Best Musical Movies

#1 Singin' in the Rain 1952

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Douglas Fowley, Rita Moreno.

Overview: Hollywood's attempts to move from the 'silent' era to the 'Talkies' are not going as planned.

Genres: Comedy, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 43m. Rated: G.

#2 The Wizard of Oz 1939

We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz!

Directors: King Vidor, Mervyn LeRoy, George Cukor, Victor Fleming. Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley Sr., Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charley Grapewin, Clara Blandick, Charles Becker, Meinhardt Raabe, Frank Morgan, Frank Morgan, Frank Morgan, Frank Morgan.

Overview: One of the most famous musical films and the first film from Hollywood to use color. Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Science Fiction. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 41m. Rated: G.

#3 The Lion King 1994

Life's greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life.

Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Niketa Calame, Moira Kelly, Jeremy Irons, Rowan Atkinson.

Overview: A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing -- even killing his own brother -- to get it.

Genres: Animation, Drama, Family. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 29m. Rated: G.

#4 Duck Soup 1933

Director: Leo McCarey. Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Margaret Dumont, Raquel Torres, Louis Calhern, Edmund Breese, Leonid Kinskey, Charles Middleton, Edgar Kennedy.

Overview: Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

Genre: Comedy. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 8m.

#5 3 Idiots 2009

Director: Rajkumar Hirani. Cast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani, Mona Singh.

Overview: Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes out of control. As they make their way through the perilous landscape, another journey begins: their inner journey through memory lane and the story of their friend- the irrepressible free-thinker Rancho, who in his unique way, changed their lives

Genres: Comedy, Eastern, Foreign. Country: India. Runtime: 2h 50m. Rated: PG.

#6 Gold Diggers of 1933 1933

Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers.

Overview: Barney Hopkins is producing a new show on Broadway, but the day before it opens, the set and costumes are confiscated due to not paid bills. Everybody is sitting on the street and due to depression there is no possibility for the three chorus girls Carol, Trixie and Polly. But they hear rumors that Hopkins is producing a new show, they invite him and he promises to give them work.

Genre: Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 36m.

#7 A Night at the Opera 1935

Director: Sam Wood. Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Walter Woolf King, Sig Ruman, Margaret Dumont, Edward Keane, Robert Emmett O'Connor.

Overview: The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.

Genre: Comedy. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 36m.

#8 Beauty and the Beast 1991

The most beautiful love story ever told.

Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury.

Overview: Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.

Genres: Animation, Fantasy, Family. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 24m. Rated: G.

#9 The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993

A ghoulish tale with wicked humour & stunning animation.

Director: Henry Selick. Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey.

Overview: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

Genres: Animation, Family, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 16m. Rated: PG.

#10 Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India 2001

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker. Cast: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne, Suhasini Mulay, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Raghuvir Yadav, Rajesh Vivek, Rajendranath Zutshi, Pradeep Singh Rawat, Akhilendra Mishra, Daya Shankar Pandey, Shri Vallabh Vyas, Yashpal Sharma, Amin Hajee.

Overview: LAGAAN... a story of extraordinary circumstances thrust upon ordinary people. The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance, Sport. Country: India. Runtime: 3h 44m.

#11 Chupke Chupke 1975

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Cast: Dharmendra, Sharmila Tagore, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Lalita Kumari, David, Dev Kishan, Om Prakash, Usha Kiran, Asrani, Lily Chakravarty, Keshto Mukherjee, Harish Magan, Amal Sen.

Overview: A newly wed husband plays a practical joke on his Brother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law with full support from his wife, family and friends.

Genres: Comedy, Foreign. Country: India. Runtime: 2h 35m.

#12 Sholay 1975

Director: Ramesh Sippy. Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan.

Overview: A Police Officer, whose family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai & Veeru, & puts a proposal in front of them, joyfully they agree to bring Gabbar Singh to jail alive, but will they be able to bring the notorious Gabber Singh to jail and get their reward? Come and watch the action-packed super-hit Sholay to find out!!

Genres: Action, Eastern, Foreign. Country: India. Runtime: 3h 19m.

#13 The Blue Angel 1930
Der blaue Engel

Director: Josef von Sternberg. Cast: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, Eduard von Winterstein, Hans Roth, Rolf Müller, Roland Varno, Carl Balhaus, Robert Klein Lörk, Charles Puffy, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Gerhard Bienert.

Overview: The Blue Angel / Der Blaue Engel is a 1930 German film from Josef von Starnberg. An adaptation of the 1905 novel “The Blue Angel: Small Town Tyrant.”

