Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "guitarist", "show-business"

1. A Star Is Born (2018)

R | 136 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Director: Bradley Cooper | Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Greg Grunberg

Votes: 420,258 | Gross: $215.29M

2. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

R | 104 min | Drama, Music

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund

Votes: 163,630 | Gross: $13.24M

3. Dreamgirls (2006)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Music, Musical

A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover

Votes: 77,328 | Gross: $103.37M

4. The Thing Called Love (1993)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Newcomers to the country-music business seek love and stardom.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Bullock

Votes: 8,767 | Gross: $1.03M

5. A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Approved | 126 min | Drama, Music

A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau

Votes: 17,172

6. Performance (1970)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama

A violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.

Directors: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Stars: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton

Votes: 11,335 | Gross: $0.19M

7. Jailhouse Rock (1957)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Music, Musical

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor

Votes: 9,839 | Gross: $4.00M

8. Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)

PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill

Votes: 13,967 | Gross: $4.95M

9. Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)

PG | 97 min | Documentary, Music

After years of making movies, the King made a triumphant return to the stage in 1970. Now, see the backstage footage from rehearsals to relaxing at the hotel and the performances in one of the most intimate looks at Elvis captured on film.

Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: Elvis Presley, James Burton, Glen D. Hardin, Charlie Hodge

Votes: 3,251

10. Forty Shades of Blue (2005)

R | 108 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-'n'-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.

Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: Dina Korzun, Rip Torn, Andrew Lawrence Henderson, Elizabeth Morton

Votes: 1,556

11. Variety Lights (1950)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

Directors: Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, Giulietta Masina, John Kitzmiller

Votes: 3,866

12. What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul."

Director: Liz Garbus | Stars: Nina Simone, Lisa Simone Kelly, Roger Nupie, Al Schackman

Votes: 14,839

13. This Is Elvis (1981)

PG | 110 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

The life and career of Elvis Presley are chronicled in home movies, concert footage, and dramatizations. Subjects include early performances, army service, Ed Sullivan Show appearance, marriage, 1968 comeback, health decline and death.

Directors: Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt | Stars: Elvis Presley, David Scott, Paul Boensch III, Johnny Harra

Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $2.03M

14. Elvis on Tour (1972)

G | 93 min | Documentary, Music

Concert footage and offstage documentary of singer Elvis Presley.

Directors: Robert Abel, Pierre Adidge | Stars: Elvis Presley, Bill Baize, Estell Brown, James Burton

Votes: 1,876

15. Sing Your Song (2011)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.

Director: Susanne Rostock | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Marge Champion, Fran Scott Attaway

Votes: 502 | Gross: $0.05M

16. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Cousin Roy in Movieland (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Jethro agrees to take on cousin Roy as a client but then he changes everything that made the banjo player likeable. Granny, Jed, and Ellie are dismayed but a hit record happens in spite of Jethro.

Director: Joseph Depew | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 70

17. The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971)
Episode: Jethro the Flesh Peddler (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Jethro's new plan is to become a big-time talent agent, and his first action is hiring beautiful Babs and Bunny. Cousin Roy, told he has musical gifts, arrives but Jethro refuses to accept him as a client which upsets the other Clampetts.

Director: Joseph Depew | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, Max Baer Jr.

Votes: 69

18. Tokyo Tarareba Girls (2017– )
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2017)

60 min | Comedy

The three women are still on the hunt for the perfect man and a relationship. Actually, at this point it looks like any man would do. None of them wants to remain single. At the same, the ... See full summary »

Director: Seiichi Nagumo | Stars: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Nana Eikura, Yûko Ôshima, Kentarô Sakaguchi