Movies about musicians

Movies about musicians
List of the best movies about musicians selected by visitors to our site: Whiplash, Walk the Line, Sing Street, We Are Your Friends, The Doors, School of Rock, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Inside Llewyn Davis, Dope, August Rush.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:16

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.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration02:36

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration03:21

    Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration02:20

    The story of the famous and influential 1960's rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrecomedy, musical, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:30

    A group of rule-abiding prep school students – Zack, Lawrence, Freddy, Summer and Tomika – learn to take risks and reach new heights thanks to substitute teacher Dewey Finn, a down-on-his-luck musician who uses the language of rock ‘n’ roll to inspire his class to form a secret band. Throughout the school year, these middle-school classmates find themselves navigating relationships, discovering their unknown talents and learning lessons on loyalty and friendships.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA

    Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:44

    In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:31

    Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, music
    CountryUSA, South Korea
    Duration01:49

    A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, music, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

      In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genredrama, music
      CountrySouth Korea

      A drama about a young man aspiring to become a singer and a washed-up former hit producer. The two men head off on a road trip filled with music and jamming sessions.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredocumentary, music, biography
      CountryUSA

      This documentary offers a deeply intimate look at extraordinary teenager Billie Eilish. Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler follows her journey on the road, onstage, and at home with her family as the writing and recording of her debut album changes her life.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:09

      Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA

      The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Finley, a talented aspiring violinist, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small coastal village in Ireland. An unexpected romance emerges as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous reawakening, and she emboldens him to take charge of his future, until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryRomania, USA
      Duration02:11

      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 crew they must find a common ground while preparing for a competition that could change their lives forever.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:45

      Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The movie will reveal firsthand the devotion Michael Jackson had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A struggling country singer meets a Nashville songwriter in need of inspiration. Teaming up to write a song, their work gets complicated but results in both a hit song...and true love.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Micky Adams, an eccentric has-been rock musician, loses his grip on reality as his record label looks to drop him and his new "unique" albums. In hopes of breaking out of the mailroom, young Charlie Porter is tasked with traveling to the musician's bizarre home and forcing Micky out of his contract. Micky realizes Charlie could be the key to an artistic breakthrough and the pair's unlikely friendship grows. The odd but powerful bond helps both gain perspective on the music industry, life, love... and the space between.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she’s assigned a hard luck case. As she’s forced to help solve his problems, she’ll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

        A long lost music producer finds a singer-songwriter right about the moment he has given up all hope on life.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredocumentary, music
        CountryUSA

        The story of artist Lil Peep (Gustav Åhr) from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrecomedy, drama, music
        CountryUSA

        In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredocumentary, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:46

        SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film's director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal 'The Art Of Rap'. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test by venturing out on to the NYC dating scene, in this adaptation of Caren Lissner’s best-selling 2003 novel.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the desert and Jack is left stranded in the small town of Lost Springs. There, Jack meets jazz legend turned mechanic, Doc Bishop (Robert Guillaume), who helps him with his car trouble. Although Jack is far from the stage, he begins to find himself feeling at home in the small town. When he meets local bar owner, Lauren Wells (Melissa Joan Hart), Jack starts to see there is more to life than chasing fame and fortune. Doc encourages Jack to explore his true love of music, while Lauren provides the audience he has always wanted. But as Jack realizes this town has more to offer him than the bright lights of the big city, his Vegas past catches up with him -- what unfolds is comedy at the crossroads of life.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        From director Clint Eastwood comes the big-screen version of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys. The film tells the story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. The story of their trials and triumphs are accompanied by the songs that influenced a generation, including “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Rag Doll,” and many more.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        With her widower father currently living it up in Paris with a young, new girlfriend, Lilian has been placed into the care of family friends over in Brooklyn, New York. Under the roof of famed author, Julia Price, Lilian has no real motivation to live any other lifestyle than that of her hermit housemate. To impress her ex-boyfriend, and the other cynics around her, Lilian suddenly decides to make a documentary on Julia - albeit, an unauthorized one - with the help of some new people in her life.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genredocumentary, music, biography
        CountryUSA

        An up-close and personal examination of the life, music and career of the legendary entertainer. Told in his own words from hours of archived interviews, along with commentary from those closest to him, the documentary weaves the music and images from Sinatra’s life together with rarely seen footage of his famous 1971 “Retirement Concert” in Los Angeles. The film’s narrative is shaped by Sinatra’s song choices for that concert, which Gibney interprets as the singer’s personal guide through his own life.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely from a child’s point of view.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredocumentary, music, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom

        With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredocumentary, music, biography
        CountryUSA

        A surrealist biographical documentary about trailblazing electronic musician and animal rights activist Moby.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUSA

        A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        A famous country singer set to marry a glamorous Hollywood actress returns to his small town roots. When he crosses paths with his childhood sweetheart and finally feels inspired to write songs again he reevaluates his life, his values and his opinion of true love. As his wedding day approaches, he must decide if he has chosen the right woman to be his wife.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
        CountryUSA

        Kristin has just had to close her small Manhattan clothing boutique to return to her Ohio home town and live in her parents' former home. It's an adjustment for Kristin and her young daughter— especially when she runs into her former high school rival. Kristen and Emily struggle to find their new normal with the help of the hunky local music teacher.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genredocumentary, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        This captivating documentary is the product of five years of obsessive filming of live concert footage, exclusive interviews, and historic documentation focusing on three fiercely independent music labels and their bands. Featuring Neurosis, ISIS, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pelican, Oxbow, Evangelista, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Cave In, and many others whose music and art found ideal homes in the artist-run record labels of Hydra Head, Neurot, and Constellation. These labels combine hard-to-define, heavy music with a visual aesthetic that has enraptured worldwide fans, without the need for radio or corporate media outlets. They uphold the legacy of treating music as an art form, not as a product. This film is an answer to those who question where the spirit of punk rock is today.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:13

        In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, documentary, reality TV
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Nev, a 24-year-old New York-based photographer, has no idea what he's in for when Abby, an eight-year-old girl from rural Michigan, contacts him on Facebook, seeking permission to paint one of his photographs. When he receives her remarkable painting, Nev begins a friendship and correspondence with Abby's family. But things really get interesting when he develops a cyber-romance with Abby's attractive older sister, Megan, a musician and model. Prompted by some startling revelations about Megan, Nev and his buddies embark on a road trip in search of the truth.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama, music
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:54

        A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:24

        The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genredocumentary, music
        CountryUSA

        While crafting his Grammy-nominated album "Astroworld," Travis Scott juggles controversy, fatherhood and career highs in this intimate documentary.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrecomedy, drama, music, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

        Local Pennsylvania polka legend Jan Lewan develops a plan to get rich that shocks his fans and lands him in jail.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, family
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        High school senior Tara is so painfully shy that she dreads speaking to anyone in the hallways or getting called on in class. But in the privacy of her bedroom with her iPod in hand, she rocks out -- doing mock broadcasts for Miami's hottest FM radio station, which happens to be owned by her stepfather. When a slot opens up at The SLAM, Tara surprises herself by blossoming behind the mike into confident, "Radio Rebel" -- and to everyone's shock, she's a hit!

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:29

        When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:31

        Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        A woman struggles to escape the clutches of her overbearing, co-dependent mother, while gradually falling for a sexy, sophisticated attorney.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
        CountryUSA

        An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.




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