Genre: Drama. Country: Germany. Runtime: 1h 48m.

#14 Gol Maal 1979

Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Cast: Amol Palekar, Utpal Dutt, Bindiya Goswami, Deven Verma, Dina Pathak, Shubha Khote, Manju Singh, David Abraham.

Overview: Ramprasad a recent college graduate who finds a job with a finicky man, Bhavani Shankar, who believes that a man without a mustache is a man without a character. When Ramprasad is caught by his boss at a soccer match, he has to invent a twin brother, the clean-shaven Laxman Prasad, to save his job, things take a whacky turn.A fake mother and a hilarious chase are enjoyable features in this comedy.

Genres: Comedy, Eastern, Foreign. Country: India. Runtime: 2h 24m.

#15 The Blues Brothers 1980

They’ll never get caught. They’re on a mission from God.

Director: John Landis. Cast: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie Hall, John Candy, Carrie Fisher, John Lee Hooker, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy.

Overview: Direct out of jail, Jake Blues and his Brother Elwood are off on a “mission from God” to raise funds for the orphanage in which they grew up. The only thing they can do is do what they do best: play music. So they get their old band together and they're on their way yet not without getting in a bit of trouble here and there.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 13m. Rated: R.

#16 My Fair Lady 1964

Director: George Cukor. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White.

Overview: Linguist Professor Henry Higgins bets his friend, Colonel Hugh Pickering , that he can transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in time for an important society ball. The spirited Eliza proves more of a handful than the Professor could have predicted. As she slowly becomes more refined, and less reliant upon him, Higgins realizes, to his confusion, that he can't live without her.

Genres: Drama, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 50m. Rated: G.

#17 The Smiling Lieutenant 1931

Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, Hugh O'Connell.

Overview: A misfired flirtation lands a young lieutenant married to a princess instead of the one he loves.

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 33m.

#18 The Sound Of Music 1965

The happiest sound in all the world!

Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood.

Overview: Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It was photographed in 70mm Todd-AO by Ted D. McCord. It won a total of five Academy Awards including Best Picture in 1965 and is one of the most popular musicals ever produced. The cast album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Adjusted for inflation, it made $1.046 billion domestically at 2010 prices, putting it third on the list of all-time inflation-adjusted box office hits, behind Gone with the Wind and Star Wars. The movie is based on a postulant nun, Maria, who leaves her Abbey to become a Governess to a retired Austrian Naval Captain and his 7 children.

Genres: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 54m. Rated: G.

#19 Love Me Tonight 1932

Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth.

Overview: A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 44m.

#20 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1937

The Happiest, Dopiest, Grumpiest, Sneeziest movie of the year.

Director: David Hand. Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Eddie Collins, Pinto Colvig, Marion Darlington, Billy Gilbert, Otis Harlan, Roy Atwell, Leigh Harline.

Overview: A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 23m. Rated: G.

#21 Aladdin 1992

Wish granted!

Directors: John Musker, Ron Clements. Cast: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman, Frank Welker, Gilbert Gottfried, Douglas Seale.

Overview: Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu. When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar's plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a "diamond in the rough" can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin might fight that description, but that's not enough to marry the princess, who must (by law) marry a prince.

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Science Fiction, Music, Family. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 30m. Rated: G.

#22 Dancer in the Dark 2000

You don't need eyes to see.

Director: Lars von Trier. Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour, Vladica Kostic, Jean-Marc Barr, Vincent Paterson, Siobhan Fallon, Zeljko Ivanek, Udo Kier, Jens Albinus, Reathel Bean, Mette Berggreen.

Overview: Dancer in the Dark – With his third film from the series “Heart of Gold Trilogy” Lars von Trier takes us on a passionate music adventure of a poor Czech immigrant who moves to the states with her son. Iceland’s singer Björk plays the main character. The Film uses stylistic techniques from old 1950’s and 60’s American musicals along with the Dogma approach to filming.

Genres: Drama, Crime, Music. Country: Sweden. Runtime: 2h 20m. Rated: R.

#23 Top Hat 1935

Director: Mark Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Helen Broderick.

Overview: Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 41m.

#24 Cabaret 1972

Director: Bob Fosse. Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson.

Overview: Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) and an impish emcee (Joel Grey) sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.

Genres: Drama, Music, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 4m. Rated: PG.

#25 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964
Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Director: Jacques Demy. Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Jean Champion, Pierre Caden, Jean-Pierre Dorat.

Overview: Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant. A completely sung movie, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is closest in form to a cinematic opera.

