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The Beatles--the world's most famous rock and roll band--travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul's unconventional grandfather from various misadventures and drummer Ringo goes missing just before the crucial concert …. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | rock musicalpseudo documentarydocumentary stylecult film |
| Themes: | photographygamblingsurrealism |
| Mood: | behind the scenes |
| Locations: | london englandtrain stationfire escapecar thiefenglandpolice stationnightclubbathtubhelicopterhoteltrain |
| Characters: | police chasegrandfather grandson relationshipolder man younger woman relationshipsecretarydirectormusicianpolicemanboypolice |
| Story: | television directorrubber tireshaving creamprice of fameenglish musicscreaming fanstelevision studiotelevision showcult directorrock concertbritish rock musicbritish musicman in bathtubrock musiciantrain carriage …train ridehotel roomfoot chaseswinging sixtiestripping overtransistor radiobig nosefalling into a holefan mailtitle mentioned in songbeatlemaniadart boarddrum kitmusical performancebass guitartheatrical agentdrive in classicmanholethe beatles songbassistfake beardbirdcageliverpudlianphoto boothtirebroken engagementauto thefttalent agentensemble filmsweatershowgirlintergenerational friendshipthe beatlesmarketingman wearing glassesyoung manacoustic guitarmonitorgeneration gapelectric guitarperformerautographadolescencehiding in a closetcafeteriafast motion scenemusical numberirreverencedressing roomlens flarefieldtuxedosongwriteraerial shotcard playingenglishmakeupdrummerconstruction sitebackstagerock starculture clashpress conferenceclubphone boothrehearsaltitle based on songguitaristmagicianfameactor playing himselfcard gameshavingtwenty somethingclass differencescasinopubrock 'n' rollschoolgirlmanagerpursuitscreamingrock bandfour word titledisguiseold manconcerttelevisionbritishhandcuffspianorock musicapostrophe in titlebookarrestcameramirrorpunctuation in titlechasedancing (See All) |
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death a …nd Sid is arrested for her murder. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | london englandenglandnightclubhelicopterhotel |
| Characters: | musicianpolicemanpolice |
| Story: | bassistrock starphone boothrock 'n' rollrock bandconcertbritishrock musicarrestcameramirrordancing |
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar pr …odigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musicianboypolice |
| Story: | rock concertrock musicianbass guitarelectric guitardrummerrock starrehearsalguitaristrock 'n' rollschoolgirlrock bandpianorock music |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipmusicianboy |
| Story: | rock concertrock musicianhotel roomadolescencedrummerrock starguitaristfamerock 'n' rollrock bandconcertrock musicbookcameradancing |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force …performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | nightclubbathtubhotel |
| Characters: | musicianpolice |
| Story: | rock concertperformerautographsongwriterdrummerbackstagerock starrehearsalguitaristfamerock 'n' rollmanagerrock bandconcertrock music …arrestcameradancing (See All) |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
| Characters: | musicianboy |
| Story: | the beatlesadolescencefast motion scenedressing roomsongwriterdrummerbackstagetitle based on songguitaristpubrock 'n' rollrock bandpianorock musicbook …mirrordancing (See All) |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early …flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | price of fameperformerdressing roomsongwritercard playingbackstagepress conferencerehearsalguitaristfameconcertpianocameramirrordancing |
Climb aboard the double decker Spice Bus and get ready for a madcap musical adventure with the sexy phenomenons of pop - the Spice Girls. An encounter with extra-terrestrials, a night in a haunted castle, and a moment of truth in a maternity ward are just a few of the escapades the endeavored upon a …s the Girls gear up for their first live concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. (Read More)
| Locations: | london englandenglandnightclub |
| Characters: | policeman |
| Story: | autographmusical numberdressing roommakeuprehearsaltwenty somethingmanagerdisguiseconcertbritish |
Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the a …rtist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | london englandtrain stationenglandbathtubtrain |
| Characters: | musicianboy |
| Story: | price of fameelectric guitarfast motion scenesongwriterpress conferencetitle based on songguitaristrock 'n' rollconcertpianoapostrophe in titlecamerapunctuation in titledancing |
When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They sh …ow up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | train stationfire escapebathtubhoteltrain |
| Characters: | police chasesecretarymusicianpolicemanboypolice |
