75. Dil Se (1998)

The first Bollywood movie to make it into the UK box office top 10, Mani Ratnam's Dil Se (From The Heart) is a romantic saga of triangular love, terrorism and high drama. The film features some of Bollywood's leading stars - Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala and Preity Zinta - and a soundtrack that has achieved worldwide acclaim. Chaiyya Chaiyya, the film's biggest number, has become so popular around the world that BBC Worldwide listeners voted it one of their ten favourite songs of all time.

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74. Shall We Dance? (1937)

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire on roller-skates! The pair perform one of their most famous numbers, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off, in a musical about a Russian ballet dancer who gets tangled up with an entertainer. With music by the legendary composer George Gershwin, this is entertainment most decadent.

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73. Half A Sixpence (1967)

Loosely based on an HG Wells story, this ebullient musical is set in Edwardian England and stars Tommy Steele as Arthur Kipps, an orphan working for a cruel boss whose life is turned upside down when his grandfather dies and leaves him a fortune. Kipps loses the fortune almost as soon as he gets his hands on it (and almost loses the love of a good woman to boot!) but ends the film a more decent man for it.

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72. Godspell (1973)

What started as a very modest student show transferred to off-Broadway in 1971 and became a huge hit. John Michael Tebelak's musical drama has at its core simplistic interpretations of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and came across as fresh, mildly revolutionary and musically attractive - especially the hit number, Day by Day. Not surprisingly, a film resulted and the original young creator joined the British director David Greene on the movie. The original vibrancy has not been lost in the transfer to screen, and there are New York landmarks galore to enjoy.

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71. Show Boat (1951)

Everyone knows that the showboat Cotton Blossom provides the best entertainment in the south. When the boats main act are forced to leave because the hicks discover their marriage is interracial, they are replaced by Magnolia Hawks and Gaylord Ravenal (surely the greatest name in musical history). The two fall in love and swan off to live in Chicago, but it soon all goes wrong for them. Great songs from Kern and Hammerstein and wonderful performances keep this musical sailing smoothly.

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