Struggling Musician Movies

William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy...

In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

A compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a...

Paris, 1978. In a male-dominated music industry, Ana uses new electronic machines to make herself heard, thus creating a new sound that is destined...

Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.

Mourning his past relationship, heartbroken college senior Austin Caldwell becomes obsessed with the "Big Break" song competition, convinced that the...

A struggling musician meets a writer, whose marriage with her film director husband is in turmoil because of an upcoming actress.

Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty,...

Discouraged by her lack of success and her parents' disapproval of her career choice, a struggling singer is about to give up on her dream when her...

Summer in Athens. Nikos is a musician with no future who takes care of a villa while the wealthy owner is out. With nothing to do, Nikos decides to...

A documentary filmed between 2016 - 2018 about the Boston DIY music scene, and part of the community that keeps it going.

Marc with a C is the stage name of Orlando indie/DIY singer-songwriter Marc Sirdoreus and was formally a persona enacted on stage for over 20 years....

The film chronicles the life of Waluyo, a confident young puppeteer who is fighting to pursue his career. The various obstacles he went through did...

Failure after failure in the pursuit of what happiness means confuses David, who ends to isolate himself and go into solitude. When he got the answer...