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Music Films   (202 Most Notable)

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 RANK   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
40 Some Like It Hot 1959 Wilder, Billy USA DS
56 Nashville 1975 Altman, Robert USA DS
188 Five Easy Pieces 1970 Rafelson, Bob USA Y
237 Saturday Night Fever 1977 Badham, John USA DUS
246 Amadeus 1984 Forman, Milos USA DUS
249 Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 Curtiz, Michael USA YS
290 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell, Michael / Pressburger, Emeric UK YS
329 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 Reiner, Rob USA DS
407 Woodstock 1970 Wadleigh, Michael USA YS
408 Shine 1996 Hicks, Scott Australia YUS
467 The Jazz Singer 1927 Crosland, Alan USA DS
546 Diva 1981 Beineix, Jean-Jacques France DS
554 Blue 1993 Kieslowski, Krzysztof France / Poland / Switzerland / UK Y
581 Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Apted, Michael USA DS
664 Gimme Shelter 1970 Maysles, Albert / Maysles, David / Zwerin, Charlotte USA Y
689 Yellow Submarine 1968 Dunning, George UK / USA YS
746 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Leigh, Mike UK YS
774 Almost Famous 2000 Crowe, Cameron USA YBS
892 The Last Waltz 1978 Scorsese, Martin USA DB
906 Bound for Glory 1976 Ashby, Hal USA Y
963 Un Coeur en hiver 1992 Sautet, Claude France D
980 Bus Stop 1956 Logan, Joshua USA Y
989 'Round Midnight 1986 Tavernier, Bertrand USA / France DUS
996 Taking Off 1971 Forman, Milos USA
1087 One Hundred Men and a Girl 1937 Koster, Henry USA Y
1092 Ray 2004 Hackford, Taylor USA D
1096 Stop Making Sense 1984 Demme, Jonathan USA Y
1110 Don't Look Back 1967 Pennebaker, D.A. USA YUP
1138 The World of Henry Orient 1964 Hill, George Roy USA YS
1169 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould 1993 Girard, François Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands Y
1181 Quadrophenia 1979 Roddam, Franc UK Y
1204 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2000 Coen, Joel / Coen, Ethan UK / France / USA Y
1216 Dance, Girl, Dance 1940 Arzner, Dorothy USA
1372 The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Rash, Steve USA YU
1395 One Night of Love 1934 Schertzinger, Victor USA Y
1411 I'll Cry Tomorrow 1955 Mann, Daniel USA D
1411 The Jolson Story 1946 Green, Alfred E. USA DS
1427 Sid and Nancy 1986 Cox, Alex UK / USA Y
1514 A Prairie Home Companion 2006 Altman, Robert USA DS
1538 Walk the Line 2005 Mangold, James USA DUP
1570 The Chorus 2004 Barratier, Christophe France / Switzerland / Germany Y
1575 Calle 54 2000 Trueba, Fernando Spain / France / Italy Y
1593 La Vie en Rose 2007 Dahan, Olivier France / UK / Czech Republic DU
1599 Jazz on a Summer's Day 1959 Avakian, Aram / Stern, Bert USA Y
1602 Hilary and Jackie 1998 Tucker, Anand UK Y
1651 Bird 1988 Eastwood, Clint USA D
1670 The Commitments 1991 Parker, Alan Ireland / UK / USA Y
1673 The Glenn Miller Story 1953 Mann, Anthony USA DS
1691 Tous les matins du monde 1991 Corneau, Alain France DS
1698 The Girl Can't Help It 1956 Tashlin, Frank USA D
1749 A Great Day in Harlem 1994 Bach, Jean USA DU
1768 The Harder They Come 1972 Henzell, Perry Jamaica DS
1774 The School of Rock 2003 Linklater, Richard USA / Germany DUS
1789 Neil Young: Heart of Gold 2006 Demme, Jonathan USA D
1791 Say Amen, Somebody 1982 Nierenberg, George T. USA Y
1797 Buena Vista Social Club 1999 Wenders, Wim Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba DU
1798 The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time 1982 Brown, Jim USA Y
1799 24 Hour Party People 2002 Winterbottom, Michael UK / France / Netherlands DS
1807 What's Up, Doc? 1972 Bogdanovich, Peter USA Y
1816 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 1994 Elliott, Stephan Australia D
1833 Shut Up and Sing 2006 Kopple, Barbara / Peck, Cecilia USA D
1889 Leadbelly 1976 Parks, Gordon USA
1889 Stardust 1974 Apted, Michael UK
1889 Together 2002 Chen, Kaige China / South Korea D
1903 Beyond Silence 1996 Link, Caroline Germany Y
1922 Coffee and Cigarettes 2003 Jarmusch, Jim USA / Japan / Italy DUPS
