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7.5
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74
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73
/26/
3.7
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92
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74
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74
/22/

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
70
7.4
/6970/
71
/222/
72
/266/
3.8
/36193/
88
/495/

Antoine and Colette (1962)
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
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Criterion Channel
69
6.5
/5915/
65
/139/
59
/119/
3.5
/11488/
86
/14/
66
/57/

The Shout (1978)
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
poster
62
5.7
/5602/
53
/138/
54
/96/
3.5
/6625/
76
/25/
54
/61/
65
/20/

Pola X (1999)
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
poster
MGM Plus
61
5.6
/2520/
61
/74/
52
/44/
3.2
/2709/
50
/8/
67
/141/

200 Motels (1971)
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.
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80
46
7.3
/681/
71
/48/
75
/19/
3.6
/1744/
100
/13/
88
/3/
83
/4/

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (2023)
Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.
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66
46
6.5
/2013/
67
/36/
55
/32/
3.3
/1106/
78
/27/
69
/83/

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story (2008)
Set against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar – the biggest selling record of it's time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
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Hoopla
43
5.7
/2968/
61
/67/
52
/53/
3.2
/2518/
18
/11/
34
/38/
37
/7/

Lipstick (1976)
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
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Amazon Prime Video
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26
4.7
/1760/
48
/19/
43
/34/
2.5
/2418/
17
/434/

The Wedding Party (1969)
Young Charlie begins to develop a case of cold feet as his upcoming wedding looms nearer. Desperate to throw the wedding plans off the track, Charlie tries a variety of tactics, including attempting to rekindle the relationship between his fiancée Josephine and her former boyfriend.
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58
26
5.9
/1574/
61
/44/
51
/30/
3.0
/616/
58
/18/
cc age 9+

Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations.
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69
24
7.4
/207/
65
/11/
57
/12/
3.5
/259/
83

The Amazing Mr. Bickford (1987)
Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.
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Fandango at Home Free
48
23
4.7
/1440/
54
/78/
53
/47/
2.9
/620/
32
/7/

Bizarre (2015)
Maurice, a reticent young homeless man, somehow manages to get by in Brooklyn; he spends his nights in parked cars until he finds himself at Bizarre, an underground club renowned for its burlesque shows. Maurice is fascinated by the club’s playful revues celebrating self-determined sexuality and creative otherness, and the two female club owners both adore him. He soon becomes a part of their self-selected family, and begins to bond with introverted Luka. But Maurice turns his back on Luka’s growing affection. Running away from his true emotions he drifts aimlessly through the city. He tries to find his feet at a boxing club, where he meets Charlie. Unable to withstand the pressure of his repressed feelings, Maurice unleashes a mounting foment of emotions, pervaded by tenderness and menace.
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71
21
7.3
/153/
70
/2/
73
/3/
3.5
/900/

A Light That Never Goes Out (2025)
Successful classical flutist Pauli returns to his small hometown after a breakdown. Reconnecting with old schoolmate Iiris, he is drawn into experimental music. Pauli, who has always sought perfection, is drawn to her chaotic energy, and finds comfort in their sonic experiments.
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60
21
6.4
/488/
50
/8/
56
/14/
3.5
/1325/

Barren Illusion (1999)
In a near future where allergies have become an epidemic, music producer Haru half-heartedly dates post office clerk and mail thief Michi. He searches for violent ways to reactivate his life, she dreams of escaping abroad; both volunteer to test a new drug which may provide a cure.
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75
20
8.0
/186/
76
/3/
60
/2/
3.7
/310/
86
/36/

Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad & Milkshakes (2002)
This documentary film follows the avant-garde duo of the Providence, Rhode Island noise rock band Lightning Bolt, Brian Gibson and Brian Chippendale, through a tour of the states, along with interviews of the band and their friends and family.
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63
19
6.0
/663/
61
/24/
63
/17/
3.3
/677/

Richy Guitar (1985)
Richy Guitar is actually called Richard, but is only called like this by his parents. The young man finds it difficult to find work in Berlin, and when he finally does, he is bullied by his boss. When he meets drummer Igor and bassist Hans, a new rock band is immediately formed. While the trio dreams of a gig at the Avus racetrack, Richy's relationship breaks down...
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60
17
6.2
/398/
59
/16/
48
/13/
3.7
/917/

Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (1991)
Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
60
11
6.4
/280/
58
/9/
55
/17/
3.3
/240/

The Secret Glory (2001)
A British-produced documentary about the bizarre life of Nazi SS officer Otto Rahn, focused on his search for the mystical Holy Grail of Christ.
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?
7.2
/14/
70
/1/
20
/1/

Nudi Verso la Follia (2004)
The documentary focuses on the impressive event of the Italian youth world organized at Parco Lambro in Milan in 1976. The gathering, four days dedicated to counterculture and pop music, was attended by students, young people, workers, lumpenproletarians, feminists, gays and young people from extra-parliamentary groups. The memories and testimonies of those who organized, sang or simply participated will be a commentary on the splendid images of the time. For the first time, meaning is given to the exclusive and complete material shot by Alberto Grifi and six other operators at Parco Lambro in 1976.
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?
6.6
/22/
80
/2/
50
/1/

