Music is part of many of the movies of our lives, songs that we know by heart and continue to sing decade after decade. But some of the feature films or series go much further and not only have a song that we remember but are complete musicals so we don’t stop singing and dancing. In the next paragraphs we collect the best musicals on Disney Plus.
Beyond movies with a brilliant soundtrack , like the Japanese Your name , there are other movies where music is the center and not just a nice complement. Musicals that we can see on Disney+ with all possible themes and forms… High school students looking to fulfill their dreams, movie classics like Smiles and Tears or cartoon movies with catchy and fun songs for the little ones in the house.
New or classic musical movies, teen musical movies, series about music and dance, documentaries and docuseries or short films with songs are some of the recommendations that you will see in these paragraphs.
musical films
If you are looking for musical movies, there are many that we will find at Disney for a movie session at home, with popcorn and songs that you know or that you will play again and again. The “America” from West Side Story, the “Come What May” from Moulin Rouge or the “DO RE MI” from Smiles and Tears.
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg directs the new version of this classic nominated for Best Picture of 2022. “West Side Story” is a story of love and gangs, of street gangs and rivals. A Romeo and Juliet from the fifties in New York. A musical tells the story of Tony and Maria. They belong to two rival street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. But they are in love and everything else is less important in a love story that maintains the essence of the sixties film, which serves as a tribute, which shines in two and a half hours of an essential musical.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year: 2921
Duration : Two hours and 38 minutes
Theme : Romance, musical drama
Recommended age : For over twelve years
Watch West Side Story (2021) on Disney+
Moulin Rouge
In 2001, “Moulin Rouge” was released with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor as protagonists. A peculiar vision of Baz Luhrmann on Romeo and Juliet. A poet, a duke, a cabaret star. Moulin Rouge shows us the most bohemian Paris, the “City of Light” in 1900 in Montmartre . The star of the Moulin Rouge is Satine, in charge of making everyone fall in love with her dances in a world where everything is allowed except falling in love. Two very different men and a decision that Satine will have to make in a film nominated for an Oscar for best picture and winner for best costume and best art direction in 2021.
Platform: Disney Plus
Year: 2001
Duration : Two hours and eight minutes
Theme : musical drama, romance
Recommended age : For over twelve years
Watch Moulin Rouge on Disney Plus
Smiles and tears
In the sixties, one of the classic movies arrived if we look for musicals on Disney +, Smiles and Tears. I’m sure you’ve already seen it. A production set in the thirties for those looking for a classic. Maria is a novice who is to become a governess in the Von Trapp household. A new governess who will fill the house of the widowed captain’s seven children with joy and music.
A musical drama for the whole family that you have surely sung many times and that managed to win over the critics at its premiere, winning the Oscar for best film of 1965, for best director, for best sound, for best editing, for best soundtrack… A three-hour movie session for the whole family.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 1965
Duration : Two hours and 55 minutes
Theme : Historical / Musical
Age : For all audiences
Watch The Smiles and Tears on Disney Plus
musical cartoons
There are also musical cartoons with catchy songs, classics or released in the last ten years. Cartoons to enjoy with the family that we can see on Disney + if we want an animated movie and music.
Coconut
That family is the most important thing Vito Corleone already reminded us in the seventies. Miguel also does it in one of the best Disney musicals if we look for a cartoon movie: “Coco”. A trip to the importance of the family, to traditions, to music, to dreams. The journey of Miguel, a boy who dreams of becoming a great musician in a family where music is prohibited.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 2017
Duration : One hour and 44 minutes
Theme : Animation / Fantasy
Age : For ages six and up
Aladdin
The most romantic ones will know “ An ideal world ” by heart. Those who don’t, still enjoy today with a “There is no genius so great.” But we all know the songs of one of the best animated musicals of all time: “Aladdin”. You can rewatch the classic cartoon movie or bet on the live-action version. Both maintain the essence of always. Both follow an Aladdin with three wishes at his disposal, but few ideas to know how to take advantage of them while Jasmine wants to be free, make decisions, own her own life. An essential that you will have seen many times and you can see again today.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 1992 / 2019
Duration : One hour and 31 minutes / Two hours and 16 minutes
Theme : Animation, adventure, fantasy
Age : For over six years old / For over nine years old
Watch Aladdin (2019) on Disney+
musical series
It is less common to find musical series than musical movies, but we can find some options on Disney + to get hooked on. High school stories, rehearsals, choreographies, tests and lots of dancing .
glee
Glee is one of the mythical series if we look for Disney musicals, essential series for music lovers, for those who were born in the late nineties. A classic that tells the story of Will Shuester, a teacher who has returned to the institute where he studied and who intends to return success to the choir. The passion for music and dance are the axes of a series where bullying, discrimination, and the fight against stereotypes are discussed. An institute where being handsome, perfect and popular matters much less, far from what is usual on television. The students of the new choir break with all the topics of adolescent series. They have talent and everything else is not important.
