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The 20 Best Musicals On Netflix

By Jade Budowski @jadebudowski

Published June 20, 2017, 8:00 a.m. ET

Tap your toes to the 20 best musicals on Netflix, ranked by their Rotten Tomatoes Critic Scores.Photos: Everett Collection ; Illustration: Dillen Phelps

Asoka
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 100%
This Bollywood hit combines a historical epic with a groovin' good time. While the musical interludes occasionally feel a random, this thrilling flick is both a visual and aural feat, and we dare you not to have a good time. It's too passionate to pass up.
[Stream Asoka]PHOTO: Netflix

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98%
This 1953 Marilyn Monroe classic follows two showgirls, Lorelai (Monroe) and Dorothy (Jane Russell) as they travel to Paris and are pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelai's fiancé. While the ladies sing tunes, dance their hearts out, and are fawned over by a slew of admirers, the PI can't help but fall for brunette Dorothy's charms.
[Stream Gentlemen Prefer Blondes] Photo: Everett Collection

Fantasia
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
This experimental 1940 film finds Disney animators setting iconic images and characters to sweeping classical music, and it changed the landscape of animation forever. Perhaps one of the flicks that started it all and made Mickey Mouse a household name, this gorgeous, innovative piece of art is necessary viewing for music, animation, and history lovers alike.
[Stream Fantasia] Photo: Everett Collection

Sing Street
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%
This Irish musical dramedy won hearts last year as it made its way through the critical ring, and it's not hard to see why. Helmed by Begin Again and Once director John Carney, the 1980s-set film follows a young Dubliner as he ditches his dysfunctional family situation to start a band and win over the mysterious girl of his dreams.
[Stream Sing Street] Everett Collection

The Nightmare Before Christmas
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
This stunning stop-motion flick introduces us to the iconic Jack Skellington, the king of Halloween Town, as he discovers Christmas Town and confuses the demented residents of his own spooky home while trying to integrate the sparkling holiday cheer into their everyday darkness. Stocked with classic, entirely too catchy songs and wicked humor, this revolutionary film leaves no question as to why Tim Burton remains the legend he is today.
[Stream The Nightmare Before Christmas] Everett Collection

Chicago
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%
This seductive, snazzy musical set in 1920s Chicago garnered an Oscar for Best Picture, among 5 other awards, and features an all-star cast who step up to the plate to sing and dance their hearts out. Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones star as murderesses incarcerated at Cook County Jail, where they await their fates (and hopefully avoid them) with the help of hot-shot lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere). Don't waste time - let this gorgeous movie musical razzle dazzle you.
[Stream Chicago]PHOTO: Netflix

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%
Starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman, this big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's deliciously dark musical finds a home with master of eccentric darkness Tim Burton. Featuring a lot of bright red blood and shaves gone wrong, the flick tells the story of a murderous barber who teams up with a quirky pie shop owner to make productive use of his victims' bodies and exact revenge on the judge who destroyed his family.
[Stream Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street] Everett Collection

Anastasia
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
This family-friendly, beautifully animated film imagines the journey of the last surviving daughter of the Russian Royal Family (voiced by Meg Ryan) as she is aided by two con men (with hearts of gold) in finding her long-lost grandmother, the Dowager Empress. Featuring songs you won't be able to get out of your head for weeks and lots of hidden humor, Anastasia is an enduring crowd pleaser.
[Stream Anastasia] Everett Collection

Carousel
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%
Adapted from the classic Rogers & Hammerstein musical of the same name, this heart-wrenching film follows a dead carousel barker who is granted permission to return to Earth for one day so that he may make amends with his wife and daughter. Moving, inspiring, and absolutely breathtaking, fans of musical theater and classic film are bound to enjoy this beautiful tale.
[Stream Carousel] Everett Collection

Fantasia 2000
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 82%
This update of the original 1940 film restores the gorgeous images from the first and puts them to new interpretations of stunning classical music with the help of a slew of stars (including Steve Martin!). It's a beautiful reminder of the impact of the first film and the lasting power of these influential images, enduring tunes, and the talented artists behind them.
[Stream Fantasia 2000] Everett Collection

