🏷 Discover The Best Jazz Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Discover the Soul of Jazz in Film and Television

From the swinging sounds of New Orleans to the improvisational genius of Miles Davis, jazz has long been a source of inspiration for filmmakers and television producers. Whether you're a jazz aficionado or just looking for something new to watch, we've got you covered. Explore the best movies and TV shows related to jazz, featuring iconic musicians, gripping stories, and unforgettable performances.

Cast

Koichi Yamadera

Unsho Ishizuka

Megumi Hayashibara

Aoi Tada

Cowboy Bebop (1998) TV Show

8.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police (ISSP) set up a legalized contract system, in which registered bounty hunters, also referred to as "Cowboys", chase criminals and bring them in alive in return for a reward.

Plot: philosophy, bounty hunter, jazz, anti hero, blues, space, space western, dark past, ...

Time: future

Cast

Miles Teller

J.K. Simmons

Paul Reiser

Melissa Benoist

Whiplash (2014)

8.4 16.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

Style: romantic

Plot: new york city, jazz, musician, obsession, music teacher, conservatory, drums, montage, ...

Cast

Jamie Foxx

Tina Fey

Graham Norton

Rachel House

Soul (2020)

8.1 11.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: 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 accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

Plot: new york city, jazz, musician, cat, self-discovery, jazz singer or musician, teacher, aftercreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Yuichi Nakamura

Ryohei Kimura

Hiroshi Tsuchida

Toa Yukinari

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt (2015) TV Show

8.1 23 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: Federation troops and Zeon forces carry out a fierce battle in the Thunderbolt Sector in what was once Side 4 "Mua". The Thunderbolt Sector is a shoal zone composed of the debris of destroyed space colonies, named for the electrical discharges from the metal debris. MS pilot Io Flemming is among the Federation soldiers who are dispatched to the area, where Zeon sniper Daryl Lorenz awaits them on the battlefield.

Plot: jazz, based on comic, mecha, alternate history, based on manga, prosthetic limb, anime, gundam, ...

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Emma Stone

John Legend

Rosemarie DeWitt

La La Land (2016)

7.9 18.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Style: melancholy

Plot: dancing, dance, jazz, musical, ambition, casting, coffee shop, jazz club, ...

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

7.8 1.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: NR

Story: 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. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Plot: adultery, jealousy, rape, based on novel or book, court case, michigan, judge, hays code, ...

The Blues Brothers (1980)

7.7 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: prison, chicago, illinois, dancing, concert, country music, nazi, jazz, ...

Treme (2010) TV Show

7.6 158 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

Plot: jazz, new orleans, louisiana, rebuilding, survival, hurricane katrina, cultural drama

Cast

Amy Winehouse

Mark Ronson

Tony Bennett

Pete Doherty

Amy (2015)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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 her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

Plot: jazz, drug addiction, rehabilitation, overdose, jazz singer or musician, biography, addiction, drug rehabilitation, ...

Lost Highway (1997)

7.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Plot: prison, pornography, jealousy, dreams, dual identity, nightmare, police, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Jamie Foxx

Kerry Washington

Regina King

Harry Lennix

Ray (2004)

7.5 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Style: melancholy

Plot: blindness and impaired vision, country music, jazz, loss of loved one, overdose, bus ride, georgia, record producer, ...

Cast

Tom Hanks

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Stanley Tucci

Chi McBride

The Terminal (2004)

7.4 8.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Plot: new york city, friendship, marriage proposal, airport, stewardess, translation, illegal immigration, language barrier, ...

Cast

Frank Sinatra

Eleanor Parker

Kim Novak

Arnold Stang

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

7.2 254 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

Plot: prison, drug dealer, underground world, jazz, poker, sense of guilt, gambling, insanity, ...

Cast

Lea Massari

Benou00eet Ferreux

Marc Winocourt

Fabien Ferreux

Murmur of the Heart (1971)

7.0 215 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 118 min.

Story: 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 adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Plot: jazz, sanatorium, incest, shoplifting, boy scout, resort sex, mother son relationship, teenage protagonist, ...

Time: 1950s

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Ben Carruthers

Lelia Goldoni

Hugh Hurd

Anthony Ray

Shadows (1960)

6.9 273 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG

Story: 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 jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Plot: jazz, passing for white

Cast

Bing Crosby

Grace Kelly

Frank Sinatra

Celeste Holm

High Society (1956)

6.8 269 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: NR

Story: With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him.

Plot: jazz singer or musician, musical, rhode island, divorcee, screwball comedy, socialite, ex-husband ex-wife relationship, ex spouses, ...

Cast

Sean Penn

Samantha Morton

Anthony LaPaglia

Uma Thurman

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

6.8 564 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Plot: new york city, jazz, guitar, night life, egocentrism, jazz singer or musician, pretty woman

Cast

Andra Day

Trevante Rhodes

Garrett Hedlund

Leslie Jordan

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

6.5 314 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."

Plot: war on drugs, new orleans, louisiana, jazz singer or musician, ban from profession, biography, surveillance, heroin addiction, ...

Time: 1940s, 1950s

Cast

Patrick Dewaere

Ariel Besse

Maurice Ronet

Geneviu00e8ve Mnich

Beau Pere (1981)

6.4 151 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.

Plot: lolita, jazz, job-hopping, stepfather, breaking the fourth wall, teenage girl, tenant, car accident, ...

Cast

Burt Reynolds

Rachel Ward

Henry Silva

Brian Keith

Sharky's Machine (1981)

6.2 115 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

Plot: martial arts, robbery, police, jazz, transvestism, gangster, finger, vice, ...

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