Best Musical movies of 1980s

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.



Bert Rigby, You're a Fool(1989)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Bert Rigby lives in the small dying town Langmore, where most people depend on badly doing mining corporation. While his fellows are on strike once again, he decides to try his luck in ...



Umrao Jaan(1981)

Combined Rating:
3
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 ...



La vie est un roman(1983)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three intertwined tales. On the eve of the First World War, Count Forbek starts to build a fantastic castle in the Ardennes forest. After the war he uses it to start a utopian society by ...



Ram Teri Ganga Maili(1985)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ganga Singh lives near Gangotri with her brother, Karam. One day she comes to the assistance of a young man, Narendra Sahay, who has come with a group of Calcutta-based college students to ...



A Chorus of Disapproval(1989)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man new to a smallish British town joins an amateur theatre company. Once there, he discovers that the drama on stage is quite often nothing compared to what's happening behind the scenes...



Leif(1987)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The weaponfactory in Rotum is selling weapons illegal, a person called 'Leif' writes in the local newspaper. He must be stopped, even if what he has written happens to be true. Gunnar Volt ...



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...



Zimniy vecher v Gagrakh(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. ...



Ela na... gymnothoume, darling(1984)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the summer of 1984, on a sun-kissed Greek island somewhere in the Mediterranean where the azure sea is radiant, Stathis and his army of Greek lovers do their best to keep the lonely female tourists happy.



Dozd aroosakha(1990)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Leila and Bahram's mother wants to get a loan to buy a house for her children to live in. But the villain old lady sends her son Ganjo to steal the money. The children decide to sell their ...



Sleeping Beauty(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.



Swarnakamalam(1988)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A painter who recently moved into the neighborhood helps his neighbor, a retired cultural dance artist. He helps by painting billboards advertising events in which the artist and his ...



Cenerentola '80(1984)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. ...



Rumpelstiltskin(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical version of the classic story about a miller's daughter who recieves help from a mischievous dwarf, then ends up over her head. Now, she and a mute servant girl may be the only ...



Snow White(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers"), Billy Barty ("Willow") and Sarah Patterson ("The Company of Wolves") as Snow White star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.



El exilio de Gardel: Tangos(1985)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.



Kopaszkutya(1981)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them... See full synopsis »



Puss in Boots(1988)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A cat belonging to a poor miller's son thinks up a great plan for bringing a title, wealth, and marriage for his owner. He begins to carry it out, using a few birds and rabbits as gifts for...



Beauty and the Beast(1987)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

To save her father, a girl who always puts others before herself promises to live her life in a lavish castle with a strange beast.




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