Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation (2019), Gypsy Caravan (2006), Woodstock (1970), United Nation: Three Decades of Drum & Bass (2020), From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980), Monterey Pop (1969), Festival (2005), Genghis Blues (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Music Festival movies.
Storyline: It's time to rock and roll - air guitar style. AIR GUITAR NATION is the feature documentary about the year that air guitar swept America - from New York to Los Angeles and then all the way to northern Finland. AIR GUITAR NATION chronicles the birth of the US Air Guitar Championships and the personal journeys of those talented contestants who are vying to become the first World Air Guitar Champion from the United States. Every August, the Air Guitar World Championships bring thousands of fans all the way to Oulu, Finland to see the world's best air guitarists battle it out for 60 seconds of mock stardom. For years, the USA was missing in action. Enter the first official US Air Guitar Championships. What starts as a friendly contest above a New York strip club becomes a battle of naked ambition played out on the national and, ultimately, the world stage. Full of triumph and disappointment, patriotic spirit and political tension - and of course invisible guitars - this tension filled competition quickly turns very real as the contest becomes even more fierce as the contestants work hard to win the title of World Air Guitar Champion. AIR GUITAR NATION captures the explosion of competitive air guitar through the eyes of former world champions, fans and media, and through the personal rivalries of those trying to attain the title of "The best Air Guitarist in the world."—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, competition, guitar, culture, usa, indie film ...
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: The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash, and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the events appear in his memories to assist him in determining his guilt in the affair. The reminiscences are mixed with the real action: the flight of the "Italia", the air rescue operation from Kings Bay airfield, the expedition of the "Krassin" ice-breaker. A sort of human touch is added by the ever beautiful C.C. playing Malmgren's girlfriend.—E. Kocourek <e_kocourek@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: music documentary, live performance, 1960s, psychedelic rock, music history, nostalgia, experimental music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cheech and Chong meet up by chance on the highway somewhere in California. They go in search of some dope and are accidentally deported to Mexico where in their desperation to get home they agree to drive a van back to the States so they can get back in time for a gig they are due to play. Unaware of the properties from which the van is constructed they make their way back having aquired a couple of female hitch-hikers whilst all the time avoiding the cops whom they are not even aware are following them.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, road movie, drug culture, humor, counterculture, music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young misfits head for New York City to celebrate their idol and muse, Stevie Nicks, at The Night of 1,000 Stevies. Along the road, in order for them to escape their painful pasts, they must discover their strengths and learn self-acceptance.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: independent film, lgbtq+, music, road movie, coming of age, friendship, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyaté Master Soumy and Ahmed Ag Kaedi - we embark on a musical journey to Mali's agitated heart. Can their music reconcile the country?
Plot Keywords: music, africa, documentary, culture, musicians, social change, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four members of a high school band called Mystery do everything they can to attend a KISS concert in Detroit. In order to make it to the show they must steal, cheat, strip, deal with an anti-rock mom and generally do whatever it takes to see the band that has inspired them to be musicians.
Plot Keywords: music, rock, teen, comedy, rebellion, band, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary about the junior version of the annual Eurovision song festival.
