American Musicals, a list by Adam McGready

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4.0

age 6+

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

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4.3

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4.0

age 11+

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

87

8.0

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77

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3.9

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4.0

age 6+

Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.

87

8.2

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81

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76

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4.3

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97

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85

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93

/28/

4.0

age 12+

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

86

8.0

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81

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82

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4.3

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98

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98

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82

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3.5

age 11+

A concert film documenting Taylor Swift's record-breaking Eras Tour (2023-2024). Filmed during the Los Angeles shows, the film captures the tour's ten acts, each representing a different musical era from Swift's career. The film showcases over 40 songs, elaborate stage productions, and Swift's performance.

86

8.1

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77

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75

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3.9

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98

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89

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92

/30/

4.0

age 6+

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

86

7.7

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77

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75

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3.6

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94

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90

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95

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4.0

age 6+

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

86

8.8

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85

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83

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4.4

/28624/

A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera was celebrated with a grand performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

86

8.5

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84

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82

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4.2

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92

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93

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88

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3.5

age 6+

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.

85

8.5

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81

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76

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4.2

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98

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93

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83

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3.5

age 10+

Filmed live on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical tells the remarkable true story of 38 flights grounded in a small Canadian town on September 11, 2001. As the locals host these “come from aways,” they come together and find hope.

85

8.4

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82

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82

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4.5

/116732/

88

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age 10+

Taylor Swift takes the stage in Dallas for the Reputation Stadium Tour and celebrates a monumental night of music, memories and visual magic.

85

7.7

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75

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72

/319/

3.8

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100

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90

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93

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4.0

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

84

7.6

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75

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80

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4.0

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96

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90

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79

/49/

4.0

age 11+

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

86

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8.3

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84

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84

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4.4

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100

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78

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The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.

84

7.7

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74

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73

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3.9

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91

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91

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93

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4.0

age 7+

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

84

7.7

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74

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73

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3.9

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95

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83

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96

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4.0

age 6+

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

84

7.9

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80

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78

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4.0

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95

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91

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82

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3.5

age 7+

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

83

8.3

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66

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82

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4.0

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95

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95

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78

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3.5

age 13+

Franklin Shepard is a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career and all his friends in New York in order to produce films in Los Angeles. The story begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today. A live recording of the 2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, filmed at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

83

7.8

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77

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72

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4.1

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100

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98

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77

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3.5

age 14+

A waitress and expert pie-maker dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.

83

8.0

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80

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77

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3.9

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96

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92

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86

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3.0

age 6+

In the boorish city of Agrabah, kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin and Princess Jasmine fall in love, although she can only marry a prince. He and power-hungry Grand Vizier Jafar vie for a magic lamp that can fulfill their wishes.

83

7.7

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80

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81

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3.8

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100

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85

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age 10+

Two years after bringing peace to the galaxy, Steven Universe sees his past come back to haunt him in the form of a deranged Gem who wants to destroy the Earth.

83

7.4

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77

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72

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4.0

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95

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85

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88

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4.0

age 10+

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

83

7.5

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72

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70

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3.8

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92

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85

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96

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4.0

age 13+

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.

83

7.6

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75

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73

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3.7

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92

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88

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88

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4.0

age 6+

This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.

83

8.0

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77

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78

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4.1

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91

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82

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94

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3.5

age 13+

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

82

7.4

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72

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68

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3.6

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93

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86

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91

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4.0

Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.

82

7.8

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78

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75

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3.9

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97

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86

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88

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age 5+

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

82

7.8

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76

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74

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4.2

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92

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87

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80

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3.5

age 15+

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

82

7.6

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79

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75

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3.7

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89

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81

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3.5

age 6+

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.

82

7.2

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73

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71

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3.5

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94

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94

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84

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4.0

age 11+

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.

82

7.4

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72

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72

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3.8

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95

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82

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93

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4.0

A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.

82

7.8

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76

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74

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3.9

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97

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90

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age 7+

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

82

7.6

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73

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72

/1989/

3.9

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92

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84

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86

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4.0

age 11+

In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.

82

7.8

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74

/93/

74

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3.7

/4172/

100

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85

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73

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4.0

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

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8.8

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83

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82

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4.2

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95

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This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original production at the Queen's Theatre, the 1985 original production by the London company, and the 2010 production at the Barbican together for one performance. Together with talents like Michael Ball, Hadley Fraser, and John Owen-Jones, the performers present the play's musical numbers in a semi-theatrical style, fully costumed and with all the emotion of the musical's heyday.

81

IMDb 81

7.5

/110301/

79

/9554/

81

/2183/

3.6

/1485126/

93

/98/

99

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77

/9/

3.0

age 10+

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.

81

7.6

/17889/

74

/301/

70

/225/

3.5

/12773/

91

/32/

83

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89

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4.0

age 8+

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

81

7.5

/30797/

74

/823/

69

/417/

3.8

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99

/81/

86

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94

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age 6+

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

81

7.5

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76

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76

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3.8

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88

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96

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74

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3.5

age 13+

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

81

7.8

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78

/10849/

74

/3835/

3.8

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90

/61/

87

/35009/

67

/10/

4.0

age 8+

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a winner.

81

7.7

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79

/18293/

79

/10218/

4.2

/1108004/

91

/141/

85

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72

/24/

3.5

age 5+

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

80

7.5

/20804/

72

/445/

71

/322/

3.9

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98

/45/

81

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89

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age 13+

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

80

7.3

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72

/28/

49

/11/

3.9

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100

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90

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85

/11/

4.0

A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.

80

7.8

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77

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74

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4.3

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88

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85

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72

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Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

80

7.4

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73

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70

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3.8

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92

/38/

84

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74

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4.0

age 12+

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

80

7.6

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76

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72

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4.0

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89

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88

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74

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3.5

age 6+

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

80

7.6

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77

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73

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3.8

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100

/11/

80

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age 14+

The Planet Express crew return from cancellation, only to be robbed blind by hideous "sprunging" scam artists. Things go from bad to worse when the scammers hack Bender, start traveling through time, and take Earth over entirely! Will the crew be able to save the day, or will Bender's larcenous tendencies and their general incompetence doom them all?

79

7.5

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73

/51/

70

/37/

3.5

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100

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82

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81

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