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45 films tagged music
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2014 · Drama
A first-year drummer at a competitive music school wins a seat in the top band, which is run by a conductor who teaches through humiliation. It is mostly the two of them in one room.
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1952 · Musical
A silent-film star has to make his first talking picture opposite a leading lady whose voice will not do, so the studio quietly dubs her. Made in 1952 about 1927, and it stops for a song often.
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2016 · Musical
A boy in 1980s Dublin, moved to a rough school when his parents run short of money, starts a band mostly to impress a girl standing outside it. They learn to play as they go.
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2024 · Drama
A nineteen-year-old with a guitar arrives in New York in 1961 and talks his way into the folk clubs of Greenwich Village. Songs played end to end, and a lot of people arguing about them.
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2018 · Drama
A rock star with a drinking problem hears a singer in a bar and puts her on stage with him the next night. It is mostly the two of them, with full songs played end to end.
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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2017 · Action
A getaway driver who keeps music playing at all times to drown out the ringing in his ears is working off a debt to the man who hires him. Every chase and shootout is cut to whatever song he has on.
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2023 · Comedy
A doll from a pink plastic world where every day is perfect starts having thoughts she is not meant to have, and drives to the real world to find out why. Bright, fast, jokes stacked on jokes, with dance numbers.
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2018 · Drama
The rise of Queen from a pub band to Live Aid, following Freddie Mercury from his first audition to the stadiums. Built around the songs, with the concerts staged at full length.
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2017 · Animation
A boy from a Mexican family that has banned music wants to play, and on the Day of the Dead he ends up in the land where his ancestors live. Bright, quick, and built around songs.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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2008 · Drama
A cellist whose orchestra folds moves back to his home town and takes a job he did not expect: preparing the dead for their families before burial. Slow and gentle, with a lot of quiet ceremony.
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2022 · Drama
The life of Elvis Presley, from a Memphis boyhood to the Las Vegas years, told by the manager who ran his career. Loud, fast-cut and packed with songs from start to finish.
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2024 · Musical
A Mexico City lawyer with no prospects is hired by a cartel boss who wants help disappearing from his own life and becoming someone else. It is sung, and it swings between crime story and dance number.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Animation
Every child in a Colombian family gets a magical gift on their fifth birthday, except Mirabel, and now the house is cracking. Songs every few minutes and a lot of relatives to keep straight.
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2014 · Comedy
A young office worker talks his way into a band whose singer never takes off the large fake head he wears, and follows them to a cabin to record an album. Odd and funny early, heavier later.
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2013 · Animation
A princess sets out across the mountains to find her older sister, who has run from the kingdom after her power to freeze things got away from her. A musical for children, with big songs and a talking snowman.
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2018 · Drama
A Bronx bouncer takes a job driving a Black concert pianist through the American South in 1962, guided by a book listing where he is allowed to stop. Two men in a car, talking, for most of it.
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2015 · Horror
A broke punk band takes a late gig at a bar in the Oregon woods run by skinheads, and after the set they see something backstage they were not meant to see. Almost all of it is one building, one night, and trying to get out.
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2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
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2013 · Drama
A folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village sleeps on other people's sofas, plays a set most nights, and cannot get a record to sell. A week of his life, mostly cold streets and a cat he cannot shake off.
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2019 · Drama
Judy Garland arrives in London in 1968 for a run of sold-out shows, broke, worn out and thirty years past The Wizard of Oz. Mostly hotel rooms, dressing rooms and the stage.
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2025 · Animation
A K-pop girl group sell out arenas by day and hunt demons at night, until a rival boy band turns up with a suspiciously good debut. Animated, fast, and packed with full-length songs.
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2016 · Animation
A one-eyed boy in old Japan makes origami move with a stringed instrument, and has to find his father's armour before his grandfather's spirits find him. Stop-motion, and it goes to dark places for a kids' film.
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2016 · Musical
A jazz pianist and an actress who keeps failing auditions meet in Los Angeles and push each other toward what they want. People sing and dance, and it runs across a year in the city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2001 · Musical
A village in colonial India can skip three years of tax if it beats the British garrison at cricket, a game none of them has played. Nearly four hours, with songs, and the last hour is the match.
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2020 · Drama
A blues singer and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio on a hot afternoon in 1927 and spend most of it waiting. From a play: one building, long speeches, four musicians in a rehearsal room.
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2023 · Drama
The conductor Leonard Bernstein and the actress Felicia Montealegre meet at a party and stay married for decades while he keeps a separate life going. Long scenes of the two of them talking, with whole years skipped between.
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2016 · Animation
The daughter of a Pacific island chief sails past the reef her people never cross, looking for a demigod who can put right what he took. Bright, fast and full of songs, with a lot of open ocean.
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2007 · Musical
A Dublin street singer and a Czech woman selling flowers spend a week writing and recording songs together. Small, shot on the street, and the songs are played all the way through.
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2020 · Drama
On a night in February 1964, Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown sit together in a motel room after a title fight. From a play, and it is four men arguing in one room for most of it.
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2016 · Comedy
A documentary crew follows a hugely famous pop star through the release of his second solo album, as everything around him starts to wobble. A fake documentary, jokes packed tight, and a lot of full songs.
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2019 · Musical
Elton John walks into a rehab meeting in a stage costume and tells the room his life from a Pinner childhood onwards, with the songs staged as fantasy numbers. People sing, and nothing is played straight.
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2022 · Action
Two men in 1920s India, one working for the British and one hunting for a girl taken from his village, become close friends without knowing who the other is. Three hours of dancing, fighting and no physics at all.
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2003 · Comedy
A broke guitarist takes his flatmate's substitute teaching job at a posh prep school and quietly turns his fourth-grade class into a rock band. Loud, silly, and mostly kids learning to play.
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2010 · Comedy
A slacker bass player in Toronto falls for a girl on rollerblades and learns he has to fight her seven evil exes to date her. Video game rules, comic book panels, and it never slows down.
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2025 · Horror
Twin brothers come home to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 and open a juke joint in an old mill, and opening night brings more than dancers. Half of it is the day of getting ready, and the blues playing matters as much as the plot.
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2020 · Animation
A New York middle school band teacher finally lands the jazz gig he has wanted his whole life, and that same day ends up somewhere else entirely. A Pixar film about what a life is for, with a lot of piano in it.
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2019 · Drama
The drummer in a two-person metal band starts losing his hearing on tour and is sent to a sober house for deaf people while he works out what to do. The sound puts you inside his ears for much of it.
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2015 · Drama
Five young men from Compton put what they see on their own streets onto record, and the records make them famous and watched. Loud, long, and covering about ten years.
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2010 · Animation
A girl who has spent eighteen years in a tower with seventy feet of hair blackmails a thief into taking her to see the floating lights. Songs all the way through, and mostly the two of them on the road.
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2022 · Drama
A famous conductor at the very top of the classical world prepares a live recording in Berlin while things from her past start pressing in. Long, talky, and she is in almost every scene.
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2023 · Comedy
The staff of a shabby theatre camp in upstate New York try to keep the place open for one more summer while putting on an original musical. Shot like a documentary, and mostly improvised jokes.
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2005 · Drama
Johnny Cash goes from an Arkansas cotton farm to a first record in Memphis, then years on the road with pills, a marriage coming apart, and June Carter. The songs are sung live by the actors and there are a lot of them.
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2024 · Musical
Two students at a school for wizards in Oz become friends despite having nothing in common: one green and unwanted, one blonde and adored. The first half of the stage musical, with big numbers and a lot of singing.
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