Films based on musicals

2002 film by Rob Marshall

2008 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

2012 film directed by Tom Hooper

1972 film by Bob Fosse

1953 film by Howard Hawks

1978 film directed by Randal Kleiser

Wicked is a 2024 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. It adapts the first act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande star as Elphaba Thropp and Glinda Upland, respectively; while Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum appear in supporting roles. Set in the Land of Oz before the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film explores the early relationship between Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West, and her schoolmate Galinda, who becomes Glinda the Good.

1968 film directed by Carol Reed

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard O'Brien, who also played the supporting role Riff Raff. The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien. The production is a tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick. It is narrated by Charles Gray, with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions, including Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn.

2006 film by Bill Condon

1968 film by William Wyler

Wicked: For Good is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz before and during the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.

2014 film directed by Will Gluck

1971 film directed by Norman Jewison

1979 film directed by Miloš Forman

1969 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Gene Kelly

2009 film by Rob Marshall

1963 film by Billy Wilder

1949 film directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

2021 film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda

1934 film by Mark Sandrich

2012 film directed by Adam Shankman

1978 film by Sidney Lumet

2020 film directed by Ryan Murphy

2021 film directed by Jon M. Chu

2014 film by Clint Eastwood

2005 film by Susan Stroman

1954 film by Otto Preminger

1982 film directed by John Huston

1955 American musical film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1969 film by Joshua Logan

1962 film by Morton DaCosta

1959 American musical film

1982 film by Colin Higgins

2005 film by Chris Columbus

2022 film by Matthew Warchus

2021 film directed by Joe Wright

1950 film by Busby Berkeley, George Sidney, Charles Walters

2021 film directed by Stephen Chbosky

2020 film of the 2015 Broadway musical of the same name

1929 film by Joseph Santley, Robert Florey

1930 Marx Brothers film by Victor Heerman

1970 film directed by Vincente Minnelli

1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst

2001 film directed by John Cameron Mitchell

2008 film by Darren Lynn Bousman

1972 film by Arthur Hiller

1964 American musical film directed by Charles Walters

1960 film by Walter Lang

1963 film by George Sidney

1985 film by Richard Attenborough

1961 film by Henry Koster

1969 British musical film directed by Richard Attenborough

1943 film by Michael Curtiz

2013 film by Kasi Lemmons

1930 film by H. Bruce Humberstone, Thornton Freeland

1943 film by Norman Taurog, Busby Berkeley

1943 American musical film with an all-Black cast, directed by Vincente Minnelli

1942 comedy film directed by S. Sylvan Simon

1962 musical comedy-drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy