Music movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant music movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, inspirational, serious, touching, feel good and cult classic films and TV shows about / with music, musician, artists and showbiz, dancing, singer, singing, music and dance, love, song and musician's life plots mostly in Music, Drama and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as music: The Legend of 1900 (1998), Begin Again (2013), August Rush (2007), Pitch Perfect (2012), Amadeus (1984), Whiplash (2014), La La Land (2016), 8 Mile (2002), Boychoir (2014), Walk the Line (2005).

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The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story: The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of ...
Style: touching, breathtaking, sincere, inspirational, sentimental ...
Plot: jazz, music, genius, ship, prodigy, musician, child prodigy, pianist, cruise ship, orphan, piano, trumpet player ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 1998, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: italy, america, new york, new orleans
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 7.4
 166K
Begin Again (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: music, musician's life, love story, female singer, infidelity, musician, father daughter relationship, singer, love, city life, music and dance, betrayal ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
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 7.1
 329K
Pitch Perfect (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: music, youth, competition, female friendship, college life, teenager, college, rivalry, female protagonist, singing competition, music band, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.4
 425K
Amadeus (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style: inspirational, epic, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: music, classical music, composer, genius, mozart, envy, opera, musician, musician's life, mentor, obsession, bohemian life ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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 8.5
 976K
Whiplash (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style: motivational, dramatic, psychological, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: music, jazz, obsession, mentor, teachers and students, follow your dream, emotional abuse, desire for fame, drummer, musician's life, musician, public humiliation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: peru, manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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 8.0
 661K
La La Land (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style: romantic, sad, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing, teens, date night
Plot: music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, traffic jam, pianist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, paris france, california
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 7.2
 318K
8 Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style: inspirational, serious, realistic, harsh, hood ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: hip hop, underdog, music, follow your dream, rap, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, musician, rapper, poverty, street gang ...
Time: 90s, year 2002, y2k, 2000s, year 1995 ...
Place: detroit, michigan, america, los angeles, usa
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 6.7
 7K
Boychoir (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: boy, music, music school, choir, boarding school, boys' choir, teachers and students, dedicated educator, orphan, classical music, troubled teen, death of mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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 7.8
 265K
Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
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 7.2
 328K
School of Rock (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: music, teacher, teachers and students, school, children, musician, rock music, rock and roll, high school, music band, rock band, music history ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: america, new york, usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 68K
Control (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA, Australia, Japan, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, black and white, stylized, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, singer, depression, suicide, musician's life, punk rock, musician, rock and roll, biopic, epilepsy, music band ...
Time: 70s, y2k, year 2007, year 1980, year 1973 ...
Place: england, manchester, london, northern england, europe
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs like "Killer Queen", "Bohemian ...
Style: inspirational, touching, rough, informative, historical drama ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: musician, lgbt, music, gay, aids, singer, rock band, rock music, musician's life, friendship between men, fame, rock concert ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s, future, 70s ...
Place: england, atlanta georgia, los angeles, edinburgh scotland, munich germany ...
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 55K
The Soloist (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Style: inspirational, touching, sincere, sad, intense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: music, schizophrenia, homeless, prodigy, journalism, street musician, friendship, musician, cello, mental illness, biopic, artist ...
Time: year 2009
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, ohio
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 32K
Singles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The interrelated stories about each character's progress ...
Style: feel good, sweet, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: music, music band, clubbing, city life, friendship, rock, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, musician's life, roommate, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 126K
Step Up (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore's tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day ...
Style: feel good, captivating, teen, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dancing, dance, hip hop, happy ending, music, youth, love and romance, dance school, ballet, teen romance, couples, teenage love ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 45K
Rock Star (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rock Star tells the story of Chris Cole and a rock band called Steel Dragon. Cole is a photocopier technician by day, and the lead singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band called "Blood Pollution" by night.Internal struggles between the Steel ...
Style: stylized, melancholic, entertaining, intense, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: music, rock star, rock and roll, rock music, heavy metal, rock, audition, success, ambition, rock concert, rock band, relationship problems ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, y2k, 20th century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, seattle
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 25K
Vinyl (2016)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Set in 1970s New York, Vinyl is a ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop. The show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, who is trying to save his company and his ...
Style: stylized, captivating, tense, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: music, music business, showbiz, mafia, blackmail, historical character, disco, musician, rock band, murder, racism, concert ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: usa, new york, las vegas
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 6.5
 51K
The Runaways (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for the Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengalilike influence of ...
Style: stylized, sexy, teen, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: rock music, music, lesbian, music band, biopic, musician, coming of age, teenage sexuality, rock and roll, punk, revisionist history, sex scene ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, japan, usa
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Beyond the Lights (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's ...
Style: romantic, sexy, melancholic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: music, mother daughter relationship, suicide attempt, musician, love, pop star, showbiz, police officer, domineering mother, musician's life, relationship vs career, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, mexico, united kingdom
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 61K
I'm Not There (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style: non-linear, meditative, stylized, talky, lyrical ...
Plot: music, musician, biopic, actor, poet, rock, musician's life, art, brutality, african american, artist, drug addiction ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s, year 2007, 90s ...
Place: usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 189K
High Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, feel good, funny, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: music, breakup, rock, musician's life, love and romance, musician, rock and roll, character study, self discovery, love story, love, dating ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: chicago, usa, seattle
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 35K
All That Jazz (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his ...
Style: surreal, captivating, touching, humorous, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, showbiz, jazz, dancing, workaholic, death, divorce, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, dancer's life, love and romance, downfall ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, ...
Style: realistic, intense, hood, lyrical, suspense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: hip hop, racism, music, gangster, rags to riches, ghetto, profanity, rap, rapper, african american, biopic, fighting the system ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2015, 80s, year 2016 ...
Place: los angeles, california, milwaukee wisconsin, usa, texas ...
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Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...
Style: inspirational, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: music, high school, classical music, school, composer, teacher, teaching, honest, musician, sign language, unlikely friendships, inspiration ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, 80s, 90s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
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Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style: depressing, atmospheric, bleak, meditative, clever ...
Plot: music, homeless, musician, loneliness, cat, musician's life, financial problem, road trip, aspiring singer, depression, art, eccentricity ...
Time: 60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, somalia, indiana, chicago ...
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 121K
Once (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, pianist, street musician, friendship, love, singer, love and romance, musician, recording studio, immigrant, rock and roll ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, london, europe, czech republic
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 39K
Nowhere Boy (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style: sentimental, intense, emotional, sincere, witty ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: musician's life, music, rock and roll, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, biopic, prodigy, adolescence, rock, dysfunctional family, artist ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 60s, 1940s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, england, liverpool, hamburg germany, new zealand
Is relevant ?
 8.4
 583K
Coco (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sweet, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: day of the dead, afterlife, life after death, musician, music, life & death, death, childhood, memory, good versus evil, boy, dog ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: mexico, tibet
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 90K
La Vie en Rose (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A swirling, impressionistic portrait of an artist who regretted nothing, writer-director Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose stars Marion Cotillard in a blazing performance as the legendary French icon Edith Piaf. From the mean streets of the ...
Style: touching, disturbing, atmospheric, gloomy, melancholic ...
Plot: music, musician's life, singer, biopic, death, musician, childhood, art, artist, love story, rising to stardom, loss of child ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 1940s, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, new york, montmartre paris ...
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