Best Music movies of 1980s

Actors : José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec,
Directors : Gérard Corbiau,

Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on ...

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

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

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 : Aleksandr Abdulov, Irina Muravyova, Klara Luchko, Yuriy Yakovlev,
Directors : Tatyana Lioznova,

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Actors : Vilma Díaz, Ramiro Meneses, Carlos Mario Restrepo, Jackson Idrian Gallego,
Directors : Víctor Gaviria,

Rodrigo and his friends are bored teenagers living in Medellin. Rodrigo wants to start a punk band. The youths mainly loaf around the hillside shanty towns and, for kicks, steal a bike or car, or shoot someone.

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 : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Leonor Silveira, Diogo Dória, Oliveira Lopes,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A drama following stories of characters from the Portuguese High Society.

Actors : Kou Machida, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Michirô Endô,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

Punk rock gangs and music groups clash with one another and the brutal police force in a futuristic Tokyo setting.

Actors : Albert Salmi, Rick Springfield, Patti Hansen, Janet Eilber,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Details the efforts of a pop-rock star (James Roberts / Rick Springfield) to win the love of a woman he meets in a car accident. None of the usual gambits work on this woman, who has never ...

Actors : Pia Zadora, Ruth Gordon, Tom Nolan, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : James Fargo,

Aliens land in the town of "Speelburgh" searching for the source of rock & roll. They find trouble with Dee Dee, Frankie and the pack.

Actors : Dieter Montag, Heide Kipp, Alexander Lang, Renate Krößner,

Sunny is the singer of band trying to establish itself in the music-scene of East-Berlin. They play regular gigs in small towns, but Sunny feels out of touch with the audience and her life ...

Actors : Eddie Deezen, Ruth Buzzi, Morgan Paull, Lyle Waggoner,
Directors : Randall M. Badat,

Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its upto Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer ...

Actors : Mario Van Peebles, Eriq La Salle, Melvin Plowden, Richie Abanes,
Directors : Joel Silberg,

An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.

Actors : Pierre Falardeau, Little Beaver, Marie-Claude Dufour, Julien Poulin,

Actors : Maria Cristina Mastrangeli, Jasmine Maimone, Daria Nicolodi, Pascal Persiano,
Directors : Luigi Cozzi,

When a female rock band use an infamous old piece of sheet music to record their new album in an old mansion, they accidentally open a portal to hell.

Actors : John Gielgud, Jan Ciecierski, Andrzej Seweryn, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was...

Actors : Tray Loren, Renee Hubbard, Donna Scoggins, Cana Cockrell,
Directors : Beverly Sebastian,

A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Petra Malakova, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Based on Shakesphere's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the...