Best Music movies of 2010s

Footloose(2011)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 29

City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.



Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll(2010)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.



Her Smell(2018)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.



Premature(2019)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Seventeen year old Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious Isaiah in her path towards self-discovery. Her entire world is turned upside down as she travails on the rigorous terrain of young love on the summer before she leaves for college.



Forever My Girl(2018)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 44

After being gone for a decade a country star returns home to the love he left behind.



Clouds(2020)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.



Battle of the Year(2013)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Battle of the Year attracts all the best teams from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years. Dante enlists Blake to assemble a team of the best dancers and bring the Trophy back to America where it started.



Boychoir(2014)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds ...



Northern Soul(2014)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.



Black Nativity(2013)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.



Killing Bono(2011)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.



The History of Future Folk(2012)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 55

The possibly exaggerated origin story of the real life alien bluegrass band, Future Folk, that has been playing for NYC audiences for the better part of a decade.



Nico, 1988(2017)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 65

The last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.



Ae Dil Hai Mushkil(2016)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 31

This story explores love - the shapes it takes, the ways it changes us and the exhilarating and often terrifying ride it takes us on. It is the journey of two characters, Alizeh and Ayan, as they navigate life, love and heartbreak.



Teen Spirit(2018)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 64

Violet is a shy teenager living in the Isle of Wight who dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her small town and shattered family life. With the help of an unlikely mentor, Violet enters an international singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition.



Summertime(2020)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Over the course of a hot summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelinos intersect.



CBGB(2013)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A look at the New York City punk-rock scene and the venerable nightclub, CBGB.



Hevi reissu(2018)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Turo (25) is trying to overcome his fears by leading the most unknown heavy metal band in Finland, Impaled Rektum, to the hottest metal festival of Norway. The journey includes heavy metal,...



Low Down(2014)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1970s jazz scene.



You Instead(2011)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.




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