| Story: | hotel roomtheatrical agentirreverencecard playingphone boothrehearsalpursuitdisguisechasedancing |
In 1975, San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett, a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager, Kim Fowley, who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie, at age 15, the perfect jailbait …image for his purpose; by luck, she can sing. Two others round out the band, The Runaways. Fowley books a tour, signs them to Mercury Records, and packs them off to crowds in Japan. Seeds of conflict sprout early: Fowley puts Cherie front and center in the publicity, she's soon strung out on drugs and vodka, and jealousies arise. Without adult supervision, where can Joan and Cherie end up? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | rock concertrock musiciandrummerrock starguitaristfamerock 'n' rollmanagerrock bandconcertrock musicdancing |
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician …. (Read More)
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipmusician |
| Story: | talent agentautographdressing roomsongwriterbackstagephone boothguitaristconcertpianocameramirrordancing |
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother. …As his chaotic profession steadily destroys his personal life, Guido must find a balance between creating art and succumbing to its obsessive demands. (Read More)
| Locations: | train stationnightclubhoteltrain |
| Characters: | directorboy |
| Story: | talent agentshowgirlautographmakeuppress conferencephone boothpursuitpianocameramirrorchasedancing |
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massa …chusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by 'The Beatles' (qv) that defined the time. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | rock musical |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | fire escapenightclubhelicopter |
| Characters: | policemanpolice |
| Story: | the beatlesacoustic guitarelectric guitardressing roomsongwriterphone boothtitle based on songguitaristpubrock 'n' rollrock bandconcerttelevisionbritisharrest …chasedancing (See All) |
Wayne is back, this time trying to organize a rock festival with help from friend Garth and the spirit of Jim Morrison (Doors). Meanwhile, his girlfriend's manager is busy trying to woo her away from Wayne and move her to LA. Life gets interesting when Wayne must rush from the concert to try and sto …p the wedding. Aerosmith are featured at the concert. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | london england |
| Story: | foot chaseman wearing glasseselectric guitarbackstagemanagerrock bandconcertrock musicpunctuation in titledancing |
Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stephane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stephanie. But conquering her is no bed of rose …s for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world... (Read More)
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | bathtub |
| Characters: | musicianpolicemanboypolice |
| Story: | sweateryoung manacoustic guitarfielddrummerconstruction sitebackstagemagicianshavingold manconcerttelevisionpianobookmirror …dancing (See All) |
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's se …cret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. (Read More)
| Locations: | police stationnightclubhelicopterhotel |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | price of famefan mailperformerdressing roomtuxedofamemanagerscreamingconcertcamerachasedancing |
MI6's top assassin (Mark Strong) has a brother. Unfortunately for him, he's a football hooligan (Sacha Baron Cohen) from the town of Grimsby. Nobby has everything a man from the poor English fishing town of Grimsby could want - 9 children and the most attractive girlfriend in northern England (Rebel … Wilson). There's only one thing missing in his life: his little brother, Sebastian. After they were adopted by different families as children, Nobby spent 28 years searching for him. Upon hearing of his location, Nobby sets off to reunite with his brother, unaware that not only is his brother an MI6 agent, but he's just uncovered a plot that puts the world in danger. On the run and wrongfully accused, Sebastian realizes that if he is going to save the world, he will need the help of its biggest idiot. (Read More)
| Locations: | london englandtrain stationenglandbathtubhelicopterhoteltrain |
| Characters: | police chasepolicemanpolice |
| Story: | man in bathtubfoot chasefast motion sceneaerial shotculture clashpress conferenceclass differencespubdisguisebritisharrestcamerachase |
Donald P. Sinclair has placed six separate gold coins in different slot machines in his casino. The lucky six who find these coins discover an opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to own $2 million. Locked up in a locker in New Mexico, these six contestants must now race each other, to be the first … to the cash. There are no rules in place and everything that could possibly happen, does. Whilst, behind the scenes, Sinclair's associates are placing their bets. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | train stationhelicopterhoteltrain |
