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Top Music Films

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 78
3 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 86
4 Amadeus 1984 Milos Forman 141
5 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse 144
6 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester 157
7 The Producers 1968 Mel Brooks 184
8 Fantasia 1940 James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, and Paul Satterfield 199
9 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 204
10 Pinocchio 1940 Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen 217
11 Three Colors: Blue 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski 278
12 The Blues Brothers 1980 John Landis 293
13 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg 317
14 Saturday Night Fever 1977 John Badham 360
15 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo 366
16 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 383
17 Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948 Max Ophüls 477
18 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 541
19 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe 571
20 Babette's Feast 1987 Gabriel Axel 576
21 All That Jazz 1979 Bob Fosse 577
22 Farewell My Concubine 1993 Kaige Chen 601
23 The Jazz Singer 1927 Alan Crosland 666
24 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 669
25 Yi yi: A One and a Two... 2000 Edward Yang 678
26 High Fidelity 2000 Stephen Frears 687
27 Shoot the Piano Player 1960 François Truffaut 699
28 Dont Look Back 1967 D.A. Pennebaker 737
29 Gimme Shelter 1970 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 741
30 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 749
31 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 752
32 The Jerk 1979 Carl Reiner 764
33 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Joel Coen 776
34 Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001 John Cameron Mitchell 795
35 The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese 808
36 Woodstock 1970 Michael Wadleigh 828
37 Lady and the Tramp 1955 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 832
38 The Triplets of Belleville 2003 Sylvain Chomet 882
39 Yellow Submarine 1968 George Dunning 903
40 The Harder They Come 1972 Perry Henzell 909
41 Stop Making Sense 1984 Jonathan Demme 926
42 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Michael Apted 935
43 Peter Pan 1953 Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske 999
44 Ray 2004 Taylor Hackford 1007
45 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Russ Meyer 1011
46 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 1014
47 Shine 1996 Scott Hicks 1022
48 The Commitments 1991 Alan Parker 1026
49 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 1035
50 Hairspray 1988 John Waters 1068
51 Black Orpheus 1959 Marcel Camus 1103
52 Limelight 1952 Charles Chaplin 1117
53 The Color of Pomegranates 1968 Sergei Parajanov 1121
54 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 1136
55 Wayne's World 1992 Penelope Spheeris 1180
56 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Peter Bogdanovich 1188
57 Sid and Nancy 1986 Alex Cox 1196
58 Jailhouse Rock 1957 Richard Thorpe 1272
59 Beaches 1988 Garry Marshall 1284
60 The School of Rock 2003 Richard Linklater 1294
61 Kolya 1996 Jan Sverák 1302
62 Going My Way 1944 Leo McCarey 1314
63 The Music Room 1959 Satyajit Ray 1317
64 Pink Floyd the Wall 1982 Alan Parker 1331
65 The Ballad of Narayama 1983 Shohei Imamura 1344
66 O Lucky Man! 1973 Lindsay Anderson 1354
67 24 Hour Party People 2002 Michael Winterbottom 1370
68 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Steven Kloves 1396
69 Walk the Line 2005 James Mangold 1400
70 Victor/Victoria 1982 Blake Edwards 1433
71 Quadrophenia 1979 Franc Roddam 1439
72 What's Love Got to Do with It 1993 Brian Gibson 1451
73 Flashdance 1983 Adrian Lyne 1466
74 Fame 1980 Alan Parker 1486
75 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 Wim Wenders 1498
76 8 Mile 2002 Curtis Hanson 1508
77 Tender Mercies 1983 Bruce Beresford 1526
78 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 Stephan Elliott 1541
79 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Frank Tashlin 1576
80 Once 2006 John Carney 1604
81 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 1605
82 Truly, Madly, Deeply 1990 Anthony Minghella 1608
83 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 Ronald Neame 1699
84 The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T 1953 Roy Rowland 1703
85 Brassed Off 1996 Mark Herman 1704
86 The Wedding Singer 1998 Frank Coraci 1779
87 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Stephen Herek 1780
88 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 François Girard 1783
89 Shall We Dance? 1996 Masayuki Suo 1864
90 Pump Up the Volume 1990 Allan Moyle 1868
91 The Piano Teacher 2001 Michael Haneke 1888
92 Autumn Sonata 1978 Ingmar Bergman 1911
93 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1988 Todd Haynes 1965
94 Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 Allan Arkush 1996
95 The Ruling Class 1972 Peter Medak 2008
96 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 2009
97 Un coeur en hiver 1992 Claude Sautet 2032
98 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 2045
99 Grace of My Heart 1996 Allison Anders 2084
100 Song of the South 1946 Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson 2091
101 Yellow Earth 1985 Kaige Chen 2118
102 The Doors 1991 Oliver Stone 2164
103 Selena 1997 Gregory Nava 2170
104 What's Opera, Doc? 1957 Chuck Jones 2175
105 La Vie en rose 2007 Olivier Dahan 2195
106 New York, New York 1977 Martin Scorsese 2204
107 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005 Jacques Audiard 2257
108 Bird 1988 Clint Eastwood 2263
109 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004 Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky 2313
110 The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Steve Rash 2315
111 Bound for Glory 1976 Hal Ashby 2325
112 The Man Without a Past 2002 Aki Kaurismäki 2329
113 DiG! 2004 Ondi Timoner 2357
114 Love Me or Leave Me 1955 Charles Vidor 2392
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