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Best Musical Movies on MGM+

Every musical movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 17 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US

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The Last Waltz (1978)

IMDb 8.1 🍅 98% Letterboxd 4.3 1h 57m

Directed by Martin Scorsese

✦ MovieMuse AI takeScorsese transforms concert documentary into narrative cinema through counterpoint editing, wedding performance footage with intimate backstage confessions.

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and other rock legends.

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Better Man (2024)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 15m

Directed by Michael Gracey

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses kaleidoscopic production numbers to collapse Robbie's internal chaos and external performance into visceral, meta-theatrical spectacle.

Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 90% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 47m

Directed by Rupert Julian

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSilent-era spectacle marries operatic melodrama with German Expressionist design, making the theater itself a character in visual storytelling.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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24 Hour Party People (2002)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 87% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 57m

Directed by Michael Winterbottom

✦ MovieMuse AI takePostmodern musical that breaks the fourth wall and incorporates archival footage, celebrating how punk and new wave exploded narrative conventions.

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

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The Music Lovers (1971)

IMDb 7.2 🍅 59% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 3m

Directed by Ken Russell

✦ MovieMuse AI takeKen Russell's baroque excess transforms classical composition into visual rhapsody; Tchaikovsky's music becomes psychological landscape.

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 83% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 37m

Directed by Richard Lester

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSondheim's wit weaponizes lyrics; comedic timing and rapid-fire wordplay eclipse traditional romantic musical sincerity.

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

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Impromptu (1991)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 74% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 47m

Directed by James Lapine

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCorsari harnesses period instruments and salon intimacy; Chopin's compositions become confessional love letters visualized.

In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

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Royal Wedding (1951)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 33m

Directed by Stanley Donen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFred Astaire's dance-as-dialogue sequences prove movement can advance plot and character with zero exposition—pure physical storytelling.

A brother and sister dance act encounter challenges and romance when booked in London during the Royal Wedding.

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Dreamgirls (2006)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 79% Letterboxd 3.6 2h 10m

Directed by Bill Condon

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDreamgirls weaponizes the ensemble number as political statement, transforming group harmony into commentary on ambition, race, and female solidarity.

A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

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De-Lovely (2004)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 49% Letterboxd 3.2 2h 5m

Directed by Irwin Winkler

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCole Porter's witty, intricate lyrics become character study: songs reveal internal contradiction between public glamour and private heartbreak.

From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest songs of the twentieth century.

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Man of La Mancha (1972)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 53% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 12m

Directed by Arthur Hiller

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCervantes' imprisonment frames the musical itself as escape fantasy, Quixote's delusions operatically justified through soaring theatricality.

In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They're accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other inmates gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, staging a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense—the story of Don Quixote.

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Road to Bali (1952)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 31m

Directed by Hal Walker

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBing and Bob's effortless duets define mid-century musical sophistication: charm and craft so integrated they vanish into naturalness.

Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.

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Tom Sawyer (1973)

IMDb 6.4 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 43m

Directed by Don Taylor

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWillson's period score captures Americana optimism while Tom's mischief disrupts narrative order—music as emotional catalyst, not accompaniment.

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.

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G.I. Blues (1960)

IMDb 6.2 Letterboxd 3.1 1h 44m

Directed by Norman Taurog

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEarly Elvis vehicle where GI mythology meets nightclub fantasy; music promises postwar American reinvention through entertainment.

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a venture, but a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili (Juliet Prowse) is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But, when that friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.

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Rock-A-Doodle (1991)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 20% Letterboxd 2.9 1h 17m

Directed by Don Bluth

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAnimated rooster rock-opera inverts genre expectations by using music to deconstruct ego and celebrity—a satirical sung-through critique.

Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' roll singer. But in his absence, a sinister, sunshine-hating owl prepares to take over.

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Fame (2009)

IMDb 5.0 🍅 23% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 47m

Directed by Kevin Tancharoen

✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntegrates music across multiple disciplines—dance, theater, singing—to show how different performance forms can occupy the same emotional truth.

At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and more. Over four years, these young men and women will see if they truly have the dedication and talent to achieve success, while still juggling regular schoolwork, feelings of self-doubt, and budding romances.

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The Apple (1980)

IMDb 4.3 🍅 27% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 28m

Directed by Menahem Golan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDystopian rock-opera abandons narrative logic for visual chaos and discordance, using cacophonous production numbers as social horror.

In a pseudo-futuristic 1994, a square couple enter the corrupt world of the music industry, and subsequently a maze of drugs, sex, and temptation.

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