
25 Dec 2006

Dreamgirls
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

From the San Francisco Opera: "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Porgy

Bess
Crown
Sportin' Life
Serena

Clara
Maria
Jake
Mingo
Annie
Strawberry Woman
Lily
Robbins
Crab Man
Peter
Nelson
Jim
Frazier
Undertaker
Detective

25 Dec 2006

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

01 Jan 1991

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

17 Mar 2004

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

06 Mar 2025

No overview found

01 Oct 1945

Set in Baku at the turn of the 20th century, a young successful businessman Asgar wishes to marry. He wants his bride to be the choice of his heart, however, Azerbaijani tradition restricted him from communicating with the lady as a lover before marriage. So Asgar decides to disguise himself as a mere cloth peddler and the young woman Gulchohra falls in love with him.

01 Jun 1981

Children from in a summer camp decided to invite a group of famous actors to visit them.

01 Jan 2008

There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 tragedy about a sex goddess humbled by an insistent Cenobite monk isn't produced very often, because of a demanding lead role and some difficult staging issues. But the music is gorgeous from beginning to end. When you have a great diva at centre stage, the three acts go by in a flash.
Felix McCoy is a young boy grappling with the loss of his mother, the beloved creator of the town’s annual holiday pageant. When the production is hijacked and rebranded into a shallow spectacle by cocksure director Hamilton Lydell, Felix secretly sabotages the event, only to realize that saving the show might be the only way to keep his late mother’s spirit alive.

19 Feb 2021

An operatic film adaptation of the poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar of the same name.

30 Nov 1942

No overview found

26 Apr 2024

Foul-mouthed mother-from-hell Karen Matthews is fed up being a nobody, until she hatches a cunning plan for a shot at the big time. Henpecked common-law husband Craig Meehan has an unhealthy obsession with his laptop. Simple-minded uncle Michael Donovan just wants to fill the void left by his two daughters getting taken into care. Stereotypical Yorkshire copper D.I. Radgitt faces a race against time to unravel the web of lies and find the missing girl, little Shannon Matthews, aged 9.

18 Oct 1960

A German "Schlager-Film" (a musical comedy with popular songs) with Giorgia Moll in the title role.

28 Mar 2021

Two mystical beings emerge from the scenery, embarking on a journey through Gallup— Na'nízhoozhí in the Navajo language— before melting back into the desert at nightfall.

12 Jan 2001

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.

01 Jan 1989

In this concert, recorded live London’s Royal Festival Hall in 1989, Dizzy Gillespie performs with the magical United Nation Orchestra and a selection of jazz musicians including Slide Hampton, Arturo Sandoval, Paquito D'Rivera, Mario Rivera and Flora Purim.

28 Nov 2014

In the city of São Paulo, the routine of gravedigger apprentice Deodato changes when a new working girl arrives at the cemetery. Together, they must re-register the abandoned tombs, but strange events make the apprentice wonder about the consequences of messing with the dead.

30 Jun 1946

In the tradition of Fantasia, Make Mine Music is a glorious collection of musically charged animated shorts featuring such fun-filled favorites as "Peter and the Wolf", narrated by the beloved voice behind Winnie the Pooh. In addition you'll enjoy such classic cartoon hits as "Casey at the Bat," "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met" and "Johnnie Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet."

10 Mar 2018

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.

23 Nov 2004

No overview found

07 Jul 2009

Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of Stick's drug houses and kills two of his men, Stick is forced to choose between leaving it all behind or seeking revenge and feeding the cycle of violence.