Brass band movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant brass band movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, melancholic and feel good films and TV shows about / with brass band, friendship, musician, music, dancing, band, society, youth, coming of age and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as brass band: Brassed Off (1996), Drumline (2002), Notes from Dad (2013), Sound! Euphonium (2015), You, the Living (2007), Orchestra of One Youthhood (1985), Brass Dreams (2016), The Orchestra (2022), The Ipcress File (1965), The Music Man (1962).
Best films
New films
| The Band's Visit (2007) | 7.5 | |
| Luna (2017) | 6.5 | |
| Bratz (2007) | 3.2 | |
| Don't Look Up (2021) | 7.1 | |
| Liz and the Blue Bird (2018) | 7.2 |
List of brass band movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, emotional, touching, indie film ...
Plot:
brass band, relationships, small town, music, mining, competition, working class, singer, drinking, hospital, poverty, adulthood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1996, 70s ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, london, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more ...
Style:
inspirational, feel good, melancholic, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, girls' night
Plot:
college life, music, cheerleader, underdog, destiny, college, musician's life, dancing, american football, high school, black, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
harlem, georgia, usa, new york, atlanta georgia
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Genre: Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Trumpet player Roy Allen starts anew as a music teacher in a school full of kids with little exposure to music. Roy connects with a talented virtuoso in need of a father figure. Through the journey of launching a school band and learning to reach ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
trumpet player, teacher, music teacher, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, music band, dedicated educator, chance, family relations, parents and children, high school, jazz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in ...
Style:
anime, sincere, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
slice of life, brass band, music, friendship, coming of age, competition, training, high school, mother daughter relationship, awkwardness, memory, friend ...
Place:
japan, kyoto japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The Bower Family Band petitions the Democratic National Committee to sing a Grover Cleveland rally song at the 1888 convention, but decide instead to move to the Dakota territory on the urging of a suitor to their eldest daughter. There, Grampa ...
Style:
funny, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
forbidden love, election, youth, grandparents, presidential election, family relations, politics, brass band, campaign, couples, friends, lifestyle ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
south dakota, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman (Jessica Lundberg) remembers a ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, melancholic ...
Plot:
alienation, life, surrealism, loneliness, life philosophy, honest, lifestyle, art, artist, nordic, mental disorder, philosophy ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, new jersey, california
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Recap of Season 1. After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people ...
Style:
anime, captivating, psychological, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, brass band, competition, musician, training, high school life, orchestra, female protagonist, coming of age, school club, musician's life, ambition ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
True story about the brass band of a fire brigade during WW2.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, brass band, orchestra, youth, fire brigade, friendship, nostalgia, community, courage, resilience, hopes, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Hikuma Koichi was a saxophone player, but he suffers from the after-effects of an accident. Due to that, he turned his back on music. Hikuma Koichi finds hope in the high school brass band. The band consists of problem students. Koichi struggles to ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
high school life, high school, music, orchestra, friendship, redemption, youth, hopes, personal growth, brass band, teacher student relationship, coming of age ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
Jeppe Nygren takes over as deputy conductor of the Copenhagen Symphony Orchestra and is warmly welcomed by his new conductor, who speaks candidly about the musicians' peculiarities and olates. The conflict-ridden Jeppe quickly gets an example ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, thrilling, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
orchestra, satire, management, musician, train conductor, classical music, brass band, music industry, music, workplace, workplace situations, job ...
Place:
copenhagen, denmark
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kumiko is now a second year and one of the senior players of the euphonium section. With new underclassmen joining the concert band, Kumiko will have to learn new things in order to deal with awkward and difficult underclassmen. She and third-year ...
Style:
anime, captivating, disturbing, yuri, yaoi
Plot:
school club, orchestra, high school, musician, high school life, classical music, competition, tournament, female protagonist, music band, teenage life, women ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This espionage thriller represents a landmark in spy movies introducing the sly, dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer. The story, centers on Palmer's investigation into British Intelligence security. He's soon enmeshed in a world of ...
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, conspiracy, double agent, brainwashing, undercover, politics, british, investigation, political intrigue, secret agent ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
albania, london, england, europe, scotland yard ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Style:
period piece, sentimental, entertaining, retro, aesthetic ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, date night
Plot:
librarian, small town, dance, library, dancing, broadway, con artists, love, traveling salesman, fall in love, american history, town ...
