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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody(2022)

PG-13
| 2h 26min | Music, History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 142 votes)

The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.

Get on Up(2014)

PG-13
| 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.

The Sapphires(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 89 votes)

It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.

Northern Soul(2014)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Music, Drama
2.9/5 (with 31 votes)

Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.

Directed by Elaine Constantine - With Antonia Thomas, Steve Coogan, Christian McKay, Ricky Tomlinson, John Thomson

Take Me to the River(2014)

1h 35min | Documentary, Music
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Take Me to the River is a film about the soul of American music. The film follows the recording of a new album featuring legends from Stax records and Memphis mentoring and passing on their musical magic to stars and artists of today.

Miss Sharon Jones!(2015)

1h 33min | Documentary, Music
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Two-time Academy Award® winner Barbara Kopple shines a powerful, inspiring and entertaining spotlight on contemporary soul queen Sharon Jones. As she prepares to release her much-anticipated new album, Sharon comes face to-face with the greatest challenge of her life: a grave cancer diagnosis. Follow this tour de force over the course of an eventful and remarkable year as she struggles to hold her band The Dap-Kings together while battling her way back to the stage with the unstoppable determination of a true soul survivor.

Directed by Barbara Kopple

Streetlight Harmonies(2020)

1h 23min | Documentary

Streetlight Harmonies shines a long overdue spotlight on the artists and celebrates the music that defined the musical generation of Doo-Wop. Utilizing all-new interviews along with HD restored archival footage the film will explore the history and social impact of this timeless era.

Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story(2007)

2h 35min | Music, Documentary
4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Between 1959 and 1975, Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee released international chart-topping hits from artists including Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the MG's, Rufus and Carla Thomas, the Staple Singers, Isaac Hayes, and even Richard Pryor and Jesse Jackson. Founded by a white conservative bank teller who played country fiddle music, Stax became the preeminent soul music label in America, and became identified with the civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s. RESPECT YOURSELF documents the Stax label, its visionaries, and most of all, its music.

Melody Gardot: From Paris with Love(2020)

58min | Music
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Melody Gardot performs her new album Sunset in the Blue, from the Radio France studios accompanied by a trio of musicians and 40 instrumentalists from the in-house orchestra.

Kaimera(2020)

It only happens at midnight; a station jingles out of nowhere and a radio starts playing a music. As days progress it becomes addictive to him. He can’t let it go and he becomes a different person. A toxic addiction is always going to make you crave for more. He undeniably needed the music, but his human nature become ecstatic, bitter and conflicted, when the music doesn’t play. As he continues his expedition to find out more about the station, he gets to know that it is also helping him out.