| Characters: | policemanpolice |
| Story: | rock concertensemble filmmusical numbercasinoconcertchase |
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who endlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found deca …pitated. It is called an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents". (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | london englandenglandpolice stationhelicopterhoteltrain |
| Characters: | police chasepolicemanpolice |
| Story: | foot chasemusical numberbackstageculture clashpubbritishhandcuffsarrestcamerachase |
The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by … the love of his mother. Several years later, he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. He slowly begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | rock musicalcult film |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | englandhoteltrain |
| Story: | rock concerthotel roombackstagerock starshavingtelevisionrock music |
After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open …is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | police stationhotel |
| Characters: | police chasepolice |
| Story: | rock concertdrum kitmusical performancemusical numbertuxedoconstruction sitephone boothconcerthandcuffspianoarrestchasedancing |
Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tr …ies to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, Ramona comes with baggage: seven ex-lovers, with each of whom Scott must do battle to the death in order to win Ramona. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | surrealism |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musicianpolice |
| Story: | bass guitarautographfast motion scenemusical numberlens flaredrummerbackstagerock starphone boothguitaristtwenty somethingrock 'n' rollrock bandbook |
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case. His intention is to …give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton to work with Clouseau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | secretarymusicianpolicemanpolice |
| Story: | hotel roomfoot chasemonitorperformerpress conferencecasinodisguisecamerachasedancing |
A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dod …ge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that's the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter's war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter... (Read More)
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | nightclubhoteltrain |
| Characters: | police chaseboypolice |
| Story: | autographfieldpress conferencephone boothshavingtwenty somethingpursuitpianocameramirrorchasedancing |
Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in tur …n. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | london englandpolice station |
| Story: | foot chaseliverpudlianfast motion scenecard playingphone boothcard gamepubbritishpianopunctuation in title |
Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name tags from jobs he's tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same. Wayne f …alls for a bass guitarist and uses his and Garth's Video contacts to help her career along, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy who is ruining their show will probably take her away from him if they fail. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Story: | television studiorock concertman wearing glassesdrummerrock starguitaristrock bandconcertrock musicpunctuation in title |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s …oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | performerdressing roomsongwriterclubrehearsaltitle based on songmanagerconcertpiano |
The Marx Brothers take on high society. Two lovers who are both in opera are prevented from being together by the man's lack of acceptance as an operatic tenor. Pulling several typical Marx Brothers' stunts, they arrange for the normal tenor to be absent so that the young lover can get his chance.
| Locations: | fire escapehotel |
| Characters: | musicianpolice |
| Story: | irreverencedressing roombackstagerehearsaldisguisepianoarrestdancing |
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mon …days, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be. (Read More)
| Locations: | nightclubtrain |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | rock concertdrummerrock startitle based on songguitaristrock 'n' rollrock bandtelevisionbritishrock musicmirrordancing |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
| Characters: | musicianboypolice |
| Story: | rock concertelectric guitarguitaristrock 'n' rollpursuitconcertpianochasedancing |
Four members of a high school band called Mystery do everything they can to attend a KISS concert in Detroit. In order to make it to the show they must steal, cheat, strip, deal with an anti-rock mom and generally do whatever it takes to see the band that has inspired them to be musicians.
