Best Music movies of 1980s

Actors : Michal Bajor, Andrzej Grabarczyk, Bozena Adamek, Kazimierz Wysota,
Directors : Feliks Falk,

Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc...

Actors : Connee Boswell, Ida Cox, Count Basie, Ruth Brown,

See the "Ladies" who created an art form and sang their way into legend... Once in a lifetime, complete performances by the great American blues and jazz divas. Sixteen selections include ...

Actors : Richard Suart, Richard Chance, Quentin Hayes, Fiona Kimm,

Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic retelling of Oedipus the King, moved to present-day London.

Actors : Robert Quine, Fernando Saunders, Lou Reed, Fred Maher,
Directors : Clark Santee,

A Lou Reed concert at the Bottom Line in New York City, 1983. Tracklist: Sweet Jane, I'm Waiting For The Man, Martial Law, Don't Talk To Me About Work, Women, Waves of Fear, Walk on the ...

Actors : John Oates, Hall & Oates, Daryl Hall, G.E. Smith,

Daryl Hall and John Oates perform new material on their Big Bam Boom tour, including "Out of Touch" and "Method of Modern Love".

Actors : Francis Lemaire, Malcolm McDowell, Andréa Ferréol, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Marion Hänsel,

A renowned conductor suddenly pulls out of an evening rehearsal of Madame Butterfly. The opera director senses something is going on and forces the musician to explain himself.

Actors : Beverly Hills, Bill Leadbitter, Christopher Wild, Warren Mitchell,
Directors : Ian Emes,

A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. A popular black band from school needs a drummer and he joins them, but being colorblind in this town makes life very difficult.

Actors : Priya Rajvansh, Jackie Shroff, Zeenat Aman, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Chetan Anand,

Geeta lives a poor lifestyle with her widowed mother in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, who works as a Nurse in a hospital run by Dr. Bhanu Pratap, while she herself sings and dances in a hotel. She is...

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Anouschka, Pierre-Jean Cayatte, Ricky Darling,
Directors : Philippe Puicouyoul,

A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock star.

Actors : Al Corley, Joe Janus, David Dreisin, Steve Mitchell,
Directors : Storm Thorgerson,

A quiet suburban neighborhood declares war on a heavy metal music DJ and his radio station, triggering an all-out war between the "metal heads" and the "straights."

Actors : Sofiya Rotaru, Vyacheslav Spesivtsev, Rolan Bykov, Mikhail Boyarskiy,
Directors : Aleksandr Stefanovich,

Viktoria Svobodina is a young but already well known popular singer in the Soviet Union, living in Moscow. Her popularity reaches the heights whilst the band she is performing with remains ...

Actors : Gaytri Choudhury, Bina Biswas, Himangshu Chattopadhyay, Beauti Bandyopadhyay,
Directors : Rajkumar Raychowdhury,

Story of a twin sisters as they go to a boarding school to study.

Actors : Jeff Doucette, Jim McGrath, Cheryl Anderson, Kat Sawyer,
Directors : Stephen Tobolowsky,

Idiots Taylor Dupp and Murphy Wegg flee their humdrum existence in Dayton, Ohio for the glamour of Hollywood. Murphy turns his complete lack of talent into a career as a television producer...

Actors : Michael Hardinger, Claus Asmussen, Michael Bundesen, Kim Daugaard,
Directors : Piv Bernth,

A movie with the popular band Shu-bi-dua. With bad guys, proud heroes, ladies in trouble and last but not least .... bus chases... without a ticket!

Actors : Jozef Ráz, Atilla Nemési, Ján Baláz, Gabriel Szabó,
Directors : Dusan Rapos,

This musical movie is a story of the group Rabaka (Elán) that after their breakup decide they will return to the concert stage. With young lyricist and screenwriter Peter they're trying get...

Actors : Titi Dwijayati, Piet Burnama, Alwi A.S., Zainal Abidin,
Directors : Maman Firmansyah,

1985. The street craze for break-dancing sweeps the world and reaches Indonesia, where young people seem to practice it everywhere all the time. Mr. Gondo hates it and forbids his daughter ...

Actors : Veronika Povilioniene, Arunas Ivanauskas, Rima Lozovaite,
Directors : Gytis Luksas,

A poetic film about ancient Lithuanian traditions and rituals.

Actors : Jiaqing Ding, Hua Xu, Ping Ru, Xiaochuan Song,
Directors : Alain Mazars,

Yen Yuejun works as a truck driver in Mongolia and marries Ling Ling but his love for her has to be sacrificed because of his passion for Chinese opera.

Actors : Robin Cleaver, Robin Antin, Rhonda Aldrich, Valerie Richards,
Directors : Phillip Schuman,

A young dancer protecting her mother from her abusive stepfather is forced to shoot him. She is convicted and sent to prison. The inmates hatch an escape plan, part of which is to put on a musical show to cover the attempted breakout.

Actors : Patti Lee, Barbara Bingham, Chuck McQuary, Robin Johnson,
Directors : Domonic Paris,

An all-female rock band and a group of "well-endowed" sorority sisters team up to save a sorority house slated for condemnation by the university.