The Best Music Biopics Of All Time
There are tons of music biopics, but which are the best? This list includes popular movies about real musicians and singers, like What’s Love Got To Do With It, Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, Walk the Line, and La Bamba. Films have the ability to make us feel. They make us want to believe, be inspired, and live vicariously through the stories we see on screen. Music and musicians has have a similar ability, and we often feel connected to our favorite rock stars, making movies about their lives all the more enchanting.
Films that tell the story of Tina Turner, Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, and Ray Charles all tell tales that are fascinating, tumultuous, and likely more violent than our own. It is with a peek into the lives of these individuals that we can understand their motives, and thus their art, that much better. These movies vary in their genre but are all equally fascinating.
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- Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Bryan Singer
Freddie Mercury and Queen
Freddie Mercury -- the lead singer of Queen -- defies stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. The band's revolutionary sound and popular songs lead to Queen's ...more - Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: James Mangold
Johnny Cash and June Carter
The rise of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) begins with his days as a boy growing up on the family farm, where he struggles under the scorn of his father (Robert Patrick). As the ...more - Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King
- Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto
- Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Dexter Fletcher
Elton John
Young Reginald Dwight changes his name to Elton John and collaborates with singer-songwriter Bernie Taupin to become one of the most iconic figures in pop history. Set to his most beloved songs, it's ...more - Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Robert Wise
The Von Trapp Family Singers
A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie ...more