The Best Musical Love Story Movies
Sometimes, it's best to say "I love you" in a song. Perhaps that's why musicals and romances are a match made in heaven. The best musical love story movies feature a couple overcoming obstacles – or even their initial dislike of each other – in order to find their happy ending. This is a list of the top musical love story movies, including everything from The Sound of Music to My Fair Lady to La La Land.
What films will you find on this list of the best musical love stories? Bad boy Danny (John Travolta) and girl-next-door Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) turned their “Summer Nights” into romantic days in the 1978 smash Grease. “You're the One That I Want,” “Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee,” and “Beauty School Drop-Out” are just a few of the popular songs from this comedic, romantic musical. On the dramatic end of the spectrum, the heartbreaking classic West Side Story brings Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet to 20th century New York City. Other movies featured here include Across the Universe, Funny Face, and Pitch Perfect.
Which romantic musicals are your favorites? Give the best films a thumbs up to move them towards the number-one spot on the list, and please add any heartwarming movies that are missing.- Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
- Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
- Released: 1961
- Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
A musical in which a modern day Romeo and Juliet are involved in New York street gangs. On the harsh streets of the upper west side, two gangs battle for control of the turf. The situation becomes ...more - Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth
- Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams
- Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor
- Released: 1952
- Directed by: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
A spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the movie industry in the late 1920s when movies went from silent to sound. When two silent movie stars', Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont, latest movie is made into ...more - John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing