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Movies: Best "jazz band" Movies


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Whiplash(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 47min | Drama, Music
4.2/5 (with 7,027 votes)

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

American Pop(1981)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | Animation, Music, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

Whiplash(2013)

18min | Drama, Music
3.9/5 (with 147 votes)

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student. This is the 18 minute short film that the feature film was based on.

Directed by Damien Chazelle

Second Chorus(1941)

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

Tango Tangles(1914)

10min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 24 votes)

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

Pete Kelly's Blues(1955)

1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Music
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

The Crimson Canary(1945)

1h 4min | Mystery, Music

Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.

Directed by John Hoffman

Band of Thieves(1962)

1h 9min | Crime, Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and clarinets are just a cover for a series of robberies. Musical comedy, starring British jazz star Acker Bilk as himself, alongside Jimmy Thompson and Jennifer Jayne.

Directed by Peter Bezencenet

My Baby Just Cares for Me(1987)

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Short animation on Nina Simone's song "My Baby Just Cares for Me".

Jam Session(1942)

3min | Music
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

Directed by Josef Berne

Dixieland Droopy(1954)

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.

Directed by Tex Avery

Come Back, Africa(1959)

1h 35min | Documentary, Drama
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Directed by Lionel Rogosin - With Miriam Makeba
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The Apartment Above(1937)

4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong apartment. Complications arise.

Directed by Leon Trystan - With Eugeniusz Bodo

Hey Babu Riba(1985)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.

Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street(2015)

1h 52min | Comedy, Music
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

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Shoe Shine Boy(1943)

15min | Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams(2015)

1h 1min | Documentary

Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s brass band from Kherson. Through steady practice under the wildest of conditions, Roman (12, trumpet), Polina (10, trombone, drums and many other instruments), Nikita (12, drums) and Nikita (14, piano) produce magical music with ancient, wobbly instruments. Not least due to their wit and good humor, they persevere together, helped along by their 80+-year-old conductor and a young teacher. These children of the post-Soviet provinces use American tunes to achieve their dream – to become someone in the world and make something of their lives, no matter how dire the circumstances. From the authors of an awards winning documentary film Ukrainian Sheriffs.

Directed by Roman Bondarchuk

The Cry of Jazz(1959)

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.

Directed by Edward Bland

The Flamboyant Sex(1961)

1h 18min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school.

Directed by Barbro Boman - With Anita Lindohf

Bring It to the People - the film about the Brussels Jazz Orchestra(2020)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

A Little Jive Is Good for You(1941)

3min | Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Martha Tilton sings in this Soundies film from 1941, with Slate Brothers, and Ben Pollack and His Orchestra accompanying.

Satie's "Parade"(2016)

14min | Animation, Music
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Parade for three managers and four performers. Sketchy drawings in a neatly arranged palette, involving quotes from the French composer Erik Satie, set to the music of Parade performed by the Dutch Willem Breuker Kollektief.