6.5 Special (1958)
Genre: Music
Director: Alfred Shaughnessy
Actors: Avril Leslie, Diane Todd, Finlay Currie, Freddie Mills, Josephine Douglas, Pete Murray
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes…
Waikiki Brothers (2001)
Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members to continue on the road. The band ends up at the…
Playing for Time (1980)
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners…
Head (1968)
In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees’ television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social…
Love on Tap (1939)
In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.
Help Help the Globolinks! (1969)
The world’s only psychedelic children’s opera about an alien invasion.
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932)
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he’s King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where…
Mozart’s Sister (2024)
For the first 18 years of her life, Mozart’s sister shared equal billing with her brother. Musical partners and collaborators, Wolfgang Mozart and Maria-Anna Mozart played together before Kings and…
Dalton’s Dream (2023)
After winning one of the world’s top singing competitions, a young musician from rural Jamaica struggles for stardom whilst battling life-threatening allegations about his sexuality.
Whoopee! (1930)
Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he’s…