Soul music movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant soul music movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, independent film and feel good films and TV shows about / with soul music, music, singer, musician's life, soul, ambition, dancing, african american, artists and showbiz and musician plots mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as soul music: The Commitments (1991), Northern Soul (2014), Respect (2021), Young Soul Rebels (1991), The Temptations (1998), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Dreamgirls (2006), Get on Up (2014), Tamla Rose (2013), Mama I Want to Sing (2011).
Best films
New films
| Respect (2021) | 6.6 | |
| Song of the Sea (2014) | 8.0 | |
| Talk to Me (2007) | 7.3 | |
| Paradise Club (2015) | 5.1 | |
| The All Together (2007) | 4.8 |
List of soul music movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
musician, working class, music, rock and roll, profanity, singer, friendship, rock, blues, bittersweet, rock music, young couple ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.
Style:
period piece, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
nightclub, dj, friendship, nightlife, obsession, youth, society, teenage life, music, coming of age, drug abuse, subculture ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, northern england
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, period piece, factual, disturbing ...
Plot:
musician, rape, preacher, abusive husband, concert, showbiz, black history, biopic, blues, celebrity, african american, black ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 1950s, year 1960, year 1969 ...
Place:
usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, los angeles, atlanta georgia, detroit ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young Soul Rebels is a 1991 film by Isaac Julien which examines the interaction between youth cultural movements in Britain. Skinheads, Punks & Soulboys along with the political and cultural tensions between them. The film received the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, crying, queer cinema ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, skinhead, immigrant, friendship, punk, erotica, radio station, oral sex, nudity, gay friend ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england, united kingdom, britain, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of The Temptations, the Soul vocal group of the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late 50s and continuing through the 90s and the deaths of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, period drama, black cinema ...
Plot:
african american, biopic, black, pop music, music, rock, r&b, black american, flashback, singer, rock and roll, black girl ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, intense, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
music, musician, domestic violence, african american, black woman, biopic, singer, violence against women, abusive husband, rape victim, african american woman, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1993 ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, california, africa, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they're chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James 'Thunder' Early.
Style:
lyrical, melancholic, sentimental, visually appealing, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
african american, singing, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, musician, jazz, black, dance ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2006, 20th century, 60s
Place:
michigan, detroit, los angeles, usa, las vegas ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.
Style:
captivating, historical drama, spiritual, iconic
Plot:
biopic, musician, pop music, african american, female protagonist, record producer, concert, dancing, female singer, celebrity, rising to stardom, musician's life ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2012, 2020s, year 2009 ...
Place:
new jersey, italy, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Style:
emotional, talky, heartbreaking, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
music, biopic, musician, musician's life, friendship, showbiz, black, creativity, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, ambition, desire for fame ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 70s, year 2014, 80s ...
Place:
usa, south carolina, georgia, north america, boston ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Three teen girls in a Motown band embark on an emotional ride to hell and back.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dream come true, desire for fame, teenage life, follow your dream, rise and fall, ambition, musician's life, best friend, friendship, youth, hopes, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Preacher's daughter Amara Winter sings in the church choir before being discovered by a well-established musician. She soon rises to international fame as a pop singer.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, independent film
Plot:
family relations, ambition, desire for fame, follow your dream, musician's life, relationship vs career, rising to stardom, parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, black cast, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Mother's Prayer, starring Robin Givens (Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys), Johnny Gill (legendary R&B singer), Shirley Murdock (Man of Her Dreams) and Jermaine Crawford (HBO's The Wire), tells the compelling, heartwarming ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
hopes, redemption, estrangement, family life, family relations, self discovery, last wish, family in crisis, family problems, love and romance, family drama, family conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A neighborhood is plagued by mysterious tragedies when a young man becomes the conduit for an unknown spirit, the "Aiyai," which lures victims to their chilling fates.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, eye, violence, paranormal phenomena, rescue, exorcism, demon, evil, revenge, supernatural power, murder ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
An abstract, surreal horror film centering on six dead women waking up in the crawl space below their killer's house.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
victim, hardcore, ghost, death, serial killer, spirit, blood, murder, paranormal, woman in danger, paranormal phenomena, extreme ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young singer turns his back on God and his father's church when tragedy strikes. He returns years later to find the once powerful congregation in disarray. With his childhood nemesis creating a "new vision" for the church, he is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
church, haunted by the past, relationship vs career, redemption, ambition, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, lifestyle, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Estranged since the death of their parents years ago, twin brothers, Teshawn and Wesley Tucker, have taken radically different paths in life. Wes (Darien Sills-Evans) has become a minister in a Harlem gospel church while Te (Billoah Greene) ...
