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Plot Summary:
A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play their songs, sometimes even their crowd just sits and sips beer. Something must be done, and the band's leader (Lóránt Schuszter) comes up with the big idea: write and play songs for the people about themselves and not about some exotic, but too distant people's life. "We move from Tobacco Road to Retek street" With the remains of the band and a second singer (Gyula Deák "Bill") they find what they failed to show people before. The rich new sound can finally translate the spirit of blues and rock much more than words from any dictionaries could, this is the Köbánya-blues.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
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Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee (the inimitable Pia Zadora) and Frankie, along with Frankie's posse/rock band, the Pack. The leader of the aliens takes a shine to Dee Dee and all sorts of trouble breaks out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: horror musical, absurd, freeze frame, spoof, parody, independent film, urban fantasy
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Crossover Dreams (1985)
Plot Summary:
Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Toomorrow (1970)
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A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonaliser’ cause an extraterrestrial to abduct the group, and have them entertain the Alphoid population.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film
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Dateline Diamonds (1965)
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In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me.".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: noir, independent film
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Rock N' Roll (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rock N Roll is a 2007 Malayalam film directed by Renjith. The film stars Mohanlal, Lakshmi Rai, Mukesh and Rahman in lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration:
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Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!! (2018)
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Shing (Sadao Abe) is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka (Riho Yoshioka) who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her vice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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Narrien Illat (1970)
Plot Summary:
The ups and downs of the popular music world are revealed to a singer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rockumentary
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It's Trad, Dad! (1962)
Plot Summary:
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black and white, cult film
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North Beach (2000)
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San Francisco comes alive in this amusing chronicle of urban life. When Tyler has a drunken one night stand with a local stripper, his secret precedes him all over town. Now amidst a haze of springtime revelry, he must make amends to his fiance before she dumps him for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Liceenii Rock 'n' Roll (1992)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of high schoolers, including strict maths teachers, rock 'n' roll music, and first love experiences.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy
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I Am a Groupie (1970)
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A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Rock'n Roll Never Dies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Finnish rocker movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags:
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Cook & Banks (2015)
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Cocky natural Jack Cook and nervous savant Oliver Banks write and record a demo that sends them down the road to becoming the most successful duo of the 1980s. With help and hindrance from their producer, their manager, Cook's girlfriend, Banks' sister, and a rival band's lead singer - Cook and Banks try everything to stay on the same page and stay together.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015)
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Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Starstruck (1982)
Plot Summary:
A new-wave extravaganza in which a young woman wants to become the next big singer with the help of her friends and despite the wishes of her working class family.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, psychotronic, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, romantic
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school friends starts a rock band during the 1950's.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Miss Blue Jeans (2012)
Plot Summary:
Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Plot Summary:
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, mockumentary, not serious, funny, surreal, black and white, cult classic, hilarious, inspirational
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Zombie and the Ghost Train (1991)
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Antti "Zombie" Autiomaa does two things well: play the bass guitar and drink. After several months' sleeping on the streets of Istanbul, he returns to Helsinki where he's called into the army but discharged on mental health grounds after adding turpentine to the officers' soup. Zombie lives bleary-eyed in an apartment off his parents' house where his lonely, unemployed father suffers from heart disease. His girl-friend Marjo has taken up with a hairdresser but comes back to Zombie. His friend Harri hires him as a roadie for his band "Harry and the Mulefukkers" then gives him a chance as a bass player. He has his girl and he has a gig, but can Zombie put the bottle down?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, realistic, humorous, gloomy, semi serious
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Rockula (1990)
Plot Summary:
A young vampire cannot lose his virginity because of a curse imposed upon him centuries ago.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, horror musical, independent film, scary, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, campy
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Breaking Glass (1980)
Plot Summary:
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, thinking, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, independent film, cult film
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Just Like Before (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie about the Filipino rock Band The Dawn.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi autobiographical, independent film, entertaining
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I Hate Tom Petty (2011)
Plot Summary:
Through music and dramatic performances, the film tells the story of the relationship between a young emerging guitar player/songwriter named Bob and a the sexy free spirited singer-songwriter Kitt. They are brought together by their friends and one opportunistic agent to build a cover band. Instantly infatuated with each other, they become lovers and move in together creating music for both the band and each other as they slowly push towards becoming a success. Everything begins to feel perfect, but sometimes perfect isn't always what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Company (2011)
Plot Summary:
Following five couples and their friend Robert (Neil Patrick Harris), the perpetual bachelor, Company explores the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes. Winner of the 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical, Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother, Rent) will led an all-star cast in a sold out event at the New York Philharmonic with this rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Company.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: stylized, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Sunset Strip (2000)
Plot Summary:
A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at Whisky a Go-Go; he lives in a canyon and plays impromptu duets with a mysterious guitarist he doesn't see. Tammy is a costume designer, open to quick sex with the various rockers she works with and loved from afar by Michael, a photographer recovering from a case of the clap. His good friend is Felix, a morose, alcoholic songwriter. On hand for comic relief is Marty Shapiro, a fast-talking record producer. Getting ready for the gig at the club, Zach's performance, and the early-morning aftermath comprise the film.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, sexy, erotic, sexual
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Bus Palladium (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob et Mario s'aiment depuis l'enfance. Ils ont du talent et de l'espoir. Ils rêvent de musique et de gloire. Leur groupe de rock, Lust, connaît un succès grandissant, mais les aspirations de chacun rendent incertain leur avenir commun. L'arrivée de Laura dans leur vie va bousculer un peu plus ce fragile équilibre.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, stylized, sexual, eighties
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Garage Days (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young garage band in Sydney, is trying to make it big in Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, feel good, semi serious, exciting, realistic, freeze frame, funny, light
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Flame (1975)
Plot Summary:
Light the Rock 'n Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame. Set in the hardships of North England's seventies working class society and music scene. This build-up from rags to riches is a parody of realism and grit, with double-dealings and harsh unforgiving dog eat dog mentalities, and the golden rule; if you play with matches then you're going to get burnt, in the flames of the music industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic, cult film
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The Commitments (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, offbeat, sincere, captivating, contemplative, semi serious
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, feel good, light, sincere, period piece, touching, sexy, retro, emotional