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When the story sings

In a musical, the story stops being able to hold its feelings in words, and someone starts to sing. A man in love dances through a downpour with his umbrella closed; a family escapes over the Alps singing of the hills; a lion cub lifted over the savannah greets the sun; a jazz pianist and an actress tap dance above the lights of Los Angeles. The musical was born with the talking picture, ruled Hollywood for thirty years, nearly vanished in the 1970s, and came back in waves, with the animated films of Disney in the 1990s, the stage hits of Broadway in the 2000s and the original musicals of the 2010s. TuneVideo, whose name carries a tune, gathers 156 of these films and sorts them on twelve shelves, in three families.

Every film of the guide has an English synopsis, its cast and director and a Watch now button that opens it on JustWatch, where you can see the services that offer it in your country. The oldest film is 42nd Street, of 1933, the backstage musical in which a chorus girl takes the place of the injured star on opening night, with the kaleidoscopes of dancers of Busby Berkeley, and the newest is Snow White, of 2025. Together the films carry about 488,100 votes on TMDB, with an average rating of 6.99; the most voted is The Lion King of 1994, with about 20,300 votes, and the best rated is the Bollywood romance Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, of 1995, with an 8.5, ahead of The Lion King, at 8.3, and Singin' in the Rain, of 1952, at 8.1. The guide Start with TuneVideo picks one film from each shelf, and the guide The history of the musical follows the genre from the beginning.

The first family, Old Hollywood, holds the musicals of the studio age: the MGM years of the Freed Unit, the song and dance of the other studios, from Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers to Busby Berkeley, Broadway on the big screen in the 1950s and 1960s, and the family and holiday musicals. The second, Stage and screen, holds the musicals of the last fifty years: the rock operas and cult musicals, the stage hits of the new century, the original screen musicals and the dance films. The third, Animation and the world, holds the animated and live-action musicals of Disney, the animated musicals of the other studios and the musicals of Bollywood.

The name and the look

The Wayback Machine keeps tunevideo.com from 2011 to 2026 only as a page of sponsored links and then a domain for sale, and tunevideo.net in December 2014 and January 2015 as MovieTube, a site of cartoons and dubbed anime with a header of search and share buttons, a row of tabs, Cartoon and Anime, Premium, Movie, TV Series, Anime, Music and Education, sections with a more link, such as Daily Update, and a sidebar of boxes, each with a header and a list, Featured Type and Genre. Its stylesheet is missing from the archive, so the look of this guide follows the layout of that page and takes its colours from its subject, the theatre.

The header is the velvet red of a stage curtain, its folds drawn in light and shade, edged below by a gold fringe, and its tabs, like the tabs of the old site, lead to the three families. The logo draws a curtain with a note of music. The page is the cream of a theatre programme, the panels are white with fine borders, and the board of the home page, called Tonight's programme, lays out the twelve shelves in three columns under a red bar, each with a gold, red or bronze edge for its family. Each row has its title over a gold line and a More link in the manner of the old Daily Update, and each poster carries the rating on a gold tag, the year on a red tag and the tag of its shelf in cream capitals on a red band. The guide The look of TuneVideo explains each detail.

How the programme works

Every film of the guide is a musical, a film in which the characters sing or dance to tell the story, or a film of dance in which the dancing is the story. Films about real musicians, from Ray to Bohemian Rhapsody, belong to a sister guide and are left out here, except a few that tell a real life as a full musical, such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and Funny Girl, and the A Star Is Born of 1954, whose story is told in grand musical numbers. Each film sits on a single shelf, chosen by its period, its studio or its origin, and each shelf keeps its thirteen most voted films and lists them by votes, so that the best known come first. 138 of the 156 films are in English, thirteen are in Hindi and five in French, all with an English synopsis. The guide How the programme works sums up the rules.

The history of the musical

The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer of 1927, was a film with songs, and within two years every studio was making musicals. Warner Bros. gave them the backstage story and the choreographer Busby Berkeley, whose dancers formed flowers and kaleidoscopes seen from above in 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade, all of 1933; RKO gave them Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, whose ten films together made dance the language of love. In the 1940s and 1950s MGM became the great studio of the musical, with the producer Arthur Freed and his unit of directors, writers and stars, Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, from The Wizard of Oz to Singin' in the Rain and Gigi.

