7.9

Jimi Hendrix

1973, USA

• Actors: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon, Eric Barrett, Paul Caruso, Eric Clapton, Billy Cox, Frankie Crocker, Monika Dannemann, Jenifer Dean, Alan Douglas, Germaine Greer, Harold Parker, Pat Hartley, Al Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Linda Keith, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell, Juggy Murray, Little Richard, Fayne Pridgon, Lou Reed, Juma Sutan, Pete Townshend, Major Charles Washington, Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding
• Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
• Director(s): Joe Boyd
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix's untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but some of the information in it needs revising in the light of new information uncovered over the years. The film contains concert footage spanning the Marquee in 1967 to his last UK performance at the third Isle of Wight festival in 1970; along the way we see classic performances at Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969), Fillmore East (1969/70), and Berkeley (1970). A double album was released to tie-in with the film, containing the complete performances in the film, along with interviews with people in the film (not necessarily the same interviews). The film is worth seeing for Jimi's performances, and to hear what his contemporaries have to say about him (Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend, and others).

  7.8

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

2000, UK, France, USA

• Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King, Charles Durning, Del Pentecost, Michael Badalucco, J.R. Horne, Brian Reddy, Wayne Duvall, Ed Gale, Ray McKinnon, Daniel von Bargen, Royce D. Applegate, Frank Collison, Quinn Gasaway, Lee Weaver, Millford Fortenberry, Stephen Root, John Locke, Gillian Welch, A. Ray Ratliff, Mia Tate, Musetta Vander, Christy Taylor, April Hardcastle, Michael W. Finnell, Georgia Rae Rainer
• Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Music
• Director(s): Joel Coen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."

  7.8

Fantasia

1939, USA

• Actors: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Julietta Novis, Corey Burton, Walt Disney, James MacDonald, Paul J. Smith
• Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music
• Director(s): James Algar
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. "The Rite of Spring" tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. "Dance of the Hours" is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. "Night on Bald Mountain" and "Ave Maria" set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.

  7.8

Pink Floyd The Wall

1982, UK

• Actors: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon, Bob Hoskins, David Bingham, Jenny Wright, Alex McAvoy, Ellis Dale, James Hazeldine, Ray Mort, Margery Mason, Robert Bridges, Michael Ensign, Marie Passarelli, Winston Rose, Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, Lorna Barton, Rod Bedall, Peter Jonfield, Philip Davis, Gary Olsen, Eddie Tagoe, Dennis Fletcher, Jonathan Scott, Joanna Dickens, John Scott Martin
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.

  7.8

The Visitor

2007, USA

• Actors: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira, Hiam Abbass, Marian Seldes, Maggie Moore, Michael Cumpsty, Bill McHenry, Richard Kind, Tzahi Moskovitz, Amir Arison, Neal Lerner, Ramon Fernandez, Frank Pando, Waleed Zuaiter, Deborah Rush, Ashley Springer, Laith Nakli, Jacqueline Brogan, Walter Mudu, Yevgeniy Dekhtyar, Earl Baker Jr., Walter the Dog, Bandar Albuliwi, Michael Bennett, Brother Eden Douglas, Hristo Hristov, Waléra Kanischtscheff, Jesus A. Del Rosario Jr.
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Thomas McCarthy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In Connecticut, the widower and lonely Professor Walter Vale has a boring life. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite not having the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at the New York University, where he is to give a lecture about a paper that he is coauthor on. When he arrives at his apartment in New York, he finds Tarek Khalil, a syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor living there. He sympathizes with the situation of the illegal immigrants and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig in the Jules Live Jazz and Walter is fascinated with his African drum. Tarek offers to teach Walter to play the drum. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested by the police and sent to a detention center of immigrants. Walter hires a lawyer to defend Tarek and out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna appears at Walter's apartment from Michigan. He invites her to stay in Tarek's room and while trying to release Tarek, Walter and Mouna get close to each other and he finds a reason to live an exciting life again.

  7.8

Cabaret

1972, USA

• Actors: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Helen Vita, Sigrid von Richthofen, Gerd Vespermann, Ralf Wolter, Georg Hartmann, Ricky Renée, Estrongo Nachama, Kathryn Doby, Inge Jaeger, Angelika Koch, Helen Velkovorska, Gitta Schmidt, Louise Quick, Oliver Collignon
• Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Bob Fosse
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.

  7.8

Shall we dansu?

