Films like A Complete Unknown
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives in the West Village with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Film · 2013 · also drama and musicIn Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.
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Ragtime
Film · 1981 · also dramaA young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in ear...
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Jersey Boys
Film · 2014 · also drama and musicA musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a gener...
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Respect
Film · 2021 · also drama and musicThe rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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The Soloist
Film · 2009 · also drama and musicA Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
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Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert
Film · 2010 · also musicThis concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original production at the Queen's T...
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tick, tick... BOOM!
Film · 2021 · also drama and musicOn the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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Passing
Film · 2021 · also dramaIn 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
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'Round Midnight
Film · 1986 · also drama and musicInside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a g...
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Bound for Glory
Film · 1976 · also drama and musicA 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 stre...
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