mdblist.com logo Movie Search


Ratings
Between
and
Between
and
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Between
and
With at least
votes
Additional filters
m
Lists, Streaming Services, Cast and more
Create List (158 items)

Login to create a dynamic list


poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
7.6
/41690/
74
/1951/
74
/1205/
3.9
/159047/
100
/63/
82
/66/
90
/19/
7.4
/83893/
cc age 11+

Only Yesterday (1991)
In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
poster
83
8.0
/67457/
81
/3549/
80
/1537/
4.3
/136072/
99
/95/
92
/460/
85
/24/
cc age 7+

Song of the Sea (2014)
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.
poster
82
7.3
/29304/
72
/580/
68
/382/
3.9
/35123/
100
/42/
87
/674/
83
/17/
cc age 12+

Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.4
/171057/
72
/4545/
72
/2854/
4.0
/366867/
92
/293/
74
/2188/
93
/53/
cc age 16+

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/19798/
74
/892/
71
/143/
3.9
/91608/
96
/141/
93
/51/
78
/34/
cc age 12+

The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
poster
Netflix
77
7.7
/328/
83
/25/
85
/6/
3.7
/1238/
93
/29/
85
/12/
71
/9/

Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (2024)
An intimate look into the lives of one of the most iconic folk-rock bands in America - the Indigo Girls. With never-before-seen archival and intimate vérité the film dives into the songwriting and storytelling of the music that transformed a generation.
poster
76
7.2
/5977/
71
/96/
69
/80/
3.6
/4131/
81
/26/
76
/96/
70
/10/
cc age 13+

Bound for Glory (1976)
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
poster
73
7.0
/16219/
68
/279/
65
/171/
3.6
/7896/
93
/44/
78
/282/
70
/26/
cc age 17+

Bob Roberts (1992)
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
poster
MUBI
67
6.8
/5028/
67
/191/
64
/42/
3.3
/57237/
69
/134/
89
/49/
64
/32/
cc age 15+

The History of Sound (2025)
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
poster
Kanopy
79
67
7.7
/3404/
76
/73/
74
/38/
3.7
/1903/
90
/96/
78
/270/
85
/32/

Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)
In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for a lifesaving operation, he headed to Nashville, where he wrote and recorded the country folk album Prairie Wind with old friends and family members. After the successful operation and recovery period, he returned to Nashville that August to play at the famed Ryman Auditorium, once again gathering together friends and family for this special performance.
poster
fuboTV
70
65
7.2
/6004/
71
/169/
69
/116/
3.8
/8987/
68
/19/
80
/223/
57
/8/

American Pop (1981)
The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.
poster
84
64
8.1
/2258/
85
/28/
77
/44/
4.1
/1826/
86
/7/
94
/78/

Safe Journey (1993)
Latcho Drom is a vista of the music, culture, and journey of the Romani people—from their homeland of India, to Europe and Southwest Asia.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
6.5
/547/
68
/22/
59
/10/
3.3
/417/
76
/21/
73
/9/
62
/7/
cc age 10+

American Folk (2018)
Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
7.0
/12685/
72
/588/
67
/185/
3.2
/9229/
69
/58/
74
/78/
45
/9/
cc age 14+

Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
poster
76
60
7.1
/2732/
68
/34/
72
/58/
3.7
/3215/
100
/8/
76
/27/

Yellow Earth (1984)
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
poster
Kanopy
74
44
7.4
/286/
62
/19/
58
/6/
3.6
/1802/
100
/11/
83
/5/

Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (2021)
Blues and folk singer Karen Dalton was a prominent figure in 1960s New York. Idolized by Bob Dylan and Nick Cave, Karen discarded the traditional trappings of success and led an unconventional life until her early death. Since most images of Karen have been lost or destroyed, the film uses Karen's dulcet melodies and interviews with loved ones to build a rich portrait of this singular woman and her hauntingly beautiful voice.
poster
Kanopy
82
44
7.8
/1073/
71
/41/
79
/13/
4.1
/3959/
100
/6/
86
/7/

Heartworn Highways (1976)
The music speaks for itself in this performance documentary that highlights some of the biggest names within the country-folk scene in Texas and Tennessee during the last weeks of 1975 and the first weeks of 1976, eschewing narration and staged interviews.
poster
83
42
8.2
/1739/
79
/30/
78
/21/
4.1
/1416/
94
/18/

The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
poster
86
41
8.1
/509/
86
/11/
81
/13/
3.8
/675/
100
/6/
95
/26/

The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival (2007)
An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965.
poster
Kanopy
77
36
7.0
/181/
77
/13/
50
/5/
3.9
/1245/
100
/11/
83
/2/
81
/4/

Keyboard Fantasies (2021)
As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home-studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realized far before its time. Three decades on, the musician – now Glenn Copeland – began to receive emails from people across the world, thanking him for the music they’d recently discovered.
poster
55
36
5.2
/539/
57
/25/
49
/27/
3.1
/2067/
80
/10/
28
/3/
60
/7/

Butter on the Latch (2013)
Sarah and Isolde share an interest in the traditional music and dance of the Balkans, but it turns out that shared interests don’t always unite them. Their trip, initially a fun bonding experience, takes a southward turn when Sarah becomes interested in handsome fellow camper Steph. A seemingly innocent romantic overture touches off an abrupt shift in the dynamic between the two girlfriends, steering a previously ecstatic camp outing down a psychological rabbit hole.
poster
Criterion Channel
57
29
6.5
/978/
51
/16/
56
/26/
3.6
/2579/
46
/9/

Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
poster
72
23
7.5
/1044/
66
/33/
69
/17/
3.6
/482/
78
/12/

Big Easy Express (2012)
Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Tennessee’s Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain’s acclaimed Mumford & Sons, climbed aboard a beautiful vintage train in California, setting out for New Orleans, Louisiana on a “tour of dreams”. The resulting film from this journey is nothing short of magical. Part road movie and part concert film, BIG EASY EXPRESS bears witness to the birth of a new musical era. With poignancy and beauty, Malloy documents these incredible musicians as they ride the rails and wow the crowds, from Oakland… to New Orleans.
poster
79
21
8.1
/646/
78
/30/
80
/13/
3.8
/941/
84
/4/

Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (2013)
A concert inspired by the Coen Brothers' film, 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' which is set in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene, featuring live performances of the film's music, as well as songs from the early 1960s. Performers include the Avett Brothers, Joan Baez, Dave Rawlings Machine, Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, Colin Meloy, The Milk Carton Kids, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Patti Smith, Willie Watson, Gillian Welch, and Jack White, as well as the star of the film Oscar Isaac.
poster
65
20
6.4
/308/
64
/13/
68
/5/
3.2
/2267/

A Tiger in Paradise (2023)
A surreal journey into singer José González’s inner world of thoughts and shadows. Staged with dark humour in the picturesque Swedish countryside around his home with Ruben Östlund’s regular creative partners behind the camera.
poster
60
18
6.1
/900/
63
/28/
55
/23/
3.2
/422/

Fleisch ist mein Gemüse (2008)
Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North German lowlands with the dance combo "Tiffanys". In this bizarre universe of Korn, Klaus & Klaus and Koteletts, bandleader Gurki teaches him how to deliver cheerful, upbeat music. To escape the vicious circle of shooting festivals and village weddings, Heinz wants to start a solo career and become a hit producer...
poster
Criterion Channel
64
16
7.0
/282/
55
/8/
58
/11/
3.7
/837/

Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)
Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky, gregarious and generous, and this film shows him at his best, in fine fiddling form.
poster
58
13
6.1
/142/
46
/6/
60
/5/
3.4
/1081/

Transformations (1972)
A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s ceremony, where they’re free to remake reality before our eyes. TRANSFORMATIONS creates an intoxicating alchemy from the witches’ interactions with nature: an attempt, as Hirschfeld remembers, to “use the act of filmmaking to heighten experience.”
poster
?
70
/1/

Lillebjørn Nilsen – Låt for låt (2021)
A celebration of the musical career of Norwegian singer-songwriter Lillebjørn Nilsen, featuring archive footage from his career from the 1960's to the 2020's.
poster
?
8.2
/16/

¡Folk! Una mirada a la música tradicional de Castilla y León (2018)
Documentary about the folk scene around Castilla y León
poster
?
90
/1/

Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania (1991)
The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania - to Budapest, and its effect on views of the value of traditional culture.
poster
?
8.3
/10/
40
/2/

American Folk-Blues Festival: The Blues and Gospel Train (1964)
A 16 minute short comprising 2 acts of a 1964 event where an innovative group of musicians performed on a real railroad track. The audience on one side of the tracks and the musicians on the station side.
poster
?
70
/1/

HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara (2024)
HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back to the region’s Spanish colonisation, and subsequent occupation by Morocco.
poster
?
90
/1/

Ramón Ayala (2013)
Marcos Lopez's first feature film explores the world and oeuvre of Argentine folk musician, Ramón Ayala. The movie also provides interviews with contemporary musicians from Argentina, who were influenced by Ayala. At the same time, the picture portrays the different landscapes of the country: the jungle and soil of Misiones (Ayala's native province), the folk festival in Córdoba and the urban environment of Buenos Aires; paying special attention to those places where Ayala's music circulate. One of the most famous Argentine photographers, Lopez takes advantage of the cinematographic medium to stamp his visual aesthetics, which offer a very ironic, yet loving, approach to Argentina.
poster
?
70
/1/

Ingebjørg Bratland og KORK – Live i marka (2024)
The popular singer and folk musician Ingebjørg Bratland performs her music on the Frognerseteren Amfi in Oslo, August 11th 2023.
poster
?
8.8
/17/

The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America (2008)
Follows folk blues singer Jon Konrad a.k.a. Possessed by Paul James on tour from Texas to Louisiana as he attempts to make enough money to supply for his unborn child. On his journey he crosses paths with musical peers, honky tonk proprietors, and religious mavericks. Together they explore their struggles, doubts, hopes, and demons, or - as Jon's friend Scott Biram puts it - "We can rejoice in one another's sharing of pain!"
poster
?
7.2
/6/
60
/1/

Here We Come A-Wassailing (1977)
A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray Firth in the north, the Somerset Levels in the south, Humberside in the east, and County Kerry in the west. Featuring music by the Albion Band and narration by John Tams.
poster
?
5.4
/23/
52
/4/
85
/2/

Tales From a Golden Age: Bob Dylan 1941-1966 (2004)
Tracing his career up to the point of his 1966 motorcycle accident and subsequent disappearance from the spotlight, this unauthorized documentary uncovers a side of Bob Dylan never revealed before. Includes extensive interviews and rare footage.
poster
?
80
/1/

Ole Paus – 70 Years (2017)
Norwegian musician Ole Paus turns 70 years old and is celebrated by a long line of artist friends who sing his songs in the Oslo Opera House in Norway.
poster
?
100
/1/

The Hangover Club - Liquid Sunshine (2023)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/
100
/1/

The Hangover Club - Buffalo Boots (2023)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/
100
/1/

The Hangover Club - Lords of War (2022)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/
100
/1/

The Hangover Club - Leather and Stone (2022)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/
100
/1/

The Hangover Club - Devil's Watching You (2022)
N/A
poster
?
80
/1/
100
/1/

The Hangover Club - Freedom (Live at the Clifton Observatory) (2022)
N/A
poster
Pluto TV
?
50
/2/
62
/6/

Call (2016)
Paris To Kyiv’s Fragmenti recording was originally released in 2005, a sonic tapestry of ancient Ukrainian song fragments and contemporary sounds. Nearly 11 years later, after circulating throughout the roster of artists on Balanced Records, a remix album has been compiled featuring electronic and avant garde interpretations by Ken Gregory, Joe Silva, Rise Ashen, Kasm, J57, Solidaze, Cayetano, Miguel Graça, Trevor Walker and Anders Peterson. This film accompanies the remix by Joe Silva.
poster
?
7.2
/14/

I Want to Destroy America (2006)
A documentary film by Peter I. Chang which traces the life of the Japanese musician Hisao Shinagawa through his early years as a folk singer in Tokyo to his current occupation as a street performer in Los Angeles.
poster
?
10
/1/

Beyond the Maypole (1991)
Zimbabwean musician, Biggie Tempo, talks to a number of UK folk musicians about their work and their views on traditional music.


mdblist.com © 2020 | Contact | Reddit | Discord | API | Privacy Policy