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Movies Like Jazz Icons: Art Farmer Live in '64

If you liked Jazz Icons: Art Farmer Live in '64 (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.

  1. 1Born to Be Blue

    Born to Be Blue (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music

    Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.

  2. 2Summer Stock

    Summer Stock (1950)

    ★ 6.7/10Also music

    To Jane Falbury's New England farm comes a troup of actors to put up a show, invited by Jane's sister. At first reluctant she has them do farm chores in exchange for food. Her reluctance becomes attraction when she…

  3. 3Bee Gees: One Night Only

    Bee Gees: One Night Only (1998)

    ★ 8.2/10Also music

    The 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.

  4. 4Sweet and Lowdown

    Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

    ★ 6.8/10Also music

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

  5. 5'Round Midnight

    'Round Midnight (1986)

    ★ 7.1/10Also music

    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…

  6. 6A Mighty Wind

    A Mighty Wind (2003)

    ★ 6.8/10Also music

    Three 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.

  7. 7The Glenn Miller Story

    The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

    ★ 7/10Also music

    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.

  8. 8King of Jazz

    King of Jazz (1930)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music

    A 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…

  9. 9Paris Blues

    Paris Blues (1961)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music

    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.

  10. 10Too Late Blues

    Too Late Blues (1961)

    ★ 6.4/10Also music

    Ghost 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…

  11. 11Cadillac Records

    Cadillac Records (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also music

    The 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…

  12. 12My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever

    My Little Pony: Best Gift Ever (2018)

    ★ 7.5/10Also music

    As the ponies prepare for another Hearth's Warming, families come together to celebrate the holiday; Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash are ready for the big day, but Princess Twilight Sparkle…

  13. 13Wild Rose

    Wild Rose (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also music

    A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

  14. 14Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal (1981)

    ★ 6.5/10Also music

    The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

  15. 15Köln 75

    Köln 75 (2025)

    ★ 7.2/10Also music

    The 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.

  16. 16The Rocker

    The Rocker (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also music

    In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's…

  17. 17A Complete Unknown

    A Complete Unknown (2024)

    ★ 7.1/10Also music

    New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent…

  18. 18I Used to Be Famous

    I Used to Be Famous (2022)

    ★ 6.9/10Also music

    A former boy band star unexpectedly gets a second shot at success when he forms a bond with a gifted young drummer.

  19. 19Guava Island

    Guava Island (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10Also music

    Deni Maroon, a musician and dock worker is determined to pull off a music festival against the interests of the local factory owner.

  20. 20Arlo the Alligator Boy

    Arlo the Alligator Boy (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10Also music

    Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost father. A musical adventure.

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