The 1960s brought the great adaptations of Broadway, West Side Story, My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music, the most successful film of its decade, and then the failures of the late 1960s nearly ended the genre. It survived in new forms: the rock opera and the cult film in the 1970s, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Grease; the animated musicals of Disney from The Little Mermaid of 1989; the films of Broadway hits after Chicago, which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2003, the first musical to do so since Oliver! in 1969; and the original musicals of the 2010s, from La La Land to The Greatest Showman. The guide The history of the musical tells the story.

Old Hollywood

The first family, Old Hollywood, gathers 52 films of the studio age and its heirs, with about 59,000 votes and an average rating of 7.03. It holds the oldest films of the guide, the backstage musicals of 1933, and the great Technicolor dreams of MGM, and it ends with the family musicals, from Mary Poppins to the Muppets, that have been the Christmas films of generations. The guide Old Hollywood sums up the family.

The MGM years

The shelf The MGM years holds thirteen films from 1939 to 1958, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that had more stars than there are in heaven. Its most voted film is The Wizard of Oz, of 1939, by Victor Fleming, with Judy Garland as Dorothy, carried by a cyclone from the black and white of Kansas to the colour of Oz, where she follows the yellow brick road with a scarecrow, a tin man and a cowardly lion, rated 7.6 with about 6,300 votes, and its best rated is Singin' in the Rain, of 1952, by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, the comedy of the arrival of sound in Hollywood in 1927, with Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor, and the most famous dance of cinema, in the rain, rated 8.1, one of the four films of the guide rated 8 or more.

Gene Kelly is the dancer of the shelf: An American in Paris, of 1951, by Vincente Minnelli, an American painter in Paris with Leslie Caron and a ballet of seventeen minutes to the music of Gershwin, the winner of the Academy Award for best picture; On the Town, of 1949, three sailors on leave in New York for a day, with Frank Sinatra; Anchors Aweigh, of 1945, in which he dances with Jerry the mouse of Tom and Jerry, and Brigadoon, of 1954, a Scottish village that wakes once every hundred years. Judy Garland stars in Meet Me in St. Louis, of 1944, a family of the World's Fair of 1904, in which she sings The Trolley Song and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and with Fred Astaire in Easter Parade, of 1948; Astaire also dances on the ceiling in Royal Wedding, of 1951, and on the pavements of New York in The Band Wagon, of 1953, rated 7.2. Gigi, of 1958, the last great musical of the studio, which won nine Academy Awards; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, of 1954, the backwoodsmen of Oregon who kidnap their brides, with its dance of a barn raising, and High Society, of 1956, with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, complete it. The guide The Freed Unit follows the studio.

Song and dance of the studios

The shelf Song and dance of the studios holds thirteen films from 1933 to 1957 of the other studios, Warner Bros., RKO, Paramount, Columbia and Fox. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together in four of its films, all made by RKO: The Gay Divorcee, of 1934; Top Hat, of 1935, by Mark Sandrich, with Cheek to Cheek and the most famous feathered dress of Hollywood, rated 7.2; Swing Time, of 1936, by George Stevens; Shall We Dance, of 1937, rated 7.3, the best rated of the shelf with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and Rogers also dances in the Warner Bros. films of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933, with its number of the forgotten men of the Depression. James Cagney is the tap dancer of Footlight Parade, of 1933, and the composer George M. Cohan of Yankee Doodle Dandy, of 1942, by Michael Curtiz, which won him the Academy Award for best actor.

The most voted film of the shelf is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, of 1953, by Howard Hawks, with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell as two showgirls sailing to Paris, in which Monroe sings Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, rated 7.3 with about 1,100 votes. Funny Face, of 1957, by Stanley Donen, with Audrey Hepburn as a shy bookseller turned into a model by a photographer played by Fred Astaire; Holiday Inn, of 1942, with Bing Crosby and Astaire, the film in which Crosby first sang White Christmas; Cover Girl, of 1944, with Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly, made by Columbia, and the A Star Is Born of 1954, by George Cukor, with Judy Garland singing The Man That Got Away, complete it. The guide Fred and Ginger follows the dancers.

