Subgenre Sampler
Family > Musical: 61 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bugsy Malone (1976)
- Dir. Alan Parker
Feat. Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, John Cassini
- Alan Parker's directing debut was this startlingly original feature debut reinvents the gangster movie as a musical pastiche cast entirely with…
- Oliver Twist (animated) (1973)
- Dir. Hal Sutherland
- Warner Brothers' merry musical feature based on Charles Dicken's classic.
- Tom Sawyer (1973)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Johnnie Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates…
- Award–winning musical version of Mark Twain's classic raggamuffin adventures. A youthful Jodie Foster appears as Tom's girlfriend.
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) (1971)
- Dir. Mel Stuart
Feat. Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson
- Roald Dahl adapts his own book for this lively, almost psychedelic musical adaptation about a boy's desire to see inside a chocolate factory run by…
- Donkey Skin (Peau d'âne) (1970)
- Dir. Jacques Demy
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Delphine Seyrig…
- A vibrant, whimsical and genuinely fantastic adaptation of Perrault's classic 17th century fairy tale in which a Princess (Deneuve) disguises herself…
- Scrooge (1970)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Dame Edith Evans…
- Enchanting musical version of Charles Dickens' tale of the old miser who is taken through Christmas past, present and future to realise his selfish…
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
- Dir. Ken Hughes
Feat. Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries…
- Dick Van Dyke stars as eccentric inventor and who gives a run–down race car a magical new lease of life.
This musical comedy masterpiece…
- Oliver! (1968)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Ron Moody, Oliver Reed, Mark Lester
- Perfect screen adaptation of the 1960 stage musical by British writer and composer Lionel Bart, based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale. For a…
- One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, The (1968)
- Dir. Michael O'Herlihy
Feat. Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Lesley Ann Warren…
- A rambunctious Disney musical in which the large Bower family band sets off to the 1888 Democrat Party convention in St. Louis to support Grover…
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
- Dir. Gene Kelly
Feat. Gene Kelly
- Gene Kelly and his live–action cast interact with animated characters and backgrounds for this musical version of the fairytale favourite.…