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"
As It Is In Heaven (2004)
7.6/10
Director: Kay Pollak
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Frida Hallgren, Lennart Jahkel, Ingela Olsson, Niklas Falk
Daniel (Michael Nyquist) is an internationally acclaimed, though temperamental and lonely, conductor when a physical break-down prompts him to return... Read more
Astaire and Rogers: Roberta / Follow the Fleet / Flying Down to Rio / The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
7.9/10
Director: Mark Sandrich, Thornton Freeland, William A Seiter
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
ROBERTA - John Kent (Randolph Scott), visiting Paris with his bandleader friend, Huck Haines (Fred Astaire), suddenly inherits his aunt's fashionable... Read more
Astaire and Rogers: The Gay Divorcee / Swing Time / Top Hat / Shall We Dance (1937)
7.9/10
Director: Mark Sandrich, George Stevens
Starring: Alice Brady, Edward Everett Horton, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
THE GAY DIVORCEE - In this beloved musical, Mimi Glossop (Ginger Rogers) journeys to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband. When Mimi me... Read more
Baby Take A Bow (1934)
6.6/10
Director: Harry Lachman
Starring: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart
Shirley Temple stars in this lighthearted musical comedy about an ex-con struggling to stay straight and the adorable daughter who keeps him away from... Read more
Beat Street (1984)
6.5/10
Director: Stan Lathan
Starring: Rae Dawn Chong
The Bronx is the hippest place in America, as breakdancers, graffiti artists, DJs and rap musicians converge for an exciting street scene. Grandmaster... Read more
Beauty And The Beast (1987)
7.1/10
Director: Eugene Marner
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, John Savage
Rebecca De Mornay ('The Three Musketeers') stars in this live-action version of the classic fairy tale, about finding true love in the unlikeliest of... Read more
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Emma Wat...
Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as... Read more
Beauty and the Beast ( Blu-ray ) (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, Emma Wat...
Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' is a live-action re-telling of the studio's animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as... Read more
Bells of Rosarita (1945)
6.7/10
Director: Frank McDonald
Starring: Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, George Gabby Hayes, Bob Nolan, Trigger The Horse
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at t... Read more
Beloved (2011)
6.2/10
Director: Christophe Honore
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Paul Schneider, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Milos Forman,...
In 1964 Paris, Madeleine (Ludivine Sagnier), a shoe salesgirl and part-time prostitute, falls in love with Jaromil, a Czech doctor she has picked up.... Read more