Top 69 films in Music
Singin' in the Rain
Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | 103 min | 1952
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Some Like It Hot
Directed by Billy Wilder | 120 min | 1959
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Nashville
Directed by Robert Altman | Rated R | 159 min | 1975
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.
West Side Story
Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | 152 min | 1961
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
The Sound of Music
Directed by Robert Wise | Rated G | 174 min | 1965
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Duck Soup
Directed by Leo McCarey | 68 min | 1933
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
A Hard Day's Night
Directed by Richard Lester | 87 min | 1964
A 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs.
The Red Shoes
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 133 min | 1948
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
An American in Paris
Directed by Vincente Minnelli | 113 min | 1951
Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
My Fair Lady
Directed by George Cukor | 170 min | 1964
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
La La Land
Directed by Damien Chazelle | Rated PG-13 | 128 min | 2016
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
The Full Monty
Directed by Peter Cattaneo | Rated R | 91 min | 1997
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
American Graffiti
Directed by George Lucas | Rated PG | 110 min | 1973
A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
The Piano
Directed by Jane Campion | Rated R | 121 min | 1993
A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
A Star Is Born
Directed by George Cukor | 154 min | 1954
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Top Hat
Directed by Mark Sandrich | 101 min | 1935
An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
The Commitments
Directed by Alan Parker | Rated R | 118 min | 1991
When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.
Whiplash
Directed by Damien Chazelle | Rated R | 107 min | 2014
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Inside Llewyn Davis
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Rated R | 104 min | 2013
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
The Band Wagon
Directed by Vincente Minnelli | 112 min | 1953
A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.
Woodstock
Directed by Michael Wadleigh | Rated R | 184 min | 1970
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival.
Green Book
Directed by Peter Farrelly | Rated PG-13 | 130 min | 2018
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Directed by Michael Curtiz | 126 min | 1942
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan.
Oliver!
Directed by Carol Reed | Rated G | 153 min | 1968
A young boy runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
La Vie en Rose
Directed by Olivier Dahan | Rated PG-13 | 140 min | 2007
The life story of singer Édith Piaf.
Going My Way
Directed by Leo McCarey | 126 min | 1944
Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows ...
House Party
Directed by Reginald Hudlin | Rated R | 100 min | 1990
Young Kid has been invited to a party at his friend Play's house. But after a fight at school, Kid's father grounds him. None the less, Kid sneaks out when his father falls asleep. But Kid ...
Mo' Better Blues
Directed by Spike Lee | Rated R | 130 min | 1990
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Carmen Jones
Directed by Otto Preminger | 105 min | 1954
Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.
Moulin Rouge!
Directed by Baz Luhrmann | Rated PG-13 | 127 min | 2001
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources.
All That Jazz
Directed by Bob Fosse | Rated R | 123 min | 1979
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
Tender Mercies
Directed by Bruce Beresford | Rated PG | 92 min | 1983
A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.
Koyaanisqatsi
Directed by Godfrey Reggio | 86 min | 1982
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on nature, humanity and the relationship between them.
Chicago
Directed by Rob Marshall | Rated PG-13 | 113 min | 2002
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Shine
Directed by Scott Hicks | Rated PG-13 | 105 min | 1996
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Directed by Terence Davies | Rated PG-13 | 85 min | 1988
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...
The Jazz Singer
Directed by Alan Crosland | 88 min | 1927
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
42nd Street
Directed by Lloyd Bacon | 89 min | 1933
A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a chorus girl has to replace the star.
A Night at the Opera
Directed by Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | 96 min | 1935
A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Gigi
Directed by Vincente Minnelli | 115 min | 1958
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
I'm Not There.
Directed by Todd Haynes | Rated R | 135 min | 2007
Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.
CODA
Directed by Sian Heder | Rated PG-13 | 111 min | 2021
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of a
Black Orpheus
Directed by Marcel Camus | Rated PG | 100 min | 1959
A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
I Am Cuba
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov | Rated N/A | 108 min | 1964
Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
The Broadway Melody
Directed by Harry Beaumont | 100 min | 1929
A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
The Great Ziegfeld
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard | 176 min | 1936
This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.
A Star Is Born
Directed by Bradley Cooper | Rated R | 136 min | 2018
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Cold War
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski | Rated N/A | 88 min | 2018
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold ...
Dancer in the Dark
Directed by Lars von Trier | Rated R | 140 min | 2000
An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
Youth
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino | Rated R | 124 min | 2015
A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Directed by Bryan Singer | Rated PG-13 | 134 min | 2018
The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
Coal Miner's Daughter
Directed by Michael Apted | Rated PG | 124 min | 1980
Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.
Dreamgirls
Directed by Bill Condon | Rated PG-13 | 130 min | 2006
A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
Fiddler on the Roof
Directed by Norman Jewison | Rated G | 181 min | 1971
In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Guys and Dolls
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 150 min | 1955
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.
Les Girls
Directed by George Cukor | Rated N/A | 114 min | 1957
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina Elg). A Rashomon...
Les Misérables
Directed by Tom Hooper | Rated PG-13 | 158 min | 2012
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
Porgy and Bess
Directed by Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian | Rated N/A | 138 min | 1959
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish...
Song Without End
Directed by Charles Vidor, George Cukor | 141 min | 1960
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Directed by Tim Burton | Rated R | 116 min | 2007
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, AKA Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
The King and I
Directed by Walter Lang | 133 min | 1956
A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
The Music Man
Directed by Morton DaCosta | 151 min | 1962
Harold Hill poses as a boys' band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk.
Walk the Line
Directed by James Mangold | Rated PG-13 | 136 min | 2005
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.
West Side Story
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated PG-13 | 156 min | 2021
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
With a Song in My Heart
Directed by Walter Lang | Rated N/A | 117 min | 1952
Jane Froman (Susan Hayward), an aspiring songstress, lands a job in radio with help from pianist Don Ross (David Wayne), whom she later marries. Jane's popularity soars, and she leaves on a...
Yentl
Directed by Barbra Streisand | Rated PG | 128 min | 1983
A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
A Star Is Born
Directed by Frank Pierson | Rated R | 139 min | 1976
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
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