Movies You Should Watch If You Like Cabaret (1972)
Movies to watch if you like Cabaret (1972).
25 items, 780 votes
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Dreamgirls (2006)
Starring:
Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover
Duration: 2h 10mins
Genres:
Drama, Music, Musical
Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
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Lili Marleen (1981)
Starring:
Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel
Duration: 2h 0mins
Genres:
Drama, Music, Romance
The film is set during the Third Reich and is about the forbidden love between the German singer Willie (Hanna Schygulla) and the Swiss Jewish composer Robert Mendelssohn (a character based on Rolf Liebermann), who actively seeks to help an underground group of German Jews.
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Julia (1977)
Starring:
Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell
Duration: 1h 57mins
Genres:
Drama
Julia, the daughter of a wealthy family being raised by her grandparents in the United States, enjoys an incredibly close relationship with Lillian Hellman as children and adolescents.
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New York, New York (1977)
Starring:
Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus
Duration: 2h 35mins
Genres:
Drama, Music, Musical
On V-J Day in 1945, a massive celebration in a New York City nightclub is underway, music provided by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
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Evita (1996)
Starring:
Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Nail
Duration: 2h 15mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama, History
Evita is a 1996 American musical drama film based on the 1976 concept album of the same name produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a 1978 musical.
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Swing Kids (1993)
Starring:
Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, Frank Whaley, Barbara Hershey
Duration: 1h 52mins
Genres:
Drama, Music
In Hamburg in 1939, Peter Müller and Thomas Berger join their friends Arvid and Otto at a swing club called the Bismarck.
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Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Starring:
Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon
Duration: 3h 1mins
Genres:
Drama, Family, Musical
The film's plot largely follows that of the musical from which it is adapted.
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Burlesque (2010)
Starring:
Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming, Eric Dane
Duration: 1h 59mins
Genres:
Drama, Music, Musical
The Burlesque Lounge has its best days behind it.
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A Chorus Line (1985)
Starring:
Michael Douglas, Terrence Mann, Michael Blevins, Yamil Borges
Duration: 1h 53mins
Genres:
Drama, Music, Musical
A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical production directed by Zach (Michael Douglas).
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Music
Hansel Schmidt is an East German genderqueer teenager who loves rock music, and is stuck in East Berlin until they meet Sergeant Luther Robinson, an American soldier.
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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Starring:
Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Woody Allen, Ben Duncan
Duration: 1h 35mins
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Music
Sweet and Lowdown is a 1999 American comedy-drama mockumentary film written and directed by Woody Allen.
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All That Jazz (1979)
Starring:
Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking
Duration: 2h 3mins
Genres:
Drama, Music, Musical
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance staging his latest Broadway musical, NY/LA, while editing a Hollywood film he has directed, The Stand-Up.
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The Harmonists (1997)
Starring:
Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Heinrich Schafmeister
Duration: 1h 55mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama, Music
In 1927, unemployed German-Jewish actor Harry Frommermann is inspired by the American group The Revelers to create a German group of the same format.
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De-lovely (2004)
Starring:
Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally
Duration: 2h 5mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama, Music
As he is about to die, Porter's life flashes before him in the form of a musical production staged by the archangel Gabriel in the Indiana theater where the composer first performed on stage.
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The Cotton Club (1984)
Starring:
Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee
Duration: 2h 7mins
Genres:
Crime, Drama, Music
A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz.
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Pennies From Heaven (1981)
Starring:
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris
Duration: 1h 48mins
Genres:
Drama, Musical, Romance
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan.
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Funny Lady (1975)
Starring:
Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall
Duration: 2h 16mins
Genres:
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Funny Lady is a 1975 American biographical musical comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross and starring Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall and Ben Vereen.
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Songcatcher (2000)
Starring:
Janet McTeer, Michael Harding, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin
Duration: 1h 49mins
Genres:
Drama, Music
In 1907, Dr. Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer), a professor of musicology, is denied a promotion at the university where she teaches.
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Nine (2009)
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Sandro Dori
Duration: 1h 58mins
Genres:
Drama, Musical, Romance
Guido Contini is a gifted Italian filmmaker in 1965 at the famous Cinecittà movie studios in Rome.
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Bolero (1981)
Starring:
Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniel Olbrychski
Duration: 2h 53mins
Genres:
Drama, Music
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian, and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1980s.
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