Broadway on the big screen

The shelf Broadway on the big screen holds thirteen films from 1955 to 1972, the age when Hollywood bought the great hits of the stage and filmed them in wide screen and colour, and it is the best rated shelf of its family, with an average of 7.22. Its most voted film is Mary Poppins, of 1964, by Robert Stevenson, made by Disney from the books of P. L. Travers rather than a play, with Julie Andrews as the magical nanny of a family of London and Dick Van Dyke as the chimney sweep, which won her the Academy Award for best actress, rated 7.6 with about 5,100 votes. Andrews returned a year later in The Sound of Music, of 1965, by Robert Wise, from Rodgers and Hammerstein, as the novice who becomes the governess of the seven children of a widowed captain in the Austria of 1938, rated 7.7, the best rated of the shelf with Fiddler on the Roof, of 1971, by Norman Jewison, with Topol as the milkman Tevye in a Jewish village of the Russia of 1905.

The rest of the shelf is the canon of Broadway. The West Side Story of 1961, by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, Romeo and Juliet among the gangs of New York, with Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno, the winner of ten Academy Awards; My Fair Lady, of 1964, by George Cukor, with Audrey Hepburn as the flower girl Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as the professor who teaches her to speak, in which Hepburn's songs were sung by Marni Nixon, rated 7.5; Cabaret, of 1972, by Bob Fosse, the newest of the shelf, with Liza Minnelli as the singer of a club of the Berlin of 1931, which won eight Academy Awards; Oliver!, of 1968, by Carol Reed, the winner of best picture; Funny Girl, of 1968, by William Wyler, the debut of Barbra Streisand as the comedian Fanny Brice, and Hello, Dolly!, of 1969, directed by Gene Kelly, with Streisand again. Guys and Dolls, of 1955, the oldest of the shelf, with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra; The King and I, of 1956, with Yul Brynner; The Music Man, of 1962, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of 1968, the flying car of Ian Fleming, close it. The guide Broadway goes to Hollywood follows the adaptations.

Family and holiday musicals

The shelf Family and holiday musicals holds thirteen films from 1954 to 2022 for children and for the season of Christmas. Its most voted and best rated film is The Nightmare Before Christmas, of 1993, directed by Henry Selick from the story of Tim Burton, the stop-motion musical in which Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas and decides to take it over, with the songs of Danny Elfman, who also sings for Jack, rated 7.9 with about 10,800 votes. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, of 1971, with Gene Wilder singing Pure Imagination, and The Muppet Christmas Carol, of 1992, by Brian Henson, with Michael Caine as Scrooge beside Kermit as Bob Cratchit, follow at 7.5, and The Muppet Movie, of 1979, which opens with Kermit singing Rainbow Connection in a swamp, is the first film of the Muppets, rated 7.2.

The holidays fill the rest of the shelf. White Christmas, of 1954, the oldest of the shelf, by Michael Curtiz, with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye putting on a show for their old general at an inn of Vermont, rated 7.2; Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, of 2020, with Forest Whitaker as a toymaker of a Victorian town; Spirited, of 2022, a musical version of A Christmas Carol with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. Annie appears twice, the film of 1982 by John Huston, with Aileen Quinn as the orphan and Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, and the version of 2014, with Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx. Bedknobs and Broomsticks, of 1971, with Angela Lansbury as an apprentice witch who fights the Nazis with an army of enchanted armours; Pete's Dragon, of 1977, the boy and his sometimes invisible dragon Elliott; The Wiz, of 1978, by Sidney Lumet, the Wizard of Oz of a Black cast in New York, with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson as the scarecrow, and Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, of 2022, close it. The guide The Christmas musical follows the season.

Stage and screen

The second family, Stage and screen, gathers 52 films of the musicals of the last fifty years, with about 156,100 votes and an average rating of 6.84. It holds the rock operas and cult films that kept the musical alive in the 1970s and 1980s, the films of the great hits of Broadway and the West End after 2000, the original musicals written for the screen and the dance films, in which the story is told with the body. The guide Stage and screen sums up the family.

Rock operas and cult musicals

The shelf Rock operas and cult musicals holds thirteen films from 1974 to 2012 of the musicals that rock and roll made, and it is the best rated shelf of its family, with an average of 7.03. Its most voted film is Grease, of 1978, by Randal Kleiser, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as Danny and Sandy, a greaser and a good girl of the senior year of 1958 at Rydell High, the most successful musical of its time, rated 7.4 with about 7,900 votes, and its sequel Grease 2, of 1982, with the young Michelle Pfeiffer, is the lowest rated film of the shelf, at 5.3. Its best rated is Pink Floyd: The Wall, of 1982, by Alan Parker, with Bob Geldof as the rock star Pink, who builds a wall around himself, with animated sequences by Gerald Scarfe, rated 8.0.

The cult films of the shelf are a family of misfits. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, of 1975, with Tim Curry as the scientist Frank-N-Furter and Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as the couple who knock on his door on a stormy night, has played at midnight screenings for fifty years, with an audience in costume; Phantom of the Paradise, of 1974, by Brian De Palma, the oldest of the shelf, a composer whose music is stolen by a demonic producer, rated 7.5; Little Shop of Horrors, of 1986, by Frank Oz, with Rick Moranis and a carnivorous plant from outer space; Hedwig and the Angry Inch, of 2001, written by and starring John Cameron Mitchell as an East German rock singer, and Repo! The Genetic Opera, of 2008. The Blues Brothers, of 1980, the music of soul as a comedy of car chases, rated 7.7; Hair, of 1979, by Miloš Forman, the hippies of Central Park in the time of Vietnam; Across the Universe, of 2007, by Julie Taymor, a love story of the 1960s told with the songs of the Beatles; Rent, of 2005, the young artists of the East Village in the time of AIDS, and Rock of Ages, of 2012, with Tom Cruise as a rock god of the Sunset Strip of 1987, complete it. The guide The midnight musical follows the cult.

Stage hits of the new century

The shelf Stage hits of the new century holds thirteen films from 2002 to 2024 of the great hits of Broadway and the West End. Its most voted film is Mamma Mia!, of 2008, by Phyllida Lloyd, with Meryl Streep as the owner of a small hotel on a Greek island whose daughter, played by Amanda Seyfried, invites the three men who might be her father to her wedding, all to the songs of ABBA, rated 7.0 with about 7,200 votes, followed ten years later by Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, of 2018, with Lily James as the young Donna. Chicago, of 2002, by Rob Marshall, with Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere, the murderesses of the Chicago of the 1920s who become stars of the press, won the Academy Award for best picture, and Les Misérables, of 2012, by Tom Hooper, with Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean and Anne Hathaway, who won the award for her Fantine, sung live on the set rather than recorded in a studio, rated 7.3.

Its best rated film is tick, tick... BOOM!, of 2021, the first film directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, with Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson, the composer of Rent, in the week before his thirtieth birthday, rated 7.6. Miranda also wrote In the Heights, of 2021, by Jon M. Chu, the Dominican neighbourhood of Washington Heights in a summer heatwave, and Chu went on to direct Wicked, of 2024, with Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, the witches of Oz before Dorothy. Steven Spielberg remade the West Side Story in 2021, with Rachel Zegler and Rita Moreno, who had played Anita in the film of 1961; The Phantom of the Opera, of 2004, by Joel Schumacher, filmed the musical of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Gerard Butler; the Hairspray of 2007 put John Travolta in the role of a mother of Baltimore; Into the Woods, of 2014, by Rob Marshall, mixed the fairy tales of Sondheim; Mean Girls, of 2024, filmed the musical of the comedy, and Cats, of 2019, by Tom Hooper, with its dancers turned into cats by computers, is the lowest rated film of the guide, at 4.1. The guide From Broadway to the screen follows the hits.

Original screen musicals

The shelf Original screen musicals holds thirteen films from 1964 to 2024 of musicals written for the cinema rather than taken from the stage. Its most voted film is La La Land, of 2016, by Damien Chazelle, with Ryan Gosling as a jazz pianist and Emma Stone as an actress who fall in love in Los Angeles across four seasons and must choose between love and their dreams, the winner of six Academy Awards, among them best director and best actress, rated 7.9 with about 18,600 votes; The Greatest Showman, of 2017, by Michael Gracey, with Hugh Jackman as the showman P. T. Barnum and his circus of outsiders, shares its rating. Moulin Rouge!, of 2001, by Baz Luhrmann, with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in the Paris of 1899, sung to the pop songs of the twentieth century, rated 7.5, follows.

The French musicals of the shelf are among its jewels. Jacques Demy made two: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, of 1964, the oldest of the shelf, in which every word is sung, with Catherine Deneuve as the daughter of an umbrella seller, the winner of the Palme d'Or, rated 7.4, and The Young Girls of Rochefort, of 1967, with Deneuve and her sister Françoise Dorléac as twins of a seaside town and Gene Kelly as an American composer, the best rated of the shelf, at 7.7. Deneuve sings again in 8 Women, of 2002, by François Ozon, a murder mystery of a country house with eight great actresses of France; Annette, of 2021, by Leos Carax, with Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, a dark opera of a comedian and his singer wife, and Emilia Pérez, of 2024, by Jacques Audiard, a cartel boss of Mexico who becomes a woman. The others: Everyone Says I Love You, of 1996, by Woody Allen, whose actors sing with their own voices; the Hairspray of 1988, by John Waters, with Ricki Lake, the film that became the stage musical; Pennies from Heaven, of 1981, with Steve Martin; Wish, of 2023, made by Disney for its hundredth anniversary, and Joker: Folie à Deux, of 2024, with Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. The guide The original musical follows the shelf.

