1. The Wizard of Oz
Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Musical
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Victor Fleming
Actors: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke
Plot: Dorothy gets swept to a far away land full of beautiful landscapes and
treacherous witches. She meets some improbable friends that try to help
her get back home by following the yellow brick road.
2. The Sound of Music
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Biography
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Peggy Wood, Angela Cartwright
Plot: A young woman travels from home town in Austria to become a maid/nanny for a widowed naval officer. She teaches his children how to sing and enjoy life better. Musical.
3. Singin' in the Rain
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Cyd Charisse, Jean Hagen
Plot: Silent film actors and "singers" are trying to make the transition to "talkies" when one of them can't sing well, but no one seems to tell her.
4. Moulin Rouge
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Richard Roxburgh, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo
Plot: A writer falls in love with a prostitute as he tries to write a song for the duke who becomes jealous of the love affair and tries to put an end to it.
5. Chicago
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Marshall
Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ren?e Zellweger, John C. Reilly, Richard Gere, Dominic West, Queen Latifah
Plot: A pair of killing women try to weasel (and sing) their way out of Death Row in 1920's Chicago.
6. Grease
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Randal Kleiser
Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Michael Tucci, Didi Conn
Plot: Greaser Danny met Sandy over the summer break, but when she joins his highschool, can they find love again?
7. West Side Story
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jerome Robbins
Actors: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, William Bramley, Tucker Smith
Plot: Two New York City rival gangs sing their way through battles and love as they duke it out in this 1961 best picture winner.
8. My Fair Lady
Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper, Theodore Bikel, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Plot: A poor flower girl is taken in by a English language master to be taught how to sing and speak properly on based on a bet between himself and his friend putting the poor flower girl in the middle.
9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Musical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Timothy Spall, Alan Rickman, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
Plot: When a man comes home after fifteen years in prison to find his wife dead and his daughter in the hands of an evil judge, he vows to take vengeance on those that have wronged him.
10. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Sharman
Actors: Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Meat Loaf, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien
Plot: A couple's vehicle breaks down and they are forced to contact some one don't even know when the couple are instituted in a weird place.
