Best movies — musical on Apple TV+ : our Top 20

2024 · Sérgio Machado

When a great flood forces every creature to board Noah's Ark two-by-two, two unlikely mouse friends refuse to be left behind: Vini, a gifted poet whose crippling stage fright hides a tender soul, and Tito, a smooth, magnetic guitarist with a knack for improvisation. With a clever cockroach as their ally and a streak of lucky timing, they slip aboard as stowaways and quickly find themselves caught in the middle of mounting hostility between the ark’s carnivores and herbivores. To keep peace and lift the animals’ spirits during forty long days and nights, the pair turns to music—performing timeless songs shaped by the spirit of Vinicius de Moraes—and must discover whether melody and courage can calm old instincts and knit a fragile community together.

With Rodrigo Santoro, Alice Braga, Marcelo Adnet, Keith Silverstein, Ian James Corlett, Luis Bermudez and Laila McCann

2024 · Peter Sullivan

Determined to rescue her parents' struggling family nightclub in her hometown, a Broadway dancer mounts a Christmas-themed, all-male revue — and unexpectedly falls for a charismatic performer whose moves steal the show and her heart.

With Britt Robertson, Chad Michael Murray, Marla Sokoloff, Maxwell Caulfield, Colt Prattes, Hector David Jr. and Marc Anthony Samuel

1964 · George Cukor

A haughty phonetics professor accepts a bet to take a lowly flower seller and, through training in speech and manners, turn her into someone who can pass in high society.

With Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett and Theodore Bikel

2004 · Joel Schumacher

A promising young soprano claws her way into the spotlight only to become the deadly fixation of a brilliant yet horribly scarred musician who lurks in the shadowy passages beneath the Paris Opera House.

With Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds and Simon Callow

1978 · Randal Kleiser

Straight-laced Australian Sandy and leather-jacketed Danny ignited a summer romance, but their reunion becomes complicated when they unexpectedly find themselves enrolled in the same high school. Surrounded by meddlesome classmates and a cast of eccentric friends, they must decide whether their spark can survive the drama of teenage life and be rekindled.

With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci and Kelly Ward

2021 · Jon M. Chu

Usnavi, who runs a small corner store in Washington Heights, finds himself at a crossroads: sell the bodega and retire to the Dominican Republic, or stay and preserve the life and connections that have shaped him in the neighborhood.

With Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega and Gregory Diaz IV

1971 · Norman Jewison

On the eve of Russia’s upheaval, a struggling Jewish dairyman fights to keep his family afloat as society around him unravels. His daughters pursue love and independence, but a mounting tide of antisemitic hostility threatens to shatter their hopes and security.

With Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris and Michele Marsh

2024 · Samantha Jayne

New arrival Cady Heron is quickly welcomed into the school’s top clique, a trio of polished girls led by the manipulative Regina George. When Cady unexpectedly develops feelings for Regina’s former boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, she finds herself squarely in the queen bee’s sights. With the aid of fellow outsiders Janis and Damian, Cady hatches a plan to topple Regina, but as the plot unfolds she must decide whether to pursue vengeance or stay true to herself amid the ruthless social dynamics of high school.

With Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood and Christopher Briney

1961 · Robert Wise

Two young people from rival New York street crews fall in love, and the growing animosity within their circles erupts into violence with tragic consequences.

With Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Russ Tamblyn, Simon Oakland and Ned Glass

1953 · Howard Hawks

Lorelei Lee, a glamorous showgirl engaged to the prosperous Gus Esmond, arouses the distrust of his wealthy father, who suspects she’s after the family fortune. When Lorelei sets sail on a cruise accompanied only by her close friend Dorothy Shaw, Gus’s father hires private detective Ernie Malone to shadow her and report any indiscretions that could be used to call off the wedding.

With Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow and Marcel Dalio

2015 · Carlos Saura

A richly layered portrait of the football world, where intense cross-border rivalries and private disappointments collide, and friendships persist despite national divides.

With Mía Maestro, Pedro Aznar, Juan Falú, Marian Farías Gómez, Gabo Ferro, Liliana Herrero and Jairo

2024 · Jacques Audiard

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, local physician José Mireles—known to his neighbors as El Doctor—abandons the clinic to organize ordinary citizens into a grassroots resistance against the brutal Knights Templar cartel that has terrorized their towns. Far north, in Arizona’s narrow Altar Valley—dubbed “Cocaine Alley”—veteran Tim “Nailer” Foley leads a small, self-styled paramilitary unit, Arizona Border Recon, determined to stop the violence and trafficking spilling over from Mexico into the United States. As both movements harden and their tactics grow more extreme, the two fronts illuminate the blurred lines between protection and vigilantism, and the human cost of a conflict with no easy border.

With Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir and Eduardo Aladro

1982 · Colin Higgins

A longtime couple living above a bustling drag club in St. Tropez watches their carefully curated life unravel when one partner’s son announces his engagement. Determined to present a straight-laced façade for the bride-to-be and her conservative parents, the two men scramble to hide both their relationship and their ownership of the nightclub, triggering a night of frantic cover-ups, comic misunderstandings, and unexpected revelations at the dinner table.

With Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors, Robert Mandan and Lois Nettleton

2017 · Michael Gracey

A biographical account of American showman P.T. Barnum, following his rise from modest beginnings to the creation of a spectacular traveling entertainment that would evolve into the famed Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

With Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Keala Settle and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

1966 · Richard Lester

A resourceful slave schemes to unite an unblemished courtesan with the young master hopelessly in love with her, hoping the match will buy his freedom.

With Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Annette Andre and Michael Hordern

2006 · Bryan Barber

In the Prohibition-era South, taciturn pianist Percival and his flamboyant star-turned-manager Rooster fight to save their hidden nightclub from ruthless mobsters eager to seize it. As the danger intensifies, their fragile partnership and the future of the speakeasy are pushed to the breaking point.

With André 3000, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams and Cicely Tyson

2002 · Guy Maddin

Filmed as the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s stage retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this movie adopts the stark, shadow-driven language of early 20th-century Expressionist silent cinema—monochrome photography, intertitles and all. The plot unfolds through choreography and visual tableau rather than spoken words, following a magnetic yet menacing foreigner whose arrival unsettles an English community as he seduces and preys upon its young women, mixing hypnotic beauty with creeping horror.

With Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, CindyMarie Small, Johnny A. Wright, Stephane Leonard and Matthew Johnson

1980 · Alan Parker

In a quiet Oregon community, a devoted schoolteacher and her brother—the town’s sheriff—uncover that one of her pupils is concealing a chilling secret, a revelation that threatens to unleash terrifying consequences on the town and everyone they love.

With Irene Cara, Barry Miller, Maureen Teefy, Paul McCrane, Lee Curreri, Gene Anthony Ray and Antonia Franceschi

2017 · David Stoten

Thomas and his friends travel to the mainland on a high-stakes mission that proves loyalty and teamwork matter far more than being the most popular engine. Joined by a group of cutting-edge experimental locomotives, Thomas must brave new challenges to rescue James and return him safely to the Island of Sodor.

With Mark Moraghan, John Hasler, Joseph May, Darren Boyd, Sophie Colquhoun, Hugh Bonneville and Lucy Montgomery

2024 · Todd Phillips

Wrestling with a fractured sense of self, Arthur Fleck unexpectedly discovers a deep love and the music that has always lived inside him.

With Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan and Harry Lawtey