Music Movies
Crazy Nights (1978)
Somewhat crazy semi-documentary by director Joe D’Amato is a strange series of Burlesque performances from around the globe. Actress and dancer Amanda Lear hosts these mostly musical numbers designed to…
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
If they missed Beatles’ first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So four young girls from New Jersey set off even though…
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
Sextette (1978)
Glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number six. As luck would have it, an international conference is at the same…
Jubilee (1978)
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when…
The Nutcracker (1977)
The Nutcracker is Mikhail Baryshnikov’s breathtaking and critcally acclaimed Emmy nominated production. The thisspectacular performance is danced by the magnificent team of Baryshnikov, one of the greatest classical dancers of…
ABBA: The Movie (1977)
A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Australia.
Punk in London (1977)
A visual record of London punk life in the late ’70s, filled with never-before-seen live concert footage and commentary from the Clash, the Jam, X-Ray Spex and the Electric Chairs.
Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977)
When the sour-sweet wind starts blowing again, the Whos retreat to their homes because they know the Grinch will soon be a’prowlin. Young Eukariah Who has to make a trip…
Breaker Beauties (1977)
Trucker Tom has problems. When he’s not on the road with his pal Jack, he’s at home with his perpetually horny reporter wife, Sue, who berates him for his lackluster…
Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet (1977)
Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, sliced through the hypocrisies he perceived. This 1976 documentary follows the singer-comic during his…
New York New York (1977)
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.
The Grateful Dead Movie (1977)
The Grateful Dead performs live at Winterland in San Francisco in October 1974.
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Bollywood action comedy film with a lost and found theme, about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions. They meet in their…
Pelvis (1977)
A young man moves to New York to strike it big in the music business.
One Sings the Other Doesn’t (1977)
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women’s movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps…
Scott Joplin (1977)
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Chatterbox! (1977)
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
A Star Is Born (1976)
Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer Esther Hoffman after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at…
Bound for Glory (1976)
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America’s greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America’s…
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer’s album. The gig, unbeknownst…
All This and World War II (1976)
Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same (1976)
The best of Led Zeppelin’s legendary 1973 appearances at Madison Square Garden. Interspersed throughout the concert footage are behind-the-scenes moments with the band. The Song Remains the Same is Led…
Bugsy Malone (1976)
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded “splurge gun”. As…
That’s Entertainment Part II (1976)
Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.
Heartworn Highways (1976)
The music speaks for itself in this performance documentary that highlights some of the biggest names within the country-folk scene in Texas and Tennessee during the last weeks of 1975…
The Carpenters Concert: Live at the New London Theatre (1976)
A 1976 performance of the Carpenters at the new London Theatre. Songs performed include ‘Superstar’, ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’, ‘Goodbye to Love’ and ‘Rainy Days and Mondays. ‘ Songs performed…
Sparkle (1976)
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
The Moon Over the Alley (1976)
A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
Allegro non troppo (1976)
The film is a parody of Disney’s Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, “Allegro non Troppo”…
Nashville Girl (1976)
A Kentucky-born maiden realizes her dream of becoming a country music star. However, she discovers that her single-minded determination has caused her to lose things far more precious than fame…
Let My Puppets Come (1976)
The three chief executives of Creative Concepts Systems & Procedures Brothers Unlimited Inc. of New York are in hot water as their latest venture has been a huge failure, and…
The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet (1976)
Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet…
Lisztomania (1975)
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.