Best Musical movies of 1980s

Actors : Al Music, Alicia Allen, Lantz Douglas, Mary McKinley,
Directors : William Webb,

Disk jockey Mad Man Jack (AL MUSIC) needs to pump up his dwindling audiences at a local radio, and hits upon the idea of holding a competition to find California's most exciting girl. ...

Actors : Walter Kohut, Vera Tschechowa, Udo Lindenberg, Leata Galloway,

The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realizes this until the next day, when he doesn't show up in time for a rehearsal. ...

Actors : Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Mehra, Ashok Kumar,
Directors : Saawan Kumar Tak,

The story surrounds the lives of Dr. Rehman (Shashi Kapoor) who believes in saving the lives of the poor, instead of opening up a clinic in a big city and making money; Soni (Rekha), an ...

Actors : Raj Babbar, Farooq Shaikh, Salma Agha, Shoma Anand,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

Lucknow-based Nawabzada Aslam lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his dad, Bakar, and mom. He writes poems under the pen name of Raj Lakhnavi, and is a close friend of Iqbal. One day he ...

Actors : Nirmalamma, Sudha Chandran, Narayana P.L., Subhakar,
Directors : Singeetham Srinivasa Rao,

The real story of a classical dancer, who loses her leg in an accident and fights her way back as a dancer.

Actors : Hussein Fahmy, Nabila El Sayed, Nazim Shaarawy, Sabah,
Directors : Ahmed Yehia,

Hanan is a famous singer who meets an aspiring director named Ahmed, and soon they fall in love despite the age difference between them.

Actors : Helena Rojo, Jaime Garza, Jorge Luke, Olivia Collins,
Directors : Rafael Baledón,

Carlos has spent four years in prison for selling drugs. When he's released he finds out his brother has become a drug addict and is locked in a psychiatric hospital. Carlos starts working ...

Actors : Tonio Gutierrez, Lito Lapid, Metring David, Nora Aunor,
Directors : Mario O'Hara,

Since they were young, Oscar (Lito Lapid) and Laura (Nora Aunor) were already close to each other. Ever since childhood Laura was already abused by her Aunt and Uncle. One day, when Oscar ...

Actors : Vic Sotto, Rose Ann Gonzales, Joey de Leon, Tito Sotto,
Directors : Mike Relon Makiling,

Tired of getting fired from different odd jobs, Roberto "Robin" (Tito Sotto), Ricardo "Ricky" (Vic Sotto) and Rodrigo "Roy" (Joey de Leon) decided to make use of their ability to make people laugh by working as clowns in a carnival.

Actors : Kumar Gaurav, Saeed Jaffrey, Raj Kiran, Rati Agnihotri,
Directors : Vinod Pande,

Dev Kumar Verma comes from a middle-class family and must find employment to support his dad and mom. Dev, however, has set his mind upon becoming a music sensation like Elvis Presley. He ...

Actors : Han-na Lee, Jeong-il Seo, Yong-pil Jo, Ji-in Yu,
Directors : Hyeong-pyo Lee,

Jo Yong-pil establishes a band and receives a lot of local support. His girlfriend helps him produce an album and distributes it to dj's across the nation to help Yong-pil achieve stardom.

Actors : Meenakshi Sheshadri, Vinod Khanna, Shafi Inamdar, Sangeeta Bijlani,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Police Inspector Shekhar Varma lives in Khar, Bombay, along with his wife, Meena, and a school-going daughter. His office is notified that Editor Ritesh Nandy has received death threats as ...

Actors : James Young, John Panozzo, Dennis DeYoung, Tommy Shaw,

At the Paradise Theater, Jonathan Chance from the Music Underground, and Robert Kilroy, who broke out of prison to see Chance, meet, and Kilroy relates the events of the final concert at the Paradise, the night he was framed for murder.

Actors : Irina Rozanova, Aleksandr Trofimov, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Bezverkhny,
Directors : Dmitriy Meskhiev,

The musical tragicomedy based on the story of A. I. Kuprin of the same name. Beginning of the 20th century. In the southern seaside city the vegetable marrow "Gambrinus" is known by all. ...

Actors : Ken Letner, Thom Jones, Ulli Lommel, Cliff Brisbois,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Mesmerist Jonathan Sage escapes Nazi Germany via a cryogenic tube. In the 1980s, a group of Fascist Americans thaw him out, hoping to use him as a way to rid their community of homosexuals,...

Actors : Norma Bengell, Colé Santana, Caetano Veloso, José Lewgoy,
Directors : Júlio Bressane,

The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.

Actors : Anjali Sen, Farooq Shaikh, Anita Raj, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Freelance photographer, Alok Prakash, while photographing women hockey players in action, is hit by the puck, loses his senses and his hospitalized. His brother-in-law, a lawyer by the name...

Actors : Stanislawa Celinska, Piotr Fronczewski, Dorota Stalinska, Bozena Dykiel,
Directors : Janusz Rzeszewski,

Loosely based on a biography of a famous Polish singer from the 1930's, Hanka Ordonowna. It opens in the Egyptian desert during African campaign in World War II where Hanka's husband is ...

Actors : Mária Varga, Gyula Szabó, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Pál Sándor,

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Actors : Kaajal Kiran, Mithun Chakraborty, Deb Mukherjee, Yogeeta Bali,
Directors : Deb Mukherjee,

A scientist creates a diamond that can focus sun-rays to burn through anything. The villain, in a bid to get the diamond, kills the scientist. The scientist's karate-learning sons, Desh and...