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by soundsapiens | created - 29 Dec 2014 | updated - 5 days ago | Publicscene, culture, post-underground
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1. Eden (II) (2014)
R | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Paul, a teenager in the underground scene of early-nineties Paris, forms a DJ collective with his friends and together they plunge into the nightlife of sex, drugs, and endless music.
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne, Vincent Macaigne, Hugo Conzelmann
Votes: 5,300
2. It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
R | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A famous DJ in the Ibiza club scene finds the alcohol and drug-fueled party that is his life threatened by the progressive loss of his hearing.
Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: Paul Kaye, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan, Mike Wilmot
Votes: 20,672 | Gross: $0.12M
3. Better Living Through Circuitry (1999)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Music
This is a documentary film about the history of the U.S. rave scene which includes a fantastic soundtrack. Both the film and soundtrack capture the people and the music that shaped the ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Reiss | Stars: Moby, Lord T. Byron, McGuinnes, Lady Galore
Votes: 454 | Gross: $0.08M
4. RiP: A Remix Manifesto (2008)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary which examines copyright issues in the information age.
Director: Brett Gaylor | Star: Cory Doctorow
Votes: 1,296
http://ripremix.com/
5. What Difference Does It Make? A Film About Making Music (2014)
Documentary, Music
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
Director: Ralf Schmerberg | Stars: Erykah Badu, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Debbie Harry
Votes: 111
6. Come Worry with Us! (2013)
81 min | Documentary, Family, Music
-Violinist Jessica Moss and singer/guitarist Efrim Menuck are struggling to balance parenthood with making music in their internationally acclaimed Montreal-based band (in Canada) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra.
Director: Helene Klodawsky | Stars: Thierry Amar, Efrim Menuck, Jessica Moss, David Payant
Votes: 131
7. The Drop: The EDM Culture Explosion
Documentary, Music | Completed
Over the past few years, electronic dance music has taken off in popular culture. However, the transition from an underground movement to a mainstream juggernaut has not happened overnight.... See full summary »
Director: Edward Platero | Stars: Ookay, Moby, Avicii, Perry Farrell
8. Paris/Berlin: 20 Years of Underground Techno (2012)
52 min | Documentary
From secret Parisian parties to Berlin's infamous Berghain club, Paris/Berlin documents the underground movement of techno through the lens of two different cities. This 52 minute ... See full summary »
Director: Amélie Ravalec | Star: Laurent Garnier
Votes: 47
9. The Heart Is a Drum Machine (2009)
TV-PG | 74 min | Documentary, Music
What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a Drum Machine is a new feature documentary film project from the producers of Moog.
Director: Christopher Pomerenke | Stars: Jim Adkins, Mickey Avalon, Fairuza Balk, Steve Berlin
Votes: 153
10. Tokyo Noise (2002)
80 min | Documentary
Tokyo. A metropolis filled with sound, movement and culture. Through interviews with some of Tokyo's inhabitants, such as world-renowned photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, game designer Shono, musician Mayuko Hino and others.
Directors: Kristian Petri, Jan Röed, Johan Söderberg | Stars: Nobuyoshi Araki, Mayuko Hino, Ryû Murakami, Haruhiko Shono
Votes: 262
11. 15 Corners of the World (2014)
Not Rated | 79 min | Documentary
Eugeniusz Rudnik revolutionized the idea of music itself with a pair of scissors and a magnetic tape. As part of the legendary Experimental Studio of Polish Radio, he revealed hidden value ... See full summary »
Director: Zuzanna Solakiewicz | Star: Eugeniusz Rudnik
Votes: 115
12. In Pursuit of Silence (2015)
PG | 81 min | Documentary
A film about our relationship with silence and the impact of noise on our lives.
Director: Patrick Shen | Stars: John Cage, Pico Iyer, Garry Moore, Steve Orfield
Votes: 475 | Gross: $0.03M
13. Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011)
110 min | Documentary, Music
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker's Dracula. A beautifully gaunt and gothic aristocrat, ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn | Stars: Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey
Votes: 350
14. Morphine: Journey of Dreams (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The in-depth tale of the “low-rock” nineties Boston band who blazed like a comet across the global music scene….
Director: Mark Shuman | Stars: Steve Berlin, Dana Colley, Billy Conway, Jerome Deupree
Votes: 129
15. Félicité (2017)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, Music
Félicité sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When her 14-year-old son has a motorcycle accident, she goes on a frantic search through the streets of Kinshasa, a world of music and dreams. And her path crosses that of Tabu.
Director: Alain Gomis | Stars: Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka, Nadine Ndebo
Votes: 1,152 | Gross: $0.01M
16. Satan Satie (2016)
33 min | Documentary, Short
A conqueror, from time to time, indomitable, desolates a corner of the world and disappears. Is it the Devil? Inspired by the texts, drawings and music made by Erik Satie (France, 1866-1926).
Directors: Juruna Mallon, Lucas Parente | Stars: Guto Parente, Ornella Volta
Votes: 13
17. Kuro (2017)
84 min | Drama, Mystery
A Japanese woman living in Paris with her paraplegic lover reminisces about their time together in Japan.
Directors: Joji Koyama, Tujiko Noriko | Stars: Jackie, Tujiko Noriko
Votes: 128
18. Climax (I) (2018)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Music
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile
Votes: 79,405 | Gross: $0.80M
19. The Reach of Resonance (2012)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, History, Music
Miya Masaoka uses music to interact with plants and insects; Jon Rose turns fences into musical instruments with a violin bow in conflict zones ranging from the Australian outback to Israel... See full summary »
Director: Steve Elkins | Stars: John Luther Adams, Kronos Quartet, Miya Masaoka, Bob Ostertag
Votes: 14
20. Studio 54 (2018)
TV-MA | 98 min | Documentary, History, Music
The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Ian Schrager, Steve Rubell, Donald Rubell, Neil Schlesinger
Votes: 3,542 | Gross: $0.20M
21. Rolling Thunder Revue (2019)
TV-MA | 142 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Martin von Haselberg
Votes: 7,710
22. Teen Spirit (2018)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Music
A shy teenager dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. She enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. A spin on the Cinderella story.
Director: Max Minghella | Stars: Elle Fanning, Agnieszka Grochowska, Archie Madekwe, Zlatko Buric
Votes: 9,727 | Gross: $0.44M
23. Center Stage (2000)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A group of teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Amanda Schull, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky, Christine Dunham
Votes: 22,794 | Gross: $17.17M
24. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy
Votes: 592,833 | Gross: $216.43M
25. I Dream of Wires (2014)
96 min | Documentary, History, Music
The history and resurgence of the electronic modular music synthesizer.
Director: Robert Fantinatto | Stars: Patti Schmidt, Joel Chadabe, John Mills-Cockell, Morton Subotnick
Votes: 852
26. 808 (2015)
107 min | Documentary, Music
808 is a documentary film about the inspiring story of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. It's the tale of the birth of electronic music, and how one small machine changed the musical ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Dunn | Stars: Damon Albarn, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, Chris Barbosa
Votes: 720
27. We Are Your Friends (2015)
R | 96 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Caught between a forbidden romance and the expectations of his friends, aspiring DJ Cole Carter attempts to find the path in life that leads to fame and fortune.
Director: Max Joseph | Stars: Zac Efron, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski, Jonny Weston
Votes: 40,569 | Gross: $3.59M
28.
The Nature of Things (1960– )
Episode:
Sonic Magic: The Wonder and Science of Sound
(2015)
44 min | Documentary
Though our world is full of sound, we only notice the noise. Sound can thrill, delight, warn, and scare us. But there's much more to the story. Sound can cure the sick and make the blind see.
Directors: Ian Kirby, Jerry Thompson | Stars: Jürgen Götz, David Suzuki, Clare Tempany
Votes: 21
29. Awaken (I) (2018)
74 min | Drama, Music
Executive produced by cinema pioneers Terrence Malick and Godfrey Reggio, AWAKEN is a celebration of the spirit of life, an exploration of the Earth, and an ode to the Cosmos.
