Music Movies
Cabaret (1972)
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows…
The Boy Friend (1971)
When the leading lady of a low-budget musical revue sprains her ankle, the assistant stage manager is forced to understudy and perform in her place.
200 Motels (1971)
“Touring makes you crazy,” Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by…
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children’s initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact…
Point of Terror (1971)
A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.
Bread (1971)
On their way home from the Isle of Wight Pop Festival, Jeff, Trev and Mick along with girlfriends Marty and Cathy decide to pitch a tent on private land. In…
Taking Off (1971)
Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away….
Play It Again Charlie Brown (1971)
Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. This non-holiday Peanuts special centers on Lucy,…
Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)
The Royal Ballet Company brings Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Thumb, Hunca Munca, Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jeremy Fisher, Pigling Bland, and Pigwig to the screen doing pirouettes and pas de deux in this…
The Music Lovers (1971)
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.
Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)
Retelling of the classic fairy tale, but from a decidedly 1960s point of view, complete with “groovy” dialogue.
Gimme Shelter (1970)
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on…
Me a Groupie (1970)
A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets…
Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970)
On July 31, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elvis Presley staged a triumphant return to the concert stage from which he had been absent for almost a decade. His series…
Song of Norway (1970)
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars…
Original Cast Album: Company (1970)
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit…
Toomorrow (1970)
A group of students pay their way through school by forming a pop band called Toomorrow. Sonic vibrations from a special instrument called a ‘tonaliser’ cause an extraterrestrial to abduct…
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man’s wife, he also acquires a…
Deep Purple: Live at Pop Deux 1970 (1970)
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
An all-girl rock band moves to Hollywood in the hope of achieving success, only to fall into a whirlpool of wickedness and decadence.
Shinbone Alley (1970)
Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part…
Darling Lili (1970)
World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is…
Pufnstuf (1970)
Jimmy (Jack Wild) ventures to Living Island with his magical, talking flute, Freddy. Once there, he befriends many of the island’s inhabitants, but the evil Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) is determined…
Let It Be (1970)
A documentary chronicling the Beatles’ rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed “back to basics” album, “Get Back,” later re-envisioned and released as “Let It Be.”
Woodstock (1970)
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits…
Czech Rhapsody (1970)
Essay film from Czech director Vojtech Jasný on his home country.
The Doors: Feast of Friends (1970)
A cinematic look at The Doors on the road during their summer ’68 tour. Concert performances are intercut with fly-on-the-wall footage of the group in their natural habitat.
Hello Dolly! (1969)
Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece,…
Help Help the Globolinks! (1969)
The world’s only psychedelic children’s opera about an alien invasion.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Poor Charlie Brown. He can’t fly a kite, and he always loses in baseball. Having his faults projected onto a screen by Lucy doesn’t help him much either. Against the…
