Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Musical: 146 Films to Buy & Rent
- Cotton Club, The (1984)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines…
- Richard Gere heads the ensemble for Coppola's glossy musical melodrama set in the thick of New York's glitzy gangster culture of the 1930s.
- Footloose (1984)
- Dir. Herbert Ross
Feat. Kevin Bacon, John Lithgow, Christopher Penn…
- Rock'n'roll city kid Kevin Bacon fights for his right to party in the face of small town conservatism in this infectious, under–rated musical…
- Flashdance (1983)
- Dir. Adrian Lyne
Feat. Jennifer Beals
- Glossy mid 80s musical has Jennifer Beals holding down the day–job as a welder, so as to realise her dreams dancing to hits like Flashdance and…
- Staying Alive (1983)
- Dir. Sylvester Stallone
Feat. John Travolta, Cynthia Rhodes
- Engagingly tacky sequel to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, fashioned by dir. Sylvester Stallone as a ROCKY–style vehicle for John Travolta, who juggles…
- Yentl (1983)
- Dir. Barbra Streisand
Feat. Barbra Streisand
- Barbra Streisand directs herself in this musical/drama as an Eastern European woman at the turn of the century who masquerades as a boy in order to…
- Fame (TV Series) (1982-1987)
- Feat. Lori Singer, Debbie Allen
- Based on the 1980 hit movie, this series charts the ambitions, joys and heartbreaks of assorted dance and music students and teachers at New York's…
- Honkytonk Man (1982)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom
- One of director–star Eastwood's more unusual efforts, playing a TB–stricken country singer in the Great Depression, who tries to make one…
- One from the Heart (1982)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia
- A lavishly mounted curiosity loosely following the romantic plight of an estranged couple, set against an impressively stylised backdrop of Las…
- Starstruck (1982)
- Dir. Gillian Armstrong
Feat. Jo Kennedy
- A fabulous, overlooked Aussie musical in which an ambitious barmaid lives out her dreams to be a singing star in the new wave–inflected early…
- Les Uns et Les Autres (Bolero) (1981)
- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. James Caan, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hossein…
- Sprawling extravaganza of questionable taste is not without its devotees. It charts the impact that music has made on the lives of four…