Director: Tom Löwe | Stars: Annatina Albin, John Alvarez, Agnes Anderson, Ashaka
Votes: 409
30. Everybody's Everything (2019)
TV-MA | 116 min | Documentary, Music
A look at the life of genre-blending artist and style icon Lil Peep.
Directors: Sebastian Jones, Ramez Silyan | Stars: Rob Cavallo, Ghostemane, Horse Head, Ilovemakonnen
Votes: 3,971
31. Modulations (1998)
75 min | Documentary, Music
The evolution of electronic music and its many genres. How the wide range of styles and scenes formed through experimentations on sound formation.
Director: Iara Lee | Stars: Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, Carl Cox, David Kristian
Votes: 489 | Gross: $0.14M
32. Once Aurora (2018)
71 min | Documentary, Music
An insight into the Norwegian starlet Aurora's strange world, while she struggles with making the cursed number 2 album and keeping her spirits up on her long world tour.
Directors: Benjamin Langeland, Stian Servoss | Star: Aurora
Votes: 217
33. Nordic Pulse (2019)
Documentary
Director: David Donnelly | Stars: Kristjan Järvi, Paavo Järvi
Votes: 6
34. Milford Graves Full Mantis (2018)
91 min | Documentary
Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz percussionist's singular voice and complex cosmology.
Directors: Jake Meginsky, Neil Young | Star: Milford Graves
Votes: 168 | Gross: $0.03M
35. The Archivists (2020)
14 min | Short, Music, Sci-Fi
In a dystopian future, three musicians discover a degraded vinyl record and attempt to reimagine one of its songs.
Director: Igor Drljaca | Stars: Noah Reid, Bahia Watson, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Votes: 42
36. Change Nothing (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Music
Intimate portrait of the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Hervé Loos, Arnaud Dieterlen
Votes: 365
37. Dream Land (2015)
90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Lida sells modern real estate developments to the new middle class in Phnom Penh. Her relationship with her boyfriend is deteriorating so she escapes to the beach, but finds there that the specters from the past haunt in sublime ways.
Director: Steve Chen | Stars: Nhem Sokun, Lida Duch, Hak Kim, Sokun Nhem
Votes: 35
38. Stardust (II) (2020)
Unrated | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Chronicles the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971 - a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Director: Gabriel Range | Stars: Johnny Flynn, Marc Maron, Jena Malone, Derek Moran
Votes: 2,295
39. Deborah Harry Does Not Like Interviews (2019)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Blondie's Debbie Harry endures years of superficial, tedious, and demeaning questions from journalists until she devises a brilliant way to turn interviews on their head.
Director: Meghan Fredrich | Stars: Debbie Harry, Chris Stein
40. Sisters with Transistors (2020)
86 min | Documentary, Music
Follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today.
Director: Lisa Rovner | Stars: Jean-Michel Jarre, Kim Gordon, Wendy Carlos, Laurie Anderson
Votes: 993
41. Totality (1999)
Documentary, Music
A unique look at total eclipses, capturing the experience within the scenery of a wide range of settings around the planet, from ancient ruins to city skylines. Totality is constantly ... See full summary »
Director: Billy Mallery
Votes: 42
42. Liminal (IV) (2020)
65 min
A FICUNAM commission for four directors, Liminal seeks to play with poetic affinities between film and music. Moving across aesthetic and generational differences, the film-makers explore ... See full summary »
Directors: Manuela De Laborde, Lav Diaz, Óscar Enríquez, Philippe Grandrieux
Votes: 23
43. The Silence Before Bach (2007)
G | 102 min | Musical
Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked 'dramatic' scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument ... See full summary »
Director: Pere Portabella | Stars: Christian Atanasiu, Féodor Atkine, George-Christoph Biller, Christian Brembeck
Votes: 694
44. Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes (2018)
13 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Delia Derbyshire.The Myths +The Legendary tapes is an unconventional portrait of an unconventional British electronic music pioneer and explores the idea that this extraordinary composer ... See full summary »
Director: Caroline Catz | Star: Caroline Catz
Votes: 18
45. Lisbon Beat (2019)
75 min | Documentary, Music
A musical journey through the suburbs of Lisbon. Musicians with identity struggles, who are not always given recognition. People from different generations and backgrounds, young and old.
