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Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018)
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.
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7.4
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Love & Mercy (2015)
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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72
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Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.
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Kanopy
74
6.6
/3908/
70
/200/
63
/56/
3.5
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95
/94/
68
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75
/29/

Blaze (2018)
Inspired by the life of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas outlaw country movement that spawned the likes of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. The film weaves together three periods in Blaze's life, exploring his love affair with Sybil Rosen; his last, dark night on Earth; and the impact his songs and his death had on his fans, friends, and foes.
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Kanopy
74
6.9
/84214/
69
/2818/
68
/1672/
3.6
/124170/
92
/164/
72
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75
/33/
cc age 17+

Frank (2014)
A young wannabe musician discovers he has bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
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69
6.8
/4223/
71
/67/
60
/60/
3.4
/1992/
78
/27/
79
/99/
cc age 16+

Grace of My Heart (1996)
Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York City to make it big. Though she flops as a recording artist, fast-talking record producer Joel Millner recognizes her songwriting talent and teams her with struggling songsmith Howard Caszatt.
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Fandor
69
6.9
/10564/
72
/211/
69
/348/
3.6
/8616/
73
/82/
68
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58
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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
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67
6.2
/1001/
66
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50
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3.3
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Songwriter (1984)
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.
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Starz
67
6.9
/26974/
70
/1174/
68
/550/
3.4
/19281/
80
/167/
68
/958/
71
/44/
cc age 15+

Get on Up (2014)
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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66
6.2
/20186/
61
/538/
57
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3.2
/8507/
64
/25/
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cc age 17+

10 (1979)
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
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fuboTV
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65
7.2
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71
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69
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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.
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The Roku Channel
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63
6.6
/10015/
66
/192/
58
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3.3
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cc age 9+

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
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Disney Plus
79
63
7.7
/1417/
75
/78/
73
/38/
3.6
/2100/
91
/22/
87
/74/
78
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The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story (2009)
The troubled fraternal relationship between songwriters Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the Oscar and Grammy-winning Sherman Brothers, famous for the iconic hits they wrote for Disney.
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Amazon Prime Video
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63
7.6
/1966/
75
/80/
71
/39/
3.6
/2651/
85
/13/
87
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68
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (2010)
The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
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Amazon Prime Video
82
59
7.7
/2145/
78
/92/
81
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3.7
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Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020)
A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and MacGowan’s family with original animations.
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Hoopla
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cc age 17+

The Hottest State (2007)
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
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Disney Plus
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5.3
/102757/
60
/6967/
58
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28
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/17989/
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cc age 5+

Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.
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Hoopla
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50
6.8
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/46/
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3.3
/1346/
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/75/
60
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Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2006)
Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive photos and exuberant praise and live perfomances from an eclectic mix of musicians, including: Jarvis Cocker, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, ANOHNI, The Handsome Family and U2's Bono and The Edge.
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50
5.4
/1174/
40
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3.2
/700/
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
Hugely successful but impossibly neurotic songwriter Georgie Soloway is sliding into a mid-life crisis. He believes that all of his past romantic relationships have been destroyed not by his own failings but by the interference of the mysterious Harry Kellerman. Family, friends, and his psychiatrist cannot give him the help he seeks. When his father is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Georgie begins spending more and more time flying his personal aircraft, distancing himself physically, emotionally, and mentally from the real world.
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Amazon Prime Video
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6.9
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Heaven Adores You (2014)
Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By threading the music of Elliott Smith through the dense, yet often isolating landscapes of the three major cities he lived in -- Portland, New York City, Los Angeles -- Heaven Adores You presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer's prolific songwriting and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.
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Three Little Words (1950)
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their professional relationship.
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Amazon Prime Video
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Punching Henry (2017)
Comedian Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets involved, Henry must decide whether he wants to make jokes for a living, or be the butt of them.
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cc age 11+

The American Mall (2008)
The executive producers of High School Musical keep the good times rolling with this upbeat musical comedy set in the one place every American teenager's home away from home - the local shopping mall. Ally (Nina Dobrev) is an optimistic adolescent singer/songwriter whose hard working mother owns the mall music shop frequented by every teen in town. When Ally shares her music with Joey (Rob Mayes), a janitor in the mall who harbors rock star ambitions, she is thrilled to find someone who can truly relate to her songs as well as her heart. Trouble looms on the horizon, however, in the form of the mall owner's spoiled rotten daughter Madison (Autumn Reeser). Madison is the kind of girl who's used to getting whatever she wants, and what she wants now could prove disastrous for both Ally's ambitions, and her mother's popular music store.
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The Roku Channel
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7.3
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3.5
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80
/5/
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Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story (2017)
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story is a documentary about the life and work of Michael "Mick" Ronson, the guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger who, in the early part of his career, performed with David Bowie as one of the 'Spiders from Mars'.
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Fandor
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24
7.2
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Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2011)
Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his unique gift for memorable melodies, lovelorn lyrics and wry musical stylings that blend classic Tin Pan Alley with modern sounds, Stephin Merritt has distinguished himself as one of contemporary pop's most beloved and influential artists.
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Amazon Prime Video
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23
5.7
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3.0
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Welcome to L.A. (1976)
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
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YouTube TV
65
23
6.5
/975/
64
/13/
63
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3.3
/240/
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Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.
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71
21
7.6
/88/
75
/9/
57
/3/
3.8
/4027/

