Best drama musicals - Charts
Best drama musicals
1. The Lion King (1994)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons
2. Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
UK, Drama / Music
Directed by: Alan Parker
Cast: Bob Geldof, Bob Hoskins
3. My Fair Lady (1964)
USA, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison
4. Hair (1979)
USA / West Germany, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Cast: John Savage, Treat Williams
5. The Sound of Music (1965)
USA, Musical / Family
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer
6. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Cast: Chaim Topol, Norma Crane
7. Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Australia / USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor
9. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark
10. The Prince of Egypt (1998)
USA, Animation / Family
Directed by: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner
Cast: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes
12. West Side Story (1961)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer
13. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Denmark / Germany, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve
14. Green Gold (1964)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Ladislav Rychman
Cast: Vladimír Pucholt, Ivana Pavlová
15. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
USA, Drama / Biography
Directed by: Irving Rapper
Cast: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie
16. Yentl (1983)
UK / USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Barbra Streisand
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin
17. A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
France / Italy, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina
18. The Greatest Showman (2017)
USA, Musical / Biography
Directed by: Michael Gracey
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson
19. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
USA / UK, Horror / Musical
Directed by: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
20. Funny Girl (1968)
USA, Drama / Romance
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif
22. Carmen Story (1983)
Spain, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Carlos Saura
Cast: Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol
23. Devdas (2002)
India, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit
24. The Hole (1998)
Taiwan / France, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Ming-liang Tsai
Cast: Kang-Sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
26. Tango (1998)
Spain / Argentina, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Carlos Saura
Cast: Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova
27. The King and I (1956)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Walter Lang
Cast: Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner
28. Hipsters (2008)
Russia, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Valeriy Todorovskiy
Cast: Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina
30. The Lion King (2019)
USA, Animation / Adventure
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Donald Glover, Seth Rogen
31. El Amor Brujo (1986)
Spain, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Carlos Saura
Cast: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos
32. A Chorus Line (1985)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Michael Douglas, Janet Jones
33. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
India, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Ashutosh Gowariker
Cast: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh
34. A Match Made by God (2008)
India, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma
35. Across the Universe (2007)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Julie Taymor
Cast: Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood
36. This Youth Is Crazy (2013)
India, Romance / Comedy
Directed by: Ayan Mukherjee
Cast: Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor
38. Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Japan, Drama / Comedy
Directed by: Tetsuya Nakashima
Cast: Miki Nakatani, 伊勢谷友介
39. The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
USA / UK, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum
40. A Star is Born (1954)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: George Cukor
Cast: Judy Garland, James Mason
41. tick, tick...BOOM! (2021)
USA, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp
43. Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Henry King
Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye
44. Love Songs (2007)
France, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Christophe Honoré
Cast: Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier
45. La La Land (2016)
USA / Hong Kong, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Damien Chazelle
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone
46. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
USA, Animation / Drama
Directed by: Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale
Cast: Tom Hulce, Demi Moore
47. Rocketman (2019)
UK / Canada, Biography / Drama
Directed by: Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell
48. Imaginaerum (2012)
Finland / Canada, Fantasy / Drama
Directed by: Stobe Harju
Cast: Marianne Farley, Quinn Lord
49. Les Misérables (2012)
UK / USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe
50. Perhaps Love (2005)
China / Malaysia, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Peter Chan
Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xun Zhou
51. Cinderella 80 (1984)
Italy / France, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Roberto Malenotti
Cast: Bonnie Bianco, Pierre Cosso
52. Aaja Nachle (2007)
India, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Anil Mehta
Cast: Madhuri Dixit, Darshan Jariwala
53. Same Old Song (1997)
France / Switzerland, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Alain Resnais
Cast: Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma
55. Newsies (1992)
USA, Family / Musical
Directed by: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Christian Bale, David Moscow
56. From the Heart (1998)
India, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Mani Ratnam
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala
58. Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow (2001)
India / UK, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Karan Johar
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri
59. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
60. King Creole (1958)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones
61. Cremaster 5 (1997)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Matthew Barney
Cast: Ursula Andress, Matthew Barney
62. Parineeta (2005)
India, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Pradeep Sarkar
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan
63. West Side Story (2021)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler
64. Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
Finland, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Mika Kaurismäki
Cast: Silu Seppälä, Marjo Leinonen
68. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Canada, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Guy Maddin
Cast: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini
69. Queen of the Gypsies (1975)
Soviet Union / Moldova, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Эмиль Лотяну
Cast: Svetlana Tomová, Григорий Григориу
70. The Magic Flute (2006)
UK / France, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson
71. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
USA, Musical / Comedy
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell
73. House of Boys (2009)
Luxembourg / Germany, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Jean-Claude Schlim
Cast: Layke Anderson, Deborah Harry
74. Loving You (1957)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Hal Kanter
Cast: Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott
76. The Tramp (1951)
India, Drama / Family
Directed by: Raj Kapoor
Cast: Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor
77. The Heart Is Crazy (1997)
India / Switzerland, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Yash Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit
78. Vengo (2000)
France / Germany, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Tony Gatlif
Cast: Antonio Dechent, Tomatito
79. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Leslie
80. Only the French Can (1955)
France, Comedy / Musical
Directed by: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul
81. Krush Groove (1985)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Michael Schultz
Cast: Blair Underwood, LisaGay Hamilton
82. Journey to Bethlehem (2023)
USA, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Adam Anders
Cast: Fiona Palomo, Milo Manheim
83. It Couldn't Happen Here (1987)
UK, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Jack Bond
Cast: Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe
86. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
USA, Romance / Drama
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore
89. Bran Nue Dae (2009)
Australia, Comedy / Drama
Directed by: Rachel Perkins
Cast: Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy
90. Sarafina ! (1992)
France / South Africa, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Darrell Roodt
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Tertius Meintjes
91. Show Boat (1951)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: George Sidney
Cast: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner
92. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
France / West Germany, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Jacques Demy
93. 42nd Street (1933)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels
94. Do Your Thing (2001)
India, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Farhan Akhtar
Cast: Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan
95. 1776 (1972)
USA, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Peter H. Hunt
Cast: William Daniels, Howard Da Silva
96. Porgy and Bess (1959)
USA, Musical / Romance
Directed by: Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge
97. Red Psalm (1972)
Hungary, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Miklós Jancsó
Cast: Andrea Drahota, Gyöngyi Bürös
98. La France (2007)
France, Drama / Musical
Directed by: Serge Bozon
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
100. A Sad Song (1993)
South Korea, Musical / Drama
Directed by: Kwon-taek Im
Cast: Myeong-gon Kim, Byeong-kyeong Ahn