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1	West Side Story (1961) more movies like this directed by Robert Wise featuring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris Romeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway production, the movie opens with an overhead shot of Manhattan, an effect that director Robert Wise would repeat over the Alps in The Sound of Music four years later. We are introduced to two rival street ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.43!
2	The Sound of Music (1965) more movies like this directed by Robert Wise featuring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood One 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 Maria, a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning prayers because she enjoys going to the hills to sing the title song. Deciding that Maria needs to learn something about the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
3	Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) more movies like this directed by Alan Parker featuring Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Bob Hoskins, Kevin McKeon Inspired by Pink Floyd's album of the same name, Pink Floyd: The Wall is a dark, expressionistic musical, told from the point of view of Pink, a depressed rock musician. The film is structured around Pink's reflections on his life, all of which center on the building of "the wall." This wall is a metaphor for psychological isolation, a barrier ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00!
4	Amadeus (1984) more movies like this directed by Milos Forman featuring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Viennese "urban legend" concerning the death of 18th ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.99!
5	Dirty Dancing (1987) more movies like this directed by Emile Ardolino featuring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.43!
6	Fiddler on the Roof (1971) more movies like this directed by Norman Jewison featuring Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann Norman Jewison's adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical is set in the Ukranian ghetto village of Anatevka (the film was actually lensed in Yugoslavia). Israeli actor Topol repeats his London stage role as Tevye the milkman, whose equilibrium is constantly being challenged by his poverty, the prejudicial attitudes of non-Jews, and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98!
7	The Red Violin (1999) more movies like this directed by François Girard featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Don McKellar, Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Jean-Luc Bideau Francois Girard directed this drama tracing the history of a musical instrument through five countries and three centuries. In 1681, to keep the spirit of his wife alive, an Italian paints the violin with a red varnish made from her blood. It is later found in the Austrian Alps when a prodigy gives a performance in the court of Vienna in 1792. ... see all copies from $3.15! new only from $9.19!
8	Newsies (1992) more movies like this directed by Kenny Ortega featuring Christian Bale, David Moscow, Luke Edwards, Ann-Margret, Max Casella, Ele Keats, Marty Belafsky A failed effort to revive the big-budget movie musical, Newsies attempted to create toe-tapping, song-and-dance excitement out of the true story of an 1899 strike by newspaper boys against publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer. The "newsies" band together to protest a pay cut by Pulitzer (Robert Duvall), organizing a union to protect their rights and ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $13.99!
9	8 Mile (2002) more movies like this directed by Curtis Hanson featuring Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Evan Jones Controversial rap star Eminem makes his acting debut in this hard-edged urban drama, inspired in part by incidents from the musician's own life. Jimmy Smith (Eminem), known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit's entire life has been a hard climb, and it certainly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.38!
10	Chicago (2002) more movies like this directed by Rob Marshall featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. In the mid-'20s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus dancer married to a well-meaning dunderhead named ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99!
11 view cover	La Vie en Rose (2007) more movies like this directed by Olivier Dahan featuring Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve, Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Martins, Catherine Allegret, Marc Barbé, Gérard Depardieu Writer/director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers II) helmed La Vie en Rose, the screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner -- as a complete unknown -- by cabaret proprietor Louis ... see all copies from $8.79! new only from $22.64!
12 view cover	White Nights (1985) more movies like this directed by Taylor Hackford featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini as Raymond's wife, Helen Mirren as Nikolai's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.25!
13 view cover	South Pacific (1958) more movies like this directed by Joshua Logan featuring Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall Producer/director Joshua Logan's long-awaited filmization of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize winning musical South Pacific was not the classic that everyone hoped it would be, principally because of some curious creative choices made by the production personnel. Adapted from James A. Michener's best-selling novel Tales of the South Pacific ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $18.12!
14 view cover	Walk the Line (2005) more movies like this directed by James Mangold featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts James Mangold's Walk the Line tells the life story of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), focusing primarily on the long courtship he had with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). The film is structured as an extended flashback opening with Cash readying to take the stage at his historic Folsom Prison Concert. The film touches on his ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $6.27!
15 view cover	Save the Last Dance (2001) more movies like this directed by Thomas Carter featuring Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington, Fredro Starr, Terry Kinney, Bianca Lawson In this romantic drama, two teenagers in love struggle to look past their differences. After the unexpected death of her mother, Sarah Johnson (Julia Stiles) moves to Chicago to live with her father. Knowing no one at her new school and not at home in a gritty, inner-city high school, Sarah has trouble adjusting, but she soon becomes friends with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.58!
16 view cover	The Commitments (1991) more movies like this directed by Alan Parker featuring Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Johnny Murphy "The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin ... so say it loud -- I'm black and I'm proud!" Or so Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) tells his slightly puzzled friends as he tries to assemble a rhythm & blues show band in a working class community in Dublin in Alan Parker's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.53!
17 view cover	Oliver! (1968) more movies like this directed by Carol Reed featuring Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. For its first half-hour or so, Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 film version does a masterful job of telling its ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.42!
18 view cover	Cabaret (1972) more movies like this directed by Bob Fosse featuring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the decadent and vulgar cabaret as a mirror image of German society sliding toward the Nazis, and this ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.57!
19 view cover	Evita (1996) more movies like this directed by Alan Parker featuring Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of Eva Peron (1921-52), a woman whose name evokes powerful feelings in her native Argentina. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99!
20 view cover	Pure Country (1992) more movies like this directed by Christopher Cain featuring George Strait, Lesley Ann Warren, Isabel Glasser, Kyle Chandler, John Doe The big-screen debut of country singer George Strait is a familiar tale of a star returning to his roots, a route traveled the same year by John Mellencamp in Falling From Grace (1992). Strait plays Dusty Chandler, one of the hottest performers in country music. Dusty feels that his elaborate stage show is overwhelming his music, a suspicion ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.24!
21 view cover	Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) more movies like this directed by Hugh MacMullan, Michael Curtiz featuring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning Yankee Doodle Dandy is no more the true-life story of George M. Cohan than The Jolson Story was the unvarnished truth about Al Jolson -- but who the heck cares? Dandy has song, dance, pathos, pageantry, uproarious comedy, and, best of all, James Cagney at his Oscar-winning best. After several failed attempts to bring the life of legendary, flag ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $16.99!
22 view cover	Saturday Night Fever (1977) more movies like this directed by John Badham featuring John Travolta, Karen Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another (including "Stayin' Alive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45!
23 view cover	Gypsy (1962) more movies like this directed by Mervyn LeRoy featuring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Ann Jillian, Betty Bruce This Stephen Sondheim/Jules Styne/Arthur Laurents musical comedy Gypsy had been a Broadway smash with Ethel Merman in the lead. Based on the autobiography of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, it centers on the antics of Mama Rose (here played by Rosalind Russell), the Stage Mother from Hell who prods and pushes her daughters June and Louise into a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.79!
24 view cover	Going My Way (1944) more movies like this directed by Leo McCarey featuring Bing Crosby, Rise Stevens, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Frank McHugh, James Brown It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he acquiesced, winning an Academy Award in the process. Crosby is cast as Father Chuck O'Malley, newly arrived at rundown, heavily in debt St. Dominic's Church. Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald), the cranky, set-in-his-ways ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.89!
25 view cover	Flashdance (1983) more movies like this directed by Adrian Lyne featuring Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle Heffner Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala). The film's signature scene is, of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.82!

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