Best Music movies of 1990s

Swing Kids(1993)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun lead to more difficult choices as the Nazis begin tightening the grip on ...



SLC Punk!(1998)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 25

In the early 1980s Stevo and Heroin Bob are the only two dedicated punks in conservative Salt Lake City.



Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit(1993)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Showgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure.



Vengo(2000)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her ...



Immortal Beloved(1994)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to ...



Shall we dansu?(1996)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 34

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.



The Five Senses(1999)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's ...



What's Love Got to Do with It(1993)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 27

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.



Mr. Holland's Opus(1995)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.



A Slipping-Down Life(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.



The Tango Lesson(1997)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 46

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from ...



Telling Lies in America(1997)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960s. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America's culture. He then hears about a radio...



Johnny Suede(1991)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 35

A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.



Sugar Town(1999)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Unimpassioned look at the lives of struggling L.A. scene rock stars follows main character, Gwen, on her quest for the top. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, she tries ...



Duets(2000)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A professional karaoke hustler reconnects with his daughter and a bored suburban businessman turns outlaw karaoke singer, among other plotlines.



Mo' Better Blues(1990)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 20

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



Songcatcher(2000)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 32

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ...



The Fantasticks(1995)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A mysterious fair come to a small community in the countryside, which could make real the illusions of two kids.



Cool as Ice(1991)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A rap-oriented remake of The Wild One (1953), with heavy emphasis on the fact that Vanilla Ice has assumed the Marlon Brando role.



Black and White(1999)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd.




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