Best Music movies of 1980s

Actors : Gail Edwards, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Allan Arkush,

Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save ...

Actors : Joakim Schröder, Ulrika Örn, Sebastian Håkansson, Niclas Wahlgren,
Directors : Staffan Hildebrand,

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also ...

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Willie Nelson, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...

Actors : Julian Glover, Fiona, Rupert Everett, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.

Actors : Dave Armstrong, Barry Baker, Terry Barry, Reg Bazell,

A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.

Actors : Sal Viviano, John Martin, Ken Swofford, Julie Adams,
Directors : John Fasano,

Demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, John Paragon, Beverly D'Angelo,
Directors : Cheech Marin,

A mock documentary filmed mostly in and around LA with interviews of Cheech and Chong interspersed between four videos of songs from their last album. Songs include: Get outta my room and ...

Actors : Fuyumi Shiraishi, Hideki Sasaki, Masashi Amenomori, Junji Chiba,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A cellist in a small orchestra receives help from animals to help him practice his music.

Actors : Devilalita, Gemini Ganesan, Shobana, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : K. Balachander,

A classical singer believes in changing society through his music and will power.

Actors : Mark Blankfield, Krista Errickson, Bess Armstrong, Tim Thomerson,
Directors : Jerry Belson,

Dr Daniel Jekyll researching into drugs that would help mankind avoid surgery discovers a white powder that unleashes the animal in every man, and in his case turning him from a shy and ...

Actors : Pierre Falardeau, Marie-Claude Dufour, Denise Mercier, Julien Poulin,

A Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.

Actors : Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio, Pepa Sarsa,
Directors : Claudio Fragasso,

A rock star returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video while a pack of wild dogs are on the loose killing off the local residents.

Actors : Vanessa Sharp, Patricia Barker, Hugh Bigney, Wade Walthall,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as ...

Actors : Kumar Gaurav, Poonam Dhillon, Sanjay Dutt, Nutan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Janki lives a poor middle class life with her two sons Ravi and Vicky while Ravi works for a abusive boss Mr Ghanshyam,Vicky is jobless and always takes law in his hands and dreams of going...

Actors : Jean-Pierre Bacri, Philippe Khorsand, Gérard Lanvin, Christian Clavier,
Directors : Jean-Marie Poiré,

They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a ...

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Mark Hamill, Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

A small town stud wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.

Actors : Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Alan Devlin, Stephen Rea,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Rudolf Nureyev, Nastassja Kinski, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : James Toback,

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a ...

Actors : Vangelis Kotronis, Isavella Mavraki, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Tzimis Panousis,
Directors : Nikos Zervos,

Mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians.