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Hard Rock Zombies (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hard rock band travels to the tiny and remote town of Grand Guignol to perform. Peopled by hicks, rubes, werewolves, murderous dwarves, sex perverts, and Hitler, the town is a strange place but that doesn't stop the band's lead singer ...
Style: independent film, horror comedy, mockbuster, horror musical, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heavy metal, zombie, rock, rock and roll, nazi zombie, music, small town, hard rock, exploitation, guts, undead, supernatural being ...
Time: 80s
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 6.9
 54K
Hesher (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style: bleak, realistic, independent film, serious, touching ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, grief, antisocial behavior, loner, depression, arson, life is a bitch, trauma, family problems, family drama, rebelliousness, coming of age ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Ricki and the Flash (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with ...
Style: romantic, sweet, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: divorce, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, ex husband ex wife relationship, female musician, family relations, singer, rock star, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, aging, character study ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa, chicago, indianapolis indiana
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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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 6.0
 10K
Rock-A-Doodle (1991)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer's crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock 'n' ...
Style: surreal, sweet, independent film, parody, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, toddlers
Plot: cartoon wolf, animal, skunk, rock and roll, good versus evil, greed, chicken, rivalry, bird, transformation, furry, rooster ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: las vegas, usa
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Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Genre: Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A worldwide epidemic encourages a bio-tech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
Style: gothic, dark, bloody, horror musical, visual ...
Plot: goth, medical, opera, support group, mercilessness, torture, addiction, rock, violence, powerful corporation, life is a bitch, against humanity ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
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 6.7
 138K
Hairspray (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton audition to be on The Corny Collins Show – and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle and her mother plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos.
Style: feel good, romantic, lyrical, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids ...
Plot: dancing, dance, dream come true, artists and showbiz, teenage love, interracial romance, teenage girl, racism, fat girl, broadway, teenager, follow your dream ...
Time: year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2000s
Place: baltimore, usa, maryland
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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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The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
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 7.0
 1K
Highway 61 (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, independent film, talky, humorous ...
Plot: rock and roll, on the road, road trip, dark humor, chase, friendship, small town, car, drug dealing, devil, motorcycle gang, groupie ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new orleans, canada, usa, america
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 7.2
 7K
True Stories (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
Style: cult classic, surreal, postmodern, not serious, parody ...
Plot: cheerleader, rock and roll, surrealism, human relationship, tribe, teen angst, breaking the fourth wall, silly humor, couples, family relations, disorder, fashion ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two ...
Style: black and white, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elvis presley, rock and roll, music, boat, love, nightclub, girl, captain, love triangle, family business, wooing, fish out of water ...
Time: 60s
Place: hawaii, usa, arizona
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 10K
CB4 (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A "rockumentary", covering the rise to fame of MC Gusto, Stab Master Arson, and Dead Mike: members of the rap group "CB4". We soon learn that these three are not what they seem and don't apear to know as much about rap music ...
Style: spoof, mockumentary, black comedy, hood, funny ...
Plot: hip hop, music, black, urban, rock and roll, hip hop culture, fictional band, satire, gangster, shaman, stoner, ghetto ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Buck Bonham (Willie Nelson) is a country singer, with a good family, struggling to find national fame. He juggles his music career with his responsibilities to his wife and son. He has everything going his way until the daughter of his former ...
Style: road movie, southern gothic, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: rock and roll, love, music, on the road, stranded, infidelity, friends, couples, introspection, moral dilemma, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: texas, usa
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 5.7
 4K
Tapeheads (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some ...
Style: humorous, satirical, light, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, blackmail, disorder, music band, ambition, showbiz, artists and showbiz, buddies, media, partner, rock and roll, punk ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 5.7
 2K
Beach Party (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, beach party, beach, motorcycle, rock and roll, culture clash, surf, summer, dancing, teenager, boat, ship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job...
Style: sexy, offbeat, sex comedy, sensual, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, nightclub, hotel, music, brother brother relationship, piano, dog, audition, art, rock and roll, drinking, brothers ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
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Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. ...
Style: emotional, melancholic, inspirational, touching, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: music, biopic, showbiz, addiction, music business, greed, music band, black, drug addiction, rising to stardom, rise and fall, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 60s, 50s, 80s ...
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
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Grace of My Heart (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An aspiring singer, Denise Waverly/Edna Buxton, sacrifices her own singing career to write hit songs that launch the careers of other singers. The film follows her life from her first break, through the pain of rejection from the recording industry ...
Style: touching, lyrical, inspirational, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: songwriter, music, music industry, existentialism, loneliness, showbiz, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, ambition, rise and fall, self discovery, rock and roll ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 60s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa
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 7.1
 4K
Elvis (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.
Style: realistic, captivating, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: biopic, rise and fall, ambition, musician's life, desire for fame, success, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, folk hero, lifestyle, comeback ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: las vegas, usa, beverly hills, memphis
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 5.8
 4K
Johnny Suede (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
Style: stylized, semi serious, surreal, witty, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: musician, liar, misfit, celebrity culture, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, rock and roll, surrealism, record company, friendship, jealousy ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, wyoming, brooklyn new york city
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 6.1
 1K
Book of Love (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: prom, high school, teenage love, friendship, fish out of water, youth, self discovery, couple relations, fall in love, friends, college life, college ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: california
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee (the inimitable Pia Zadora) and Frankie, along with Frankie's posse/rock ...
Style: horror musical, freeze frame, absurd, spoof, independent film ...
Plot: female singer, rock and roll, rock, ufo, street punk, punk, sword and sorcery, chainsaw, alien, love triangle, rock music, sexual attraction ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Shout (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
Style: independent film, uplifting, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rock and roll, music teacher, teacher, coming of age, troubled youth, escape, rock, teenage love, teachers and students, small town life, teenage life, school ...
Time: 1950s, year 1991, 50s, year 1955
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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Breaking Glass (1980)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's ...
Style: thinking, psychotronic, serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, rock and roll, club, unsettling, rock music, rock star, music business, satire, rocker, alienation ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
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Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording studio. Lead singer John Triton gets the band to perform their ...
Style: slasher, independent film, cult horror, satanic, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heavy metal, rock music, supernatural horror, occult, rock and roll, satan, farm, supernatural, good versus evil, rock, hard rock, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, ontario canada
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 6.4
 2K
Rude Boy (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Rude Boy is a semi-documentary, part character study, part 'rockumentary', featuring a British punk band, The Clash. The script includes the story of a fictional fan juxtposed with actual public events of the day, including political ...
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, biting
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, skinhead, rock and roll, rock music, angry, youth culture, exodus, hooligan, alienation, pop music ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: london, england, europe
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 6.7
 3K
Smithereens (1982)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Style: independent film, sexy, indie film, psychological thriller, grim ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: punk rock, punk, feminist, rock, rock and roll, coming of age, price of fame, visceral, bad girl, underground, feminism, pain ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
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 6.9
 6K
Suburbia (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.
Style: independent film, psychotronic, retro, political, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk rock, punk, subculture, teenager, coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, skinhead, graffiti, runaway, punk music, friendship between men ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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The Harder They Come (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a ...
Style: cult classic, road movie, tense, exciting, rough ...
Plot: reggae, music, blaxploitation, marijuana, poverty, culture clash, folk hero, crime gone awry, visceral, music business, fish out of water, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: jamaica, west indies, caribbean, africa
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