Drama, Music
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Best of Youth
The Commitments
Shot Pattern
Bloodsport
Red Road
Camille Claudel
Peacock
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
Rob Roy
Housle a sen
It's All Gone Pete Tong
Frailty
What Dreams May Come
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Two Drifters
Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
Norman Granz’ Jazz in Montreaux presents Ella and Basie '79—"The Perfect Match"
Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
De-Lovely
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Best of Youth
IMDB 8.1 | Jun , 2003
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.The Commitments
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1991
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.Shot Pattern
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1982
A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.Bloodsport
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1988
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.Red Road
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2006
Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.Camille Claudel
IMDB 6.8 | Dec , 1988
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.Peacock
IMDB 6.1 | Apr , 2010
A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2007
Based on a true story, Miguel Alexandre's two-part drama focuses on an East German woman and the fight for her children. Spring 1982: Sara Bender, living with her daughters Silvia and Sabine in the East German town of Erfurt, wants to marry her colleague Peter, but shortly before the wedding, her father is killed in a road accident. As the funeral takes place in West Germany, she isn't allowed to got there, so she starts planning to leave her communist home country forever. Trying to flee via Romania, she is caught by the secret service. After years in jail, Sara is ransomed by the West German government, but without her daughters. To draw the world's attention on her desperate situation, she starts demonstrating at the Berlin border crossing Checkpoint CharlieRob Roy
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1995
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.Housle a sen
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1947
The biographical film about the prematurely deceased violin virtuoso Josef Slavík takes place entirely like a haunting dream, in the mind of a feverish artist who remembers how he amazed Paganini himself with his playing.It's All Gone Pete Tong
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2004
A comedy following the tragic life of the legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from being one of the best DJs alive, through a subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.Frailty
IMDB 7 | Apr , 2002
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."What Dreams May Come
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 1998
Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
IMDB 6.8 | Mar , 2008
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.Two Drifters
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2005
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman named Odete descends into madness and claims to be pregnant with the child of her neighbour Pedro, who died in a car crash and is mourned by his boyfriend Rui.Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story
IMDB 7 | May , 1994
After the loss of her husband, comedienne Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa must discover a way to heal their broken relationship and provide each other the strength to start again.Norman Granz’ Jazz in Montreaux presents Ella and Basie '79—"The Perfect Match"
IMDB 9 | Jan , 1979
The two musical masters swing out.Eagles: Hell Freezes Over
IMDB 7.6 | Aug , 1994
The Eagles performed live for the first time in April 1994 after a fourteen-year-long hiatus. Their reunion album’s name was in reference to Don Henley’s quote after the band’s breakup in 1980, when he commented that they would only play together again “when Hell freezes over”. Recorded at the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California for an MTV special, the live sessions produced eleven tracks for the album, including a new acoustic version of “Hotel California”.Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2005
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.De-Lovely
IMDB 6.1 | Jul , 2004
From Paris to Venice to Broadway to Hollywood, the lives of Cole Porter and his wife, Linda Lee Thomas were never less than glamorous and wildly unconventional. And though Cole's thirst for life strained their marriage, Linda never stopped being his muse, inspiring some of the greatest songs of the twentieth century.