Top 100 music biography movies on netflix
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The 50 Best Music Biopic Movies
(Photo by Searchlight Pictures / courtesy Everett Collection. A COMPLETE UNKNOWN)
The latest: Bob Dylan goes electric in the Timothee Chalamet-starring A Complete Unknown, directed by Walk the Line‘s James Mangold.
Get ready for a Fresh new sound with tonight’s headliner: Rotten Tomatoes’ best music biopics ever!
Music has been a crucial component of the movies since the beginning, back even when they were supposedly ‘silent.’ So naturally we started making movies about those makers of melodies. And actors love playing them: They get to show off an expanded range of talent, and so many musicians’ lives are filled with drama and passion. As the term implies, the biopics on this list are all based on real people across an expanse of styles: rock (A Complete Unknown, Control), country (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Walk the Line), hip-hop (Straight Outta Compton), pop (Selena, Love & Mercy),
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Over 900 music fans have voted to shape these rankings of the best music biopics of all time. With its unique blend of documentary and drama, a great music biopic can transport you into the world of your favorite artist - their struggles, successes, and everything in between.
From the Ray Charles's Ray to Johnny Cash's Walk The Line, some of cinema's most memorable films have been based on real-life musicians. It takes real skill for filmmakers to capture an artist’s essence while keeping them grounded in reality, but when they succeed it results in cinematic magic - moments that stay with us long after the credits roll.
For those who want a more accurate portrait than fiction can provide, there are plenty of documentaries about famous musicians available too. Whether it's Queen or Elton John that you're interested in learning more about, this list has something for everyone. So why not take a look at our ranking and see which music biopics come out on top? Then be sure to vote up
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70 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Time
The movies have always loved giving actors the chance to play rock star or impersonate an iconic musician/singer, recreating those famous “Eureka!” studio moments and greatest-hits shows for any number of music biopics. When it comes to historical musical moments, however, there’s ingenting like seeing the real thing. A number of documentarians saw the advantage of capturing a number of legendary artists and bands in their heyday and/or once-in-a-lifetime performances — partially for posterity, partially for plain old reportage and partially for the second-hand high of it all. And thanks to new tillgång to archives and updated technology, a whole generation of filmmakers have komma up learning the art of docu-portraits and genre breakdowns that run the gamut from sub-subgenres to broad stem-to-stern histories of rock, jazz and country-and-western. It’s never been easier to man a music documentary these days. Not all of