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The Blues Brothers(1980)

2h 13min | Music, Comedy, Action, Crime
3.9/5 (with 1,876 votes)

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story(2007)

1h 36min | Comedy, Music, Drama
3.3/5 (with 286 votes)

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

Orchestra Rehearsal(1978)

1h 10min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 45 votes)

Orchestra Rehearsal (Italian: Prova d'orchestra) is a 1978 Italian film directed by Federico Fellini. It follows an Italian orchestra as the members go on strike against the conductor. The film was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Considered by some to be underrated Orchestra Rehearsal was the last collaboration between composer Nino Rota and Fellini, due to Rota's death in 1979.

Deadful Melody(1994)

2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

A young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the masters of the Martial Arts world - the Magic Lyre!

Directed by Min Kan Ng - With Brigitte Lin

The Glass Harmonica(1968)

20min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A craftsman builds a glass harmonica that enlightens him. He travels to a town where the people are obsessed with money. A bureaucrat smashes the glass harmonica which leads to chaos and eventually to social reform.

LelleBelle(2010)

1h 30min | Music, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 33 votes)

19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion in her music.

Moog(2004)

2.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Documentary about Robert Moog who was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Directed by Hans Fjellestad - With Keith Emerson, Gershon Kingsley, Money Mark, Mix Master Mike, Robert Moog

Piccolo(1959)

9min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.

Directed by Dušan Vukotić

Two Horses of Genghis Khan(2009)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A promise, an old, destroyed horse head violin and a song believed lost lead the singer Urna back to Outer Mongolia. Her grandmother was forced to destroy her once loved violin in the tumult of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The ancient song of the Mongols, "The Two Horses of Genghis Khan", was engraved on the violin's neck. Only the violin's neck and head survived the cultural storm. Now it is time to fulfill the promise that Urna made to her grandmother. Arrived in Ulan Bator, Urna brings the still intact parts of the violin - head and neck - to Hicheengui, a renowned maker of horse head violins, who will build a new body for the old instrument in the coming weeks. Then, Urna leaves for the interior to look there for the song's missing verses. But she will be disappointed. None of the people whom she meets on the way appears to still know the old melody of the Mongols.

Directed by Byambasuren Davaa - With Urna

The Repair Shop at Christmas(2017)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Repair Shop is decked with holly, and a dedicated team of Britain's most passionate and skilled crafts people are beavering away like busy Christmas elves repairing and rescuing beloved festive treasures. A Victorian version of a jukebox called a Polyphon, that has rusted into silence, moves sisters Ann and Kathryn to tears when they hear it play the family's favourite carol for the first time in decades. Meanwhile, the only Christmas present received by evacuee Patricia in 1939, Betty Doll, is lovingly brought back to life; while a rustic but rickety Nordic sleigh, a battered 100 year-old school Nativity, and an 18th century Madonna and Child painting all bring unique restoration challenges for the team of experts. Celebrating the season of joy and giving, The Repair Shop at Christmas is the festive fairy tale that will transform broken treasures into beautiful gifts, proving that 'make do and mend' is still a philosophy to live by.

I Dream of Wires(2014)

1h 36min | Music, Documentary
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

An independent documentary film about the phenomenal resurgence of the modular synthesizer — exploring the passions, obsessions and dreams of people who have dedicated part of their lives to this esoteric electronic music machine. Inventors, musicians, and enthusiasts are interviewed about their relationship with the modular synthesizer — for many, it's an all-consuming passion.

Shaping Bamboo(1979)

33min | Documentary

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums, all musical instruments are made of bamboo; therefore the general word for instruments and the music performed with them is "bamboo" ('au). This film shows the making of panpipes, from the cutting the bamboo in the forest to the making of the final bindings. The most important part of the work consists in shaping each tube to its necessary length. Most 'Are'are panpipe makers measure the length of old instruments before they shape new tubes. Master musician 'Irisipau, surprisingly, takes the measure using his body, and adjusts the final tuning by ear. For the first time we can see here how the instruments and their artificial equiheptatonic scale-seven equidistant degrees in an octave-are practically tuned.

