Music Movies
Krush Groove (1985)
Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and…
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (1985)
This in-depth examination of the life and career of clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw cuts between archival footage, location shots, and an interview with Shaw himself. Berman illustrates the tumultuous,…
Get Out of My Room (1985)
Get Out of My Room, was a mockumentary in the style of This Is Spinal Tap, written and directed by Cheech Marin. In the film, he and Tommy Chong are…
Hard Rock Zombies (1985)
A hard rock band travels to the tiny and remote town of Grand Guignol to perform. Peopled by hicks, rubes, werewolves, murderous dwarves, sex perverts, and Hitler, the town is…
Follow That Bird (1985)
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big…
Rappin’ (1985)
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.
Delivery Boys (1985)
A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys, hence they call themselves the “Delivery Boys”….
Megazone 23 (1985)
A young biker stumbles onto a prototype motorcycle with a hidden function that has a link to the true nature of his world.
Fast Forward (1985)
Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to…
Rockin’ Road Trip (1985)
Martin meets Samantha, the sister of Nicole who is the leader of a band called “Chery Suicide”. While Martin and Samantha are beginning a relationship, Nicole is trying to get…
Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
When the mastertape of McCartney’s latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr….
Songwriter (1984)
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music’s most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He’s split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw…
Rocktober Blood (1984)
A crazed rock singer returns from the dead to murder members of his former band.
Amadeus (1984)
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Tosca’s Kiss (1984)
Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in…
Dire Straits: Alchemy Live 1983 (1984)
Alchemy is a double live album originally released in 1984 with an accompanying VHS, now released on DVD and Blu-ray for the first time. Recorded on 23rd July 1983 at…
It’s Flashbeagle Charlie Brown (1984)
The story begins at a big football game where Snoopy wins a game from Peppermint Patty’s team. That night, Snoopy gets out a radio, learns some 80’s dance moves, and…
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
“This Is Spinal Tap” shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups…
Style Wars (1984)
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant’s PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1983)
Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973. British singer David Bowie performs his alter ego Ziggy Stardust for the very last time. A decadent show, a hallucinogenic collage of kitsch, pop…
Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of…
Get Crazy (1983)
Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year’s 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe’s assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the…
Staying Alive (1983)
It’s five years later and Tony Manero’s Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he’s strutting toward his biggest challenger yet – making it as a dancer on the Broadway…
Carmen (1983)
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet’s opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by…
Black Wax (1983)
Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently reissued on video. Interspliced between performance footage of Scott-Heron…
Hell (1983)
Rein Raamat’s Hell adapts the engravings of Estonian graphic artist Eduard Wiiralt into a surreal, grotesque, and heavily sexual animated short. Wiiralt’s three source works, “The Preacher,” “Cabaret,” and “Hell,”…
Emerald Cities (1983)
Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in…
Honkytonk Man (1982)
During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family’s Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who is trying out for the Grand Ole Opry.
Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry–“What’s up, doc?”–toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn’t be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they’ve doctored up a…
The Compleat Beatles (1982)
Now, for the first time, you can re-live the Beatles legends with this stunning 2-hour musical “Rockumentary”. It’s all there from the wild exuberance of the early Cavern Club days…
Yes Giorgio (1982)
A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.
The Pirate Movie (1982)
A comedy/musical utilizing both new songs and parodies from the original (Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance), as well as references to popular films of the time, including Star Wars…