Last Summer (2022)
As summer ends, Ren's bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write the lyrics of their final song.
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The Roku Channel
54
18
5.8
/1375/
60
/34/
53
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46
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My Last Day Without You (2011)
On a one-day business trip to New York, a German business executive falls in love with a singer-songwriter who exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he's never experienced before.
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58
17
6.5
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3.1
/2211/
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The Breakup Playlist (2015)
A story about an aspiring professional singer and a rock singer who collaborates in a song. As they work on their song, they start to develop feelings for each other.
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46
16
4.1
/1216/
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/16/
2.8
/829/

My Brother's Keeper (2018)
The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.
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56
15
5.9
/852/
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/7/
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/6/
3.2
/350/
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Her Cardboard Lover (1942)
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.
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13
6.4
/305/
50
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/4/
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Copacabana (1985)
In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge, they both start finding fame. However, fate steps in and she is swept to Havana to work in a splashy nightclub act where she is convinced she will find her stardom. Instead, she finds Rico, a suave gangster and the club owner.
poster
79
12
7.8
/47/
86
/3/
79
/7/
3.7
/678/

Heard She Got Married (2021)
A musician is suspicious of his mailman.
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53
12
5.8
/503/
55
/5/
61
/8/
3.2
/216/
29
/83/

The Nitwits (1935)
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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52
10
5.6
/730/
58
/6/
54
/9/
3.1
/221/
33
/16/

Never a Dull Moment (1950)
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.
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63
9
5.9
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/13/
3.3
/233/

Home Before Midnight (1979)
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
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8.6
/5/

Rino Gaetano - Sempre più blu (2025)
N/A
poster
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100
/1/

Hick'ry Hawkins - A Document'ry
Hillbilly punk turned honky-tonk singer Hick'ry Hawkins has stories to tell. For thirty years the trailer park kid from South Carolina has worked thousands of stages with his wrestlemaniac flair and cowboy swagger - proclaiming his undeniable destiny as the next big country music star. This film weaves biographical tales and concert videos into an intimate look at the pursuit of fame and fortune.
poster
?
80
/1/

John Mayall - The Godfather of British Blues/The Turning Point (2004)
THE GODFATHER OF BRITISH BLUES: The film biography features contributions from John Mayall himself, his family, fellow musicians, colleagues and friends, in interviews and performances. Rare archival film from all periods of his career marks his achievements and some of the events that formed them. THE TURING POINT: The earliest 'rockumentary' of John Mayall and his musicians filmed in their homes, dressing rooms, mororways, airports, clubs, concert halls and at festivals.
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?
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.
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?
10
/1/

John Mayall - The Turning Point (1969)
The earliest 'rockumentary' of John Mayall and his musicians filmed in their homes, dressing rooms, motorways, airports, clubs, concert halls and at festivals.
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Hulu
76
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8.0
/118/
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/3/
3.7
/526/

The World According to Allee Willis (2024)
Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms. She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece - self-acceptance.
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?
8.8
/43/

My Craft (2014)
Croatian singer/songwriter/poet Arsen Dedić tells the story of his life.
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50
/2/
55
/2/

Destiny Calls (2019)
It has been a year since Tod's death, yet Pla Thong still cannot move on.
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7.6
/7/
60
/1/

Permanently Inhabited Stranger (2003)
In this documentary Edo Maajka, Bosnian hip hop star talks about war, his life as a refugee, war crimes, forgiving and making peace, nationalism, music scene in Croatia and Bosnia, Balkans mentality, love and hate, cevap restaurants, Sava river, partings, life of music stars, Lepa Brena and Nele Karajlic, politicians. His mode of narration and his charisma, his sincerity and his relaxed camera appearance will surely capture the spectators' attention.
poster
?
8.5
/17/

Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007)
WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman and an all-star cast, chart his rise from 1950s off-Broadway through all of his smash hits. Featuring never-before-seen footage of original stage performances, and a score full of classic show tunes.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
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7.4
/295/
51
/5/
66
/6/

Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980)
This is a lonely New Year's Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. A fictional biography is shown in flashback.


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