I collected more than 10 lists of the best movie musicals of all time and compiled them into one meta-list. Here are the results: every movie musical that is on at least three of the original source lists. The results are organized chronologically. To see a version of this list organized by rank (that is, with the movies on the most lists at the top), go HERE.
To see lists of the best stage musicals of all time, go HERE (ranked list) or HERE (chronological list).
- Love Me Tonight (1932) (on 3 lists)
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, Myrna Loy
Screenplay: Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion Jr. & Waldemar Young. Songs by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart.
Producer/Studio: Rouben Mamoulian/Paramount Pictures
Based on: Le Tailleur au Château (play, 1924), by Léopold Marchand & Paul Armont - 42nd Street (1933) (on 5 lists)
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Una Merkel, Ruby Keeler, Guy Kibbee, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell
Screenplay: Rian James & James Seymour. Songs by Harry Warren & Al Dubin.
Producer/Studio: Darryl F. Zanuck/Warner Bros. Pictures
Based on: 42nd Street (novel, 1932) by Bradford Ropes - Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (on 3 lists)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy & Busby Berkeley
Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell
Screenplay: Erwin S. Gelsey, James Seymour, Ben Markson, David Boehm. Songs by Harry Warren & Al Dubin.
Producer/Studio: Robert Lord & Jack L. Warner/Warner Bros. Pictures
Based on: The Gold Diggers (play, 1919), by Avery Hopwood - Top Hat (1935) (on 7 lists)
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Broderick
Screenplay: Allan Scott & Dwight Taylor. Songs by Irving Berlin.
Producer/Studio: Pandro S. Berman/RKO Radio Pictures
Based on: A Scandal in Budapest (play, 1911), by Alexander Faragó & Aladar Laszlo - Show Boat (1936) (on 4 lists)
Director: James Whale
Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winniger, Paul Robeson, Helen Morgan, Helen Westley
Screenplay: Oscar Hammerstein II
Producer/Studio: Carl Laemmle Jr./Universal Pictures
Based on: Show Boat (stage musical, 1927) (Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II) - Swing Time (1936) (on 3 lists)
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick
Screenplay: Howard Lindsay & Allan Scott. Songs by Jerome Kern & Dorothy Fields.
Producer/Studio: Pandro S. Berman/RKO Radio Pictures - The Wizard of Oz (1939) (on 9 lists)
Director: Victor Fleming (credited), King Vidor, George Cukor, et al. (uncredited)
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton
Screenplay: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf. Songs by Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg.
Producer/Studio: Mervyn LeRoy/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (novel, 1900), by L. Frank Baum - Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) (on 5 lists)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
Screenplay: Robert Buckner & Edmund Joseph. Songs by George M. Cohan.
Producer/Studio: Hal B. Wallis & Jack L. Warner/Warner Bros. Pictures - Stormy Weather (1943) (on 3 lists)
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Cast: Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller, Dooley Wilson, Nicholas Brothers, Ada Brown
Screenplay: Jerry Horwin, Seymour B. Robinson, Frederick J. Jackson, H.S. Kraft. Songs by Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, et al.
Producer/Studio: William LeBaron/20th Century Fox - Cabin in the Sky (1943) (on 3 lists)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Lena Horne, Rex Ingram, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
Screenplay: Joseph Schrank. Songs by Roger Edens, Georgie Stoll, George Bassman, Hall Johnson, et al.
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed & Albert Lewis/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: Cabin in the Sky (stage musical, 1940) (Vernon Duke, Lynn Root & John La Touche) - Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) (on 7 lists)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main
Screenplay: Irving Brecher & Fred F. Finklehoffe. Songs by Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane & Arthur Freed.
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: Meet Me in St. Louis (novel, 1942), by Sally Benson - Easter Parade (1948) (on 3 lists)
Director: Charles Walters
Cast: Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Ann Miller
Screenplay: Sidney Sheldon, Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett. Songs by Irving Berlin
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - On the Town (1949) (on 6 lists)
Directors: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Cast: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin & Vera-Ellen
Screenplay: Adolph Green & Betty Comden
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: On the Town (stage musical 1944) (Adolph Green, Betty Comden & Leonard Bernstein) - An American in Paris (1951) (on 8 lists)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Screenplay: Alan J. Lerner. Songs by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin.
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Singin’ in the Rain (1952) (on 10 lists)
Director: Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
Screenplay: Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Cast: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Jean Hagen, Cyd Charisse
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) (on 4 lists)
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid
Screenplay: Charles Lederer. Songs by Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Hoagy Carmichael & Harold Adamson.
