The Commitments follows the transformation of a group of working-class Irish individuals as they come together to form a soul band in Dublin. Filled with hope, skepticism, and optimism, the band faces various challenges and experiences while pursuing their dreams of making it big in the music industry.
Nana is a drama filled with music and romance, following two girls named Nana who become roommates and navigate life in Yokohama. They embark on a journey of friendship, love, and self-discovery, facing challenges and supporting each other along the way. With a backdrop of j-rock and punk bands, the story explores themes of relationships, dreams, and the ups and downs of young adulthood.
Garden Party (2008) follows a group of teenagers as they attend a chaotic garden party. Love, relationships, and personal struggles unfold amidst the wild atmosphere.
In a small Yorkshire mining town, a struggling brass band faces the threat of their colliery closing down. The band members, led by their passionate bandleader, must rally together to compete in a national music competition and bring hope to their community.
There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?
When Inge, an aging rocker, forms an unlikely friendship with a strong female character, they start a punk rock band and go on a journey of self-discovery.
The Driller Killer follows an artist in New York City who is plagued by insomnia and the noise from his noisy neighbor and punk rock band rehearsals. As his mental state deteriorates, he begins to have hallucinations and becomes obsessed with a power drill. He eventually snaps and goes on a killing spree, targeting homeless people and other individuals he sees as a threat to his sanity. The film ends with an ambiguous ending, leaving viewers to question the reality of the events.
A young band from Norway set out on a journey across the country to attend the National Championship of Rock in a race against time, the police and their parents.
The Marc Pease Experience is a comedy-drama film about Marc Pease, a high school music teacher who is still fixated on his past glory days as a member of a singing group. As Marc prepares for a musical production, he must confront his stage fright and overcome various obstacles. Along the way, he navigates his relationships with his best friend, students, and mentors, all while trying to fulfill his bigger dreams. The film explores themes of pretentiousness, jealousy, and the pursuit of music. Will Marc be able to find his true voice and regain his confidence on stage?
Operation Mad Ball is a comedy movie set in post-World War Two France, where a group of soldiers plan a secret operation to throw a wild ball. The plot revolves around their hilarious and chaotic attempts to overcome various obstacles and organize the event without getting caught by their superiors.
Gundermann follows the life of Gerhard Gundermann, a coal miner and singer-songwriter in East Germany. As he becomes more involved in the music scene and gains popularity, he is also recruited by the Stasi to become an informant. Gundermann faces conflicts within his personal life, including conflicts with his wife and son. The movie explores themes of love, betrayal, and the struggle for personal and artistic freedom.
As I Open My Eyes (2015) follows a young woman named Farah as she rebels against societal norms in Tunisia during the Arab Spring. When Farah's singing career starts to gain attention, her choices become more difficult as she faces oppression from an oppressive government and encounters violence and trauma along the way.
Glue is a coming-of-age story set in Patagonia, Argentina. The film follows the lives of four teenagers as they navigate through puberty, first love, and family issues. The story explores themes of teenage angst and the challenges of becoming an adult.
Leon and TJ are best friends and repo men. After ten years, with a high school reunion looming, Leon wants out of the repo business. TJ has concocted a hair-brained scheme to steal all the cars they've repoed. When the plan fails, it falls to Leon to save TJ from his own plan.
In this story, a musical group whose music sets the mood for Events, finds itself at a very crucial moment in its carreer. All of the members face the dilemma of fighting for their dreams or quitting forever.
When Nora decides to send her sister, Rose, a suicide video, her sister quickly invites her on a healing trip to a remote forest. But what Rose doesn't know is that Nora has another, far more disturbing, agenda with the trip.
The story behind Finland's rock giants and their songs, and their love for performing, even from childhood, and also the story of two very different brothers trying to fit in the same band.
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant. However, personnel manager E. V. Hartley can only offer them regular jobs, and when Johnny inspires the Dixie Pixies to work in the plant, lead singer and dancer Donna D'Arcy leaves the band for a singing job at the Club Martel in downtown Los Angeles.
Raw Spice is a fly-on-the-wall documentary like no other. It charts the formation of a girl band in 1994, a group who would go on to be the biggest selling girl band in history, five girls who became... The Spice Girls. This footage was shot two years before the girls had their first hit single. We see them living together in a tiny house in Maidenhead as they rehearse day in, day out, striving to become a success. We watch their rehearsals; and we discover their very distinctive personalities that we all know help make up the band. This includes never before seen footage of the girls speaking of their ambitions and fears, as well as their trademark outrageous behaviour and some titanic bust-ups. This is the girls before blockbuster hits, weddings, babies, and bust-ups. This is before stylists, PR People and make-up artists. THIS IS RAW SPICE.
A surprisingly intimate portrait of how the dream of running one’s own business can take on monstrous contours. Managed by the father of one of the singers, over the course of five years the girl band 5Angels had reached the gates of pop fame. But it is a path paved not only with the songs of Michal David, but also with the dogged determination of a man who loses any notion of where his role as manager ends and his role as parent begins. An emotionally moved Karel Gott, five angelic girls, and one overly involved father, thanks to whom the behind-the-scenes pre-Christmas atmosphere melts away just as rapidly as the fat should disappear from the belly. “A singer can’t be a lard bucket!”