Delphine and Solange are twins, whose mother owns a cafe around which most of the action takes place, living in the seaside resort of Rochefort. One is a dancer the other a musician and both hope to further themselves and move on from the town. But both fall in love, Delphine with a sailor on shore leave and Solange with an American composer. "The Young Girls of Rochefort" is a lush homage to the heyday of Hollywood musicals, highly enjoyable with wonderful songs, dance and awesome pastel-shaded find out more...

Rogers and Hammerstein's famous musical about the growth of love amongst the fecundity of the American farmlands, where the corn stands as high as an elephant's eye. Great family entertainment with some of the greatest musical songs ever and the choreography by Agnes DeMille is superb. find out more...

Shosho is a maid in a swanky night-spot when she's spotted dancing by the club's rakish proprietor, Valentine Wilbur. Soon Shosho has usurped Mabel as the star dancer and object of Valentine's affections, setting the scene for a dramatic denouement. A tenderly restored work, with a new musical score by Neil Brand, and a truly hypnotic early screen goddess in the form of Anna May Wong. find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

A classic musical based very loosely indeed on the legend of the Sabine women, with the added Hollywood ingredients of dancing and songs such as "Spring Spring Spring" and "Bless Yore Beautiful Hide". Exuberant, innocent and energetic, this is the definitive vintage 50s musical. find out more...

Another Astaire and Rogers classic sees the two crossing the Atlantic on the same ship, but ably consoled by such classic numbers as ‘Let's Call The Whole Thing Off' and ‘They Can't Take That Away From Me'. Other song and dance routines include the short Rehearsal Fragments, Rhumba Sequence, Beginner's Luck, Slap That Bass, Walking The Dog, They All Laughed At Christopher Columbus and Shall We Dance? Synchronized bliss. find out more...

Just simply the best musical ever made. Witty, inventive, brilliant, wonderful and slightly surreal; it manages to parody Hollywood without ever quite descending into self-parody, always retaining its dignity (always dignity...) A must-watch every few years or so.

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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers star in arguably their finest film together. Packed with exhilarating dance routines and a marvellous score, this is an indispensable musical classic! Swing Time is full of magical moments including a complex and delightful routine to Pick Yourself Up, a luminous turn to Waltz In Swing Time and Astaire's breathtaking solo to Bojangles Of Harlem. find out more...

One of Minnelli's best musicals, with Buchanan as a highbrow producer trying to turn Astaire's comeback show into an art house 'Faust' while Astaire and Charisse try to unite their dancing styles into a partnership. Astaire is superb in 'By Myself' and 'A Shine on Your Shoes' and, with Charisse, in 'Dancing in the Dark'. The film's most elaborate number is the 'Girl Hunt Ballet', a spoof of Mickey Spillane hard-boiled detective novels, with Michael Kidd's choreography and Charisse's femme fatale find out more...

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