Films with theme "Musiques du monde", sorted by name

, 1h35
Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Anthony LaPaglia, Uma Thurman, James Urbaniak, Gretchen Mol

Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is a jazz guitarist who achieved some acclaim in the 1930s with a handful of recordings for RCA Victor, but who faded from public view under mysterious circumstances. Though a talented musician, Ray's personal life is a shambles. He is a spendthrift, womanizer and pimp who believes that falling in love will ruin his musical career. Due to his heavy drinking, he's often late or even absent for performances with his quintet. After music, his favorite hobby is shooting rats at garbage dumps. Ray idolizes famed guitarist Django Reinhardt, and is said to have fainted in his presence and to have fled a nightclub performance with severe stage fright upon hearing a false rumor that Reinhardt was in the audience.

, 2h50
Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Transgender in film, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Jiang Wenli

Farewell My Concubine spans 53 years, presenting the lives of two men against the historical backdrop of a country in upheaval. It is about the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou and how their lives are affected by the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and the victory of the Communists in 1949.

, 1h24
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Films about disabilities

A musical documentary depicting the against-all-odds rise of Staff Benda Bilili, a dynamic band of street musicians from the Democratic Republic of Congo who overcame extreme poverty and physical disability to become beloved stars of the world music circuit. Charting the group’s progress across several years, Benda Bilili! tells a real-life Cinderella story spanning humble beginnings in Kinshasa and a triumphant European tour.

, 1h45
Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin German
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Ry Cooder

The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album (also called Buena Vista Social Club) and to perform two times with a full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) and the 1st of July 1998 in the United States (at the Carnegie Hall, New York City). Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba and the United States is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes interviews with each of the main performers.

, 1h45
Directed by Fernando Trueba
Origin Espagne
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Gato Barbieri

Un film présentant les performances de plusieurs stars de la scène musicale Latin Jazz.

, 1h28
Directed by Xavier de Lauzanne
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films

En 2006, des musiciens israéliens et palestiniens, juifs, chrétiens et musulmans sont invités en France pour une tournée musicale. La tournée remporte un grand succès. Mais dans les coulisses, rivalités et conflits surgissent.

, 2h31
Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Rape in fiction, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta, Jiah Khan, Raghubir Yadav, Zohra Sehgal

Amar Kant Varma (Shahrukh Khan) is a Program executive for All India Radio. He is dispatched from New Delhi to cover festivities in Northeast India. On his way there, during a rainy night, Amar stops at Haflong train station to catch Baraks Valley express, as the train runs late, Amar meets a mysterious woman by herself who asks him for a cup of tea. When he returns with the tea, he watches her board the next train with three male passengers. Later, Amar spots the same woman in Silchar. He attempts to talk to her but she says she cannot recall meeting him before. As part of his news reporting assignment, for the occasion of fifty years of Indian Independence, Amar interviews many citizens of Barak Valley, and an extremist leader, who claim that the reason behind human rights violations, and poverty in the region is due to Indian Government, and that the Liberationists do not wish to enter into any dialogue with the government, and further justify their resistance in Utthar Purv.

, 1h39
Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Black comedy
Themes Cooking films, Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films, Comedy horror films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Alternate history films, Disaster films
Actors Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Rufus

In a dilapidated apartment building in post-apocalyptic France, food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. On the ground floor is a butcher's shop, run by the landlord, Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who posts job opportunities in the Hard Times paper as means to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants.

, 13minutes
Directed by Werner Herzog
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films

, 1h17
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Le blues, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Martin Scorsese

En suivant le voyage de Corey Harris au Mississippi et en Afrique de l'ouest, il présente les origines du blues dans le delta du grand fleuve américain, et sa parenté avec les musiques traditionnelles du Mali et du Niger.

, 1h44
Directed by Tony Gatlif
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal

The viewer is not intended to like nor dislike either character. Zano is meant to be brooding and profound to the point of being sulky, and world-hating and Naima wildly passionate to the point of appearing wanton and unstable; and both far too self-absorbed to care about either one or the other.

, 1h40
Directed by Carlos Saura
Origin Espagne
Genres Musical theatre, Documentary, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors José Luis Gómez, Joaquín Cortés

Flamenco is a documentary that includes performances from some of the best flamenco singers, dancers and guitarists. Helped by cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, director Carlos Saura brings with this film the "Light of Flamenco to the World".

, 1h42
Directed by Tony Gatlif
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, La culture tzigane, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Romain Duris, Rona Hartner

Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, whom his father had heard all the time before his death. Wandering along a frozen road, he meets old Izidor, a Rom (Gypsy) and tries tell him of Nora Luca. Drunken Izidor only hears the handful of Romani words and takes Stephane to his village, determined to teach the boy the Romani language. Stéphane believes that Izidor will take him to Nora Luca when the time has come, so he lives in the Roma village for several months in Izidor's house, as Izidor's son Adriani has been arrested. Izidor is happy to have him as a guest, calling him "his Frenchman" and fixing the young wanderer's worn-out shoes. The other Roma dislike Stephane at first, insulting him in their language and believing him to be a lunatic, tricking him into saying rude words and even into entering a tent where women are bathing. Stéphane gradually wins them over by showing his respect for their music and culture and is rewarded with an intimate look into every aspect of Roma life, from a raucous wedding to a bittersweet funeral. The only person in the village who speaks any French is the tough Sabina, a divorced Romani dancer who is blatantly hostile towards him at first, but the pair eventually bond through a series of trips across the countryside to record traditional Romani music.

Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films
Actors Nikola Pejaković

Romeo, jeune trompettiste rom, est amoureux de Juliana, fille du plus célèbre trompettiste de Serbie. Celui-ci ne voit pas d'un bon œil la liaison d'un Rom avec sa fille et défie Romeo au concours de la Trompette d'or, festival annuel qui se tient dans la petite ville serbe de Guča.

, 1h39
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Historical, Martial arts
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Martial arts films, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Wuxia films
Actors Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen, James Hong

In ancient China during the Warring States period, the nameless prefect of a small jurisdiction arrives at the Qin state's capital city to meet the king of Qin, who has survived an attempt on his life by the assassins Long Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword. Because of the assassination attempt, no visitors are to approach the king within 100 paces. 'Nameless' claims that he has slain the three assassins and he displays their weapons before the king, who allows the former to sit closer to him and tell him his story.