During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Swing Girls

2004

Japanese

7.6

♡ 15

91%

Shinobu Yaguchi Director

Chise Nakamura as Keiko Okamura

Nagisa Abe as Reiko Shimoda

Noriko Eguchi as Shop Assistant at Muscial Instruments Shop

Fumiko Mizuta as Yuka Yamamoto

A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the school's brass band.

'Round Midnight

1986

English

7.4

♡ 10

100%

89%

Drama

jazz

jazz singer or musician

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Arthur French as Booker

Victoria Gabrielle Platt as Chan Turner

Martin Scorsese as Goodley

Philippe Noiret as Redon

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

Ray

2004

English

7.7

♡ 63

79%

blindness and impaired vision

Taylor Hackford Director

Mike Pniewski as Bus Driver

David Krumholtz as Milt Shaw

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles

Paula Jai Parker as Ruth Brown

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Fire Music

2021

English

7.4

♡ 3

100%

Tom Surgal Director

Gary Giddins as Self

Don Cherry as Self

Tristan Hansinger as Self

Prince Lasha as Self

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and John Coltrane - are today acknowledged as central to the evolution of jazz as America's most innovative art form. FIRE MUSIC showcases the architects of a movement whose radical brand of improvisation pushed harmonic and rhythmic boundaries, and produced landmark albums like Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Inspiration and Coltrane's Ascension. A rich trove of archival footage conjures the 1960s jazz scene along with incisive reflections by critic Gary Giddins and a number of the movement's key players.

The Glenn Miller Story

1954

English

7.3

♡ 13

89%

Anthony Mann Director

Harry Harvey as Doctor

Barton MacLane as General Arnold

June Allyson as Helen Burger

Irving Bacon as Mr. Miller

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.

Bill Evans: Time Remembered

2015

English

8.0

♡ 7

Bruce Spiegel Director

Tony Bennett as

Marty Morell as

Chuck Israels as

Debby Evans as Self

A biographical film featuring the music and times of Bill Evans with interviews from Tony Bennett, Jack Dejohnette, Billy Taylor, Paul Motian, Jon Hendricks, Orin Keepnews, Bobby Brookmeyer, Pat Evans and more, including family and friends who knew Bill Evans well.

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

1953

French

7.3

♡ 10

Jacques Tati Director

André Dino as Hotel Guest

Lucien Frégis as Hotel Proprietor

Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot

Édouard Francomme as Restaurant Patron

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.

Saxophone Colossus

1986

English

6.9

♡ 2

Action

jazz

jazz singer or musician

musician

Robert Mugge Director

Gary Giddins as Self

Sonny Rollins as Self

Ira Gitler as Self

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced Saxophone Colossus, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums.

Mickey One

1965

English

6.3

71%

Arthur Penn Director

Hurd Hatfield as Castle

Fran Ryan as Homeless Woman

Ralph Foody as Police Captain

Kamatari Fujiwara as The Artist

A former comic is on the run from the mob.

You, the Living

2007

Swedish

7.4

♡ 12

98%

Roy Andersson Director

Per Jörnelius as

Tommy Johansson as

Bengt C.W. Carlsson as CEO

Göran Holm as Man at the psychiatrist

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.

Big Night

1996

English

7.3

♡ 23

96%

Stanley Tucci Director

Gene Canfield as Charlie

Peter McRobbie as Loan Officer

Jack O'Connell as Man on Truck

Stanley Tucci as Secondo

Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.

Dixieland Droopy

1954

English

7.3

♡ 10

Tex Avery Director

Bill Thompson as Droopy

Tex Avery as Flea Bandleader

John Brown as Narrator / Pee Wee Runt / Flea Bandleader / Talent Agent

John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his All-Flea Dixieland band at the circus.

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

1980

English

7.1

♡ 7

100%

Robert Mugge Director Sun Ra

Sun Ra as Himself

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute film includes multiple public and private performances, poetry readings, a band rehearsal, interviews, and extensive improvisations. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible viewing experience.

American Pop

1981

English

7.2

♡ 13

68%

Ralph Bakshi Director

Richard Moll as Beat Poet

Lisa Jane Persky as Bella

Bill Farmer as Soldiers

David Hollander as (uncredited)

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

Spinning Gold

2023

English

5.9

♡ 2

30%

rhythm and blues (r&b)

Timothy Scott Bogart Director

Jason Isaacs as Al Bogatz

Michelle Monaghan as Beth Bogart

Jay Pharoah as Cecil Holmes

Johnny Gill as Clarence Burke Jr

A biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records.

The Fabulous Baker Boys

1989

English

6.9

♡ 18

97%

Steve Kloves Director

Tina Lifford as Background Voice

Jeff Bridges as Jack Baker

Jennifer Tilly as Monica Moran

Michelle Pfeiffer as Susie Diamond

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Shadows

1958

English

7.2

♡ 11

John Cassavetes Director

Cliff Carnell as

Jean Shepherd as Man at Party

Bobby Darin as Man Wearing Sun Glasses, Dancing and Later Chewing Gum at Rehearsal

Seymour Cassel as (uncredited)

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Trap Jazz

2023

English

6.4

♡ 1

100%

atlanta, georgia

Documentary

jazz

jazz singer or musician

Music

Sadé Clacken Joseph Director

Cassius Jay as Self

Chris Moten as Self

Stixx Taylor as Self

Gabriel Turner as Young Chris

Atlanta musicians behind some of the biggest names in music embark on an uncertain journey into the spotlight with a new genre of music that fuses trap music with jazz.

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

2018

English

7.3

♡ 1

95%

Sophie Huber Director

Kendrick Lamar as Self

Herbie Hancock as Self Don Was

Don Was as Self

Meade 'Lux' Lewis as Self

Explore the vision behind the iconic American jazz record label. Since 1939, Blue Note artists have been encouraged to push creative boundaries in search of uncompromising expressions. Through current recording sessions, rare archive and conversations with iconic Blue Note artists, the film reveals an intimate perspective of a legacy that continues to be vital in today’s political climate.

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Paris Blues

Swing Girls

'Round Midnight

Ray

Fire Music

The Glenn Miller Story

Bill Evans: Time Remembered

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

Saxophone Colossus

Mickey One

You, the Living

Big Night

Dixieland Droopy

Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

American Pop

Spinning Gold

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Shadows

Trap Jazz

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes