Jazz Movies
- 2014
Whiplash
Whiplash8.42014HD
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
- 2020
Soul
Soul8.1282020HD
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an...
- 2016
La La Land
La La Land7.9022016HD
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in...
- 2004
Ray
Ray7.4462004HD
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make...
- 1980
The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers7.7351980HD
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
- 1981
Beau Pere
Beau Pere6.6621981HD
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his...
- 1985
The Color Purple
The Color Purple7.7531985HD
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry....
- 1954
The Glenn Miller Story
The Glenn Miller Story6.91954HD
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early...
- 1971
Murmur of the Heart
Murmur of the Heart7.11971HD
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of...
- 1981
Sharky's Machine
Sharky's Machine6.0371981HD
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new...
- 2023
Blue Giant
Blue Giant8.22023HD
High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown...
- 1988
Stormy Monday
Stormy Monday5.8671988HD
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his...
- 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)7.6572021HD
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and...
- 1977
New York, New York
New York, New York6.61977HD
An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long...
- 1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder7.8261959HD
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her....
- 1996
Big Night
Big Night6.891996HD
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
- 1960
Shadows
Shadows71960HD
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned...
- 1955
The Man with the Golden Arm
The Man with the Golden Arm7.1111955HD
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2005.
- 2015
Amy
Amy7.62015HD
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed...
- 1965
Time Piece
Time Piece7.31965HD
Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute...