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.…