In the Heights (2021), Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical (2017), Gypsy Caravan (2006), Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two (2017), U2 3D (2007), The T.A.M.I. Show (1964), Waiting for Guffman (1996), Touch the Sound (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Musical Performance movies.
Storyline: The young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a Chicago music professor. He is advised by bandleader Kid Ory to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.
Plot Keywords: musician, mother, father, critic, sister, heartwarming, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Plot Keywords: orphan, nephew, band leader, uncle, landlady, daughter, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Music-hall star Madeleine Marlowe leaves London engaged to the Duke of Trippingham only to find back home that Police Gazette hack Samuel A. McGee has exposed her as former burlesque queen Rosie O'Grady. To get her own back she announces that Sam is in fact her real suitor. He in turn has a song about Rosie published and something of an Irish brawl develops via his paper and her stage show.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: newspaper reporter, duke, fiancé, fiancée, spirited, engaging, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this movie based on the early days of Def Jam Recordings, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker manages all the hottest acts on the record label Krush Groove Records, which include Run-D.M.C., Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and Kurtis Blow, while Rick (Rubin) produces the label's records. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell doesn't have the money to press records, he borrows money from a street hustler. At the same time, Russell and and his brother Run both compete for the heart of R&B singer Sheila E.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: business owner, music producer, rapper, brother, dj, cool, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joseph, a former professional musician who has withdrawn into a quiet life after the death of his wife. Remaining mostly isolated, he stays at home, playing his violin in the evenings for entertainment. This routine is disrupted, however, when he witnesses a violent fight between his neighbor, Eddie, and his girlfriend Charlotte. He takes an interest in her, eventually taking her in when he learns that she has no place to stay. The gentle Kopple possesses a traditional, European restraint, while she is tough and jaded. Nevertheless, the two soon become close companions, sharing their pain and finding unexpected solace in each other.
Plot Keywords: violinist, retiree, mobster, woman, neighbor, charming, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The ice cutter Amundsen overwinters in the Arctic, supporting the research of over 250 scientists from 26 countries while facing some of the harshest conditions imaginable.
Plot Keywords: orphan, adoptive parent, monkey, local, dog, touching, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Django Reinhardt was one of the most brilliant pioneers of European jazz and the father of Gypsy Swing. "Django" grippingly portrays one chapter in the musician's eventful life and is a poignant tale of survival. Constant danger, flight and the atrocities committed against his family could not make him stop playing.—Berlinale
Plot Keywords: composer, guitarist, band member, gypsy, nazi, girlfriend, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a Brooklyn musician moves back in with her mother. Playing for tip money in an old friend's bar, an unexpected relationship begins to take shape. Based on the life and times of Alyssa Robbins.
Plot Keywords: musician, girlfriend, mother, lesbian, ex-boyfriend, housewife, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat". Her involvement with Larry Maddux, a gin-runner and con-man, and Russell Wade, a prominent, married New York lawyer, and her decline thanks to these failed romances and alcohol are punctuated by performances of many of the songs she made famous.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: singer, broadway producer, broadway star, bootlegger, boyfriend, alcoholic, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Evie Decker, a shy young woman, falls in love with pop star Drumstrings Casey after hearing his voice on the radio. Summoning the courage to pursue the singer, Evie starts to break out of her shell...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young woman, musician, father, store manager, rock star, emotional, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eddie Dean and Soapy Jones foil an attempted stagecoach holdup designed to murder Circuit Judge Hilton, bound for Rawhide to restore law and order. The Judge and the other passenger, Parson Trimble, decide to put up at the ranch owned by Sherry Lynn, Eddie's sweetheart, and her mother Ma Lynn. They are waylaid again, but the outlaws are driven off, and Nevada, an undercover man for the Judge, allows one of captured men to escape so he can follow him to the gang hideout. The Judge also deputizes Eddie. Nevada gets in with the gang, led by Duke and Dad Dillon, and is given the assignment to kill the Judge, whose first act in Rawhide was to close Duke's saloon and fire the city manager, Colonel Blake, a hireling of the Dillons. Eddie, Nevada and Soapy find evidence at the Dillon mine that they have been stealing government gold shipments. Colonel Blake is preparing to skip town and reveals to Sherry and saloon-girl Lola, Duke's girlfriend, that Duke is really the son of Judge Hilton, kidnapped in infancy by Dillon as an act of revenge. The Dillons and Eddie and his men are in a gunfight outside of the Palace Saloon when the Judge, having learned that Duke is is son, goes out to look for him. Duke, not believing the story, is looking to kill the Judge.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: judge, cowboy, sidekick, saloon owner, bandit, drifter, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Myles Clarkson, a classical piano player on the rise, befriends Duncan Mowbray Ely, a famous player himself who is at death's door. Unknown to Clarkson, Ely is a Satanist, who arranges to have their souls switch places at his death, so that he can be young again and continue to play piano.—Humberto Amador
Plot Keywords: pianist, wife, journalist, satanist, daughter, uneasy, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 1937. A renowned stage singer leaves the theatre to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. Arthur Tracy (The Street Singer) and Lilli Palmer star in this romantic musical. Also stars Finlay Currie.
Plot Keywords: singer, gypsy, manager, movie star, charming, dreamy, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Reeling with grief in the wake of a tragic automobile accident, retired veteran cyclist, Chris Carmik, is given an opportunity he doesn't want, to train a rookie cycling prodigy. Preoccupied with battling his own inner demons, Chris reluctantly acclimates the prodigy, named Jake, to the fast paced world of Bicycle Racing. Using cutting edge technology and scientific training methods, Chris transforms Jake into a top contending cyclist; however, he struggles to teach Jake the most important lesson prominent in all champions - finding the true potential inside.—Tessa Sturgill
Plot Keywords: musician, singer, singer-songwriter, best friend, rock star, brooding, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mona returns to the city to renew her life with her best friend Helen following her grandmother's death. Mona reluctantly attends a raucous party with Helen, even though her ex, Jason, will be there, where she encounters the charming Dirk who alters her life.—Taylor Cleghorn
Plot Keywords: best friend, ex-boyfriend, single woman, young woman, rape victim, rape survivor, rapist ...
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