A Band Called Impaled Rektum (2018), Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey (2002), Sound of Noise (2010), Home of the Brave (1986), The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009), Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010), Whiplash (2014), Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Drummer movies.
Storyline: Filmed in 1973 over the course of a three-night stand at New York City's Madison Square Garden, this concert film shows Led Zeppelin at the apogee of their hard-rocking glory. In addition to featuring such indelible hits as "Dazed and Confused," "Whole Lotta Love" and "Stairway to Heaven," the live footage is interspersed with elaborate fantasy sequences, backstage shenanigans and a glimpse of what the business side of such a large touring operation entails.
Plot Keywords: musician, manager, drummer, singer, guitarist, wife, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A day and a half in the life of the Fab Four leading up to a televised concert gig. The boys seem to be constantly on the run, from their crazed fans and from their manager, who is constantly trying to rein them in. Sir Ringo Starr however is arrested and still isn't in the studio half an hour before air time. With Sir Paul McCartney's grandfather available for additional comical relief, the group performs a dozen or so songs.
Plot Keywords: drummer, director, bassist, teenager, singer, guitarist, playful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
Plot Keywords: pianist, drummer, friend, son, manager, mistress, cool ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Directed by Andreas Neumann and Joshua Homme, American Valhalla tells the story of an unlikely musical collaboration between two mavericks of American rock: Joshua Homme, frontman of Queens of the Stone Age and Iggy Pop, the Godfather of Punk. The film, co-directed by Homme, follows the recording of Iggy's final album 'Post Pop Depression' in the California desert, with his band comprising of Homme, his QOTSA bandmate Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys' drummer, Matt Helders, as well as the explosive tour that builds to a crowning performance at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall. Featuring stunning cinematography and intimate access, American Valhalla reveals the growth of an intense bond between the musicians who have taken to heart the mantra: "you risk nothing you gain nothing".
Plot Keywords: iggy pop, rock star, musician, band member, guitarist, drummer, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: First time director Sam Jones documents the making of Wilco's fourth studio Album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Named after the Wilco song that is featured on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, an album that strays from the Alt-country that made them famous. Jones' desire was to document the creative work of YHF's production, he seems to have found a bit more, including band members departing and a conflict with Reprise record company. This is a true documentry of art versus money-driven media conglomerates.—J. Robert Putzer <hoplite59@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: singer, guitarist, drummer, musician, manager, uplifting, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.—Mike Campanelli <mjc@rubinbaum.com>
Plot Keywords: con artist, drug dealer, drummer, ex-girlfriend, wife, dark, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This inspirational and heartfelt documentary follows four well-known entertainers in the deaf community: a comic, a drummer, an actor and a singer as they attempt to cross over and reach mainstream audiences. These uniquely talented deaf entertainers of various disciplines overcome great challenges on their way to personal triumphs and professional success. Bob, a drummer in the world's only deaf rock band, Beethoven's Nightmare, produces the largest show in the band's 30 year history; CJ, a hugely famous and internationally renowned comic in the Deaf world, but virtually unknown to hearing audiences, fights to cross over to the mainstream by producing the first international sign language theatre festival in Los Angeles; Robert, a brilliant actor who teaches at Juilliard, struggles to survive when he becomes homeless, his health compromised by HIV; and TL, a hard of hearing singer finds herself caught between the hearing and deaf communities when she attracts her first major producer to record her first CD "Not Deaf Enough." Chronicled with rare intimacy and candor, SEE WHAT I'M SAYING: THE DEAF ENTERTAINERS DOCUMENTARY is the first open captioned commercial film in American history. At the same time, it opens the door to deaf culture as it allows the sign language in the film to be accessible to all audiences. Director Hilari Scarl captures with insight and honesty the humor and emotion, the struggles and obstacles these performers face daily, not just on stage but in life.—David Magdael
Plot Keywords: comedian, actor, drummer, singer, deaf person, creative, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.—<Ummagumma@sos.on.sa>
Plot Keywords: singer, guitarist, drummer, bassist, punk rocker, girlfriend, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An in-depth look at legendary punk band The Stooges.
Plot Keywords: iggy pop, band frontman, guitarist, drummer, band manager, fan, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stewart Copeland, drummer for The Police, compiles his Super 8 footage for an intimate look at what it was like to be a member of one of the world's biggest rock bands.
Plot Keywords: rock star, sting, drummer, guitarist, bassist, manager, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: loudQUIETloud is the story of this unforseen plot twist. A deeply compelling portrait of four band members and their difficult, tense, and ultimately triumphant return.
Plot Keywords: singer, bassist, guitarist, drummer, music lover, audience member, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady (or her hat). In prison, Scott gives up hope but his faithful secretary, "Kansas," doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Can she save Scott in time?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: husband, friend, secretary, detective, drummer, stranger, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This movie, based on William Shakespeare's Othello, is neatly positioned as a vehicle to showcase some of the best jazz musicians of the period, including Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus.
Plot Keywords: singer, drummer, musician, campy, melodramatic, london, stage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: money, fame, success, groupies, a singer who died of drugs, and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during an open-air concert. Twenty years later, all of the band members are minding their own businesses, the idea of a band reunion is brought up by, well, public request. Tony Costello (Stephen Rea), the former keyboard player, sets out only to find his former friends working as a roofer, a gardener and a hotel clerk. They all became rather everyday people, married or still single, they definitely are not wild and crazy anymore. But with the help of former manager Karen Knowles (Juliet Aubrey), who is still dreaming of Brian Lovell (Bruce Robinson), the apparently deceased lead guitarist, they all, old, fat and wrinkled as they are, try to catch that spirit again.—chijim222@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: guitarist, rock star, roadie, drummer, middle-aged man, singer, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A rollicking rock and roll road trip that will take you to the starving edge of the independent music scene. Charlie, Eric, Tony, and Wynn hardly know each other, but here they are in the most ridiculous, volatile and tenuous of unions: a band. Four young men find themselves hurtling through an exhilarating, sometimes painful adventure that puts them on a collision course with self discovery, or self destruction.
Plot Keywords: bassist, guitarist, songwriter, drummer, manager, loan shark, amusing ...
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