Musicals
As soon as sound was introduced to the movies, the movie musical was born. The musical was one of the most popular movie entertainments from the 1930s through to the 50s, before falling out of favour at the end of the 60s for audiences now being weened on Vietnam, race riots, political assassinations, flower power and psychedelia. The musical still continued onwards, albeit in a different form, with various efforts such as "Cabaret", "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", "Grease", "Hair", "All That Jazz" and "The Blues Brothers" appearing over the next decade. More recently, "Moulin Rouge" and particularly "Chicago" hark back to the glory days of the musical.
Right: Liza Minnelli does "Cabaret"
State Fair (1945)
7.1/10
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes
An engaging musical of a family's adventures at an Iowa State Fair. Fine Rodgers and Hammerstein songs including Oscar Winning 'It Might as well be Sp... Read more
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
4.8/10
Director: Peter Tewksbury
Starring: Elvis Presley, Burgess Meredith, Joan Blondell, Susan Trustman, Quentin Dean
In a change-of-pace role, Elvis plays a Navajo Indian rodeo star trying to get government aid for his tribe's reservation. And he just happens to be m... Read more
Stepping Out (1991)
6.4/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters
Directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role of a... Read more
Stowaway (1936)
7.2/10
Director: William A Seiter
Starring: Shirley Temple, Robert Young, Alice Faye, Eugene Pallette, Helen Westley
In this musical adventure Shirley Temple stars as Ching-Ching an orphan on the streets of Shanghai who inadvertently finds herself aboard a ship to Am... Read more
Summer Holiday (1963)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Cliff Richard, David Kossoff, Ron Moody, The Shadows, Una Stubbs, Melvyn Hayes,...
Borrowing a double-decker bus for a mobile home, four young mechanics search for fun in the sun from London to Athens. Bachelor boy Cliff Richard dons... Read more
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
7.3/10
Director: H Bruce Humberstone
Starring: Lynn Bari, Sonja Henie, John Payne, Milton Berle
Milton Berle, John Payne and Sonja Henie hit the slopes of Sun Valley in this lighthearted romance about a musician who adopts a beautiful Norwegian w... Read more
Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
9.2/10
Director: James Lapine
Starring: Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Frank Kopyc, William Parry
Based on Seurat's painting "A Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatte", which depicts people gathering on an island in the Seine. This music... Read more
Sunshine on Leith (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Jason Flemyng, Peter Mullan, George MacKay, Antonia Thomas, Freya...
Dexter Fletcher directs "Sunshine on Leith"; a jubilant, heartfelt musical about the power of home, the hearth, family and love. It is the tale of one... Read more
Sunshine on Leith (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.6/10
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Starring: Jane Horrocks, Jason Flemyng, Peter Mullan, George MacKay, Antonia Thomas, Freya...
This film is a jubilant, heartfelt musical about the power of home, the hearth, family and love. It is the tale of one tight-knit family, and the thre... Read more
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
7.4/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohe...
Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller stars Johnny Depp in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison. The previously mild-mannered b... Read more