Jazz Movies

Atlanta musicians behind some of the biggest names in music embark on an uncertain journey into the spotlight with a new genre of music that fuses...

In the wake of his father’s suicide, young record collector Ollie Sway returns to the family lake house with his friend Nikolai in tow to lay...

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in...

A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

A jazz musician struggles to come to terms with his age when he is assigned a live in nurse.

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...

Documentary about the origins of jazz in Panama, which generated the tambojazz genre.

For two weeks, around twenty young musicians from the northern districts of Marseille come to train every day and rehearse three jazz pieces.

Melody Gardot performs her new album Sunset in the Blue, from the Radio France studios accompanied by a trio of musicians and 40 instrumentalists...

A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.

Three young men have an interest they all burn for - jazz. But in the 1930's northern Sweden not many people like the new form of music. So when the...

Haunted by guilt and recurring dreams of a mesmerizing jazz singer, Paul, a grieving widower, is drawn into a mysterious cinema where he must...

Herbie is a short 16mm black and white film by George Lucas and Paul Golding made in 1966 as part of their USC film school course. It is an abstract...

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...

Elijah Jamal Balbed grew up in Washington DC in the midst of one of its most difficult eras, as its identity was being tested. As the city changed...

Documentary exploring the meaning and history of cool through the American music that started in the 1940s in the bars of New York and LA, and became...

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just...

When Mia gets offered the chance of a lifetime to become the cover star of a magazine by Pierre, she thinks all of her dreams are finally coming...