1996, Japan

• Actors: Kôji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka, Eri Watanabe, Yu Tokui, Hiromasa Taguchi, Reiko Kusamura, Hideko Hara, Hiroshi Miyasaka, Kunihiko Ida, Amie Toujou, Ayano Nakamura, Katsunari Mineno, Tomiko Ishii, Maki Kawamura, Takako Matsuzaka, Kôichi Ueda, Akira Emoto, Nanea Hoffman, Robert Hoffman, Hirotarô Honda, Yudai Ishiyama, Maiko Itô, Kyôko Kagawa, Goro Kataoka, Angelique Midthunder, Shûichirô Moriyama, Masahiro Motoki, Ren Ôsugi, Angélique Roehm
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Masayuki Suo
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together.

  7.8

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

2003, Japan, France

• Actors: Romanthony
• Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Kazuhisa Takenôchi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An unscrupulous music executive and his flunky kidnap an alien, blue-skinned techno band, rob them of their identities, pass them off as human, and foist them on an unsuspecting public on Earth. After their arrival and their impact on the human population, the members of the band try to piece back their identities, escape from the clutches of the evil music executive, and return to their own world.

  7.8

Young @ Heart

2007, UK

• Actors: Joe Benoit, Helen Boston, Louise Canady, Elaine Fligman, Jean Florio, Len Fontaine, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Eileen Hall, Donald Jones, Fred Knittle, Norma Landry, John Larareo, Patricia Larese, Miriam Leader, Patsy Linderme, Brock Lynch, Steve Martin, Joe Mitchell, Dora B. Morrow, Gloria Parker, Liria Petrides, Ed Rehor, Janice St. Laurence, Bob Salvini, Jack Schnepp, Bob Cilman, Jim Armenti, Billy Arnold, Chris Haynes
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Director(s): Stephen Walker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Documents the true story of the final weeks of rehearsal for the Young at Heart Chorus in Northampton, MA, whose average age is 81, and many of whom must overcome health adversities to participate. Their music is unexpected, going against the stereotype of their age group, performing songs, for example, by James Brown, and Sonic Youth. Although they have toured Europe and sang for royalty, this account focuses on preparing new songs, not an easy endeavor, for a concert in their home town, which succeeds in spite of several real heart breaking events.

  7.7

Ray

2004, USA

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell, Harry Lennix, Bokeem Woodbine, Aunjanue Ellis, Sharon Warren, C.J. Sanders, Curtis Armstrong, Richard Schiff, Larenz Tate, Terrence Howard, David Krumholtz, Wendell Pierce, Chris Thomas King, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Rick Gomez, Denise Dowse, Warwick Davis, Patrick Bauchau, Robert Wisdom, Kurt Fuller, Julian Bond, Kimberly J. Ardison, Renee Wilson, Willie Metcalf, Mike Pniewski, Terrone Bell, Richard A. Smith
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Taylor Hackford
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960's Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He'd come of age musically. He'd made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records "Georgia," "Born to Lose" successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He'd made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which, except for 1965, he's repeated at least once a year ever since). He had taken virtually every form of popular music and broken through its boundaries with such awe inspiring achievements as the LP's "Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz" and "Modern Sounds in Country & Western." Rhythm & blues (or "race music" as it had been called) became universally respectable through his efforts. Jazz found a mainstream audience it had never previously enjoyed. And country & western music began to chart an unexpected course to general acceptance, then worldwide popularity. And along the way Ray Charles was instrumental in the invention of rock & roll. Born in a poor African American town in central Florida, Ray Charles went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed the fierce resolve, wit and incredible talent that would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow Racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented fame grew, so did his weakness for drugs and women, until they threatened to strip away the very things he held most dear. This little known story of Ray Charles' meteoric rise from humble beginnings, his successful struggle to excel in a sighted world and his eventual defeat of his own personal demons make for an inspiring and unforgettable true story of human triumph.

  7.7

Billy Elliot

2000, UK, France

• Actors: Jamie Bell, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis, Stuart Wells, Mike Elliot, Billy Fane, Nicola Blackwell, Julie Walters, Carol McGuigan, Joe Renton, Colin MacLachlan, Janine Birkett, Trevor Fox, Charlie Hardwick, Denny Ferguson, Dennis Lingard, Matthew James Thomas, Stephen Mangan, Paul Ridley, Patrick Malahide, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Imogen Claire, Diana Kent, Neil North, Lee Williams, Petra Siniawski, Merelina Kendall, Zoe Bell, Tracey Wilkinson
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Stephen Daldry
• Available languages:
  • English English.

County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferred to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support.

  7.7

Pinocchio

1939, USA

• Actors: Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Walter Catlett, Marion Darlington, Frankie Darro, Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Charles Judels, Jack Mercer, Patricia Page, Christian Rub, Evelyn Venable
• Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
• Director(s): Hamilton Luske
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Inventor Gepetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish that Pinocchio be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio's "conscience" and keep him out of trouble. Jiminy is not too successful in this endeavor and most of the film is spent with Pinocchio deep in trouble.

