Troy, Gabriella and the rest of the Wildcats group prepare a new musical, a more complex one. They want to mark the change that is about to happen in their life.

Their new musical reflects their experiences, their hopes, but also the fear of the unknown future that awaits for them. This new musical approaches new music styles, new dances and it shows the talent of the high school students, that are about to start a new life.

Release Date: November 21, 2008

Genre: Romance, Musical, Family, Comedy

Cast:

Zac Efron (Troy Bolton)

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (Gabriella Montez)

Director: Kenny Ortega

After her brother dies in an accident, Terry knows that she has to fight for what she wants and leaves at summer school, without her father knowing.

Here, she experiences life in a big city. She develops her musical skills and she also meets the love of her life, among her classmates.

Release Date: October 8, 2004

Genre: Romance, Drama, Music

Cast:

Hilary Duff (Terry Fletcher)

Oliver James (Jay Corgan)

David Keith (Simon Fletcher)

Director: Sean McNamara

Even if she seems and wants to be a normal girl, the price of success is too high, even for her.
Now that she is a famous pop music singer, her celebrity overwhelms her and she seems unable to handle all the pressure that comes along with it and takes over her life.

Her only way out id to ask her father to take her on a trip to her home town in Tennessee, called Crowley Corners.

It is the only place where she could be at peace and could decide what she wants to do with her life in the spotlights.

Release Date: 10 April 2009

Genre: Comedy, Family, Music

Cast: Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Tyra Banks, Melora Hardin, Vanessa Williams, Mitchel Musso, Billy Ray Cyrus, Adam Gregory, Moises Arias, Dolly Parton, Heather Locklear, Barry Bostwick, Margo Martindale, Lucas Till, Beau Billingslea, Frances Callier, Gary LeVox, Emily Reaves, JoeDon Rooney, GJ Tiari, Jay DeMarcus

Director: Peter Chelsom

Hector Lavoe is one of the most important music icons of Puerto Rico. The film shows us his path to celebrity, all the mixed feelings and unexpected situations.

His passionate relationship with Puchi is also an important part of his life. Unfortunately, it is not enough to keep him away from drugs and drinking.

Release Date: 3 August 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz, Vincent Laresca

Director: Leon Ichaso

Davey Stone is a Jewish young man who lives in a little town called Dukesberry, in the New England County.He absolutely hates holidays and in the first day of Hanukkah he messes up so badly that he ends up in front of a judge for it.

The problem is that it is not the first time this has happened and the judge is determined to send the grumpy young man to jail, to teach him a lesson.

Luckily, an eccentric old man called Whitey asks the judge to give him the chance to transform Davey into an exemplary citizen.

Will he make it?

Release Date: 27 November 2002

Genre: Animation,  Comedy, Musical

Cast: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider, Norm Crosby, Jon Lovitz, Tyra Banks, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Blake Clark, Peter Dante, Ellen Albertini Dow, Kevin P. Farley, Tom Kenny

Director: Seth Kearsley

Sometime in the sixties, in the middle of anti-war protests, of the fight for freedom of speech and civil rights, for mind exploring and rock’n roll, people did not stop falling in love.

Even from the beginning, we see different backgrounds for the stories, starting with high schools and going to universities in Massachussets, Princeton, Ohio.

Then we move all the way to Manhattan, or to Detroit, or in the middle of the Vietnam conflicts or on the Liverpool docks.

The film combines successfully real life scenes with animated ones, having as soundtracks many of the classic Beatles songs famous in that time.

Release Date:  12 October 2007

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical, Romance

Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Max Carrigan, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Salma Hayek, Bono

Director: Julie Taymor

Take the Lead

Pierre Dulaine is a professional dancer, who offers his services to a high school in Bronx. Principal Augustine Jane makes Dulaine’s life harder, when he gives him a class under detention. In this class, are the most difficult students.

When the students find out that Dulaine wants to teach them how to dance, in a classic way, they don’t believe him. Dulaine proves them that he knows how to dance.

