Another interesting Channel 4 list is 100 Greatest Musicals. This doesn't quite entirely reference films, as it has a few stage productions and a television episode included too, but as someone who still hates most musicals I'm finding it very interesting to find those I don't.
I can't find the page at the Channel 4 website any more, so here's an archive link to the Wayback Machine (archive.org).
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
IMDb |
| 1 |
Grease |
1978 |
Randal Kleiser |
IMDb |
| 2 |
The Sound of Music |
1965 |
Robert Wise |
IMDb |
| 3 |
The Wizard of Oz |
1939 |
Victor Fleming |
IMDb |
| 4 |
West Side Story |
1961 |
Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise |
IMDb |
| 5 |
Mary Poppins |
1964 |
Robert Stevenson |
IMDb |
| 6 |
Singin' in the Rain |
1952 |
Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen |
IMDb |
| 7 |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
1975 |
Jim Sharman |
IMDb |
| 8 |
Chicago |
2002 |
Rob Marshall |
IMDb |
| 9 |
Oliver! |
1968 |
Carol Reed |
IMDb |
| 10 |
Moulin Rouge! |
2001 |
Baz Luhrmann |
IMDb |
| 11 |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
1968 |
Ken Hughes |
IMDb |
| 12 |
My Fair Lady |
1964 |
George Cukor |
IMDb |
| 13 |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling |
|
television |
IMDb |
| 14 |
The Lion King |
1994 |
Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff |
IMDb |
| 15 |
Les Miserables |
|
play |
|
| 16 |
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |
1971 |
Mel Stuart |
IMDb |
| 17 |
Cabaret |
1972 |
Bob Fosse |
IMDb |
| 18 |
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
|
play |
|
| 19 |
Bugsy Malone |
1976 |
Alan Parker |
IMDb |
| 20 |
The Phantom of the Opera |
|
play |
|
| 21 |
Little Shop of Horrors |
1986 |
Frank Oz |
IMDb |
| 22 |
Evita |
1996 |
Alan Parker |
IMDb |
| 23 |
The King and I |
1956 |
Walter Lang |
IMDb |
| 24 |
The Blues Brothers |
1980 |
John Landis |
IMDb |
| 25 |
Calamity Jane |
1953 |
David Butler |
IMDb |
| 26 |
Annie |
1982 |
John Huston |
IMDb |
| 27 |
The Jungle Book |
1967 |
Wolfgang Reitherman |
IMDb |
| 28 |
Jesus Christ Superstar |
1973 |
Norman Jewison |
IMDb |
| 29 |
Fame |
1980 |
Alan Parker |
IMDb |
| 30 |
Cats |
|
play |
|
| 31 |
Blood Brothers |
|
play |
|
| 32 |
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
1954 |
Stanley Donen |
IMDb |
| 33 |
Fiddler on the Roof |
1971 |
Norman Jewison |
IMDb |
| 34 |
High Society |
1956 |
Charles Walters |
IMDb |
| 35 |
Oklahoma! |
1955 |
Fred Zinnemann |
IMDb |
| 36 |
Guys and Dolls |
1955 |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
IMDb |
| 37 |
White Christmas |
1954 |
Michael Curtiz |
IMDb |
| 38 |
The Nightmare Before Christmas |
1993 |
Henry Selick |
IMDb |
| 39 |
South Pacific |
1958 |
Joshua Logan |
IMDb |
| 40 |
8 Mile |
2002 |
Curtis Hanson |
IMDb |
| 41 |
Carousel |
1956 |
Henry King |
IMDb |
| 42 |
Starlight Express |
|
play |
|
| 43 |
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1937 |
David Hand et al |
IMDb |
| 44 |
Tommy |
1975 |
Ken Russell |
IMDb |
| 45 |
A Star is Born |
1954 |
George Cukor |
IMDb |
| 46 |
A Chorus Line |
1985 |
Richard Attenborough |
IMDb |
