1960s; young scouser Jude crosses the Atlantic and meets upper class Lucy in this musical tale of two star-crossed lovers set against the raging waters of the volatile 60s counterculture movement; race riots, Vietnam, civil rights, protest, music, drugs, dance, art, hippies and psychedelia. Over 30 Beatles songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to their films and, with cameos from Bono and Eddie Izzard, this weird, loud and colourful montage will either have you breaking ou find out more...

A big, stylish, booming story about three young girls, a Supremes-like band The Dreamettes, singing their way to superstardom. Undoubtedly a nod to the meteoric rise of the ‘Three Degrees', or could it just be any Motown band?, Dreamgirls is a smooth well performed pseudo biog and Jennifer Hudson is truly hypnotic in her Oscar (best support actress) winning performance. find out more...

Milos Forman's patchily successful adaptation of the cult stage musical. The story is one of fighting conformity, and encapsulates the spirit of the sixties, but the staging of the songs is at times over the top. However, when they work the songs are the centrepiece. Great strides, man....Groovy. find out more...

Tracy Turnblad is a big girl with a big dream, to dance on "The Corny Collins Show", but when she finally gets to live her dream Tracy discovers that all is not as beautiful and shiny as she imagined and this being 1962, America still has a long way to go with racial equality. Adapted from John Waters' cult classic, 'Hairspray' is a delightfully upbeat and vibrant musical. Of course if the word ‘musical' attached to the word ‘film' conjures up the image of the grim reaper's clammy hand resting f find out more...

This is the film adaptation of the theatrical adaptation of Fellini's classic 60s movie '8 and a Half' and it's a lovely musical romp through a middle-aged man's life crisis and his flashbacks to the women in his past in a lavish fantastical nostalgic 60s Rome. find out more...

Taken from Pete Townsend's rock "opera" of teenage frustration and rebellion set amongst the mods and rockers battling it out on Brighton beach in 1964. Brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of the time and has a great sound track. Speed fighting, speed, casual sex, speed, bike chains and speed. find out more...