HELP. Movies about music

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I need a shit big list of movies about music - old or new, good or bad, any type of music, and from anywhere in the world.

I have many of the obvious ones, i.e. Almost Famous, Spinal Tap, High Fidelity, Velvet Goldmine, Sid & Nancy, 24 Hour Party People, What's Love Got To Do With It?, The Doors, A Hard Day's Night, Quadrophenia, Tommy, Backbeat, The Rutles, Jailhouse Rock / Elvis Movies, Head, The Wall, Saturday Night Fever yada yada.

But now my mind is gone blank and I need some more. Ta.

― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Help" ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

IMMORTAL BELOVED!!!!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Would "Let it be" and "One plus one / Sympathy for the Devil" count?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Slade were in a great one: Flame

Also: Hearts of Fire (which is an absolute bag o'shyte), Purple Rain, Jailhouse Rock, Summer Holiday...

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Empire Records

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Human Traffic
Clubbed to Death
Year of the Devil (It's a mockumentary, but with real people. An excellent film; a lot of such films have more to do about the "scene" than the actual music, but this one's all about the transcendental qualities of music.)
Wave Twisters
I'd include Fantasia as well, since in it's way it's all about music.

If you're willing to accept documentaries as well, there are obviously a lot more.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"Immortal Beloved" - that's a good 'un. More classical stuff like this please, such as Amadeus.

And more clubbing movies is a good one, or movies about the experience of various music cultures.

Documentaries as well: I've already got Buena Vista Social Club, The Filth and the Fury, Decline of Western Civilisation II, Biggie and Tupac etc.

And concert movies like Woodstock, The Song Remains the Same, Ziggy Stardust, Stop Making Sense etc.

― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

8 bastard Mile.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

'amadeus'
'o brother where art thou'
'pump up the volume'
'wildstyle'

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Documentaries:
Modulations
Hang the DJ
Wild Style
Standing in the Shadows of Motown

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

- American Graffiti
- Hilary and Jackie
- Bird
- Singles
- Bollywood movies
- Dogs In Space

― 39 Steps + 40 Winks (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Urgh! A Music War"
Both volumes of "The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization"
"Breaking Glass"
"This Is Spinal Tap"
"A Mighty Wind"
"200 Motels"
Ken Russell's "Lizstomania" and "The Music Lovers" (I understand he also has a film about Mahler but I don't know the title.
"Straight No Chaser"
"Jazz on a Summer's Day"
"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains"
"Space is the Place"
"Wattstax"

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

- Shine
- Stop Making Sense
That Chet Baker documentary (Let's Get Lost?)

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hard Core Logo - Mocumentary a la Spinal Tap

Bad News - a Adrain Edmondson, Rik Mayall & Nigel Planer "mocumentary" about a really crappy 80's heavy metal band.

I would also have to recommend:

All About Lily Chou Chou. It's about a fans' obsession/dedication with a singer named Lily Chou Chou.

― beatbox (beatbox), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Tapeheads
Rock n Roll High School
Nightmare Before Christmas
Genghis Blues
Kurt and Courtney
Scratch

Re: Space is the Place...this is Sun Ra, right? I think I may have watched this like 10 times in the past two weeks. I've watched some Sun Ra film a shitload lately, anyway, and it's really amazing. I love where he's talking about "history, that's his story, but this is my story, and my story is mystery". I love that man.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Blues Brothers! and er, The Blues Brothers 2000

― BrianB, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't Look Back

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Shine.
My Holland's Opus.
The Last Waltz.
Grand Theft Parsons.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Glitter.
The Rose.
That Thing You Do!
A Face in the Crowd.
The Pianist.
A Star Is Born.
La Bamba.
The Jazz Singer.
Grace of My Heart.
Spiceworld.
Rockstar.
Lady Sings The Blues.
The Commitments.
Still Crazy.
Breakdance.
CB4.
Fear Of A Black Hat.
Rude Boy.
The Harder They Come.
Brassed Off.
Purple Rain.
Rattle and Hum.

― Judd Pipppp (39 Steps + 40 Winks), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Bittersweet Motel (Phish tour doc)
The Power of ~~Sound~~Salad (Lightning Bolt tour doc)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The Benny Goodman Story
The Glenn Miller Story
The Buddy Holly Story
Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
Sweet Dreams
Coal Miners Daughter
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Times Square

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Satisfaction (Justine Bateman, Britta Phillips)
Cotton Candy (Ron Howard and is that really the Ron Jeremy?)

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jolson Story

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story
Sweet and Lowdown

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Cotton Candy (Ron Howard and is that really the Ron Jeremy?)

ah, a lost tv classic! ron howard directed it but not so sure he was in it. his brother clint howard was in it.

don't remember ron jeremy being in it either, but it's been a while.

