Jazz movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant jazz movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, melancholic, stylized and captivating films and TV shows about / with jazz, music, musician, artists and showbiz, couples, dancing, musician's life, mentor, love and romance and dialogue plots mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as jazz: La La Land (2016), The Legend of 1900 (1998), Whiplash (2014), Soul (2020), New York, New York (1977), Dancing on the Edge (2013), Ray (2004), Born to Be Blue (2015), Bird (1988), 'Round Midnight (1986).
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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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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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1.1M
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style:
dramatic, realistic, psychological, motivational, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
music, jazz, obsession, emotional abuse, mentor, musician, teachers and students, drummer, follow your dream, desire for fame, musician's life, public humiliation ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, north america, peru, new york, usa
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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: 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:
realistic, stylized, sentimental, cult classic, captivating ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, music, american football, doomed romance, saxophonist, dancing, fall in love, world war two, composer, jazz musician, orchestra ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, post world war two, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
TV show
Story:
A black jazz band becomes entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, erotic, sensual, captivating ...
Plot:
jazz, interracial sex, rising to stardom, music, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music band, high society, aristocracy, lifestyle, mogul, backstage ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1933
Place:
london, england
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164K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
Style:
touching, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, colorful ...
Plot:
jazz musician, jazz, trumpet player, musician, biopic, historical figure, promise, trust, drinking, flashback, friendship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1954, year 1988 ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, oklahoma, manhattan new york city ...
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14K
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, drug addict, musician, childhood, character study, musician's life, showbiz ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1988, 20th century, 50s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, africa
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, USA
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:
sentimental, gloomy, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, music, addiction, alcoholism, art, friendship, saxophonist, bittersweet, drug addiction, biopic, alcoholic ...
Time:
year 1986, 50s, 20th century, year 1959, 60s ...
Place:
france, paris france, usa, europe, new york
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3K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
Style:
captivating, serious, touching, controversial, thought provoking ...
Plot:
jazz, love affair, music, biopic, musician, musician's life, racism, discrimination, rising to stardom, artists and showbiz, society, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
Style:
touching, psychological, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot:
jazz, musician, biopic, trumpet player, historical figure, music, black, nightclub, african american, pursuit, husband wife relationship, party ...
Time:
70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, columbus ohio, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 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, romantic drama, clever, stylized ...
Plot:
jazz, music, black, friendship, rivalry, musician's life, musician, african american, sex scene, hip hop, urban, jealousy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.
Style:
retro, realistic, intellectual, powerful, bleak ...
Plot:
jazz, biopic, african american, drug abuse, music, musician, racism, blaxploitation, drug addiction, black, blues, addiction ...
Time:
1930s, year 1972, 1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
america, harlem, new york city, usa, north america, baltimore ...
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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, sensual, offbeat, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, nightclub, music, hotel, piano, dog, audition, brother brother relationship, musician, drinking, art, rock and roll ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1989
Place:
seattle, washington state, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them, but their journey - in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero - brings heartache and torment.
Style:
captivating, serious, adult animation, sexual, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jazz, lovers apart, pianist, young lovers, love affair, desire, music, follow your dream, lifestyle, musician's life, deportation, youth ...
Time:
2010s, year 1948, 1940s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
cuba, paris france, las vegas, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot:
asthma, jazz, addiction, music, heroin, pianist, coming of age, artists and showbiz, daughter, parents and children, family relations, musician ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1988, year 1974 ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After connecting with the shy Madeline, a jazz trumpeter embarks on a quest for a more gregarious paramour, but through a series of twists and turns punctuated by an original score, the two lovers seem destined to be together.
Style:
atmospheric, feel good, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, young lovers, couples, looking for love, couple relations, artists and showbiz, musician's life, love and romance, love affair, breakup, lifestyle, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, new york
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK, South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
American Pop is an American animated film that tells the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music.
Style:
adult animation, intense, disturbing, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jazz, music, music business, songwriter, rock and roll, justice, dark hero, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, family relations, love and romance, musician's life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1981, 80s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, kansas, israel, russia, san francisco ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, witty, cute, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
princess, jazz, prince, good versus evil, magical, disney princess, love and romance, girl, cinderella story, happy ending, transformation, animal life ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912, 2000s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, north america, mississippi
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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
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian and Connie, ...
Style:
black and white, contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
jazz, american abroad, jazz musician, dating, love, racial issues, musician, glamour, nightclub, fall in love, racism, music ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds herself falling in love with a woman.
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, psychological, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lesbian romance, jazz, lesbian relationship, politics, lesbian couple, satire, couple relations, lesbian love, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Fictional author-filmmaker Eric Jonrosh adapts his epic tale of a pianist-turned-detective investigating a murder in the 1950s underground jazz scene.
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
jazz, murder mystery, amateur detective, satire, murder, investigation, private detective, corruption, voice over narration, pianist, musician
Time:
1950s, 50s
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517
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician, Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
jazz, music, outback, art, friends, family relations, couples, musician's life, desire for fame, hopes, human nature, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century, 70s, 1920s ...
Place:
paris france, australia, europe, france, california
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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:
atmospheric, talky, neo noir, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, women, music, loneliness, addiction, gangster, politics, jazz musician, political corruption, violence, corruption, kidnapped wife ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
missouri, kansas city, usa, kansas
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Style:
inspirational, intense, stylized, talky, sincere ...
Plot:
music, musician's life, blues, rock and roll, jazz, biopic, african american, singer, pop music, success, chess, music business ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 2008, 1940s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, indiana, london, mississippi ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Style:
surreal, funny, stylized, touching, absurd ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
video store, jazz, filmmaking, nothing goes right, eccentricity, friendship, creativity, dialogue, art, sabotage, buddy, workplace ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
Style:
neo noir, grindhouse, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
jazz, shakespeare, musician, jazz musician, shakespeare's othello, drummer, interracial marriage, interracial couple, tragic love, opera, african, underground ...
Time:
60s
Place:
britain, london, england, east end london, africa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, captivating, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
music, workaholic, showbiz, jazz, theater, death, dancing, filmmaking, heart disease, price of fame, father daughter relationship, divorce ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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