Must Watch Movies For Musicians

From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of Ryuichi Sakamoto's music has coincided with his life journeys. Following Fukushima, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan's social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following a cancer diagnosis, his haunting awareness of life crises leads to a resounding new masterpiece. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA is an intimate portrait of both the artist and the man.

Ruben and Lou are a passionate metal duo touring in their RV. When Ruben begins to lose his hearing rapidly, their world turns upside down. As he finds solace in a community and learns sign language, he faces the difficult choice between embracing a new life without sound or pursuing a risky surgical solution. Through the complicated journey of Ruben's self-discovery and acceptance, this captivating drama explores themes of identity, resilience, and the power of silence.

Set in the esteemed world of Western classical music, the film spotlights Lydia Tár, a groundbreaking composer-conductor and the first female director of a major German orchestra. The film intricately explores Lydia's journey through the complexities of her art, gender dynamics, and personal relationships.Cate Blanchett delivers an excellent performance in which we can feel her passion and earned acclaim by winning a Golden Globe.

Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

NOTORIOUS is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time; THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."

Director Franc Roddam has assembled an array of young British acting talents who bring back London's 1960s Mods and Rockers. Set against the soundtrack of The Who's high-concept album "Quadrophenia", Phil Daniels plays working-class Jimmy Cooper, a drug-using Mod who hates his job and is taken the wrong way by his parents. But by night, he comes alive with the all-nighters, his amphetamine pills, and his scooter-riding friends; he's always on a high, and life cannot get any better. Then comes the Brighton Scooter Run, where the Mods and the Rockers converge, ending in the Battle of the Cults on Brighton Beach. What goes up must come down, and with Jimmy's come-down, his life is turned around, and so begins his downward spiral into paranoia, isolation, and the four-faceted mindset: Quadrophenia. With its extremely realistic language, violent overtones, and classic 1960s soundtrack, this illness is bound to be contagious. Come along for the ride.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a talented, brilliant, and flamboyant musician, Antonio Salieri is a mediocre composer who envies, and detests him, to the point of conspiring against him and sabotaging his career. You will see an unbridled battle of egos, reproaches, envy and ambition, wrapped up in the greatest musical talent in history.

A documentary about the punk band The Sex Pistols. The film tries to lighten some of the backgrounds of their way through the punk era while telling the story of the band from zero back to zero. Features lots of interviews and comments of folks who were involved.

Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for sub- and pop-culture. Before the iron curtain fell, everything and anything seemed possible. B-MOVIE is a fast-paced collage of mostly unreleased film and TV footage from a frenzied but creative decade, starting with punk and ending with the Love Parade, in a city where the days are short and the nights are endless. Where it was not about long-term success, but about living for the moment - the here and now.

Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda - a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late 70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like to be.

Joe has a big dream, to become a professional jazz musician. However, when he finally gets his opportunity, things don't go as planned. Will he manage to aid a helpless soul in The Great Before and get back to Earth to finally live his dream? A unique, beautiful and profound story about our peculiar experience as human beings, existing without certainly knowing where we come from or where we are going after here, but which is undoubtedly a precious and wonderful existence to be lived to the fullest and shared with those we love.

"8 Mile" is a gritty and emotional film that highlights the struggles and triumphs of a young man chasing his dreams. The film accurately portrays the unfiltered emotion and intensity of Eminem's formative years as a rapper by drawing on his own experiences growing up in Detroit. Jimmy Smith Jr. (played by Eminem) faces his fears and finds the courage to follow his passion for music through rap battles and personal challenges. The movie's powerful themes of perseverance, self-discovery, and triumph over adversity resonate with audiences and make it a captivating and inspiring story.

Follow a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles -- some of them of his own making.

Andrew dreams of becoming a great jazz drummer and enrolls in a prestigious music academy where he meets Terence Fletcher, a demanding teacher who uses violent and torturous methods to make his students give their best. A gripping story, full of adrenaline, that will give you as much indignation as desire to excel.