Dance films

The shelf Dance films holds thirteen films from 1977 to 2015 in which the dancing tells the story. Its most voted film is Black Swan, of 2010, by Darren Aronofsky, with Natalie Portman as a ballerina of New York who loses her mind as she prepares the double role of Swan Lake, which won her the Academy Award for best actress, rated 7.7 with about 16,000 votes, the best rated film of the shelf. Billy Elliot, of 2000, by Stephen Daldry, a boy of a mining town of the north of England during the strike of 1984 who chooses ballet over boxing, rated 7.6, and Dirty Dancing, of 1987, with Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze at a holiday camp of the Catskills in the summer of 1963, rated 7.3, follow it.

The disco and the eighties are here: Saturday Night Fever, of 1977, the oldest of the shelf, with John Travolta as a young man of Brooklyn who lives for Saturday nights at the disco; Flashdance, of 1983, by Adrian Lyne, a welder of Pittsburgh who dances at night and dreams of ballet school, and Footloose twice, the film of 1984 with Kevin Bacon in a small town where dancing is banned, and its remake of 2011, by Craig Brewer. The street and the stage complete it: Step Up 2: The Streets, of 2008, by Jon M. Chu; Save the Last Dance, of 2001, with Julia Stiles; Honey, of 2003, with Jessica Alba; Burlesque, of 2010, with Cher and Christina Aguilera at a club of Los Angeles; Shall We Dance?, of 2004, with Richard Gere as a lawyer of Chicago who secretly takes ballroom lessons, a remake of the Japanese film of 1996, and Magic Mike XXL, of 2015, with Channing Tatum. The guide The dance film follows the dancers.

Animation and the world

The third family, Animation and the world, gathers 52 films of the musicals of animation and of India, with about 273,000 votes, more than half of all the votes of the guide, and an average rating of 7.11, the best of the three families. It holds the most voted film of the guide, The Lion King, and its best rated, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, and it shows that the musical, which nearly died in Hollywood, has kept on singing in the cartoons and in Bombay. The guide Animation and the world sums up the family.

Disney animated musicals

The shelf Disney animated musicals holds thirteen films from 1938 to 2021, and it is the best rated shelf of the guide, with an average of 7.51. Its most voted film is the most voted of the guide: The Lion King of 1994, by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, the story of Simba, a lion cub who flees his kingdom after the murder of his father by his uncle Scar and returns to claim it, with the songs of Elton John and Tim Rice, rated 8.3 with about 20,300 votes. It was the peak of the renaissance of the studio that began with The Little Mermaid of 1989, by John Musker and Ron Clements, rated 7.4, and continued with the Beauty and the Beast of 1991, the first animated film nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, rated 7.7, and the Aladdin of 1992, with Robin Williams as the Genie, rated 7.7; Mulan, of 1998, the young woman who takes her father's place in the army of the emperor, is the second best rated of the shelf, at 7.9.

The older films of the shelf are the classics of Walt Disney himself: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, of 1938, the first animated feature of the studio, whose song Some Day My Prince Will Come began the tradition; Cinderella, of 1950, and The Jungle Book, of 1967, the last film that Walt Disney supervised, with the bear Baloo singing The Bare Necessities. The newer ones are the films of the twenty-first century: Frozen, of 2013, with Idina Menzel as Elsa singing Let It Go, the most successful animated film of its time, and Frozen II, of 2019; Tangled, of 2010, the story of Rapunzel, rated 7.6; Moana, of 2016, by Musker and Clements again, and Encanto, of 2021, with the songs of Lin-Manuel Miranda, among them the song of the family about its outcast uncle Bruno, which became the first song of Disney to top the American charts in nearly thirty years. The guide The Disney renaissance follows the studio.