Producer/Studio: Sol C. Siegel/20th Century-Fox
Based on: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (stage musical, 1949) (Jule Styne, Leo Robin, Joseph Fields & Anita Loos) - The Band Wagon (1953) (on 3 lists)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, James Mitchell
Screenplay: Betty Comden & Adolph Green. Songs by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz.
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (on 6 lists)
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, Tommy Rall
Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich & Dorothy Kingsley. Songs by Gene de Paul & Johnny Mercer
Producer /Studio: Jack Cummings/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: The Sobbin’ Woman (story, 1938), by Stephen Vincent Benét - A Star Is Born (1954) (on 6 lists)
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford
Screenplay: Moss Hart. Songs by Harold Arlen & Ira Gershwin
Producer/Studio: Sidney Luft/Transcona Enterprises
Based on: A Star Is Born (film, 1937) (William Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell) - White Christmas (1954) (on 5 lists)
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger
Screenplay: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank. Songs by Irving Berlin.
Producer/Studio: Robert Emmett Dolan/Paramount Pictures - Guys and Dolls (1955) (on 4 lists)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver
Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer/Studio: Samuel Goldwyn/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: Guys and Dolls (stage musical, 1950) (Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows) - Oklahoma! (1955) (on 4 lists)
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Gordon McRae, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Eddie Albert, James Whitmore, Charlotte Greenwood
Screenplay: Sonya Levien & William Ludwig
Producer/Studio: Arthur Hornblow Jr./Magna Theatre Corp. & RKO Radio Pictures
Based on: Oklahoma! (stage musical, 1943) (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) - The King and I (1956) (on 6 lists)
Director: Walter Lang
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Morena, Martin Benson, Rex Thompson
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman
Producer/Studio: Charles Brackett/20th Century-Fox
Based on: The King and I (stage musical (1951) (Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) - Funny Face (1957) (on 5 lists)
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng
Screenplay: Leonard Gershe. Songs by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin.
Producer/Studio: Roger Edens/Paramount Pictures
Loosely based on: Funny Face (stage musical, 1927) - Gigi (1958) (on 4 lists)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner. Songs by Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner.
Producer/Studio: Arthur Freed/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: Gigi (novella, 1944), by Colette - West Side Story (1961) (on 10 lists)
Directors: Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris, Rita Moreno
Producer/Studio: Robert Wise/Mirish Picturers & Seven Arts Productions
Based on: West Side Story (stage musical, 1957) (Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents) - The Music Man (1962) (on 5 lists)
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton
Screenplay: Marion Hargrove
Producer/Studio: Morton DaCosta/Warner Bros. Pictures
Based on: The Music Man (stage musical, 1957) (Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey) - Bye Bye Birdie (1963) (on 3 lists)
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson, Ed Sullivan
Screenplay: Irving Brecher.
Producer/Studio: Fred Kohlmar/The Kohlmar-Sidney Company
Based on: Bye Bye Birdie (1960) (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams & Michael Stewart) - Mary Poppins (1964) (on 8 lists)
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Elsa Lanchester, Ed Wynn
Screenplay: Bill Walsh & Don DaGradi. Songs by Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman.
Producer/Studio: Walt Disney/Walt Disney Productions
Based on: Mary Poppins (novel, 1934) & Mary Poppins Comes Back (novel, 1935), by P.L. Travers - My Fair Lady (1964) (on 7 lists)
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett
Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner
Producer/Studio: Jack L. Warner/Warner Bros.
Based on: My Fair Lady (stage musical, 1956) (Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner) - The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (on 5 lists)
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Anne Vernon, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel
Screenplay: Jacques Demy. Songs by Michel Legrand & Jacques Demy
Producer/Studio: Mag Bodard/Parc Film, Madeleine Films & Beta Film GmbH - A Hard Day’s Night (1964) (on 4 lists)
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: The Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin
Screenplay: Alun Owen. Songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison.
Producer/Studio: Walter Shenson/Walter Shenson Films/Proscenium Films - The Sound of Music (1965) (on 9 lists)
Director: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Eleanor Parker
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman
Producer/Studio: Robert Wise/Argyle Enterprises
Based on: The Sound of Music (stage musical, 1959) (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse) - Help! (1965) (on 3 lists)
Director: Richard Lester
Cast: The Beatles, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear
Screenplay: Marc Behm & Charles Wood. Songs by John Lennon, Paul McCartney & George Harrison.
