BLUES THEMED MOVIES

The Blues Brothers
1980
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brothe...
Blues Brothers 2000
1998
Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise...
Bessie
2015
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
Killer Diller
2004
A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfw...
ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads
2019
Robert Johnson was one of the most influential blues guitarists ever. Even before his early death, fans wondered if he'd...
Piano Blues
2003
Director — and piano player — Clint Eastwood explores his life-long passion for piano blues, using a treasure trove of r...
Crossroads
1986
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through chan...
Black Snake Moan
2006
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for...
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African Amer...
Genghis Blues
1999
Blind blues musician Paul Pena is perhaps best known for his song "Jet Airliner". In 1993, Pena heard Tuvan throat singi...
Blues in the Night
1941
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they ...
The Soul of a Man
2003
In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profa...
Highway 61
1991
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live at the El Mocambo
1983
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble burn it up at the El Mocambo, a small club in Toronto, performing a short set list...
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
2016
It's 1959 in a seedy bar in Philadelphia, and Billie Holiday is giving one of her last performances interlaced with salt...
Blue
2017
A thorough look at the 90's Turkish rock scene, one legendary stage band and its two members: Kerim Capli and Yavuz Ceti...
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
2008
Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at political strategist, racist, and former Republican National Convention Committee ...
Eric Clapton: One More Car One More Rider
2001
Clapton, live from Los Angeles' Staples Center on August 18, 2002, part of the sold-out worldwide tour that followed Cla...
Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
2000
Steely Dan has not had a new studio album in twenty years--"Two Against Nature" was worth the wait! This concert, record...