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8.0

♡ 56

92%

Jean-Pierre Melville Director

Carlo Nell as 2ème inspecteur

Nathalie Delon as Jane Lagrange

Alain Delon as Jef Costello

Maurice Auzel as Un homme menotte au commissariat

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

Don't Fall in Love with Yourself

2022

7.5

♡ 1

san diego, california

Jon Nix Director

Jeremy Bolm as Self

Justin Pearson as Self

John Waters as Self - Filmmaker

Jerry Springer as Self - Host, The Jerry Springer Show

A documentary about the life and music of Justin Pearson. An enigmatic underground musician and owner of Three One G records.

Shoot the Piano Player

1960

♡ 5

90%

88%

based on novel or book

organized crime

Thriller

François Truffaut Director

Charles Aznavour as Charlie Koller / Edouard Saroyan

Michèle Mercier as Clarisse

Marie Dubois as Léna

Catherine Lutz as Mammy

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

Murmur of the Heart

1971

7.5

♡ 20

94%

Louis Malle Director

Lea Massari as Clara Chevalier

Michael Lonsdale as Father Henri

Jacques Gheusi as Hotel receptionist

Henri Poirier as Uncle Leonce

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Crazy

2008

6.4

♡ 2

91%

Rick Bieber Director

Christopher Curry as Dr. Taylor

Ali Larter as Evelyn Garland

Eden Rountree as Thelma

Larry Rippenkroeger as Thug #1

Crazy is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950s. Blessed with incomparable, natural talent, Hank Garland quickly established his reputation as the finest sessions player in Nashville.

Sweet and Lowdown

1999

7.2

♡ 7

77%

Music

new york city

night life

Woody Allen Director

Chris Bauer as Ace - Pool Player

Brian Markinson as Bill Shields

Uma Thurman as Blanche

Mick O'Rourke as Holdup Man

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Paris, Je T'aime

2006

7.2

♡ 30

85%

Wes Craven Director

Natalie Portman as Francine

Willem Dafoe as Le cowboy

Steve Buscemi as Le touriste

Rufus Sewell as William

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

2010

parent child relationship

6.9

♡ 1

73%

pop star

seduction

Joann Sfar Director

Laetitia Casta as Brigitte Bardot

Lucy Gordon as Jane Birkin

Doug Jones as La Gueule

Franc Bruneau as La Planton Brochaut

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

2019

7.5

♡ 6

91%

Music

racism

Stanley Nelson Director

Quincy Jones as Self

Marguerite Eskridge as Self

Vince Wilburn Jr. as Self

Carlos Santana as Self

An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

Soul

2020

8.0

♡ 334

95%

Pete Docter Director

Alice Braga as Counselor Jerry

Angela Bassett as Dorothea

Jamie Foxx as Joe

Ulka Simone Mohanty as (voice)

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Whiplash

2014

8.5

♡ 249

94%

Damien Chazelle Director

Miles Teller as Andrew

J.K. Simmons as Fletcher

Paul Reiser as Jim Neimann

Henry G. Sanders as Red Henderson

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

New York, New York

1977

borderline personality disorder

6.6

♡ 16

57%

58%

Action

Drama

jazz

Martin Scorsese Director

Louis Guss as Frankie Harte Band Member

Robert De Niro as Jimmy Doyle

Richard Raymond as Railroad Conductor

David Armstrong as Reporter

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

Low Down

2014

6.1

♡ 13

50%

Jeff Preiss Director

Peter Dinklage as Alain

Elle Fanning as Amy-Jo Albany

Caleb Landry Jones as Cole

Lena Headey as Sheila Albany

The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.

Miles Ahead

2015

6.4

♡ 21

74%

Don Cheadle Director

Keith Stanfield as

Ewan McGregor as Dave Brill

Michael Stuhlbarg as Harper Hamilton

Don Cheadle as Miles Davis

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

La La Land

2016

♡ 939

91%

Damien Chazelle Director

J.K. Simmons as Bill

Robert Roldan as Epilogue Dancer

Emma Stone as Mia

Ryan Gosling as Sebastian

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Kids on the Slope

2018

Japanese

6.7

♡ 8

Takahiro Miki Director

Dean Fujioka as Junichi Katsuragi

Nana Komatsu as Ritsuko Mukae

Taishi Nakagawa as Sentaro Kawabuchi

Erina Mano as Yurika Fukahori

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.

American Masters Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

2019

7.4

♡ 10

91%

Music

Stanley Nelson Director

John Lennon as Self

Sammy Davis Jr. as Self

Steve Allen as Self

Tommie Smith as Self

A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word cool—a foray into the life and career of musical and cultural icon Miles Davis.

Grass is Greener

2019

7.1

♡ 1

100%

marijuana legalization

war on drugs

Weed. Marijuana. Grass. Pot. Whatever you prefer to call it, America’s relationship with cannabis is a complicated one. In his directorial debut, hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy presents an unparalleled look at the racially biased history of the war on marijuana. A range of celebrities and experts discuss the plant’s influence on music and popular culture, and the devastating impact its criminalization has had on Black and Latino communities. As more and more states join the push to legalize marijuana, this documentary dives deep into the glaring racial disparities in the growing cannabis market.

I Called Him Morgan

2016