Disney live-action musicals

The shelf Disney live-action musicals holds thirteen films from 1992 to 2025 in which Disney filmed its songs with actors. Most of them are remakes of the animated classics of the shelf before: the Beauty and the Beast of 2017, by Bill Condon, with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, the most voted of the shelf, rated 7.0 with about 16,200 votes; The Lion King of 2019, by Jon Favreau, made entirely with computers, and its prequel Mufasa: The Lion King, of 2024, by Barry Jenkins, the best rated of the shelf, at 7.3; the Aladdin of 2019, by Guy Ritchie, with Will Smith as the Genie; The Little Mermaid of 2023, by Rob Marshall, with Halle Bailey as Ariel; Pinocchio, of 2022, by Robert Zemeckis, with Tom Hanks as Geppetto, and Snow White, of 2025, with Rachel Zegler, the second lowest rated film of the guide, at 4.2.

The rest of the shelf holds the original live musicals of the studio. Enchanted, of 2007, by Kevin Lima, with Amy Adams as a princess of animation who falls into the real New York, with Idina Menzel, and its sequel Disenchanted, of 2022; Mary Poppins Returns, of 2018, by Rob Marshall, with Emily Blunt as the nanny and Lin-Manuel Miranda as a lamplighter; Newsies, of 1992, by Kenny Ortega, the oldest of the shelf, the strike of the newsboys of New York of 1899 with the young Christian Bale, a failure at the cinema that became a hit on Broadway, and two musicals made for Disney Channel by the same director, High School Musical, of 2006, and Descendants, of 2015. The guide Disney with actors follows the remakes.

Animated musicals beyond Disney

The shelf Animated musicals beyond Disney holds thirteen films from 1968 to 2021 of the rival studios of animation, with an average rating of 7.12. Its most voted and best rated film is Corpse Bride, of 2005, by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, in stop motion, with Johnny Depp as the shy groom Victor who, rehearsing his vows in a forest, puts his ring on the finger of a dead bride, with songs by Danny Elfman, rated 7.6 with about 10,500 votes, level with Anastasia, of 1997, by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman for Fox, the legend of the lost daughter of the last Tsar, with Meg Ryan.

Don Bluth, who left Disney in 1979 with a group of animators, has three films on the shelf, with An American Tail, of 1986, a young mouse of Russia who emigrates to New York, and All Dogs Go to Heaven, of 1989, a dog of New Orleans who escapes from heaven. DreamWorks brings The Prince of Egypt, of 1998, the story of Moses with the songs of Stephen Schwartz, whose When You Believe won the Academy Award, rated 7.3, The Road to El Dorado, of 2000, with the songs of Elton John, and Trolls, of 2016; Illumination brings Sing, of 2016. Yellow Submarine, of 1968, the oldest of the shelf, sends the Beatles to save Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies in a psychedelic cartoon; The Book of Life, of 2014, a love story of the Day of the Dead, rated 7.5; The Swan Princess, of 1994; Quest for Camelot, of 1998, and Vivo, of 2021, with Lin-Manuel Miranda as a kinkajou of Havana, complete it. The guide The other studios follows the rivals of Disney.

Bollywood musicals

The shelf Bollywood musicals holds thirteen films from 1994 to 2023 of the cinema of Bombay, where almost every film is a musical and the songs are released before the film. Its most voted and best rated film is the best rated of the guide: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, of 1995, by Aditya Chopra, with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol as two young Indians of London who fall in love on a train journey across Europe and must win over her stern father in the Punjab, rated 8.5 with about 4,600 votes; the film has played at the Maratha Mandir cinema of Mumbai for more than a quarter of a century, the longest run in the history of Indian cinema. Shah Rukh Khan is the star of the shelf, in seven of its films, from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, of 1998, and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, of 2001, both by Karan Johar, to Devdas, of 2002, by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kal Ho Naa Ho, of 2003, and Om Shanti Om, of 2007, by Farah Khan, a tale of reincarnation in the film studios of the 1970s.

The epics of history fill the rest. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, of 2001, by Ashutosh Gowariker, with Aamir Khan as a villager of 1893 who challenges the British officers to a game of cricket to free his village from a crushing tax, nominated for the Academy Award for the best foreign language film, at 233 minutes the longest film of the guide; Jodhaa Akbar, of 2008, by the same director, the marriage of the Mughal emperor Akbar to a Rajput princess, and two films of Sanjay Leela Bhansali with Deepika Padukone, Bajirao Mastani, of 2015, and Padmaavat, of 2018. The romances complete it: Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!, of 1994, the oldest of the shelf, with Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit, a family wedding of fourteen songs; Dil Se.., of 1998, by Mani Ratnam, with its song danced on the roof of a moving train, and Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani, of 2023, by Karan Johar, with Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. The guide The Bollywood musical follows the shelf.

