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Plot Summary:
A Nova Scotia singing group has a reunion concert 20 years after their successful start.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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From Zero to Ten (2002)
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Four middle-aged friends plan to re-experience an old weekend in Rimini.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Sinfín (2005)
Plot Summary:
15 years after of its breakdown, a music band have a second chance of exit.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
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Star Spangled Banners (2013)
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Ten years following the breakup of the family band, The Banner Project, siblings Desiree, Johnny, and Mitchel Banner, are faced with the decision to reunite in order to save their home town from bankruptcy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Brave (1994)
Plot Summary:
Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered wandering near the Severn Bridge. Suffering from severe memory loss, she seeks information about the mysterious events that led to her condition. This work of fiction was inspired from the true story of an amnesiac woman found at the bridge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Play-Back (1997)
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Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
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Flow (2014)
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Michael lives in a housing project. He and his friends make music together. Michael is clearly the biggest talent in the group, and one day he is discovered by the established rapper Apollo who makes Michael his ghostwriter. A big opportunity for Michael, this also means moving forward without his friends and breaking the unwritten rule of loyalty. Michael focuses on his music, hoping that the situation will resolve itself. As his friends lose their patience, a dramatic showdown is inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min
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Something About Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, 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
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And All That Jazz (1983)
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Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
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Cook & Banks (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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Throatful of Strawberries (1985)
Plot Summary:
A story about partly miserable lives of middle aged men and unfulfilled dreams of youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min
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Sons and Daughters (2001)
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We are in Argentina in 1977, a woman gives birth to twins. With the complicity of the midwife he manages to hide the child, second child. The first, a boy, is taken into custody by the regime's guards. The scene moves to the Milan of today. The young Rosa contacts Javier and tries to convince him that they are twin brothers, separated at birth. Thus, the two begin a journey to rediscover their origins and their past. A bitter reality is ready to overwhelm them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 92 min
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My Best Pals (1989)
Plot Summary:
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, cult film
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Dance of the Wind (1997)
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The mother of the Indian female singer Pallavi (Kitu Gidwani) is at the end of her life. She was master and teacher for her daughter for the art of Indian singing. But she will not be able to complete her lessons. So Pallavi experiences the lack of the guru of her mother. Finally she finds him in a very young street-girl who is able to sing marvelously. But this girl keeps disappearing again and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 85 min
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The Revolving Doors (1988)
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Set in a small Quebec town in the late '20s, this moving drama follows the life and exploits of Celeste Beaumont, a talented young pianist, who gains local celebrity at the town movie theater for her gifts as a silent film accompanist. As an added attraction, Celeste dons ornate gowns for each performance. Audiences are just as interested in her ever-changing apparel as they are in the film. Awkward Pierre Blaudell is her biggest fan and eventually convinces Celeste to be his wife. Shortly after she bears his son, Pierre joins the army. She insists on joining him at the base and his meddlesome, snooty parents insist she give them her son. After Pierre is killed in battle, Celeste flees to New York where she finds steady employment as a jazz pianist. She finds a life-long companion with a black musician and chronicles her experiences in a diary that she passes on to her son after he grows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 101 min
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Blind Man's Bluff (1993)
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Based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai, Blind Man's Bluff takes a bittersweet look at the life of a young Israeli woman. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her parents' house in search of her own identity. She moves into a small apartment but remains caught in a lattice of demanding relationships. Tension increases as Micki tries to succeed in the classical music world. Her eclectic new neighbors, though, introduce her to a new world of desires in which Micki finds the courage to confront her problems and emerge as an independent and mature woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min
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BlackJack (1990)
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Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The drummer Tommy is known for being the local Casanova, seducing women when ever he gets the chance. It doesn't take him long to have an affair with Inger, behind Kaj's back. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic
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Down the Road Again (2011)
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In 1970, Joey and Pete left Nova Scotia to try life in the big city in the Canadian Classic Goin’ Down the Road. Now, some forty years later, Joey has died, and Pete must fulfill his last wish: to take his ashes back to Cape Breton Island, as well as a few other tasks along the way. Armed with a series of letters and an envelope full of money, Pete heads back home. DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN is a touching, comedic and romantic tale of second chances at life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Flow Calle (2022)
Plot Summary:
An urban music singer from a poor neighborhood goes through love and pain on her way to success.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Pit Pony (1997)
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Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, semi serious, social
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Night Song (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hannah and Daniel are in their 40's , both musicians. She is french and he is quebecer living in Montreal. They live by their music, reviving Synagogal french music composed between the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th., genuine piece of a lost musical treasure. But since a while, they are having an hard time keeping their group Alive. They face financial burden, and lack ressources and local subventions, despite their talents and dedication. If Daniel is constantly looking for solutions, Hannah is not ready for any compromise. How would they save their couple, their love, their music ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 119 min
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Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980)
Plot Summary:
This is a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. Stars Sean McCann, Dixie Seatle. (.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Hard Core Logo (1996)
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Bruce Macdonald follows punk bank Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada. As magnetic lead-singer Joe Dick holds the whole magilla together through sheer force of will, all the tensions and pitfalls of life on the road come bubbling to the surface.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, talky, intense, captivating, clever, realistic, biting, independent film, black comedy
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Sparkle (1976)
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Three sisters (Sister and the Sisters) from Harlem who become singers Sister (Lonette McKee) becomes involved with drugs and Sparkle ends up being the one who gets famous. This movie tells about how drugs ruined Sister's relationships and eventually ended her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, entertaining, black cinema
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The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2009)
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In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and passion) on a cross-country road trip that compels them to face their past, present, and future. Rocker Spyder, whose debut album was a huge hit saw his follow-on album bomb, causing him to retreat to his small hometown and give up. Seven years later, 27-year-old Spyder reconnects with his long-lost best friend and writer of his debut album Eric, son of a late great punk rock guitar legend, who has long settled into the sedate life of a suburban middle school music teacher. The reunion forces the two to recall their youthful ambitions and re-examine the choices they've made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, sincere, serious, independent film
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Her Smell (2018)
Plot Summary:
A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, captivating, art house
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The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Indian poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, independent film, clever, crying
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Rock On!! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sakshi Shroff, the lonely and neglected wife of busy banking executive, Aditya, decides to give him a surprise on his birthday on July 22nd, but ends surprising him multiple times. While Aditya is thrilled to know that he is going to be a dad, he is unhappy when he notices that Sakshi had also invited some ghosts (Rob Nancy and Kedar Zaveri) from his past. This gives rise to unpleasant memories involving a failed music group 'Magik' ; why the music group broke up, the acrimony especially between Aditya and his former friend, Joseph Mascarenhas; Sakshi takes it on herself to bring Magik back together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, inspirational, sincere, captivating, entertaining, cult classic, non-linear, cult film, nostalgic
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Together (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, stylized, uplifting, atmospheric, sincere, depressing, sad, feel good
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Between Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
A New York couple and their Midwestern friends find that drastic changes have occurred in their respective lives since they last met.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, exciting, tense, touching, independent film