  7.7

Control

2007, UK, USA, Australia, Japan

• Actors: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, James Anthony Pearson, Harry Treadaway, Craig Parkinson, Toby Kebbell, Andrew Sheridan, Robert Shelly, Richard Bremmer, Tanya Myers, Martha Myers Lowe, Matthew McNulty, David Whittington, Margaret Jackman, Mary Jo Randle, Ben Naylor, John Cooper Clarke, James Fortune, Angus Addenbrooke, Nicola Harrison, June Alliss, George Newton, Mark Jardine, Herbert Grönemeyer, Paul Arlington, Tim Plester, Joanna Swain, Joseph Marshall
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Anton Corbijn
• Available languages:
  • English English.

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.

  7.7

Le violon rouge

1997, Canada, Italy, UK

• Actors: Carlo Cecchi, Irene Grazioli, Anita Laurenzi, Tommaso Puntelli, Samuele Amighetti, Jean-Luc Bideau, Aldo Brugnini, Christoph Koncz, Clotilde Mollet, Florentín Groll, Johannes Silberschneider, Rainer Egger, Paul Koeker, Wolfgang Böck, Josef Mairginter, Johan Gotsch, Geza Hosszu-Legocky, David Alberman, Arthur Denberg, Andrzej Matuszewiski, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Eva Marie Bryer, Dimitri Andreas, David Gant, Sai-Kit Yung, Sylvia Chang, Zifeng Liu, Hong Tao, Xio Fei Han
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery, Music
• Director(s): François Girard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin."

  7.7

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

2008, USA

• Actors: Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Joe Cairo, David Carlo, Victor Ortiz, Gilleon Smith, Alex Ziwak, Melissa Otero, Pierre Adeli, Angela Berliner, Eugenia Care, Brian Kimmet, Oscar Acosta, Muhammad Ali, Sonny Barger, Warren Beatty, Bob Braudis, Douglas Brinkley, Pat Buchanan, Jimmy Buffett, George W. Bush, Patrick Caddell, Jimmy Carter, Tim Crouse, Richard J. Daley, Thomas Eagleton, Gary Hart, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jefferson Airplane, John F. Kennedy
• Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
• Director(s): Alex Gibney
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lance, " goring sacred cows with impunity, hilarity, and a steel-eyed conviction for writing wrongs. Focusing on the good doctor's heyday, 1965 to 1975, the film includes clips of never-before-seen (nor heard) home movies, audiotapes, and passages from unpublished manuscripts.

  7.7

Peter & the Wolf

2006, UK, Poland, Norway, Mexico

• Genre: Animation, Short, Family, Music
• Director(s): Suzie Templeton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he's bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck - as well as grandfather's fat cat and an ill-flying bird that Peter has befriended - Peter bravely tries to tree the wolf. Grandfather, the townspeople, and the hunters who have antagonized Peter figure in the dénouement.

  7.7

The Fearless Freaks

2005, USA

• Actors: Beck, Bradley Beesley, Steve Burns, Dolly Coyne, Kenny Coyne, Marty Coyne, Tommy Coyne, Wayne Coyne, Jonathan Donahue, James Drozd, Steven Drozd, Vernon Drozd, Adam Goldberg, Nic Harcourt, Gibby Haynes, Michael Ivins, Juliette Lewis, Liz Phair, Cat Power, Christina Ricci, Kliph Scurlock, Paul Kent Sylvester, Jack White, Meg White, Kelly Peterson
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Director(s): Bradley Beesley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A documentary on the evolution of the Oklahoma band The Flaming Lips.

  7.7

Heavy Metal in Baghdad

2007, USA, Canada

• Genre: Documentary, Music, War
• Director(s): Suroosh Alvi
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the late summer of 2006, in the middle of the insurgency, filmmakers Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi traveled to Baghdad to meet and interview the only heavy metal band in Iraq, Acrassicauda. "Heavy Metal in Baghdad" is the story of the band and its members, young Iraqis whose lives have been distorted and displaced by years of continual warfare in their homeland. The filmmakers have collected glimpses into the struggles of Acrassicauda as they try to stay together and stay alive. Their struggle is the untold story of the hopes and dreams of an entire generation of young Iraqis.

  7.6

High Fidelity

1999, UK, USA

• Actors: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins, Chris Rehmann, Ben Carr, Lili Taylor, Joelle Carter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Shannon Stillo, Drake Bell, Laura Whyte, Sara Gilbert, Rich Talarico, Matthew O'Neill, Brian Powell, Margaret Travolta, Jill Peterson, Dick Cusack, Susan Yoo, Chris Bauer, K.K. Dodds, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Duke Doyle, Aaron Himelstein, Jonathan Herrington
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Stephen Frears
• Available languages:
  • English English.