Five students (Rock, LaRhette, Ramos, Eddie and Sasha) form a group that respect Dulaine’s talent. They have their own way of dancing and they create a wonderful mixture between hip-hop and classic movements, creating  a new style.

Release Date: April 7, 2006

Genre: Music, Drama

Cast:

Antonio Banderas (Pierre Dulaine)

Rob Brown (Rock)

Director: Liz Friedlander

The Princess and the Frog

“The Princess and the Frog” is a musical and a family movie, which records the recursion to a 2D format traditional cartoon.

This has already started a vivid controversy, due to the fact that the Heroine is the first black princess from the rich history of Walt Disney cartoons.

The story is about Tania, a young and beautiful 19-year-old afro-american princess, who lives with her mother Eudora in the luxurious French District from New Orleans, in the time of so-called Jazz Era.

The action complicates by the unwanted intervention of Facilier doctor, a voodoo magician and a fortune teller, who plays the bad character of the fairy tale, and his mother Odie, a 200 years old voodoo sorceress.

The funniest character is Louis, a likeable alligator who sings jazz at the trumpet.

Based on the classical fairy tale, of the prince transformed in a frog by an evil magician, who becomes human again after he’ll be kissed by his heart chosen, this movie is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time.

You can’t miss it!!!

Release Date: 25 December 2009 (USA)

Genre: Animation, Family, Musical, Romance

Cast: John Goodman, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey, Jenifer Lewis, Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos

Director: Ron Clements, John Musker

The Rocker Poster

“The Rocker” is a comedy with a very optimistic message as it emphasizes the fact that it is never too late for dreams to come true.

It supports the idea that you must never stop fighting for your dreams, for what you really like in life, even when the chances to actually succeed seem minimal.

Robert ‘Fish’ Fisherman was, in the 1980′s, a passionate and dedicated drum player in the rock band called Vesuvius; unfortunately he was kicked out of the band without too many explanations exactly before they became famous and appreciated all over the world.

He was forced to get an ordinary job in order to pay his bills, and 20 years later he gets a chance to start his music career all over again when a teen band hires him as their drum player.

Release Date: 20 August 2008

Genre: Comedy, Music

Cast: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, Emma Stone

Director: Peter Cattaneo

Garage Days

A rock n’ roll band from Sydney, tries to enter the competitive showbiz market.

Their first concert is a big failure. Due to this,  Freddy, the lead singer and the leader of the band, promises to manage to get the most successful rock band agent in the country.

Meanwhile, the other members of the band are busy with daily things, things that complicate their life and that could lead to the break up of the band.

Tanya, Freddie’s girlfriend, starts a relationship with Lucy, and Joe’s girlfriend, who is pregnant, tells Joe that she is in love with Freddie. On the other hand, Joe starts a relationship with Angie.

This way, the band’s road to success, seems pretty long.

Release Date: July 18, 2003

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Cast:

Kick Gurry (Freddie)

Pia Miranda (Tanya)

Brett Stiller (Joe)

Director: Alex Proyas

La Boheme

The opera “La Bohème” is based on the tragic love story of Mimí and Rodolfo, and it is set in Paris during the 1830s.

Puccini’s most expressive opera shows us the true face of the life of bohemian Parisian artists who enjoyed a very relaxed life and only worked enough to pay for their dinner.

Hungry but cheerful, Rodolfo, the poet, shares a tiny dirty room with Marcello, the painter, and two other friends.

On Christmas Eve, fragile Mimi shows up at their door and Rodolfo falls madly in love with her.

In the meanwhile, Marcello is in a relationship with Musetta, who is more preoccupied with flirting than with the artist standing next to her.

Things between Rodolfo and Mimi go fine for a while, but he is extremely jealous and they finally break up; unfortunately, he does not know she is about to die and they only get a few moments of love before death separates them forever.

