Music Movies

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

Song of Norway is a movie starring Florence Henderson, Toralv Maurstad, and Christina Schollin. Based on the life of Norway's greatest composer Edvard Grieg, and filmed in Norway where he lived. The soundtrack is all Edvard Grieg's...

When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this

The AristoCats is a movie starring Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, and Sterling Holloway. With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a...

The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the fullest before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.

Here Comes Peter Cottontail is a TV movie starring Danny Kaye, Paul Frees, and Joan Gardner. With the help of a time machine, Peter Cottontail must rescue Easter from the hands of the malicious Irontail.

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

While searching for their runaway teenage daughter, the parents rediscover life's joys as they get acquainted with a self-help group for parents of vanished children.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a movie starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, and Peter Ostrum. A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious...

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

The great Frank Zappa's outrageous psychedelic precursor to today's music videos features "The Mothers of Invention" wreaking havoc in a typical American town. Ringo Starr narrates.

When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place, becoming a star and finding love in the process.

Cabaret is a movie starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Helmut Griem. A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Glastonbury Fayre is a movie starring Tonto's Expanding Head Band, Arthur Brown, and Fairport Convention. The atmosphere and events of the second Glastonbury Festival, held in 1971.

Butterflies Are Free is a movie starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, and Eileen Heckart. A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.

A documentary about a political troupe headed by actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland which traveled to towns near military bases in the US in the early 1970s. The group put on shows called "F.T.A.", which stood for "F**k the Army

The Harder They Come is a movie starring Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, and Carl Bradshaw. Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem

Journey Through the Past is a movie starring Buffalo Springfield, David Crosby, and Graham Nash. Don't look for a narrative, it's an Art Film. A series of vignettes referencing the South and a commentary on religion as opiate. See...

Man of La Mancha is a movie starring Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, and James Coco. The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as...

Wattstax is a movie starring The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, and Kim Weston. Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac...

Wilbur is a farm pig who's terrified that he'll end up on the dinner table. His friend Charlotte, a charming spider, comes to his rescue. She weaves words into her web, convincing the farmer that Wilbur is too special a pig to kill.

An adaption of the musical, in a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew.

That'll Be the Day is a movie starring David Essex, Ringo Starr, and Rosemary Leach. Musical drama starring David Essex and Ringo Starr, loosely based on John Lennon's early years. Set in the 1950s, a gifted but wayward young man...

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life told in an anachronistic manner.

Jimi Hendrix is a movie starring Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, and Stella Benabon. This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix's untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but...

Merchant banker Tim, excited to hear he's to go to New York, is sent to Birmingham instead to pressure a small struggling restaurant. But he turns this into a positive by falling in love with the owner and co-founding a glamorous new

Mame is a movie starring Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, and Bea Arthur. Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt.

Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974).

In the 1840s Missouri, young boy Huckleberry Finn, wanting to escape his drunkard violent father, joins black runaway slave Jim on a quest for freedom down the Mississippi River on a raft.

The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."

Sun Ra--space-age prophet, pharoanic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--lands his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. With Black Power on the rise, Ra disembarks an

The Little Prince is a movie starring Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, and Joss Ackland. A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

The Trial of Billy Jack is a movie starring Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, and Victor Izay. After Billy Jack in sentenced to four years in prison for the "involuntary manslaughter" of the first film, the Freedom School expands and...

The Year Without a Santa Claus is a TV movie starring Shirley Booth, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Shawn. When a weary and discouraged Santa Claus considers skipping his Christmas Eve run one year, Mrs. Claus and his Elves set out to...

Four socialite old friends unexpectedly clash, and switch partners during a party and attempt to make each other jealous.

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.

Moses und Aron is a movie starring Günter Reich, Louis Devos, and Eva Csapo. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers - in...

Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the re

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a movie starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick. A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.

Trollflöjten is a TV movie starring Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, and Irma Urrila. A production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" is presented, this film which blurs the lines of it as a stage production - not...

Lisztomania is a movie starring Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, and Paul Nicholas. Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many...

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a movie starring Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, and Marty Feldman. The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case...

Let My Puppets Come is a movie starring Luis De Jesus, David W. Beames, and Bradford Craig. The three chief executives of Creative Concepts Systems & Procedures Brothers Unlimited Inc. of New York are in hot water as their latest...

The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella is a movie starring Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, and Annette Crosbie. A musical retelling of the classic tale of Cinderella. In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his...

The Moon Over the Alley is a movie starring Sean Caffrey, Basil Clarke, and Debbie Evans. The Moon Over the Alley reunited Duffer writer/directors Joseph Despins and William Dumaresq, with this strange London-set musical, again...