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121 films tagged music, showing 50
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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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2025 · Comedy
On the opening night of Oklahoma! in 1943, the lyricist Lorenz Hart slips away to a Broadway bar and holds court, sore about the hit his old partner wrote without him. One room, and almost all talk.
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2025 · Crime
A New York music mogul has staked everything on buying his label back when a kidnapper calls for a ransom, and the boy taken turns out to be his driver's son rather than his own. He has to decide whether to pay.
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2025 · Thriller
A pop star sunk in depression loses his voice on stage and walks off, then spends the night with a fan who has just set a house on fire. Loud, and it moves between concert stages and one long night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Musical
The Jonas Brothers finish a European tour wanting to get home for Christmas, and Santa Claus curses them so they cannot until they sort out their differences. Songs, cameos and a long way round.
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2025 · Musical
Two rappers from Dundee cannot get anyone in the record industry to take them seriously, so they put on American accents and spend three years pretending to be from California. Based on what the pair actually did.
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2025 · Drama
A concert flutist goes back to his Finnish hometown and reconnects with an old schoolmate. From there he is pulled towards experimental music.
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2025 · Drama
A woman meets a musician while out hiking, and an affair starts after she goes to one of his concerts. He then turns distant and disappears, and the film stays with her.
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2025 · Drama
After a death at sea, a Galician fishing village rehearses a rondalla to compete against the villages nearby, and to get over it. A large cast, and the rehearsals carry the film.
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2025 · Documentary
Four boys grow up in post-war Britain, find American blues and rock and roll, and end up in the same band. Archive footage and their own voices, and it stops after the first year.
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2025 · Drama
After her father dies, Lati throws herself into music against her Malian mother's wishes and tries to get a foothold in Barcelona's battle rap scene, coached by a former rapper. Music-led and close to her.
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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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2025 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old in a conservative village in rural North Macedonia falls for a girl and decides he wants to be a DJ. It stays small, and most of it is village life and what a teenager there is allowed to do.
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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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2025 · Comedy
A singer of seventy who will never perform again takes the train to Switzerland to end his life, and shares it with a woman let out of prison for her daughter's wedding. Mostly the two of them, talking.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about the singer Jeff Buckley, built from home footage, his own voice messages and interviews with his mother, his exes and the musicians who knew him. Mostly people remembering him.
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2025 · Drama
In 1981 Bruce Springsteen comes off a sold-out tour, holes up in a rented house near his home town and records a demo album on a four-track in the bedroom. Mostly quiet: one man, a tape machine, and his father.
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2025 · Musical
The life of Ann Lee, who grew up working a Manchester cotton factory in the 1700s and became the leader of the Shakers, told as a musical. The worship is danced and shouted, and so is much of the film.
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2025 · Musical
Two Wisconsin performers meet as neighbours in the late 1980s, start a Neil Diamond tribute act together and fall in love while doing it. Based on a true story, and full of the songs.
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2025 · Musical
A young woman abandoned at the courthouse on her wedding day stops writing and shuts herself in, until a hot-tempered musician finds her notebook and asks her to work with him. Long, loud and built around its songs.
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2025 · Musical
Argentina, 1983: a window dresser jailed for indecency shares a cell with a political prisoner and passes the days retelling him, scene by scene, the Hollywood musical she loves. It cuts between the cell and the musical she is describing.
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2025 · Romance
Two music students meet in 1917 over a shared love of folk songs, and after the war travel rural Maine recording people singing into a wax cylinder machine. It is quiet and takes its time.
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2025 · Thriller
A New York piano tuner whose hearing is too sensitive to let him play any more teaches himself to crack safes by ear, and joins a crew of thieves to clear his old mentor's medical debts. Much of it is quiet, close listening.
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2025 · Comedy
Forty years on, the man who filmed Spinal Tap finds the band scattered into cheese shops and glue museums, and bound by an old contract to play one last show. A mockumentary, straight-faced throughout.
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2025 · Comedy
Two Toronto friends have spent seventeen years failing to book a gig at one club, and their latest scheme accidentally sends them back to 2008. Silly and fast, built out of one bad plan after another.
