Best Music movies of 1980s

Actors : Mark Blankfield, Krista Errickson, Bess Armstrong, Tim Thomerson,
Directors : Jerry Belson,

Dr Daniel Jekyll researching into drugs that would help mankind avoid surgery discovers a white powder that unleashes the animal in every man, and in his case turning him from a shy and ...

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Grace De Capitani, Gaëtan Bloom, Guy Marchand,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no ...

Actors : Fuyumi Shiraishi, Hideki Sasaki, Masashi Amenomori, Junji Chiba,
Directors : Isao Takahata,

A cellist in a small orchestra receives help from animals to help him practice his music.

Actors : Gail Edwards, Daniel Stern, Malcolm McDowell, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Allan Arkush,

Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save ...

Actors : Joakim Schröder, Ulrika Örn, Sebastian Håkansson, Niclas Wahlgren,
Directors : Staffan Hildebrand,

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim has just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years old. During the summer holiday they also ...

Actors : Alice Cooper, Victoria Vera, Carlos Santurio, Pepa Sarsa,
Directors : Claudio Fragasso,

A rock star returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video while a pack of wild dogs are on the loose killing off the local residents.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt, Randy Quaid, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A major league star who is on the verge of breaking a record, meets a singer and they get married, but they have different goals, so they separate, jeopardizing his opportunity in sports and the possibility of making up with his wife.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, John Paragon, Beverly D'Angelo,
Directors : Cheech Marin,

A mock documentary filmed mostly in and around LA with interviews of Cheech and Chong interspersed between four videos of songs from their last album. Songs include: Get outta my room and ...

Actors : Pierre Falardeau, Marie-Claude Dufour, Denise Mercier, Julien Poulin,

A Quebecois Elvis impersonator is disillusioned to find a Chinaman participating in an Elvis contest. He later takes his wife on vacation to the island of Santa Banana.

Actors : Lou Albano, Tanya Roberts, Dirk Benedict, Roddy Piper,
Directors : Hal Needham,

M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!)...

Actors : Julian Glover, Fiona, Rupert Everett, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.

Actors : Sal Viviano, John Martin, Ken Swofford, Julie Adams,
Directors : John Fasano,

Demons hypnotize the general public by posing as a rock and roll band.

Actors : Devilalita, Gemini Ganesan, Shobana, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : K. Balachander,

A classical singer believes in changing society through his music and will power.

Actors : Sunny Johnson, Mark Hamill, Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

A small town stud wants to go to Nashville and be a big country star. His ambitious kid sister works as his manager. When they cross paths with a small town sheriff, their dream comes in jeopardy.

Actors : Bodo Steiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer, Désirée Nosbusch,
Directors : Eckhart Schmidt,

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans pushing him for autographs. She is later...

Actors : Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Alan Devlin, Stephen Rea,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So ...

Actors : Aleksandr Abdulov, Yuriy Yakovlev, Irina Muravyova, Klara Luchko,
Directors : Tatyana Lioznova,

A coming-of-age story about a small town girl's struggle to become an actress in Soviet Moscow.

Actors : Ian McShane, Rudolf Nureyev, Nastassja Kinski, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : James Toback,

Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a ...

Actors : Vangelis Kotronis, Isavella Mavraki, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Tzimis Panousis,
Directors : Nikos Zervos,

Mad scientist creates the band Music Brigades from body parts of dead musicians.

Actors : Pyotr Shcherbakov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Nikolay Averyushkin, Igor Sklyar,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

A music student is expeled from school because he loves jazz, a kind of music that represents the US capitalism. He hires two street musicians to form a dixie band, and goes from one city ...