Movies: Based on play or musical

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The innocent Candide discovers that human beings aren't all they are cracked up to be and ultimately focuses on building his own life on his own terms....

Two runaway, gun-obsessed, outlaw lovers are given a task to kill two political figures in the midst of a civil revolution outside the walls where these characters are trapped, waiting for the phone call to give them a sense of purpose...

A bible publisher is falling in love with a chorus girl and finds himself backing a Broadway show....

Aragón, Spain, early 20th century. María del Pilar is a honest girl whose good name is dirtied when an old suitor seeking revenge accuses her of losing her virginity outside of marriage. The scandal soon spreads throughout the countryside....

Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky. The rich merchant widow Yuliya Tugina is practically ruined by her lover, impoverished nobleman Vadim Dulchin, who loves only himself and gambling. Merchant Flor Fedulych in lov...

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist....

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Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families. A lost film....

When Ireland's most notorious amateur sports star becomes the first man in history to fail a test for PEDs, he agrees to coach the country's worst team in order to try and rebuild his shattered reputation....

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A peasant without money or work, sells his soul to "El Garrudo" in order to get wealth and marry the young and beautiful Petita. Years later, Juan Maula and "El Garrudo" debate in a duel of "payas" (a singing and composing competition) , where the pe...

A 20-year-old stage actress takes on her most challenging role when she pretends to be her own mother's 12-year-old daughter....

Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play Moby Dick—Rehearsed, or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supportin...

The very first American-style Post Office robbery in Finland. In the midst of the 60's a gangster quartet led by Hilarius Ruokonen splits up and go into hiding after the heist....

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An ode to Rom-Coms of the past - Company follows anti-romantic Julia as she navigates the world of love, with her friends by her side, after a night of being swept off her feet by a dashing young man....

Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as A...