Movies like The Five Pennies

20 movies like The Five Pennies, ordered by similarity : Young at Heart(1954), You Were Never Lovelier(1942), The Jazz Singer(1953), Champagne Waltz(1937), Round Midnight(1986), Poor Little Rich Girl(1936), Ring-A-Ding Rhythm(1962), Three Daring Daughters(1948), Syncopation(1942), Nashville(1975), You Were Meant for Me(1948), American Hot Wax(1978) ...

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The Five Pennies

Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to ... See full summary »

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Young at Heart

The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.

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You Were Never Lovelier

In Buenos Aires, a man who has decreed that his daughters must marry in order of age allows an American dancer to perform at his club under the condition that he play suitor to his second-oldest daughter.

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The Jazz Singer

Jerry dreams of becoming a famous jazz singer, but to accomplish that, he must defy his father, a Jewish Cantor who opposes such a dream as a future for a son of his.

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Champagne Waltz

Champagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on ... See full summary »

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Round Midnight

A jazz saxophonist (Dexter Gordon) from New York has a friend (François Cluzet) on the Left Bank of 1959 Paris.

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Poor Little Rich Girl

The daughter of a wealthy businessman becomes lost in the city while traveling to a new school, and is taken in by a pair of down-on-their-luck performers.

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Ring-A-Ding Rhythm

Two teens (Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas) organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor (Felix Felton).

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Three Daring Daughters

It's Tess' graduation day from "Miss Drakes School for Girls". During the choir's performance at the ceremony, Tess notices that her beautiful, divorcee mother, Louise Rayton Morgan isn't ... See full summary »

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Syncopation

Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated" music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie)from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the ... See full summary »

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Nashville

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.

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You Were Meant for Me

1920's bandleader Chuck Arnold meets hometown girl Peggy at one of the band's dances and next day weds her. Though she loves him, life on the road becomes increasingly difficult for her, ... See full summary »

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American Hot Wax

The story of Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock 'n' roll in the 1950s.

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Pink Floyd - The Wall

A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

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Mary Poppins

In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.

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Blues in the Night

"Jigger' Lane forms a band that includes singer Ginger 'Character' Powell, wife of the trumpeter Leo Powell, and Nickie Haroyen and Peppi. All of them dedicate themselves to work as a unit ... See full summary »

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Nancy Goes to Rio

A mother and daughter compete over the same singing role and, unbeknownst to each other, the same man.

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Can't Stop the Music

A pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.

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Show Boat

The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairytale romance is threatened when his luck turns sour.

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The Fabulous Dorseys

The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From ... See full summary »

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Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend

Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP IMAGE AWARD winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 HOPE ROAD, Kingston, ... See full summary »

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