My heart just wants to sing!
Musicals.
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1.
Pitch Perfect
(2012)
Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition. (112 mins.)
Director: Jason Moore
2.
Footloose
(1984)
A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. (107 mins.)
Director: Herbert Ross
3.
Flashdance
(1983)
A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school. (95 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
4.
Grease
(1978)
Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance? (110 mins.)
Director: Randal Kleiser
5.
Footloose
(2011)
City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace. (113 mins.)
Director: Craig Brewer
6.
Guys and Dolls
(1955)
In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game. (150 mins.)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
7.
8 Mile
(2002)
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make the most of what could be his final opportunity but his problems around gives him doubts. (110 mins.)
Director: Curtis Hanson
8.
Mary Poppins
(1964)
A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family. (139 mins.)
Director: Robert Stevenson
9.
Singin' in the Rain
(1952)
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound. (103 mins.)
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
10.
The Wizard of Oz
(1939)
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home. (101 mins.)
Director: Victor Fleming
11.
All That Jazz
(1979)
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer. (123 mins.)
Director: Bob Fosse
12.
Fiddler on the Roof
(1971)
In pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish peasant must contend with marrying off his three daughters while antisemitic sentiment threatens his home. (181 mins.)
Director: Norman Jewison
13.
West Side Story
(1961)
Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love. (152 mins.)
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
14.
The Sound of Music
(1965)
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower. (174 mins.)
Director: Robert Wise
15.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
(1971)
A poor boy wins the opportunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all. (100 mins.)
Director: Mel Stuart
16.
Annie
(1982)
Broadway musical based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip. A young orphan girls adventures in finding a family that will take her. (126 mins.)
Director: John Huston
17.
Cabaret
(1972)
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. (124 mins.)
Director: Bob Fosse
18.
Bye Bye Birdie
(1963)
A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted. (112 mins.)
Director: George Sidney
19.
The Music Man
(1962)
A con man comes to a Midwestern town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan. (151 mins.)
Director: Morton DaCosta
20.
The King and I
(1956)
Musical about a widow who accepts a job as a live-in governess of the King of Siam's children. (133 mins.)
Director: Walter Lang
21.
My Fair Lady
(1964)
A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. (170 mins.)
Director: George Cukor
22.
Oliver!
(1968)
Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor. (153 mins.)
Director: Carol Reed
23.
The Wiz
(1978)
An adaption of "The Wizard of Oz" that tries to capture the essence of the African American experience. (134 mins.)
Director: Sidney Lumet
24.
Little Shop of Horrors
(1986)
A nerdish florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. (94 mins.)
Director: Frank Oz
25.
The Fantasticks
(1995)
A mysterious fair come to a small community in the countryside, which could make real the illusions of two kids. (86 mins.)
Director: Michael Ritchie
26.
The Pirates of Penzance
(1983)
This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in... (112 mins.)
Director: Wilford Leach
27.
Chicago
(2002)
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. (113 mins.)
Director: Rob Marshall
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