Top 5 Movies Every Musician Should See

From hilarious comedies to heartbreaking dramas, there are plenty of movies about music. Some of them are as entertaining as betting at 22Bet, while others make you cry the entire time. Here are the best movies every musician should see.

Bohemian Rhapsody

The success of the 2018 biopic of rock band Queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury was so powerful that it boosted the band's record sales around the world, including in the United States, where the British band was less popular than in its homeland. The movie, released more than a quarter-century after Mercury's death, was the first in a string of contemporary movie biographies of musicians. Despite the firing of director Bryan Singer during filming, Bohemian Rhapsody was a box office hit and won four Oscar statuettes. The most important of them went to Rami Malek, who managed to live up to the image of the lead singer of Queen and convey his incredible energy on stage and in real life.

In Bohemian Rhapsody, the Live Aid concert is impressive, where the band played when Mercury was very sick and the band itself was falling apart. Those who were creating the movie conveyed the atmosphere of this iconic performance by the British band. The Live Aid concert is not only a gift to all Queen fans at that time but also almost a farewell performance of the band at the peak of fame. Further, the popularity of the band went down, and in 1991, Mercury died.

The School of Rock

Many schoolchildren probably dreamed of learning the riffs of Black Sabbath, AC/DC, and Deep Purple instead of math and PE. The fifth graders from the School of Rock were lucky: their school accidentally hired a loser rocker as a freelance teacher. His education isn't so good, as he can't even spell his last name correctly, so he teaches the kids to play rock music and fight the system.

Director Richard Linklater has already proven with his previous works how subtly he feels the power and importance of rock music in everyday life. So, his movie turned out to be unpredictable, devoid of sugar, and instructive, and comedian Jack Black performed the best role in his career in it. Linklater's cult comedy also changed the lives of the young actors who starred there; many are still involved in music. But the story of the School of Rock didn't end there. Shortly after the movie's release, it was transformed into a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which is still running around the world today.

8 Mile

The movie is about a young white rapper from Detroit who fights his way to fame through intense battles with the microphone. It's reminiscent of the real-life story of Eminem, who plays the lead role here. His character, B-Rabbit, also comes from a dysfunctional family, works in a factory, and unleashes all his anger and energy in underground rap battles. They are best shown in the movie: brutal verbal duels contrast with unseemly episodes from the personal life of an aspiring musician.

8 Mile appeared long before the popularity of social media and YouTube, but it was here for the first time in the movie that it showed the phenomenon of rap battles, which became so popular later. 8 Mile finally made Eminem a global star and even brought him an Oscar for best song from a movie.

Whiplash

The drama about a jazz drummer and his tough mentor from an elite music school was so compelling and successful that it instantly made director Damien Chazelle and the duo of actors Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons stars. Chazelle said he was inspired by his high school experience, full of fear, stress, and pain, when making the movie. But he admitted that some things in the movie were amplified for dramatic effect. 

The cruelty with which the demanding teacher lashes out at his class and the protagonist was exaggerated. In reality, such a teacher would almost certainly have been fired immediately for the insults heard in the movie and the psychological abuse that almost turns physical.

The Boat That Rocked

Any success in music involves serious pressure, and students actually have to sacrifice a lot. Shazell may have shown the unsightly and uncomfortable side of music teaching in Whiplash, but he did so masterfully.

Richard Curtis' comedy tells about the golden age of British rock music in the late 1960s and the huge role of pirate radio stations in this revolution, which happened in the country despite the authorities' prohibitions. This role is clear even without words — just look at the opening credits of the movie with the covers of great music albums of that time flashing in the background. Most of them might never have been released if it hadn't been for the radio DJs of the 1960s.

This movie is about a fictional floating pirate radio station called Radio Rock, whose staff consists of a bunch of now-aged and eccentric enthusiasts. They're willing to live in the cramped conditions of a ship just to put the Rolling Stones and Kinks on the air for those left on land. The cast of the movie is as vibrant as the musical characters of the 1960s. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ivans, Bill Nye, and others look and behave in the frame no worse than Mick Jagger. And they prove by their example that even censorship can't stop a real passion for music.