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Top 15 Musical & Performing Arts Movies You Must See

When talk about musical & performing arts movies, you must think of La La Land. After sound was introduced to cinema audiences, musicals were produced regularly, so it's normal for actors to break into a song and dance. The movie like La La Land, seems stunning in its bold attempt to breathe fresh life into the genre. In fact, there are many fantastic scenes which already exist in classic movies. Here, Chilimovie list best top 15 for u. Let's enjoy!

Beauty and the Beast

Release Date

2017-03-17

Rate : 7.1
Production Companies : Walt Disney Pictures, Mandeville Films
Director : Bill Condon, Kim Armitage, Cathy Doubleday
Stars : Emma Watson , Dan Stevens , Luke Evans
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Release Date

2011-10-07

Rate : 7.6
Production Companies : Tilapia Film
Director : Chris Metzler, Lev Anderson
Stars : Ice-T , Flea , Gwen Stefani
From the shifting fault lines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan's America, Fishbone rose and became one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and the political order of the music industry and of the nation.

Release Date

2013-01-18

Rate : 7.8
Production Companies : Roswell Films, Therapy Content
Director : Dave Grohl
Stars : Dave Grohl , Trent Reznor , Tom Petty
The history of Sound City and their huge recording device; exploring how digital change has allowed 'people that have no place' in music to become stars. It follows former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter David Grohl as he attempts to resurrect the studio back to former glories.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Release Date

2008-01-18

Rate : 7.9
Production Companies : Zootrope Films
Director : Sacha Gervasi
Stars : Steve 'Lips' Kudlow , Robb Reiner
At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

Release Date

1978-12-31

Rate : 8.1
Production Companies : FM Productions, Last Waltz Inc.
Director : James Quinn, Linda McMurray, Martin Scorsese
Stars : Robbie Robertson , Rick Danko , Levon Helm
Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from "The Band's" incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and other rock legends.

20 Feet from Stardom

Release Date

2013-06-14

Rate : 7.4
Production Companies : Tremolo Productions, Gil Friesen Productions
Director : Morgan Neville
Stars : Darlene Love , Lisa Fischer , Merry Clayton
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Release Date

1953-07-15

Rate : 7.1
Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 20th Century Fox
Director : Don Torpin, Paul Helmick, Howard Hawks
Stars : Marilyn Monroe , Jane Russell , Charles Coburn
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.

Release Date

1965-08-18

Rate : 7.8
Production Companies : Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney Pictures
Director : Robert Stevenson, Arthur J. Vitarelli, Paul Feiner
Stars : Julie Andrews , Dick Van Dyke , David Tomlinson
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.

Release Date

1948-10-22

Rate : 8.1
Production Companies : The Archers, Independent Producers
Director : Sydney Streeter, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Stars : Moira Shearer , Adolf Wohlbrück , Marius Goring
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

An American in Paris

Release Date

1951-09-26

Rate : 7.2
Production Companies : Loew's Incorporated, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Director : Vincente Minnelli
Stars : Gene Kelly , Leslie Caron , Oscar Levant
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Release Date

1940-02-23

Rate : 7.5
Production Companies : RKO Radio Pictures, Walt Disney Productions
Director : Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts
Stars : Dickie Jones , Cliff Edwards , Christian Rub
When loving Geppetto creates a wooden puppet, his wish is granted when it comes to life as a little wooden boy named Pinocchio. With his faithful friend and conscience Jiminy Cricket by his side, Pinocchio, embarks on fantastic adventures that his bravery, loyalty and honesty until triumphs in his triumphs in his quest for his heart's desire: to become a real boy.

Release Date

2016-12-09

Rate : 8
Production Companies : Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate
Director : Paula Case, Peter Kohn, Lyn Matsuda Norton
Stars : Ryan Gosling , Emma Stone , John Legend
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

A Hard Day's Night

Release Date

1964-08-11

Rate : 7.5
Production Companies : Proscenium Films, Walter Shenson Films
Director : Rita Davison, John D. Merriman, Richard Lester
Stars : John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Singin' in the Rain

Release Date

1952-04-09

Rate : 8.3
Production Companies : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director : Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
Stars : Gene Kelly , Donald O'Connor , Debbie Reynolds
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

The Wizard of Oz

Release Date

1939-08-25

Rate : 8.1
Production Companies : Loew's Incorporated, Loew's
Director : Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Harrold Weinberger
Stars : Judy Garland , Ray Bolger , Jack Haley
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.