Best Music movies of 1980s

Huang tu di(1984)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tuo Tan, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Xueqi Wang,
Kaige Chen,

'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns...



Salsa(1988)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Fatherless barrio Puertorican Rico is a menial car mechanic by day, but lives for the nights, when he dances and dates hot dancing girls, cockily convinced the title of Salsa king in fancy ...



Honeysuckle Rose(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

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.



The Apple(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



Nijinsky(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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...



L'effrontée(1985)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.



Yan zhi kou(1987)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930's. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir...



Bodas de sangre(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Group of dancers put Lorca's 'Blood Wedding' on stage, the tragic play about a married man who is still in love with his ex girlfriend, and tries to get back to her despite her planned wedding.



Decko koji obecava(1981)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A normal boy receives a blow to the head which sets him off to do rebellious acts.



La traviata(1982)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...



The Return of Captain Invincible(1983)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In WWII, Captain Invincible used his superpowers against the Nazis, and he was a hero. But when they accused him of supporting the communists, he retired to Australia. Now, after a US super...



Songwriter(1984)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...



Tro, håb og kærlighed(1984)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is ...



Carmen(1984)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.



Hard Rock Zombies(1985)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A hard rock band travels to the tiny and remote town of Grand Guignol to perform. Peopled by hicks, rubes, werewolves, murderous dwarves, sex perverts, and Hitler, the town is a strange ...



Vicious Lips(1986)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A band finally gets the opportunity for that breakthrough gig if they can make it to an "in" club on another planet in time.



Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare(1987)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

At an old farmhouse, a family mysteriously dissapears at the hands of evil. Years later, hair metal band The Tritons comes to the farmhouse, whose barn now features a 24-track recording ...



Aashiqui(1990)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Rahul and Anu fall in love with each other, but before they unite, they have their own problems to deal with.



BlackJack(1990)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Kaj, Lennart and Robert are 30-somethings who goes out to dance every weekend. At one dance they meet Inger, whom Kaj falls in love with. Kaj has some friends who are playing in a band. The...



Rude Boy(1980)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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




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