Best Music movies of 2005

Walk the Line(2005)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

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.



Hustle & Flow(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.



Last Days(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent to those of Kurt Cobain.



Mrs Henderson Presents(2005)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other things, its all-nude revues.



Be Cool(2005)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.



Kinky Boots(2005)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.



Happy Endings(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Happy Endings weaves multiple stories to create a witty look at love, family and the sheer unpredictablity of life itself.



Don't Come Knocking(2005)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 62

An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother whom he hasn't seen in 30 years only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.



Roll Bounce(2005)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 63

1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age comedy, as X and his friends, who rule their local rink, are shocked when their home base goes out of business. Heading over to the ...



De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté(2005)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?



Joyeux Noël(2005)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 35

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.



Brothers of the Head(2005)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 63

In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.



Forty Shades of Blue(2005)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-'n'-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.



Stoned(2005)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.



Undiscovered(2005)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.



Linda Linda Linda(2005)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.



The Gospel(2005)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 44

This is a story about a successful young R&B singer that has an unlikely homecoming when his father, the bishop, becomes ill.



The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes(2005)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 33

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.



U-Carmen eKhayelitsha(2005)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A version of Georges Bizet's Carmen, set in a modern-day South African township.



Adam & Steve(2005)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.




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