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 Suave
2027 ★ 0.0Amid the frenetic pace of New York City, a group of young musicians confronts the paradox of pursuing a professional career in the world of jazz while strugglin
Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz
2019 ★ 6.3Inspired by true events, a story of a blind grand piano genius. As a child Mietek loses his sight. His mother places him in the care of the nuns in Laski. At th
Blue Giant
2023 ★ 7.8High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bu
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
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
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
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story
2000 ★ 6.2In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a
Sweet Smell of Success
1957 ★ 7.6New York City newspaper writer J.J. Hunsecker holds considerable sway over public opinion with his Broadway column, but one thing that he can't control is his y
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
Lulu on the Bridge
1998 ★ 5.9A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot. After discovering a mysterious package, he meets and falls in love with a bea
The Wedding Singer
2026 ★ 0.0In 2001, Şahnaz, a young jazz singer who moved from Ankara to Istanbul, dreams of performing on grand stages alongside her guitarist friend, Ulaş. After being d
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
2026 ★ 4.0June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott LaFaro, said to be his s
'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
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
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
Bird
1988 ★ 6.9Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his lovi
Dancing on the Edge
2013 ★ 6.7An explosive 1930s drama following a jazz band in London at a time of huge change. Topic: Television series "Dancing on the Edge" (2013). Role: Meticulous telev
A Man Called Adam
1966 ★ 6.5A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life. Task: Write a factual, original 150-190 word overview of the film "A Ma
El perseguidor
1965 ★ 6.3The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspir
Whiplash
2014 ★ 8.4Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity. Whiplash is a 2014 American i
Köln 75
2025 ★ 7.1The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in music hist
Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue
1991 ★ 5.3Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistres