Every musical movie streaming on Max in the US right now — 22 films ranked by rating, checked against Max’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Max US
Directed by Stanley Donen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIconic production numbers like the title sequence prove the musical can transcend narrative through pure choreographic invention and joy.
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Directed by Spike Lee
✦ MovieMuse AI takeByrne's minimal staging and direct audience address transform concert film into participatory ritual—the genre's most radical statement on collective experience.
A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChaplin's pantomime-to-song transitions dissolve the boundary between silent comedy and musical expression, making physical movement itself the primary musical instrument.
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeD.A. Pennebaker's cinema-vérité captures Dylan's refusal to perform scripted numbers, turning documentary footage into avant-garde anti-musical that deconstructs the form.
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.
Directed by James Mangold
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCash's Sun Records sessions become visceral musical moments where twangy rebellion and heartbreak fuse, grounding the biopic in authentic sonic character.
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Directed by Wim Wenders
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCooder's production interweaves documentary realism with performance footage, proving how music itself becomes the emotional narrative in this late-career resurrection.
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.
Directed by Michael Gracey
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrand theatrical production numbers function as emotional shorthand, collapsing character development into spectacle with calculated precision.
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Directed by Richard Lester
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Beatles' kinetic energy drives every narrative beat—cutting, choreography, and editing sync perfectly to the music, making the band the authentic story.
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Directed by Agnès Varda
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMozart's opera structure—arias advancing plot, ensemble chaos creating meaning—remains theatrically intact, preserving the genre's marriage of music and narrative.
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
Directed by Mike Leigh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGilbert-Sullivan's witty lyrics and ornate staging showcase how operetta orchestrates comedy, patter songs, and satire into unified theatrical experience.
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.
Directed by Franc Roddam
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Who's rock opera structure demands visual equivalents for its thematic arcs—scooter culture becomes the music's physical manifestation onscreen.
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Directed by Naoko Yamada
✦ MovieMuse AI takeA high school brass band becomes metaphor for female friendship through Euphonius composition that mirrors emotional resonance perfectly.
In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.
Directed by G.W. Pabst
✦ MovieMuse AI takePabst weaponizes Weill's acidic score against sentiment, making sardonic melody the true protagonist in this cynical inversion of operetta.
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Directed by Michael Curtiz
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKirk Douglas's trumpet solos become visual storytelling, merging performance with psychological conflict through the musical number itself.
Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also coping with the problems caused by his tempestuous marriage to an aloof heiress.
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimation transcends performance—stylized concert sequences transform marginalized outcasts into mythic figures through pure kinetic musicality.
A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.
Directed by Naoko Yamada
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSynesthetic color visualization translates emotion directly into visual abstraction, making feelings literally visible on screen.
Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn't play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections.
Directed by Paul King
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMusical numbers function as world-building; each song visualizes Wonka's whimsical philosophy before he builds his factory.
Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.
Directed by Rupert Goold
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGarland's raw, desperate performance style anchors tragic musical numbers that blur entertainment spectacle with genuine human vulnerability.
Thirty years after starring in "The Wizard of Oz," beloved actress and singer Judy Garland arrives in London to perform sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town nightclub. While there, she reminisces with friends and fans and begins a whirlwind romance with musician Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband.
Directed by Brendon Small
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHeavy metal aesthetics commandeer musical-comedy conventions; brutality and absurdity collide in the genre's most metal deconstruction.
After the heroic rescue of Toki Wartooth, DETHKLOK frontman Nathan Explosion finds himself traumatized in a BRUTAL professional and romantic flat-spin all while he is tasked with fulfilling the prophecy and confronting the ultimate songwriting challenge: write the SONG OF SALVATION and save the planet. Can Nathan Explosion look beyond his brutally damaged ego to save his band, stop the Metalocalypse, and finally face the ultimate evil: Salacia?
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe mermaids' nightclub performances collapse genre boundaries—horror, musical numbers, and grotesque body horror merge into singular, disorienting aesthetic vision.
Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
Directed by Trish Sie
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-victory existentialism questions what musical success means beyond competition, exploring identity beyond performance.
After the highs of winning the world championships, the Bellas find themselves split apart and discovering there aren't job prospects for making music with your mouth. But when they get the chance to reunite for an overseas USO tour, this group of awesome nerds will come together to make some music, and some questionable decisions, one last time.
Directed by Jean Yarbrough
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbbott and Costello's vaudeville timing drives the narrative; comedy and song become interchangeable storytelling mechanisms.
Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular tale turning into a wacky Abbott and Costello-faced musical retelling involving stolen cows, terrible giants, and the heroic boy with an opportunistic butcher in a castle above the clouds.
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