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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (also Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII) is Adrian Maben's 1972 concert film of Pink Floyd playing with no audience in Pompeii's Roman Amphitheatre, filmed October 4–7, 1971, and restored in 4K with a Steven Wilson mix in 2025.
Popeye (film)
Popeye, also known as Popeye The Movie, is a 1980 American live-action musical comedy directed by Robert Altman, starring Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.
Purple Rain (film)
Purple Rain is a 1984 American musical drama film starring Prince in his acting debut as the Kid, a Minneapolis musician performing with the Revolution.
Rhinestone (1984 film)
Rhinestone (1984) is a Bob Clark musical comedy starring Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone, based on "Rhinestone Cowboy." It cost about $28 million, grossed $21.4 million, won two Razzies, and is not streaming.
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert is a 1979 concert film of Pryor's December 29, 1978 Terrace Theater show in Long Beach, directed by Jeff Margolis, grossing over $30 million and entering the National Film Registry in 2021.
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Rock 'n' Roll High School is a 1979 New World Pictures musical comedy directed by Allan Arkush, starring P.J. Soles as Riff Randell and the Ramones as themselves at Vince Lombardi High School; a cult classic, first feature aired on MTV.
School Daze
School Daze (1988) is Spike Lee's second feature, a musical comedy-drama set during homecoming at a fictional historically Black college, addressing colorism, apartheid activism, and Greek life, released by Columbia Pictures.
Sextette
Sextette (1978) is Mae West's final film, a Ken Hughes musical comedy with Timothy Dalton, Ringo Starr, and Alice Cooper; a $4-7 million flop that became a camp midnight movie classic.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978 film), a Robert Stigwood jukebox musical starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees performing Beatles covers; critically panned (11% RT, Metacritic 27), box-office flop, but Aerosmith's "Come Together" hit No. 23.
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment (1981) is a satirical musical comedy by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien, a follow-up to The Rocky Horror Picture Show starring Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper, set inside a TV studio, a critical and commercial failure later praised as prescient about reality television.
Solo Sunny
Solo Sunny is a 1980 DEFA drama directed by Konrad Wolf with Wolfgang Kohlhaase, starring Renate Krößner as an East Berlin schlager singer chasing a solo career; Silver Bear winner and 1.6-million-viewer GDR hit.
Sparkle (1976 film)
Sparkle (1976) is a Warner Bros. musical drama directed by Sam O'Steen, starring Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, and Philip Michael Thomas as a Harlem girl group loosely inspired by the Supremes, with a Curtis Mayfield score sung on the soundtrack album by Aretha Franklin.
Stardust (1974 film)
Stardust (1974) is a British musical drama, sequel to That'll Be the Day, directed by Michael Apted, written by Ray Connolly, starring David Essex as rock star Jim MacLaine of the Stray Cats, with Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Keith Moon, and Dave Edmunds; it won the 1974 Writers Guild screenplay award.
That'll Be the Day
That'll Be the Day: 1973 British musical drama directed by Claude Whatham, written by Ray Connolly, starring David Essex as Jim MacLaine with Ringo Starr; named for the 1957 Buddy Holly Crickets song; BAFTA-nominated, followed by Stardust.
The Apple (1980 film)
The Apple (1980) is a disco science-fiction musical written and directed by Menahem Golan for Cannon Films, set in dystopian 1994 where producer Mr. Boogalow controls the music industry; a box office flop that became a cult camp classic.
The Blues Brothers (film)
The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by John Landis, in which John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd reunite their rhythm-and-blues band to save their orphanage.
The Care Bears Movie
The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Nelvana animated fantasy film directed by Arna Selznick, the first theatrical Care Bears feature, in which the bears and their Forest of Feelings cousins save the boy Nicholas from an evil Spirit; it grossed about $23 million.
The Cotton Club (film)
The Cotton Club (1984) is a Francis Ford Coppola crime-musical drama set in 1920s Harlem, produced by Robert Evans, starring Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, and Diane Lane, notorious for its $47 million budget, financing murder trial, and 2019 Encore restoration.
The Last Waltz
The Last Waltz is the Band's 1976 farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary film of it, and its soundtrack album, with guests Dylan, Mitchell, Morrison, and Waters.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 musical sci-fi horror-comedy film by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien, adapted from the 1973 London stage musical, starring Tim Curry, famous for midnight audience-participation screenings and the longest theatrical run in film history.
The Rose (film)
The Rose (1979) is Mark Rydell's drama starring Bette Midler as rock singer Mary Rose Foster, loosely based on Janis Joplin, with Alan Bates and Frederic Forrest; four Oscar nominations, three Golden Globe wins, and the McBroom title song.
The Song Remains the Same (film)
The Song Remains the Same is Led Zeppelin's 1976 concert film, directed by Peter Clifton and Joe Massot, mixing 1973 Madison Square Garden performances with fantasy sequences, released by Warner Bros. with a platinum Swan Song soundtrack.
Victor/Victoria
Victor/Victoria (1982) is Blake Edwards's musical comedy starring Julie Andrews as a woman posing as a male female impersonator in 1930s Paris, remade from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria, Oscar-winning for Mancini's score.
White Nights (1985 film)
White Nights (1985) is a Taylor Hackford Cold War drama starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines as defectors plotting an escape from the Soviet Union; Columbia Pictures release, $41.5M gross, Oscar-winning song "Say You, Say Me".
Wild Style
Wild Style is Charlie Ahearn's 1983 independent film, the first hip-hop feature, starring graffiti artist Lee Quiñones as Zoro with Fab 5 Freddy, Lady Pink, Grandmaster Flash, and the Cold Crush Brothers; shot on 16mm in the South Bronx for about $500,000 and restored in 4K by Arrow Films in 2025.
Xanadu (film)
Xanadu (1980) is a Universal musical fantasy directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Olivia Newton-John as muse Kira with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck. A critical flop that earned $22.8 million, spawned the Razzies idea, and became a cult classic with a 2007 Broadway adaptation.
Yentl (film)
Yentl (1983) is Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, a musical drama adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," in which a Jewish woman poses as a man to study Talmud; it won the Oscar for Best Original Score.