Best Music movies of 2009

Crazy Heart(2009)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.



The Boat That Rocked(2009)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.



The Soloist(2009)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.



Nowhere Boy(2009)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.



Dance Flick(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Street dancer Thomas Uncles is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White might help the duo realize their dreams as they enter in the mother of all dance battles.



Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky(2009)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The ...



Mao's Last Dancer(2009)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In ...



Le concert(2009)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by ...



(Untitled)(2009)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A Chelsea art gallerist falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic tale about the state of contemporary art.



Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh(2009)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Iranian musicians Negar and Ashkan look for band members to play at a London concert - and the visas that allow them to leave Tehran to do so.



La teta asustada(2009)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ...



Morrer Como Um Homem(2009)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A transsexual woman tries to erase any past history of herself as a male. Struggling with a young male lover and a problematic son.



The Marc Pease Experience(2009)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Former high school musical star, Marc Pease, finds himself still living in the past, eight years after graduating.



Suck(2009)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A comedy centered on a rock 'n' roll band that will do anything to become famous.



The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll(2009)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A rock star retreats to his hometown after his sophomore album flops.



The Jerk Theory(2009)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The lead singer/guitarist of a high school rock band openly and unapologetically proclaims himself a newly converted jerk; however, the right girl comes along who could change him back to his former sweet self.



London Dreams(2009)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story revolves around two childhood friends Arjun and Munnu who find a way to get from a small village in India to Wembley as Rock stars, having overcome their personalities.



The Big Gay Musical(2009)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Paul and Eddie have just begun previews for the new Off-Broadway musical "Adam and Steve Just the Way God Made 'Em." Their lives strangely mirror the characters they are playing. Paul is ...



Fisshu sutôrî(2009)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the year 2012 a comet approaches earth, threatening to end civilization when it impacts. On the streets of Japan, a single music store remains open, its proprietor insisting to his ...



Los viajes del viento(2009)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musician travels a great distance to return an instrument to his elderly teacher.




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