Search engine tips for finding music movies
In order to find what you're looking for using your favorite search engine, use quotations around the title of the movie. For example:
"singing in the rain"
This simple trick will bring back more targeted results in any search engine that you decide to use.
You can also use the plus and minus sign to narrow your search. For example, say you want information on "Grease" the movie, not the Broadway musical. You could try this in any search engine:
grease -broadway
This will bring you back results about just the movie, but not the Broadway show.
Best Sites for Free Music Movies
- Hulu: Hulu features high quality popular music movies, from "Beach Blanket Bingo" to "Xanadu". You can use their simple site search to find what you're looking for; just type in the name of the movie. All the Hulu categories are right at the top of the page, easily browsable.
- Public Domain Movie Torrents Music Movies: There's all sorts of great free music movies here, most are oldies but goodies. All the categories (including music) are right on the left-hand side of the page.
- OVGuide: This site has a huge variety of free music movies; OVGuide connects to more than 3000 movie and video sites, organizing content into an easy to use multimedia directory.
- Emol.org Free Music Movies: Popular movie musicals from the 1930's to the 1980's.
- Europa Film Treasures: You can find high quality music movies here, mostly from the first half of the century.
More ways to find music movies on the Web
- Surf The Channel: SurfTheChannel is a multimedia search directory/search engine with links to hundreds of movies, including quite a few musicals and music movies.
- PluggedIn: PluggedIn offers thousands of really high quality music videos (a lot of them are recorded in HD format) from tons of your favorite artists.
- MTV Music: There are hundreds of videos here, searchable by artist name, alphabetically, or by category (most viewed, vintage, etc.).
- Tunefind: Not so much music movies as music FROM movies here - you'll find lots of great music here.
