Best Music movies of 1990s

Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Trois couleurs: Bleu(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.



Wayne's World(1992)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



That Thing You Do!(1996)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.



The Doors(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.



The Wedding Singer(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.



Sweet and Lowdown(1999)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.



The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.



Pump Up the Volume(1990)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.



Velvet Goldmine(1998)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 57

In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.



Coyote Ugly(2000)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons, comes out of her shell.



Selena(1997)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 58

The true story of Selena Quintanilla-Perez, a Texas-born Tejano singer who rose from cult status to performing at the Astrodome, as well as having chart topping albums on the Latin music charts.



The Last Days of Disco(1998)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.



Hilary and Jackie(1998)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.



Center Stage(2000)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.



Little Voice(1998)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend.



The Bodyguard(1992)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.



Bamboozled(2000)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.




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