Here we've displayed a list of the best Musician films : Stop Making Sense(1984), The Pianist(2002), Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two(2017), Coco(2017), Foo Fighters: Back and Forth(2011), Iron Maiden: Flight 666(2009), The T.A.M.I. Show(1964), Amadeus(1984), The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story(2009), The Concert for Bangladesh(1972), Khachaturian(2003), Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend(2011) ... ...
Documentary, Music
USA
1984
88 Minutes
Bernie Worrell Alex Weir Steve Scales Lynn Mabry Edna Holt Tina Weymouth Jerry Harrison Chris Frantz David Byrne
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An innovative concert movie for the rock group The Talking Heads.
War, Drama, History
UK|France|Poland|Germany|USA
2002
148 Minutes
Adrien Brody Thomas Kretschmann Frank Finlay Maureen Lipman Emilia Fox Ed Stoppard Julia Rayner Jessica Kate Meyer Ruth Platt
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A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Documentary, Music
USA
2017
120 Minutes
Pearl Jam
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Concert film centering on the rock band Pearl Jam's August 2016 shows at Chicago's Wrigley Field.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
USA
2017
109 Minutes
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Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Documentary, Music
USA
2011
102 Minutes
Dave Grohl Taylor Hawkins Bob Mould Krist Novoselic Pat Smear Butch Vig
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Rising from the ashes of Nirvana, the Foo Fighters became a Grammy-winning sensation on their own. Sixteen years of the band's history comes to life in this documentary, from their demo ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK|Canada
2009
112 Minutes
Sam Dunn
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A chronological account of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 2008 world tour through India, Australia, Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico and South America in a jet piloted by the band's front man, Bruce Dickinson. Features interviews with the musicians, their road crew and fans.
Documentary
USA
1964
100 Minutes
Florence Ballard The Beach Boys Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas Gerry and the Pacemakers Mick Jagger Jan & Dean
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Surf pop duo, Jan and Dean host this showcase of performances by well-known Rock, R&B, and pop stars of the era.
Biography, Drama, History
USA|France|Czechoslovakia|Italy
1984
158 Minutes
F. Murray Abraham Thomas Hulce Jeffrey Jones Elizabeth Berridge Simon Callow Roy Dotrice Christine Ebersole Charles Kay Kenny Baker Lisbeth Bartlett Barbara Bryne
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The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Documentary
USA
2009
101 Minutes
Jeff Sherman Richard M. Sherman Robert B. Sherman Julie Andrews Jim Dale Roy Edward Disney Micky Dolenz
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In 1981, black journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested for the murder of white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and was convicted of it in 1982. More than 25 years later, the ... See full summary »
Documentary
UK|USA
1972
99 Minutes
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The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.
Documentary
USA
2003
76 Minutes
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A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Musical, Romance, Documentary, Biography
UK|Jamaica
2011
90 Minutes
Gian Godoy
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Based on footage shot in the early seventies and lost for more than thirty years, NAACP IMAGE AWARD winner Esther Anderson takes us on a journey to Jamaica and into 56 HOPE ROAD, Kingston, ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
1978
117 Minutes
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A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
Documentary
Sweden|UK|Finland
2011
86 Minutes
Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman Dennis Coffey Mike Theodore Dan DiMaggio Jerome Ferretti Steve Rowland Willem Möller Craig Bartholomew Strydom
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Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
Comedy
USA
1959
120 Minutes
Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon Marilyn Monroe George Raft Pat O'Brien Joe E. Brown Nehemiah Persoff Joan Shawlee Billy Gray George E. Stone Dave Barry
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After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Comedy, Drama
USA|China
2018
130 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Mahershala Ali Linda Cardellini Sebastian Maniscalco Dimiter D. Marinov Mike Hatton P.J. Byrne Joe Cortese Maggie Nixon Von Lewis Jon Sortland
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A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Documentary, Music
UK
2020
92 Minutes
Terry Stone Adam Saint Adam F. Jeremy Bailey Andy C DJ Fresh
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EDM was born out of the Drum and Bass movement, which began in the early 1990's. The scene and its many style permutations have survived and thrived, and heavily influences Grime and the modern EDM arena.
Musical, Drama
UK
1982
99 Minutes
Bob Geldof Christine Hargreaves James Laurenson Eleanor David Kevin McKeon Bob Hoskins David Bingham Jenny Wright Alex McAvoy Ellis Dale James Hazeldine
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A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Documentary, Music
UK
2019
135 Minutes
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A look at Roger Waters' 2017-2018 concert tour.
Documentary
USA
1989
85 Minutes
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Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, family life of the members of the Guarneri string quartet
Documentary
USA
1976
92 Minutes
Rodney Crowell Steve Earle
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The best music and the best whiskey come from the same part of the country.
Drama
Sweden
1968
103 Minutes
Liv Ullmann Max von Sydow Gunnar Björnstrand Sigge Fürst Birgitta Valberg Hans Alfredson Ingvar Kjellson
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In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
Drama, History, Biography, Music, Gay & Lesbian
UK|USA
2018
135 Minutes
Rami Malek Lucy Boynton Gwilym Lee Ben Hardy Joseph Mazzello Aidan Gillen Tom Hollander Allen Leech Mike Myers Aaron McCusker Dermot Murphy
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The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
Documentary
USA
2015
90 Minutes
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A retrospective look at the "Best Hip Hop Radio Show of All-Time".
Musical, Comedy, Drama
India
1972
150 Minutes
Rajesh Khanna Jaya Bhaduri Asrani Durga Khote A. K. Hangal Paintal Kali Bannerjee Usha Kiran Harindranath Chattopadhyay
postman widower chef clerk schoolteacher musician madcap amusing offbeat household kitchen family dysfunction mistaken identity marriage argument cooking theft transformation 1970s
A dysfunctional middle-class family is transformed due to the influence of their new multi-talented household servant - but he might be too good to be true.
Horror, Fantasy
Japan
1964
164 Minutes
Rentarô Mikuni Michiyo Aratama Tetsuro Tamba Katsuo Nakamura Keiko Kishi
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A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
Comedy, Drama, Music
USA
2000
122 Minutes
Billy Crudup Frances McDormand Kate Hudson Jason Lee Patrick Fugit Anna Paquin Fairuza Balk Noah Taylor Zooey Deschanel John Fedevich Bijou Phillips
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A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Documentary
Canada
1985
114 Minutes
Artie Shaw Helen Forrest Mel Torme Evelyn Keyes Polly Haynes John Wexley
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Documentary cataloging the life and music of the band leader and clarinetist, Artie Shaw.
Musical, Comedy, Action
USA
1980
133 Minutes
John Belushi Dan Aykroyd James Brown Cab Calloway Ray Charles Carrie Fisher Aretha Franklin Henry Gibson John Candy Murphy Dunne Steve Cropper
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Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
Documentary
USA
2005
110 Minutes
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Daniel Johnston, manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.