White Christmas
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77%
Celebrate Christmas in summer with the Bing Crosby classic that still has us singing Irving Berlin's holiday ballad over half a century later. When a successful song and dance duo both fall for showgirl sisters, the four must band together to save the floundering Vermont inn that belongs to the duo's former Army commanding general.
[Stream White Christmas] Everett Collection

Grease
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
Grease is the word. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star as greaser Danny Zuko and good girl Sandy, a couple of teens who fall in love one summer and discover they're attending the same high school when they return that fall. While Danny obsesses over maintaining his reputation and Sandy aches for the sweet guy she fell for, the two must make compromises (via song and dance) if they want things to work out.
[Stream Grease] Everett Collection

Happy Feet
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
Featuring the vocal talents of Elijah Wood, Hugh Jackman, and more, this delightful flick follows a young Emperor Penguin who is born without the talent of song (a skill they all use to find their soulmates) but can instead perform a helluva tap dance. Adorable, endearing, and moving in more ways than one, Happy Feet is fun for the whole family.
[Stream Happy Feet] Everett Collection

Trolls
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Zooey Deschanel, and more lend their vocal talents to this adorable animated flick that follows the happiest Troll ever born as she teams up with a grumpy companion to rescue her friends. Obviously, adorable, musical hilarity ensues on their journey, and the film offers colorful fun for the whole family.
[Stream Trolls] Everett Collection

Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 70%
This 19th-century set French animated film follows a man whose heart was replaced with a clock when he was born, and the surprising turn of events that finds him emoting at an elevated level rather than not at all, as anticipated when his heart was taken from him. This uniquely animated gem is full of poetry and emotional depth accessible for both children and adults.
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Happy New Year
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 67%
This hilarious hybrid film from India follows a group of ragtag thieves who band together to learn how to dance so that they can infiltrate a Dubai competition and pull off their biggest diamond heist ever. Evidently, dancing is not the walk in the park they assume it will be, and what ensues are a series of side-splitting, toe-tapping sequences.
[Stream Happy New Year] PHOTO: Netflix

Rangoon
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 60%
This 1940s-set Bollywood flick tells the epic love story of a beautiful film star and a young Indian soldier and the scandal that follows when their secret gets out. Rife with romance, politics, and important messages, this unique film is a moving testament to the incredible content in Bollywood these days.
[Stream Rangoon]Everett Collection

The Last Five Years
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 58%
Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan star in this screen adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's hit musical that follows a couple as their marriage falls apart and they deconstruct the sequence of events that led to their relationship's conclusion. They both tell their stories starting from the beginning and end until they finally meet in the middle, and the result is astoundingly cathartic.
[Stream The Last Five Years] Everett Collection

High School Musical
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 56%
Before Zac Efron was a household name, he won the hearts of teenage girls everywhere in this Disney Channel Original Movie and cemented his place on the cover of teen magazines for years to come. Perhaps best likened to a cleaner, contemporary Grease, the flick follows the tumultuous relationship of a star athlete and the nerdy girl he falls in love with as he decides where his priorities really lie. There's basketball dance scenes, ridiculous karaoke sequences, and musical theatre egos! Truly something for everyone!
[Stream High School Musical] Everett Collection

Across the Universe
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 53%
Directed by visionary Julie Taymor, this gorgeous, soaring drama is set to the music of The Beatles and stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood as unlikely couple Jude and Lucy. Told against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the fight for civil rights, the striking visuals and tragic tales told in this romantic flick alongside fresh interpretations of iconic tunes are bound to leave you reeling and wishing there was more.
[Stream Across the Universe] PHOTO: Sony Pictures; Courtesy Everett Collection

While hard-hitting dramas and raunchy comedies may seem like the obvious choice when you start stocking up your Netflix queue, a change of tune can shake things up and allow for an entirely new streaming experience.

The platform has a much wider variety of musicals than you may have even anticipated – classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, award-winners including Chicago and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and recent showstoppers like High School Musical and The Last Five Years. Looking for something a little more family-friendly? Titles like Anastasia, Trolls, and Fantasia are also available for your streaming pleasure.

Wondering where to start? We’re here to help. We went through Netflix’s musical stylings to find the best of the best. These are the top 20 musicals on Netflix, ranked by their Rotten Tomatoes scores.

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