List of films about bands

List of feature films about music bands (real or fictional).

• Eddie and the Cruisers (1983) - A Jersey band in the 1960s rises to fame but right before their second album comes out, the master recordings and the lead singer Eddie, mysteriously disappear. Twenty years later, reporter Ellen Barkin, investigates.

• That Thing You Do! (1996) - The Wonders rise to fame for a brief while in the 60s before ultimately becoming a one-hit wonder. Written and directed by Tom Hanks.

• Almost Famous (2000) - Semi-autobiographical story of writer and director Cameron Crowe's life as a teenage journalist already working for Rolling Stone magazine while still in High School.

• Dreamgirls (2006) - Academy-award winning, critically acclaimed story about an all-female African-American singing group in the 1960s starring Beyonce Knowles.

• This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Director Christopher Guest's famous "mockumentary" about a heavy metal band trying to make a comeback while being followed around by a film-maker.

• Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1981) - A cult classic starring Diane Lane about three teenage girls who form a punk band.

• School of Rock (2003) - A heavy metal guitar player voted out of his own band takes work as a substitute teacher for advanced placement kids. But to compete in a battle-of-the-bands with his former mates, the guitarist Jack Black teaches his students to be his replacement rock group.

• Rock Star (film) (2001) - Based loosely on the real story of the replacement lead singer for the band Judas Priest. In the film the band is the fictional "Steel Dragon" and the character is Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg). Cole's life metamorphoses when he transforms from singer of a Steel Dragon tribute band to the actual lead singer of Steel Dragon, replacing his idol in the process.