Directors: Rita Maia, Vasco Viana
Votes: 40
46. Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann (2012)
93 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Bernard Josse | Stars: Peter Brötzmann, Conrad Bauer, Johannes Bauer, Han Bennink
Votes: 10
47. Records (2021)
87 min | Documentary
Twenty-one years after Alan Zweig's groundbreaking first feature documentary Vinyl, Zweig returns to the topic of compulsive record collecting with newfound introspection and a sunnier disposition.
Director: Alan Zweig
Votes: 27
48. Éliane Radigue - Échos (2021)
33 min | Short, Documentary
Directors: François Bonnet, Eléonore Huisse | Star: Eliane Radigue
Votes: 5
49. Senritsu seshimeyo (2021 Video)
89 min | Music
With mystical lands and mythology, this records a performance from world famous taiko troupe - Kodo. Alongside landscapes of Sado island, that have remained unchanged over thousands of years, depicts the past and even the entire universe.
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda | Stars: Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Kodo, Kenta Nakagome, Yuta Sumiyoshi
Votes: 58
50. Derailroaded (2005)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.
Director: Josh Rubin | Stars: Wild Man Fischer, Harold Bronson, Solomon Burke, Ruth Buzzi
Votes: 236
51. Dub Echoes (2008)
75 min | Documentary, Music
Through interviews with over 40 key names on the history of dub, electronic music and hip hop, "Dub Echoes" connects the dots between of the otherwise fragmented relation between all this genres.
Director: Bruno Natal | Stars: Victor Axelrod, Howie B., Lloyd Barnes, Steve Barrow
Votes: 203
52. Speaking in Code (2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Musical
Speaking in Code is an intimate account of people who are completely lost in music. A heartbreaking and lighthearted documentary, it's a vérité glimpse into the world of techno. Captivating... See full summary »
Director: Amy Lee Grill | Stars: Gabor Schablitzki, Gernot Bronsert, Sebastian Szary, Robert Henke
Votes: 107
53. Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Ginger Baker looks back on his musical career with Cream and Blind Faith; his introduction to Fela Kuti; his self-destructive patterns and losses of fortune; and his current life inside a fortified South African compound.
Director: Jay Bulger | Stars: Ginger Baker, Femi Kuti, Eric Clapton, Stewart Copeland
Votes: 3,616 | Gross: $0.11M
54. Revenge of the Mekons (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
REVENGE OF THE MEKONS charts the unlikely career of the genre-defying collective notorious for being--as rock critic Greil Marcus notes--"the band that took punk ideology most seriously." ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Angio | Stars: Vito Acconci, Fred Armisen, Rico Bell, Hugo Burnham
Votes: 106 | Gross: $0.01M
55. Breadcrumb Trail (2014)
90 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary on the Louisville, Kentucky band Slint with a focus on their seminal final album, Spiderland.
Director: Lance Bangs | Stars: Steve Albini, Todd Brashear, Ethan Buckler, Ian MacKaye
Votes: 739
56. Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge (2017)
TV-MA | 240 min | Documentary, Music
A look at 50 years of the iconic magazine features interviews with and footage of journalists, photographers and performers who have graced its pages since it was launched by publisher Jann Wenner in 1967. In 2 parts.
Directors: Blair Foster, Alex Gibney | Stars: Cameron Crowe, Jeff Daniels, Johnny Depp, Annie Leibovitz
Votes: 639
57.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
(2019)
Not Rated | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Musicians, scholars, family and friends reflect on the life of jazzer Miles Davis to reveal the man behind the legend. Full access to Davis' estate provides rare footage and photos, outtakes from recording sessions and new interviews.
Director: Stanley Nelson | Stars: Carl Lumbly, Miles Davis, Reginald Petty, Quincy Troupe
Votes: 3,283 | Gross: $0.19M
58.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Bob Marley: Rebel Music
(2000)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Profile of the life and music of the legendary reggae singer.
Director: Jeremy Marre | Stars: Rita Marley, Bob Marley
Votes: 223
59. Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka (2013)
Documentary
A film about the life and work of composer and electronic music innovator Vangelis.