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Characters: | policemanboypolice |
| Story: | rock concertauto theftcafeteriatitle based on songrock 'n' rollrock bandconcerthandcuffsrock musicchase |
A documentary on the life of 'Amy Winehouse' (qv), the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
| Mood: | behind the scenes |
| Locations: | london englandhotel |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | english musicbritish musicsongwriterbackstageguitaristfamerock 'n' rollarrestcamera |
Rupert Pupkin is obsessed with becoming a comedy great. However, when he confronts his idol, talk show host Jerry Langford, with a plea to perform on the Jerry's show, he is only given the run-around. He does not give up, however, but persists in stalking Jerry until he gets what he wants. Eventuall …y he must team up with his psychotic Langford-obsessed friend Masha to kidnap the talk show host in hopes of finally getting to perform his stand-up routine. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Story: | price of fametelevision studiotelevision showman wearing glassesautographfamehandcuffsarrest |
Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to … rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. (Read More)
| Locations: | hotel |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | hotel roomdressing roombackstagerock starmanagerconcertpianocameramirror |
This is the beginning of the eighties and everybody is moving to the beat of Pop music, as the brand-new concept of the music video appears on television for the first time. However, in Dublin, Conor, a teenager with a sensitive heart, is trying to deal with a tense family relationship, reconnect wi …th his older brother while dealing with the hostile environment in his new public school. And then one day, he sees her. Tall, with long chestnut hair, a buttery complexion and big, dark eyes; an enigmatically beautiful girl standing in front of his school's gate, indolently observing people passing by. But who is she and how could a boy ever get noticed by such a distant girl? That's easy. He would form a band. Surprisingly, with every lyric Conor writes, the gap narrows and with every song he plays, her heart fills with affection. In the end, before a sea of opportunities lying ahead of them, what will the future hold for a brave love like this? (Read More)
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipboy |
| Story: | bass guitarbassistacoustic guitarsongwritermakeupdrummerguitaristrock 'n' rollconcerttelevisionpianomirrordancing |
After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer, the N.Y.P.D Detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended for one month by their Captain Romans. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughter's expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife … is cheating on him with their next-door neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store, the place is burgled by two small-time thieves and the detective loses his card. They track down the thieves. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | train stationcar thiefpolice stationtrain |
| Characters: | police chasepolicemanpolice |
| Story: | foot chasetuxedoaerial shotdisguisehandcuffscamerachase |
Recounts a fable of a pop rock band formed a year after the Beatles took America by storm in early 1964. Jazz aficionado Guy Patterson, unhappily toiling in the family appliance store, is recruited into the band the Oneders (later renamed the Wonders) after regular drummer Chad breaks his arm. After … Guy injects a four/four rock beat into lead singer Jimmy's ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the Wonders into a brief whirlwind of success, telling the tale of many American bands who attempted to grab the brass ring of rock and roll in the wake of the British Invasion. (Read More)
| Story: | television studiodrummercard gamemanagerrock bandfour word titleconcertrock musicpunctuation in title |
In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, …culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Story: | rock concertelectric guitardrummerrock 'n' rollfour word titlepianorock musiccamera |
Cheery Alex Fletcher lives comfortably in Manhattan off the residuals from his 80's pop success and reprising his hits at school reunions, theme parks, and state fairs. But those gigs are declining, so he jumps at the chance to write a song and record it with reigning teen idol Cora Corman. Trouble …is, he's good at melodies but needs a lyricist and has less than a week to finish. Enter Sophie Fisher, subbing for a friend who waters Alex's plants; she's a pretty good poet, quick witted, and could do it, if she'd agree. But there's some sort of shadow over her head that Alex may not be able to charm his way past. And what if they do get a song written, what then? (Read More)
| Locations: | helicopter |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | price of fameacoustic guitarsongwriterbackstagerehearsalmanagerconcertpiano |
Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and … he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him. (Read More)
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | english musicrock concertbritish rock musictitle mentioned in songrock starphone boothrock 'n' rollrock band |
Daphne, a seventeen-year-old girl from New York goes to England in search of her father, who does not know he had a child with an American girlfriend he met while working in Morocco, and whose aristocratic family did not approve of the woman.
