Best Music movies

Stardust(2020)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Stardust will chronicle the young David Bowie's first visit to the US in 1971 - a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.



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 Identical(2014)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Twin brothers are unknowingly separated at birth; one of them becomes an iconic rock 'n' roll star, while the other struggles to balance his love for music and pleasing his father.



Breakin'(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds.



Victor Victoria(1982)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.



The Fabulous Baker Boys(1989)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.



I Used to Be Darker(2013)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A runaway seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore and finds their marriage ending and her cousin in crisis. In the days that follow, the family struggles to let go of the past while searching for new things to hold onto.



Filth and Wisdom(2008)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 42

A comedy centered on three flatmates living desperate lives in London.



Beat Street(1984)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 39

An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.



Stateside(2004)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...



Feel the Noise(2007)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 35

A young man from the South Bronx dreams of making it as a rapper, until a run-in with local thugs forces him to hide in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew.



Hunky Dory(2011)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 47

In the heat of the summer of 1976, drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end-of-term version of Shakespeare's The Tempest.



Spinning Gold(2023)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records.



People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan(2021)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Kurupt FM innit the rest is irrelevant. After Brentford's largest pirate radio station has ended, the boys from Kurupt FM find their way to Japan on an epic adventure in search of fortune and fame.



Soul Men(2008)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Though it's been some twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.



High Strung(2016)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 30

When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on scholarship at the Manhattan Conservatory of the Arts, sparks fly. With the help of a hip hop dance ...



Aviva(2020)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 50

After meeting online, transatlantic lovers Aviva and Eden embark on a tumultuous courtship, love affair and marriage. The couple struggles, separates, and tries to get back together, as ...



Amar Singh Chamkila(2024)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Follows the life of pop star duo Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur, whose songs that were social commentaries or devotionals became massive hits in the 80's.



Tumbledown(2015)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A young woman struggles to move on with her life after the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when a brash New York writer forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his death.



Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft(2026)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 37

An accompanying 3D concert film, documenting the Manchester shows and co-directed by Eilish and James Cameron.




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