"The Boat That Rocked" is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count, a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin, the boss of Radio Rock — a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs; Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation.
The Rocker tells the story of a failed drummer who is given a second chance at fame. Robert "Fish" Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius, who is living the rock n' roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the band. Twenty years after his rock star fantasies are destroyed, just when Fish has finally given up all hope, he hears that his nephew's high school rock band A.D.D. is looking for a new drummer. They reluctantly make him the newest member of the band, giving him a chance to reclaim the rock God throne he's always thought he deserved, and taking the young band along for the ride of their lives.
Having been a part of a soul trio called "The Real Deal", Luise Hinds (Samuel L. Jackson) and Floyd Henderson (Bernie Mac) find themselves in the wilderness after the frontman Marcus Hook (John Legend) has left the band, made a solo career and reached the top of musical Olympus. But when he suddenly dies, two singers set up for a nostalgic tour across the country to win back their popularity. But it is not an easy task to stand each other after twenty years of separate living and working.
Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant) used to be an A-list pop star. However, his fame slowly but surely began to dwindle and ultimately fizzled out. Many years later the gifted musician is on top of the world about a chance to redeem his forfeit fame when newly-made pop diva Cora Corman (Haley Bennett) offers him to write a chart-topping hit and record a duet with her. There's just one hitch: Alex is really good at composing music but has never written lyrics in his life. He is about to give way to despair but fortunately he encounters Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore), a young talented lyricist. He manages to persuade the wayward girl to cooperate with him, and attraction soon sparks between them...
A biographic film. Based on the memoir Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis, Control is a cinematographic story telling us of the Joy Division band and its leader Ian Curtis (Sam Riley). It is also a skillfully and beautifully featured film about ravaging effects of love, fame and repentance, and the salvation we turn to art for. Formed as a rock band in 1976 in salford, Greater Manchester, originally named Warsaw, Joy Division quickly went off their initial punk rock influences and created a sound and style that shaped the tendencies of the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Control, however, is virtually about Curtis’s difficult relationships with his wife Deborah (Samantha Morton) and the way his personal pain, epileptic sufferings, guilt and depression got manifested through Joy Division’s music. Playing all the instruments themselves, the actors must be given credit.
Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and Lyla (Keri Russell), two talented musicians, fall in love with each other and Lyla gets pregnant, but her father can't allow his daughter's career to stop. He hides a newborn and tells Lyla that the baby is dead. Years passed, and the little Evan (Freddie Highmore), brought up by an adoptive family, learns he was born for music and travels to New York City with an urge to find his real parents. He hopes they will recognize him through his great talent. Evan gets to a small theater where Wizard (Robin Williams), his strange boss, gives him a new name, August Rush.
The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to (and then kicks) every drug known to man, but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.
In the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. This film documents their already legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic performances.
Everyone deserves a chance to follow their dreams, but some people only get one shot. Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks and the only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending Baltimore¹s ultra-elite Maryland School of the Arts — and the only thing standing in the way of her obviously brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora¹s attention. Now, as sparks fly between them, both on and off stage, Tyler realizes he has just one performance to prove that he can step up to a life far larger than he ever imagined.
A chance meeting between simple-hearted JB (Jack Black) and slacker KG (Kyle Gass) becomes a pivotal moment in their lives. They become fast friends and make up their minds to form the rock duet Tenacious D. However, the buddies come to the conclusion that to conquer the world is not as simple as it appears at first sight. Unwilling to wait that long, the heroes decide to steal what they think will help them achieve their grandiose goal — a magical guitar pick belonging to a rock & roll-themed museum located not far from their hometown. The ambitious rockers will soon have the world at their feet!
Continuing the story of the original film, Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil, Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop, complicated further by her new love, hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice, will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory?
One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community.
Yes, Austin Powers (Mike Myers), the most renowned international man of mystery, is back again to face his enemy number one – Dr. Evil! In this stunning comedy-adventure Dr. Evil and his plotter Mini Me (Verne Troyer) escape from prison and who but Austin is good enough to stop them? The villains, with help of a Goldmember, kidnap Austin's father (Michael Caine), and to save him and the humanity Austin leaps to 1975 where he teams up with his ex-girlfriend Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles). There are also some girls involved whose lovely names are Fook Mi and Fook Yu.
A fish-out-of-water comedy about a talented street drummer from Harlem who enrolls in a Southern university, expecting to lead its marching band's drumline to victory. He initially flounders in his new world, before realizing that it takes more than talent to reach the top.
William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
A 21-year-old girl with a beautiful voice, Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), moves to New York with the hope to make it big as a songwriter. But life in Big Apple is much harder than she expected. All her efforts to rent a good apartment and to find a producer are in vain. Frustrated and aground, Violet finally gets a job as a barmaid at a famous nightclub called Coyote Ugly where only gorgeous and enterprising women run the show. In company of sexy bartenders whose manners disgust canting hypocrites and attract men, Violet has to overcome her shyness so that she can perform her songs herself.
