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Director: Morgan Neville
Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
The backup singer exists in a strange place in the pop music world; they are always in the shadow of the feature artists even when they are in front of them in concert while they provide a vital foundation for the music. Through interviews with veterans and concert footage the history of these predominately African-American singers is explored through the rock era. Furthermore special focus is...
Director: Charlie Fink
Stars: Kieron Bimpson, Josh Bolt, Joseph Godfrey
Our land our lives our rules. Some time not far from now it was decided that adolescents were detrimental to a well-functioning society. Upon turning thirteen teenagers were quarantined onto an island within the city colloquially known as Teenland. At the age of 18 the inhabitants of Teen-land are forced to join adulthood. The memories of their childhood are erased and they start a new life...
Director: Matthew Porterfield
Stars: Deragh Campbell, Hannah Gross, Ned Oldham
When Taryn a Northern Irish runaway finds herself in trouble in Ocean City MD she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: theyre trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations people finding each other and letting each...
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Stars: Antonia Thomas, George MacKay, Jason Flemyng
Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers. The film follows the stories of Davy and Ally who have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family jobs and...
Director: Jay Chou
Stars: Jay Chou, Eric Tsang, Xueqi Wang
Gao and his friends are the happiest kids in the city of Galilee. Living on the rooftops of this bustling metropolis sometimes life can be tough but they still churn out songs all day and dance under the stars at night. But when Gao meets his dream girl a billboard beauty named Sian fate takes him on a wild ride through the high and low parts of the town he...
Director: David Frankel
Stars: James Corden, Alexandra Roach, Julie Walters
The true story of Paul Potts a shy bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britains Got...
Director: Louise Archambault
Stars: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
Gabrielle is a young woman with Williams syndrome who has a contagious joie de vivre and an exceptional musical gift. Since she met her boyfriend Martin at the recreation centre where they are choir members they have been inseparable. However because they are different their loved ones are fearful of their relationship. As the choir prepares for an important music festival Gabrielle does...
Director: Jon M. Chu
Stars: Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Ryan Good
A backstage and on-stage look at Justin Bieber during his rise to super...
Director: James Cullingham
Stars:
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey is a documentary film about the legendary American guitarist composer and provocateur John Fahey 1939-2001. Fahey is often considered the godfather of American primitive guitar. This cinematic exploration features Pete Townshend Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Joey Burns of Calexico. These stellar musicians along with Fahey associates...
Director: Tom Berninger
Stars: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, Bryce Dessner
In 2010 rock band The National were about to embark on the biggest tour of their career. After ten years as a band and five critically acclaimed albums they were finally enjoying wider recognition. Lead singer Matt Berninger invited his younger brother Tom to join the tours crew. A budding horror filmmaker Tom - who is nine years younger than Matt and listens exclusively to heavy metal -...
Director: Brian Levant
Stars: Sophia Grace Brownlee, Rosie McClelland, Jacqui Achilleas
Sophia Grace and Rosie are sent to Switzelvania by The Ellen DeGeneres Show as special correspondents tasked with covering the coronation of a new queen. Once there they encounter three very different princesses competing for the throne. Together the girls hatch a royal plot to help the best candidate...
Director: Jerome Sable
Stars: Minnie Driver, Meat Loaf, Allie MacDonald
A snobby musical theater camp is terrorized by a blood-thirsty killer who hates musical...
Director: Bernard Rose
Stars: David Garrett, Jared Harris, Joely Richardson
1830. Violin virtuoso and notorious womanizer Niccolò Paganini David Garrett is at the peak of his career acclaimed throughout Europe. His name alone suggests countless affairs and scandals - which is exactly what his manager Urbani Jared Harris is doing his utmost to cultivate for it is in his interest to market his famous client the best way possible. Only the London public has yet to...
Director: MairtÃn de Barra
Stars: Louise Dylan, Craig Daniel Adams, Michael Higgs
For Heather music is everything. Following in her mothers footsteps Heather has always dreamed about getting into Juilliard and becoming a classical pianist. But all her dreams get shattered the day her mum dies and her life suddenly falls into silence. Left with nothing but a piano and debts Heathers only option is to move in with her estranged father and half-brother. When her application...
Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein
Stars: Adam Lundgren, Disa Östrand, Jonathan Andersson
PÃ¥l dreams about success within the musical world but he has an obstacle; himself. His deep thoughts keeps him end up in trouble. We follow PÃ¥l on a emotional inner travel to find his call on the swedish west coast of...
Director: Steve Bendelack
Stars: Harry Hill, Julie Walters, Johnny Vegas
Under the mistaken impression that his pet hamster Abu is ill Harry Hill and his Nan Julie Walters take him to the vet who wrongly gives them the tragic news that Abu has one week to live. Harry who thinks he speaks fluent hamster but in fact misunderstands every squeak that comes out of his little pals mouth incorrectly thinks Abus dying wish is a trip to Blackpool. With Nan making...
Director: Christian Larson
Stars: Sebastian Ingrosso, Axel Hedfors, Steve Angello
A music documentary following the last tour of the band Swedish House Mafia in 2012/2013 the film tells a story of friendship and huge...
Director: Per Fly
Stars: Edda Magnason, Sverrir Gudnason, Kjell Bergqvist
Set in the glamour and free spirit of the early sixties. Monica a young Swedish small town girl is dreaming of the vibrant city jazz clubs of Stockholm. She embarks on an intense journey in the limelight as a celebrated singer and actress in the golden era of jazz. Among artists and hipsters her phenomenal success leaves a trail of broken love affairs and...
Director: Stijn Coninx
Stars: Matteo Simoni, Cristiaan Campagna, Luigi Lo Cascio
Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife son and daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a gastarbeider an immigrant worker. His family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small time frame so he can buy a forge for his...
Director: Mohit Suri
Stars: Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Shaad Randhawa
Rahul is a singer who loses his career due to his drinking habits. He meets Arohi in a bar in Goa where she works to earn a living. Impressed by her singing he promises her to take her to Mumbai and make her a star where they fall in love with each other. Aashiqui 2 is a musical love story of these lovers who goes through love and hate fame and failure in their lives. However will they stay...
Director: Wolfgang Groos
Stars: Tim Oliver Schultz, Paula Kalenberg, Peter Kraus
The ambitious punk rocker Max Tim Oliver Schultz and the eco-activist Inge Paula Kalenberg cannot stand each other ever since Max publicly exposed her by singing the offensive song When Inge is Dancing in front of the whole school. But for Max and his classmates Fabio Tino Mewes Joscha Constantin von Jascheroff and Lukas Thando Walbaum this song in particular has become a real hit...
Director: Carlos Portugal
Stars: Christian Serratos, Ross Thomas, Rachele Brooke Smith
When talented young singer Roxie Santos meets music producer Eddie Marz he promises her an amazing new lifestyle and a future record deal. All he needs her to do is first lend her voice to a celebrity with no singing talent. However when things go too far and it looks like she might lose her voice forever she sets off to prove the...
Director: Will Finn, Dan St. Pierre
Stars: Lea Michele, Kelsey Grammer, Dan Aykroyd
Dorothy wakes up in post-tornado Kansas only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends the Scarecrow the Lion the Tin Man and Glinda from a devious new villain the Jester. Wiser the owl Marshal Mallow China Princess and Tugg the tugboat join Dorothy on her latest magical journey through the colorful landscape of Oz to restore order and happiness to Emerald...
Director: Alexandra Kondracke (as Alex Martinez Kondracke)
Stars: Lisa Rieffel, Erin Kelly, Michelle Lombardo
Set during one long night in the LGBT sub-culture of Los Angeles Daisy and Tyler are two rock and roll musicians who are selected to partake in a battle of the bands contest to claim a prize. But while on their way to the concert their van breaks down and they are sidetracked by Daisys younger sister Colby a recent college graduate who agrees to drive them to the concert if they help her...
Director: Trevor Sands
Stars: Caleb Hunt, Jeremy Luke, Levi Fiehler
Bix the Bug is a DJ who comes into possession of a Teslascope -- Nikola Teslas legendary invention which he claims was capable of receiving signals from Extra Terrestrial...
Director: Subhash Ghai
Stars: Kartik Tiwari, Mishti, Rishi Kapoor
The inner power of a woman who represents over one million suppressed youth against injustice in the...
Director: Nick Cannon
Stars: Bobb'e J. Thompson, Luenell, Mike Epps
High schooler Jason has found his dream girl-the gorgeous Anastacia. Theres just one problem: she doesnt know he exists. If he can win a spot on the schools hottest dance crew Jason might have a shot. But before he does hell have to overcome his battle-ax of a mother survive Anastacias gangsta brother and pass the crews initiation-in this fresh sexy and outrageously funny comedy... ...
Director: Stéphane Berla, Mathias Malzieu
Stars: Mathias Malzieu, Olivia Ruiz, Grand Corps Malade
Edinburgh late 19th century. Little Jack is born on a day so cold that his heart remains frozen. Madeleine the midwife replaces his heart with a cuckoo-clock. It will work as long as Jack follows the rules mainly not falling in love. But his encounter with a fiery-eyed girl singing on a street corner and his decision to chase after her will test the resistance of his makeshift heart to the...
Director: Ondi Timoner
Stars: Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion
Tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians Anton Newcombe leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre; and Courtney Taylor leader of the Dandy Warhols; dissecting their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry. Both are hell-bent on staging a self-proclaimed revolution of the music industry. Through their loves and obsessions gigs and recordings arrests and death threats uppers and...
Director: Alma Har'el
Stars:
Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Harel tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish a young boy diagnosed with bipolar...