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, teenagers, competition, coming of age, youth, singing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Plot Keywords: music festival, 1960s, comedy, biography, history, america, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Summer, 1969: men on the moon, and Woodstock happening near the cabin where the Kantrowitz family stays every summer. The camp's a Jewish fish-bowl. Marty's there weekends; he repairs TVs in Brooklyn. He's square and decent. His wife Pearl and his mother camp with Alison (she's 14) and their younger son. Pearl got pregnant at 17 and feels she missed her youth. While Alison experiences her first date, first kiss, first period, and stealing off to Woodstock with the lifeguard, Pearl has her own sexual awakening with "the blouse man," a peddler who sells at the camp. They too go to Woodstock. Marty confronts Pearl about the affair; she and he have to decide what to do next.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, family, coming of age, marriage, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. Meet David Turner, a Midwest transplant. He moved to the city with aspirations of starting his career as a writer but his hopes have stalled. After four years he finds himself writing instruction manuals for a computer company. Overworked and with little social life, David spends his time alone, his dream of being a novelist a distant memory. That night, his brother Colin Turner invites him to GROOVE. Colin has a surprise for his new girlfriend, young raver sprite Harmony Stitts, and he wants David there. David reluctantly agrees and is shocked when Colin proposes to Harmony at the party. In the ensuing celebration, they take Ecstasy and suddenly, David is thrust into the world of the San Francisco underground. In a chance encounter, David meets longtime New York raver Leyla Heydel and makes an unlikely connection. Through their budding relationship, they're reminded of a sense of possibility and freedom in their lives they had all but forgotten. But as the party rages on, Colin reveals a deep secret, one that threatens to destroy his relationship with Harmony. When the sun rises the party disappears, and the chaos of the last twelve hours changes the two brothers forever.—Gregory Harrison
Plot Keywords: electronic music, san francisco, nightlife, dj culture, youth culture, drug culture, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It's the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It's a night they'll never forget.
Plot Keywords: youth, romance, comedy, music, new york, night, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Movie detailing ABBA's mega-successful tour of Australia during mid-1977. While it mostly contains back-stage footage and as well as ABBA's famous songs such as "Dancing Queen", "Tiger", "Name Of The Game" and "Eagle" among others sung filmed during their concerts in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, it has the sub-plot of young country and western radio disc-jockey, Ashley, whose boss orders him to have a deep interview with ABBA and the problems he has trying to reach them as he forgets his press pass and ABBA's main bodyguard, (Tom Oliver) is determined to stop him...—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: music, documentary, concert, sweden, 1970s, pop music, musical film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sunshine Music Tours And Travels is a 2016 Indian comedy-drama road film, directed by Shailendra Singh and produced by Hayre Entertainment and Percept Pictures. Besides being Singh's directorial debut after producing 74 films in Bollywood, the film is also the world's first music festival -brand fictional film. The film features an ensemble cast of debutantes, including the lead being played by Sunny Kaushal, the son of veteran action director Sham Kaushal and younger brother of Bollywood actor, Vicky Kaushal. The film was extensively shot in Kashmir, Delhi, Jaipur, Ahemdabad and Goa, while using real time footage of the Sunburn festival of 2015. The story follows the life of two young boys, Sunburn and Rajma Romeo, living in the hills of Kashmir. Orphaned at birth, the boys have been brought up by a dhaba owner, Sardar Sodhi, and have spent their entire lives working at the dhaba. Sunburn, named by Sodhi after his obsession with the music festival of Sunburn, has dreamt of only one thing in his entire life- attending the Sunburn festival in Goa. But without money, without any help, Goa seems like a far fetched dream. His best friend, Rajma Romeo, then cracks a master plan, of creating a fake tour company, named 'Sunshine Music Tours and Travels'. With the help of social media, the news of their company spreads like wildfire in all of India. And with that starts the roadtrip of a lifetime, from Kashmir to Delhi, Jaipur, Ahemdabad and then eventually Goa. Enroute, the boys are joined by different people, who come on board the bus with the same agenda.—Ami Shah
Plot Keywords: music, travel, documentary, indian cinema, independent film, culture, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Northern Soul' is the story of a youth culture in the 1970s which changed a generation.It tells the tale of a nightclub based movement which developed in Northern England . The film is an authentic and uplifting account of two young boys whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music. No longer satisfied with the prospect of a small town life and a factory production lin , they dream of going to America to discover super rare records which will help them become the best DJs on the Northern Soul scene. The difficult journey forces the two best friends to confront rivalry, violence and drug abuse as their friendship and loyalties are tested to the limit.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: musical, british film, 1970s, dance, youth, cultural clash, rebellion ...
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