The 30 Best Musical Movies on Disney+ (July 2026)

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Coco (2017)

IMDb 8.4 🍅 97% 1h 45m

Directed by Lee Unkrich

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntegrates music as spiritual rebellion, transforming ancestral trauma into transcendent performance across two worlds.

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

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Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

IMDb 8.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 4.5 1h 46m

Directed by Taylor Swift

✦ MovieMuse AI takeElevates concert documentary by interweaving intimate songwriting confessions with studio performances, creating meta-musical narrative.

An intimate concert film, in which Taylor Swift performs each song from her album 'folklore' in order, as she reveals the meaning and the stories behind all 17 tracks for the very first time.

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Hamilton (2025)

IMDb 8.3 🍅 98% Letterboxd 4.3 2h 40m

Directed by Thomas Kail

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRevolutionary hip-hop scoring of American history proves the musical form itself can interrogate national mythology.

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

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Newsies (2017)

IMDb 8.2 Letterboxd 4.1 2h 14m

Directed by Brett Sullivan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeChoreographed strike sequences transform labor protest into kinetic dance, making political resistance rhythmically irresistible.

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.

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Music by John Williams (2024)

IMDb 8.2 🍅 100% Letterboxd 4.0 1h 46m

Directed by Laurent Bouzereau

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocumentary celebrates how orchestral architecture invisibly shapes cinematic emotion—Williams's scores ARE the story.

His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro John Williams' own story, with insights from filmmakers, musicians, and others he has inspired, complete with rare behind-the-scenes looks at the making of movie history.

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The Sound of Music (1965)

IMDb 8.1 🍅 83% Letterboxd 4.2 2h 54m

Directed by Robert Wise

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlpine landscapes become instruments; governess uses song to bridge military rigidity and human warmth.

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

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The Muppet Show (2026)

IMDb 8.1 🍅 98% Letterboxd 4.1 0h 32m

Directed by Alex Timbers

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMuppet variety format preserves vaudeville's anarchic musical spontaneity in modern entertainment landscape.

Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos is bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the original Muppet Theatre with their very special guest, Sabrina Carpenter!

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Soul (2020)

IMDb 8.0 🍅 95% 1h 41m

Directed by Pete Docter

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJazz becomes metaphor for life's improvisation; music transcends death through soul-spiritual transcendence.

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 78% Letterboxd 4.1 1h 26m

Directed by Brian Henson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCarol's musical numbers function as emotional ghosts, haunting Scrooge's moral reckoning.

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

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The Band Concert (1935)

IMDb 7.8 Letterboxd 3.9 0h 9m

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMickey's orchestra pit becomes battlefield where Donald's chaos literally disrupts harmonic order.

Mickey is trying to lead a concert of The William Tell Overture, but he's continually disrupted by ice cream vendor Donald, who uses a seemingly endless supply of flutes to play Turkey in the Straw instead. After Donald gives up, a bee comes along and causes his own havoc. The band then reaches the Storm sequence, and the weather also starts to pick up; a tornado comes along, but they keep playing.

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One Man Band (2005)

IMDb 7.6 Letterboxd 3.6 0h 5m

Directed by Mark Andrews

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCompeting buskers' dueling songs weaponize melody as economic competition.

With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, a peasant girl encounters two competing street performers who'd prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. The little girl, Tippy, is caught in the middle as a musical duel ensues between the one-man-bands.

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The Skeleton Dance (1929)

IMDb 7.6 Letterboxd 3.9 0h 5m

Directed by Walt Disney

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSkeleton bones become percussion instruments in this grotesque early prototype of sound-synchronized animation.

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

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Destino (2003)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.8 0h 7m

Directed by Dominique Monfery

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSalvador Dalí's surrealism fused with orchestral score creates dreamscape where image and music defy physics.

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.

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Get a Horse! (2013)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.8 0h 6m

Directed by Lauren MacMullan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBreaking the fourth wall musically; Pete literally drags the film from color into black-and-white.

Mickey, Minnie, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow go on a musical wagon ride until Peg-Leg Pete tries to run them off the road.

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Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (2022)

IMDb 7.5 Letterboxd 3.6 0h 45m

Directed by Chris Howe

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBroadway cast performance honors original arrangements while live concert intimacy deepens magical realism.

Step into Casa Madrigal for a special concert spectacular as the original voice cast of Disney Animation's Oscar®-winning "Encanto," Stephanie Beatriz, Adassa, Carolina Gaitán, Jessica Darrow, Diane Guerrero, Mauro Castillo, Angie Cepeda and Olga Merediz, along with special guests including Colombian superstar Carlos Vives, reunites for "Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl." This unprecedented concert experience gives you a front-row seat to the musical extravaganza celebrating the global phenomenon.

