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"
Jesus Christ Superstar (2000)
7.3/10
Director: Gale Edwards
Starring: Glenn Carter, Rik Mayall, Jerome Pradon, Rene Castle
The popular Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that puts a rock spin on the story of Christ's final days on Earth is given a stylish presentation in... Read more
Annie (1999)
6.7/10
Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Alicia Morton, Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Vic...
A Disney remake of the classic family musical, with Kathy Bates as the dastardly orphanage matron, Alan Cumming as her equally unsavoury brother and V... Read more
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999)
7.4/10
Director: David Mallet, Steven Pimlott
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Joan Collins, Donny Osmond
For the first time ever Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webbes fun filled musical has been specially filmed for video. This lively and colourful journey thr... Read more
Cats (1998)
7.4/10
Director: David Mallet
Starring: Elaine Paige, John Mills
The longest running musical in Broadway and West End history and a worldwide phenomenon. Andrew Lloyd Webber has personally overseen and executively p... Read more
Spice World: The Movie (1997)
3.4/10
Director: Bob Spiers
Starring: Alan Cumming, Claire Rushbrook, George Wendt, Richard E Grant, Roger Moore, The...
Britain's chart-topping all-girl quintet, The Spice Girls, makes the jump to screen stardom with a glitzy musical that could have been called "A Hard... Read more
The Last Bus Home (1997)
5.4/10
Director: Johnny Gogan
Starring: Anthony Brophy, Brian O'Byrne, Annie Ryan, Gemma Craven
Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and rawn... Read more
Heathcliff (1997)
8.2/10
Director: Frank Dunlop
Starring: Cliff Richard
The scene is set when a ragged gypsy bundle, the child Heathcliff, is brought to Wuthering Heights. As the passionate boy grows into the brooding man,... Read more
Grace of My Heart (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Allison Anders
Starring: Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Patsy Kensit, John Tur...
Illeana Douglas gives a riveting performance as fictional singer/songwriter Denise Waverly, who struggles for over a decade to gain the recognition fo... Read more
Evita (1996)
6.3/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Madonna , Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas
Based on the opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice detailing the brief but dynamic life of Eva Peron (Madonna) who, as the wife of Argentinean Pre... Read more
Victor / Victoria (Broadway) (1995)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards, Matthew Diamond, Goro Kobayashi
Starring: Julie Andrews, Michael Nouri, Tony Roberts, Gregory Jbara, Rachel York
Julie Andrews is a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman - again! An out-of-work British soprano in Paris, Victoria (Julie Andrews), f... Read more