1922 The Filth and the Fury 2000 Temple, Julien UK / USA D
1945 I'm Not There 2007 Haynes, Todd USA D
1949 Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' 1984 Brown, Jim USA
1967 Autumn Sonata 1978 Bergman, Ingmar France / West Germany / Sweden Y
1994 High Fidelity 2000 Frears, Stephen UK / USA YS
1994 Jubilee 1977 Jarman, Derek UK DS
2011 Jammin' the Blues 1944 Mili, Gjon USA
2017 Abel Gance's Beethoven 1936 Gance, Abel France D
2017 Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll 1987 Hackford, Taylor USA S
2017 Flamenco 1995 Saura, Carlos Spain D
2017 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China 1981 Lerner, Murray USA D
2017 Gospel 1982 Leivick, David / Ritzenberg, Frederick A. USA D
2017 Impromptu 1991 Lapine, James UK / France DUP
2017 Lightning in a Bottle 2004 Fuqua, Antoine USA DUS
2017 Monterey Pop 1968 Pennebaker, D.A. USA D
2017 That Was Rock 1984 Binder, Steve / Peerce, Larry / Winters, David USA
2017 Voices of Sarafina! 1988 Noble, Nigel USA
2017 Wattstax 1973 Stuart, Mel USA DU
2032 Save the Children 1973 Lathan, Stan USA
2047 Velvet Goldmine 1998 Haynes, Todd UK / USA DS
2047 Young Man with a Horn 1950 Curtiz, Michael USA DS
2067 The Eddy Duchin Story 1956 Sidney, George USA Y
2077 Privilege 1967 Watkins, Peter UK D
2081 Hustle & Flow 2005 Brewer, Craig USA DBU
2094 Control 2007 Corbijn, Anton UK / USA D
2113 The Girl Rosemarie 1958 Thiele, Rolf West Germany
2124 Farinelli: Il Castrato 1994 Corbiau, Gérard Italy / Belgium / France YU
2129 The Great Caruso 1951 Thorpe, Richard USA
2139 Tchaikovsky 1969 Talankin, Igor Soviet Union Y
2156 Begone Dull Care 1949 McLaren, Norman / Lambart, Evelyn Canada D
2161 The Fabulous Baker Boys 1989 Kloves, Steven USA DS
2172 The Red Violin 1998 Girard, François Canada / Italy / UK DUS
2188 DiG! 2004 Timoner, Ondi USA D
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2190 Black and Tan 1929 Murphy, Dudley USA Y
2190 Candy Mountain 1988 Wurlitzer, Rudy / Frank, Robert Switzerland / Canada / France Y
2190 Hairspray 1988 Waters, John USA Y
2190 Improvisation 1996 Mili, Gjon USA
2190 Ishtar 1987 May, Elaine USA V
2190 Latcho Drom 1993 Gatlif, Tony France Y
2190 The Little Richard Story 1980 Klein, William West Germany
2190 The Man I Love 1947 Walsh, Raoul USA Y
2190 Passing Through 1977 Clark, Larry USA
2190 River of No Return 1954 Preminger, Otto / Negulesco, Jean USA D
2190 Robert Altman's Jazz '34:
Remembrances of Kansas City Swing
1996 Altman, Robert USA
2190 Schlussakkord 1936 Sirk, Douglas Germany
2190 Stoopnocracy 1933 Fleischer, Dave USA
2190 Too Late Blues 1961 Cassavetes, John USA
2190 Up Down Fragile 1995 Rivette, Jacques France / Switzerland Y
2192 The Birdcage 1996 Nichols, Mike USA D
2193 Shine a Light 2008 Scorsese, Martin USA / UK DBUPS
2203 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005 Scorsese, Martin UK / USA / Japan DU
2210 Tupac: Resurrection 2003 Lazin, Lauren USA DS
2214 Georgia 1995 Grosbard, Ulu USA / France DS
2214 A Mighty Wind 2003 Guest, Christopher USA DS
2214 Mr. Holland's Opus 1995 Herek, Stephen USA DS
2214 Selena 1997 Nava, Gregory USA DUPS
2222 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 1970 Meyer, Russ USA DS
2224 Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman 1974 Godmilow, Jill / Collins, Judy USA Y
2224 Chulas Fronteras 1976 Blank, Les USA Y
2224 Dickson Experimental Sound Film 1895 Dickson, William K.L. USA D
2224 Drums of Winter 1988 Elder, Sarah / Kamerling, Leonard USA
2224 Fox MovieTone News:
Jenkins Orphanage Band
1928 unknown USA
2224 The House I Live In 1945 LeRoy, Mervyn USA D
2224 Jam Session 1942 Berne, Josef USA
2224 Marian Anderson: The Lincoln Memorial Concert 1939 unknown USA D
2224 The T.A.M.I. Show 1964 Binder, Steve USA
2233 The Silence 1998 Makhmalbaf, Mohsen Iran / Tajikistan / France Y
2235 The Bodyguard 1992 Jackson, Mick USA DS
2235 Jolson Sings Again 1949 Levin, Henry USA D
2235 Lady Sings the Blues 1972 Furie, Sidney J. USA DS
2235 Phantom of the Opera 1943 Lubin, Arthur USA D
2235 Song of the Thin Man 1947 Buzzell, Edward USA D
2235 Valley of the Dolls 1967 Robson, Mark USA DUPS
2235 Youth of Chopin 1952 Ford, Aleksander Poland V
