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- These movies are not just about music, they're experiences filled with power-packed performances, iconic soundtracks, and rich narratives. Aided by top-notch direction, and raw, relatable portrayals, these rock and roll movies truly incite that invincible, edgy, rock n roll spirit within you.
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- Best Rock And Roll Movies. Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny. Rock n Roll Movies • Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny. In every best rock movies list I’ve read, there is one exceptional classic that gets passed over time and time again: Tenacious D’s origin story masterpiece, The Pick of Destiny.
- Phantom of The Paradise
- The Rose
- Tommy
- Cry-Baby
- I'm Not There
- Pump Up The Volume
- Pink Floyd – The Wall
- Control
- School of Rock
- Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Phantom of the Paradise is a Brian De Palma film that loosely adapts Phantom of the Opera as a glittery, campy musical horror film – a true relic of the 1970s. It didn't do well upon its release (except, for some reason, in Winnipeg, Canada), but like many films of its ilk, it found an audience through the years. The story of the film concerns a co...
Starring Bette Midler, The Rose is a fictionalized version of the life of Janis Joplin. The film was first titled Pearl, based on Joplin's nickname, but when rights to her life story did not come through, it was changed. It follows rock star Rose as she struggles with drug and alcohol dependence while being pushed too far and too hard by her conniv...
Tommy is based on The Who's album of the same name, which came out several years before the film. It stars lead singer Roger Daltrey with a supporting cast made up of many notable names: Ann-Margaret, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, and Jack Nicholson. Tommyis a rock opera in which the titular character is shocked by trauma into a catatonic ...
The less mainstream cousin to 1988's Hairspray, Cry-Babyis John Waters' ode to teenage delinquency. Set in the bright and colorful world of the 1950s (or at least the cinematic version of that decade), the film follows Johnny Depp's Cry-Baby Walker, a teenage greaser (referred to as "drapes" in the film), as he falls for a girl from the right side ...
Todd Haynes' I'm Not There is a highly unique (and probably polarizing for that reason) biopic that uses six different actors to convey different facets of music legend Bob Dylan. It's through this narrative device – people of different ages, genders, and ethnicities all playing variations on one person – that the true scope of Dylan's impressive c...
Pump Up the Volume stars Christian Slater as another teenage Gen X loner with a chip on his shoulder (but with less murderous impulses than Heathers'J.D.). Slater's Mark Hunter runs a pirate radio station that he uses to anonymously rant about what's wrong with his school, his community, and society at large. This understandably draws some attentio...
Much like Tommy, Pink Floyd – The Wallis a film inspired by an album. Since it takes so much inspiration from music, the resultant film is surreal and symbolic, with limited dialogue and a big emphasis on image. It even features multiple animated sequences. It's a film that thinks outside of the box, using its musical groundwork to create a movie t...
Control stars Sam Riley as Ian Curtis, frontman of the punk band Joy Division, who committed suicide after a lifelong struggle with epilepsy and depression. The film explores Curtis' personal life as well as his professional life, including his marriage to wife Deborah (Samantha Morton), an extramarital affair, the band's growing success, and Curti...
A Richard Linklater comedy starring Jack Black, School of Rockis one of those family friendly comedies that actually delivers on the laughs in a fresh way. Black stars as an unsuccessful musician named Dewey Finn who uses his roommate's (Mike White) name to snag a substitute teaching job at a prep school. Though he initially plans to use the job as...
Hedwig and the Angry Inchstarted as a stage musical, became a movie, and then recently returned to the stage, making the jump to Broadway almost twenty years after its initial premiere. Its story is told in a series of narrated flashbacks by protagonist Hedwig as she reveals how she came from East Berlin to the United States, where she tries desper...
- 'This Is Spinal Tap' Even if it stopped at satire, 'This Is Spinal Tap' would deserve a place on our list of the Top 10 Rock 'n' Roll Movies. But Rob Reiner's groundbreaking mockumentary goes further than that, demonstrating a deep knowledge of (and love for) the music -- not to mention the musicians -- it's poking fun at.
- 'A Hard Day's Night' It wasn't the first rock-inspired film, but it might as well have been. Created in classic rock-movie fashion -- which is to say it was thrown together at the last minute in a misguided corporate effort to take advantage of a fad before it was too late -- 'A Hard Day's Night' should, by all rights, have been a disaster.
- 'The Blues Brothers' OK, they're the Blues Brothers, not the Rock Brothers. Never mind semantics. Not only is this super-sized version of the 'Saturday Night Live' sketch popularized by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd one of the better road-trip comedies of the '80s, it's also a powerful, deeply affectionate tribute to some of the musicians who most crucially helped define rock's form and function during the early years -- from well-known stars like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin to unsung players like Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn.
- 'Almost Famous' Most rock movies focus on the lives and experiences of the musicians, and 'Almost Famous' is no different. But this time we view everything through the eyes of a fan (Patrick Fugit, playing a thinly fictionalized version of writer/director Cameron Crowe) whose once-in-a-lifetime gig as a teenage reporter for Rolling Stone puts him on the road with a band of rock reprobates.
Jan 29, 2024 · Musicians have been playing versions of themselves on film since the early talkies, and cinema’s long history of rock’n’roll movies ranges across studio features (including all those Elvis...
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Mar 4, 2019 · I’d argue that it’s easier to identify a rock and roll movie than define one. Looking through this list, there are docs and biopics, concert films and musicals, movies with flick-making and generation-defining soundtracks, and films that don’t seem to have very much to do with music at all.
Jul 28, 2022 · There have been rock movies since the explosion of rock and roll in the '50s, and such films have provided great visuals for the music long before we had MTV. Rock movies had their heyday in...
