Movies tagged as "rock and roll"

Backbeat [1994, UK, Germany ] starting from $1.99

5 guys, 4 legends, 3 lovers, 2 friends, 1 band.

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music Actors: Marcelle Duprey, Stephen Dorff, Ian Hart, John White, Bernard Merrick, Nicholas Tennant, Finola Geraghty, Rob Spendlove, Charlie Caine, Jennifer Ehle, Gary Bakewell, Chris O'Neill, Frieda Kelly, Scot Williams, Paul Humpoletz Directors: Iain Softley, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany...

Control [2007, UK, USA, Australia, Japan ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music Actors: Samantha Morton, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell, Craig Parkinson, James Anthony Pearson, Harry Treadaway, Andrew Sheridan, Robert Shelly, Matthew McNulty, Ben Naylor, Herbert Grönemeyer, Nigel Harris, Tim Plester, Directors: Anton Corbijn Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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.

Cry-Baby [1990, USA ] starting from $1.99

Too young to be square... Too tough to be shocked... Too late to be saved

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Kim McGuire, Darren E. Burrows, Stephen Mailer, Kim Webb, Alan J. Wendl, Troy Donahue, Mink Stole, Joe Dallesandro, Directors: John Waters Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back.

Elvis [2005, Germany, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Biography, Drama, Music Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Randy Quaid, Rose McGowan, Tim Guinee, Antonia Bernath, Jack Noseworthy, Robert Patrick, Camryn Manheim, Clay Steakley, Mark Adam, Robert C. Treveiler, Jennifer Rae Westley, John Boyd West, Randy McDowell, Eric William Pierson Directors: James Steven Sadwith, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This biopic television miniseries features Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as the King of Rock-n-roll, the story traces all his life from the very boyhood in 1950's Memphis to the pinnacles of his worldwide glory and the depths of isolation and drug addiction of his life's end.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High [1982, USA ] starting from $1.99

Fast Cars, Fast Girls, Fast Carrots...Fast Carrots?

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance Actors: Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Ray Walston, Scott Thomson, Vincent Schiavelli, D.W. Brown, Forest Whitaker, Tom Nolan, Eric Stoltz, Stanley Davis Jr., James Russo, James Bolt, Nicolas Cage Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.

Prey for Rock & Roll [2003, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Drama, Music Actors: Gina Gershon, Drea de Matteo, Lori Petty, Shelly Cole, Marc Blucas, Ivan Martin, Eddie Driscoll, Ashley Drane, Shakara Ledard, Terri Laird, Sandra Seacat, Nancy Pimental, Greg Rikaart, Francois Harold, Joannah Portman Directors: Alex Steyermark, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Prey For Rock & Roll is the story of Jacki and her all-girl rock and roll band, Clam Dandy, who are trying to make it in the LA club scene of the late 1980's. After ten years of being ignored by record producers, Jacki and the band find hope in one producer who promises to see them play and consider them for a contract. Jacki resolves to play this one last gig and then throw in the towel if she does not find success. Personal tragedies, however, threaten to rip the band apart, rocking the foundation of friendship and trust the women have built together. Ultimately, the band must find its strength in the music that is their passion and the thread that holds them together, inspiring them to prevail.

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny [2006, USA ] starting from $1.99

The greatest motion picture of all time.

Genres: Comedy, Music Actors: Jack Black, Kyle Gass, Jason Reed, Ronnie James Dio, Paul F. Tompkins, Troy Gentile, Ned Bellamy, Fred Armisen, Kelly Ward, Amy Poehler, Tim Robbins, David Grohl, Ben Stiller, Lara Everly, Brittany Eldridge, Directors: Liam Lynch Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This is the story of a friendship that changes the course of rock history forever, of the fateful collision of minds between JB and KG that led to the creation of the precedent-shattering band Tenacious D, and of the two heroes' quest to find the fabled Guitar Pick Of Destiny...

This Is Spinal Tap [1984, USA ] starting from $1.99

Does for rock and roll what "The Sound of Music" did for hills

Genres: Comedy, Music Actors: Rob Reiner, Kimberly Stringer, Chazz Dominguez, Shari Hall, R.J. Parnell, David Kaff, Tony Hendra, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Bruno Kirby, Jean Cromie, Patrick Maher, Ed Begley Jr., Danny Kortchmar, Directors: Rob Reiner Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world's loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.

Wanderers, The [1979, USA ] starting from $1.99

It's 1963. Meet The Wanderers... They were the hottest guys in town.

Genres: Action, Drama Actors: Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Alan Rosenberg, Jim Youngs, Tony Ganios, William Andrews, Erland van Lidth, Val Avery, Dolph Sweet, Michael Wright, Burtt Harris, Samm-Art Williams, Dion Albanese, George Merolle, John Califano Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a