2248 Everybody's Famous! 2000 Deruddere, Dominique Belgium / Netherlands / France Y
2255 8 Mile 2002 Hanson, Curtis USA / Germany DS
2256 It's All Gone Pete Tong 2004 Dowse, Michael UK / Canada DU
2270 At the Max 1991 Kroitor, Roman / Douglas, David / Strand, Christine / Temple, Julien / Archambault, Noel Ireland / Canada / USA V
2270 Last Days 2005 Van Sant, Gus USA D
2270 Pete Seeger: The Power of Song 2007 Brown, Jim USA D
2279 Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer 2007 Cavolina, Robbie / McCrudden, Ian USA
2279 Biggie & Tupac 2002 Broomfield, Nick UK D
2279 Crossroads 1986 Hill, Walter USA DUS
2279 Divine Madness 1980 Ritchie, Michael USA D
2279 Festival 1967 Lerner, Murray USA D
2279 Genghis Blues 1999 Belic, Roko USA DS
2279 Home of the Brave 1986 Anderson, Laurie USA S
2279 Honeydripper 2007 Sayles, John USA DUS
2279 Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal 2004 Brown, Jim USA
2279 Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones 1990 Weissbrod, Ellen USA
2279 Louie Bluie 1986 Zwigoff, Terry USA S
2279 Schultze Gets the Blues 2003 Schorr, Michael Germany D
2279 Songwriter 1984 Rudolph, Alan USA D
2279 Sweet and Lowdown 1999 Allen, Woody USA DUS
2279 Thelonious Monk:
Straight, No Chaser
1988 Zwerin, Charlotte USA DS
2279 Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey 1994 Martin, Steven M. USA / UK D
2279 This Is Elvis 1981 Leo, Malcolm / Solt, Andrew USA D
2279 Truth or Dare 1991 Keshishian, Alek USA
2280 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004 Berlinger, Joe / Sinofsky, Bruce USA DU
2285 An All-Colored Vaudeville Show 1935 Mack, Roy USA D
2285 I Love to Singa 1936 Avery, Tex USA D
2285 An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee 1930 Adolfi, John G. USA
2285 Jazz Icons, Volume II 2007 unknown USA D
2285 Maurice Jarre: A Salute to David Lean 2007 unknown USA D
2285 The Mickey Mouse Club - The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure 1955 Haas, Charles F. USA D
2285 A Plantation Act 1926 Roscoe, Philip USA D
2285 Rhapsody in Rivets 1941 Freleng, Friz USA D
2285 Spike Jones: The Legend 2007 unknown USA D
2285 Swooner Crooner 1944 Tashlin, Frank USA D
2285 Symphony Hour 1942 unknown USA D
2285 Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon 2008 McIntyre, Doug / Peyser, Penny USA Y
2289 The Devil & Daniel Johnston 2005 Feuerzeig, Jeff USA DU
2289 Only the Strong Survive 2002 Hegedus, Chris / Pennebaker, D.A. USA D
2289 Young@Heart 2007 Walker, Stephen UK DUP
2290 Standing in the Shadows of Motown 2002 Justman, Paul USA DUS
2291 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul 2005 Akin, Fatih Germany / Turkey D
2296 At the Jazz Band Ball: Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance 1993 unknown USA D
2296 Barbra Streisand... and Other Musical Instruments 1973 Hemion, Dwight USA D
2296 Be Here to Love Me:
A Film About Townes Van Zandt
2004 Brown, Margaret USA D
2296 The Belle of 14th Street 1967 Layton, Joe / Miller, Walter C. USA D
2296 Color Me Barbra 1966 Hemion, Dwight USA D
2296 Elvis: The Ed Sullivan Shows 1956 unknown USA D
2296 A Happening in Central Park 1967 unknown USA D
2296 The Johnny Carson Show 1955 unknown USA D
2296 The Muppet Show 1976 Casson, Philip USA / UK D
2296 My Name Is Barbra 1965 Hemion, Dwight / Layton, Joe USA D
2296 The Original Amateur Hour 1970 unknown USA D
2296 So Wrong They're Right 1995 Forster, Russ USA D
2296 The Songwriters Collection 2005 unknown USA D
2296 Tap 1989 Castle, Nick USA D
2296 Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early Rural & Popular American Music 1993 unknown USA D
2296 Tom Dowd & the Language of Music 2003 Moormann, Mark USA D
2296 The U.S. vs. John Lennon 2006 Leaf, David / Scheinfeld, John USA DU
2296 The World of Nat King Cole 2006 Hunt, Ian A. USA D
2300 A Girl's Own Story 1984 Campion, Jane Australia Y
NR Alvin and the Chipmunks 2007 Hill, Tim USA DBUPS
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V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
B   Blu-ray Disc
U   Unbox Download
P   Preview Trailer
S   Soundtrack
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