A song can make a room feel safe, lure someone into it, or give nobody a good reason to stop listening. Start with Sinners for music that brings a crowd together, Little Shop of Horrors for a plant that sings its…
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Sinners (2025)Released Apr 16, 2025Smoke and Stack open a juke joint, and Sammie's blues playing draws an audience reaching beyond the people in the room. Start here for music that shows exactly why the visitors want in.0
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)Released Dec 19, 1986Audrey II sings for food and makes every demand harder for Seymour to shrug off. The plant can be funny while it bargains, and the director's cut follows that threat through the final number.0
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The Lure (2015)Released Dec 25, 2015Two mermaid sisters sing in a Warsaw nightclub. Their act gives them a place on land, and its pleasures and dangers become harder to separate.0
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)Released Dec 21, 2007Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett use an exuberant duet to talk themselves into a new use for the pie shop. Start here if you like musical comedy and dread in the same song.0
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Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)Released Nov 30, 2018Anna and her classmates try to get through a zombie outbreak at Christmas. Their cheerful singing on the way to school works because the audience can already see the chaos in the background.0
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)Released Aug 14, 1975Frank turns a country mansion's laboratory unveiling into a show. Watching to see what Frank will do next is part of the trap that the stranded couple finds itself in.0
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Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)Released Nov 7, 2008A debt collector in a world of financed organs sings his way between work and home, where his daughter depends on him. The operatic structure keeps those parts of his life in the same disturbing story.0
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Phantom of the Paradise (1974)Released Oct 31, 1974A record producer steals a songwriter's work for his new rock palace. Listen for different performers reshaping the same song while the person who wrote it tries to regain control.0
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Stage Fright (2014)Released Apr 3, 2014A summer theater camp revives a musical associated with a killing. The performers sing about getting a break while the show supplies a set of cues for the danger.0
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The Devil's Carnival (2012)Released Apr 5, 2012A carnival gives three visitors a place to repeat their old failures. The numbers do the work of the sideshow barkers by making each temptation sound pleasant.0