Time:
1910s, year 1962, 20th century
Place:
iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Israel, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this... It wasn't that important. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
culture clash, musician, israeli, orchestra, small town, ethnic conflict, fish out of water, society, disorder, melancholy, desert, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, maghreb, alexandria egypt ...
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17K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot:
musician, jazz, social problems, disappearance, musician's life, starting over, survival, tragic event, lifestyle, life turned upside down, talented, poverty ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is ...
Style:
romantic comedy, absurd
Plot:
relationships, love story, parenthood, heir, estranged father, pregnancy, realism, family drama, escapism, bittersweet, small town life, slice of life ...
Place:
london, europe
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mizore Yoroizuka and Nozomi Kasaki are two close friends who are part of the Kitauji High School music club. Quiet and reserved Yoroizuka plays the oboe while lively and popular Kasaki plays the flute. The group has decided to play Liz and the Blue ...
Style:
anime, sincere, captivating, light, sentimental ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, brass band, female friendship, school, supernatural, couples, music, society, female protagonist, book, bird ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A black metal band it is about to split up. In their way to one last gig at Hellfest festival an accidental death triggers numerous misadventures to four metalheads.
Style:
not serious, realistic, exciting, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rock, buddies, music band, musician's life, on the road, friends, artists and showbiz, midlife crisis, comedy of errors, wanted, police investigation, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Fraser's unrequited love for the beautiful and rich Ginny gets a chance to prove itself, when she is suddenly kidnapped. He teams up with rebel Mac, who's got a score to settle with the kidnappers. Together they cross the country, looking ...
Style:
homoerotic, grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, cannon, cheerleader, motorcycle, pretty girl, rivalry, rescue, friends, disorder, vengeance, love and romance, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
nebraska, vietnam, los angeles, nevada, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, psychological, tragic
Plot:
brother brother relationship, orchestra conductor, adoption, cancer, leukemia, fighting illness, transplant, family reunited, illness, relationships, problem, organ transplant ...
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204K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style:
costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. After Daniela is arrested, the man who might be her long-lost father is called into her ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, sexy
Plot:
female nudity, long lost daughter, sex with father, teenage prostitution, murder, prostitute, age-gap relationship, motorcycle, sexpot, man in underwear, nubile, sex ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
All roads lead to magical, merry Toyland as Mary Contrary and Tom Piper prepare for their wedding! But villainous Barnaby wants Mary for himself, so he kidnaps Tom, setting off a series of comic chases, searches, and double-crosses! The "March ...
Style:
fairy tale, sweet, cute, christmas classics, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, toys, holiday, dancing, broadway, toy soldier, magic, dance, greed, gypsy, sheep, forest ...
Time:
year 1961
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to ...
Style:
anthology, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous
Plot:
farmer, widower, happiness, dog, farce, laziness, countryside, husband wife relationship, rural setting, car crash, farm, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. A modern version of Ibsen's play.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, talky ...
Plot:
feminism, women's rights, friendship, friends, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, couple relations, hopes, gender, society, introspection ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Style:
cult classic, clever, independent film, philosophical, surreal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, stoner, slacker, reporter, satire, social commentary, greed, violence ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by ...
Style:
thinking, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
outlaw, forbidden love, gang, insane asylum, robbery, prison, redhead, legend, bank robbery, tragic love, mansion, servant ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
paris france, venice, italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Czechoslovakia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1981
Style:
freeze frame, crying, period drama
Plot:
world war one, renaissance, biopic, signing a contract, work abroad, national identity, czech german relations, superstition, moral dilemma, forest, drunken man, shooting ...
Time:
1910s, year 1917, year 1916, year 1915, year 1914
Place:
eastern europe, central europe, prague, america, usa
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the year 1999, Hei-shu (Kuroki), a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band...
Style:
surreal, existential, black comedy, offbeat, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
unemployment, loneliness, magic realism, identity crisis, social commentary, obsession, working class, government conspiracy, bittersweet, political satire, news anchor, dark humor ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
taiwan, east asia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two master thieves (Brosnan and Hayek) are finally retiring after one last succesful mission. Residing in their own tropical paradise, their old nemesis, FBI Agent Stan P. Lloyd shows up to make sure they really are retired. Docked in the port is an ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, feel good, erotic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
heist, island, one last job, master thief, voyeur, robbery, fbi, relationships, cons and scams, caper, chase, bank robbery ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
bahamas, caribbean, los angeles
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