Naked Boys Singing! (2007)
Plot Summary:
This whimsical Off-Broadway hit musical is aptly reworked and transferred to the screen. The self-descriptively titled Naked Boys Singing is a musical revue of songs that poke fun at gay life, body image, love, loss and yearning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, sexy, semi serious, independent film, suspense, erotic, biting, sexual, queer cinema
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Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, semi serious, biting
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Victor/Victoria (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan (Michael Nouri) falls in-love with "her." Flimed live on stage on Broadway, 1995.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, remake of american film, queer cinema
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, stylized, technicolor, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, light
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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Plot Summary:
Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Plot Summary:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, black and white, hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, satirical, vintage
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Freak Dance (2010)
Plot Summary:
A spoiled rich girl who wants to be a dancer finds herself caught into between two rival dance groups set to do battle at an underground competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, parody, realistic, alternative comedy