Recording studio movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant recording studio movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, feel good and talky films and TV shows about / with recording studio, music, musician, singer, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, music industry, ambition and record producer plots mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as recording studio: Sun Records (2017), That Thing You Do! (1996), Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008), Platinum (2003), Once (2006), Skylines (2019), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), Rocktober Blood (1984), Mystery Train (1989), Honkytonk Man (1982).
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List of recording studio movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Memphis during the tumultuous early days of the civil rights movement, Sun Records tells the untold story of nothing less than the birth of rock ānā roll. Guided by Sam Phillips, young musicians like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, entertaining, period drama
Plot:
recording studio, music business, music history, music industry, record company, record producer, music, rising to stardom, rags to riches, music band, celebrity, business ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place:
memphis
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, period piece, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
music, rock and roll, drummer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, recording studio, fictional band, small town, showbiz, rock band, dentist, music industry, breakup ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 90s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, los angeles, wisconsin, illinois, pittsburgh ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set against a backdrop of early 60's London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar - the biggest selling record of it's time - ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, realistic, spiritual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay, recording studio, paranoia, suicide, experimental music, homosexual, prodigy, musician's life, lifestyle, rise and fall, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Platinum is an American television series which aired on UPN in 2003.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
hip hop, recording studio, music industry, ambition, brothers, sibling relationship, rap, brother brother relationship, hip hop culture, music business, record producer, musician ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, 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:
touching, sentimental, sexy, independent film, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, musician's life, love, street musician, pianist, love and romance, musician, friendship, singer, young lovers, love story, recording studio ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, london, czech republic
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
A hip-hop producer gets tangled in organized crime when the gangster brother of his record label's owner returns from exile to claim his share.
Style:
crime drama, captivating, disturbing, psychological, tension ...
Plot:
music industry, organized crime, hip hop, producer, recording studio, musician, record company, music business, musician's life, showbiz, music, talent ...
Place:
germany
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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, sexy, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
musician, music, lgbt, gay, aids, rock band, singer, rock music, musician's life, friendship between men, music industry, rock concert ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1982, year 1975 ...
Place:
atlanta georgia, england, britain, edinburgh scotland, munich germany ...
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Genre: Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.
Style:
slasher, satanic, horror musical, bloody, sexy ...
Plot:
heavy metal, execution, rock singer, rock star, recording studio, satan, rock, serial killer, rock and roll, concert, exhumation, violence against women ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris' friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus beings an odd night filled with ups and downs as the two keep running into Tris and her new boyfriend while ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, teenage love, nightlife, love, homosexual, youth, love story, teenage life, teenage boy, high school, unlikely couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Style:
anthology, independent film, humorous, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hotel, train, tourist, ghost, hotel room, rock and roll, drinking, recording studio, drunkenness, robbery, cafe, italian woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
memphis, tennessee, usa, rome italy, tokyo ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Young boy leaves the Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry. Set during the Great Depression.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, touching, funny, realistic ...
Plot:
death, small town, brothel, tuberculosis, on the road, coming of age, police officer, death of protagonist, robbery, uncle nephew relationship, father son relationship, recording studio ...
Time:
1930s, year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place:
nashville tennessee, oklahoma, usa, southern usa, new jersey ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Style:
emotional, witty, stylized, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
bad singing, opera singer, concert, heiress, biopic, music, musician, recording studio, transformation, singing, passion, bald woman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, year 2016, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his ...
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, touching, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
dj, music, disability, party, clubbing, recording studio, mute or deaf, addiction, rave, comeback, musician's life, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ibiza, canada
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After country music starlet Tess Stapletonās album sales keep dropping, her label forces her to record a Christmas album with ex-teen heartthrob and pop-star, Derek Copeland, in an attempt to resurrect eachās career. Reluctantly, Tess agrees. At ...
Style:
entertaining, disturbing, captivating, romantic, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, country singer, recording studio, pop star, christmas romance, pop singer, musician's life, musician, relationships, love and romance, romantic relationship, love story ...
Place:
nashville tennessee
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style:
costume drama, rough, serious, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
african american, musician, blues, black, racism, black american, lgbt, jazz, lesbian, black history, recording studio, bigger dreams ...
