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1. West Side Story (1961)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George ChakirisRomeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway ... More
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2. Yuva (2004)
directed by Mani Ratnam
featuring Ajay Devgan, Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Kareena KapoorDirected by Mani Ratnam, Yuva follows three very different youngsters: idealistic student and aspiring politician Michael (Ajay Devgan); Arjun (Vivek ... More
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3. Car Man (2001)
directed by Matthew Bourne, Ross MacGibbon
The romantic musical drama Car Man: An Auto-Erotic Thriller was originally broadcast on U.K. television. British choreographer Matthew Bourne ... More
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4. Chico & Rita (2012)
directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal, Tono Errando
featuring Limara Meneses, Eman Xor Oña, Mario Guerra, Bebo Valdés, Idania ValdésA love affair between two musicians spans six decades and numerous countries and political regimes in this animated romantic drama. In 1948, Chico ... More
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5. Three Daring Daughters (1948)
directed by Fred Wilcox
featuring Jeanette MacDonald, José Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold, Harry DavenportJeanette MacDonald made her first screen appearance in five years in the MGM confection Three Daring Daughters. Looking at least ten years younger ... More
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6. The Girl from Monterey (1943)
directed by Charles Williams, Wallace W. Fox
featuring Armida, Edgar Kennedy, Veda Ann Borg, Terry FrostThe world of boxing provides the framework for this romantic musical that tells the story of Baby and his manager who is also his sister. Baby is ... More
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7. Perhaps Love (2005)
directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
featuring Jacky Cheung, Zhou Xun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Ji Jin-hee, Eric TsangAcclaimed director Peter Chan takes the helm for this lavish, award winning musical concerning the love triangle between a handsome actor, his ... More
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8. My Dream Is Yours (1949)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Doris Day, Jack Carson, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve ArdenMy Dream Is Yours is a Technicolor remake of the jaunty 1934 Warner Bros. musical Twenty Million Sweethearts. But there's a significant difference ... More
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9. The Sound of Music (1965)
directed by Robert Wise
featuring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy WoodOne of the most popular movie musicals of all time, The Sound of Music is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Julie Andrews stars as ... More
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10. Pal Joey (1957)
directed by George Sidney
featuring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols, Bobby Sherwood, Elizabeth Patterson, Barry BernardThe John O'Hara/Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Broadway musical Pal Joey created quite a stir during its original theatrical run in 1940. Here we had a ... More
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11. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Michael BryantList of all editionsThis is a musical remake of the 1939 film. Arthur Chipping (Peter O'Toole) is the staid instructor at a posh school for boys where he dreams of ... More
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12. New Orleans (1947)
directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring John Alexander, Louis Armstrong, Arturo de Cordova, Dorothy PatrickList of all editionsNew Orleans is Republic Pictures' spin on such "musical origin" films as Birth of the Blues and Dixie. Covering nearly four decades, the story is a ... More
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13. Jeanne and the Perfect Guy (1998)
directed by Olivier Ducastel
featuring Virginie Ledoyen, Mathieu Demy, Jacques Bonnaffé, Valérie Bonneton, Frédéric GornyList of all editionsThis French musical features dialogue and songs by Paris University's Jacques Martineau on a wide range of subjects -- from immigrant workers to book ... More
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14. Opera do Malandro (1987)
directed by Ruy Guerra
featuring Edson Celulari, Claudia Ohana, Elba Ramalho, Ney Latorraca, Fabio SabagList of all editionsMalandro is a Brazilian musical set in the Rio of the 1940s. Likeable prostitute Fabio Sabag is fired from her nightclub job. Fabio's pimp Edson ... More
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15. Wintertime (1943)
directed by John Brahm
featuring Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, Cornel Wilde, Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, S.Z. SakallList of all editionsIn her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly arrived in the U.S., Nora and ... More
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16. Anything But Love (2003)
directed by Robert Cary
featuring Isabel Rose, Andrew McCarthy, Cameron Bancroft, Alix Korey, Ilana LevineList of all editionsA woman is forced to decide which of her dreams she'd like to come true in this musical-comedy drama. Billie Golden (Isabel Rose) is a young woman ... More
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17. Sweet Charity (1969)
directed by Bob Fosse
featuring Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalban, Sammy Davis, Jr., Chita RiveraList of all editionsShirley MacLaine plays Charity Hope Valentine who, despite her job at a seedy dime-a-dance joint, is an incurable optimist. Charity never stops ... More
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18. Hi-De-Ho (1947)
directed by Josh Binney
featuring Cab Calloway, Ida James, Jeni Le Gon, William CampbellAs the title indicates, Hi-De-Ho is a vehicle for entertainer Cab Calloway. The star plays a bandleader (what else?) who is torn between two lovers: ... More
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19. It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
featuring Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael KiddList of all editionsCooked up by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, It's Always Fair Weather could well have been titled On the Town Ten Years Later . Like 1949's On the ... More
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20. Rose of Washington Square (1939)
directed by Gregory Ratoff
featuring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce ComptonList of all editionsThis barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of character, a case which was ... More
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21. Tsirk (1936)
directed by Grigory Alexandrov
featuring Lyubov Orlova, Yevgeniya Melnikova, Vladimir Volodin, Sergei Stolyarov, Pavel MassalskyList of all editionsLove and circuses drive this melodrama hailing from Stalin-era Russia. Marion Dixon is an American vaudeville performer managed by dastardly German ... More
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22. South Pacific (1958)
directed by Joshua Logan
featuring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita HallList of all editionsProducer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic ... More
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23. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall, Jane Powell, Marc PlattList of all editionsBased extremely loosely on the Stephen Vincent Benet story Sobbin' Women," Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is one of the best MGM musicals of the ... More
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24. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
directed by Jacques Demy
featuring Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Mireille PerreyList of all editionsJacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins ... More
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25. Young at Heart (1954)
directed by Gordon M. Douglas
featuring Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy MaloneList of all editionsYoung at Heart is a soft-pedaled, musicalized remake of 1938's Four Daughters. Robert Keith takes over the Claude Rains role as paterfamilias to a ... More







