Just for fun. Three movies spring to mind for myself when I think of what moves me here. In no particular order.
Rocky Horror Picture Show. So camp it is brilliant! Tim Curry slays it! Just way too much to begin to mention. I can still get a blast from it now. Let's do the Time warp again!
The Blues Brothers. Ah, Jake and Ellwood. Just for the record this was the second VHS tape I ever bought( first was Enter the Dragon) Just so right....
Rock of Ages. Now before you all run off gagging, it most certainly was not for Cruises wooden performance. Catherine Zeta Jones was notable though. No it was for the pair who stole the show.
Hard Days Night The Beatles The Big Country, Jerome Moss American Graffiti Various West Side Story Leonard Bernstein North by North West, Bernard Herman To Kill a Mocking Bird, Elmer Bernstein Lawerence of Arabia, Maurice Jarre The Pink Panther, Henri Mancini La Dolce Vita, Nino Rota
By "music movie" I presume you mean a movie in which music is the central theme, not just it’s soundtrack? Crazy Heart, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Tender Mercies, The Rutles, Riot On Sunset Strip, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Wrecking Crew, George Harrison: Living In The Material World, Hail Hail Rock ’n’ Roll!, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, Muscle Shoals, Tom Dowd & The Language Of Music, The Last Waltz of course, Don't Look Back and No Direction Home, and A Hard Day’s Night and Help!.
If your talking about sound quality,nothing is close to the new Queen Movie. Not in my opinion. Sounds like a concert in 5.2. I actually bought a 4K version just as a "show off your system " . It's mixed as well as some of my video concerts.
"The Wall". It most strictly meets the original question as a Music Movie. The music itself stands on its own as it was developed first and contains very little dialog. It artistically mixes animation and live action and is enjoyable with eyes opened or closed. The songs are meaningful and the movie is not filled with non-singing twittering about breakfast or a contrived transition to bridge memorable songs.
To me, "Tommy" contains too many elements of a musical and is better contexted as a true rock opera but not as cohesive when considered as stand-alone music. There are far too many plot transition jingles/songs that only maintain their relevance in the context of the film....Tina Turner's Acid Queen and the injured glamour girl with the child Frankenstein guitarist on stage...as examples.
"Yellow Submarine" should not count but it is simply brilliant and a very stark contrast to the other
Beatles
movies which were more simply live documentaries masking their early explorations in drugs and religion...and drugs. If only the world had more studio footage of the Beatles in action.
"West Side Story", "Grease" and even "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" were adaptations of musicals as well as "Sound of Music". "Little Shop of Horrors" was well done also if you like that sort of thing, but still originally musicals.
"Spinal Tap" and "A Mighty Wind" are great musical mockumentaries.
"The Last Waltz" has Scorsese's involvement and reached a wider audience for that reason and the very special guests, but would not consider it a "movie".
"Frozen" and "Tarzan" (moreso Tarzan) have good soundtracks but so did "Snow White" and "Mary Poppins".
Randy Edelman’s score for Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is my favorite. It is so dramatic parts of it were used as music for the Olympic Games in the 90s.
None of these are music movies, but they are all movies with top notch scores.
Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev) Psycho (Bernard Herrmann) Vertigo
(Bernard Herrmann)
Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud (Miles Davis) Lawrence Of Arabia (Maurice Jarre)
Spinal Tap - Best rock music parody +1 for Stop making Sense - Just a great show by the Talking Heads +1 for Live and Die in LA - Great action movie with an interesting soundtrack from Wang Chung
American Hustle is a great movie with soundtrack to match
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