jazz band movies

Whiplash (2014)
8.382 / 10

Drama, Music

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

Second Chorus (1941)
5.9 / 10

Comedy, Romance, Music

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their...

Whiplash (2013)
7.801 / 10

Drama, Music

A ferocious, bullying music teacher teaches a dedicated student.

American Pop (1981)
6.8 / 10

Animation, Music, Drama, History

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing...

Chasing Trane (2017)
7.3 / 10

Documentary, Music

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose...

Tango Tangle (1914)
4.9 / 10

Comedy

In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.

Dixieland Droopy (1954)
6.9 / 10

Animation, Comedy, Family

John Pettibone (Droopy), a dog whose love of Dixieland music is not appreciated by those around him, has a lucky meeting with Pee-Wee Runt and his...

Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
6.1 / 10

Crime, Drama, Music

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange...

Hey Babu Riba (1985)
5.6 / 10

Drama, Romance

In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for...

Sparni (2023)
10 / 10

Documentary, Music

A promising young jazz vibraphonist named Sparni prepares for a culminating concert and a career on stage – all while grappling with the...

Come Back, Africa (1959)
6.7 / 10

Documentary, Drama

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Band of Thieves (1962)
7 / 10

Crime, Music

A group of prisoners are encouraged to form a jazz band and vow to go straight when they are released to tour the country. However, the trumpets and...

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
6.6 / 10

Comedy, Music

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington)...

Jam Session (1942)
6.1 / 10

Music

Duke Ellington and Orchestra perform 'C Jam Blues'.

The Apartment Above (1937)
7.7 / 10

Comedy, Music, Romance

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music,...

The Crimson Canary (1945)
6 / 10

Mystery, Music

Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.

Dixieland: Little Kids Big Dreams (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary

Little kids, big dreams and smashingly good music – Dixieland follows the amazing progress of four members of a Ukrainian children’s brass band...

Shoe Shine Boy (1943)
7 / 10

Drama, Music

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

The Cry of Jazz (1959)
5.9 / 10

Documentary, Music

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street (2016)
6.1 / 10

Comedy, Music