Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Musical: 146 Films to Buy & Rent
- Paris 36 (Faubourg 36) (2008)
- Dir. Christophe Barratier
Feat. Gerard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad
- This period 30s French drama is set in a struggling music hall that seems destined for closure until a new star comes along to save the day. A love…
- Across the Universe (2007)
- Dir. Julie Taymor
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson…
- Thirty–three tunes from the Beatles songbook are excitably re–constituted for this lavish 'jukebox' musical that threads together a story…
- Crazy (2007)
- Dir. Rick Bieber
Feat. Ali Larter, Waylon Payne
- Unlikely musical biopic of legendary guitarist Hank Garland, charting the instrumentalist’s career highs, troubled relationships and personal…
- Stomp the Yard (2007)
- Dir. Sylvain White
Feat. Columbus Short
- A stomping ghetto melodrama that follows a gangbanger's transformation into a champion hip–hop krump dancer, set in a fictional all–black…
- Dreamgirls (2006)
- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy…
- Dazzling musical numbers and sassy performances jive in this acclaimed Motown musical charting the rise of fictional girl group, 'The Dreamettes', in…
- Prairie Home Companion, A (2006)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Tommy Lee Jones…
- Reviving the musical scope of his 70s watermark NASHVILLE, Robert Altman’s last film lovingly dramatizes the backstage quandary of a live radio…
- TranSylvania (2006)
- Dir. Tony Gatlif
Feat. Asia Argento, Birol Unel, Amira Casar
- Tony Gatlif tones his freewheeling musical romanticism down a notch, but doesn’t discard the ramshackle sensuality of his earlier films, in this…
- Lackawanna Blues (2005)
- Dir. George C. Wolfe
Feat. S. Epatha Merkerson, Mos Def, Delroy Lindo…
- An evocative series of linked vignettes set around the memories of playwright Ruben Santiago–Hudson, about a New York boarding house in the…
- Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2005)
- Dir. Randall Miller
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, John Goodman…
- Old–fashioned melodrama, shading into elegaic whimsy, in which a widowed baker (Carlyle) helps and learns the story of a car crash victim…
- Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Guest…
- Set in the grey drabness of 1930s England, this charming wee feel–gooder tells the true story of an eccentric, somewhat difficult dowager…