Keyword: based on play or musical

7th Heaven

7.8

1927

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A street cleaner saves a young womans life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.

Lemonade Joe

7.5

1964

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Straight shooting Lemonade Joe cleans up Stetson City, in this musical parody of early Westerns, after shooting the pants off villain Old Pistol. Joes endorsement of Kolaloka (Crazy Cola) lemonade as the refresher that assures deadly aim, convinces the Arizona sin-town to abstain from alcohol. Based on the 1963 Czech stage production. But Trigger Whiskey maker Duke Badmans brother the devious gunslinger Hogofogo, comes to save his siblings saloon from Joes allies, father and daughter temperance revivalists, the Goodmans.

Love! Valour! Compassion!

6.8

1997

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Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregorys significant other, who is blind but who loves to explore the homes garden using his sense of touch; Art and Perry, two yuppies who drive a Volvo and who celebrate their 14th anniversary together that summer; John, a dour expatriate Briton who loathes his twin brother James; Ramon, Johns companion, who is physically attracted to Bobby and immediately tries to seduce the blind man; James, a cheerful soul who is in the advanced stages of AIDS; and Buzz, a fan of traditional Broadway musicals who is dealing with his own HIV-positive status.

The Winslow Boy

7.3

1999

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Following the theft of a postal order, a 14-year-old cadet is expelled from Naval College. To save the honour of the boy and his family, the pre-eminent barrister of the day is engaged to take on the might of the Admiralty.

The Maids

6.5

1975

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A film version of Genets play. Two house cleaners, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.

Kongo

6.2

1932

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This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god. He rules the local natives through superstition and stage magic and he rules the few white people through sadism, keeping them virtual prisoners. He lives for the day he can avenge himself horribly on the man who stole his wife and crushed his spine. Strong and macabre stuff in a nearly forgotten horror film.

The Ghost Train

6.4

1941

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High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

7.2

1976

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The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.

Sister Cities

6.9

2016

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After years of estrangement, four sisters gather in the wake of their mothers death, which may or may have not been a suicide.

Fast and Loose

6.2

1930

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A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.

Oleanna

6.7

1994

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When a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn.

Speech & Debate

6.4

2017

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Frustrated by the hypocrisy they see in their parents, teachers, and the entire school board, an unlikely trio set out to find a common truth and make their voices heard as they revive a defunct school club and take on the world.