What are your favorite movies that center around music/musicians (real or fake).

I liked the following:

Crazy Hearts (with Jeff Bridges)

Rudderless (with Billy Crudrup) excellent movie

Whiplash (J.K. Simmons unbelievably good) not a jazz guy but superb movie

Spinal Tap (of course!)


Crossroads---by far my fave as I'm a blues fan (if you couldnt tell from my screen name). Great writing centered around the Robert Johnson myth, good acting (Robert Seneca NAILS the crusty old bluesman role) and some killer guitar and harp work by Steve Vai, Ry Cooder and Sonny Terry. 🎸👍🏻

Bird directed by Clint Eastwood and Honkytonk Man starring Clint Eastwood.

"Bird" is very good. "The Sound of Music" and "The Music Man" are centered on music, done with excellence, have been big hits - and enduring.

"American Graffiti"

Rock Star (Mark Wahlberg)


Rock Star Clip

"The Last Waltz", with The Band and guests.

"The Last Waltz", documenting the final concert of "The Band".



Ed

Spinal Tap
Rock Star
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster
The Story Of Anvil
Trick Or Treat (dated as hell but great soundtrack by Fastway)

The Blues Brothers

Trick or Treat and Crossroads, as already listed.
Maximum Overdrive, not really a music movie but great soundtrack.

Almost Famous is ok

The worst is Rock of Ages with that homosexual Tom Cruise.

O Brother Where Art Thou

Bonnie & Clyde

Deliverance

"The Commitments". Great story and excellent music!

The Last Waltz
The Wall
Almost Famous
Hard Day's Night
The Song Remains the Same
Streets of Fire - motorcycles, cool lever actions, and a 19 year old Diane Lane!

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Pulp Fiction.

Winner winner ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Buddy Holly Story

An excellent movie...very few know of this one.


Victor/Victoria
Grease

Immortal Beloved

Amadeus

"Paint your wagon"........ J/K I couldn't help myself

James brown movie was good. Sat and watched the entire movie.

Rock of Ages, someone above hated it, I loved it! Tom Cruise wasn't actually a very big part of it.

I've also seen it on stage, eye opening at the level of difference!

Great 80's Rock music.

I liked "A Star is Born" in the 70's. Wish they would have cast someone besides Barbara Streisand though.

Elvis was to be cast in that! Glad the colonel said no...I liked GI blues....

Whiplash
Departures
The Pianist
Copying Beethoven

The Blues Brothers

American Graffiti

Bonnie & Clyde

Stand by Me

The Last Waltz
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
The Wrecking Crew *
This Ain't No Mouse Music *
Muscle Shoals *
Begin Again *
Song Catcher
Ain't In It For My Health (Levon Helm) *

As you can probably tell, I really like movies with and about music.

* Should be available on Netflix

Country Strong and Pure Country

F. Gump.

Eddie & The Cruisers

I am tempted to say "Jaws" but shall go with "Rocky Horror Show" because I do not wish to be seen as a complete heathen.

Basically in order

Blues Brothers
Crossroads (for the same reasons as MojoHand)
Rockstar (perfect for the scene at the time)

Great soundtracks -

Maximum Overdrive (AC/DC all the time)
Every Tarantino flick - he always just NAILS the music
The Stoned Age
Dazed and Confused

Good call!

West Side Story.

Singing in the Rain, and Grease

The Big Chill

WINNER!!!!!!

Thanks - led to an interesting thread - causes one to ponder. Seems to be sig differences between movies about particular musicians and/or music genre, movies featuring interesting music in the soundtrack, movies that present a musical show originally written as such - whether for stage or cinema), etc., etc.

Tender Mercies

Woodstock....

A Clockwork Orange

dazed and confused.