Bird

"There are no second acts in American lives."

161 Mins

6.8 / 10

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

SIMILAR FILMS

White Hunter, Black Heart

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and othe...

Pelle the Conqueror

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornho...

The Card Player

Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the m...

Manhattan Night

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anythi...

A free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wan...

White of the Eye

In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murder...

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Cou...

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fif...

During the Great Depression, a young boy leaves his family's Oklahoma farm to travel with his country musician uncle who...

A Fish Called Wanda

While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only o...

Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the depar...

Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, c...

A pair of divorced actors are brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course...

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with h...

Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade

Alabama Jones, Oklahoma Jones, and California Jones are three sexy adventurers who hunt ancient treasures for a museum c...

The Cotton Club

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangs...

1929: The Great Crash

A documentary exploring the causes of the 1929 Wall Street Crash.Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, sh...

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to devel...

Born to Be Blue

Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comebac...