High Fidelity follows the 'mid-life' crisis of Rob, a thirty-something record-store owner who must face the undeniable facts - he's growing up. In a hilarious homage to the music scene, Rob and the wacky, offbeat clerks that inhabit his store expound on the intricacies of life and song all the while trying to succeed in their adult relationships. Are they listening to pop music because they are miserable? Or are they miserable because they listen to pop music? This romantic comedy provides a whimsical glimpse into the male view of the affairs of the heart.

  7.6

All That Jazz

1978, USA

• Actors: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Michael Tolan, Max Wright, William LeMassena, Irene Kane, Deborah Geffner, Kathryn Doby, Anthony Holland, Robert Hitt, David Margulies, Sue Paul, Keith Gordon, Frankie Man, Alan Heim, John Lithgow, Sandahl Bergman, Eileen Casey, Bruce Anthony Davis, Gary Flannery, Jennifer Nairn-Smith, Danny Ruvolo, Leland Schwantes, John Sowinski, Candace Tovar
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
• Director(s): Bob Fosse
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

  7.6

It Might Get Loud

2008, USA

• Actors: Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, Bono, Michael McKean, Larry Mullen Jr., Robert Plant, Meg White
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Director(s): Davis Guggenheim
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

  7.6

When You're Strange

2009, USA

• Actors: Johnny Depp, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison, Jim Ladd, Adolf Hitler, Janis Joplin, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Ed Sullivan, Andy Warhol
• Genre: Documentary, Music
• Director(s): Tom DiCillo
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A chronological look at The Doors, focusing on lead singer, Jim Morrison (1943-1971), from the formation of the band in 1965, it's first gigs, and first album, to Morrison's death, after years of alcohol and drug use. Along the journey, we see archival footage of rehearsals, performances, and private moments including a Miami concert resulting in Morrison's arrest and trial for indecency. His love of the spotlight, his desire to be a poet, and his alcohol-fueled mood swings lead to a back and forth between public and private desires, successes, and failures. The band's music plays throughout.

  7.5

August Rush

2007, USA

• Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams, William Sadler, Marian Seldes, Mykelti Williamson, Leon Thomas III, Aaron Staton, Alex O'Loughlin, Jamia Simone Nash, Ronald Guttman, Bonnie McKee, Michael Drayer, Jamie O'Keeffe, Becki Newton, Tyler McGuckin, Megan Gallagher, Anais Martinez, Bilal Bishop, Michael R. Hammonds II, Timmy Mitchum, Henry Caplan, John Knox, Amy V. Dewhurst, Victor Verhaeghe, Darrie Lawrence, Sean Haberle, Jamal Joseph
• Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Kirsten Sheridan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is a story of a music prodigy. Lyla is a renowned and beautiful cellist and Louis is a guitar player and vocalist at a club. Lyla and Louis fall in love once they meet each other following the music. Since they have different lives, they have to separate without seeing each other again. However, Lyla has had their baby - Evan, a prodigy born to music. Lyla has an accident and bears the baby but Lyla's father gives the baby to an orphanage without telling her, for fear of affecting her career. After that, both Louis and Lyla give up their music careers. Eleven years later, poor little Evan believes that his parents are waiting for him and goes to New York to find them. In New York, his musical gift leads him to success but also gives him some trouble. A monger uses Evan to make money and prevents him from achieving success. He escapes and runs into a church and people there are surprised by his gift and send him to the best music school, Juilliard. There he receives an education where his genius is recognized, and he creates his composition - August Rhapsody in C major. At the same time, Lyla and Louis both begin to play music again and Louis returns to New York. Because of his perfect performance, Evan is granted an opportunity to play his music in Central Park in front of thousands of people. There are three composers featured, of which he is the last; his mother is the cellist in the preceding performance. As Evan is conducting the orchestra in his rhapsody, Lyla and Louis come to the concert following the music again. The family finally get together!

  7.5

Running on Empty

1988, USA

• Actors: Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Martha Plimpton, Ed Crowley, L.M. Kit Carson, Steven Hill, Augusta Dabney, David Margulies, Lynne Thigpen, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Sloane Shelton, Justine Johnston, Herb Lovelle, Bobo Lewis, Ronnie Gilbert, Leila Danette, Michael Boatman, Jenny Lumet, William Foeller, Carol Cavallo, Alice Drummond, Joey Thrower, Donna Hanover, Thomas Fraioli, Burke Pearson, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Angela Pietropinto, Daniel Dassin
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Director(s): Sidney Lumet
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Today, their eldest son wants a life of his own although he is aware that would mean that his parents would either get caught or he will never see them again.