BB King: The Life of Riley (2014), Khachaturian (2003), Control (2007), Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007), Western Stars (2019), If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001), Tribute (2001), The Glenn Miller Story (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Musician's Life movies.
Storyline: The life and music of BB King.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, musician's life, american music, music history, musical influence, musical innovation, biographical film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Plot Keywords: biography, musician, classical music, soviet union, composer, 20th century, documentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.
Plot Keywords: british film, depression, 1970s, music history, indie film, based on true story, music culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before. In "The Future Is Unwritten", from British film director Julien Temple, Joe Strummer is revealed not just as a legend or musician, but as a true communicator of our times. Drawing on both a shared punk history and the close personal friendship which developed over the last years of Joe's life, Julien Temple's film is a celebration of Joe Strummer - before, during and after the Clash.—IFC First Take
Plot Keywords: music documentary, british film, musician's life, social commentary, archival footage, musical influence, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Live concert performance of Bruce Springsteen singing songs from his album 'Western Stars'.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, concert film, american music, live performance, personal stories, nostalgia, musician's life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Music videos and archived footage supplement recent interviews in this documentary of ex-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. We follow his life from the early days in Ireland and England, through his formation of - and later dismissal from - The Pogues, to his new band The Popes. Shane's family, friends, and former bandmates comment on the music, the rumors, and the alcohol.—sienel
Plot Keywords: music documentary, biography, musician's life, creative process, music history, independent film, rock music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tribute is a feature rockumentary about music's strangest subculture: tribute bands. Tribute bands go to extraordinary lengths to re-create the experience of rock supergroups like Kiss, Journey, Judas Priest and Queen. The result can be anything from an emotionally potent nostalgia trip, to something more like Spinal Tap. Tribute follows the on- and off-stage struggles of tribute bands and their fans in their quest to live their rock dreams. Together they face band members quitting, soul-sucking day jobs, even bandmates who take the impersonation far too far.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, music, biography, documentary, true story, musician ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The unemployed trombone player Glenn Miller is always broken, chasing his sound to form his band and hocking his instrument in the pawn house to survive. When his friend Chummy MacGregor is hired to play in the band of Ben Pollack, the band-leader listens to one Glenn's composition and invites him to join his band. While traveling to New York, Glenn visits his former girlfriend Helen Berger, in Boulder, Colorado, and asks her to wait for him. Two years later he quits the band and proposes Helen that moves to New York to marry him. After the success of "Moonlight Serenade", Glenn Miller's band becomes worldwide known and Glenn and Helen and their two children have a very comfortable life. Duting the World War II, Glenn enlists in the army and travels to Europe to increase the moral of the allied troops. In the Christmas of 1944, he travels from London to Paris for a concert to be broadcast; however his plane is never found in the tragic flight.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: musical biography, jazz, based on a true story, classic hollywood, musician's life, nostalgia, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Cream Will Rise is a documentary that exposes the turbulent and troubling side of singer/songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins' early years when a confrontation with her mother forces her to come to terms with some of the demons and darker moments of her childhood. This moving portrait combines Hawkins' performance footage with intimate moments of revelation.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, independent film, female director, singer, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, musician's life, music history, music industry, artistic creation, behind the scenes, musical influence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.
Plot Keywords: electronic music, berlin, dj culture, drug abuse, mental breakdown, recovery, music production ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield , catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song,"A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, electric performance footage throughout.—John Edginton
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, soul, rock, concert, music legend ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the final night of his life, Dec. 31, 1952, country music legend Hank Williams imagines himself giving a New Year's Eve performance in a small bar, with his comments to the audience reflecting upon his life.
Plot Keywords: musical biography, country music, concert film, canadian film, music legend, music history, performance art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.
Plot Keywords: rock music, love story, drug abuse, self-destruction, london setting, musician's life, underground culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Music impresario Alan McGee's journey from his native Glasgow into the heyday of '90s British rock music, intercut with an older version of himself recounting these events to an interviewer.
Plot Keywords: british film, based on true story, music industry, cultural revolution, independent music, music legend, youth culture ...
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