Highest-Rated Movies about 'Jazz Club', Sort by Popularity

Been Rich All My Life (2006), Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988), Little Manhattan (2005), The Five Pennies (1959), Young Man With a Horn (1950), Motherless Brooklyn (2019), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Mo' Better Blues (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Jazz Club movies.

#1. Been Rich All My Life (2006)

Storyline: They are the "Silver Belles," five women aged 84 to 96. They first met in the 1930's as chorus dancers at the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater where they worked 15 hour days, rehearsing a new show every week. In their heyday they performed with legendary band leaders like Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford and Duke Ellington. When the big band era ended, and with it the need for show dancers, they all went into other work. In 1985 they put their tap shoes back on, and are still performing regularly. But in one week, Cleo tumbles down the subway stairs and breaks her knee and arm, Marion gets a pacemaker, and Bertye is taken to the hospital. Is this the end of the Silver Belles?—Signy

Plot Keywords: chorus girl, elderly woman, manager, performer, endearing, inspiring, new york city ...

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#3. Little Manhattan (2005)

Storyline: In Manhattan, 10-year-old Gabe finds his first love when he meets his former kindergarten mate, eleven-year-old Rosemary, in his karate classes. Confused with his new feelings and with the divorce process of his beloved parents, Leslie and Adam, he experiences the delightful unknown sensation of being in love for the first time.

Plot Keywords: young boy, young girl, mother, father, son, charming, tender ...

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#4. The Five Pennies (1959)

Storyline: Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past come to help out.—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>

Plot Keywords: jazz musician, wife, daughter, coworker, bandleader, spirited, touching ...

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#5. Young Man With a Horn (1950)

Storyline: Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality and desire to play jazz rather than the restricted tunes of the bands he works for lands him in trouble.—Jerry Milani <jmilani@ix.netcom.com>

Plot Keywords: music teacher, jazz musician, musician, socialite, engaging, unrestrained, jazz club ...

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#6. Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Storyline: Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, "Motherless Brooklyn" follows Lionel Essrog (Norton), a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, as he ventures to solve his friend's murder. Armed only with a few clues and the powerful engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely-guarded secrets that hold the fate of the whole city in the balance.—Warner Bros.

Plot Keywords: private detective, mentor, friend, thug, engaging, quirky, creative ...

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#7. Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Storyline: It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphne Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphne Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme.

Plot Keywords: veteran, private investigator, girlfriend, woman, friend, politician, tense ...

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#8. Mo' Better Blues (1990)

Storyline: Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's and Shadow's friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.—David <DGOWERS6@CHECLABA.SCU.EDU.AU>

Plot Keywords: saxophonist, trumpeter, manager, teacher, singer, friend, cool ...

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#10. Kansas City (1996)

Storyline: Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held at the Hey Hey Club, she launches a desperate plan to release him. She kidnaps the wife of a powerful local politician in an attempt to blackmail him into using his connections to free Johnny. Despite this being election time, he risks exposure by putting the political machine into action to free Johnny and thereby save his wife. Mrs. Stilton, meanwhile, has befriended Blondie and is impressed by her love and devotion to Johnny, especially in contrast to her own loveless marriage.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>

Plot Keywords: wife, thief, mobster, politician, husband, tense, cool ...

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#11. Champagne Waltz (1937)

Storyline: Champagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on the popularity of Grace Moore, another opera singer, who had also expanded her talents into movies.

Plot Keywords: musician, singer, grandfather, club owner, countess, charming, winsome ...

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#13. Happily Never After (2012)

Storyline: Cole Killian is a professional photographer approaching middle age. After meeting an old high school flame and then seeing an advertisement for an orphanage with abandoned teenagers, Cole comes to the conclusion that he has a son there. Under the guise of being a mentor, Cole ingratiates himself into the life of 18 year-old Bo. He makes a skate-boarding film with Bo and his best friend, and he uses Bo's girlfriend as a model in a calendar. All the while Cole is trying to come up with the perfect present for his bratty 13 year-old daughter, and now he may have come up with the ultimate surprise.—napierslogs

Plot Keywords: bachelor, husband, lover, amusing, jazz club, happiness, commitment ...

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#15. Gross Misconduct (1993)

Storyline: Australian college student Jennifer Carter (Naomi Watts) has a seemingly normal life with her widower father (Adrian Wright), until her crush on her married art history professor, Justin Thorne (Jimmy Smits), becomes an obsession. Worming her way into his life first as his family babysitter, then as a fan at his sideline gigs as a jazz saxophonist, and finally as his illicit lover, Jennifer's single-minded devotion to Justin threatens both him and his wife, Laura (Sarah Chadwick).

Plot Keywords: college student, professor, wife, father, stalker, creepy, sultry ...

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