| Locations: | london englandengland |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | tripping overculture clashtitle based on songrock bandfour word titlebritishmirrordancing |
Chris Cole was born to rock. His longtime girlfriend Emily believes his talent could take him all the way - but Chris worships at the altar of Bobby Beers, the fiery frontman for heavy metal legends Steel Dragon. By day, Chris still lives at home with his parents and spends his days repairing copy m …achines. But when Chris takes the stage, fronting Pennsylvania's premiere Steel Dragon tribute band, all of that disappears. Chris Cole is Bobby Beers - mesmerizing audiences with his perfect imitation of Beers' electrifying vocals. The night his bandmates boot him out of the group, Chris is devastated - until an unexpected phone call changes his life forever: He, Chris Cole, has been tapped to replace Bobby Beers as the lead singer of Steel Dragon. In an instant, Chris rockets to the dizzying heights of sudden stardom, rising from devotee to icon, from rock fan to rock god - the wanna-be who got to be. So what happens when an average guy gets everything he wants - and discovers it's not enough? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | hotel |
| Story: | screaming fansrock concertacoustic guitardressing roomrock starpress conferencefamerock bandrock music |
Friday and Streebek are assigned to some very strange robberies, like i.e. the stealing of one bat, a 30 foot long snake and the mane of a lion from a zoo. All the latest BAIT magazines were also recently stolen, and some chemicals that when are mixed correctly develops a very deadly gas. All these …thefts have one thing in common; visit cards with the word "PAGAN" left at the crime scenes. Solving these crimes, including why plenty of police vehicles have been stolen lately, involves the usual; to drink coffee at strip tease bars, rescue kidnapped virgins from drowning and lose their jobs. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police chasepolicemanpolice |
| Story: | foot chaseculture clashpress conferencedisguisehandcuffspianoarrestchase |
An unnamed guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer/songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An unnamed girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day an …d takes care of her Mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets girl and they get to know each other as the girl helps the guy put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the guy and the girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. (Read More)
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | songwriterdrummerguitaristtelevisionpianochase |
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored the …re to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all. (Read More)
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | grandfather grandson relationshipmusician |
| Story: | bass guitarautographsongwriterrehearsalguitaristfamerock 'n' rollconcert |
Sexy, romantic comedy about a girl in her early 20s named Violet Sanford going to NYC to pursue a dream of becoming a songwriter. Violet gets a "day" job as a bar maid at a nightclub called Coyote Ugly. Coyote Ugly is the city's newest hot spot where the employees are a team of sexy, resourceful wom …en that provoke the clientele and press with their mischief. (Read More)
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Characters: | musician |
| Story: | acoustic guitarautographsongwriterclubpianodancing |
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women al …l around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | nightclub |
| Story: | television directortheatrical agentautographrehearsaltitle based on songdisguisetelevisionpianodancing |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just …when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Locations: | car thiefhelicopter |
| Characters: | police chaseolder man younger woman relationshipmusicianboypolice |
| Story: | foot chasetitle mentioned in songintergenerational friendshiplens flareaerial shotconstruction sitetitle based on songpursuitscreamingdisguisehandcuffsarrestchasedancing |
Deloris Wilson, a black woman who has chosen the stage name Deloris Van Cartier, is a Reno lounge singer, she the lead in a girl trio in which she also chooses and arranges the music and choreographs the shows. She is a wisecracking, showy woman who has always loved music. She, however, only has her … current job being hired by her married lover, Vince LaRocca, to sing in his casino's lounge. She learns of Vince's true business as a gangster when she walks in on him killing one of his employees who wronged him. As a witness to the murder, Deloris goes on the run to the police, Lt. Eddie Souther who has long been running an operation to get enough evidence to put Vince behind bars, this murder which could be the proverbial nail in Vince's coffin. However, Vince has put a contract out on Deloris' life to prevent her from testifying against him. As such, Eddie has to hide her until the trial, which will be at least two months. Where Eddie chooses is St. Katherine's, a poor Catholic parish and convent in a tough neighborhood in San Francisco. The convent's Mother Superior reluctantly takes Deloris in, that reluctance as Deloris is not anywhere near being close to looking or acting like a typical nun. Furthermore, the Mother Superior does not tell any of the sisters Deloris' true identity or the real reason for her being at St. Katherine's. With the Mother Superior cloistering the sisters behind the convent walls to pray for the salvation mostly of down and out of the neighborhood w… (Read More)
| Themes: | gambling |
| Locations: | police stationnightclubhelicopter |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | foot chasedressing roomrehearsalcasinopursuitdisguiseconcertpianoarrestchasedancing |
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