Movies Like Jazz Icons - Coleman Hawkins Live in '62 & '64
If you liked Jazz Icons - Coleman Hawkins Live in '62 & '64 (2009), a 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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'Round Midnight (1986)
★ 7.1/10Inside 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 Glenn Miller Story (1954)
★ 7/10A 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.
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Born to Be Blue (2015)
★ 6.5/10Jazz 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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Shine (1996)
★ 7.4/10Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
★ 6.7/10Exploring every facet of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like ‘Eat It’ and ‘Like a Surgeon’ to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle, this biopic…
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The Bloody Hundredth (2024)
★ 7.2/10Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
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Radio (2003)
★ 7.4/10In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend…
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They Shot the Piano Player (2023)
★ 6.6/10New York, 2010. Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976.
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Where the Truth Lies (2005)
★ 6.2/10An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
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The Judge (2014)
★ 7.3/10A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
★ 7.1/10An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).
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Whiplash (2014)
★ 8.4/10Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
★ 7/10An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on…
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Where Hope Grows (2014)
★ 7.9/10Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life…
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Hellboy (2004)
★ 6.7/10In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by…
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Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
★ 7.8/10Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
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Paris Blues (1961)
★ 6.5/10During 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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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
★ 5.8/10Mike Edwards and Danny Burke fly a cropduster, but due to Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitchhike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn…
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Catch-22 (1970)
★ 6.7/10A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
★ 7.3/10After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.