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 | 19 |
| 2 | This Is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | 143 |
| 3 | The Red Shoes | 1948 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 150 |
| 4 | Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | 161 |
| 5 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | 166 |
| 6 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | 190 |
| 7 | Fantasia | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, and Ben Sharpsteen | 229 |
| 8 | Cabaret | 1972 | Bob Fosse | 257 |
| 9 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 304 |
| 10 | The Piano | 1993 | Jane Campion | 309 |
| 11 | Three Colors: Blue | 1993 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 322 |
| 12 | The Blues Brothers | 1980 | John Landis | 351 |
| 13 | Cleo from 5 to 7 | 1962 | Agnès Varda | 383 |
| 14 | Whiplash | 2014 | Damien Chazelle | 391 |
| 15 | The Producers | 1967 | Mel Brooks | 420 |
| 16 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Emile Ardolino | 423 |
| 17 | La La Land | 2016 | Damien Chazelle | 484 |
| 18 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 494 |
| 19 | A Night at the Opera | 1935 | Sam Wood | 500 |
| 20 | All That Jazz | 1979 | Bob Fosse | 558 |
| 21 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | 605 |
| 22 | Stop Making Sense | 1984 | Jonathan Demme | 622 |
| 23 | The Triplets of Belleville | 2003 | Sylvain Chomet | 646 |
| 24 | Shadows | 1958 | John Cassavetes | 669 |
| 25 | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Godfrey Reggio | 704 |
| 26 | Farewell My Concubine | 1993 | Kaige Chen | 729 |
| 27 | Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham | 780 |
| 28 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | 820 |
| 29 | Woodstock | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | 858 |
| 30 | Once | 2006 | John Carney | 886 |
| 31 | Dont Look Back | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker | 910 |
| 32 | Gimme Shelter | 1970 | Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin | 914 |
| 33 | The Last Waltz | 1978 | Martin Scorsese | 935 |
| 34 | The Blue Angel | 1930 | Josef von Sternberg | 937 |
| 35 | The Double Life of Veronique | 1991 | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 964 |
| 36 | The School of Rock | 2003 | Richard Linklater | 977 |
| 37 | The Phantom of the Opera | 1925 | Rupert Julian | 1003 |
| 38 | A Face in the Crowd | 1957 | Elia Kazan | 1006 |
| 39 | High Fidelity | 2000 | Stephen Frears | 1027 |
| 40 | Wayne's World | 1992 | Penelope Spheeris | 1071 |
| 41 | O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 2000 | Joel Coen | 1090 |
| 42 | Soul | 2020 | Pete Docter | 1130 |
| 43 | The Jazz Singer | 1927 | Alan Crosland | 1132 |
| 44 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 1146 |
| 45 | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | 1989 | Stephen Herek | 1155 |
| 46 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | 1994 | Stephan Elliott | 1166 |
| 47 | Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 1184 |
| 48 | Purple Rain | 1984 | Albert Magnoli | 1186 |
| 49 | Phantom of the Paradise | 1974 | Brian De Palma | 1210 |
| 50 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1215 |
| 51 | The Harder They Come | 1972 | Perry Henzell | 1274 |
| 52 | The Wedding Singer | 1998 | Frank Coraci | 1303 |
| 53 | Scorpio Rising | 1963 | Kenneth Anger | 1331 |
| 54 | Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters | 1341 |
| 55 | A Star Is Born | 2018 | Bradley Cooper | 1364 |
| 56 | Autumn Sonata | 1978 | Ingmar Bergman | 1400 |
| 57 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | 1416 |
| 58 | The Music Room | 1958 | Satyajit Ray | 1417 |
| 59 | The Decline of Western Civilization | 1981 | Penelope Spheeris | 1461 |
| 60 | Top Secret! | 1984 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker | 1492 |
| 61 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted | 1552 |
| 62 | Buena Vista Social Club | 1999 | Wim Wenders | 1554 |
| 63 | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | 1566 |
| 64 | Distant Voices, Still Lives | 1988 | Terence Davies | 1571 |
| 65 | The Travelling Players | 1975 | Theodoros Angelopoulos | 1627 |
| 66 | Victor/Victoria | 1982 | Blake Edwards | 1636 |
| 67 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 1641 |
| 68 | Searching for Sugar Man | 2012 | Malik Bendjelloul | 1646 |
