Best Musical movies that are award winners or nominees



Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2007)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.



West Side Story(2021)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 89

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.



Dreamgirls(2006)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.



Moulin Rouge!(2001)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



Purple Rain(1984)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

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.



Fame(1980)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

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



West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.



Les Misérables(2012)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.







Camelot(1967)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.



Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.



Victor Victoria(1982)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

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



Hello, Dolly!(1969)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.



Yentl(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

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



A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum(1966)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.



Tommy(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.



Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.




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