Top 20 movies like Buena Vista Social Club

Buena Vista Social Club

In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group's gigs in Amsterdam and New York City's famed Carnegie Hall, with director Wim Wenders capturing not only the music -- but also the musicians' life stories.

Buena Vista Social Club is of 1 hour(s) and 45 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Kintop Pictures, ICAIC, ARTE, Wim Wenders Stiftung, Road Movies, Film4 Productions. It was released on 1999-06-04. It has the tagline: In Havana, music isn't a pastime, it's a way of life. It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

Genres: DocumentaryMusic

1. Pina (Pina)

Pina

Pina is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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2. Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht)

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.

It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.

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3. Hammett

Hammett

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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4. Amy Winehouse: I Told You I Was Trouble (Live in London)

Amy Winehouse: I Told You I Was Trouble (Live in London)

Filmed at Sheperd's Bush Empire, the soulful singer from Camden and her band perform songs from both her debut album "Frank" and the international breakthrough "Back to Black". Over the sixty-minute running time, Winehouse also covers classics such as Zuton's "Valerie" and "Monkey Man" by the Maytals. Also included is 'I Told You I Was Trouble', a 50-minute documentary charting Amy's rapid rise to fame.

It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.

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5. Killer Ending

Killer Ending

Agatha Sayers best-selling novel becomes her worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted in a copycat scenario tangled with an obsessive assistant intent on stealing her identity.

It has an average vote of 4.4 on TMDB.

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6. The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel

A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

It has an average vote of 5.91 on TMDB.

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7. Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...

It has an average vote of 6.245 on TMDB.

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8. Palermo Shooting (Palermo Shooting)

Palermo Shooting

After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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9. Beyond the Clouds (Al di là delle nuvole)

Beyond the Clouds

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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10. La trattativa (La trattativa)

La trattativa

(La trattativa)

It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.

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11. Sound of Noise (Sound of Noise)

Sound of Noise

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

It has an average vote of 7.299 on TMDB.

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12. Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt)

Until the End of the World

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

It has an average vote of 6.815 on TMDB.

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13. When We Were Kings

When We Were Kings

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.

It has an average vote of 7.708 on TMDB.

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14. Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.

It has an average vote of 6.004 on TMDB.

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15. Village of the Damned

Village of the Damned

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

It has an average vote of 7.177 on TMDB.

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16. Touching the Void

Touching the Void

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

It has an average vote of 7.51 on TMDB.

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17. Butterfly (La lengua de las mariposas)

Butterfly

The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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18. Man of the House

Man of the House

Texas Ranger Roland Sharp is assigned to protect the only witnesses to the murder of a key figure in the prosecution of a drug kingpin -- a group of University of Texas cheerleaders. Sharp must now go undercover as an assistant cheerleading coach and move in with the young women.

It has an average vote of 5.745 on TMDB.

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19. Queen (Queen)

Queen

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.

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20. Ares (Arès)

Ares

In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.

It has an average vote of 6.117 on TMDB.

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