Genres: Drama, Foreign, Musical, Romance. Countries: Germany, France. Runtime: 1h 31m.

#26 Tangled 2010

They're taking adventure to new lengths.

Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard. Cast: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, M.C. Gainey, Ron Perlman, Paul F. Tompkins, Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett, Richard Kiel.

Overview: When the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for her ticket out of the tower where she's been locked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsome thief and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packed escapade, complete with a super-cop horse, an over-protective chameleon and a gruff gang of pub thugs.

Genres: Animation, Family, Comedy, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 40m. Rated: PG.

#27 Arabesque 1989
Arabesk

Director: Ertem Egilmez. Cast: Sener Sen, Müjde Ar, Ugur Yücel.

Overview: This is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together.

Genre: Comedy. Country: Turkey. Runtime: 1h 45m.

#28 Pyaasa 1957

Director: Guru Dutt. Cast: Guru Dutt, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman.

Overview: Unemployed Vijay is the youngest in his family consisting of his widowed mom, and two brothers. His passion is poetry - frowned upon by his brothers - who want him to find gainful employment instead. Vijay's poems are quite radical in which he laments about the poor, the destitute, and the arrogance of the rich after the departure of the British from India. His efforts to get them published are in vain. He takes to drinking, gets in trouble with the law, is disowned by his brothers, ends up at a brothel and befriends a prostitute named Gulabo. Gulabo is sympathetic, listens to him as he pours his heart out, and decides to assist Vijay. Watch what happens when Gulabo approaches some of her affluent clientèle to assist Vijay and try and get his work published, without revealing that they are written by an alcoholic, disheveled, homeless man.

Genres: Drama, Foreign. Country: India. Runtime: 2h 26m.

#29 A Star Is Born 1954

Director: George Cukor. Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Lucy Marlow, Amanda Blake, Irving Bacon, Hazel Shermet, Lotus Robb.

Overview: A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Genres: Drama, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 3h 1m. Rated: PG.

#30 Fiddler On The Roof 1971

Director: Norman Jewison. Cast: Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Topol.

Overview: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 3h 1m. Rated: G.

#31 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 1999

UH-OH.

Director: Trey Parker. Cast: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, George Clooney, Brent Spiner, Minnie Driver.

Overview: When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced "corrupted", and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada.

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Music. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 21m. Rated: R.

#32 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971

It's Scrumdiddlyumptious!

Director: Mel Stuart. Cast: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Leonard Stone, Denise Nickerson, Nora Denney, Paris Themmen, Ursula Reit, Diana Sowle, Aubrey Woods, David Battley, Peter Capell, Pat Coombs.

Overview: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden amid a world of Oompa Loompas and chocolate rivers?

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 40m. Rated: G.

#33 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942

Director: Michael Curtiz. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp, Jeanne Cagney, Frances Langford, George Barbier, Walter Catlett, Douglas Croft, Eddie Foy Jr., Minor Watson, Chester Clute.

Overview: A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Genres: Documentary, Drama, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 6m.

#34 The Court Jester 1956

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama. Cast: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury.

Overview: A 12th century court jester in England becomes involved with a desperate band of outlaws who are attempting to overthrow the king.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 41m.

#35 Mughal-E-Azam 1960

Director: K. Asif. Cast: Dilip Kumar, Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote.

Overview: Set in the 16th century AD, the movie brings to life the tale of the doomed love affair between the Mughal Crown Prince Saleem and the beautiful, ill-fated court dancer, whose fervor and intensity perpetrates a war between the prince and his father the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, and threatens to bring an empire to its knees.

Genres: Drama, Eastern, Foreign, Romance. Country: India. Runtime: 2h 53m.

#36 West Side Story 1961

Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise. Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Tucker Smith.

Overview: West Side Story is the film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical of the same name from directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

Genres: Drama, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 32m. Rated: PG.

#37 42nd Street 1933

Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Una Merkel, Ginger Rogers, Ned Sparks, Dick Powell, Allen Jenkins, Edward J. Nugent, Robert McWade, George E. Stone.

Overview: A producer puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 29m.

#38 Swing Time 1936

Director: George Stevens. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.

Overview: A performer and gambler travels to New York City to raise the $25,000 he needs to marry his fiancée, only to become entangled with a beautiful aspiring dancer.

Genres: Comedy, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 43m.

#39 Sita Sings the Blues 2008

Director: Nina Paley. Cast: Reena Shah, Debargo Sanyal.

