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The Conversation(1974)

PG
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 707 votes)

Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple is in danger.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Cindy Williams, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, ...
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Blue Giant(2023)

2h | Animation, Drama, Music
4.3/5 (with 7 votes)

High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.

Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa

All the Right Moves(1983)

R
| 1h 31min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.9/5 (with 108 votes)

Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

Directed by Michael Chapman - With Tom Cruise, Craig T. Nelson, Lea Thompson, Charles Cioffi, Gary Graham, Paul Carafotes, ...
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Permanent Vacation(1980)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 76 votes)

In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for more meaning in his life and meets a few characters along the way.

Directed by Jim Jarmusch - With Frankie Faison, Sara Driver, John Lurie, Felice Rosser, Eric Mitchell
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Bird(1988)

R
| 2h 41min | Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 129 votes)

Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Bill Cobbs, James Handy, ...
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

Directed by Alexander Hall - With Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, ...
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band : Live in New York City(2000)

3h | Music, Documentary
4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A two disc amalgam of the final performances of 2001's Madison Square Gardens performances by one of the greatest bands in the world of some of the greatest music in the world. The atmosphere positively floods out of the screen to envelop you and the hairs on your neck will be standing on end before the first note has been struck. After watching this you'll believe that The Boss is incapable of putting a foot wrong. By the end, he's only just short of defying gravity.

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Endless Waltz(1995)

1h 42min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota).

Clarence(1937)

1h 4min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Kids & Family

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.

Directed by George Archainbaud - With Roscoe Karns

Rock School(2005)

R
| 1h 33min | Action, Documentary, Music
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

It is about a music school in Philadelphia, The Paul Green School of Rock Music, run by Paul Green that teaches kids ages 9 to 17 how to play rock music and be rock stars. Paul Green teaches his students how to play music such as Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa better than anyone expects them to by using a unique style of teaching that includes getting very angry and acting childish.

Directed by Don Argott - With Paul Green

Oktoberfest(1987)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Luka Banjanin is an unemployed young man living with his parents in Belgrade. He hangs out with few devoted friends who, like him, are yet to find place in a society that discarded young intellectuals. He plays saxophone and dreams about going to Oktoberfest, the annual beer festival in Munich, but he's being unable to get passport because of a smaller drug incident he had in the past. Totally careless about his long-term girlfriend, he suddenly falls for a mysterious woman who seems to appear in the same places as him, and then vanishes as quickly as possible. Believing that he's at the wrong place at the wrong time, Luka wanders from one misadventure to another, gradually losing the contact with reality and living out his own Oktoberfest in his mind.

Directed by Dragan Kresoja - With Svetislav Goncić, Zoran Cvijanović, Žarko Laušević, Vladislava Milosavljevic, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Goran Radakovic, ...

The Clearing(1993)

7min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

In this short film written and directed by Alexis Bisticas, the audience sees through the eyes of a man in the woods, following the distant sound of a saxophone. In a single take, the fluid steadicam shot takes the viewer on a surreal and poetic journey, as the walker comes across everything from family picnics to men in bondage suits.

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Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story(2011)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Gatling Pictures' "Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story" examines the life and work of Mark Sandman, deceased frontman of Boston "low rock" band Morphine. From his Newton, Mass., roots to his travels across America and around the globe, Sandman left an indelible imprint as one of the most distinctive musicians of his generation. Along with revisiting the "unique and sultry sound" of his music, the film explores the meaning of family through this critically praised and personally conflicted singer, songwriter and innovative instrumentalist.

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The Debt Collector(2012)

19min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An unlikely love story between a lonely collections agent and his elderly neighbor.

The Fall Guy(1930)

1h 5min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.

Directed by Leslie Pearce - With Jack Mulhall
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Rambling 'Round Radio Row #2(1932)

9min | Music
1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Returning to New York on an ocean liner, Lois Whiteman, Harry Barris and Art Jarrett decide to visit composer Burton Lane, who is also aboard, to rehearse a little. Saxophonists Benny Krueger and Rudy Wiedhoeft meet and perform with their instruments.

Swing con Son(2009)

2h 13min | Documentary

Music documentary by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

Sax-Off-On(2021)

5min | Music
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann(2012)

1h 33min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, scream, regain a lost brotherhood. Overcome this silence! That’s how some young German, British, Dutch, Belgian… musicians made Europe exist long before Maastrich and have kept on cherishing, imperturbably, their freedom! They are no longer twenty-year-olds, but others have followed. They set themselves one constraint: reinvent everything every time. A way to take the very instant into account, to let the unexpected in, to match to the world.

Postal Union(1937)

21min | Music, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Things are complicated when, as a favor to a stuttering acquaintance, he takes his overweight girlfriend to the movies to propose to her by proxy. Unfortunately the pretty co-worker spots him with her in the theater, so he begins to learn magic tricks.

Dark Bar(1988)

1h 29min | Thriller
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.

Directed by Stelio Fiorenza - With Marina Suma, Richard Hatch, Barbara Cupisti