Songwriter Movies

A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that combines unseen archive footage from the band and...

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. With his...

Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with...

Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. By chance, he meets...

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job....

This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.

On a one-day business trip to New York, a German business executive falls in love with a singer-songwriter who exposes him to her Brooklyn world and...

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.

In 1948, aspiring songwriter Tony works as a bar pianist; he meets aspiring star Lola, and is immediately smitten. At Manhattan's Copacabana lounge,...

A wealthy socialite bored with her life meets and falls in love with a struggling songwriter on the verge of leaving New York and quitting the music...

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the...

The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.

As summer ends, Ren's bandmates and childhood friends are leaving for college. He struggles to write the lyrics of their final song.

Documentary telling, in her own words, the story of Carole King's upbringing in Brooklyn and the subsequent success that she had.

A hit pop songwriter, who cannot love himself or others, spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Songwriter Ruben does not take life too seriously and at least of all love. After the sudden death of a fling, he finds out he is the father of her...

A documentary about the singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt