2) Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

A wonderful look at a traditional Jewish community during the pogroms in Russia. Topol stars as Tevye, a father of girls in terrible times, just trying to keep them alive and healthy. He’s also trying to maintain tradition and find husbands for them the old way. Unfortunately the husbands he finds, may not just match their desires.

Fiddler on the Roof is equal parts fun, heartwarming and dramatic and easily one of the best musicals ever written. It’s also one of the most delightful no matter what level it’s seen: high school, little theater and even in dinner theater it is wonderful.

Take an actor like Topol and put it on screen and it’s brilliant! You may walk away crying, laughing or shaking your head, but you absolutely won’t walk away disappointed.