Best Music movies of 1980s

Actors : Mark Hadlow, Donna Akersten, Danny Mulheron, Stuart Devenie,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Multiple animals and insects experience the sleazier side of show business while working on a variety show.

Actors : River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Actors : John Doe, Winona Ryder, Dennis Quaid, Stephen Tobolowsky,
Directors : Jim McBride,

The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.

Actors : Cynthia Rhodes, Steve Inwood, Finola Hughes, John Travolta,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenge yet - succeeding as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Actors : Haviland Morris, Griffin Dunne, John McMartin, Madonna,
Directors : James Foley,

The life of an uptight tax lawyer turns chaotic when he is asked to escort a young woman newly released from prison, who persuades him to help prove her innocence.

Actors : Ian Michael Giatti, Kristi Somers, Richard Blade, Biff Yeager,
Directors : Alan Metter,

Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular ...

Actors : Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie,
Directors : Terence Davies,

The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...

Actors : John McIntire, Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Alexa Kenin,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the ...

Actors : Matthew Laurance, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Berenger, Michael Paré,
Directors : Martin Davidson,

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader - Eddie Wilson - may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.

Actors : Ron Leibman, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Farnsworth, Dolly Parton,
Directors : Bob Clark,

A country music star must turn an obnoxious New York cabbie into a singer in order to win a bet.

Actors : Annie McEnroe, John Goodman, David Byrne, Jo Harvey Allen,
Directors : David Byrne,

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jerome Benton, Prince,

Two brothers from Miami are in the Mediterranean, enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50,000,000 from her father. At ...

Actors : Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

Actors : Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Gabriel Axel,

During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Hans Man in 't Veld, Carol van Herwijnen,
Directors : Tommy Chong,

Cheech & Chong are invited to a celebrity party/festival in Amsterdam. When they get there, however, it turns out that the guy who invited them has taken off with all the money, and the ...

Actors : Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Ralph Macchio, Joe Morton,
Directors : Walter Hill,

Ralph Macchio is Lightning Boy. A kid who can make a slide guitar sing. Blind Dog is an old pro who knows it. Together, they're headed to a place where deals are made. And legends are born.

Actors : Lisa Jane Persky, Ron Thompson, Jerry Holland, Mews Small,
Directors : Ralph Bakshi,

The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.