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Music movies
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Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. His close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the recording company of Tommy and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman) and takes patronage over promising young singer (Christina Milian). A wannabe gangster, gay bodyguard and Russian gangsters makes his life more complicated. This film is a sequel to "Get Shorty", Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) co-stars in this movie, which can be of music lovers' interest. |
| Bodyguard, The
[1992,
USA]
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| Never let her out of your sight. Never let your guard down. Never fall in love. |
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Witney Houston plays the maniac-besieged superstar singer Rachel Marone who is defended by Kevin Kostner's Frank Farmer. He is a professional bodyguard, so the maniac has to face the tough adversary. But the foe threatens with the promises to kill the singer, and she runs risks by deciding to perform the concert instead of passing out of sight. At the same time, she finds herself romantically involved with her defender... |
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A 21-year-old girl with a beautiful voice, Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), moves to New York with the hope to make it big as a songwriter. But life in Big Apple is much harder than she expected. All her efforts to rent a good apartment and to find a producer are in vain. Frustrated and aground, Violet finally gets a job as a barmaid at a famous nightclub called Coyote Ugly where only gorgeous and enterprising women run the show. In company of sexy bartenders whose manners disgust canting hypocrites and attract men, Violet has to overcome her shyness so that she can perform her songs herself. |
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Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) and Nina Veronica (Jessica Lange) are slimy promoters planning a benefit concert. They desire the services of legendary singer Jack Fate (Bob Dylan), and soon Fate is sprung from jail. A rock journalist (played by Jeff Bridges) investigates the concert, attempting to determine just who will benefit. Revolution may be raging outside the arena, but Jack Fate and the benefit concert play on as planned. |
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Terri Fletcher (Hilary Duff) is a small-town girl with a fine singing voice and a great love of music in this heartfelt musical drama. She has her sights set on attending the LA Bristol-Hillman Conservatory, the most celebrated summer music program in the country. When a tragedy interrupts her steady life when her brother died in a car crash, Terri defies her father's wishes and covertly heads off to the respective arts academy. As she tries to come to terms with her family, she finds herself romantically involved with the one of her fellow students, Jay (Oliver James), and contending for attention and for the school's $10,000 academic scholarship against many of kids whose talent rivals her own. |
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Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music. Against the wishes of his rigid father and his loving wife, Yussel travels to California to play his music. Swept up by the excitement, he meets a woman who shares his dream. He grows apart from his family, and becomes confused about what he should ultimately do with his life. |
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Continuing the story of the original film, Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil, Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop, complicated further by her new love, hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice, will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory? |
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Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Stuart Townsend), weary of his reclusive immortal life, decides to become the leader of an unknown rock and roll band. The group achieves overnight fame and popularity due to his efforts and Lestat becomes a worldwide idol. He defies the unspoken rule that vampires must keep aloof from people and writes songs containing specific words of the secret life of bloodsuckers. As might be expected in such a set-up, his lyrics enchain both his fellow vampires who are bent on taking revenge on him for his betrayal and scholars who study bloodthirsty creatures. Among them is Jesse Reeves (Marguerite Moreau), a young London student who goes off her head about the charismatic Lestat. Furthermore, Lestat's delightful gloomy music awakens the evil Queen of the Dammed, Akasha (Aaliyah), from her century-long slumber and kindles the flame of love in her heart. None of vampires can confront the mighty Akasha... |
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Two sex-obsessed teenage boys, Kevin (Harry Enfield) and his longtime buddy Perry (Kathy Burke), haven't yet lost their virginity. If they don't pick up girls soon, they will go crazy. As dance music fans, they find an outlet in creating great music mixes. But then they come up with the idea of taking a holiday trip to Ibiza inhabited by top DJs and hot babies. Armed with condoms and sunscreen, the guys go to the sunny island, hoping to succeed in bedding some babes and meeting their idol, superstar DJ Eyeball Paul (Rhys Ifans), in order to give him their demo tape. |
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The dynamic musical drama centers on Rob (Omarion Grandberry), a talented young fellow from the South Bronx who wants to make a name for himself as a hip-hop artist. But after a run-in with a gang of local thugs he is forced to leave his dreams behind and seek refuge with his estranged Puerto Rican father Roberto (Giancarlo Esposito) whom he never knew. Rob immediately becomes friends with his half brother Javi (Victor Rasuk) who also dreams of making it big in the music industry. With the help of sexy, beautiful dancer C.C. (Zulay Henao), the two try to take over the world with their new musical brand of hip-hop reggae. |
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The movie is based on real events in the life of the world's wealthiest rapper Curtis James Jackson, better known by his stage name 50 Cent. He achieved great success, following the motto "Through hardship to the stars." His life was no honeymoon. At the age of eight Curtis was left an orphan when his drug-dealing mother was murdered. He had to adjust to the streets, and at the age of twelve he began dealing narcotics. Having served out six months in prison and been shot nine times, Curtis decided to cut the strings of his criminal past and pursue his dream of becoming a rap artist. |
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