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Howard (2018)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 33m

Directed by Don Hahn

✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchival footage of Ashman transformed into biographical musical composition—subject and form mirror each other.

Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.

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Steamboat Willie (1928)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.6 0h 8m

Directed by Walt Disney

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMickey conducts livestock as orchestra, inventing the animated musical gag.

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 23m

Directed by Stephen Herek

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTeaching music becomes life's true opus; pedagogy and performance collapse into singular purpose.

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

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Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles poster

Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles (2021)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 100% Letterboxd 4.0 1h 5m

Directed by Robert Rodriguez

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlbum-to-film adaptation renders Eilish's bedroom-pop production as visual poetry.

Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier Than Ever," this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl.

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OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film) (2022)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 16m

Directed by Stacey Lee

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRoad-trip album documentary format makes geography and songwriting process inseparable storytelling.

Grammy® winner singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo takes a familiar road trip from Salt Lake City, where she began writing her debut album “SOUR,” to Los Angeles. Along the way, Rodrigo recounts the memories of writing and creating her record-breaking debut album and shares her feelings as a young woman navigating a specific time in her life. Through new live arrangements of her songs, intimate interviews and never-before-seen footage from the making of the album, audiences will follow Olivia along on a cinematic journey exploring the story of “SOUR.”

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Anastasia (1997)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 83% 1h 34m

Directed by Gary Goldman

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRecurring melody threads connect fractured memory; music reconstructs shattered identity.

Ten years after she was separated from her family, an eighteen-year-old orphan with vague memories of the past sets out to Paris in hopes of reuniting with her grandmother. She is accompanied by two con men, who intend to pass her off as the Grand Duchess Anastasia to the Dowager Empress for a reward.

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Lava (2015)

IMDb 7.2 Letterboxd 3.6 0h 9m

Directed by James Ford Murphy

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMillion-year geological love story driven entirely by orchestral romance—landscape becomes protagonist.

Inspired by the isolated beauty of tropical islands and the explosive allure of ocean volcanoes, Lava is a musical love story that takes place over millions of years.

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Beatles '64 (2024)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 48m

Directed by David Tedeschi

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNever-before-seen Beatles footage proves fandom hysteria itself is the film's greatest musical performance.

Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, follow McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Starr as they land in New York City in February 1964 and solidify their status as the biggest band in the world.

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The Muppets (2011)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 95% Letterboxd 6.8 1h 43m

Directed by James Bobin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMuppet nostalgia becomes metatextual musical—characters sing about saving their own musical theater.

When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.

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Fantasia 2000 (2000)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 14m

Directed by James Algar

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimation's absolute synchronization with classical composition proves visual form subservient to musical architecture.

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.

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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

IMDb 7.1 🍅 66% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 57m

Directed by Robert Stevenson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMagic spell animated via Edwardian musical number; whimsy materializes through orchestration.

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

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Lemonade Mouth (2011)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 53m

Directed by Patricia Riggen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDetention-born garage band discovers identity through shared musical creation, not narrative convenience.

When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in history! In the face of incredible odds, Olivia, Stella, Wen, Mohini and Charlie find they can make a real difference when they learn to lean on each other and let go of everything holding back their dreams.

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Once Upon a Snowman (2020)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.1 0h 7m

Directed by Dan Abraham

✦ MovieMuse AI takeOlaf's self-discovery mirrors musical score's harmonic development from discord to wholeness.

The previously untold origins of Olaf, the innocent and insightful, summer-loving snowman are revealed as we follow Olaf’s first steps as he comes to life and searches for his identity in the snowy mountains outside Arendelle.

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Newsies (1992)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 39% Letterboxd 3.5 2h 1m

Directed by Kenny Ortega

✦ MovieMuse AI takeStrike choreography transforms newsboys' labor protest into exuberant tap-dance rebellion.

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.

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The Wise Little Hen (1934)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.3 0h 8m

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDonald Duck debuts through anthropomorphized animal chorus, establishing character through vocal performance.

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.

Best Musical Movies on Disney+

Coco (2017)

Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020)

Hamilton (2025)

Newsies (2017)

Music by John Williams (2024)

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Muppet Show (2026)

Soul (2020)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

The Band Concert (1935)

One Man Band (2005)

The Skeleton Dance (1929)

Destino (2003)

Get a Horse! (2013)

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (2022)

Howard (2018)

Steamboat Willie (1928)

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles (2021)

OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film) (2022)

Anastasia (1997)

Lava (2015)

Beatles '64 (2024)

The Muppets (2011)

Fantasia 2000 (2000)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Lemonade Mouth (2011)

Once Upon a Snowman (2020)

Newsies (1992)

The Wise Little Hen (1934)

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