Best Musical movies of 1980s

Graffiti Bridge(1990)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Ingrid Chavez, Jerome Benton, Morris Day, Prince,
Prince,

The unofficial sequel to 'Purple Rain' (1984). The Kid is now club owner and rival to Morris (Morris Day) who get into a fight for the Glam Slam Nightclub.



Shock Treatment(1981)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Janet and Brad become contestants on a game show... but wind up as captives instead.



Back to the Beach(1987)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Frankie and Annette, having grown up and put aside their beach-partying lifestyle, visit their daughter in Southern California and discover there's still some wild times left in them.



Arabesk(1988)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This is the tragicomic story of two lovers who cannot ever get together. Sener is the son of a simple family in the village and he is in love with the village headman's daughter Mujde. Kaya...



Pennies from Heaven(1981)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Absolute Beginners(1986)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In 1958 London a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.



Heartbreak Hotel(1988)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 10

When a teen tries to set up a band at his school, his mother who was a big fan of Elvis Presley gets in a wreck he and his band members decides to kidnap Elvis and have him hooked up with his mother.



The Pirates of Penzance(1983)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



Masoom(1983)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.



Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo(1984)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. The local breakdancers try to stop it.



Zoot Suit(1981)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 8

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 ...



Chithram(1988)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A woman hires a stranger to pose as her husband because she doesn't want her ailing father to know that her fiance broke their engagement.



The Wizard of Speed and Time(1988)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. ...



Le bal(1983)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 (...



Thoovanathumbikal(1987)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Asokan, Parvathi, Sumalatha, Mohanlal,
P. Padmarajan,

Jayakrishnan falls in love with two girls, Radha and Clara, and fights his confusion about whom he should marry and spend his life with.



Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov(1987)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mr Jonny First arrives to the Wild West to present the art of the Cinematograph.



Karz(1980)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ravi is killed by his wife after his marriage. He is reborn as Monty and is now a singer he goes to holiday in Ooty where he recollects his memories from previous life and inquires about his family from first life and his evil wife Kamini.



Laawaris(1981)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Left in the care of an alcoholic Gangu Ganpat (Shreeram Lagoo), young Heera, who named himself after a stray dog, wrestles with life in his young age. Years later, now a young man (Amitabh ...



Ram Lakhan(1989)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Sharda (Raakhee) vows vengeance when her husband is murdered by his two evil cousins, Bhishamber (Amrish Puri) and Bhanu (Paresh Rawal), and she and her two young sons are thrown out on the...



Happily Ever After(1990)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Evil Queen is dead and Snow White is on her way to see the 7 dwarves when Lord Maliss, the Queen's brother, sees her in the looking glass. He attacks her in the form of a dragon, taking...




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