Jazz Movies

Anthology film about a night at airport Berlin-Tempelhof. Due to fog passengers can't leave Berlin by plane and struggle to find other ways out of...

60 Berlin community members — including children, teenagers and adults, professional and amateur artists from various disciplines —...

The Hot Club of Montevideo is a Uruguayan cultural institution founded in 1950 by the pianist Paco Mañosa, along with his brother and some...

A portrait of jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins during a period of self-exile, filmed practicing and reflecting on music, politics, and artistic...

Chet Baker plows a uniquely individual furrow in the field of jazz. His trumpet playing is beautifully delicate and takes standard ballads into...

Frankie walks into a bar, where she catches her boyfriend Johnny with the sensuous Nellie Bly and kills him in a fit of jealousy.

The Square Live at the Cat Club 1988

The thrilling atmosphere of a concert by legendary jazz trumpeter Laco Déczi. Since entering the professional music scene more than fifty...

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they...

Reissue of Standards Trio concerts; originally released separately as Live at Open Theater East and Trio Concert 1996

This concert shows very rare and unique footage of Aretha in a very productive and creative part of her career.

A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and...

A lonely musician living trough his music and the daily visits of a cat. One day the nostalgia takes over; he gets a crazy idea.

In 2005 the French progressive rock band Magma presented a series of concerts in which they performed all of their major works of the previous 35...

A son seeking to fulfill his late father’s dream takes his band from the storied city of New Orleans to the shores of Cuba, where —...

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz...

Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.

A Free Cinema short documenting a night at the Wood Green Jazz Club, observing youth culture, music, and social dynamics through an unobtrusive,...

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps...