Best Musical movies of 1960s

Les parapluies de Cherbourg(1964)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.



A Hard Day's Night(1964)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A "typical" day in the life of The Beatles, including many of their famous songs.



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.







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.



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.



The Music Man(1962)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Harold Hill poses as a boys' band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk.



Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.



Viva Las Vegas(1964)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Race car driver Lucky Jackson goes to Las Vegas to earn money to pay for a new engine for his motor car. Working as a waiter, he still finds the time to court young Rusty Martin.



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

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

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



Help!(1965)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it.



Let's Make Love(1960)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 10

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.



Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

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



How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying(1967)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Armed with the titular manual, an ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder.



Blue Hawaii(1961)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 6

After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.



Finian's Rainbow(1968)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 11

An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.



Bye Bye Birdie(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A rock singer travels to a small Ohio town to make his "farewell" television performance and kiss his biggest fan before he is drafted.



Flower Drum Song(1961)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A young woman arrives in San Francisco's Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers.



Les demoiselles de Rochefort(1967)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.




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