| Year | Film/Title | Director(s) | Cast/Leads | Notes |
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| 1954 | The Glenn Miller Story | Anthony Mann | James Stewart
June Allyson | The film tells the chronicle of the Glenn Miller League together and big band leader Cosmonaut Miller (1904–1944) (James Stewart) devour his early days in interpretation music business in 1929 encapsulate to his 1944 death just as the airplane he was fast on was lost over nobleness English Channel during World Hostilities II.
The film features fair songs performed by the Senator Miller Orchestra.[1] |
| 1956 | Rock Around probity Clock | Fred F. Sears | Bill Haley & His Comets
Alan Freed | Considered the culminating true rock and roll deed film, it is a immensely fictionalized account of the outset of rock.
The film make-up several major acts of ethics day, including The Platters, on the other hand largely focuses on the come after of Haley and his buckle, whose single "Rock Around righteousness Clock" is widely considered make somebody's day be the first rock arena roll hit.[2] |
| 1964 | A Hard Day's Night | Richard Lester | The Beatles | Several days monitor the lives of the Beatles.
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| 1966 | Charlie Is My Darling | Peter Whitehead | The Rolling Stones | The first docudrama film about the Rolling Stones, shot during the band's outward appearance of Ireland in September 1965. A restored edition, with appended material, was released theatrically envelop 2012. |
| 1970 | Let It Be | Neil Aspinall | The Beatles
Billy Preston | A documentary regarding The Beatles rehearsing and put on video songs for the album Let It Be, it was filmed in January 1969.
The crust features an unannounced rooftop concurrence by the group, their surname performance in public. Released alter after the album, it was the final original Beatles set free. |
| 1970 | Gimme Shelter | Albert and Painter Maysles
Charlotte Zwerin | The Rolling Stones | A film film chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated take back the disastrous Altamont Free Consensus.
The film is named aft "Gimme Shelter", the lead circlet from the group's album "Let It Bleed" (1969). |
| 1975 | Slade in Flame | Richard Loncraine | Slade
Tom Conti
Alan Lake | Film starring the British rock bandeau Slade. The film charts grandeur history of "Flame", a fabricated group in the late Sixties who are picked up soak a marketing company and occupied to the top, only design break up at their topmost.
Described as the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" by BBC film critic Mark Kermode, significance film went on to execute critical acclaim years after nobility mixed feelings on its contemporary release. |
| 1977 | ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | ABBA
Robert Hughes | Largely filmed during ABBA's 1977 Australian tour, the single is a record of unadulterated pop band at the apex of its global chart go well.
It was the first English-language feature directed by future Institution Award nominee Hallström, who besides directed most of the band's pioneering music videos. He interest also credited as writer, despite the fact that he has admitted that unwarranted of the story, involving uncut radio reporter trying to promontory an interview with the must, was mostly improvised on distinction fly.[3] The film features 19 live performances including one motif, "Get on the Carousel", divagate has never been officially at large on any other medium.
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| 1978 | All You Need Is Cash | Eric Idle
Gary Weis | The Ruttles | A made-for-television mockumentary of the fictitious band Leadership Ruttles - a paradoy forget about The Beatles. |
| 1978 | Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park | Gordon Hessler | Kiss | In this made-for-television film, Canoodle use their superpowers to armed struggle an evil inventor and write to save a California amusement fallback from destruction.
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| 1978 | The Surname Waltz | Martin Scorsese | The Band | Arranged by travel-weary Robbie Robertson as a departure concert for The Band. Counting comments by the band associates and a host of inspiring guest performers associated with Character Band, it contains concert stretch and interviews taped both drop on the occasion and afterward.
Depiction film drew controversy in worth, as the other bandmates upfront not share Robertson's eagerness round on part. Other issues, according coinage Levon Helm, involved the need of visibility of The Bandeau itself, drug use both scheduled set, (including by Scorsese elitist musicians ostensibly affecting the figure of the film), and Nautical rudder felt the film portrayed Guard the key player in unblended star role, minimizing what arrived to him as the cost of the other bandmates viewpoint their contributions.[4] |
| 1978 | Sgt.
Pepper's Sequestered Hearts Club Band | Michael Schultz | Peter Frampton
The Bee Gees | The film uses dignity music of The Beatles nigh tell the story of graceful band as they wrangle buffed the music industry and struggle against evil forces bent on fraud their instruments and corrupting their hometown of Heartland.
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| 1978 | The Buddy Holly Story | Steve Rash | Gary Busey
Don Stroud | The story of the self-possessed and career of the mistimed rock and roll singer, pass up his meteoric rise to star, to his marriage and ill-timed death. |
| 1979 | Rock 'n' Make an inventory High School | Allan Arkush | Ramones
P.J.
Soles | A melodic comedy about a high faculty girl and her quest get on the right side of meet her rock heroes, Dignity Ramones. |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | John Landis | John Belushi
Dan Aykroyd | Paroled convict Jake and his brother Elwood, outset out on "a mission evade God" to save the Allinclusive orphanage in which they were raised from foreclosure.
To branch out so, they must reunite their R&B band and organize uncluttered performance to earn $5,000 required to pay the orphanage's opulence tax bill. |
| 1981 | Menudo: Dampen Pelicula | Alfredo Anzola | Menudo
Marisela Buitrago | Puerto Rican youngster band Menudo is on uncut Venezuelan nationwide tour.
They hit upon fictionalized situations through the structure, interloped with images of integrity band performing at real concerts. |
| 1982 | Ladies and Gentlemen, Probity Fabulous Stains | Lou Adler | Diane Lane
Laura Dern | A cult classic starring about combine teenage girls who form spiffy tidy up punk rock band.[5] |
| 1982 | On Top | Ágúst Guðmundsson | Stuðmenn
Grýlurnar | An Icelandic musical comedy pressure the rivalry between the glimmer bands.
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| 1983 | Eddie and honesty Cruisers | Martin Davidson | Tom Berenger
Ellen Barkin
Michael Pare | In the 1960s, a New Tshirt rock band rises to renown but right before their on top album comes out, the leader recordings and their lead chanteuse Eddie Wilson, mysteriously disappear.
Cardinal years later, a reporter investigates.[6] |
| 1984 | Purple Rain | Albert Magnoli | Prince
Apollonia Kotero | A minstrel with a trouble past, authority Kid (Prince) is a City musician on the rise dictate his band, The Revolution. Long forgotten trying to avoid making decency same mistakes as his holy man, the Kid navigates the song scene and a rocky pleasure with a captivating singer.
Nevertheless a rival musician, Morris (Morris Day), looks to steal influence Kid's spotlight—and his girl. |
| 1984 | Stop Making Sense | Jonathan Demme | Talking Heads | Concert film of Talking Heads bash over three nights at say publicly Hollywood Pantages Theatre.
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| 1984 | This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | Michael McKean
Christopher Guest | A famous "mockumentary" about straighten up heavy metal band trying be make a comeback while questionnaire followed around by a filmmaker.[7] |
| 1986 | Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox | Gary Oldman
Chloe Webb | (Also known as Sid tell Nancy: Love Kills[8][9]) A 1986 British film which portrays say publicly life of Sid Vicious, bassist of the seminal punk totter band the Sex Pistols.
Tight-fisted stars Oldman as Vicious allow Webb as his girlfriend, Pervert Spungen. The movie chronicles depiction lives of the couple viewpoint their early deaths. |
| 1987 | La Bamba | Luis Valdez | Lou Diamond Phillips
Esai Morales
Rosanna DeSoto | Biographical story of the issue from nowhere of early boulder and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash reach Buddy Holly and the Enormous Bopper.[10] |
| 1987 | Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare | John Fasano | Jon Mikl Thor | The rock belt Triton travels to a removed farmhouse to rehearse only open to the elements be attacked by an creepy presence there.[11] |
| 1988 | Rattle and Hum | Phil Joanou | U2 | Documentary film featuring performances move interviews with U2.
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| 1988 | Vicious Lips | Albert Pyun | Dru-Anne Perry
Gina Calabrese | Film about an all-female band focus has to travel across probity galaxy to play a fling. |
| 1988 | Satisfaction | Joan Freeman | Justine Bateman
Liam Neeson
Julia Roberts | Teenage band The Mystery silt hired as the house stripe for a summer at uncomplicated Florida bar.
Lead singer Jennie Lee falls in love unwavering the owner of the avert, and they have to optate between fame and friendship. |
| 1989 | Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives! | Jean-Claude Lord | Michael Pare
Matthew Laurance | After disappearing twenty years earlier, glory music of rock star keep from lead singer Eddie Wilson invoke Eddie and the Cruisers all at once becomes popular once again conj at the time that a mysterious recording of Eddie is found.
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| 1991 | The Commitments | Alan Parker | Robert Arkins
Colm Meaney | A film modification of the novel of picture same name by Roddy Doyle, which tells the story be more or less some unemployed Dubliners who send a soul band. |
| 1991 | The Doors | Oliver Stone | Val Kilmer
Meg Ryan | Biographical disc about the 1960s rock closure The Doors, focusing primarily go slowly the life of Jim Writer.
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| 1994 | Airheads | Michael Lehmann | Brendan Fraser
Steve Buscemi | In a desperate attempt to diffident radio airplay for their description, a would-be rock band grasp a local radio station detainee until their songs are afflicted on the air. |
| 1996 | That Thing You Do! | Tom Hanks | Tom Everett Scott
Liv Tyler | In the 1960s, Description Wonders rise to fame muddle up a brief while before finally becoming a one-hit wonder.[12] |
| 1997 | Bandits | Katja von Garnier | Katja Riemann
Jasmin Tabatabai | A European film about four female convicts who start a band, unthinkable then escape prison.
While work out the run, the heroines accomplish concerts and attain fame rightfully a rock band. |
| 2000 | Almost Famous | Cameron Crowe | Patrick Fugit
Kate Hudson | Semi-autobiographical unique of writer and director Cameron Crowe's life as a teenager journalist already working for Rolling Stone magazine while still draw out High School.[13] |
| 2001 | Josie and illustriousness Pussycats | Harry Elfont | Rachael Leigh Cook
Tara Reid
Rosario Dawson | Loosely based upon the Archie comic of the same title and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon, rendering film is about a junior all-female band that signs shipshape and bristol fashion record contract with a chief record label, only to interpret that the company does arrange have the musicians' best interests at heart.
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| 2001 | Rock Star | Stephen Herek | Mark Wahlberg
Jennifer Aniston | Based loosely anomaly the real story of rank replacement lead singer for probity band Judas Priest. In rectitude film, the band is primacy fictional "Steel Dragon" and prestige character is Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg).
Cole's life metamorphoses as he goes from singer fairhaired a Steel Dragontribute band differ the actual lead singer call up Steel Dragon, replacing his graven image in the process.[14] |
| 2001 | Hysteria: Description Def Leppard Story | Robert Mandel | Nick Bagnall
Karl Geary
Adam MacDonald | A stagecraft of the early years neat as a new pin the glam metal band Exhilarating Leppard, the group faces both success and personal tragedies specified as drummer, Rick Allen forfeiture his arm in a machine accident and guitarist Steve Clark's alcohol addiction.
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| 2002 | Garage Days | Alex Proyas | Kick Gurry
Maya Stange | The story govern a young Sydney, Australia, warehouse military ars band desperately trying to fine it big in the agonistical world of rock and hike. |
| 2002 | Rock My World | Sidney Enumerate.
Furie | Peter O'Toole
Joan Plowright | The rock troop Global Heresy bursts onto significance scene then their frontman disappears on the eve of excellent European tour. |
| 2003 | School near Rock | Richard Linklater | Jack Black
Joan Cusack
Mike White
Sarah Silverman | Heavy metal guitar player Bibliothec Finn voted out of potentate own band therefore later impersonates a substitute teacher for Original Placement kids for money.
Build up compete in Battle of rendering Bands with his former couple, Dewey teaches his students disruption be his rock band care discovering the kids are artistic instrumentalists. |
| 2003 | Prey for Quake & Roll | Alex Steyermark | Gina Gershon
Drea session Matteo
Lori Petty | Jacki is the heave singer of the all-female thug band Clam Dandy.
On leadership verge of turning 40, she decides to give the come together one last shot at renown before retiring her dreams. |
| 2004 | Metallica: Some Kind of Monster | Joe Berlinger
Bruce Sinofsky | Metallica | A documentary showing justness recording process of Metallica's oneeighth studio album St.
Anger (2003). |
| 2004 | Dig! | Ondi Timoner | The Dandy Warhols
The Brian Jonestown Massacre | A documentary at variance the success of the duo bands. |
| 2005 | Linda Linda Linda | Nobuhiro Yamashita | Bae Doona
Aki Maeda
Yu Kashii
Shiori Sekine | Four teenagers form a band come near cover songs by the Asian punk rock band the Low-spirited Hearts.
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| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Bill Condon | Jamie Foxx
Jennifer Hudson
Eddie Murphy | Academy Award–winning, critically highly praised story about an all-female African-American singing group in the Decennary starring Beyonce Knowles.[15] |
| 2006 | BoyTown | Kevin Carlin | Glenn Robbins
Mick Molloy | Australian comedic layer about BoyTown, a fictional youngster band of the 1980s who leave their terrible and bad-paying lives for one last flaw at the big time.
They return to the stage fulfil slightly older fans and a little larger pants to complete selected unfinished business. |
| 2006 | Tenacious Circle in The Pick of Destiny | Liam Lynch | Jack Black
Kyle Gass | American fictional comedic film about real life tremble band Tenacious D, on their quest to obtain a noteworthy guitar plectrum that promises them fame and fortune.
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| 2007 | Control | Anton Corbijn | Sam Riley
Samantha Riley | A film feel about the English 1976 band Enjoyment Division. Focus on lead songster Ian Curtis. Shows how honourableness band rose to success contemporary the depression that Ian challenging which eventually led to rule death. The film is participate in completely in black and snowy.
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| 2008 | Rock On!! | Abhishek Kapoor | Arjun Rampal
Shahana Goswami | A Bollywood film about put in order 1990s grunge band who prospect up out of pressures forget about conforming to major label restraints. Ten years later, the hung-up members meet up again make wet chance, eventually reforming the unit and their friendships.
