Musician movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant musician movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out inspirational, weird, realistic, melancholic, cult classic and feel good films and TV shows about / with musician, music, singer, dialogue, song, mentor, singing, drinking alcohol, music and dance and storytelling plots mostly in Music, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as musician: Amadeus (1984), School of Rock (2003), Green Book (2018), Crazy Heart (2009), August Rush (2007), Walk the Line (2005), La La Land (2016), Last Days (2005), 8 Mile (2002), The Legend of 1900 (1998).
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464K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style:
clever, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
classical music, music, composer, genius, mozart, musician, envy, opera, character study, musician's life, mentor, prodigy ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, 1780s ...
Place:
vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, inspirational, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
music, teacher, teachers and students, musician, children, rock music, student, school, fish out of water, music band, rock concert, rock band ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, y2k, 80s, 21st century
Place:
america, new york, usa, los angeles, north america ...
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673K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, uplifting, funny, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
racism, road trip, musician, interracial friendship, travel, lgbtq, racial prejudice, journey, friendship, driver, black american, dignity ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
southern usa, bronx new york city, america, birmingham alabama, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake -- an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend -- they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son. But can he leave behind an ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, romantic, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, country music, loneliness, character study, music, happy ending, addiction, redemption, country singer, love and romance, alcoholism, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, texas, austin texas, usa, nashville tennessee ...
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114K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
music, musician, orphan, prodigy, child prodigy, child protagonist, dancing, childhood, boy, youth, chance meeting, cellist ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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279K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, period piece, road movie ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, marriage, addiction, biopic, accident, prison, drug, concert ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 50s, 1950s, 2000s ...
Place:
memphis, tennessee, southern usa, usa, arkansas ...
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750K
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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25K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life and struggles of a notorious rock musician seeping into a pit of loneliness whose everyday life involves friends and family seeking financial aid and favors, inspired by rock music legend Kurt Cobain and his final hours.
Style:
psychedelic, art house, bleak, lyrical, intense ...
Plot:
musician, music, rock, rock music, depression, isolation, addiction, drug abuse, biopic, rock and roll, suicide, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2005, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
seattle, usa
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348K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The setting is Detroit in 1995. The city is divided by 8 Mile, a road that splits the town in half along racial lines. A young white rapper, Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr. summons strength within himself to cross over these arbitrary ...
Style:
inspirational, sexy, realistic, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
hip hop, underdog, music, rap, follow your dream, musician, urban ghetto life, success, urban ghetto, street gang, musician's life, trailer park ...
Time:
year 2002, 90s, year 1995, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
detroit, michigan, los angeles, america, usa
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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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313K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, teen, road movie, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, rock music, on the road, musician, musician's life, music, rock, fame, manic pixie dream girl, road trip ...
Time:
70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
california, new york, san francisco, phoenix arizona, seattle ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style:
meditative, stylized, lyrical, talky, philosophical ...
Plot:
music, musician, actor, biopic, poet, rock, brutality, musician's life, art, african american, music history, drug ...
Time:
70s, year 1964, year 2007, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style:
atmospheric, depressing, black comedy, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
music, homeless, musician, loneliness, musician's life, cat, character study, depression, financial problem, aspiring singer, road trip, melancholy ...
Time:
60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana, chicago, somalia ...
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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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442K
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, philosophical, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
jazz, self discovery, life, meaning of life, afterlife, acceptance, lifestyle change, life after death, following a dream, teaching the ways of the world, life & death, musician ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, tibet, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman has a romance with a past his prime musician revered by a man in her life.
Style:
thought provoking, romantic, humorous, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
fandom, musician, infidelity, english countryside, museum, love triangle, music, pregnancy, rock musician, father son relationship, dysfunctional relationship, obsession ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The drama tells the story of Lennon's teenage years and the start of his journey to becoming a successful musician. The story also examines the impact on his early life and personality of the two dominant females in his childhood
Style:
sentimental, emotional, teen, intense, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
musician's life, music, coming of age, the beatles, follow your dream, rock and roll, biopic, childhood, prodigy, musician, adolescence, rock ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2009 ...
Place:
england, europe, new zealand, hamburg germany, liverpool ...
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349K
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot:
youth, music, competition, female friendship, college life, rivalry, college, female protagonist, singing competition, music band, audition, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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183K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, China, Japan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
Style:
feel good, romantic, humorous, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
the beatles, musician, rock star, alternate reality, music, plagiarism, alternate dimension, moral dilemma, fame, male female friendship, concert, parallel universe ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
liverpool, england, united kingdom, los angeles, moscow russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, anthology, clever, black and white ...
Plot:
musician, conversation, addiction, dialogue, actor, art, smoking, dark humor, coffee, sarcasm, cafe, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 1920s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, america, paris france, new york ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, funny, stylized, lyrical ...
Plot:
rock, music, musician, heavy metal, rock star, rock and roll, stoner, weed, road trip, farce, stupidity, obsessive quest ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, venice beach california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, goth, love, immortality, blood, supernatural, vampirism, eternal life, death, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place:
tangier morocco, detroit
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Iceland, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two small-town aspiring musicians chase their pop star dreams at a global music competition, where high stakes, scheming rivals and onstage mishaps test their bond.
Style:
feel good, romantic, funny, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
musician, contest, father son relationship, small town, rivalry, competition, ambition, fisherman, love, ethnic stereotype, one night stand, underdog ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
iceland, edinburgh scotland, europe, reykjavik iceland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, sincere, lyrical, visually appealing ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, biopic, sex, songwriter, music, success, artist, female nudity, musician's life, art, introspection ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 20th century, 70s, 1940s ...
Place:
paris france, france, israel, europe, tokyo
Is relevant?
65K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style:
black and white, thought provoking, romantic, sad, art film ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
cold war, musician, love story, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, poet, border crossing, concert, marriage, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1952, year 1957, year 1949 ...
Place:
poland, paris france, former yugoslavia, east berlin, warsaw poland ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, sad, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
music, schizophrenia, prodigy, musician, happy ending, homeless, street musician, journalism, cello, mental disorder, friendship, mental health ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york, ohio
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Soon after the rising young singer-songwriter Beau Williams gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star Kelly Canter, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour helmed by her husband/manager James and featuring a beauty ...
Style:
romantic, intense, serious, sentimental, visually appealing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
country music, infidelity, dancing, musician, love triangle, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, showbiz, ambition, love and romance, love ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
texas, tennessee, usa, dallas texas, austin texas ...
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106K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: France, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Style:
psychedelic, sexy, factual, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
rock and roll, music band, musician, drug addiction, addiction, musician's life, life philosophy, music, biopic, drug abuse, rise and fall, hippie ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1965, year 1969 ...
Place:
california, paris france, los angeles, usa, miami ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Style:
funny, spoof, parody, satirical, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
musician, music, addiction, divorce, singer, marijuana, stupidity, success, rock, satire, farce, hip hop ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 80s, 90s, 60s ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a ...
Style:
light, romantic, freeze frame, relaxing, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dj, music festival, ecstasy, dance, party, fame, college, happy ending, musician, art, betrayal, music ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, california
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