Fantasy, Comedy, Music
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life on the road. The band members' main concerns are the search for groupies and the desire to get paid.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Dont Look Back
Lords of Chaos
7 1/2 Women
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music
Moving Room
Momo
Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
Still Crazy
Dreamgirls
Into the Meridian
School of Rock
L.I.M.B.O
No Songs of Love
River of Fundament
The Geniac
The Many Shitty Lives of Jacques Hunt
Christina Aguilera: Back to Basics - Live and Down Under
La Mirage
SIMILAR MOVIES
How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2016
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."Dont Look Back
IMDB 7.4 | May , 1967
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Donovan, and Alan Price.Lords of Chaos
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2018
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.7 1/2 Women
IMDB 2 | Jan , 2006
A man is haunted successively by seven women who have lost their keys. He reacts to the request that he be allowed to use the toilet with increasing helplessness and despair, which is discharged in violence.Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
IMDB 5 | Oct , 1938
In a nightclub setting, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with two of his vocalists, perform four of the group's best known songs. For the complete list of songs, check the soundtrack listing.Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2007
Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,2007. Most of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. But there is some new stuff too, particularly interviews with Denny Walley, Haskell Wekler, Elliot Ingber and Bruce Fowler.Moving Room
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex.Momo
IMDB 7 | Jul , 1986
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1940
Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.Still Crazy
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 1998
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.Dreamgirls
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2006
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.Into the Meridian
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2026
A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle pieces that led him to where he is, and maybe how he can get out.School of Rock
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2003
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the school’s stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey risks everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.L.I.M.B.O
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2025
When Tom shows up late to an assessment, he’s thrown into an unexpected, surreal purgatory-like place called L.I.M.B.O. Trapped in this strange, bizarre state, he’s forced to confront his habits, face the consequences of procrastination and find a way to move forward - or risk being stuck in L.I.M.B.O forever…No Songs of Love
IMDB 5.6 | Oct , 2005
As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the band's next tour. When Ellen joins the project, everybody's emotions boil over, although they are observed all the time.River of Fundament
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 2014
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.The Geniac
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2013
A surreal, experimental, minimalistic animated film that dives into the inner recesses of creativity, imagination, longing and inspiration. Taking place from the somber point of view of a young wizard as he lives out his day, watching over a little town. Le Geniaque pays homage to Georges Melies and 1920s silent films in general.The Many Shitty Lives of Jacques Hunt
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2025
A young Black man comes home to find 3 different versions of himself. As the multiple variants question the choices they've made in their individual lives, they use this unique opportunity to test social theories around race, class and acceptance.Christina Aguilera: Back to Basics - Live and Down Under
IMDB 7.6 | Feb , 2008
Christina Aguilera's breathlessly energetic, senses-frazzling live spectacular of a concert brought the house down in Sydney Adelaide, Australia. The critically acclaimed live extravaganza thrills and awes, while Christina's vocal acrobatics remind you why hers is the Voice of a Generation.La Mirage
IMDB 9 | May , 2025
The routine of a motel housekeeper quickly disintegrates upon losing her cleaning glove. Now trapped in a surreal purgatory, she sets out to vanquish the perilous forces that haunt each room.