Genre: Musical
Musical stories let characters sing what they can’t say — narratives where song and score carry the emotion and drive the plot.
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Chicago (2002)
Rob Marshall's 2002 jazz-age murder musical. Zellweger, Zeta-Jones, Gere. Won six Academy Awards including Best Picture. -
Top Hat (1935)
1935 Astaire-Rogers peak. Irving Berlin score. The Cheek to Cheek number is canonical. Their fifth collaboration and their best. -
An American in Paris (1951)
Vincente Minnelli's 1951 Gershwin musical. Gene Kelly as American painter in Paris. Won six Academy Awards including Best Picture. -
All That Jazz (1979)
Bob Fosse's 1979 autobiographical musical about his own self-destruction. Roy Scheider as the Fosse stand-in. Brutal and brilliant. -
West Side Story (1961)
1961 Robbins-Wise adaptation of the Sondheim-Bernstein stage musical. Romeo and Juliet on Manhattan streets. Won ten Academy Awards. -
Cabaret (1972)
Bob Fosse's 1972 Weimar Berlin musical. Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles. Nazi rise as backdrop. Won eight Academy Awards. -
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Donen and Kelly's 1952 musical comedy about the talkie transition. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds. The musical other musicals measure against.