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Best Music Movies of the 1990s
#1 The Legend of 1900 (1998) · ★ 8.2 · 2,503 votes · 2h 50m · drama, musicMusician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix…
#2 Selena (1997) · ★ 7.7 · 1,342 votes · 2h 7m · drama, history, musicIn this biographical drama, Selena Quintanilla is born into a musical Mexican-American family in Texas. Her father, Abraham, realizes that his young daughter is talented and begins…
#3 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) · ★ 7.4 · 1,171 votes · 1h 26m · comedy, fantasy, dramaA retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Chri…
#4 The Commitments (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 632 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, drama, musicJimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers:…
#5 The Doors (1991) · ★ 7.1 · 1,650 votes · 2h 20m · drama, history, musicThe story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.…
#6 That Thing You Do! (1996) · ★ 6.9 · 949 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, romance, dramaA Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame t…
#7 Velvet Goldmine (1998) · ★ 6.9 · 558 votes · 2h 3m · drama, musicAlmost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former…
#8 Sister Act (1992) · ★ 6.8 · 3,541 votes · 1h 40m · comedy, musicWhen lively lounge singer Deloris sees her mobster beau commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, she proceeds to up…
#9 Sweet and Lowdown (1999) · ★ 6.8 · 576 votes · 1h 35m · comedy, drama, musicIn the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.…
#10 Wayne's World (1992) · ★ 6.7 · 2,559 votes · 1h 34m · comedy, musicThe adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access telev…
#11 A Night at the Roxbury (1998) · ★ 6.6 · 1,042 votes · 1h 22m · comedy, romance, musicDespite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, thou…
#12 Empire Records (1995) · ★ 6.6 · 845 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, romance, dramaThe employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.…
#13 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) · ★ 6.6 · 796 votes · 1h 21m · comedy, adventure, animationSlacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America, during which they manage t…
#14 Thumbelina (1994) · ★ 6.5 · 554 votes · 1h 27m · fantasy, romance, animationBorn of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall, poor Thumbelina is worried she'll never meet someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of Prince Cornel…
#15 Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) · ★ 6.4 · 1,999 votes · 1h 47m · comedy, musicDeloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninte…
#16 Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) · ★ 6.3 · 641 votes · 1h 23m · comedy, animation, familyThe popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.…
#17 Airheads (1994) · ★ 6.2 · 858 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, crime, musicThe Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they…
#18 Wayne's World 2 (1993) · ★ 6.1 · 1,209 votes · 1h 35m · comedy, musicA message from Jim Morrison in a dream prompts cable access TV stars Wayne and Garth to put on a rock concert, "Waynestock," with Aerosmith as headliners. But amid the preparations…
#19 Evita (1996) · ★ 6.1 · 532 votes · 2h 15m · drama, history, musicThe hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman i…
#20 54 (1998) · ★ 5.9 · 558 votes · 1h 33m · romance, drama, musicWhen the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, he not only gets his foot in the door, but…
#21 Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) · ★ 5.3 · 760 votes · 2h 3m · action, comedy, crimeFinally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-uni…
#22 Spice World (1997) · ★ 4.9 · 517 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, fantasy, adventureWorld-famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double-decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.…