Highest-Rated Movies about 'Musicals', Sort by Popularity

Teen Beach Movie (2013), Footlight Parade (1933), To Be or Not to Be (1983), Sunshine on Leith (2013), Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure (2011), Calendar Girl (1947), Broken: A Musical (2015), Hunky Dory (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Musicals movies.

#2. Footlight Parade (1933)

Storyline: Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues. In spite of great problems, he does it.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>

Plot Keywords: director, actor, secretary, competitor, theater owner, ex-wife, lighthearted ...

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#3. To Be or Not to Be (1983)

Storyline: A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: actor, actress, pilot, secret agent, tailor, nazi collaborator, madcap ...

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#4. Sunshine on Leith (2013)

Storyline: Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers. The film follows the stories of Davy and Ally, who have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: young man, young woman, love interest, boyfriend, girlfriend, family, uplifting ...

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#6. Calendar Girl (1947)

Storyline: Around the turn of the century, two young men, Johnnie Bennett, a composer and Steve Adams, an artist, go to New York City to make their fortune. They both fall in love with the same girl, Patricia O'Neill. The artist paints a picture of her which outrages her father's sensibilities but, as a result of the picture, she wins a chance to star in a Broadway play. She soon learns that the artist is just a trifler, and turns to the composer, who loves her sincerely.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: best friend, artist, composer, girl next door, intense, amusing, airy ...

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#7. Broken: A Musical (2015)

Storyline: Mona returns to the city to renew her life with her best friend Helen following her grandmother's death. Mona reluctantly attends a raucous party with Helen, even though her ex, Jason, will be there, where she encounters the charming Dirk who alters her life.—Taylor Cleghorn

Plot Keywords: best friend, ex-boyfriend, single woman, young woman, rape victim, rape survivor, rapist ...

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#9. Home on the Range (2004)

Storyline: Alameda Slim (Randy Quaid), a wanted cattle rustler, uses an alias to buy up properties all over western Nebraska, and his next target is the Patch of Heaven dairy farm, where the widow owner cares more for her "family" of yard animals than she does for profit. She just doesn't have the cash to keep in business or to prevent Slim from taking her farm. The animals, mainly carefree youngsters, are unable to help, however, three cows of very different temperaments rise to the desperate occasion and set out to do battle for their dream home. They team up with the Sheriff's megalomaniac horse and any other animal who can possibly help, even a crazy lucky rabbit and an invincible buffalo.

Plot Keywords: cow, dairy owner, outlaw, cattle rustler, stallion, amusing, charming ...

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#12. East Side Story (1997)

Storyline: Though its films were rarely exhibited on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the prolific Soviet film industry churned out more than propagandistic documentaries and epic-length versions of 19th-century Russian novels. This documentary explores the musical comedy genre in the communist era, when, just as in Hollywood musicals, characters broke into elaborately stylized song and dance numbers mid-movie, the difference being that these characters sang in praise of collective farms and factories.

Plot Keywords: filmmaker, film critic, historian, actor, film fan, communist, lighthearted ...

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