| 47 |
Summer Holiday |
1963 |
Peter Yates |
IMDb |
| 48 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
1953 |
Howard Hawks |
IMDb |
| 49 |
The Muppets Take Manhattan |
1984 |
Frank Oz |
IMDb |
| 50 |
Hello, Dolly! |
1969 |
Gene Kelly |
IMDb |
| 51 |
Thoroughly Modern Millie |
1967 |
George Roy Hill |
IMDb |
| 52 |
Carmen Jones |
1954 |
Otto Preminger |
IMDb |
| 53 |
Cinderella |
1950 |
Clyde Geronimi & Wilfred Jackson |
IMDb |
| 54 |
On the Town |
1949 |
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly |
IMDb |
| 55 |
Hair |
1979 |
Milos Forman |
IMDb |
| 56 |
Meet Me in St Louis |
1944 |
Vincente Minnelli |
IMDb |
| 57 |
Paint Your Wagon |
1969 |
Joshua Logan |
IMDb |
| 58 |
An American in Paris |
1951 |
Vincente Minnelli |
IMDb |
| 59 |
Funny Girl |
1968 |
William Wyler |
IMDb |
| 60 |
Top Hat |
1935 |
Mark Sandrich |
IMDb |
| 61 |
Scrooge |
1970 |
Ronald Neame |
IMDb |
| 62 |
Sweet Charity |
1969 |
Bob Fosse |
IMDb |
| 63 |
Jailhouse Rock |
1957 |
Richard Thorpe |
IMDb |
| 64 |
Easter Parade |
1948 |
Charles Walters |
IMDb |
| 65 |
The Jazz Singer |
1927 |
Alan Crosland |
IMDb |
| 66 |
Gypsy |
1962 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
IMDb |
| 67 |
Doctor Dolittle |
1967 |
Richard Fleischer |
IMDb |
| 68 |
Kiss Me Kate |
1953 |
George Sidney |
IMDb |
| 69 |
The Producers |
1968 |
Mel Brooks |
IMDb |
| 70 |
Gigi |
1958 |
Vincente Minnelli |
IMDb |
| 71 |
Show Boat |
1951 |
George Sidney |
IMDb |
| 72 |
Godspell |
1973 |
David Greene |
IMDb |
| 73 |
Half a Sixpence |
1967 |
George Sidney |
IMDb |
| 74 |
Shall We Dance |
1937 |
Mark Sandrich |
IMDb |
| 75 |
Dil Se... |
1998 |
Mani Ratnam |
IMDb |
| 76 |
Dancer in the Dark |
2000 |
Lars Von Trier |
IMDb |
| 77 |
Porgy and Bess |
1959 |
Otto Preminger |
IMDb |
| 78 |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch |
2001 |
John Cameron Mitchell |
IMDb |
| 79 |
All That Jazz |
1979 |
Bob Fosse |
IMDb |
| 80 |
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
|
play |
|
| 81 |
Yankee Doodle Dandy |
1942 |
Michael Curtiz |
IMDb |
| 82 |
Anything Goes |
|
play |
|
| 83 |
A Star is Born |
1976 |
Frank Pierson |
IMDb |
| 84 |
Ziegfeld Follies |
1946 |
Lemuel Ayes & Roy Del Ruth |
IMDb |
| 85 |
Funny Face |
1957 |
Stanley Donen |
IMDb |
| 86 |
There's No Business Like Show Business |
1954 |
Walter Lang |
IMDb |
| 87 |
Million Dollar Mermaid |
1952 |
Mervyn LeRoy |
IMDb |
| 88 |
For Me and My Gal |
1942 |
Busby Berkeley |
IMDb |
| 89 |
A Little Night Music |
1977 |
Harold Prince |
IMDb |
| 90 |
Cry-Baby |
1990 |
John Waters |
IMDb |
| 91 |
Everyone Says I Love You |
1996 |
Woody Allen |
IMDb |
| 92 |
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg |
1964 |
Jacques Demy |
IMDb |
| 93 |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
1967 |
David Swift |
IMDb |
| 94 |
Sholay |
1975 |
Ramesh Sippy |
IMDb |
| 95 |
Breaking Glass |
1980 |
Brian Gibson |
IMDb |
| 96 |
Lullaby of Broadway |
1951 |
David Butler |
IMDb |
| 97 |
The Cotton Club |
1984 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
IMDb |
| 98 |
Bright Eyes |
1934 |
David Butler |
IMDb |
| 99 |
Miss Saigon |
|
play |
|
| 100 |
Let's Make Love |
1960 |
George Cukor |
IMDb |
