Subgenre Sampler
Comedy > Music: 85 Films to Buy & Rent
- Ordinary World (2016)
- Dir. Lee Kirk
Feat. Billie Joe Armstrong, Selma Blair, Judy Greer…
- Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tries out his acting chops as a domesticated ex–rocker who throws an extravagant 40th birthday party…
- Danny Collins (2015)
- Dir. Dan Fogelman
Feat. Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner…
- Al Pacino stars as an aging rock star who decides to change his life when he discovers a 40–year–old letter written to him by John…
- Kill Your Friends (2015)
- Dir. Owen Harris
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Georgia King…
- Dark comedy set at the height of the nineties Brtipop craze with Nicholas Hoult as an A & R man who will stop at nothing to find the next hit.
- Marguerite (2015)
- Dir. Xavier Giannoli
Feat. Catherine Frot, Andre Marcon, Michel Fau…
- Touching French version of the story inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins, a socialite who believed she was in possession of a beautiful…
- Ricki and the Flash (2015)
- Dir. Jonathan Demme
Feat. Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer…
- Meryl Streep adds 'rock star' to her oeuvre in this pleasing dramedy written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jonathan Demme. Streep stars as a…
- Rock the Kasbah (2015)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Bill Murray, Leem Lubany, Kate Hudson…
- Bill Murray strikes out in this tepid comedy as down–on–his–luck music manager who discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary…
- Frank (2014)
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A lovable, off–beat indie rock satire in which Michael Fassbender plays the leader of a group of experimental musicians who lives permanently…
- Begin Again (2013)
- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, James Corden…
- Keira Knightley plays a struggling indie songstress who finds levity and love in a down–on–his–luck music executive (Ruffalo) in…
- Cupcakes (2013)
- Dir. Eytan Fox
Feat. Efrat Dor, Dana Ivgy
- Six Tel Aviv friends who delight in ridiculing the Eurovision song contest video a parody of themselves performing a make–believe number, only…
- Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra (2011)
- Feat. Tim Minchin
- The one–of–a–kind music–comedy talent of Tim Minchin is captured here live at the Royal Albert Hall, re–imagining with…