Best Music movies of 1988

Actors : François Méthé, Gabriel Arcand, Miou-Miou, Monique Spaziani,
Directors : Francis Mankiewicz,

A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, ...

Actors : Thomas Ahrens, Hark Bohm, Claus-Peter Damitz, Eva Ebner,
Directors : Reinhard Hauff,

Actors : Lyubov Selyutina, Pyotr Fomenko, Tatyana Drubich, Stanislav Lyubshin,
Directors : Ivan Dykhovichnyy,

Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.

Actors : Ling Ma, Ke Shi,
Directors : Zhuangzhuang Tian,

A young dancer tries his best to make some modern innovation in his work.

Actors : Stela Popescu, Marin Moraru, David Ohanesian, Jean Constantin,
Directors : Gheorghe Vitanidis,

A young girl is cast for a musical comedy, but she refuses after her father doesn't let her play in it. After that, more offers emerge, along with a hit song dedicated to her from a infatuated admirer.

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 : Pete Corum, Jim Lauderdale, Tom Key, Scott Ainslie,

A filmed stage-play recounting the story of Jesus as set in modern day Georgia with music and reverent humor added. Essentially a one man show with a cast of four musicians fleshing out ...

Actors : David Dressel, Virgil Frye, Laura Behr, Tony Fields,
Directors : Ted Mather,

Blue-collar worker Vince stumbles into a dance school, where he quickly becomes entranced by the music. Miss McKenzie, the school's manager and former owner, is about to throw him out on ...

Actors : Kathryn Eames, Ciro Barbaro, Kario Salem, Jean Taylor,
Directors : Orin Wechsberg,

Talented youths go to the Starlight camp in trying to prepare for a musical concert.

Actors : Delbert Felix, Herbie Hancock, Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Ken Dennis,

Branford Marsalis in full throttle teaching at the Manhattan School of Music with the McDonald's High School Ensemble, in between takes on movie sets, backstage at various venues with music...

Actors : Anne Gautier, Isabel de Castro, Pedro Hestnes, Rita Blanco,
Directors : João Canijo,

A young woman, working as sales-girl at a shopping center's music shop, wants someone with whom to share her secrets. A distant mother separating from her father, an aunt who emigrated to ...

Actors : Robert Gus Blue, The Doll Squad, Helen Halloran, John Black,
Directors : Rick Werner Fahr,

In Seattle during the 1980s "grunge rock" phase, an all-female band called The Doll Squad is finding it increasingly difficult to get work, and they are soon reduced to scavenging food from...

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...