The faces of the musical

Fred Astaire is the great dancer of the guide, in nine films, from The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Swing Time and Shall We Dance with Ginger Rogers, who appears in six films, to Holiday Inn, Easter Parade, Royal Wedding, The Band Wagon and Funny Face. Gene Kelly appears in seven, from Cover Girl and Anchors Aweigh to Singin' in the Rain and The Young Girls of Rochefort, and also directed Singin' in the Rain and Hello, Dolly!; Shah Rukh Khan appears in seven Bollywood films. Julie Andrews is the star of Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music; Barbra Streisand of Funny Girl and Hello, Dolly!; Idina Menzel the voice of Elsa in the two Frozen films and an actress of Enchanted, Disenchanted and Rent; Christine Baranski sings in Chicago, the two Mamma Mia! films and Into the Woods; Rita Moreno dances in Singin' in the Rain, The King and I and both West Side Story films, and Marni Nixon, the most famous voice of Hollywood whose face audiences rarely saw, sings for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and for Deborah Kerr in The King and I. Among the directors, Stanley Donen and Vincente Minnelli have five films each, and Rob Marshall four, from Chicago to the Little Mermaid of 2023. The guide The stars lists the actors who appear most often.

TuneVideo in figures

The 156 films of the guide carry about 488,100 votes on TMDB, with an average rating of 6.99; four of them reach 8, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, The Lion King, Singin' in the Rain and Pink Floyd: The Wall, and the collection Rated 7.5 or more gathers the 34 films rated 7.5 or more, best first. By decade, the guide holds nine films of the 1930s, seven of the 1940s, fifteen of the 1950s, thirteen of the 1960s, twelve of the 1970s, thirteen of the 1980s, sixteen of the 1990s, 25 of the 2000s, 26 of the 2010s and twenty of the 2020s, a spread wider than in almost any genre, and the busiest year is 2021, with six films, from Encanto and In the Heights to tick, tick... BOOM! and the West Side Story of Spielberg. The collection Before 1960 gathers the 31 films made before 1960, oldest first, and the collection Since 2000 gathers the 71 films made since 2000.

Together the films last 18,625 minutes, more than 310 hours, or nearly thirteen days of song; the longest are the Bollywood epics, Lagaan, with 233 minutes, Jodhaa Akbar, with 213, and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, with 209, and the shortest is the Cinderella of 1950, with 74. The United States is the first country of production of 117 films, the United Kingdom of fourteen and India of thirteen. The most voted films are The Lion King, La La Land, Frozen, the Beauty and the Beast of 2017 and Black Swan, and the lowest rated is Cats, at 4.1. The guide The figures gathers every number.

Where to begin

For a first night at the musical, take one film from each family: Singin' in the Rain for Old Hollywood, La La Land for stage and screen and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge for the world. Then follow your mood. For the great dancers, Top Hat and The Band Wagon; for the great voices, The Sound of Music, Funny Girl and Les Misérables; for a party, Grease, Mamma Mia! and The Rocky Horror Picture Show; for a family evening, Mary Poppins, The Muppet Christmas Carol and Mulan; for something darker, Cabaret, Chicago and Pink Floyd: The Wall; and for the French touch, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort. The guide Start with TuneVideo picks one film from each shelf.

How to use TuneVideo

The home page opens with an introduction on a white card under a red edge and the board Tonight's programme, with the twelve shelves in three columns under a red bar, one column per family, each with a gold, red or bronze edge. Each line shows the family, the shelf and its number of films, and leads to its row. Each row sits in a white panel under a gold line, with a More link that opens the full shelf. The tabs in the header lead to the three families, and the search box finds any film by its title; the guide Search tips explains how.

Each poster shows the year on a red tag, the TMDB rating on a gold tag and, on a red band at the bottom, the tag of its shelf, for example MGM or Bollywood; under the poster come the title, the first genre and the running time. The film page has the English synopsis, the cast, the director and the genres. The Watch now button opens the film on JustWatch, which shows the services that offer it in your country, and the list button keeps it in My list, stored in your browser. The guide How to use TuneVideo explains each part, and the guide The Watch now button explains how JustWatch works.

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