A Band Called Impaled Rektum (2018), The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009), Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2010), Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out (2006), Still Crazy (1998), Orchestra Wives (1942), That Thing You Do! (1996), The Runaways (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Band Life movies.
Storyline: A young man is trying to overcome his fears by leading an unknown heavy metal band to the hottest metal festival in Norway. The journey includes heavy metal, grave robbing, Viking heaven, and an armed conflict between Finland and Norway.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, band, underground music, music culture, independent film, musicians, music history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Music video director Emmett Malloy shadows guitarist and singer Jack White and drummer Meg White on their 2007 Canadian tour. Alongside traditional concerts, the film shows the duo performing in unusual spaces like a Winnipeg city bus, an Ontario flour mill and a gathering of Native American tribal elders. Also included are intimate backstage moments between Jack and Meg, a formerly married couple whose time as a band was nearing its end during this tour, which proved to be their last.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, live performance, independent music, black and white, minimalism, musical journey, behind the scenes ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Songwriter Stephin Merritt is known as "the Cole Porter of his generation" for his memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings. Shot over a period of 10 years, "Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields" explores his friendship with his longtime bandmate and manager Claudia Gonson. Through his recording and songwriting process, the film traces a 20-year career that has yielded one of the most engaging bodies of work in the contemporary American songbook.—Kerthy Fix, co-director
Plot Keywords: music documentary, musician biography, creative process, songwriting, experimental music, music history, behind the scenes ...
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: documentary, music, rock, behind the scenes, archival footage, band history, 1980s ...
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: music, comedy, rock, band, reunion, nostalgia, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him, she joins the bands tour and learns about life as an orchestra wife, weathering the catty attacks of the other band wives.—Steve Fenwick <scf@w0x0f.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, marriage, 1940s, song and dance, jazz ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Recounts a fable of a pop rock band formed a year after the Beatles took America by storm in early 1964. Jazz aficionado Guy Patterson, unhappily toiling in the family appliance store, is recruited into the band the Oneders (later renamed the Wonders) after regular drummer Chad breaks his arm. After Guy injects a four/four rock beat into lead singer Jimmy's ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the Wonders into a brief whirlwind of success, telling the tale of many American bands who attempted to grab the brass ring of rock and roll in the wake of the British Invasion.
Plot Keywords: music, band, 1960s, fame, comedy, romance, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1975, San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett, a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager, Kim Fowley, who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie, at age 15, the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck, she can sing. Two others round out the band, The Runaways. Fowley books a tour, signs them to Mercury Records, and packs them off to crowds in Japan. Seeds of conflict sprout early: Fowley puts Cherie front and center in the publicity, she's soon strung out on drugs and vodka, and jealousies arise. Without adult supervision, where can Joan and Cherie end up?
Plot Keywords: rock music, 1970s, rise to fame, music industry, gender issues, drug abuse, sexual exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer who is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally given up all hope, he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer. They reluctantly make him the newest member of the band, giving him a chance to reclaim the rock god throne he always thought he deserved, and taking the young band along for the ride of their lives.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, rock, band, dream, midlife crisis, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Plot Keywords: musical, independent film, female lead, rock music, psychological drama, 1990s, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Touring makes you crazy", Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this movie came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.—George S. Davis
Plot Keywords: musical film, rock music, experimental film, surrealism, comedy, avant-garde, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of Midwestern pals -- Owen (Jim Gaffigan), Tommy (Michael Gilio), Dave (Ian Brennan), Greg (T.J. Jagodowski) and Vern (Jed Resnik) -- typically make an annual pilgrimage to a big amateur hockey tournament in Madison, Wis. But this year their plans may be changing. With the men coming up on middle age, they're torn between their desire to repeat their once-a-year outing and the responsibilities that come with adulthood, careers and marriage.
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, independent film, road movie, band, dreams, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The rise and rise of the Fabulous Dorsey brothers is charted in this whimsical step down memory lane, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey play themselves in this vehicle for their excellent music. From being raised by their father who insists on them learning music, to the split that just saw their careers rise even further.—Paul Batey <pbatey@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Plot Keywords: jazz, 1940s, black and white, musician biography, nostalgia, family drama, golden age of hollywood ...
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