Tinnitus (2018)
Tinnitus is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present. While often described as ringing, it may also sound like a clicking, hiss or roaring. The film is supposed to be the first one dedicated to music as an instrument for death exploration.
poster
?
8.0
/9/

Grindstone Redux (2009)
This is the story of how the music business was transformed in the 1980s by like-minded musicians who decided to self-publish their work. They formed a “network” before the internet or email made it commonplace.
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?
7.3
/49/
20
/1/

Cleaning Up! (2001)
Cleaning Women is unique Finnish band, which plays self-made instruments made from eg. drying rack and large tin cans. This documentary follows their Eastern Europe tour.
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?
7.9
/9/
80
/1/

André 3000: New Blue Sun (Listening) (2023)
"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time."
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?
7.8
/40/

Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note (2002)
Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from Malcolm McNab's private achive.
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62
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6.9
/209/
61
/7/
57
/6/

Uncle Meat (1987)
This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."
poster
?
7.4
/38/
40
/2/
63
/3/

RocketKitKongoKit (1986)
This kaleidoscopic, amphetamine-paced tour de force uses a barrage of found-footage images and rapid-fire narration to trace a history of Zaire since its independence in 1960.
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?
10
/2/

The Silence After Life (2020)
Following a serious accident, a lonely woman in her fifties experiences intense visions as she loses her voice and runs away from home to live rough in the beauty of the English woods.
poster
63
?
8.3
/227/
52
/7/
59
/7/

Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special! (1982)
Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and several interviews. Previously only available through mail-order, it was made widely available on DVD on October 17, 2005.
poster
?
6.3
/44/
10
/3/
62
/5/

Wild Gunman (1978)
The mythic nature of cowboy masculinity is deconstructed in this scathing montage of re-contextualized sounds and images culled from advertising, television, arcade game footage and other pop culture iconography.
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?
7.6
/13/
10
/1/

Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion (1971)
Conjoined fables are told, one Japanese, the other African, a ghost story colliding with farcical folklore.
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?
6.5
/92/
65
/7/
70
/7/

Anne Clark: I'll Walk Out Into Tomorrow (2018)
Anne Clark, an icon of music history and a terrific pioneer of spoken word art, has been on stage for more than 30 years. It transforms language into unique music. Since the early 1980s, New Wave classics such as OUR DARKNESS and SLEEPER IN METROPOLIS have provided a thrill of excitement that has inspired generations of musicians.
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?
6.0
/29/
53
/3/
40
/2/

The Sound Is Innocent (2019)
As if directing a science-fiction film, Johana Ožvold dissects the story of electronic music. From the pioneer sound engineers working behind the Iron Curtain, through the French avant-garde composers, up to the post-modern creators of digital sonic artefacts, the first-time filmmaker summons an abstract landscape that is haunting and yet achingly beautiful. A voice appears from old television screens forgotten in the maze of some futuristic archive where past and future seem to coexist in a complex and multi-layered way.
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53
?
6.2
/159/
30
/2/
52
/9/
3.4
/439/

Hunger for Love (1968)
An extended research tour of US university film programs introduced dos Santos to the American avant-garde filmmakers, among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, who would directly inspire his formally radical adaptation of an allegorical short story about adultery and colonialism by Guilherme de Figueiredo. Filmed in both Manhattan and Brazil and set against the background of the Vietnam War and its protests, Hunger for Love uses a rigorously abstract soundtrack and narrative structure to evoke the acute paranoia of the period building up to the December 1968 military coup that tipped Brazil perilously close to a conservative dictatorship. With its harsh critique of the decadent tendencies of the Sixties counterculture, Hunger for Love offers a key expression of the self-consciously “ideological” phase of Cinema Novo. -Harvard Film Archive
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?

Burning Bridges - The Story of Paul Burwell (2024)
Documentary following the life and achievements of the avant garde musician and artist Paul Burwell until his tragic death in 2007
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?

Lego Castle: 1979-1998 (2024)
Dive into the retro world of the classic toyline in this experimental film accompanying a dungeonsynth, 80s, cheap-fantasy-VHS, vaporwave-adjacent album from musician/artist Dreamcastle™.
poster
?

Water and Concrete (2016)
“To me, Hong Kong represents a meeting of the two elements of water and concrete: the natural and manmade fighting for space whilst constantly permeating one another. For this film I tried to echo the mediations between what I interpreted as the ‘water’ and ‘concrete’ components of the nuanced musical composition."
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Amazon Prime Video
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Mike Garson and His 88 Friends (2019)
An intimate documentary portrait of world-class improvisational and traditional pianist Mike Garson as he tours, performs, and teaches.


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