Movies Like Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center
If you liked Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center (2011), a music movie directed by Martyn Atkins, 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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Nirvana: Live at the Paramount (2011)
★ 8.1/10Also musicRecorded in Seattle, WA on Halloween Night, 1991, Live at the Paramount is the only known Nirvana live show recorded on 16mm film. Now released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's…
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also musicTensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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King of Jazz (1930)
★ 6.5/10Also musicA large-scale revue musical built around Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, presenting a series of musical performances, sketches, and staged tableaux in early two-color Technicolor, emblematic of Hollywood’s early…
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Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour (2024)
★ 7.7/10Also musicAt a sold-out concert in her hometown of LA, Olivia Rodrigo pours her heart into an electrifying night of chart-topping hits and pop-rock power ballads.
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Soul Men (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also musicTwo former backup soul singers, Louis and Floyd, have not spoken to each other in 20 years, and reluctantly agree to travel across the country together to a reunion concert to honor their recently-deceased lead singer…
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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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Bessie (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also musicThe story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
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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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Hairspray Live! (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also musicA teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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Crossroads (1986)
★ 7.4/10Also musicA wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
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Get Crazy (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also musicMega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock…
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Taurus (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also musicA rising but troubled musician searches for the inspiration to record one last song, pushing himself deep into the void.
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Girl (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also musicA sheltered, straight-A high school senior, Andrea Marr, becomes infatuated with a local rock singer, Todd Sparrow, and dives into the underground music scene, neglecting her friends and academic life in the process.
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For the Boys (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also musicTalented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
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Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also musicDuring the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in…
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A Mighty Wind (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also musicThree eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.
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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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Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also musicStreet dancer Skyler comes out of the shadow of her trained dancer sister, Tosha, & joins a dance competition with the Honey dance studio; the prize is a college scholarship.
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ariana grande: excuse me, i love you (2020)
★ 7.9/10Also musicAriana Grande takes the stage in London for her Sweetener World Tour and shares a behind-the-scenes look at her life in rehearsal and on the road.