Whether it be a musical, a "rockumentary", or a biopic, you can't beat a good music movie - so we've done the rounds to find the best music movies to stream in Ireland.
We scoured the offerings of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV, and Disney+, to try and find the best from the world of music, and we have a list of 18 below. Remember that you will need an active subscription for each streaming service to watch these movies.
So, without further ado...
The best music movies to stream in Ireland
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Netflix)
Year: 2020
Cast: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo
Plot:
Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
Rating: 98% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Hamilton (Disney Plus)
Year: 2020
Cast: Lin Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr, Renée Elise Goldberry
Plot:
The original Broadway production of the award-winning musical that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury, blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway styles, filmed from the Richard Rogers Theater in New York.
Rating: 97% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Nowhere Boy (Prime Video)
Year: 2009
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Brodie Sangster
Plot:
A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
Rating: 80% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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Whiplash (Now TV)
Year: 2014
Cast: JK Simmons, Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist
Plot:
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Rating: 94% (Rotten Tomatoes)
tick, tick...BOOM! (Netflix)
Year: 2021
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus
Plot:
Adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. It follows the young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical
Rating: 87% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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Supersonic (Netflix)
Year: 2016
Cast: Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Peggy Gallagher, Paul Arthurs
Plot:
A revealing look at the meteoric rise of seminal '90s rock band Oasis, weaving never-before-seen concert footage with candid interviews and a firsthand account of the backstage sibling rivalry that threatened to destroy the band.
Rating: 84%
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Netflix)
Year: 2020
Cast: Will Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Dan Stevens, Pierce Brosnan
Plot:
When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
Rating: 63% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Prime Video)
Year: 2007
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
Plot:
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
Rating: 86% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Netflix/Disney+)
Year: 2018
Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee
Plot:
The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).
Rating: 60% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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Homecoming (Netflix)
Year: 2019
Cast: Beyoncé
Plot:
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
Rating: 98% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Les Misérables (Netflix)
Year: 2012
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried
Plot:
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
Rating: 70% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams (Prime Video)
Year: 2018
Cast: Chris Martin, Johnny Buckland, Will Champion, Guy Berryman
Plot:
The band Coldplay discuss their band, music, and rise to fame.
Rating: 50% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Rolling Thunder Revue (Netflix)
Year: 2019
Cast: Robert Sheehan, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith
Plot:
In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.
Rating: 92% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Dirty Dancing (Netflix)
Year: 1987
Cast: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach
Plot:
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Rating: 69% (Rotten Tomatoes)
Moulin Rouge! (Disney+)
Year: 2001
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent
Plot:
A jukebox musical in which a young English poet falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Rating: 76% (Rotten Tomatoes)
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Straight Outta Compton (Netflix)
Year: 2015
Cast: O'Shea Jackson Jr, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr
Plot:
The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Rating: 89% (Rotten Tomatoes)
8 Mile (Netflix)
Year: 2002
Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Brittany Murphy
Plot:
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
Rating: 75% (Rotten Tomatoes)
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy (Netflix)
Year: 2022
Cast: Ye, Kid Cudi, Justin Bieber
Plot:
Follows the life of Kanye West, in an intimate portrait as he builds his way from singer to businessman and becomes a global brand.
Rating: 82% (Rotten Tomatoes)
So, there you are, 18 of the very best music movies to stream in Ireland. If these don't make you want to learn how to sing or play an instrument, frankly we don't know what will.
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