Best Music movies of 1970s

Actors : Howard Kaylan, Ian Underwood, Mark Volman, Aynsley Dunbar,

"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the...

Actors : Raymond Johnson, Erika Leder, Barbara Deloney, Sun Ra,
Directors : John Coney,

Sun Ra--space-age prophet, Pharaonic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--land his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. ...

Actors : Beverly Garland, Jim Bray, Linda Blair, Roger Perry,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Catherine Mary Stewart, Grace Kennedy, Allan Love, George Gilmour,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In 1994, a young couple enters the world of the music industry, and subsequently the world of drugs.

Actors : Alan Bates, Alan Badel, George De La Pena, Leslie Browne,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Set in the early 1910s at a time of passionate artistic experimentalism, and based on biographical fact, this is the story of Vaslav Nijinsky, the young and brilliant but headstrong premier...

Actors : Meena Kumari, Raaj Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Veena,
Directors : Kamal Amrohi,

The story of a prostitute, with a pure heart (PAKEEZAH), and grand dreams...

Actors : Hideaki Sasaki, Masahiro Saito, Fudeko Tanaka, Yukiko Kobayashi,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.

Actors : James Booth, Rosemary Leach, Ringo Starr, David Essex,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man's restlessness. Despite his apparent intelligence, Jim decides not to take the exams that would ...

Actors : Jay Leno, Laraine Newman, Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher,
Directors : Floyd Mutrux,

The story of Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock 'n' roll in the 1950s.

Actors : Solange Boulanger, Catherine Schroeder, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table.

Actors : John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ruggero Raimondi,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom ...

Actors : Dave Armstrong, Barry Baker, Terry Barry, Reg Bazell,

A young British punk and roadie for The Clash navigates life in socially torn 1970s England.

Actors : Len Bari, Robby Benson, Leonardo Cimino, Glynnis O'Connor,
Directors : Arthur Barron,

Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet dancing girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart.

Actors : Gediminas Girdvainis, Vaiva Mainelyte, Vasili Simchich, Regimantas Adomaitis,
Directors : Arunas Zebriunas,

A musical about the victory of love over the trickery of the Devil. A little devil Pinciukas is expelled from Hell and arrives to Baltaragis mill. In exchange for the mill owner's soul and ...

Actors : Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, David Essex,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."

Actors : Sanjeev Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Agha, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Gulzar,

A medical student, Amarnath meets and falls in love with the daughter of a herbal medicine healer, Chanda while preparing for his exams in Darjeeling. He returns to Calcutta to sit his ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Carsten Byhring, Arve Opsahl,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

Valborg har fått et nytt problem å stri med. Basse, hennes sønn, har ledet en ung kvinne ut i fristelsen, og nå gjelder det å redde ansikt. D.v.s. å få dem gift. Utsiktene er lyse, for Egon...

Actors : Andrew Byatt, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, David Beames,
Directors : Christopher Petit,

Set in 1970's Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.