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Ray(2004)

PG-13
| 2h 32min | Drama, Music
3.7/5 (with 833 votes)

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Directed by Taylor Hackford - With Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Terrence Howard, Larenz Tate, ...
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That Thing You Do!(1996)

PG
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Music
3.4/5 (with 355 votes)

A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.

Directed by Tom Hanks - With Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Tom Hanks, ...
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High Fidelity(2000)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
3.6/5 (with 843 votes)

When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in order to figure out what went wrong. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood.

Directed by Stephen Frears - With John Cusack, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Joelle Carter, Joan Cusack, ...
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Control(2007)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 359 votes)

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

Directed by Anton Corbijn - With Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson, Andrew Sheridan, ...
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The Harder They Come(1972)

R
| 1h 43min | Crime, Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He records his first song, "The Harder They Come," but after a bitter dispute with a manipulative producer named Hilton, soon finds himself resorting to petty crime in order to pay the bills. He deals marijuana, kills some abusive cops and earns local folk hero status. Meanwhile, his record is topping the charts.

Directed by Perry Henzell - With Jimmy Cliff, Prince Buster, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Heartman, Winston Stona, Leslie Kong, ...
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Artifact(2012)

1h 45min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 35 votes)

Follow 30 Seconds to Mars as they record their latest album, This Is War, and their battle against record label EMI.

Directed by Jared Leto - With Jared Leto, Shannon Leto, Tomo Milicevic, Chester Bennington, Daniel Levitin, Brandon Boyd, ...
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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz(1997)

1h 53min | Documentary, Music
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.

Directed by Julian Benedikt, Andreas Morell - With Freddie Hubbard, Gil Mellé, Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver, Carlos Santana, Johnny Griffin, ...

Mogul: The Gulshan Kumar Story(2023)

Drama, Music
5.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Biopic of Gulshan Kumar, the founder of the Indian music company, T-Series.

Directed by Subhash Kapoor - With Akshay Kumar, Gulshan Grover

Prince: A Purple Reign(2011)

59min | Documentary, Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception of black music in the 1980s with worldwide hits such as "1999," "Kiss," "Raspberry Beret" and "Alphabet Street." He became a global sensation with the release of the Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical movie "Purple Rain" in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self-discovery that continues to this day.

Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records(2017)

1h 35min | Documentary, History, Music
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.

Big Gold Dream: Scottish Post-Punk and Infiltrating the Mainstream(2015)

1h 34min | Music, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Documentary on the independent Edinburgh record label Fast Product and Postcard Records and associated bands like Fire Engines, Scars and Josef K.

Directed by Grant McPhee

Pigface: Free for All(2006)

1h 27min | Documentary, Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Join drummer Martin Atkins and his industrial rock band Pigface for this document of their epic 2005 tour of the United States. Visits backstage and interviews with the band meld with the concert footage to create the ultimate Pigface experience. Witness rehearsals, life on the road, collaboration with Nocturne and Sheep on Drugs and the challenges of setting up and tearing down the stage as the band hits venues from New York to San Diego.

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SubBerlin - Underground United(2008)

1h 29min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The original Tresor was in many ways the quintessential Berlin club: located in an unrenovated vault beneath a bombed out department store, it opened its doors amidst the general confusion and ecstasy that swept across the city when the wall fell. Its low ceilings, industrial decor and generally unhinged atmosphere created an unprecedented platform not only for techno in Berlin, but also for the scene taking shape across the Atlantic in Detroit.

Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton(2017)

2h 19min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

The unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace still stir the public's imagination after 20 years. Yet law enforcement has been at a standstill to produce results. The producers of "American Federale" and the first two "Assassination" films, finally unravel the tangled cases and expose not only who may have done it, but also why these cases have never seen justice. Battle For Compton" is the story of "The Machine"; a group of high powered individuals with a very dark secret they killed to keep, and have spent the last 20 years hiding- hoping one day it will all go away- before they do.

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If It Ain't Stiff: The Stiff Records Story(2007)

1h 30min | Documentary, Music
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent that took music out of the boardroom and gave it back to the fans. Stiff's successes included Nick Lowe, the Damned, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Madness, Tracey Ullman and the Pogues. Contributors include Captain Sensible, Jonathan Ross, Suggs, Shane MacGowan and label founders Jake Riviera and Dave Robinson.

Sem Dentes: Banguela Records e a Turma de 94(2015)

2h 15min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A documentary about Banguela Records, a 90's brazilian rock label.

Talkin' Headz(1998)

1h | Music, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The Metalheadz Documentary is an intimate and immediate account of a Drum & Bass label poised for world domination. DJs and producers talk openly of the artistic freedom they enjoy, how the label has evolved to represent such a diverse musical scene and why moving forward and pushing the boundaries is so vital. These names have created a global phenomenon and here talk for the first time of how it was achieved, where it's at and what the future holds.