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- Almost Famous. Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson. 351 votes. This coming-of-age tale, by Cameron Crowe, follows a teen journalist as he gets his first taste of life on the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the 1970s.
- Walk the Line. Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin. 158 votes. Diving deep into the life and times of Johnny Cash, this biopic showcases both the highs and lows of this legendary musician's career.
- A Hard Day's Night. The Beatles, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington. 281 votes. This British musical comedy film captures the frenzy and excitement surrounding The Beatles at the peak of their popularity.
- Bohemian Rhapsody. Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee. 173 votes. This rhapsodic biopic chronicles the rise of one of the world's most beloved rock bands – Queen – as well as its flamboyant and distinctive lead singer, Freddie Mercury.
- Best Rock Movies List. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) Best Rock and Roll Movies • This is Spinal Tap. This is Spinal Tap is a mockumentary directed by Rob Reiner who appears in the film as the project’s fictional director Martin Di Bergi.
- Movies With Rock And Roll Soundtracks. School Of Rock (2003) Rock n Roll Movies List • School of Rock. Rock and Roll culture’s influence on the works of Richard Linklater is no secret.
- Movies With Rock And Roll Soundtracks. Almost Famous (2000) Movies About Rock Bands • Almost Famous. Many Cameron Crowe films are widely considered to be classics — Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, Elizabethtown — Almost F amous might be his most widely beloved.
- 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.
- Baby Driver
- Phantom of The Paradise
- That Thing You Do!
- The Filth and The Fury
- Heavy Metal
- Jailhouse Rock
- Forrest Gump
- The Buddy Holly Story
- Big Time
- Tommy
Let’s start our list right, with the most recent entry, one that’ll invariably go down as one of the greats in due time. Edgar Wright’s opus of fast cars, gun violence, and Hollywood romance is built around its soundtrack, and while it’s not exclusively a rock and roll affair (shout-out to Wright’s use of a Young MC deep cut), Baby Driver features ...
Phantom of the Paradise is Brian De Palma’s most whimsical and traditionally funny film. Good rock and roll has a sense of humor amid the cynicism and melodrama of the music. Phantom sardonically skewers the music industry, turning a record contract into a Faustian deal with the devil. Paul Williams brilliantly plays against type as the evil Swan a...
That Thing You Do! hums with authenticity. Tom Hanks’ ode to ‘60s pop rock gets all the details just right. Top-notch set design and costuming paint the snappy tale of the one-hit Wonders. The interaction between the band members feels familiar to anyone who has spent time playing rock and roll with a group at any level of success. It’s the soundtr...
If you ever saw The Great Rock ‘n’ Swindle, you know that it was kinda just that, less a documentary about The Sex Pistols and more an arty dupe (“presented as a mockumentary”) on the part of Malcom McClaren, who sought to control the narrative about the legendary UK band he managed. The Filth and the Fury, also directed by Julian Temple, is an equ...
Dungeons, dragons, well-endowed barbarians, bad-ass female warriors, zombie pilots, spaceships, and robots: these are the things that teenagers on the fringe adore. So much of rock and roll is intrinsically tied to teenage lust, and the Ivan Reitman-produced Heavy Metal is 88 minutes of just that. Reitman even brings alongSCTV cast members — arguab...
Despite the name and best-known (striped t-shirt) scenes, Jailhouse Rock is not really a “prison flick.” Elvis Presley’s character does go to jail, where he discovers his musical prowess and pursues it once he gets out, but his journey to stardom proves even more challenging than his time behind bars. His James Dean-ish “bad boy” character makes ba...
Most films dependent on pop songs count on them to take us to a specific place in time within the movie. The Forrest Gump soundtrack takes us through decades of time. There’s lil’ Forrest dancing to Elvis’ “Hound Dog”. Creedence leads the charge in Vietnam with “Fortunate Son” (a tic that has been used in countless films since). Forrest and Jenny r...
The Buddy Holly Story may not get all the little details right (Holly’s main axe was a Strat, not a Tele), but rock and roll is less about hitting all the right notes and more about the essence of cool. Gary Busey is a revelation as Buddy Holly — a performance that earned him an Academy Award nomination — even performing vocal duties on the Holly t...
Tom Waits’ Big Time exists somewhere in the overlap between concert film, dreamland, and carnival freak show. Waits and wife/songwriting partner Kathleen Brennan decided to record the last North American shows of a tour and release a mix of the footage as a concert film. While the production’s narrative or a precise account of Waits’ alter ego, Fra...
The Who’s Tommy began as an ambitious double album in 1969. Arguably the first “rock opera,” the plot is threadbare, filled with bizarre ideas (a pinball-playing messiah?) from the wild mind of guitarist Pete Townshend. Ken Russell was an inspired choice to bring the story of Tommy to the sliver screen in 1975. Russell’s bonkers visuals compliment ...
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- Tommy (1975) The Who’s Tommy began as an ambitious double album in 1969. Arguably the first “rock opera,” the plot is threadbare, filled with bizarre ideas (a pinball-playing messiah?)
- Big Time (1988) Tom Waits’ Big Time exists somewhere in the overlap between concert film, dreamland, and carnival freak show. Waits and wife/songwriting partner Kathleen Brennan decided to record the last North American shows of a tour and release a mix of the footage as a concert film.
- The Buddy Holly Story (1978) The Buddy Holly Story may not get all the little details right (Holly’s main axe was a Strat, not a Tele), but rock and roll is less about hitting all the right notes and more about the essence of cool.
- Forrest Gump (1994) Most films dependent on pop songs count on them to take us to a specific place in time within the movie. The Forrest Gump soundtrack takes us through decades of time.
To become the greatest band of all time, two slacker, wannabe-rockers set out on a quest to steal a legendary guitar pick that gives its holders incredible guitar skills, from a maximum security Rock and Roll museum.
Sep 15, 2000 · Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll.
Best Rock n Roll Movies. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 44 titles. 1. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) R | 82 min | Comedy, Music. 7.9. Rate. 92 Metascore. Spinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.
