Movies in the Drama/Musical genre

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I Wanna Dance with Somebody

I Wanna Dance with Somebody (full title: Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody) is as generic a musical bio-pic as one is likely to find. A by-the-numbers, slightly fictionalized chronicle of the rise and fall of pop singer Whitney Houston (...

Run Time: 2:25
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-02-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Cast: Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Ashton Sanders, ...
Michael

The sole reason for Michael to exist—and the only legitimate way in which the movie can be enjoyed—is as a cocktail of nostalgia and musical appreciation. This truncated hagiography bends its knee to the myth of Jackson before tabloid headline...

Run Time: 2:07
U.S. Release Date: 2026-04-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Some thematic material, language, and smoking)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Nia Long, ...
Rocketman

In 1988, Elton John released the album Reg Strikes Back. In addition to being his “comeback” following a period of stagnancy in the mid-1980s, it was a return to his roots and an acceptance of less flamboyancy on-stage and off. Clean and so...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-31
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Drugs, Profanity)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Cast: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, ...
Song Sung Blue

If you enjoy the music of Neil Diamond, then Song Sung Blue will take you to places that not even Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show can. But if the thought of hearing “Sweet Caroline” one more time sounds like an act of torture, t...

Run Time: 2:13
U.S. Release Date: 2025-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Craig Brewer
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Kate Hudson, Ella Anderson, ...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

The cinematic landscape has become so cluttered with the biopics of musical legends (and a few that fall into the “legends in their own mind” category) that the tendency is to shun these chronicles of hard times and inner struggles in favor of...

Run Time: 1:59
U.S. Release Date: 2025-10-24
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Implied Abuse)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Scott Cooper
Cast: Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, ...
Star Is Born, A

Hollywood loves coming back to this story; it shows the entire lifecycle of show business and celebrity in one easily-digestible morsel. Over the years, A Star Is Born has attracted the likes of Frederic March, Gloria Gaynor, Judy Garland, Jam...

Run Time: 2:16
U.S. Release Date: 2018-10-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Bradley Cooper
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott, ...
Staying Alive

The passage of time has labeled 1983’s Staying Alive as a turkey, but the contemporaneous view (at least to Paramount’s bean counters) was somewhat different. Although critics lambasted the movie upon its release, with Roger Ebert giving an es...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Musical
Director: Sylvester Stallone
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