Movies: Based on play or musical

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The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal....

A group of people in a small, isolated desert town through a series of strange events, begin to come to terms with growing older....

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic....

William Shakespeare's Macbeth....

A woman is murdered and a hand bill of a resort run by a young couple is found. Is the murderer headed for it? Who is next victim? All the boarders, including owners are under false name. Why? A policeman arrives, will he be able to stop?...

This special event celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Broadway production. Ragtime weaves an electrifying tapestry of three families from vastly different worlds, colliding and converging as they chase the American Dream through a tumultuous era ...

An architect, who has recently married a new, younger wife, tries to re-connect with his ex-wife, who is being courted by another man....

Tatyana’s husband left for the business trip. And right away the local ladies’ men begin to put the moves towards a young woman. At first she fights back, but under the pressure of good words and love-making she is ready to put up hands. But the husb...

Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of crazy mafia boss....

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Ballet performance by The Royal Ballet, recorded at Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, July 1984....

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyv...

The first Finnish full-length feature film and the first film adaptation of Minna Canth’s play of the same name. Orphaned Sylvi is married to her older guardian Aksel Vahli, but is in love with her childhood friend Viktor Hoving. A difficult situatio...

Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears....

Can Professor Higgins teach a working-class flower girl to speak like a duchess?...

Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New York sets sail. On board is also his lover Barbara Shadwell, whom he wants to marry, but who, at the request of her mother, the syrup millionaire Ceila Shadwell, s...

This comedy story of Joe Haller unwittingly running a sweatshop and Mama Haller keeping the suitors away from her daughters by discussing marriage....

A young wife wants to have children, but her husband neglects her. She confides her longings to a handsome brain surgeon. Complications ensue....