Movies by Lists - Non-Musical Movies and Their Musical Remakes (78 [78]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. | 1963 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (115.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Ah Wilderness!Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence. | 1935 | Clarence Brown | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (773 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Anna and the King of SiamIn 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King. | 1946 | John Cromwell | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Auntie MameAn orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle. | 1958 | Morton DaCosta | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (11.2K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Awful Truth, TheA married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought. | 1937 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (19.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bachelor MotherAn unemployed woman discovers an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage, and accepts an offer to take responsibility for the child in return for a job. | 1939 | Garson Kanin | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (4K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Ball of FireA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. | 1941 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (12.1K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Bundle of JoyAfter finding a baby outside an orphanage, a salesgirl receives sympathy from those around her, including her boss' son, as they all assume the baby is hers. | 1956 | Norman Taurog | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| CasbahThe life, Loves and Adventures of a classic Casbah thief. | 1948 | John Berry | Crime, Musical | 6.0 (485 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| ChicagoTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention. | 2002 | Rob Marshall | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 7.2 (225.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| ChicagoA wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her. | 1927 | Frank Urson | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.2 (434 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Christmas Carol, AAn elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve. | 1938 | Edwin L. Marin | Drama, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 (7.4K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, AA singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain. | 1949 | Tay Garnett | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 6.6 (2.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Connecticut Yankee, AHank Morgan takes a trip back in time to King Arthur's Court. | 1931 | David Butler | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 6.4 (388 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| GigiGilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she's not ready for that yet, and spends her days in lessons and in teasing Mamita's old friend, the rich playboy Gaston LaChaille, and | 1949 | Jacqueline Audry | Comedy, Romance | 6.2 (269 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| GigiWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (22.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Girl Most Likely, TheDodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is r | 1957 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Musical | 6.0 (384 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Mr. ChipsA shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl. | 1969 | Herbert Ross | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (3.4K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Mr. ChipsAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. | 1939 | Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (10.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| HairsprayPleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. | 2007 | Adam Shankman | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (126.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| HairsprayA 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. | 1988 | John Waters (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (21.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Hello, DollyMatchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way. | 1969 | Gene Kelly | Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.1 (14.9K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| High SocietyWith socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him. | 1956 | Charles Walters (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (15.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| In the Good Old SummertimeIn turn-of-the century America, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail. | 1949 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (3.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. | 1934 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (100.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Kid From Brooklyn, TheAfter a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer. | 1946 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy, Sport | 6.6 (1.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| King And I, TheA widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children. | 1956 | Walter Lang | Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (25.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| KismetIn ancient Baghdad, Hafiz the King of Beggars dreams of untold riches and of marrying his daughter to a real prince. | 1944 | William Dieterle (*) | Adventure, Fantasy | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| KismetA roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph. | 1955 | Vincente Minnelli, Stanley Donen | Adventure, Musical, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (1.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Les MiserablesIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever. | 2012 | Tom Hooper | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (322.3K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| Les MiserablesIn early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman. | 1935 | Richard Boleslawski | Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (3.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Let's Do It AgainIn this 1953 musical remake of "The Awful Truth", Wyman is married to womanizing composer Milland and sets out to give him some of his own medicine. She has an affair, but her ploy backfires, and the couple get a divorce. Once separa | 1953 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Musical | 5.8 (384 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Little Shop of HorrorsA nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed. | 1986 | Frank Oz | Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (72.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Little Shop of Horrors, TheA clumsy young man nurtures a plant and discovers that it's carnivorous, forcing him to kill to feed it. | 1960 | Roger Corman (*) | Comedy, Horror | 6.3 (17.8K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Male Animal, TheIt's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan. Homecoming marks the return for the first time in six years of alumnus All-American Joe Ferguson, w | 1942 | Elliott Nugent | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| MameFollowing the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt. | 1974 | Gene Saks | Musical | 6.0 (3.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Matchmaker, TheThornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman. | 1958 | Joseph Anthony | Romance, Comedy | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Milky Way, TheTimid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his tit | 1936 | Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod | Comedy, Family, Sport | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Miss Sadie ThompsonA self-righteous missionary man seeks to save the soul of a former prostitute. | 1953 | Curtis Bernhardt | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| My Fair LadyIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. | 1964 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (93K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| My Sister EileenTwo sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom. | 1942 | Alexander Hall | Comedy | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| My Sister EileenAfter submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher. | 1955 | Richard Quine | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria)A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak. | 1957 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.1 (47.