
Music movies
Stories where rhythm and melody take center stage, including biographies of legends and dance-filled spectacles.
Subgenres include: Narrative Musical, Jukebox Musical, Concert Film.

341. Falling for Figaro
Romance Comedy Music2021•1h 44min
Australia, United Kingdom
Director: Ben Lewin
A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands.
Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family’s restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max and a long lost passion for music is reignited. Rhea discovers that she has a natural gift for creating beats and producing music that blends her Indian heritage, but must find the courage to follow her true inner talent.

343. Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
Music Documentary2021•1h 5min
United Kingdom, United States
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier Than Ever," this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl.

345. CODA
Drama Music Romance Family Drama Narrative Musical2021•1h 52min
France, United States
Director: Sian Heder
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As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
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346. Respect
Drama Music History Historical Drama Music Biopic2021•2h 25min
United States, Canada
Director: Liesl Tommy
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The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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Suzu is a 17-year-old high-school student living in a rural town with her father. Wounded by the loss of her mother at a young age, Suzu one day discovers the massive online world "U" and dives into this alternate reality as her avatar, Belle. Before long, all of U's eyes are fixed on Belle, when, suddenly, a mysterious, dragon-like figure appears before her.
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348. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Music Documentary History2021•1h 57min
United States
Director: Questlove
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

349. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Music Drama History Music Biopic Historical Drama2021•2h 11min
United States
Director: Lee Daniels
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Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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350. A Week Away
Drama Music Romance Comedy Narrative Musical2021•1h 35min
United States
Director: Roman White
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Troubled teen Will Hawkins has a run-in with the law that puts him at an important crossroad: go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. At first a fish-out-of-water, Will opens his heart, discovers love with a camp regular, and sense of belonging in the last place he expected to find it.


