Whiplash

Whiplash 2014

8.38

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

2014

The Monkey

The Monkey 2025

5.90

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

2025

Sound of Metal

Sound of Metal 2020

7.70

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

2020

The Rocker

The Rocker 2008

6.04

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.

2008

Sound of Noise

Sound of Noise 2010

7.26

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

2010

The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm 1955

7.20

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

1955

The Drum

The Drum 1938

5.80

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to the loyal young Prince Azim (Sabu) to warn the troops of Guhl's treachery by tapping out a message on his drum.

1938

The Wait

The Wait 2020

4.79

"The Wait" tells the story of a lonely drummer during the self-distancing period in 2020, who has grown frustrated with the absence of his band. Killing time, the self-taught drummer must do something by his own imagination.

2020

The Concert for Bangladesh

The Concert for Bangladesh 1972

7.80

A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.

1972

Cannibal Vegetarian

Cannibal Vegetarian 2012

6.40

Danko Babic is an ambitious and amoral gynaecologist at Croatia's leading fertility clinic. When his colleague Bantic is appointed as head of the clinic, Babic starts a secret war to overthrow his rival. Distracted by his ruthless campaign he makes series of fatal mistakes that result in the death of a patient. A crooked coroner and a corrupt police officer cover up his misdeeds, while Babic grows increasingly dependant on drugs and alcohol. He begins performing illegal abortions on prostitutes who work for Jedinko, a gangster who controls the local drug and sex trade.

2012

The Vampire's Ghost

The Vampire's Ghost 1945

5.20

In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.

1945

Rock School

Rock School 2005

6.10

It is about a music school in Philadelphia, The Paul Green School of Rock Music, run by Paul Green that teaches kids ages 9 to 17 how to play rock music and be rock stars. Paul Green teaches his students how to play music such as Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa better than anyone expects them to by using a unique style of teaching that includes getting very angry and acting childish.

2005

The Strip

The Strip 1951

5.70

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder.

1951

Milford Graves Full Mantis

Milford Graves Full Mantis 2018

6.80

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz percussionist’s singular voice and complex cosmology.

2018

There Is No Authority But Yourself

There Is No Authority But Yourself 2006

5.80

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival footage of the band, and interviews with former members Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher.

2006

Soldier

Soldier 2017

6.20

A young man decides to join the army. He becomes the drummer in the military band, and his everyday life is now a combination of military training and music. What does the Argentine Army do these days, more than thirty years after the dictatorship? What does it mean to be a soldier in a country without wars?

2017

Pinkie on the One

Pinkie on the One 2014

6.00

Rainbow is looking for a new drummer for her band and realizes that Pinkie does well on the drums as she does anywhere else.

2014

Stop Playing

Stop Playing 2023

10.00

A child's imagination clashes with his strict mother.

2023

La importancia de llamarse Ernesto y la gilipollez de llamarse Eric

La importancia de llamarse Ernesto y la gilipollez de llamarse Eric 2023

7.00

He was born in Granada, the only city in the world with an explosive name. At the age of ten he joined the Falange because he wanted to play the drum. His biggest musical influences have been Holy Week and his first host, the one he was given at birth. It was produced at the age of sixteen. A little later he began using drugs to escape. he should have died before thirty. For forty years he has hit the drums as life has hit him, with all his might.

2023

Double Around the Interlude

Double Around the Interlude 2024

1

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic architecture. Music as a tool, transcriptions of YouTube tutorials as poetry, percussion exercises as descriptions of reality.

2024

Saikyou Kamizmode!

Saikyou Kamizmode! 2020

1

Saikyo Kamizmode! (最響カミズモード) is a Japanese trading card game developed by Data Cardass themed through music, taiko and sumo. An anime series produced by Bandai Namco Pictures was announced on August 10, 2020 where it first premiered as an ONA on Bandai Namco's Youtube channel on September 28, 2020 before its actual TV premiere on Tokyo MX on October 9, 2020.

2020