Time:
1920s, 2020s
Place:
chicago, harlem, atlanta georgia, birmingham alabama, georgia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
Style:
emotional, factual, intense, talky, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, mental illness, pop music, music, biopic, songwriter, psychotherapist, drug abuse, medical malpractice, hearing voices, nervous breakdown, relationships ...
Time:
60s, year 1939, year 1992, year 1971, year 1995 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, malibu california, usa, southern california ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 120 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:
road movie, tense, exciting, rough, stylized ...
Plot:
reggae, music, blaxploitation, marijuana, poverty, folk hero, culture clash, revenge, crime gone awry, music business, visceral, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972, 80s
Place:
jamaica, west indies, caribbean, africa, south america ...
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Genre: Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With Christmas fast approaching, concert violinist Beth returns to her hometown after the recent death of her mother, the elementary schoolās beloved music department head.
Style:
disturbing, entertaining, sincere, captivating
Plot:
christmas, violinist, recording studio, new job, relationships, musician, music, lifestyle, love and romance, changing lives, love story, couples ...
Place:
west virginia
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon.āÆWhen Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot:
musician, female protagonist, recording studio, singer, female singer, musician's life, music, male female relationship, relationships, problem, satire, pop music ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An urban music singer from a poor neighborhood goes through love and pain on her way to success.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
recording studio, rise to the top, female singer, rising to stardom, desire for fame, love and romance, aspiration, price of fame, ambitious woman, musician's life, love interest, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Singing and dreaming together, a talented singer-songwriter and a same-aged keyboardist add harmony and love to each other's lives.
Style:
dorama, romantic, psychological, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay interest, gay lead character, gay relationship, gay, gay crush, gay romance, singer, lgbtq, producer, recording studio, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, korea
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, inspirational, factual
Plot:
rock band, rock star, youth, friendship, rock music, drug, recording studio, father son relationship, jail, police officer, concert, rising to stardom ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2007, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
finland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.
Style:
not serious, humorous, clever, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
workplace, satire, goofy hero, artists and showbiz, media, workplace situations, disorder, radio station, recording studio, british, talk show, deadpan ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot:
hip hop, gang, friendship, musician's life, lifestyle, addiction, social decay, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency, artists and showbiz, going straight, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Short, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
Story:
When a rising twin sister pop duo refuse to sign to a powerful record label, their lives take a dark turn.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark drama, intense
Plot:
music industry, recording studio, twin sister, twins, home invasion, celebrity culture, isolation, violence, obsession, betrayal, fear, danger ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Cocky natural Jack Cook and nervous savant Oliver Banks write and record a demo that sends them down the road to becoming the most successful duo of the 1980s. With help and hindrance from their producer, their manager, Cook's girlfriend, ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, retro, comedy drama, humorous ...
Plot:
music industry, recording studio, showbiz, conflict, creative process, partnership, friendship, producer, success, bittersweet, fame, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Senor Daniels stars as Mike, a man with a dream of making it big in the music industry. He gets conned by a bigoted board chairman, and has his label, 'Impossibly Funky Records' taken over. As surmised by Alllmovie, this tuneful drama ...
Style:
crime drama, independent film
Plot:
promoter, kidnapping, recording studio, female group, showbiz, corruption, ambition, struggling artist, bigotry, organized crime, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The birth of a music label and three characters fighting for their dreams inside the complex inside the music industry.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, dramatic, historical drama ...
Plot:
music industry, music business, ambition, love triangle, fight, pop music, recording studio, fight for supremacy, music band, musician's life, social problems, musician ...
Time:
60s
Place:
spain, madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.
Style:
retro, period piece, heartfelt, tension, sentimental
Plot:
rock and roll, coming of age, recording studio, ambition, youth culture, music industry, high school, small town, peer pressure, rebellion, young love, audition ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Micky Adams, an eccentric has-been rock musician, loses his grip on reality as his record label looks to drop him and his new "unique" albums. In hopes of breaking out of the mailroom, young Charlie Porter is tasked with traveling to the ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, entertaining, captivating
Plot:
musician, escapades, co worker co worker relationship, relationship problems, recording studio, rock musician, record company, friendship, unlikely friendships, male nudity, shakespeare, drugged ...
Time:
year 1996
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