Povestea lui Elvis este văzută prin prisma relației sale complicate cu managerul său enigmatic, colonelul Tom Parker. Povestit din perspectiva lui Parker, filmul se adâncește în dinamica relației complexe dintre cei doi, care se întinde pe o perioadă de peste 20 de ani, de la ascensiunea lui Presley la faimă până la vedeta fără precedent care a schimbat cursul istoriei, pe fundalul peisajului cultural în evoluție și al pierderii inocenței în America. În centrul acestei călătorii se află unul dintre oamenii importanți și influenți din viața lui Elvis, Priscilla Presley.
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in order to figure out what went wrong. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood.
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Muzicianul Dewey Finn se angajează suplinitor la clasa a patra și, în secret, începe să-i învețe pe copii tainele rock-n-roll-ului.
Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Aceasta e povestea lui William, un băiat de 15 ani, care e angajat de revista Rolling Stone pentru a scrie un articol despre Stillwater, o formație rock care se afla în ascensiune. Astfel, el speră să scrie reportajul vieții lui.
Cântărețul american popular Nick Rivers călătorește în Germania de Est pentru a cânta într-un festival de muzică. Când își pierde inima în fața superbei Hillary Flammond, se trezește prins într-o mișcare de rezistență subterană. Rivers își unește forțele cu agentul Cedric și Flammond pentru a încerca salvarea tatălui ei, Dr. Paul, de la germani, care l-au capturat pe omul de știință în speranța de a-l constrânge să construiască o nouă mină navală.
When a radio falls from the sky into the hands of a wide-eyed Tibetan Mastiff, he leaves home to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician, setting into motion a series of completely unexpected events.
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.
Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. At the center of the film is Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer who faces-off with the resolute Mr. Hand—a man convinced that everyone is on dope.
La postul de radio al unei tabere americane din Vietnam vine un nou DJ, Adrian Cronauer. El va transforma si revolutiona modul in care functiona pana atunci radioul si va deveni in scurt timp un adevarat fenomen in tabara americana din Vietnam.
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
In Venice Beach, naive Midwesterner JB bonds with local slacker KG and they form the rock band Tenacious D. Setting out to become the world's greatest band is no easy feat, so they set out to steal what could be the answer to their prayers... a magical guitar pick housed in a rock-and-roll museum some 300 miles away.
For 40 years Bruce Springsteen has influenced fans from all over. His songs defined more than a generation. This film gives the fans just as much time as The Boss himself, with never shown footage and live performances from his last tour.
In the 1980s, a drummer is abandoned by his band just before they become rock superstars. Twenty years later, the drummer sees his second chance at stardom arise when he is asked to perform with his teenage nephew's high school rock band.
Sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler. Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named 'Rocky'. Harriet then spawns in and says hello and the credits roll!
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
Una dintre figurile emblematice ale istoriei muzicii rock, Dewey Cox avea totul: femei (peste 411), prieteni (Elvis, trupa Beatles) și stilul de viață al tuturor vedetelor rock-and-roll (o relație apropiată, personală, cu absolut toate tipurile de pastile și de prafuri cunoscute de om). Dar, cel mai important, avea de partea sa muzica aceea care l-a transformat dintr-un băiat de la țară, cam încet la minte, în cel mai mare star rock al Americii.