Style:
uplifting, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
preacher, follow your dream, lifestyle, redemption, family problems, family relations, estrangement, musician's life, clergy, rivalry, hopes, on the run ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, harlem
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Jake Blues is just out of jail, and teams up with his brother, Elwood on a 'mission from God' to raise funds for the orphanage in which they grew up. The only thing they can do is do what they do best – play music – so they get their ...
Style:
funny, road movie, hilarious, surreal, action comedy ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
music, chase, prison, blues, race against time, road trip, car chase, redemption, musician, police chase, on the road, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
chicago, illinois, indiana, arizona, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, emotional, tragic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
singer, biopic, music, drug, musician's life, life story, historical figure, historical character, social problems, lifestyle, musician, celebrity ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The story Follows Reid Morrison, a down and out musician who tries to escape his hometown mistakes and start over in New Orleans. Thinking the mistakes he has made will never be forgiven, he attempts to seclude himself from anything worth while. ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, melancholic, entertaining
Plot:
confronting the past, blues, musician, redemption, addiction, musician's life, dark past, secret past, lifestyle change, music, new life, male female relationship ...
Place:
new orleans
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Maceo is the manager of Motown's most popular club, the Motorfly. Business is going well, but Maceo has huge game debts that entrap him in the loops of the Detroit Mafia net.
Style:
crime drama, tense, tension, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, danger, underworld, criminal syndicate, gambling debt, betrayal, corruption, nightclub owner, risk, moral ambiguity, music industry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
detroit
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Showtime at the Apollo is a syndicated music television show, first broadcast on September 12, 1987 to May 24, 2008 with 1093 episodes, and is produced by the Apollo Theater. The show features live performances from both professional and ...
Style:
slapstick, non fiction
Plot:
stand up comedy, variety show, live performance, showbiz, urban, competition, hip hop, nightlife, ambition, arts and culture, artists and showbiz, music ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
harlem, new york
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During the height of the social revolution, a young dancer searches for salvation when she chooses to leave paradise.
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, melancholic, erotic, independent film ...
Plot:
nightclub, sexual revolution, dancer, sexually liberated, counterculture, self discovery, coming of age, female protagonist, identity crisis, redemption, stripper, autobiography ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, year 1968
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Style:
humorous, sweet, captivating, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
girl group, vietnam war, friendship, biopic, female singer, indigenous people, family relations, lifestyle, desire for fame, musician's life, ambition, goodhearted ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 70s, year 1967, year 2012 ...
Place:
vietnam, australia, oceania, saigon, southeast asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pipe Dreams is a 1976 film starring soul singer Gladys Knight in her acting debut as a woman who attempts to regain the love of her husband played by real-life spouse Barry Hankerson. In this drama, her husband must choose between reuniting with her ...
Style:
romantic drama, tension, period piece, independent film
Plot:
domestic drama, marital strife, female protagonist, family drama, reconciliation, isolation, black, female empowerment, love triangle, husband wife relationship, money, prostitution ...
Time:
70s, year 1976
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
Style:
independent film, tense, action packed, retro, period piece ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, revenge, gangster, singer, female protagonist, fight scenes, streetwise, urban, vigilante justice, female empowerment, vigilante, exploitation ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Travel through time via music and comedy drawn from the forty-year library of the legendary, but fictional, musical variety show called “Sherman's Showcase.”
Style:
sketch comedy, parody, semi serious, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
variety show, satire, black cast, musician's life, singer, music, musician, pop singer, lifestyle, ambition, irreverent, nostalgia ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 80s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The Jacksons are your average working-class family in Gary, Indiana; but when their father discovers the kids have an extraordinary musical talent they form a band. Winning talent show after talent show they soon hit it big when Motown calls. From ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
Plot:
music, music band, desire for fame, musician's life, follow your dream, youth, performer's life, family problems, working class, black, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 1940s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
indiana, harlem, alabama, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, contemplative, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, nightlife, society, youth, lifestyle, buddies, unfulfillment, friendship, young lovers, subculture, youth culture, soul ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she ...
Style:
stylized, cult classic, dark drama, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
wizard of oz, broadway, black, scarecrow, magic, fantasy world, dancing, music, african american, wizard, black woman, dog ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955.
Style:
period piece, frightening, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, racism, interracial relations, white male black female relationship, friendship, love, interracial romance, adolescence, family relations, high school, culture clash, interracial ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa, atlantic city new jersey, belgium ...
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