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| NineFamous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother. | 2009 | Rob Marshall | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.8 (43.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Oliver TwistIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. | 1948 | David Lean (*) | Drama | 7.8 (12.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Oliver!After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London. | 1968 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama, Family, Musical | 7.4 (37.4K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| One Sunday AfternoonBiff Grimes has spent the last ten years regretting that he hadn't married Virginia Brush, the girl of his dreams. Virginia ran off and married his best friend - breaking his heart. Virginia's best friend, Amy, consoles Biff. | 1948 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Musical, Romance | 5.8 (265 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| One Sunday AfternoonMiddle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him. | 1933 | Stephen Roberts | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (600 votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| Opposite Sex, TheShortly after their 10th wedding anniversary, New York City theater producer Steven Hilliard (Leslie Nielsen) and his wife, former popular radio singer Kay Ashley Hilliard (June Allyson), are getting a Kay-initiated Reno divorce afte | 1956 | David Miller | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (1.6K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Pepe Le MokoA wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He is protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom outside. A visiting Parisian beauty may just tempt his fate. | 1937 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (7.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Of The Opera, TheA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. | 1925 | Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Horror | 7.6 (18K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Of The Opera, TheA young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House. | 2004 | Joel Schumacher | Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (120.5K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Philadelphia Story, TheWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. | 1940 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (67.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Producers, TheAfter putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show. | 2005 | Susan Stroman | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 6.4 (42.4K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Producers, TheA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop. | 1967 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, Music | 7.6 (54.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PygmalionA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society. | 1938 | Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (8.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Reefer MadnessCautionary tale features a fictionalized take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music. | 1936 | Louis J. Gasnier | Crime, Drama | 3.7 (8.6K votes) | 66 | 20220423 |
| Reefer MadnessAn outrageous tongue-in-cheek musical comedy adaptation of the classic anti-marijuana propaganda film Tell Your Children (1936). | 2005 | Andy Fickman | Comedy, Drama, Horror, Musical | 7.1 (6.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Room ServiceA penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play. | 1938 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy | 6.7 (5.2K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Sadie ThompsonA prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist. | 1928 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama | 7.2 (2.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| ScroogeA musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. | 1970 | Ronald Neame | Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (10.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| She's Working Her Way Through CollegeA burlesque dancer goes to college, where she romances a professor and helps put on a musical show. | 1952 | H. Bruce Humberstone | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (601 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Shop Around The Corner, TheTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.1 (32K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Silk StockingsA musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. | 1957 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (3.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Song is Born, AWith her gangster boyfriend under investigation by the police, a nightclub singer hides out in a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom begins to fall for her. | 1948 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (2.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Star Is Born, AA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him. | 1937 | William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (9.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Star is Born, AA film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral. | 1954 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (17.5K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| State FairEach member of the Frake clan has his/her own reason for attending the annual Iowa State Fair. | 1945 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| State FairAn Iowa family finds adventure, love and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair. | 1933 | Henry King | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (850 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Step LivelyGordon Miller is rehearsing a musical comedy in the penthouse suite of Gribble's hotel...on credit. The mounting bill is driving Gribble frantic. Chaos increases when playwright Glen Russell, whose dramatic play he thinks Miller is p | 1944 | Tim Whelan | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.1 (577 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Summer HolidayDanville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the girl next-door, Muriel, but her father isn't too happy with their puppy-love, since R | 1948 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Musical | 5.8 (590 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Sweet CharityTaxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith despite endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do i | 1969 | Bob Fosse (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (5.7K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Three for the ShowA widowed singer marries her late husband's songwriting partner, which leads to trouble when her first husband turns up very much alive. | 1955 | H.C. Potter | Musical | 6.1 (390 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Tom, Dick and HarryWorking girl Janie is proposed to by a conservative car salesman, a bohemian auto mechanic, and a millionaire playboy and must make a choice. | 1941 | Garson Kanin | Comedy | 6.4 (1.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Too Many HusbandsLong-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband. | 1940 | Wesley Ruggles | Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Women, TheA study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women. | 1939 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (13.6K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| You Can't Run Away From ItEllen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous trip back to Houston to be with her husband. Her Father hir | 1956 | Dick Powell | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.0 (500 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |