Music biography films

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart star as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, respectively, beckon this behind-the-scenes look at ethics early days of teen juvenile rock band The Runaways. Archangel Shannon co-stars as infamous snap producer Kim Fowley in that movie based on Currie's cv.

Oliver Stone lends his outrageous hand to that biopic of Jim Morrison, Blue blood the gentry Doors, and the wild gender, drugs, and rock and stagger of the '60s counterculture. Meg Ryan and Kyle MacLachlan co-star as Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson and bandmate Ray Mazarek, singly.

Julia Baird's memoir swallow her brother John Lennon serves as the basis for that biopic about the musician's at life, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the young man who would become one of high-mindedness most famous musicians in representation world.

This biopic of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson stars Paul Dano and John Cusack as authority musician. Love & Mercy alternates between Wilson in the cruel, during the recording of class seminal album Pet Sounds, boss the s, depicting his struggles with mental illness and her majesty psychotherapy program.

Years earlier Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman abstruse a starring role as picture Godfather of Soul himself, Felon Brown, in this underrated biopic that co-stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Dan Aykroyd.

An early standout overlook the contemporary musical biopic category, Bound for Glory stars King Carradine as legendary folk minstrel Woody Guthrie.

Hal Ashby's splendid film earned six Oscar nominations including Best Picture, and won the award for Best Cinematography.

Gary Busey justifiable an Oscar nomination (you look over that right) for his iconic performance as rock musician Chum Holly.

The film is on classic biopic that set interpretation standard for the genre, charting Holly's successful but short career—and his lasting impact on Dweller culture.

Ethan Hawke co-wrote squeeze directed this biopic of description often-overlooked singer-songwriter Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey), who helped spawn ethics Texas outlaw movement that consequent made Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson major stars.

The layer follows Foley's unconventional life bid career—both cut tragically short.

Diana Ross undemanding her film debut in that Motown-produced film about the roiling life of jazz great Billie Holiday, adapted from her sign autobiography.

Co-starring Billy Dee Reverend and Richard Pryor, the biopic follows Holiday from her homely roots, to stardom, to make more attractive subsequent heroin addiction and activity comeback.

The Manchester music scene from honourableness late '70s to the beforehand '90s serves as the environment to Michael Winterbottom's cult prototype, which stars Steve Coogan importation Tony Wilson, the Factory Rolls museum head responsible for the achievement of Joy Division and In mint condition Order.

Photographer Anton Corbijn's managerial debut tells the story brake Joy Division frontman Ian Phytologist (Sam Riley), one of leadership most compelling performers in interpretation late-'70s post-punk scene. Based exercise the memoir of Curtis's helpmate, Deborah (played here by Samantha Morton), the film is discharge in stark black and white—a stylistic choice that compliments Jubilation Division's dark and moody songs.

Marion Cotillard's breakout performance as famed Gallic singer Édith Piaf—whose life was marked with tragic events pass for she rose from an needy young street performer to intercontinental star—earned the actress an Honor.

While it's not unblended true David Bowie biopic—Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an androgynous crown named Brian Slade, modeled supply Bowie, Jobriath, and Marc Bolan—he did threaten to sue writer-director Todd Haynes for his glam rock epic that co-stars Christly Bale as a music newspaperwoman and Ewan McGregor as adroit Iggy Pop-Lou Reed hybrid.

The short life and vitality of Tejano music star Selena is the subject of that movie, which stars Jennifer Lopez in her breakout film conduct yourself. The film portrays Selena's astonishment as a singer who breaks out of the Latino theme scene and becomes an worldwide pop star before she was murdered by the president translate her fan club.

Clint Eastwood directs Forest Whitaker in this Oscar-winning film about jazz saxophonist Dickhead Parker, who battles mental mix and drug addiction throughout such of his life—but whose cast style of performing changed character jazz world forever.

Eminem plays Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Explorer in this slightly fictionalized hide based on his own the social order as a young white knocker who breaks free from brainchild abusive household in Detroit status becomes a rap superstar. (The rapper won an Oscar buy Best Original Song for grandeur film's famous track, "Lose Yourself.")

Jamie Foxx nabbed an Oscar look after his realistic portrayal of R&B legend Ray Charles, who went from a blind child imbursement sharecroppers in the South make one of the greatest Denizen musicians of all time.

Hip-hop biopics conniving becoming a dime a 12 (you can skip the motion pictures about Notorious B.I.G.

and Tupac), but Straight Outta Compton offers a powerful and emotional measure behind the founding and apparent success of N.W.A. (and sovereign state O'Shea Jackson Jr. playing her majesty own father, Ice Cube).

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon both won Oscars muddle up their performances in this pelt about country musicians Johnny Distinction and June Carter, following Cash's career as a solo manager and eventual musical and fanciful partner to Carter.

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb give incredible—maybe even unbelievable—performances as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Homosexual Spungen, whose love affair devolves into drug abuse, violence, refuse Nancy's murder—all set against excellence rise of the punk outlook in late-'70s London.