Release Date: 19 December 2008

Genre: Music, Romance

Cast: Nicole Cabell, Boaz Daniel, Stéphane Degout, Ioan Holender, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón

Director: Robert Dornhelm

Queen of the Damned

As the name suggests, the movie ‘Queen of the Damned’ is all about vampires and myths.The movie is inspired from Anne Rice’s novel and it presents the modern version of a classic vampire myth.

After many years of sleeping in his coffin, the vampire Lestat awakens and realizes that the world has changed. Wanting to be a part of this world, he becomes a rock star.

His music brings to life the ancient Queen Akasha.

Lestat wants immortal fame and his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal. Akasha, the Queen of Vampires wants to make Lestat her king.

Who will the Queen of the Damned choose?

Release Date: February 22, 2002

Genre: Horror. Musical, Fantasy

Cast:

Aaliyah (Queen Akasha)

Stuart Townsend (Lestat)

Director: Michael Rymer

G

Although its worldwide premiere took place in 2002, at a film festival, this Christopher Scott Cherot film did not make its theatrical premiere until 2005.

‘G’ is a film based by the world famous novel ‘The Great Gatsby’, written by F.Scott Fitzgerald and the main character is G, a music mogul who basically has it all, except for the only woman he really loved.

Along the years, G has managed to evolve from the neigborhood hip-hopper into the self-made multi-millionaire hip hop music mogul who owns a house in the Hamptons and has the world at his feet.

The only problem is that, on his way to fame and fortune, he lost the woman he most loved; she is now married to a wealthy Wallstreet business man, but G thinks she has not forgotten him either and that there is still hope for them…

Release Date: 25 September 2005

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Cast: Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell, Andre Royo, Andrew Lauren

Director: Christopher Scott Cherot

A Match Made in Heaven

Surinder Sahni is a peaceful, honest, middle-aged man, who works for the Punjab Power company and whose life changes forever when he meets Taani, a very young and beautiful woman.

Surinder and Taani get married, despite the age difference, but their marriage fails because there is no love or passion between them.

Taani wants to enter a dance competition called ‘Dancing Jodi’, but she hesitates because she is afraid that her husband is too old for this and her friends will make fun of her.

Surinder, finds out about his wife’s wishes and problems, and he decides to change his look completely for her sake,

Surinder starts watching dancing movies, starts dressing very modern and chic, changes his haircut and puts special make up in order not to be recognized. He enters the dancing competition next to Taani.

As the dancing contest develops, Taani is more and more in love with her dance partner, without even suspecting that he is actually her own husband.

Release Date: December 12, 2008

Genre: Romance, Musical, Drama

Cast:

Shahrukh Khan (Surinder Sahni)

Rani Mukherjee

Kajol

Director: Aditya Chopra

La Vie en Rose

From childhood to glory, from victories to sufferings, from Belleville to New York, “La Vie en Rose” presents the unusual life of Edith Piaf.

Along to a highly improbable destiny we discover the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman.

Full of life, fragile and, in the same time, indestructible she dedicated her life until sacrifice becoming an immortal singer.

“L`oiseau de Paris” was named by the press and public, the famous singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard).

From the Paris’s pour neighborhoods to the New York’s dazzling lights, the life of the singer was a continuous struggle: to sing, to survive, to love, to live.

Grown in beggary, Edith’s salvation was her magical voice, her passionate romances and friendship that connected her to known names of that time: Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan etc, succeeding as one of the greatest musical figures all over the world.

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sylvie Testud.

Director: Olivier Dahan

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ is the winner of the Golden Globe award.

The movie is based on Homer’s epic poem, ‘The Odyssey’, and tells the adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill, and his friends, Delmar and Pete. They are outlaws, who are on the run. The action of the film takes place in Mississippi, in the 30′s.

The whole gang tries to get to Everett’s house, to recuperate the money captured at the last robbery.

On their way, they meet different weird characters like a mermaid, a cyclop, a bank robbe called George ‘Babyface’ Nelson, and a blind prophet who warns them that the treasure they are looking for, it’s not going to be the one that they find.

