Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Music: 20 Films to Rent
- Love & Mercy (Love and Mercy) (2014)
- Dir. Bill Pohlad
Feat. John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks…
- Finely attuned portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys, and his struggles with his emerging psychosis…
- Whiplash (2014)
- Dir. Damien Chazelle
Feat. Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser…
- A promising young jazz drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at…
- Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)
- Dir. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz
Feat. Katy Perry
- A suitably bubbly and inspirational fly–on–the–wall doco that intimately follows the candy–coloured pop chantreuse, Katy…
- Runaways, The (2010)
- Dir. Floria Sigismondi
Feat. Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon…
- A high–strung, hell–for–leather rock movie based on the short–lived exploits of pioneering girl band The Runaways and their…
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
- Dir. Jake Kasdan
Feat. John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz…
- Uber–comedy scribe Judd Apatow sends up the recent spate of musical biopics, with John C. Reilly posing as the film's titular, hard livin' rock…
- Dreamgirls (2006)
- Dir. Bill Condon
Feat. Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Eddie Murphy…
- Dazzling musical numbers and sassy performances jive in this acclaimed Motown musical charting the rise of fictional girl group, 'The Dreamettes', in…
- Joni Mitchell - Woman of Heart and Mind (2003)
- Feat. Joni Mitchell
- Definitive documentary on the folk singer telling the story of her childhood to present day through photos, extensive concert footage and interviews…
- School of Rock (2003)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White
- A must for rock fans of all ages, this hilarious, tongue–in–cheek tribute to rock music is charged by the head–banging enthusiasm…
- Moonwalker (1988)
- Dir. Colin Chilvers, Jerry Kramer
Feat. Michael Jackson
- Feature–length fantasy from the imagination of pop–prince Michael Jackson that combines sci–fi, adventure and plenty of…
- Woodstock (1970)
- Dir. Michael Wadleigh
- Historical gathering of the world's best rock performers and half a million Americans for an unabashed weekend of sex, drugs, rock and roll and…