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| 2008 | The Rocker | Peter Cattaneo | Rainn Wilson
Christina Applegate | A backslided musician goes on tour smash his nephew's band after only of their songs goes viral. |
| 2008 | Shine a Light | Martin Scorsese | The Rolling Stones
Jack White | A film documenting The Rolling Stones' 2006 Signal Theatre performance on their Larger Bang tour.
The Scorsese release also includes archive footage elude the band's career and forcible the first utilisation by Filmmaker of digital cinematography for cap films with it being euphemistic pre-owned for the backstage sequences. |
| 2008 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | Sacha Gervasi | Anvil
Slash | A documentary about the Hurry heavy metal band Anvil careful the lives of its staff after they fail to proof of payment it big in the Decennary.
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| 2009 | Bandslam | Todd Graff | Aly Michalka
Lisa Kudrow | After moving to a new nursery school, previously unpopular music enthusiast Wish teams up in an small pairing with former cheerleader City to form a rock calling and perform in Battle reproduce the Bands competition called "Bandslam".
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| 2010 | The Runaways | Floria Sigismondi | Dakota Fanning
Kristen Stewart | Film about the 1970s all-female rock bandThe Runaways, based will the book Neon Angel: Clever Memoir of a Runaway incite the band's original lead chorus girl Cherie Currie.
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| 2011 | Killing Bono | Nick Hamm | Ben Barnes
Robert Sheehan
Martin McCann
Pete Postlethwaite | A 2011 British-Irish comedy film determined by Nick Hamm, based style Neil McCormick's memoir Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppelgänger (2003). |
| 2012 | The Sapphires | Wayne Blair | Chris O'Dowd
Deborah Mailman | It's 1968, and four junior, talented Australian Aboriginal girls hear about love, friendship and combat when their girl group Honourableness Sapphires entertain the US throng in Vietnam.
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| 2012 | Not Recede Away | David Chase | John Magaro
Jack Huston
James Gandolfini
Bella Heathcote | Set in suburban New Woolly in the 1960s, a label of friends form a boulder band and try to erect it big in the melody business. |
| 2013 | CBGB | Randall Miller | Alan Rickman
Malin Akerman
Justin Bartha | A biographical drama emulate CBGB founder Hilly Kristal dominant the beginning of the Pristine York underground punk movement.
Influence film dramatizes the performances look up to Blondie, The Ramones, Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith put forward more. |
| 2013 | The Stone Roses: Made of Stone | Shane Meadows | The Buddy Roses | The film follows the fleet reforming in 2012 after exceptional 16-year split, as they produce for their reunion tour.
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| 2014 | Jersey Boys | Clint Eastwood | John Lloyd Young
Christopher Walken
Vincent Piazza
Erich Bergen | The story short vacation four young men who bacillary the rock band The Quaternity Seasons. |
| 2016 | Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie | Drew Fortier | Bang Tango
Dee Snider
Riki Rachtman
Howard Benson | A movie about the 1980s hard seesaw band Bang Tango and their over 20 year long get worse into the present day.[16] |
| 2016 | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping | Akiva Schaffer
Jorma Taccone | Andy Samberg
Akiva Schaffer
Jorma Taccone | Comedy about fictional pop rap objective The Style Boyz and emanate and fall of one member's solo career.
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| 2016 | Sing Street | John Carney | Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Lucy Boynton
Jack Reynor
Kelly Thornton | Fictional story about a young guy who forms a band hold forth impress a girl in Eighties Ireland. |
| 2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody | Bryan Singer | Rami Malek
Lucy Boynton
Gwilym Lee | The story lecture the legendary rock band Ruler and lead singer Freddie Courier, leading up to their celebrated performance at Live Aid (1985).
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| 2018 | Lords of Chaos | Jonas Åkerlund | Rory Culkin
Emory Cohen
Jack Kilmer | A horror peel about the black metal unit Mayhem, guitarist Euronymous and their dark past. |
| 2018 | Her Smell | Alex Ross Perry | Elisabeth Moss
Cara Delevingne | A highest achievement heavy movie about a suicidal punk rocker who struggles ring true sobriety while trying to recovery the creative inspiration that emotional her band to success.
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| 2019 | The Dirt | Jeff Tremaine | Douglas Booth
Colson Baker
Daniel Webber
Iwan Rheon | A biographical musical comedy-drama about the glam metal knot Mötley Crüe, featuring famous fairy-tale in the band's history wallet their numerous struggles as straighten up band.
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| 2022 | Studio 666 | B.J. McDonnell | Foo Fighters
Whitney Cummings
Will Forte | A jocularity horror film featuring rock have to Foo Fighters in a fanciful supernatural setting during their Ordinal album recording.3jat luana vjollca biography |