Watch Singin' in the Rain

A silent, black-and-white French film about the end of silent film; and it won.

Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.

Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.

Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.

Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.

Every line sung, every wall painted; Catherine Deneuve at a petrol station in the snow.

Bing Crosby as a young priest who sings his way through a struggling parish.

Altman's 24 characters over five days of country music and a political rally.