Overview: Sita Sings the Blues is a 2008 animated feature film written, directed, produced and animated entirely by American artist Nina Paley (with the exception of some fight animation by Jake Friedman in the "Battle of Lanka" scene) primarily using 2D computer graphics.

Genres: Animation, Drama, Indie. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 22m.

#40 Mary Poppins 1964

It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Director: Robert Stevenson. Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Reta Shaw, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Treacher, Reginald Owen, Ed Wynn.

Overview: Mary Poppins is the Disney musical film version of the Australian children's book. One of the classic Disney films and the first film to combine live action with animation in a story about the magical nanny named Mary Poppins who comes and goes by flying with her umbrella.

Genres: Comedy, Family, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 2h 20m. Rated: G.

#41 On the Town 1949

Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly. Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen.

Overview: Three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City look for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up.

Genre: Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 38m.

#42 Lage Raho Munna Bhai 2006

They're back... and they're not alone!

Director: Rajkumar Hirani. Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Vidya Balan, Dia Mirza, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Saurabh Shukla, Abhishek Bachchan, Jimmy Shergill, Parikshat Sahni, Ninad Kamat, Boman Irani.

Overview: A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders' home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the help of Munna's sidekick, Circuit, while Munna is busy romancing Jahnvi elsewhere.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Eastern, Foreign, Romance. Country: India. Runtime: 2h 24m. Rated: PG-13.

#43 À nous la liberté 1931

Director: René Clair. Cast: Henri Marchand, Raymond Cordy, Rolla France, Paul Ollivier, Jacques Shelly, Germaine Aussey.

Overview: One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair’s À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the form of old jail pal Emile) to upset his carefully laid plans. Featuring lighthearted wit, tremendous visual innovation, and masterful manipulation of sound, À nous la liberté is both a potent indictment of mechanized modern society and an uproarious comic delight.

Genres: Comedy, Foreign, Musical. Country: France. Runtime: 1h 44m.

#44 Memories of Matsuko 2006
Kiraware Matsuko no isshô

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima. Cast: Miki Nakatani, Eita, Yûsuke Iseya, Mikako Ichikawa, Asuka Kurosawa, Gori, Shinji Takeda, YosiYosi Arakawa, Gekidan Hitori, Magî, Shôsuke Tanihara, Takanori Takeyama, Masahiro Kômoto, Nagisa Katahira, Takuzô Kadono.

Overview: Shou's father Norio finds his son in a rather meaningless existence in Tokyo dominated by alcohol and porn videos. Having left home two years earlier to pursue life as a musician, Shou has left his band and his girlfriend has left him. His father asks a favor, that Shou clean out the apartment of his aunt Matsuko, who he says led a meaningless life until her murder at the age of 53. The apartment is filled with garbage bags and is even more unkempt than his apartment has become, and he becomes intrigued with his aunt as details of her life are supplied by a tattooed neighbor and others. Her feelings of neglect by her father Tsunehiro, who favored her chronically ill younger sister, Kumi, translated into becoming a dutiful junior high school teacher devoted to her students until being forced to resign after being blamed for the theft of some money by one of them. Leaving her family due to the disgrace...

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical. Country: Japan. Runtime: 2h 10m.

#45 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1977

Directors: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman. Cast: Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway.

Overview: Join dear friends Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through escapades that include honey, bees, bouncing, balloons, floods, Pooh sticks and more. This collection of classic Disney shorts based on A.A. Milne's characters includes "Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree," "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" and "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!"

Genres: Animation, Family. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 14m.

#46 Footlight Parade 1933

Director: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell.

Overview: Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 44m.

#47 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 1995

Come...Fall in Love

Director: Aditya Chopra. Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher, Satish Shah, Achala Sachdev, Himani Shivpuri, Pooja Ruparel, Mandira Bedi.

Overview: Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Eastern, Foreign, Musical, Romance. Country: India. Runtime: 3h 10m. Rated: PG.

#48 Show Boat 1936

Director: James Whale. Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley.

Overview: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 53m.

#49 The Jungle Book 1967

The Jungle is JUMPIN'!

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman. Cast: Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley, Bruce Reitherman, Verna Felton, Clint Howard, Chad Stuart, Lord Tim Hudson, John Abbott, Ben Wright, Darleen Carr.

Overview: The Jungle Book follows the ups and downs of the man-cub Mowgli as he makes his way back to the human village with wise panther Bagheera to escape ruthless tiger Shere Khan. Along the way, he meets unforgettable friends and foes including mad King Louie of the Apes, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the loveable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli about true friendship.

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 18m. Rated: G.