Best Music movies on amazon prime that are award winners or nominees

La La Land(2016)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 96

While waiting for their big breaks, two proper L.A. dreamers, a suavely- charming, soft-spoken jazz pianist and a brilliant, vivacious playwright, attempt to reconcile aspirations and relationship in a magical old-school romance.



8 Mile(2002)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.



Cold War(2018)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold ...



Saturday Night Fever(1977)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.



A Chorus Line(1985)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.



De-Lovely(2004)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.



Butterflies Are Free(1972)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A blind man moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother, and befriends the freethinking young woman next door.



The Competition(1980)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 7

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...



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, ...



Jeremy(1973)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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