Songwriter Movies

WORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman an...

Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his u...

Past her prime and afflicted with a severe case of writer's block, a veteran songwriter finds new inspiration in a bird that takes up residence outsid...

A tour guide accompanies a beautiful multicultural group to discover Milan. But among them there is someone who is not a tourist.

A Hungarian band plays American rock & roll and blues hits with great enthusiasm and passion, but success seems to avoid them. TV and radio don't play...

As summer ends, Ren's bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write the lyrics of their final song.

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly chronicles the musical evolution of one of the most influential solo artists of his generation. Featuring rare demos, int...

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls fo...

Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song b...

This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.

Documentary telling, in her own words, the story of Carole King's upbringing in Brooklyn and the subsequent success that she had.

A naïve farmer writing songs tries his chances in New York. Unlucky, he is helped by a crooner who lusts after one of his songs. Ignoring the real val...

In this intimate stage performance from 2011, Tanita Tikaram performs 13 of her songs in Basel, Switzerland: Cathedral Song, Wonderful Shadow, Little...

HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back to the region’...

A dramatized documentary film about singer-songwriter and lyricist Juha "Junnu" Vainio from Kotka.

Eric Andersen is widely regarded as one of the most poetic songwriters that sprang from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. His artful méla...

A short documentary on the lives of songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and the making of the film, Three Little Words.

It has been a year since Tod's death, yet Pla Thong still cannot move on.