English-language musical drama films

1991 animated film directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

1973 American animated film

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.

2003 American animated direct-to-video film

1998 film directed by Darrell Rooney

2018 film directed by Bryan Singer

1998 animated film directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells

2001 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

2019 film directed by Jon Favreau

1961 film by Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins

2018 film directed by Bradley Cooper

2012 film directed by Tom Hooper

1927 film by Alan Crosland

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

1946 American live-action animated film

1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino

1936 film by Robert Zigler Leonard

2000 film by Lars von Trier

1972 film by Bob Fosse

2017 film directed by Michael Gracey

2014 film directed by Rob Marshall

1996 film directed by Alan Parker

2024 film directed by Todd Phillips

1968 film directed by Carol Reed

1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film

2024 film by Jacques Audiard

2021 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2000 film

2006 film by Bill Condon

1987 American animated film

2007 film by Kirsten Sheridan

1979 film directed by Bob Fosse

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

1977 American musical-drama film directed by Martin Scorsese

1996 film directed by Scott Hicks

2024 film directed by James Mangold

1942 film by Michael Curtiz

2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray

1954 film by George Cukor

1991 film directed by Oliver Stone

Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the life of American singer Michael Jackson, covering his involvement in the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portrayed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson and as a child by Juliano Krue Valdi, both in their film debuts. The supporting cast includes Nia Long, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo.

2007 film by Todd Haynes

Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama dance film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Jennifer Beals as a passionate young dancer, Alex Owens, who aspires to become a professional ballerina, alongside Michael Nouri, who plays her boyfriend and the owner of the steel mill where she works by day in Pittsburgh.

2009 film by Rob Marshall

Footloose is a 1984 American musical drama film directed by Herbert Ross and written by Dean Pitchford. It tells the story of Ren McCormack (Kevin Bacon), a teenager from Chicago who moves to a small town, where he attempts to overturn a ban on dancing enforced by the efforts of a local minister (John Lithgow).

2009 film by Scott Cooper

2024 film directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green

2007 film directed by John Carney

1980 film by Alan Parker

1954 film by George Seaton

1997 film directed by Gregory Nava

1957 film by Richard Thorpe

1976 film directed by Frank Pierson

2021 film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda

2010 film directed by Steven Antin

1986 film by Alex Cox

2006 film by Liz Friedlander

1999 film by Wes Craven

2003 film directed by Bille Woodruff

1998 film directed by Todd Haynes