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Django

The life story of the legendary gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. He was this handsome gypsy whose music was just reaching the mainstream when a fire started in the gypsy caravan and he rushed in to save his wife (getting badly burned in the process). The doctors wanted to amputate his left hand and right leg, but the gypsies (kidnapped) him and nursed him back to health. He played anyway, until he was captured during WWII by the Nazis, who had outlawed jazz in Europe and wanted to completely exterminate gypsies. His music wound up saving his life." He later became the toast of the Paris jazz set and realized his dream to play with Ellington at Carnegie Hall.

I Saw the Light

Hank Williams, who grows up dirt poor in Alabama during the Depression, skyrockets to fame with 11 No. 1 hits, including classics "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." Williams suffers from spina bifida, which leads him to turn to alcohol and morphine for pain relief. Haunted by demons and bad habits, Williams dies in 1953 at age 29.

Korean Pop Project

An Asian American college student from the U.S. becomes a top competitor on South Korea’s toughest k-pop competition show.

Snoop Dogg Biopic

A biopic of Snoop Dogg - a bonafide rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, producer, DJ, media personality and entrepreneur.

Soul Train

Set in the 1980s, a young man from the L.A. hood looks to his gift for "popping," a street dance, as his way out of the hood.

Soundtrack Of Silence

A college student learns he is going deaf and memorizes his favorite songs to help capture the most important memories of his life — including falling in love.

Space Opera

A fierce musical contest has arisen in the wake of a great galactic war known as the Metagalactic Grand Prix. Part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past, species far and wide compete in feats of song, and dance.

Straight No Chaser

Ten students form an a capella group long before the current craze of high school choral groups. The group plays venues such as Wrigley Field and Carnegie Hall, but the members disband three years later (though the group continued on the university level with new singers). But a few years later, the original group not only gets back together but signs a five-album deal.

The Great Pretender

Based on the autobiography of London-based music promoter Roy Tempest, who organized UK tours in the 1960s for some of America’s biggest soul acts – even though the acts were fakes.

The Three Tenors

Traces the rise and fall, and then another rise and fall and then rise, of a trio of internationally beloved operatic superstars.

Blond Ambition

The story is set in early 1980s New York as Madonna Louise Ciccone works on her first album, struggling in a business that treats women badly, while also dealing with a burgeoning love life and the first hints of fame.

Come Sing, Jimmy Jo

The sudden and unexpected rise to stardom of a young country singer challenges the stability of his family and his own ability to cope with fame.

Idol

Follows a girl who becomes an assistant for a popular singer and then tries to become her.

Insomniac

At the beginning of the rave scene in the early 1990s, Pasquale Rotella becomes a promoter of EDM events starting with 50 people in warehouses in Venice Beach and eventually goes on to to stage events like the Electric Daisy Carnival Flagship Festival, which draws 400,000 to Vegas each June.