Musicals!

Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for this greatest of movie musicals.

A timid actress is forced to cover for the injured star and falls for the leading man, in Ken Russell's thoroughly British variant on the MGM musical.

Ken Russell's characteristically spectacular biopic of Liszt, with Roger Daltrey portraying the composer as a rock god, is a heady brew complete with garish Freudian symbolism, Hitler, spaceships and Ringo Starr as the Pope.

This Depression-era story about four showgirls is an extraordinary mix of Busby Berkeley dance numbers, politics and pre-Code sex.

Gene Kelly stars as a former GI turned bohemian artist, torn between two women in this exhilarating ride through the Gershwin songbook.

Frank Oz's vivid adaptation of the cult sci-fi musical, with Rick Moranis as a flower-shop assistant battling a 'Mean Green Mother from Outer Space'.

The trailblazing cult musical about a transgender punk from East Germany who reinvents herself as a rock diva.

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone channel old-school Hollywood glamour in this bright and playful romantic musical from director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash).

Featuring an all-star, all-African-American cast, Cabin in the Sky plays like a gospel reworking of Faust and the Wizard of Oz.

Spike Lee’s bold and vivacious hip-hop musical restages an ancient Greek battle-of-the-sexes in 21st-century Chicago.

In the outrageous spinoff from the animated series, Cartman and co. inadvertently instigate a war between the US and Canada.

NYC becomes Oz in the cult, urban reimagining of the family favourite, featuring an all-African American cast including Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.

Petula Clark gives one her finest performances as a stage star who seduces a shy, stuffy school teacher, impeccably played by Peter O’Toole.

Alan Parker’s gritty take on the tough and competitive training within a New York performing arts school reveals all the vulnerability and attitude it takes to rise to the top.

Steve Martin boldly takes centre stage in the acclaimed film adaptation of Dennis Potter's ground-breaking TV serial.

Gene Kelly and Judy Garland star in the charming musical about a theatre troupe that take over a barn for rehearsals.

Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney star in the second adaptation of George Gershwin's musical following a playboy's exploits in the wild West.

Baubles, bangles and beads abound in Vincente Minnelli's shimmering musical.

Daring, startling and wholly original: a musical based on the infamous Ipswich murders of 2006, adapted by National Theatre director Rufus Norris.

Sparkling musical comedy about a shop girl who pretends to be a boy in order to perform on stage as a female impersonator.

Jolly gender-swapped musical version of Cinderella, featuring a play within the film in which the characters star in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.

Neeta and her crew rise to dancehall fame in North West London's Caribbean community, in the first Black British musical.

Gurinder Chadha’s Bollywood retelling of Austen’s classic romance is an all-round joy, adding colour and song to Austen’s evergreen wit.

The third in John Carney’s trilogy of musical films is the utterly charming story a boy who escapes his troubles through fronting a pop band.

Many of MGM's leading talents assemble for the most spectacular of the Broadway revues.

Busby Berkeley and Vincente Minnelli are among creative team behind this fictionalised biopic of Broadway composer Jerome Kern, which includes several songs from Show Boat.

Thanks to a drugged drink, the world of a 1940s nightclub is transported to 17th-century France...

A black London docker becomes a famous opera singer in this stirring musical drama starring Paul Robeson

Rarely-seen 1930s British musical about two African American travelling minstrels in search of entertainment work.

Chinese-American star Anna May Wong dazzles as a Chinese dancer forced to give herself to a Russian General in order to save her brother.

Val Guest's 1959 London-shot Brit Beat classic charts the fortunes of aspiring musician Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard)

A cult classic British film about late-fifties youth-rebellion set against an intoxicating Beatnik backdrop.

Great British rock and roller Billy Fury buys himself a racehorse in this colourful musical for all the family.

With charm and invention by the bucketload, Singin’ in the Rain’s Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor are reunited in the story of a chorus girl who dreams of becoming a star.

Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds lead an all-star cast in this memorable maritime musical.

A Scottish schoolgirl has the ultimate weapon with which to quell the zombie apocalypse: showtunes.

Alan Clarke’s once derided feature is surely the only vampire snooker musical in cinema history and a genuine cult artefact ripe for rediscovery.