Movies: Songwriter

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry his former partner Jessie Brow...

The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams....

A dramatized documentary film about singer-songwriter and lyricist Juha "Junnu" Vainio from Kotka....

It has been a year since Tod's death, yet Pla Thong still cannot move on....

The earliest 'rockumentary' of John Mayall and his musicians filmed in their homes, dressing rooms, motorways, airports, clubs, concert halls and at festivals....

A mysterious bounty hunter gets tasked with a big mission that quickly goes awry....

The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother....

In Continuum is Dave Kerzner's next experiment with line-up....

Croatian singer/songwriter/poet Arsen Dedić tells the story of his life....

This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs....

A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real value of his composition, he sold it for the money he owed to his friends: $200....

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her objective, she falls in love with Johnny, and lands in jail, but sh...

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Iconic Welsh rock musician Mike Peters' rise to fame, battle with cancer and inspiring return, featuring one-of-a-kind performances from other legendary musicians....

A documentary on the creation of songs, told by songwriters. It follows the journey of their minds, also via metaphoric representations (a flower in the desert, a dance choreography). The mix of diverse but unified forms of art joins the songwriters ...

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A tour guide accompanies a beautiful multicultural group to discover Milan. But among them there is someone who is not a tourist....

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo....

Eric Andersen is widely regarded as one of the most poetic songwriters that sprang from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. His artful mélange of love, despair, hope and stirred memory has earned him a passionate international following an...

Gary Barlow hosts musical fun from the Natural History Museum in London and performs some of his biggest hits, songs from his new album, and some exciting covers....