Best Musical movies of 1980s

The Apple(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.



The Creature Wasn't Nice(1983)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On ...



Tezaab(1988)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A college student, who has decided to serve for his country, turns a criminal.



Without You I'm Nothing(1990)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.



Yaarana(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Multi-millionaire Bishan Kumar and orphan Kishan are inseparable friends and live in the same house with Bishan's widowed mother and a maid servant. Bishan's father was responsible for the ...



Naseeb(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunk who cannot pay his tab trades his 'winning' ticket to the waiter, Namdev (Pran), instead. Namdev decides to share ...



Yes, Giorgio(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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.



La traviata(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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...



Chandni(1989)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fate leaves Chandni shattered as her love Rohit disappears from her life. She meets Lalit and they befriend each other until Rohit knocks on her door.



Breaking Glass(1980)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A rock singer is determined to rise to the top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of that goal.



Ek Duuje Ke Liye(1981)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Hindi-speaking collegian Sapna lives a wealthy lifestyle in Dona Paula, near Panaji, Goa, India, along with her Professor dad, Kundanlal, and mom. Their immediate neighbors are ...



Umrao Jaan(1981)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Faizabad, British India, Daroga Dilawar is sentenced to several years in prison after Amiran's dad testifies against him. After his discharge around 1840, he extracts his vengeance by ...



Disco Dancer(1982)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Jimmy promises to return to Bombay and become a famous entertainer so that he can exact revenge on Mr. Oberoi for having insulted and imprisoned his mother on false charges. He falls in ...



Ijaazat(1987)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mahendra is in love with Maya and would like to marry her. But Maya is a woman of the 20th century, who does not believe in marriage, but would like to continue having a relationship. ...



Arkadasim Seytan(1988)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Struggling musician sells his soul to the devil for instrumental fame.



Mack the Knife(1989)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In nineteenth century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal, and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves, so her father, "the king of thieves", gets the gangster arrested.



His Highness Abdullah(1990)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A qawwali singer passes as a Brahmin in order to infiltrate a palace and kill the king.



Starstruck(1982)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.



Une chambre en ville(1982)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A film musical in which every line is sung. The frame is about workers during a strike. They also prepare and perform a demonstration. Two personal relations develop against this background...



Prem Rog(1982)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Manorama, the daughter of a rich, orthodox family is married off, leaving her childhood friend Deodhar and his secret love for her, in despair. When tragedy befalls her, and traditions seem unfair, Deodhar must fight for what's right.




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