Music Movies
Eddie and the Cruisers

Eddie and the Cruisers

Eddie and the Cruisers
IMDb: 6.9
95

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of…

Genre: Drama, Music
Copper Mountain

Copper Mountain

Copper Mountain
IMDb: 2.2
60

Two friends travel to a ski resort, with one looking to hit the slopes, while the other spends time trying to pick up women.

Carmen

Carmen

Carmen
IMDb: 7.4
102

While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet’s opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Yes, Giorgio

Yes, Giorgio

Yes, Giorgio
IMDb: 3.8
110

A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.

Wild Style

Wild Style

Wild Style
IMDb: 7
82

Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city’s hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie concerns the tension between…

Genre: Drama, Music
Starstruck

Starstruck

Starstruck
IMDb: 6.8
96

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Smithereens

Smithereens

Smithereens
IMDb: 6.7
94

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York’s waning punk scene.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Privates on Parade

Privates on Parade

Privates on Parade
IMDb: 4.8
113

It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army’s SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, War
The Pirate Movie

The Pirate Movie

The Pirate Movie
IMDb: 5.4
105

A comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original (Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance), as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars…

The Compleat Beatles

The Compleat Beatles

The Compleat Beatles
IMDb: 8.2
119

Now, for the first time, you can re-live the Beatles legends with this stunning 2-hour musical “Rockumentary”. It’s all there from the wild exuberance of the early Cavern Club days…

Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
IMDb: 7
74

If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry–“What’s up, doc?”–toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn’t be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they’ve doctored up a…

Black Wax

Black Wax

Black Wax
IMDb: 7.9
79

Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron…

Burst City

Burst City

Burst City
IMDb: 6
115

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.

Angel

Angel

Angel
IMDb: 6.3
92

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader….

Genre: Drama, Music
Zoot Suit

Zoot Suit

Zoot Suit
IMDb: 6.7
103

Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez’s critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots…

Genre: Drama, Music
This Is Elvis

This Is Elvis

This Is Elvis
IMDb: 7.6
110

Though several actors portray Elvis Presley at different stages of his life, this documentary is comprised mostly of actual performance footage and interviews with Elvis, his fans and those close…

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven

T.G.: Psychic Rally in Heaven
IMDb: 4.9
8

An experimental film of the group Throbbing Gristle in concert.

Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment
IMDb: 5.7
94

Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show ‘Marriage Maze’ with the eccentric Bert Schnick, who…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Gauche the Cellist

Gauche the Cellist

Gauche the Cellist
IMDb: 7
63

Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often…

Pippin

Pippin

Pippin
IMDb: 7.3
112

A mysterious performance troupe led by a Leading Player tells the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. Taped at Hamilton Place in Hamilton,…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
New Wave Lovers

New Wave Lovers

New Wave Lovers
IMDb: 4.1
90

Freddy wants to be a star. He writes and performs his own songs, but has no record contract yet. He has an idea to form a group of back-up vocalists…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven
IMDb: 6.5
108

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
IMDb: 5.9
112

An aspiring country singer and his feisty younger sister/manager struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
IMDb: 6.7
87

Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother’s death.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
The Decline of Western Civilization

The Decline of Western Civilization

The Decline of Western Civilization
IMDb: 7.5
100

The Los Angeles punk music scene circa 1980 is the focus of this film. With Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, Germs, and X.

D.O.A.

D.O.A.

D.O.A.
IMDb: 7.3
95

Documentary chronicling the rise and fall of the punk movement with rare interview footage of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. Also concert and news footage.

Times Square

Times Square

Times Square
IMDb: 6.6
111

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

Genre: Drama, Music
Those Lips, Those Eyes

Those Lips, Those Eyes

Those Lips, Those Eyes
IMDb: 6.4
105

A small-town star helps a young apprentice land the girl of his dreams.

Rude Boy

Rude Boy

Rude Boy
IMDb: 6.4
133

Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part ‘rockumentary’, featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public…

Roadie

Roadie

Roadie
IMDb: 5.3
106

A young Texas good ol’ boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Playing for Time

Playing for Time

Playing for Time
IMDb: 7.3
150

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners…

Nijinsky

Nijinsky

Nijinsky
IMDb: 6.6
129

A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Mr. Krueger’s Christmas

Mr. Krueger’s Christmas

Mr. Krueger’s Christmas
IMDb: 7.8
26

Willy Krueger, a lonely and aging widower, lives in a basement apartment with only his cat George for company. Finishing his work for the day as the custodian for the…

The Moon Over the Alley

The Moon Over the Alley

The Moon Over the Alley
IMDb: 5.9
107

A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.

Genre: Drama, Music
The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
IMDb: 5.9
115

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
In the Shadow of the Sun

In the Shadow of the Sun

In the Shadow of the Sun
IMDb: 6.5
54

‘The Shadow of the Sun’ draws upon Derek Jarman’s interest with alchemical processes as a metaphor for reprocessing Super-8 film. Jarman once described film’s union of light and matter as…

Genre: Fantasy, Music
The Idolmaker

The Idolmaker

The Idolmaker
IMDb: 6.9
117

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Honeysuckle Rose

Honeysuckle Rose

Honeysuckle Rose
IMDb: 6.3
119

Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle

The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle

The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
IMDb: 6.4
103

A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols “documentary”, told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk…

Divine Madness

Divine Madness

Divine Madness
IMDb: 6.9
95

Divine Madness is a 1980 concert film directed by Michael Ritchie, and featuring Bette Midler during her 1979 concert at Pasadena’s Civic Auditorium. The 94-minute film features Midler’s stand-up comedy…