Saxophonist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant saxophonist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental, independent film, touching and humorous films and TV shows about / with saxophonist, saxophone, musician, couples, love and romance, love, dancing, husband wife relationship, jazz and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as saxophonist: 'Round Midnight (1986), Angel (1982), New York, New York (1977), Soul (2020), Alice (1990), Lulu on the Bridge (1998), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Bird (1988), Endless Waltz (1995), Night Shift (1982).

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'Round Midnight (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that ...
Style: contemplative, gloomy, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, addiction, alcoholism, musician, art, friendship, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic, solitude ...
Time: year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa, new york
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 6.3
 972
Angel (1982)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So begins his quest to avenge her. He seeks an answer to the ...
Style: noir, realistic, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: violence, vigilantism, ira, murder, vigilante, anglo irish relations, city, urban, dilemma, subculture, moral dilemma, revenge ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland
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New York, New York (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
Style: sentimental, stylized, realistic, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot: jazz, music, musician, saxophonist, dancing, fall in love, world war two, american football, music and dance, gotham city, doomed romance, orchestra ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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 8.0
 375K
Soul (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful gig at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls ...
Style: 3d animation, touching, philosophical, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: jazz, self discovery, life after death, afterlife, meaning of life, lifestyle change, acceptance, life & death, following a dream, life, teaching the ways of the world, death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: hawaii, tibet, manhattan new york city, new york
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 6.6
 15K
Alice (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in ...
Style: unusual plot structure, melancholic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, magic, invisible man, female protagonist, magic realism, identity crisis, bored housewife, dysfunctional family, relationships, police investigation, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Style: atmospheric, touching, mumblecore, realistic, serious ...
Plot: musician, plot twist, transformation, firefly, love, death, jazz, memory, saxophonist, murder, couples, love and romance ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, dublin ireland, new jersey
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Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 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, stylized, clever, hood ...
Plot: jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, hip hop, african american, urban, jealousy, saxophonist, blaxploitation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.1
 13K
Bird (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
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 6.9
 136
Endless Waltz (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota).
Plot: saxophonist, love, biopic, musician, love hate relationship, abusive relationship, butt, capture, rainstorm, death of protagonist, female nudity, argument ...
Place: japan
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 6.5
 18K
Night Shift (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: pimp, prostitution, friendship, sex club, nightlife, cons and scams, misfit, nightclub, anger, elevator, argument, gangster ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.4
 60K
Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
Style: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Plot: nun, world war two, faith, family secret, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, character study, orphan, suicide, self discovery ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, year 2016 ...
Place: poland, israel, eastern europe, europe, denmark
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Fatal Instinct (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A spoof of the late 80s and early 90s suspense thrillers and murder mysteries, including Basic Instinct, Sleeping With The Enemy, Cape Fear and others. A cop/attorney (yes he's both) is seduced by a woman while his wife is having an affair with ...
Style: spoof, parody, humorous, detective, double entendre ...
Plot: femme fatale, adultery, attempted murder, murder, revenge, lawyer, courtroom, law enforcement, love triangle, secretary, blonde, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
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Permanent Vacation (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.
Style: independent film, art house, artsy, contemplative, surreal ...
Plot: slacker, dialogue, solitude, drifter, coming of age, jazz, mental illness, hipster, teen angst, youth culture, alienation, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Perry Mason Returns (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When his former secretary (Barbara Hale) is accused of a murder, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot: courtroom, false accusation, private detective, boss and employee, law enforcement, courtroom drama, legal action, legal, dishonesty, lawyer, inheritance, murder ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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 6.7
 782
Sparrows Dance (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young woman, struggling with agoraphobia, hasn't left her New York apartment or seen anyone in over a year. However, when her toilet overflows she is forced to call in the plumber.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot: agoraphobia, misfit, love and romance, isolation, social misfits, solitary, fall in love, plumber, actress, loner, healing, passion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.3
 5K
Kansas City (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.
Style: talky, atmospheric, neo noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: jazz, kidnapping, women, loneliness, music, addiction, gangster, politics, jazz musician, violence, political corruption, corruption ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1934
Place: missouri, kansas city, usa, kansas
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 8.0
 6K
Tito and Me (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Goran Markovic, known more for his dramatic work, achieved something that's eluded many great filmmakers - both smart and funny comedy. Based loosely on his own life as a kid growing up in Tito's communist Yugoslavia in the 1950s, the ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, dictatorship, boy, world war two, traumatic childhood, totalitarian regime, satire, obsession, politics, dystopia, revolution ...
Time: year 1992, 50s, year 1954, 1950s
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia, serbia, eastern europe, bosnia ...
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Mutant on the Bounty (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The crew of an interplanetary commercial freighter beams aboard a now horribly mutated saxophone player who has been adrift in space for over twenty years. He starts to get along with the crew, and very close with an alluring journalist. But ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film, parody
Plot: alien abduction, space opera, mutant, teleportation, crossdresser, hostage, spacecraft, cyborgs, disfigured face, taken hostage, spaceship, space ...
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 8.7
 433K
The Simpsons (1989)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop ...
Style: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, parody ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, toddlers ...
Plot: dark humor, social satire, goofy hero, suburbs, siblings relations, satire, bully, family relations, working class, beer, eccentric family, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: usa, nova scotia
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My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young student finds himself being transformed to a vampire after a night with a quite attractive female vampire. First, he does not quite believe it himself, but with the help of a 300 year old teacher and the handbook "vampirism - a guide to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, exciting, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, vampire bite, chase, self discovery, high school life, secretly observing, love and romance, disorder, teaching the ways of the world, cheerleader, female vampire ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: houston texas
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All the Right Moves (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style: realistic, talky, melancholic, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: american football, high school, friendship, football, college, coach, small town, father son relationship, coming of age, student athlete, high school football, cheerleader ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
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Devil's Honey (1986)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young woman abducts a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend and subjects him to various sexual torture acts.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: sexploitation, female masturbation, vengeance, obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, love triangle, captivity, couples, sexual abuse, erotica, love ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: venice, italy
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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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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, angel, american football, supernatural, heaven, body swap, soul transference, football, love, secrets, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
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Excessive Force (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Chicago policeman Terry McCain is determined to put away mobster Sal DiMarco, who always gets acquitted on technicalities. While monitoring a drug sale, a shootout ensues, and one of Terry's fellow officers gets away with $3 million of ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, conspiracy, police, police shootout, shootout, gangster, betrayal, jazz, rivalry, undercover, friendship, vengeance ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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 6.6
 77K
Dreamgirls (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, 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: stylized, emotional, lyrical, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, performer's life, showbiz, music, fame, dancing, broadway, jazz, manager, black, unlikely friendships, dance ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: michigan, los angeles, detroit, usa, new york ...
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Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!
Style: psychological, cult classic, fast, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, airplane, aviation, airport, natural disaster, air disaster, arms dealer, survival, terrorism, murder, flying, missile ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: france, europe, paris france, washington d.c., alps
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 5.3
 5K
Catchfire (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, fall in love, woman in danger, love affair, mafia, hidden identity, rescue, on the run, criminal heroes, manhunt, fugitives, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Time: 80s
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, atmospheric, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adultery, photographer, relationships, love affair, impossible love, love story, photography, housewife, passion, infidelity, couples, middle aged ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century, 80s, post world war two ...
Place: iowa, usa, midwest
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