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What The Future Sounded Like(2007)

27min | Documentary
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

From Dr Who to The Dark Side of the Moon to modern day dance music, the pioneering members of the Electronic Music Studios radically changed the sound-scape of the 20th Century. What the Future Sounded Like tells this fascinating story of British electronic music. What The Future Sounded Like mixes experimental visual and sonic techniques with animation and never-seen-since archival footage. A sonic and visual collage, this documentary colors in a lost chapter in music history, uncovering a group of composers and music engineers who harnessed technology and new ideas to re-imagine the boundaries of music and sound.

Broken Sound(2022)

1h 20min

A documentary about the origins and legacy of Bouzouki, an instrument which dominated the Greek folk music era of the 2Oth century in Greece.

The Call of the Oboe(1998)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The plot deals with the developments in an old decadent village after a stranger arrives at the old train station, an event in itself. This stranger is a Brazilian musician who carries and plays his "oboe". The music from the oboe, the musician's instrument, will change the lives of everyone involved, and that small village itself will forever be changed by the sound of the oboe.

Angel Passing(1998)

An aging concert pianist in a nursing home, suffering from Alzheimers, revisits his past. When he comes back to his home, now occupied by an artist, a touching bond develops for a few moments between them. Two strangers, one asking for forgiveness about his past, the other with the ability to forgive in her own life. A touching short, with very few words but deeply portrayed feelings.

Dub Echoes(2008)

1h 15min | Documentary, Music
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by Bruno Natal

Rhythm and Sound(1955)

21min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje.

What About Me: The Rise of the Nihilist Spasm Band(2000)

1h 42min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A documentary about the Canadian noise band.

Musiquiz(1952)

10min
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

Derrière la guitare(2021)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sylvain Coppin defines himself as an artists' nanny. For example, he has been supporting Jean-Louis Aubert and Mathieu Chedid for 15 years. So on stage with them or in his workshop in Chartres, Sylvain is always there, hidden behind the guitar.

From Kršan to Peroj(2015)

A raucous snapshot that beautifully captures a fading culture of mischievous limericks set to traditional music. For the people of Croatia's rural Istria, raunchy humor and expressive dialect are an affirmation of their cultural traditions, along with a serving of home-grown food, wine and an abundance of joyous laughter.

'Are'are Music(1979)

2h 21min | Documentary

A documentary about the traditional music of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands.

Thomas Lang : Creative Control(2004)

- No description / details available yet. -

Professor Bean's Removal(1913)

14min | Comedy

Professor Bean's Removal is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Mabel Normand.

Directed by Henry Lehrman - With Roscoe Arbuckle

The Missing Key(2011)

30min | Animation
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In a gloriously imagined 1920s world inhabited by people who have gramophones for heads, young composer Hero Wasabi has left Japan to study musical composition in Venice, accompanied by his oboe-playing cat Jacuzzi. Hero is a student of the terrifying Madame Zero at the Scuola di Musica, where his fellow students include the aristocratic Count Telefino, an unscrupulous telephone-head who is planning a campaign of dirty tricks to help him win the school's graduation prize, the Abacus Scroll.

Magic Music from the Telharmonium(1998)

25min | Documentary

It was 1906. "Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water" promised the headlines, and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus Cahill's (1867-1934) electrical music by wire. The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous musical timbres and could flood many rooms with sound. Beginning with the first instrument, constructed in the 1890's, and continuing with the installation of the second instrument at Telharmonic Hall in New York, the rise and fall of commercial service, the attempted comeback of the third Telharmonium, and ending with efforts to find a home for the only surviving instrument in 1951, this documentary provides a definitive account of the first comprehensive music synthesizer.

Weird Al Gets Whiplashed(2015)

4min | Comedy
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

You have to make a lot of sacrifices if you want to be a polka legend.

Dante Returns(2019)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This music video was made for Devil May Cry 5 video game.

Better Than Dog(2016)

28min | Documentary

The story of a unique Georgian musician - Gia Iashvili, who makes music for the sake of creating and remains little-known in his own country.