Category: Musical

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1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Cinderella (1950)

Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...

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2010s / Comedy / Family / Musical

Annie (2014)

Annie is 2014’s updating of the 1982 musical directed by John Huston, which itself had been based on the Broadway musical adaptation of the Harold Gray comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie”, but with more glitz and modern...

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2010s / Drama / Musical

Get On Up (2014)

Great music and performances are likely enough to please most viewers who enter into a biopic about a famous musical act, but they’re not necessarily enough to take things to the next level of...

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1980s / Comedy / Family / Musical

Annie (1982)

Annie is a musical that has become a fan favorite for those who grew up watching it, though film critics in general have remained rather tepid toward it, citing that it is overblown and clunky. ...

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2010s / Documentary / Musical

20 Feet from Stardom (2013)

20 Feet from Stardom is filmmaker Morgan Neville’s documentary tribute to some of the best singers in the business. No, not the ones you buy CDs for; the best singers are often the ones...

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1980s / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical / Romance

Popeye (1980)

E.C. Segar’s original comic strip provides the basis for this cinematic live-action adaptation of the popular titular character, which had also been popularized through the cartoons by Max Fleischer, revolving around a burly but...

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2010s / Comedy / Musical

The Muppets (2011)

In this return after over a decade to the big screen by Jim Henson’s much-beloved creations, the long mothballed Muppets Studio in Hollywood becomes threatened with destruction at the avaricious hands of a greedy...

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1990s / Comedy / Musical

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

The Brady Bunch Movie is just one of many big screen adaptations of beloved television shows of days gone by that recaptures the spirit of the original show, all the while making fun of it...

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2000s / Musical / Romance

Nine (2009)

A bout of midlife crisis and writer’s block plagues esteemed Italian filmmaker Guido Contini (Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood), coming after a couple of flops that sees him gun-shy when it comes to his creativity,...

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1950s / Musical / Romance / Western

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Loosely adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet’s story, “The Sobbin’ Women”, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers may not make for the most believable of tales, but it has endured as one of the more beloved musical films...