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The Blues Brothers (1980)

Joliet Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd), brothers on a mission from God, bomb...

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Cadillac Records (2008)

In 1950s Chicago, Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) starts his own recording company and launches the...

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Black Snake Moan (2007)

A troubled bluesman (Samuel L. Jackson) seeks to redeem a young woman (Christina Ricci) whose...

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The Commitments (1991)

An Irish hustler (Robert Arkins) puts together a Dublin band that covers hits of 1960s American...

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Honeydripper (2007)

In an all-out effort to save his club, a man finds a drifter to play music in place of a famous...

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Mister Rock and Roll (1957)

To anyone born between 1935 and 1949, Mr. Rock and Roll can mean only one person: Visionary...

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Leadbelly

This biographical picture explores the troubled life of blues singer and master guitarist Leadbelly,...

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Down From the Mountain (2001)

About the making of the soundtrack to Joel and Ethan Coen's O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?

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Stony Island (1978)

This independent project was originally released as My Main Man From Stony Island. Filmed in...

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Genghis Blues (1999)

San Francisco bluesman and composer, Paul Peña makes a musical pilgrimage to the land of Tuva.

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Going to Kansas City (1998)

An exchange student from Helsinki travels to America with dreams of playing the blues in Kansas...

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Herliche Wilkommen (1990)

On the road with musician Fred Frith.

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Crossroads (1986)

A guitar student (Ralph Macchio) tours the Deep South with an old blues man (Joe Seneca), chasing a...

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Louie Bluie

An intimate portrait of Howard Johnson, a charismatic fiddler, mandolin player and leader of the...

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St. Louis Blues (1958)

Musician/composer W.C. Handy (Nat King Cole) forms a band and becomes known as the father of the...

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The Five Heartbeats (1991)

Five guys mix singing and dancing and find R & B fame in the 1960s.

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39 Pounds of Love (2005)

Filmmaker Dani Menkin follows a man who has muscular dystrophy as he travels from Israel to Texas to...

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Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

This free-wheeling sex spoof features the Warhol "factory" personality, transvestite Holly Woodlawn....

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Deep Blues (1992)

Filmmaker Robert Mugge shows Mississippi Delta blues musicians, like Big Jack Johnson and Jessie Mae...

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Round Midnight (1986)

A jazz saxophonist (Dexter Gordon) from New York has a friend (François Cluzet) on the Left Bank of...

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The Last of the Blue Devils

The heyday of Kansas City jazz is relived with musicians including Count Basie, Joe Turner and Jay...

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Comeback

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Eric Clapton and His Rolling Hotel

In 1979 Eric Clapton put his band in a three-carriage train originally at the disposal of Hermann...

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Mississippi Blues (1984)

Filmmakers Bertrand Tavernier and Robert Parrish give a Franco-American view of the South: gospel,...

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Hot Pepper

Capt. Flagg (Edmund Lowe) and Sgt. Quirt (Victor McLaglen), now civilians, fight over a South...

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Big City Blues (1986)

Documentary on three contemporary new musicians in Chicago.

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Festival

A documentary which celebrates the origins of rock--not just the musical performances, but also a...

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Saxo

A down and out record producer discovers a fantastic jazz duo, but fate interupts and disaster...

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Living the Blues

The fact that Livin' the Blues has next to no budget does not diminish its excellence in the least....

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Long Train Running

A documentary profile of the contemporary blues music scene in Oakland, California.