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Did anyone say the Rutles film All You Need Is Cash?

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Phantom of the Paradise.

― harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Docs:
'Sleeping, Waiting, Eating, Playing', or whatever that Air documentary was called.
'Meeting People is Easy', about Radiohead's OKC tour. Excellent.
'Better Living Through Circuitry', rave stuff.
'Stargazer', about Swan Lee.
'Freestyle', about, well...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Mo' Better Blues
Bird

and...GIANT STEPS

a horribly awesome 80s jazz movie starring BILLIE DEE WILLIAMS.

― Jordan C., Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Mayor of the Sunset Strip, that new film about Rodney Bingenheimer

― harveyw (harveyw), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Driver 23 / Atlas Moth - it's a must-see for most on this list.
It's a doc of manic-depressive Dan Cleveland's metal band Dark Horse,
with many, many quotable lines.

http://www.thestranger.com/2001-03-22/music.html has a review.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Beat Street
Rockers
The Harder They Come
'Round Midnight

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC!!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There's some wacky rock n roll western called like Zebediah or Jeremiah or some Amish-sounding name ft. The James Gang and STARRING Elvin Jones as a total fucking bad-ass who shoots a guy and then sits down to play a 10 minute sweaty-as-fuck drum solo. TOTALLY find that!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Latcho Drom"

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Rattle and Hum, which is probably worse than anything listed on thread so far

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw beat street & wildstyle, but not:

breakin'
breakin' 2 - electric bugaloo
krush groove

also:
thank god its friday
poetic justice
juice
cool as ice (the vanilla ice movie - was that about music?)

― pete from the street, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Little Voice

and i can not believe none of us has mentioned...

Crossroads, with the immortal Ralph Macchio

― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

buena vista social club
calle 54

― pete from the street, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

breakin' and breakin' 2 were about dancin', man.
juice is only peripherally about music

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Who is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
(Dustin Hoffman plays a mega-prolific songwriter who has a stalker. Co-stars Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, and Dom Deluise. Shel Silverstein supplies the songs. It's BRILLIANT!)

Nashville
Cisco Pike

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Amadeus
Coal Miner's Daughter

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Songcatcher (based on Alan Lomax's Appalachian recordings)
Coal Miner's Daughter
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (only 15 min long though)
Theremin

― pete from the street, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

another state of mind &
minor threat - buff hall

― dz, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh Yeah! ISHTAR!!!!!

― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dill Scallion" -- The "This Is Spinal Tap" of '90s country music

― John Fredland (jfredland), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Chopin"

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Any Way The Wind Blows by Tom Barman (dEUS singer)

― daarkbee, Tuesday, 25 November 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I understand he also has a film about Mahler but I don't know the title.

'Mahler'

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

'That'll be the Day'
'Stardust'

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

BANDWAGON

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'Get Boyzvoiced' (i think). Spinal Tap for boy bands.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Gimme Shelter
The Last Days Of Disco
High Fidelity
Storefront Hitchcock

― turkey (turkey), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

What was the movie that had the kids from Rodan and June of 44 and Rachels in it??

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"32 Short Films About Glenn Gould"

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

What was the movie that had the kids from Rodan and June of 44 and Rachels in it??

HalfCocked

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Zachariah is the weird Western mentioned above.

Also the David Essex movie (called Rock On?)

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Is there a Fleetwood Mac doc?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

there's a "making of rumours" doc, and i think an "early years" thingy

― jones (actual), Thursday, 16 June 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Two Visconti movies (Luscino, not Tony):
Death in Venice turns Tomas Mann's story into virtually one long fantasy on the life and music of Mahler.
Ludwig, about the mad, decadent, proto-glam Wagner-fanboy King of Bavaria.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

DiG!

― shh! (wide-eyed), Thursday, 16 June 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Wait...is the director of Flame (mentioned above) the son of Popeye?

http://www.r3.org/onstage/FILM/loncrn2.gif

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Only 1/3 of the Bruce MacDonald trilogy was only mentioned.
Roadkill - A intern music employee goes from Toronto to Northern Ontario in an attempt to reign in a band on a tour from hell. Features an amazing soundtrack, Nash The Slash without bandages and a twisted Don McKellar. Was supposed to be about the band A Neon Rome but that band imploded when amoung other things ,the lead singer took a vow of silence.
Highway 69 - Jello Biafra plays a customs agent, Art Bergmann an aging rockstar and Don McKellar plays a roadie as they go from Ontario through Detroit back to roots of rock music.
Hard Core Logo - Didn't really see it ending the way it did but what the hell.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (featuring The Bee Gees)
Detroit Rock City
KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 16 June 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

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