Platform:
Year: 2009
Chapters: Six seasons, 121 episodes
Duration : About 45 minutes per chapter
Theme : Comedy
Recommended age : For over 12 years
High School Musical: The Musical – The Series
The spin-off of the film saga is one of the musical series that we can see on Disney + if we are looking for a teenage story to get hooked on and that is not a feature film. High School Musical: The Series is a tribute to the trilogy. It does not seek to repeat history but to represent it as a musical within history itself: same high school, years later and new students ready to rehearse.
Platform: Disney+
Year : 2020
Chapters : Two seasons, 22 episodes
Duration: Between 30 and 40 minutes
Theme : Comedy / Institute
Recommended age : For all audiences
Watch High School Musical The Musical: The Series on Disney Plus
music documentaries
Unpublished images, recorded concerts, exclusive interviews. Documentaries and docuseries about music that go beyond fiction to tell us real stories. The stories of the singers and groups that we can get to know in depth.
The Beatles: Get Back
Considered one of the best series of recent times , “The Beatles: Get Back” is one of the docuseries that you should aim to see as soon as possible. Directed by Peter Jackson, it follows the artists during the recording of the Leti t Be album. A “Let it be” that originally shared a name with the documentary: “Get back”. The recording of a legendary album, the songs, the decisions. The British band stars in three episodes of music and ideas, unforgettable lyrics , unpublished images and essential interviews in this Disney Plus musical.
Platform: Disney+
Year : 2021
Chapters : One season, three episodes
Duration : About 60 minutes per chapter
Theme : Music Documentary / The Beatles
Recommended age : For over nine years
Watch The Beatles: Get Back on Disney Plus
Taylor Swift – Folklore
The popular artist is the protagonist of this hybrid between a documentary and an intimate concert that we can see on Disney+ if we are fans of her music, of her career. We analyze and delve, for two hours in a single episode, into all the songs on the folklore album. An intimate concert where Swift reflects on the different themes, on the creation, on the meaning of each song.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 2020
Chapters : A single episode
Duration per episode : One hour and 45 minutes
Theme : Music
Recommended age : For over 14 years
Watch Taylor Swift Folklore – The Long Pond Studio Recordings on Disney+
Happier So Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
It is not as such a documentary but a concert film. A Disney+ concert or musical special in which Billie Eilish performs all the songs from Happier Than Ever accompanied by all kinds of choirs or philharmonics. An hour and five minutes of an original and different musical experience on Disney + if we like the singer.
In addition, we can also see the “That’s how it was done” from the platform.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 2021
Duration : 30 minutes in total
Theme : Music, intimate concert by Billie Eilish
Recommended age : For over 14 years
See Happier So Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles at Disney
See How Happier became so ever on Disney Plus
teen musical movies
Those who were born at the end of the nineties were teenagers with High School Musical and with Camprock. Today youth musical movies that we can see again on Disney + or that we can see with today’s teenagers.
High School Musical
If you were born in the nineties you will remember High School Musical, whether you have seen it or not. Teenagers who followed, in 2006 , the love story between Troy and Gabriella. Two teenagers who will audition for the high school musical. The beginning of a trilogy that now has a sequel in series format. And everything, movies and series, with a common denominator: music, dance, rehearsals and continuous choreography. Plus sports, friends, cheerleading, and a high school love story.
An original trilogy that we can see if we look for musicals on Disney Plus as teen movies.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 2006
Duration : One hour and 40 minutes
Theme : Teen / romantic
Age : For all audiences
Watch High School Musical on Disney Plus
High School Musical 2 on Disney Plus
Watch High School Musical 3 on Disney Plus
camprock
Demi Lovato and Joe Jonas are the stars of another of the best-known musical movies of the 2000s. They are Mitchie Torres and Shane Gray. She, an aspiring singer who dreams of being one and who will do her best to enter a music camp, agreeing to be its cook. He is a successful and insufferable singer of the trio Connect 3 and in charge of the dance classes in said camp. Both will cross paths in a teen movie starring some of the young musical stars of the 2000s (Dami Lovato and the Jonas Brothers) in a film with a High School Musical air and a lot of teen drama.
Platform : Disney+
Year : 2008
Duration : One hour and 36 minutes
Theme: Musical, dance, teenager
Age : For all audiences
Musical shorts and specials
Neither series nor movies nor documentaries… Specials or short films for children and babies where music is also the most important thing, the most outstanding.
Vampirina: Sing with the Monster Girls!
One of the series for babies that we can see if we look for musicals for the little ones is Vampirina: Sing with the Monster Girls! One of Disney’s most beloved characters in short films of only four minutes that work as songs in which Vampi forms a rock group with her friends: Poppy and Bridget. All three are the Monster Girls
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 2018 – 2019
Shorts : Two seasons, 15 episodes
Duration : About 4 minutes for each short
Age : For all audiences
See Vampirina Sing with the monster girls! on Disney+
the little mermaid live
If you are looking for musical specials at Disney you can see “The Little Mermaid Live”. A hybrid between theater and animation in a musical where you can enjoy the usual story with a totally different format but with the music being the most important thing. The songs of the film in an hour and a half where cartoons and shows alternate to show us a different and unique interpretation.
Platform : Disney Plus
Year : 2019
Duration : One hour and 25 minutes
Theme : Musical / Concert
Age : For ages six and up
See The Little Mermaid Live! On DisneyPlus
