Genre: Musical
42nd Street
Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
During the early 1930s, Warner Bros. churned out a series of “backstage musicals” featuring complex choreography by the legendary Busby …
Bugsy Malone
Directed by Alan Parker
Alan Parker's laugh-filled debut film is a nostalgic, prohibition-set gangster musical cast entirely with children. Exploiting every crime cliché imaginable …
CANCELLED: Breakin’
Directed by Joel Silberg
As the first widely released breakdancing film, Breakin' is a cultural milestone that reeks of 1980s cash-in cinema culture, from …
Cupcakes
Directed by Eytan Fox
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb gathers to watch “Universong,” a Eurovision-style song contest, trying to forget …
Devdas
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Operatic in every sense of the word, Bhansali’s adaptation of the legendary Bengali novel features dazzling sets and costumes, impossibly …
Dinah
Directed by Dave Fleischer
By the early 1930s, John, Herbert, Harry and Donald Mills, a.k.a. the Mills Brothers, had established themselves as one of …
Earth Girls Are Easy
Directed by Julien Temple
After she’s betrayed by her fiancée, three very hairy aliens crash-land in the pool of cosmetologist and valley girl Valerie …
Footlight Parade
Directed by Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley’s last of three “backstage musicals” made at Warner Bros. in 1933 is the delightful, somewhat overshadowed Footlight Parade, …
French Cancan
Directed by Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir’s return to France in the early 1950s, following more than a decade of self-exile, culminated in his first …
Funny Face
Directed by Stanley Donen
Director Stanley Donen’s most-beloved movie (after Singin’ in the Rain, of course!), Funny Face is a Manhattan-set musical comedy that …
Gigi
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, this glorious depiction of Belle Époque Paris stars Leslie …
Gold Diggers of 1933
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley’s second of three “backstage musicals” for Warner Bros. in 1933 was the fabled Gold Diggers of 1933, which …