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What are thebest musicalsof all time ? The picture musical is an entertainment staple that has transcended generation . While not every film in the music genre becomes a classic , there are many musical with legacies that continue to hold out on in the tenderness of viewing audience . There have been acclaimed musicals since the start of the movie industry , as the first actual " talking picture " ( a movie with literal talking and dialogue instead of words printed on the screen ) was a musical calledThe Jazz Singer . While this movie remains problematic in today ’s society , it was a monster success at the time and set the stage for the world of musicals that followed .
Over the yr , the best pic musicalsincluded names like Gene Kelly , Debbie Reynolds , Julie Andrews , Catherine Deneuve , James Cagney , and Judy Garland . These featured fantastical stories , romantic funniness , movies with dramatic societal issues at the forefront , and even historic epics . While unrecorded - activity musical comedy took a minute of a hiatus after a serial publication of honour - rival in the 1990s and 2000s , they saw a slim Resurrection of Christ in the 2010s and an even bigger one in the 2020s . With everyone from icons like Steven Spielberg and newcomers like Damien Chazelle push the genre , the good musicals of all time have wad of young contenders to the treetop .
Screen Rant break down the best picture of all time , from previous classics to modern masterpiece across multiple literary genre of movie theater .
35Grease (1978)
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One of the most popular of the best musicals in movie history arrived in 1976 withGrease . There might not be a musical pic that has more Song dynasty blab in karaoke prevention than this John Travolta and Olivia Newton - John release . The picture has Travolta star as eminent school bad boy Danny Zuko who falls for good girl Sandy Olsson but they struggle to keep their dear intact with obstacles in their way . " Hopelessly Devoted to You " plunk up an Oscar nominating speech for Best Song and the soundtrack is one of the best - selling of all time . Despitethe weirdGreaseending , it also entered the National Film Registry in 2020 and had a subsequence in 1982 and a prequel TV series in 2023 .
34Enchanted (2007)
Enchantedwas a Disney moving-picture show that deconstruct its own animated movie history . After depart out as an animated movie , a ruthless queen want to protect her potty uses magic to forestall her stepson from taking the throne when he marries by banish the charwoman he loves , Giselle , to the real world . Becoming a live - action melodic , Amy Adams stars as Giselle , as she struggles to keep her fairy tale aspirations alert in the mean and vicious New York City . The movie had an telling three tracjs appoint for Best Original Song at the Oscars . It also breed aDisney+ sequel calledDisenchantedin 2022 .
33Dreamgirls (2006)
Four years after he wrote the Oscar - winning melodic movieChicago , Bill Condon wrote and guide the musicalDreamgirls . LikeChicago , the movie was based on a Broadway melodic , in this case , a fictional retelling of the real account of the rise of Motown and the Supremes . It also tracks the rise of R&B euphony in America in the sixties and seventies through the fib of a fancied group call The Dreams . The cast was spectacular , with Beyoncé Knowles , Jamie Foxx , Eddie Murphy , and an Oscar - winning Jennifer Hudson at the forefront . The moving picture plunk up eight total Oscar nominations .
32Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)
The original Sweeney Todd was a level melodic by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler originally release in 1970 . There was a 1982 television liberation of the stage play , but in 2007 , Tim Burton directed a musical movie interlingual rendition of the story . Johnny Depp starred as Sweeney Todd , an English serial killer who wants revenge on a asymmetrical judge ( Alan Rickman ) who incorrectly convicted him , so he could steal his wife . With the help of Mrs. Lovett ( Helena Bonham Carter ) , Todd became a barber and do up his plan of retribution . The motion-picture show was a box seat authority success , making $ 153 million on a $ 50 million budget .
31All That Jazz (1979)
All That Jazzarrived in house in 1979 , directed by Bob Fosse and telling the story of his aliveness as a dancer , choreographer , and social dancer . The basis for the story came from Fosse ’s days trying to editLenny , while also staging the Broadway musicalChicago . Roy Scheider recreate the fictional version of Fosse , named here as Joe Gideon , who was blue-pencil a Hollywood moving-picture show and stage a melodious calledNY / LA . The movie ended up winning the Palme d’Or when it premier at the Cannes Film Festival and then picked up nine Oscar nominating address . It terminate up reaching its big winner when it enter the Library of Congress in 2001 .
30Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
liberate in 1986,Little Shop of Horrorswas a musical funniness based on a 1982 off - Broadway melodious of the same name that itself was base on a Roger Corman movie from 1960 . Frank Oz ( the voice of Yoda ) directed the film , which focused on a floral shop proletarian ( Honey I Shrunk the Kidsstar Rick Moranis ) who end up with a carnivorous plant that needs human blood . The movie also had several cameo from Bill Murray , John Candy , Jim Belushi , and Christopher Guest . The movie has ended up as a furor classic , and it even take a managing director ’s cut re - release in 2012 .
29Funny Girl (1968)
Funny Girlwas a 1968 musical theater that starred Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice , a tangible - life Broadway and film star , and it focalise on her relationship with Nicky Arnstein ( played by Omar Sharif ) . Streisand played the same reference in the Broadway musical of the same name , and this was in reality her film introduction . It was a vast first appearance for the star , as she clean up an Oscar for Best Actress for her performance . The movie itself terminate up as the highest - grossing picture of 1968 and ended up bestow to the Library of Congress in 2016 as one of the best musicals of all clock time .
28Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (2001)
In 2001 , the Indian Hindi - language melodious sport dramatic event with Aamir Khan in the lead function . On top of being one of the best musicals of all time , it is also a historical epic take place in 1893 in a village in Central India . The multitude of the village suffered through year of drought when a British Indian Army officer offered to play them in cricket as a stake to pay the taxes they owe . They have to learn the game and win to get out of debt . It had one of the highest budgets of any Amerind movie but also savour a massive loge - situation winner . It picked up eight awards at the 47th Filmfare Awards and also picked up an Oscar nominating address .
27Once (2007)
One of the more surprising musical comedy unfreeze this century come in 2007 with John Carney’sOnce . The Irish romanticistic musical play is about two struggling musicians living in Dublin . The movie was shoot on a very little budget , at only $ 150,000 , and then stop up make a big profit with $ 23.3 million at the box office ( viaBox Office Mojo).Oncecast professional musician as the leads , with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova , and then filled the moving-picture show with original songs . It win an Oscar for Best Original Song for " Falling slow " and was adapted into a stage musical after the movie ’s achiever .
26White Christmas (1954)
One of the good musical comedy of all fourth dimension is also one of thebest Christmas movies ever made . Released in 1954,White Christmasis a Bing Crosby , Danny Kaye movie direct by Michael Curitz , who also conduct the Golden Era musicalYankee Doodle Dandyas well as one of the gravid movies in film history , Casablanca . In this movie , Crosby stars as a former Broadway star and Kaye as an aim performer who becomes a popular duo after they served together during World War II . The musical features song by Irving Berlin and a new version of " White Christmas . " A point melodic was conform from the picture 50 year afterwards .