| 69 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed | 1926 | Lotte Reiniger | 1696 |
| 70 | The Piano Teacher | 2001 | Michael Haneke | 1697 |
| 71 | Super Fly | 1972 | Gordon Parks Jr. | 1714 |
| 72 | 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom | 1767 |
| 73 | Limelight | 1952 | Charles Chaplin | 1773 |
| 74 | The Burmese Harp | 1956 | Kon Ichikawa | 1812 |
| 75 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | 1815 |
| 76 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | 2021 | Questlove | 1820 |
| 77 | Tarzan | 1999 | Chris Buck and Kevin Lima | 1911 |
| 78 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | 1920 |
| 79 | Quadrophenia | 1979 | Franc Roddam | 1924 |
| 80 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford | 1929 |
| 81 | Straight Outta Compton | 2015 | F. Gary Gray | 1986 |
| 82 | Freaky Friday | 2003 | Mark Waters | 2023 |
| 83 | The Beat That My Heart Skipped | 2005 | Jacques Audiard | 2056 |
| 84 | House Party | 1990 | Reginald Hudlin | 2058 |
| 85 | Stormy Weather | 1943 | Andrew L. Stone | 2076 |
| 86 | Pink Floyd the Wall | 1982 | Alan Parker | 2081 |
| 87 | Sing Street | 2016 | John Carney | 2084 |
| 88 | Control | 2007 | Anton Corbijn | 2113 |
| 89 | Footloose | 1984 | Herbert Ross | 2117 |
| 90 | Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | 1970 | Russ Meyer | 2142 |
| 91 | Diva | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 2167 |
| 92 | Monterey Pop | 1968 | D.A. Pennebaker | 2225 |
| 93 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | 2241 |
| 94 | Amy | 2015 | Asif Kapadia | 2274 |
| 95 | Beaches | 1988 | Garry Marshall | 2278 |
| 96 | Cold War | 2018 | Pawel Pawlikowski | 2280 |
| 97 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | 2282 |
| 98 | Pitch Perfect | 2012 | Jason Moore | 2316 |
| 99 | What's Love Got to Do with It | 1993 | Brian Gibson | 2332 |
| 100 | Parting Glances | 1986 | Bill Sherwood | 2333 |
| 101 | The Last Days of Disco | 1998 | Whit Stillman | 2347 |
| 102 | Across the Universe | 2007 | Julie Taymor | 2358 |
| 103 | Dance, Girl, Dance | 1940 | Dorothy Arzner | 2359 |
| 104 | 8 Mile | 2002 | Curtis Hanson | 2362 |
| 105 | Rock 'n' Roll High School | 1979 | Allan Arkush | 2370 |
| 106 | Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | Bryan Singer | 2381 |
| 107 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | 2004 | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky | 2448 |
| 108 | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years | 1988 | Penelope Spheeris | 2460 |
| 109 | High School Musical | 2006 | Kenny Ortega | 2511 |
| 110 | Velvet Goldmine | 1998 | Todd Haynes | 2524 |
| 111 | CODA | 2021 | Sian Heder | 2530 |
| 112 | Yellow Earth | 1984 | Kaige Chen | 2535 |
| 113 | Road to Morocco | 1942 | David Butler | 2561 |
| 114 | The Girl Can't Help It | 1956 | Frank Tashlin | 2562 |
| 115 | Unfaithfully Yours | 1948 | Preston Sturges | 2580 |
| 116 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | 2008 | Sacha Gervasi | 2590 |
| 117 | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist | 2008 | Peter Sollett | 2594 |
| 118 | Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | 1982 | Lou Adler | 2606 |
| 119 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks | 2607 |
| 120 | Singles | 1992 | Cameron Crowe | 2618 |
| 121 | Jailhouse Rock | 1957 | Richard Thorpe | 2637 |
| 122 | Wild Style | 1982 | Charlie Ahearn | 2661 |
| 123 | O Lucky Man! | 1973 | Lindsay Anderson | 2670 |
| 124 | Going My Way | 1944 | Leo McCarey | 2671 |
| 125 | The Chorus | 2004 | Christophe Barratier | 2680 |
| 126 | New York, New York | 1977 | Martin Scorsese | 2696 |
| 127 | Climax | 2018 | Gaspar Noé | 2711 |
| 128 | Jazz on a Summer's Day | 1959 | Bert Stern | 2718 |
| 129 | Pina | 2011 | Wim Wenders | 2743 |
| 130 | Happy Feet | 2006 | George Miller | 2747 |
| 131 | Holiday Inn | 1942 | Mark Sandrich | 2777 |
| 132 | The Commitments | 1991 | Alan Parker | 2824 |
| 133 | The Tales of Hoffmann | 1951 | Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger | 2830 |
| 134 | Rocketman | 2019 | Dexter Fletcher | 2842 |
| 135 | That Thing You Do! | 1996 | Tom Hanks | 2931 |
| 136 | Bound for Glory | 1976 | Hal Ashby | 2944 |
| 137 | Dick Tracy | 1990 | Warren Beatty | 2969 |
| 138 | Kolya | 1996 | Jan Sverák | 2999 |
| 139 | The Last Dragon | 1985 | Michael Schultz | 3007 |
| 140 | San Francisco | 1936 | W.S. Van Dyke | 3018 |