Best Musical movies of 1980s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Levi Stubbs,
Directors : Frank Oz,

A nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.

Actors : Apollonia Kotero, Morris Day, Olga Karlatos, Prince,
Directors : Albert Magnoli,

A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.

Actors : Irene Cara, Eddie Barth, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean,
Directors : Alan Parker,

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Actors : Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, James Garner,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Actors : Amy Irving, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Actors : Vernel Bagneris, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Angela Lansbury, George Rose, Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Wilford Leach,

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. Frederic has fallen in love with sweet innocent ...

Actors : Charles Aidman, Daniel Valdez, Tyne Daly, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Luis Valdez,

A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped ...

Actors : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...

Actors : Luciano Pavarotti, Eddie Albert, Kathryn Harrold, Paola Borboni,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Teresa Stratas,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...