This list contains films that qualify in the "music" genre rather than the "musical" genre as defined by the Internet Movie Database.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | Billy Wilder | 10 |
| 2 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 109 |
| 3 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 121 |
| 4 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 143 |
| 5 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 163 |
| 6 | The Man with the Movie Camera | 1929 | Dziga Vertov | 180 |
| 7 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield | 266 |
| 8 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 269 |
| 9 | A Hard Day's Night | 1964 | Richard Lester | 270 |
| 10 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 306 |
| 11 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 309 |
| 12 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 324 |
| 13 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 340 |
| 14 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 343 |
| 15 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnčs Varda | 461 |
| 16 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Emile Ardolino | 477 |
| 17 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 486 |
| 18 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 531 |
| 19 | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio | 538 |
| 20 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | 583 |
| 21 | Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham | 587 |
| 22 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 643 |
| 23 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 679 |
| 24 | Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme | 700 |
| 25 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Kaige Chen | 715 |
| 26 | Dont Look Back | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker | 749 |
| 27 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | 779 |
| 28 | Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | 805 |
| 29 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 806 |
| 30 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 809 |
| 31 | Gimme Shelter | 1970 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 830 |
| 32 | The Last Waltz | 1978 | Martin Scorsese | 896 |
| 33 | Once | 2007 | John Carney | 942 |
| 34 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies | 973 |
| 35 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 1004 |
| 36 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 1013 |
| 37 | La La Land | 2016 | Damien Chazelle | 1016 |
| 38 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1024 |
| 39 | Topsy-Turvy | 1999 | Mike Leigh | 1048 |
| 40 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1052 |
| 41 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger | 1122 |
| 42 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1125 |
| 43 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | 1171 |
| 44 | Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters | 1210 |
| 45 | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 1215 |
| 46 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford | 1239 |
| 47 | The School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater | 1256 |
| 48 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1264 |
| 49 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1284 |
| 50 | The Music Room | 1958 | Satyajit Ray | 1288 |
| 51 | Wayne's World | 1992 | Penelope Spheeris | 1312 |
| 52 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted | 1326 |
| 53 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Stephan Elliott | 1340 |
| 54 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1354 |
| 55 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1409 |
| 56 | The Harder They Come | 1972 | Perry Henzell | 1460 |
| 57 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1485 |
| 58 | Buena Vista Social Club | 1999 | Wim Wenders | 1506 |
| 59 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | 1563 |
| 60 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma | 1565 |
| 61 | 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom | 1661 |
| 62 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 1663 |
| 63 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov | 1671 |
| 64 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa | 1732 |
| 65 | Control | 2007 | Anton Corbijn | 1775 |
| 66 | The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | Frank Tashlin | 1812 |
| 67 | Super Fly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. | 1830 |
| 68 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli | 1834 |
| 69 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks | 1838 |
| 70 | Going My Way | 1944 | Leo McCarey | 1876 |
| 71 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 1889 |
| 72 | Searching for Sugar Man | 2012 | Malik Mendjelloul | 1905 |
| 73 | Quadrophenia | 1979 | Franc Roddam | 1907 |
| 74 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | 2008 | Sacha Gervasi | 1912 |
| 75 | The Chorus | 2004 | Christophe Barratier | 1941 |
| 76 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 1942 |
| 77 | Whisper of the Heart | 1995 | Yoshifumi Kondo | 2004 |
| 78 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2008 |
| 79 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek | 2016 |
| 80 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Russ Meyer | 2055 |
| 81 | Strictly Ballroom | 1992 | Baz Luhrmann | 2059 |
| 82 | Yellow Earth | 1984 | Kaige Chen | 2079 |
| 83 | Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | 2084 |
| 84 | Kolya | 1996 | Jan Sverák | 2142 |
| 85 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 2174 |
| 86 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | 1989 | Steven Kloves | 2177 |
| 87 | Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller | 2192 |
| 88 | Road to Morocco | 1942 | David Butler | 2208 |
| 89 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | 2220 |
| 90 | Parting Glances | 1986 | Bill Sherwood | 2233 |
| 91 | Black Orpheus | 1959 | Marcel Camus | 2238 |
| 92 | The Decline of Western Civilization | 1981 | Penelope Spheeris | 2258 |
| 93 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 2259 |
| 94 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 2278 |
| 95 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | 2004 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 2302 |
| 96 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes | 2307 |
| 97 | Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story | 1988 | Todd Haynes | 2374 |
| 98 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | 2390 |
| 99 | Holiday Inn | 1942 | Mark Sandrich | 2401 |
| 100 | Wild Style | 1983 | Charlie Ahearn | 2444 |
| 101 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 2495 |
| 102 | Heima | 2007 | Dean DeBlois | 2502 |
| 103 | Departures | 2008 | Yojiro Takita | 2508 |
| 104 | Jailhouse Rock | 1957 | Richard Thorpe | 2516 |
| 105 | DiG! | 2004 | Ondi Timoner | 2522 |
| 106 | Across the Universe | 2007 | Julie Taymor | 2604 |
| 107 | Dreamgirls | 2006 | Bill Condon | 2609 |
| 108 | Pina | 2011 | Wim Wenders | 2649 |
| 109 | Anchors Aweigh | 1945 | George Sidney | 2670 |
| 110 | Monterey Pop | 1968 | D.A. Pennebaker | 2680 |
| 111 | Tender Mercies | 1983 | Bruce Beresford | 2698 |
| 112 | The Legend of 1900 | 1998 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 2737 |
| 113 | Shut Up & Sing | 2006 | Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck | 2751 |
| 114 | Jazz on a Summer's Day | 1959 | Aram Avakian and Bert Stern | 2804 |
| 115 | The Doors | 1991 | Oliver Stone | 2805 |