Release Date: December 22, 2000

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music

Cast:

George Clooney (Everett)

John Turturro (Pete)

Tim Blake Nelson (Delmar)

Director:

Joel Coen

Ethan Coen

Hairspray

The action of the movie ‘Hairspray’ is placed in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 60′s. The protagonist of the film is Tracy Turnblad, a chubby teenager, who becomes famous over night.

Her dream is to dance in Corny Collins Show, a local TV programme, and now she has the chance to fulfill her dream.

She becomes a constant member of the show and she launches a campaign in order to integrate the show from a racist point of view and she gets  all the support from her family.

Unfortunately, one of her enemies is Amber von Tussle, her rival in dancing, and Amber’s mother, Velma. Amber and Velma try anything to stop Tracy from achieving what she wants.

Release Date: July 20, 2007

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Cast:

Nikki Blonski (Tracy Turnblad)

John Travolta (Edna Turnblad)

Michelle Pfeiffer (Velma von Tussle)

Zac Efron (Link Larkin)

Brittany Snow (Amber von Tussle)

Director: Adam Shankman

Breakfast with Scot

‘Breakfast with Scot’ is a comedy about a gay couple, Eric and Sam, who end up in the situation of having an 11 year-old son, named Scot. This new situation reveals Eric and Sam’s paternal side and feelings, which they didn’t even know it existed.

Eric is a ex hockey player and Sam is a lawyer on sport issues. They have been a couple for 4 years. When Billy, Sam’s younger brother accepts a job in South America and his ex-girlfriend Juli dies of an overdose, the little boy is sent to Billy, although he is not his biological father.

Sam feels responsible for his brother, and, although in the beginning Eric doesn’t accept, Sam decides to take care of little Scot for him.

In a short period of time, Sam and Eric get really attached to the boy and see him as their son. When moment comes for Billy to take Scot back, Sam and Eric can’t stand the idea of losing him.

Release Date: January 11, 2008

Genre: Drama, Music, Sport, Romance, Comedy

Cast:

Noah Bernett (Scot)

Thomas Cavanagh (Eric)

Ben Shenkman (Sam)

Colin Cunningham (Billy)

Director: Laurie Lynd

CSNY:Deja Vu

‘CSNY: Deja Vu’ is a musical documentary about Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, a 60′s band.

Being a very famous band, CSNY become the leaders of their generation.

CSNY are remembered not only for their love songs, but also for their political beliefs. ‘CSNY: Deja Vu’ presents the band heading out on their ‘Freedom of Speech 2006′ Tour.

The film also presents the events surrounding the Tour in the crucial election season of 2006.

The entire movie is about songs from the Tour that are mixed together with archival material, news footage and audience reactions.

The film examines the issues concerning the integration of politics and art.

Release Date: January 25, 2008

Genre: Documentary, Music

Cast:

Stephen Colbert (Himself)

David Crosby (Himself)

Graham Nash (Himself)

Stephen Stills (Himself)

Neil Young (Himself)

Director: Neil Young

8 Mile

In 1995, Detroit was one of the most dangerous cities in America; a city of crime, a fallen empire whose nicest neighborhoods have fallen in decay.

The people who made the city so great fled and left behind just a bunch of broken promises; the much promised industrial power was then the starting point of economical and racial problems.

The 8 Mile Road street, which goes around the perimeter of the city, now marks the frontier between the urban and the suburban, between black and white.

Detroit has a long tradition of creativity under pressure, and the music of this town has always expressed the truth about the facts of life there.

The film tells the story of Jimmy Smith, a young man from Detroit, also known as B-Rabbit. We can see how Jimmy got to be famous, where he started off, how he had to face strong opposition from several groups living in other neighborhoods than his own.

Despite all that, he did it; a white boy managed to improvise rap lyrics on a scene in front of a real audience, and there couldn’t have been a better choice than Eminem to achieve it.

Release Date: 8 November 2002

Genre: Drama, Music

Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Britanny Murphy

Director: Curtis Hanson