Music movies

The Legend of 1900

1998 | Drama | Fantasy | Italy | Music | Romance

Shortly after the Second World War, Max, a transplanted American, visits an English pawn shop to sell his trumpet. The shopkeeper recognizes the tune Max plays as one on a wax master of an unreleased recording, discovered and restored from shards found in a piano salvaged from a cruise ship ...

Drumline

2002 | Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance | USA

A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.

Strange Days

1995 | Action | Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Music | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | USA

Ex-vice cop, Lenny Nero, is a loser who deals in VR clips - captured straight from the cerebral cortex - who uncovers that some things are not as they should be. Lenny keeps trying to protect old girlfriend Faith, a punk-rock singer, from her manager - and current boyfriend - ...

Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who

2007 | Documentary | Music | UK | USA

A documentary on The Who, featuring interviews with the band's two surviving members, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.

Footloose

1984 | Drama | Music | Romance | USA

Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to ...

Bandslam

2009 | Comedy | Drama | Music | USA

Teenager Will Burton lives in his head, and his head is filled with music. When his mother, Karen Burton, gets a new job in New Jersey, Will starts his junior year at a new school only to find the old cliques still apply, but rock-n-roll rules the scene. Perpetually a ...

Taking Woodstock

2009 | Comedy | Music | USA

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Coal Miner’s Daughter

1980 | Biography | Drama | Music | USA

At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn ...

Flashdance

1983 | Drama | Music | Romance | USA

Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling!

God Rocked …and on the 7th Day

2008 | Comedy | Music | USA

Who will you root for in this laugh-out-loud rockumentary about a Christian Battle of the Bands? Wrathful Old Testament hip-hoppers Sons of Abraham or born-again hard-rockers Savior? Lapsed Catholic Angie Hynes, who's gone from punk to country in search of success, or the folksy love-fest of harmony-laden trio Glory Authority? ...

Liberty Heights

1999 | Drama | Music | Romance | USA

Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and rock and roll is pushing the Four Lads off the Hit Parade. Ben, a high school senior, and his older ...

Peter Pan

1953 | Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Music | USA

Based upon Sir James M. Barrie's 1904 play about the boy who refuses to grow up, the film begins in the London nursery of Wendy, John, and Michael Darling, where three children are visited by Peter Pan. With the help of his tiny friend, the fairy Tinkerbell, Peter takes the ...