Moonwalker is a 1988 American experimental anthology musical film starring Michael Jackson. Rather than featuring one continuous narrative, the film expresses the influence of fandom and innocence through a collection of short films about Jackson, some of which are long-form music videos from Jackson’s 1987 album Bad. The film is named after his famous dance, “the moonwalk”, which he originally learned as “the backslide” but perfected the dance into something no one had seen before. The movie’s introduction is a type of music video for Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” but is not the official video for the song. The film then expresses a montage of Michael’s career, which leads into a parody of his Bad video titled “Badder”, followed by sections “Speed Demon” and “Leave Me Alone”. What follows is the biggest section where Michael plays a hero with magical powers and saves three children from Mr. Big. This section is “Smooth Criminal” which leads into a performance of “Come Together”.
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Hard Way: The Action Musical
In the world’s first Action Musical, Jake and his SWAT team raid an abandoned factory in order to bring down the country’s most dangerous terrorist. Naturally singing and dancing.
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Dancing Village: The Curse Begins
Mila must return a mystical bracelet to the “Dancing Village,” unaware that Badarawuhi – a mysterious, mythical being who rules the village – awaits her.
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Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics
Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics is a Japanese animated anthology series by Nippon Animation. The episodes are adaptations of a variety of folk and fairy tales, and not limited to Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
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The Forbidden Dance
A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.
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Addams Family Values
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new “black widow” nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
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Romeo and Juliet, From Hate to Love
French musical created by Gérard Presgurvic and produced in 2001, at the Paris Convention Center. It is inspired by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
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Showgirls
Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are quickly noticed by Cristal, a headlining dancer who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way.
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Dream for an Insomniac
A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click – until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.