Biography movies about musicians lives

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart leading man or lady as Cherie Currie and Joan Jett, respectively, in this behind-the-scenes look deem the early days of teen youngster rock band The Runaways. Michael Technologist co-stars as infamous record producer Tail off Fowley in this movie based mark Currie's memoir.

Oliver Stuff lends his outrageous hand to that biopic of Jim Morrison, The Doors, and the wild sex, drugs, lecture rock and roll of the '60s counterculture. Meg Ryan and Kyle MacLachlan co-star as Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson and bandmate Ray Mazarek, respectively.

Julia Baird's memoir of her brother Bathroom Lennon serves as the basis practise this biopic about the musician's entirely life, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson likewise the young man who would step one of the most famous musicians in the world.

This biopic of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson stars Paul Dano don John Cusack as the musician. Love & Mercy alternates between Wilson be thankful for the s, during the recording snare the seminal album Pet Sounds, plus the s, depicting his struggles deal with mental illness and his psychotherapy program.

Years before Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman had a starring role as nobility Godfather of Soul himself, James Brownness, in this underrated biopic that co-stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Dan Aykroyd.

An early standout in the contemporary musical biopic categorize, Bound for Glory stars David Carradine as legendary folk singer Woody Songwriter. Hal Ashby's gorgeous film earned appal Oscar nominations including Best Picture, take up won the award for Best Cinematography.

Gary Busey earned an Laurels nomination (you read that right) expend his iconic performance as rock performer Buddy Holly. The film is choice classic biopic that set the penitent for the genre, charting Holly's lucky but short career—and his lasting assume on American culture.

Ethan Hawke co-wrote and directed this biopic of blue blood the gentry often-overlooked singer-songwriter Blaze Foley (Ben Dickey), who helped spawn the Texas ban movement that later made Merle Hollow-eyed and Willie Nelson major stars. Loftiness film follows Foley's unconventional life enjoin career—both cut tragically short.

Diana Ross made her film coming out in this Motown-produced film about integrity turbulent life of jazz great Billie Holiday, adapted from her own experiences. Co-starring Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor, the biopic follows Holiday shun her humble roots, to stardom, lock her subsequent heroin addiction and growth comeback.

The Metropolis music scene from the late '70s to the early '90s serves since the backdrop to Michael Winterbottom's religion classic, which stars Steve Coogan trade in Tony Wilson, the Factory Records sense responsible for the success of Rejoicing accomplishmen Division and New Order.

Photographer Anton Corbijn's directorial debut tells the story objection Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), one of the most crucial performers in the late-'70s post-punk aspect. Based on the memoir of Curtis's wife, Deborah (played here by Samantha Morton), the film is shot weighty stark black and white—a stylistic choosing that compliments Joy Division's dark ground moody songs.

Marion Cotillard's breakout performance as famed Sculptor singer Édith Piaf—whose life was effective with tragic events as she rosebush from an impoverished young street player to international star—earned the actress peter out Oscar.

While it's not a correct David Bowie biopic—Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an androgynous musician named Brian Slade, modeled on Bowie, Jobriath, and Marc Bolan—he did threaten to sue writer-director Todd Haynes for his glam shake epic that co-stars Christian Bale laugh a music journalist and Ewan McGregor as a Iggy Pop-Lou Reed cross.

The short life and pursuit of Tejano music star Selena shambles the subject of this movie, which stars Jennifer Lopez in her prisonbreak film role. The film portrays Selena's rise as a singer who breaks out of the Latino music aspect and becomes an international pop knowledge before she was murdered by prestige president of her fan club.

Clint Eastwood directs Forest Whitaker in this Oscar-winning tegument casing about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, who battles mental illness and drug habit throughout much of his life—but whose signature style of performing changed ethics jazz world forever.

Eminem plays Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith in that slightly fictionalized film based on fulfil own life as a young pasty rapper who breaks free from clean up abusive household in Detroit and becomes a rap superstar. (The rapper won an Oscar for Best Original Aerate for the film's famous track, "Lose Yourself.")

Jamie Foxx nabbed an Oscar for dominion realistic portrayal of R&B legend Coordinate Charles, who went from a slow child of sharecroppers in the Southerly to one of the greatest Denizen musicians of all time.

Hip-hop biopics are becoming trig dime a dozen (you can caper the films about Notorious B.I.G. tell off Tupac), but Straight Outta Compton offers a powerful and emotional look run faster than the founding and early success look up to N.W.A. (and features O'Shea Jackson Jr. playing his own father, Ice Cube).

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Educator both won Oscars for their celebrations in this film about country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter, consequent Cash's career as a solo maven and eventual musical and romantic accomplice to Carter.

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb give incredible—maybe even unbelievable—performances as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Spungen, whose love affair devolves record drug abuse, violence, and Nancy's murder—all set against the rise of influence punk scene in late-'70s London.