Movies Like Jazz Icons: Jimmy Smith Live in '69
If you liked Jazz Icons: Jimmy Smith Live in '69 (2009), a music movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Paris Blues (1961)
★ 6.5/10Also musicDuring 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.
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Apple Music Live: Lady Gaga MAYHEM Requiem (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also musicFor Apple Music Live, Gaga presents MAYHEM Requiem, a celebration and musical reimagining of MAYHEM.
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Bee Gees: One Night Only (1998)
★ 8.2/10Also musicThe brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's including many songs written for and made hits by other artists but never recorded by the Bee Gees themselves.
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Taylor Swift: Reputation Stadium Tour (2018)
★ 8.2/10Also musicTaylor Swift takes the stage in Dallas for the Reputation Stadium Tour and celebrates a monumental night of music, memories and visual magic.
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'Round Midnight (1986)
★ 7.1/10Also musicInside 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…
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The Weeknd: Live at SoFi Stadium (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also musicFilmed at LA's SoFi Stadium, The Weeknd brings down the house – and your living room – in this epic concert event.
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Born to Be Blue (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also musicJazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
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Teen Spirit (2019)
★ 6/10Also musicA shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
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Cadillac Records (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also musicThe story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta…
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Köln 75 (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also musicThe true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in music history: Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert.
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Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also musicIn the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
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All Eyez on Me (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also musicAll Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row…
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Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also musicFaced with a holiday cheer crisis, the North Pole knows there's only one person who can save the day: Santa's great friend Mariah Carey. The Queen of Christmas creates a fabulous and star-studded spectacular to make…
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Coyote Ugly (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also musicGraced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job…
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Too Late Blues (1961)
★ 6.4/10Also musicGhost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his…
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Muscle Shoals (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also musicIn a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of…
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also musicA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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Biggie & Tupac (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also musicIn 1997, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls, The Notorious B.I.G.) were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop's infamous east-west rivalry. Nick…
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Let It Shine (2012)
★ 7/10Also musicA teenage rapper must use his musical talent to help a friend and win the girl of his dreams while overcoming self-doubt and the expectations of his strict religious parents.
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The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
★ 7/10Also musicA 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.