Best Musical movies of 1970s

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.



Hair(1979)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.



The Rocky Horror Picture Show(1975)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter.



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.



Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory(1971)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Charlie receives a golden ticket to a factory, his sweet tooth wants going into the lushing candy, it turns out there's an adventure in everything.



Xanadu(1980)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 40

The story of a girl who makes dreams come true.



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.



New York, New York(1977)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An egotistical saxophonist and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, up-hill climb.



Jesus Christ Superstar(1973)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.



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.



Charlotte's Web(1973)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A gentle and wise grey spider with a flair for promotion pledges to save a young pig from slaughter for dinner food.



Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu(1973)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager, and George Miloslavsky, a petty burglar, are transferred to the 16th ...



The Ruling Class(1972)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.



Can't Stop the Music(1980)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 12

This is a pseudo autobiography of disco's The Village People.



Man of La Mancha(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.



The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother(1975)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.



Forbidden Zone(1980)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The bizarre and musical tale of a girl who travels to another dimension through the gateway found in her family's basement.



The Boy Friend(1971)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 8

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.



What's the Matter with Helen?(1971)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.



At Long Last Love(1975)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 11

This film was Peter Bogdanovich's homage to musical comedies of the 1930s. A millionaire named Michael Oliver Pritchard III and a singer named Kitty O'Kelly meet and fall in love. Meanwhile...




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