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2025 · Horror
A young journalist is one of six people invited to a reclusive pop star's Utah compound to hear his first album in thirty years, where the staff all belong to his following. The unease starts early and builds.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
An atheist guitarist from a family of Brahmin priests runs out of work and starts standing in for his cousin at temple rituals, including an exorcism that appears to work. Strange things start happening to him, and it is played as a comedy.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A folk musician takes a suitcase of cash to play a private show on a remote Welsh island, where his host turns out to be the whole audience. Then his old singing partner arrives.
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2025 · Drama
In 1916 a Yorkshire choral society, short of men and short of a choirmaster, hires one the town distrusts and starts rehearsing Elgar. The war stays mostly offstage, and it moves at a stroll.
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2025 · Musical
A summer road trip goes wrong and a couple from Mountain College land between feuding clans of vampires and daywalkers, who have long fought over the last of a fruit they both live on. Songs, dances and a Disney Channel romance.
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2025 · Crime
An Oklahoma beekeeper and bluegrass player brings his former foster daughter into the honey business, and then his hives are stolen. Rural, full of music, and it takes its time getting where it is going.
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2025 · Thriller
A shop assistant in Los Angeles gets talking to a rising pop star who comes into the store, and within weeks he has quit his job to film the star's album campaign from inside his circle. It is tense rather than loud.
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2025 · Comedy
A 22-year-old music critic moves to Montreal in 2011 to write a book about an Alanis Morissette album, and instead falls in with two members of an indie band. Loose and talky, mostly parties and gigs.
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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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2025 · Drama
An eighteen-year-old promoter in 1975 Cologne talks her way past her conservative parents and a run of near-disasters to put a Keith Jarrett concert on. It is a true story about getting one night to happen.
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2025 · Drama
A Basque nurse goes into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, marries a jazz trumpet player, and later leaves again for Venezuela. It follows one woman across decades and countries.
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2025 · Drama
The life of Brazilian singer Ney Matogrosso, from humble beginnings and a difficult father to the years when he was one of the most famous performers in the country. It moves through his career in stages, with the songs and the love affairs.
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2025 · Drama
A chef on the way up goes back to the roadside town she grew up in after her father's heart attack, and runs into the boy she loved at school. It is a musical, so what people feel comes out as songs.
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2025 · Drama
The story of the pianist Lang Lang and the father who took him from Shenyang to the United States in the 1980s to play, while his mother held the household up behind them. It is one family organised entirely around a boy's practice.
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2026 · Musical
Michael Jackson's life from the Jackson 5 rehearsing under their father in Gary, Indiana to the Bad tour twenty years later. It moves through the records and the tours, with the family arguments in between.
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2026 · Drama
A pop star three days from a comeback show drives to the English countryside to ask the designer she once cut out of her life to make her a dress. Mostly two people in a barn, working and arguing.
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2026 · Comedy
A pop star at the peak of her fame is pushed by her label into brand deals she cannot stand, and a director she did not choose takes over the film of her tour. It is shot as a fake documentary about the music business.
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2026 · Musical
A teenager arrives at Camp Rock with the younger brother whose band she broke up, just as Connect 3 turn up looking for an opening act. Songs, a competition and a summer camp.
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2026 · Musical
A Dublin wedding singer plays a visiting pop star one of his own songs over a late night of drinking, then hears it everywhere six months later under somebody else's name. He sets out to prove he wrote it.
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2026 · Comedy
Three former male models, well past their modelling years, decide to start a band aimed at grown women, and go off to singing and dancing lessons to get there. Shot as a mockumentary, with the three of them playing versions of themselves.
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2026 · Drama
Two childhood friends meet again in London more than a decade on, one a rock star and one whose marriage has come apart, and end up swapping bodies for the second time. A Bengali comedy that runs entirely on the mix-up.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Drama
A once-famous musician living with dementia is visited by the son he fell out with years ago. Slow, and mostly the two of them and the woman who has stayed close to him.
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2026 · Comedy
Ashley's family moves to Angamaly after money trouble, and she gets to know the church neighbourhood group next door, including Justin, a well-liked caterer in his thirties. It opens years later and works back.
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2026 · Musical
A carpenter who wants a son carves one out of a talking log, and the wooden boy runs off to a puppet theatre on his first day of school. A song-and-dance version of the Pinocchio story.
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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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