The Vault
Johnny Staccato
1959 ★ 5.3Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "
Jazz Dance
1954 ★ 5.8Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance cl
The Cotton Club
1984 ★ 6.5Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide. Crime Drama crime drama ja
Soul
2020 ★ 8.1Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that sep
Song of the Thin Man
1947 ★ 6.7While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on
Shoot the Piano Player
1960 ★ 7.2Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2008 ★ 6.8London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a se
The Wrong Mr. Johnson
2009 ★ 6.7To raise cash to spring thuggish b.f. Vaclav from prison, timid 20-something Veronika agrees to cover for prostie pal Lucy but picks up the wrong guy good-natur
Ronnie's
2020 ★ 7.0The story of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club Topic: Film "Ronnie's" (2020). Constraints: Role: Meticulous television and film archivist. Content: ONLY verifiable facts
'Round Midnight
1986 ★ 7.1Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke
The Strip
1951 ★ 5.9Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of
Young Man with a Horn
1950 ★ 6.4Taken in by the musical world as a young orphan, Rick Martin grows up with a desire to play pure jazz instead of the commercial gigs he lands, whilst also copin
La La Land
2016 ★ 7.9Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars
Mercy
2000 ★ 5.3Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive club of w
Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel
2022 ★ 7.0Features Jerrod Carmichael in a standup comedy show at the legendary Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City. Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel is a 2022 stand-up comed
Momma Don't Allow
1956 ★ 6.5A Free Cinema short documenting a night at the Wood Green Jazz Club, observing youth culture, music, and social dynamics through an unobtrusive, non-narrated st
Gumbo 2
2024 ★ 0.0With the aroma of gumbo in the air and the sound of jazz drifting from dimly lit clubs, criminals and crooked cops mix and clash in the cutthroat streets of New
The Ballad of Greenwich Village
2005 ★ 0.0The story of the artists, rebels, and bohemians who came to New York’s Greenwich Village over many decades, and changed the face of American culture through the
Musketeers Forever
1998 ★ 5.5Group of ex-secret agents open a jazz club in Las Vegas. One of them falls in love with an Indian, and finds out that the local Indian Reserve is threatened by
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 ★ 7.7Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wi
Chains
1989 ★ 6.7On their way to a Chicago jazz club, two very white couples take their luxury sedan on a wrong turn into hostile gangland territory. They accidentally witness t
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995 ★ 6.5In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious w
West 11
1963 ★ 6.9In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the
Sipho Kunene
Sipho Kunene was born in Cape Town, South Africa and now calls New York City home. He has lent his drumming skills to a diverse assortment of musical situations