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Alvin and the Chipmunks(2007)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation
2.9/5 (with 1,973 votes)

A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.

10(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 102 votes)

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 10min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 144 votes)

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Get on Up(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 19min | Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 234 votes)

A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.

Love & Mercy(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h | Drama, Music, History
3.6/5 (with 309 votes)

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

Bye Bye Birdie(1963)

1h 52min | Comedy, Music
3.0/5 (with 43 votes)

A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

Für Emma und ewig(2017)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Doron Wisotzky

Gold Diggers of 1933(1933)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 52 votes)

Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.

Blaze(2018)

2h 9min | Drama, Music, History
3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

Directed by Ethan Hawke

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.

Frank(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 727 votes)

A young wannabe musician who discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.

Grace of My Heart(1996)

1h 56min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York City to make it big. Though she flops as a recording artist, fast-talking record producer Joel Millner recognizes her songwriting talent and teams her with struggling songsmith Howard Caszatt.

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Punching Henry(2017)

1h 38min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 20 votes)

Comedian Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets involved, Henry must decide whether he wants to make jokes for a living, or be the butt of them.

Directed by Gregori Viens

Welcome to L.A.(1976)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.

The Hottest State(2006)

2.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.

Two for Tonight(1935)

1h 1min | Comedy, Music

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

Get Yourself a College Girl(1964)

1h 27min | Comedy, Music

A young music student faces expulsion after her instructors learn she is moonlighting as a pop-music writer.

Directed by Sidney Miller - With Mary Ann Mobley, Nancy Sinatra, Chad Everett, Fabrizio Mioni, The Standells, The Dave Clark Five, ...

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man(2006)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 38min | Documentary, Music
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive photos and exuberant praise and live perfomances from an eclectic mix of musicians, including: Jarvis Cocker, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Anohni, The Handsome Family and U2's Bono and The Edge.

Directed by Lian Lunson - With Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Bono, Perla Batalla, ...

Her Cardboard Lover(1942)

3.9/5 (with 1 vote)

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

My Last Day Without You(2011)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Music
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

On a one-day business trip to New York, a German business executive falls in love with a singer-songwriter who exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he's never experienced before.

Directed by Stefan Schaefer - With Nicole Beharie, Reg E. Cathey, Robert Clohessy, Ken Duken, Marlene Forte, Lawrence Saint-Victor, ...

Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)(2010)

1h 56min | Documentary, Music
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.

Directed by John Scheinfeld - With Perry Botkin Jr., Micky Dolenz, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Ringo Starr, Robin Williams, ...

The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story(2009)

1h 41min | Documentary, Music
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

The troubled fraternal relationship between songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the Oscar and Grammy-winning Sherman Brothers, famous for the iconic hits they wrote for Disney.

Directed by Gregory V. Sherman, Jeff Sherman - With Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman

Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?(1971)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
2.1/5 (with 6 votes)

A hit pop songwriter, who cannot love himself or others, spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

Three Little Words(1950)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.

Aida(1953)

1h 35min | Drama, Music
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.

Directed by Clemente Fracassi - With Sophia Loren, Renata Tebaldi, Lois Maxwell, Ebe Stignani, Giuseppe Campora, Afro Poli, ...

The American Mall(2008)

2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic adolescent singer/songwriter whose hard working mother owns the mall music shop frequented by every teen in town. When Ally shares her music with Joey (Rob Mayes), a janitor in the mall who harbors rock star ambitions, she is thrilled to find someone who can truly relate to her songs as well as her heart. Trouble looms on the horizon, however, in the form of the mall owner's spoiled rotten daughter Madison (Autumn Reeser). Madison is the kind of girl who's used to getting whatever she wants, and what she wants now could prove disastrous for both Ally's ambitions, and her mother's popular music store.

Directed by Shawn Ku - With Nina Dobrev

Little Miss Marker(1934)

3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.

Directed by Alexander Hall - With Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Dorothy Dell, Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman, Frank Conroy, ...

Love and Learn(1947)

1h 23min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music business.

Songwriter(1984)

1h 34min | Drama, Music
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.

Bathtubs Over Broadway(2018)

1h 27min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
4.0/5 (with 11 votes)

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

Directed by Dava Whisenant - With Steve Young
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