Trumpet player movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant trumpet player movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, melancholic, independent film, captivating and touching films and TV shows about / with trumpet player, trumpet, jazz, musician, friendship, dancing, love, death, family relations and bittersweet plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as trumpet player: Notes from Dad (2013), A Man Called Adam (1966), Miles Ahead (2015), Born to Be Blue (2015), Gucha: Distant Trumpet (2006), The Legend of 1900 (1998), Easy Listening (2002), Adventurers (2008), Treme (2010), I'm Beginning To See the Light (2025).
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List of trumpet player movies
Genre: Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Roy Allen starts anew as a music teacher in a school full of kids with little exposure to music. Roy connects with a talented virtuoso in need of a father figure. Through the journey of launching a school band and learning to reach ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
trumpet player, teacher, music teacher, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, music band, dedicated educator, chance, family relations, parents and children, high school, jazz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
jazz, talent agent, musician, alcoholism, racism, prejudice, civil rights, trumpet player, blaxploitation, black, racial discrimination, music and dance ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
new york, cincinnati ohio
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Style:
touching, psychological, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, biopic, trumpet player, historical figure, music, black, nightclub, african american, pursuit, husband wife relationship, party ...
Time:
70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, columbus ohio, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
Style:
touching, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, colorful ...
Plot:
jazz musician, jazz, trumpet player, musician, biopic, historical figure, promise, trust, drinking, flashback, friendship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1954, year 1988 ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, oklahoma, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Serbia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Juliet, a white girl, falls in love with a dark-skinned romeo, a divine trumpet player from the Roma orchestra. But her father Satchmo doesn't accept Romeo. Romeo needs to fight for Juliet at the legendary Festival of the trumpeters in Gucha.
Style:
disturbing, satirical, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
forbidden love, music festival, cultural difference, orchestra, festival, trumpet player, cross cultural relations, culture clash, love story, male female relationship, love affair, couple relations ...
Place:
serbia
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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, ship, genius, musician, prodigy, pianist, child prodigy, loneliness, cruise ship, trumpet player, piano ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 90s, year 1998, 1920s ...
Place:
america, italy, new york, new orleans
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in the 1960's, Easy Listening is a masterful period piece with the feel of old happy commercials, Burt makes a living playing trumpet in an elevator music orchestra.
Style:
retro, period piece, reflective, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
trumpet player, character study, solitude, slice of life, bittersweet, urban, loneliness, identity, city, slow burn, jazz club, orchestra ...
Time:
60s
Place:
boston, new england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Géza Elekes does not play very well in his private life, and his fourth marriage has failed. One day he gets a call from his father, whom he hasn't spoken to in decades. This prompts her and her son, András, who is in the thick ...
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, melancholic, black comedy
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, trumpet player, family drama, border crossing, reconciliation, slice of life, dark humor, grandfather, midlife crisis, bittersweet, humanism ...
Place:
budapest, transylvania, hungary, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, social problems, disappearance, musician's life, starting over, survival, tragic event, lifestyle, life turned upside down, talented, poverty ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The last day of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
Style:
captivating, detective, crime drama, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
jazz, jazz club, musician's life, life, musician, legend, lifestyle, bittersweet, music history, death, loss, investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
amsterdam, netherlands
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A depressed section of Monterey, California is the backdrop for an offbeat romantic comedy about a pair of mismatched lovers. Doc is a lonely marine biologist and former baseball star. Suzy is a scrappy, abrasive drifter who can't even succeed ...
Style:
surreal, romantic, sweet, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
prostitute, friendship, couples, relationships, brothel, adaptation, eccentricity, depression, surrealism, love affair, love and romance, misfit ...
Time:
1940s, year 1982, 80s, 1930s
Place:
california, monterey california, ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
female pubic hair, friendship, sexual attraction, female nudity, college graduate, looking for love, love triangle, college, lifestyle, introspection, human nature, couples ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France.
Style:
satirical, tragicomedy, enigmatic, absurd, social ...
Plot:
farm, summer vacation, boy, children, police investigation, society, first love, police detective, killing spree, family relations, boy girl relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A convoluted roundelay of sexual encounters and unwitting fluid exchanges results in a white woman giving birth to a black baby.
Style:
dramatic, tense, art house
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, family drama, racial prejudice, mature, miscegenation, interracial relations, sex scandal, class differences, one night stand, taboo subject, black ops ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For Ella, the death of her alcoholic father leaves her with nothing but debt and the bitter memory of a complicated past. Abandoned by her mother at a young age, she has sacrificed her life, opportunities, and love to care for a man she resents, but ...
Style:
road movie, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
road trip, death of father, family drama, grief, loss, self discovery, coming of age, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, grownups, couple relations ...
Place:
south africa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.
Style:
motivational, uplifting, inspirational, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, disability, christian, man in a wheelchair, father, blindness, determination, family values, hopes, resilience, family drama, perseverance ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand ...
Style:
disturbing, exciting, cyber, rough, serious ...
Plot:
death, vengeance, mentor, heroes, friends, conflict, friendship, rebelliousness, freedom, soldier, danger, weapons ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe, europe
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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, touching, sentimental, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family outing
Plot:
music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, destiny, traffic jam, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2015, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, paris france, california
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek's ...
Style:
serious, psychological, romantic drama, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, musician, african american, sex scene, hip hop, urban, jealousy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When childhood friends Al, Dennis and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller-coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with new ...
Style:
sentimental, independent film, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friendship, homosexual, dysfunctional marriage, male bonding, friendship between men, husband wife relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, immaturity, female bonding, marital reconciliation, fear of commitment ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california, los angeles
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new ...
Style:
anthology, suspense, suspenseful, scary, parody ...
Plot:
train, werewolf, vampire, spell, destiny, chimpanzee, tarot card, supernatural, serial killer, danger, card playing, passenger ...
Time:
60s, future
Place:
west indies, scottish highlands, caribbean, new england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up with his quarry first.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
secret agent, espionage, jazz, danger, chase, undercover, state affairs, race against time, chases and races, missing person, special agent, bondage ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Leslie Caron plays a young, pregnant, unmarried Frenchwoman who takes a room in a seedy boarding house in London. She soon makes friends with Toby, a struggling writer who lives downstairs, and eventually gets to accept her room and the strange ...
Style:
independent film, depressing, crying
Plot:
kitchen sink realism, lesbian, landlady, morning sickness, homosexual subtext, single mother, boarding house, lesbian relationship, christmas party, baby girl, pregnancy, unwed pregnancy ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, talky, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark, danger ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1961, 1950s, 50s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New ...
Style:
neo noir, enigmatic, period piece, crime drama, detective ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
private detective, murder investigation, interracial romance, politics, conspiracy, social injustice, homicide detective, private investigation, crime investigation, investigation, organized crime, racial segregation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2019, future, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, harlem, usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot:
asthma, jazz, addiction, music, heroin, pianist, coming of age, artists and showbiz, daughter, parents and children, family relations, musician ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1988, year 1974 ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium, France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he ...
Style:
touching, sad, epic, inspirational, cult classic ...
Plot:
coming of age, hide and seek, death of sister, neighbor neighbor relationship, child, youth, children, jazz, train, male nudity, parachutist, police officer ...
Time:
year 1991, future, 90s, near future
Place:
france, europe, germany, dover england, spain ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, suspenseful, rough, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
death of wife, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug lord, drug, murder, revenge, drug addict, corrupt cop, double life, working undercover, undercover ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody - except each other! Things become interesting when ...
Style:
talky, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
politics, culture clash, nudity, british, lesbian, marriage, death, love, murder, violence, revolution, indians ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe, india
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