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Vangelis, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Ridley Scott
Votes: 69
60. The Last Waltz (1978)
PG | 117 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Van Morrison
Votes: 20,160 | Gross: $0.32M
61. The Mozart Minute (2006)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Houchang Allahyari, Ruth Beckermann, Songül Boyraz, Sabine Derflinger, Gustav Deutsch, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michael Glawogger, Wolfgang Glück, Barbara Gräftner, Jessica Hausner, Edgar Honetschläger, Michael Kreihsl, Paulus Manker, Mara Mattuschka, Bady Minck, Michael Palm, Peter Patzak, Lisl Ponger, Ferry Radax, Goran Rebic, Thomas Renoldner, Anja Salomonowitz, Hanna Schimek, Michaela Schwentner, Ulrich Seidl, Tim Sharp, Peter Tscherkassky, David Wagner
Votes: 9
62. Viena and the Fantomes (2020)
R | 96 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A roadie travels across North America with a punk band during the 1980s.
Director: Gerardo Naranjo | Stars: Caleb Landry Jones, Ryan LeBoeuf, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeremy Allen White
Votes: 858
63. Streets of Fire (1984)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan
Votes: 24,242 | Gross: $8.09M
64.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint
(1989)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism toward a new emphasis on the concrete.
Director: Rick Tejada-Flores | Stars: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns
Votes: 83
65. Neptune Frost (2021)
105 min | Musical, Sci-Fi
An intersex African hacker, a coltan miner and the virtual marvel born as a result of their union.
Directors: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams | Stars: Cheryl Isheja, Elvis Ngabo, Diogène Ntarindwa, Bertrand Ninteretse
Votes: 1,059
66. Patti Smith, la poésie du punk (2022 TV Movie)
54 min | Music
At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever leaving the sidelines. A poet, actress, and ... See full summary »
Directors: Anne Cutaia, Sophie Peyrard | Stars: Stanley Bard, William S. Burroughs, John Cale, Alika Del Sol
Votes: 145
67. Nothing Compares (2022)
97 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
Director: Kathryn Ferguson | Stars: Sinéad O'Connor, Gay Byrne, John O'Connor, Bob Dylan
Votes: 3,084
68. Fyre (2019)
TV-MA | 97 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Billy McFarland, Jason Bell, Gabrielle Bluestone, Shiyuan Deng
Votes: 52,045
69. Pistol (2022)
TV-MA | Biography, Drama, Music
Based on the memoir of Steve Jones, the legendary Sex Pistols guitarist who helped usher in a punk revolution in Britain.
Stars: Toby Wallace, Anson Boon, Sydney Chandler, Jacob Slater
Votes: 8,547
71. Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes (2020)
98 min | Documentary
A portrait of the character and legacy of electronic sound pioneer Delia Derbyshire, who realized the Doctor Who theme tune in 1963 and explores the idea that this extraordinary composer lived outside of time and space as other people experience it.
Director: Caroline Catz | Stars: Caroline Catz, Honor-Ray Caplan-Higgs, Richard Glover, Zachary Hart
Votes: 184
72. Tár (2022)
R | 158 min | Drama, Music
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer
Votes: 93,791
73. The Mystery of Aris San (2007 Video)
75 min | Documentary, Drama, Music
The mysterious life of Aris San a Greek singer, who became a star in Israel, fell in the grip of the New York mafia and disappeared in Budapest.
Directors: Dani Dotan, Dalia Mevorach | Star: Aris San
Votes: 9
74. Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic of Minimalism (2018)
120 min | Documentary, Music
Musician, composer and orchestra conductor Charles Hazlewood goes in search of minimalism by exploring the work of four great American composers who rebooted classical music in the 20th century.
Stars: Charles Hazlewood, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Tom Service
Votes: 31
75. Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (1980)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Music
Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Mugge | Star: Sun Ra
Votes: 336
76. Space Is the Place (1974)
R | 82 min | Sci-Fi, Music
In an effort to bring unity and equality to African-Americans, an interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.
