Best movies — musical on Netflix : our Top 20

1964 · Jacques Demy

Set in 1957, twenty-year-old auto mechanic Guy Foucher falls deeply for seventeen-year-old Geneviève Emery, who works in her widowed mother's fashionable but cash-strapped umbrella shop. On the eve of Guy's two-year military deployment to Algeria the young couple sleep together; when Geneviève discovers she is pregnant, she must decide whether to wait for Guy's return or to accept a marriage proposal from a wealthy diamond merchant.

With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Mireille Perrey, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner and Jean Champion

2012 · Adam Shankman

A family is taken in by a neighbor's false kindness, only to have their teenage daughter kidnapped — and then abducted again — as the intruder exploits their trust and shatters their sense of safety.

With Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand, Malin Åkerman and Paul Giamatti

1970 · Blake Edwards

Nola Darling juggles simultaneous relationships with three different men, the story unfolding through her perspective and the voices of her lovers and friends. Each man expects exclusivity, but Nola refuses to be claimed by a single partner and fights to preserve her autonomy.

With Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Michael Witney, Gloria Paul and Jacques Marin

2018 · Ol Parker

Five years after encountering three potential fathers, Sophie Sheridan readies herself to open her mother's hotel. Flashing back to 1979, a young Donna Sheridan meets the three men, any one of whom could be Sophie's biological father.

With Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Cher, Andy García, Julie Walters, Alexa Davies, Celia Imrie, Jessica Keenan Wynn and Dominic Cooper

2013 · Ayan Mukerji

On a wilderness trek, reserved Naina is captivated by a magnetic former classmate, but his insatiable wanderlust pulls them apart — only for fate to bring them together again years later.

With Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Kalki Koechlin, Aditya Roy Kapur, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Evelyn Sharma and Madhuri Dixit

1971 · Mel Stuart

Raised together after a brutal childhood in an orphanage, Nica and Rigel find themselves pulled into an unexpected, irresistible closeness that forces them to confront long-buried emotions and to redefine the meaning of family.

With Peter Ostrum, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Nora Denney, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole and Paris Themmen

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