Producer/Studio: Walter Shenson/Walter Shenson Films & Subafilms - The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) (on 4 lists)
Director: Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin, Gene Kelly, Danielle Darrieux
Screenplay: Jacques Demy. Songs by Michel Legrand & Jacques Demy
Producer/Studio: Gilbert de Goldschmidt/Madeleine Films & Parc Film - Funny Girl (1968) (on 5 lists)
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon
Screenplay: Isobel Lennart. Songs by Jule Styne & Bob Merrill.
Producer/Studio: Ray Stark/Rastar
Based on: Funny Girl (stage musical, 1964) (Isobel Lennart, Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) - Oliver! (1968) (on 5 lists)
Director: Carol Reed
Cast: Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild
Screenplay: Vernon Harris
Producer/Studio: John Woolf/Romulus Films
Based on: Oliver! (stage musical, 1960) (Lionel Bart) - Sweet Charity (1969) (on 4 lists)
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye, Ricardo Montalbán, Sammy Davis Jr.
Screenplay: Peter Stone
Producer/Studio: Robert Arthur/Universal Pictures
Based on: Sweet Charity (stage musical, 1966) (Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields & Neil Simon) - Hello, Dolly! (1969) (on 3 lists)
Director: Gene Kelly
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Louis Armstrong
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman. Songs by Jerry Herman.
Producer/Studio: Ernest Lehman/Chenault Productions
Based on: Hello, Dolly! (stage musical, 1964) (Jerry Herman & Michael Stewart) - Fiddler on the Roof (1971) (on 6 lists)
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann
Screenplay: Joseph Stein
Producer/Studio: Norman Jewison/The Mirisch Company & Cartier Productions
Based on: Fiddler on the Roof (stage musical, 1964) (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Joseph Stein) - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) (on 4 lists)
Director: Mel Stuart
Cast: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Denise Nickerson, Leonard Stone, Julie Dawn Cole, Paris Themmen, Dodo Denney
Screenplay: Roald Dahl & David Seltzer (uncredited). Songs by Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley.
Producer/Studio: Stan Margulies & David L. Wolper/Wolper Picture, The Quaker Oats Company
Based on: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (novel, 1964), by Roald Dahl - Cabaret (1972) (on 8 lists)
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Joel Grey
Screenplay: Jay Presson Allen.
Producer/Studio: Cy Feuer/ABC Pictures Corp.
Based on: Cabaret (stage musical, 1966) (John Kander, Fred Ebb & Joe Masteroff) - Phantom of the Paradise (1974) (on 3 lists)
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Paul Williams, William Finley, George Memmoli, Harold Oblong, Archie Hahn, Jeffrey Comanor, Gerrit Graham, Jessica Harper
Screenplay: Brian De Palma. Songs by Paul Williams.
Producer/Studio: Edward Pressman/Harbor Productions - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (on 6 lists)
Director: Jim Sharman
Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Botswick, Richard O’Brien, Meat Loaf
Screenplay: Richard O’Brien & Jim Sharman
Producer/Studio: Lou Adler & Michael White/Michael White Productions
Based on: The Rocky Horror Show (stage musical, 1973) (Richard O’Brien & Richard Hartley) - Grease (1978) (on 7 lists)
Director: Randal Kleiser
Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Sid Caesar
Screenplay: Bronté Woodard. Additional songs by John Farrar, Barry Gibb, Louis St. Louis, Screamin’ Scott Simon.
Producer/Studio: Robert Stigwood & Allan Carr/ Allan Carr Enterprises & Stigwood Group
Based on: Grease (stage musical, 1971) (Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey) - All That Jazz (1979) (on 7 lists)
Director: Bob Fosse
Cast: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen
Screenplay: Robert Alan Aurthur & Bob Fosse
Producer/Studio: Robert Alan Aurthur/20th Century Fox & Columbia Pictures - The Muppet Movie (1979) (on 3 lists)
Director: James Frawley
Cast: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Charles Durning, Austin Pendelton
Screenplay: Jerry Juhl & Jack Burns. Songs by Paul Williams & Kenneth Ascher.
Producer/Studio: Jim Henson/ITC Entertainment & Henson Associates - Hair (1979) (on 3 lists)
Director: Miloš Forman
Cast: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D’Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Don Dacus, Melba Moore, Ronnie Dyson
Screenplay: Michael Weller
Producer/Studio: Lester Persky & Michael Butler/CIP Filmproduktion GmbH & Tribe Entertainment Group
Based on: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical (stage musical, 1967) (Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni & James Rado) - The Blues Brothers (1980) (on 3 lists)
Director: John Landis
Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Henry Gibson
Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd & John Landis
Producer/Studio: Robert K. Weiss/Universal Pictures - Pennies from Heaven (1981) (on 4 lists)
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, John McMartin, Christopher Walken
Screenplay: Dennis Potter. Music by Ralph Burns, Con Conrad, Marvin Hamlisch, Billy May.
Producer/Studio: Rick McCallum, Herbert Ross & Nora Kaye/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Based on: Pennies from Heaven (TV series, 1978) (Dennis Potter) - Victor/Victoria (1982) (on 4 lists)
Director: Blake Edwards
Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras
Screenplay: Blake Edwards. Songs by Henry Mancini & Leslie Bricusse.
Producer/Studio: Blake Edwards & Tony Adams/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Pinewood Studios
Based on: Victor and Victoria (film, 1933) (Reinhold Schünzel) - Purple Rain (1984) (on 4 lists)
Director: Albert Magnoli
Cast: Prince, Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Clarence Williams III
Screenplay: Albert Magnoli & William Blinn. Songs by Prince.
Producer/Studio: Robert Cavallo, Joseph Ruffalo & Steven Fargnoli/Purple Films - Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (on 6 lists)
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Levi Stubbs, Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Tisha Campbell, Tichina Arnold, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, James Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray
Screenplay: Howard Ashman
Producer/Studio: David Geffen/The Geffen Company
Based on: Little Shop of Horrors (stage musical, 1982) (Alan Menken & Howard Ashman) - Beauty and the Beast (1991) (on 7 lists)
Directors: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Cast: Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury
Screenplay: Linda Woolverton. Songs by Howard Ashman & Alan Menken.
Producer/Studio: Don Hahn/Walt Disney Feature Animation
Based on: Beauty and the Beast (story, 1740), by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, and Beauty and the Beast (film, 1946) (Jean Cocteau). - Newsies (1992) (on 3 lists)
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret, Robert Duvall
Screenplay: Bob Tzudiker & Noni White. Songs by Alan Menken & Jack Feldman.
Producer/Studio: Michael Finnell/Walt Disney Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners I - The Lion King (1994) (on 4 lists)
Directors: Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
Cast: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Robert Guillaume, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin
Screenplay: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts & Linda Woolverton. Songs by Elton John & Tim Rice.
Producer/Studio: Don Hahn/Walt Disney Feature Animation - Everyone Says I Love You (1996) (on 4 lists)
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Alan Alda, Woody Allen, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas, Goldie Hawn, Edward Norton, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Gaby Hoffmann, Natasha Lyonne, Tim Roth
Screenplay: Woody Allen
Producer/Studio: Robert Greenhut/Miramax Films - Dancer in the Dark (2000) (on 3 lists)
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey
Screenplay: Lars von Trier. Songs by Björk.
Producer/Studio: Vibeke Windeløv/Zentropa Entertainments, Canal+, FilmFour & France 3 Cinéma - Hedwig & the Angry Inch (2001) (on 5 lists)
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Cast: John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask
Screenplay: John Cameron Mitchell
Producer/Studio: Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel, Pamela Koffler/Killer Films
Based on: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (stage musical, 1998) (Stephen Trask & John Cameron Mitchell) - Moulin Rouge! (2001) (on 5 lists)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh
Screenplay: Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce
Producer/Studio: Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron/Bazmark Productions - Chicago (2002) (on 9 lists)
Director: Rob Marshall
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly, Lucy Liu
Screenplay: Bill Condon
Producer/Studio: Martin Richards/Producer Circle Co., Zadan/Meron Production, Kalis Productions
Based on: Chicago (stage musical, 1975) (Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, John Kander) - Dreamgirls (2006) (on 6 lists)
Director: Bill Condon
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Jennifer Hudson
Screenplay: Bill Condon
Producer/Studio: Laurence Mark/DreamWorks Pictures & Paramount Pictures
Based on: Dreamgirls (stage musical, 1981) (Henry Krieger & Tom Eyen) - High School Musical (TV film, 2006) (on 3 lists)
Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Alyson Reed, Corbin Blue, Monique Coleman
Screenplay: Peter Barsocchini. Songs by David Lawrence, Jamie Huston, Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, et al.
Producer/Studio: Don Schain/Salty Pictures & First Street Films; Disney Channel - Once (2007) (on 6 lists)
Director: John Carney
Cast: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerry Hendrick
Screenplay: John Carney. Songs by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová.
Producer/Studio: Martina Niland/Samson Films, Irish Film Board, RTÉ - Hairspray (2007) (on 5 lists)
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Christopher Walken, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Allison Janney
Screenplay: Leslie Dixon
Producer/Studio: Craig Zadan & Neil Meron/Ingenious Media, Zadan/Meron Productions, Storyline Entertainment, Offspring Entertainment
Based on: Hairspray (stage musical, 2002) (Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Thomas O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan) - Enchanted (2007) (on 4 lists)
Director: Kevin Lima
Cast: Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Timothy Spall, Idina Menzel, Susan Sarandon
Screenplay: Bill Kelly. Songs by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz.
Producer/Studio: Barry Josephson & Barry Sonnenfeld/Walt Disney Pictures, Josephson Entertainment & Right Coast Productions - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) (on 4 lists)
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Screenplay: John Logan
Producer/Studio: Richard D. Zanuck, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald & John Logan/DreamWorks Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Parkes/MacDonald Productions, The Zanuck Company & Image Nation
Based on: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (stage musical, 1979) (Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler) - Across the Universe (2007) (on 3 lists)
Director: Julie Taymor
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood, Joe Anderson, T.V. Carpio, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy, Carol Woods, Timothy T. Mitchum
Screenplay: Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais. Songs by The Beatles.
Producer/Studio: Matthew Gross, Jennifer Todd & Suzanne Todd/Columbia Pictures, Revolutions Studios, Gross Entertainment & Team Todd - Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) (on 3 lists)
Directors: Joel & Ethan Coen
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham, Justin Timberlake
Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen. Songs by Dave Van Ronk, T Bone Burnett, Marcus Mumford, et al.
Producer/Studio: Scott Rudin, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen/StudioCanal, Anton Capital Entertainment, Scott Rudin Productions & Mike Zoss Productions - La La Land (2016) (on 7 lists)
Director: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt
Screenplay: Damien Chazelle. Songs by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul.
Producer/Studio: Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Gary Gilbert & Marc Platt/Summit Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions, Impostor Pictures & Gilbert Films - Sing Street (2016) (on 4 lists)
Director: John Carney
Cast: Lucy Boynton, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Aidan Gillen, Jack Reynor, Kelly Thornton, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Screenplay: John Carney. Songs by Gary Clark, John Carney, Ken Papenfus, Carl Papenfus, Adam Levine, et al.
Producer/Studio: Anthony Bregman, Martina Niland & John Carney/Likely Story, FilmWave, Distressed Films, Cosmo Films, Merced Media, PalmStar Entertainment - The Greatest Showman (2017) (on 3 lists)
Director: Michael Gracey
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya
Screenplay: Jenny Bicks & Bill Condon. Songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Producer/Studio: Laurence Mark, Peter Chernin & Jenno Topping/Chernin Entertainment & Laurence Mark Productions - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) (on 3 lists)
Directed By: Ol Parker
Cast: Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Domini Cooper, Colin Firth, Andy García, Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Cher, Meryl Streep
Screenplay: Ol Parker. Songs by ABBA.
Producer/Studio: Judy Craymer & Gary Goetzman/Playtone, Littlestar Productions, Legendary Pictures & Perfect World Pictures
Sequel/Prequel to: Mamma Mia! (film, 2008) (Phyllida Loyd, Catherine Johnson) - In the Heights (2021) (on 5 lists)
Director: Jon M. Chu
Cast: Anthony Ramos, Melissa Barrera, Leslie Grace, Corey Hawkins, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gregory Diaz IV, Jimmy Smits
Screenplay: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Producer/Studio: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Qiara Alegría Hudes, Scott Sanders, Anthony Bregman, Mara Jacobs/5000 Broadway Productions, Barrio Grrrl! Productions, Likely Story, SGS Pictures, Endeavor Content
Based on: In the Heights (stage musical, 2005) (Lin-Manuel Miranda & Quiara Alegría Hudes) - West Side Story (2021) (on 4 lists)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Brian D’Arcy James, Corey Stoll, Rita Moreno
Screenplay: Tony Kushner
Producer/Studio: Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger & Kevin McCollum/20th Century Studios & Amblin Entertainment
Based on: West Side Story (stage musical, 1957) (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins) - tick, tick… Boom! (2021) (on 3 lists)
Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, Vanessa Hudgens
Screenplay: Steven Levenson
Producer/Studio: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Julie Oh, Julie Larson & Lin-Manuel Miranda/Imagine Entertainment & 5000 Broadway Productions
Based on: tick, tick… Boom! (stage musical, 2001) (Jonathan Larson)