Director: John Coney | Stars: Sun Ra, Raymond Johnson, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney
Votes: 1,463
77. Ears, Eyes and Throats: Restored Classic and Lost Punk Films 1976-1981 (2019)
105 min | Documentary, History, Music
This collection of short films represents a hint of the tectonic shift in the underground film world in connection with the punk rock "movement." Restored from original negatives, it ... See full summary »
Directors: Stephanie Beroes, Richard Gaikowski, Liz Keim, Karen Merchant, Chuck Statler, Graeme Whifler | Stars: Billy Hawk, Reid Paley, Susan Pedrick
Votes: 54
78.
Music Box (2021– )
Episode:
Jason Isbell: Running with Our Eyes Closed
(2023)
98 min | Documentary, Music
An exploration of the personal and creative struggles behind the music of four-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jason Isbell.
Director: Sam Jones | Stars: Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires
Votes: 437
79. Southern Journey (Revisited) (2020)
75 min | Documentary, History, Music
Exploring the sounds and history of the Southern States, "Southern Journey (Revisited)" is both a music documentary and a road movie.
Directors: Rob Curry, Tim Plester
Votes: 10
80. I Thought the World of You (2022)
17 min | Short, Biography
The speculative tale of Canadian outsider musician Lewis and the belated discovery of his 1983 album "L'Amour". A love story composed in myth and song.
Director: Kurt Walker | Stars: Reece Presley, Alex Henderson, John R. Taylor, Kurt Walker
Votes: 21
81. Jam down (1981)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Musical
1980, the heart of the Jamaican reggae scene, following legendary reggae artists Toots Hibbert and The Congos. The film contains some of the only known early footage of The Congos, ... See full summary »
Director: Emmanuel Bonn
Votes: 19
82. YMO Propaganda (1984)
83 min | Fantasy, Music
The YMO film that combines dramatic cinema with their live 1983 concert at Budokan, Tokyo Japan. Starring Yellow Magic Orchestra and David Brooks Palmer, YMO Propaganda is 1984 Musical film... See full summary »
Director: Makoto Satô | Stars: Haruomi Hosono, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Brooks Palmer
Votes: 68
83. Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022)
105 min | Documentary, Music
An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s. A new generation kick-started a musical rebirth for New York City that reverberated around the world.
Directors: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern, Andrew Cross, Vivienne Perry, Sam Rice-Edwards | Stars: Ryan Adams, Julian Casablancas, Brian Chase, Kimya Dawson
Votes: 1,549
84. Traces in the Snow (2014)
63 min | Documentary
The world's first documentary about Siberia's punk rock scene in the 1980s. It was a phenomenon of those times that this music existed thousands of miles away from the movement's epicentres in New York and London.
Director: Vladimir Kozlov | Star: Egor Letov
Votes: 46
85. Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
82 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from heady days of post-war jazz to hip hop and beyond.
Directors: Sam Pollard, Ben Shapiro | Stars: Maya Angelou, Gary Bartz, Harry Belafonte, Art Blakey
Votes: 67
86. The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps (2019)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary
The story of lyrical genius, Martin Phillipps and his band, The Chills, is a cautionary tale, a triumph over tragedy, and a statement about the meaning of music in our lives.
Directors: Julia Parnell, Rob Curry | Stars: Martin Phillipps, Margaret Fraser, Neil Finn, Hamish Kilgour
Votes: 95
87. Whiplash (2014)
R | 106 min | Drama, Music
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser
Votes: 989,439 | Gross: $13.09M
88. This Much I Know to Be True (2022)
105 min | Documentary, Music
Explores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage".
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Earl Cave, Nick Cave, Andrew Dominik, Warren Ellis
Votes: 1,787
89. Disintegration Loops (2021)
45 min | Documentary
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 looms near, William Basinski contemplates the enduring legacy of "The Disintegration Loops" (his elegy to the 2001 Attacks), while quarantined in the midst ... See full summary »
Director: David Wexler | Star: William Basinski
Votes: 18
90. Country Gold (2022)
84 min | Comedy, Fantasy
George Jones invites up and coming country music superstar, Troyal Brux, out on the town in Nashville the night before George is to be cryogenically frozen in 1994.
Director: Mickey Reece | Stars: Colleen Elizabeth Miller, Cate Jones, Ben Hall, Laurie Cummings
Votes: 59
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