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1. "Let's start at the very beginning." Set in Austria, a nun leaves her convent to become a Governess for "a Captain with seven children", and ends up falling in love with him. They all enter a singing contest, then run away to escape from the Nazis!
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2. Two young children persuade their father, an eccentric inventor, to buy an old car. He adapts it so it can fly through the air and float on water. An evil Baron wants the amazing car for himself, and the children are kidnapped by the scary Child Catcher.
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3. A feisty red-haired girl lives in an orphanage. All she wants is to find her real parents. A millionaire comes and takes her to his mansion and issues a $50,000 reward if her parents can be found. Some crooks show up pretending to be her parents, but it is revealed that her real parents are dead, so the millionaire adopts her instead.
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4. Two young children are in need of a good nanny while their mother is out campaigning with the suffragettes and their father is at work at the bank. An unusual lady takes on the role and takes them on many adventures with her friend, Bert, including stepping into animated chalk drawings, attending a floating tea party and dancing across the rooftops.
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5. An eccentric English Professor takes a common flower seller into his home with a view to teaching her how to speak English like a proper lady, in order to win a bet with his friend. She embarrasses him at the Ascot race-course, but he ends up falling in love with her.
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6. In this animated musical, the parents of an American mountain town boycott the two Canadian stars of a movie which has corrupted their children. The children form 'La Resistance' in an effort to save their heroes. This musical also features Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein and Satan.
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7. A lady leaves her home in Junín, Argentina, to become a star. After several relationships with influential men, she marries a colonel and helps him become president. Not forgetting her humble beginnings, she fights for the rights of poor people. She's not popular with everybody, but she ends up a national hero after her untimely death.
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8. Claude moves to New York to join the army. While there he meets some hippies in Central Park and makes good friends, particularly with one young lady. Claude goes off to army training, and his new friends follow him. One of them takes his place in the camp to give him one last night with the girl, but while Claude is away, the troops are sent to Vietnam and his friend is killed.
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9. This is a rather unconventional version of the story of Jesus Christ. Jesus and his followers wear unusual costumes and hang out in a New York junk yard, where he tells them stories and they have a lot of fun. Unfortunately the ending is still the same; Jesus is killed, but by hanging from a wire fence instead of a crucifix.
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10. This musical tells the story of two ruthless and murderous ladies in jail, competing to be released and become the biggest vaudeville stars by bribery and manipulation of the press. When they are released, they put their differences aside and form a cabaret duo and finally achieve the success they have yearned for.
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11. Two teenagers meet one summer and fall in love, but when they get back to school things have changed. The boy is part of a cool gang and is embarrassed to show his feelings for the naive girl, who is too nice to be part of his group of drop-outs and losers. By graduation, she has become a lot more streetwise and the couple manage to resolve their differences.
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12. A seemingly conventional couple get stranded in a storm and take refuge in an old house, inhabited by group of very unusual people, who are led by a cross-dressing alien. He is trying to build himself the perfect man, after his first experiment went wrong. The alien corrupts the couple, before the whole house flies off into space.
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13. An eccentric confectioner offers five children the opportunity to take a tour of his factory by winning a golden ticket. His rival, Mr Slugworth, asks the children to get him a sample of a very special gobstopper. All of the children come to sticky ends by disobeying rules, except for one boy whose honesty wins him the ultimate prize - future heir to the factory and a lifetime of happiness.
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14. A feisty female travels to Chicago to bring a celebrity singer, Adelaide Adams, to her local saloon bar to perform for the men, but the lady she brings is actually Katie, the singer's maid. The two women become friends and Katie helps our heroine become more feminine to attract the man she loves.
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15. Business is not going well at Mushnik's flower shop in New York City, until the owner displays a strange and unusual plant. People come from far and wide to see it, and business is booming. Unfortunately there is a down-side to the plan - the alien plant feeds on human flesh and is intent on world domination!
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