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Music movies

Stories where rhythm and melody take center stage, including biographies of legends and dance-filled spectacles.

Subgenres include: Narrative Musical, Jukebox Musical, Concert Film.

Falling for Figaro

341. Falling for Figaro

Romance Comedy Music
6.5

20211h 44min

Australia, United Kingdom

Director: Ben Lewin

A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.


Spin

342. Spin

TV Movie Family Music
6.1

20211h 33min

United States

Director: Manjari Makijany

Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family’s restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max and a long lost passion for music is reignited. Rhea discovers that she has a natural gift for creating beats and producing music that blends her Indian heritage, but must find the courage to follow her true inner talent.


Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles

343. Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles

Music Documentary
7.3

20211h 5min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Robert Rodriguez

Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier Than Ever," this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl.


TINA

344. TINA

Documentary Music
7.9

20211h 58min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: T.J. Martin

Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It’s the ultimate story of survival – and an inspirational story of our times.


CODA

345. CODA

Drama Music Romance Family Drama Narrative Musical
8.0

20211h 52min

France, United States

Director: Sian Heder

As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.

Themes

Identity through music, Economic pressure on a fishing family, Family obligation vs personal ambition, Communication across deaf and hearing, Pursuit of art under constraint, Sign language as bridge

Available on

Apple TV
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Respect

346. Respect

Drama Music History Historical Drama Music Biopic
6.6

20212h 25min

United States, Canada

Director: Liesl Tommy

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

Themes

Media scrutiny, Artistic reinvention, Patriarchal control, Family vs career, Gospel roots and crossover, Sibling backup dynamics

Available on

Netflix
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Belle

347. Belle

Animation Science Fiction Drama Music Anime
7.0

20212h 1min

Japan

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.

Themes

Abusive father, Dead mother, Online relationship, Virtual world, Strong friendship, Social network

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
HBO Max
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During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.


Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Themes

Surveillance pressures, Fbi agent dynamics, War on drugs crackdown, Ban from profession consequences, Heroin addiction toll, Betrayal within industry

Available on

Hulu
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A Week Away

350. A Week Away

Drama Music Romance Comedy Narrative Musical
5.8

20211h 35min

United States

Director: Roman White

Troubled teen Will Hawkins has a run-in with the law that puts him at an important crossroad: go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. At first a fish-out-of-water, Will opens his heart, discovers love with a camp regular, and sense of belonging in the last place he expected to find it.

Themes

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Available on

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