Hector Lavoe is one of the most important music icons of Puerto Rico. The film shows us his path to celebrity, all the mixed feelings and unexpected situations.

His passionate relationship with Puchi is also an important part of his life. Unfortunately, it is not enough to keep him away from drugs and drinking.

Release Date: 3 August 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, John Ortiz, Vincent Laresca

Director: Leon Ichaso

Sometime in the sixties, in the middle of anti-war protests, of the fight for freedom of speech and civil rights, for mind exploring and rock’n roll, people did not stop falling in love.

Even from the beginning, we see different backgrounds for the stories, starting with high schools and going to universities in Massachussets, Princeton, Ohio.

Then we move all the way to Manhattan, or to Detroit, or in the middle of the Vietnam conflicts or on the Liverpool docks.

The film combines successfully real life scenes with animated ones, having as soundtracks many of the classic Beatles songs famous in that time.

Release Date:  12 October 2007

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical, Romance

Cast: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Max Carrigan, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther, T.V. Carpio, Salma Hayek, Bono

Director: Julie Taymor

Sacred Planet

“Sacred Planet” tries to present in 45 minutes the most wonderful nature wonders that we have on our planet.

Using the newest technology, this project shows us surprising images of lost tribes from Africa, unique species of plants or animals, breathtaking views that most people only dream to see them.

The musical composition is unrivaled and makes the audience to enjoy at maximum the extraordinary images.

This is the perfect way of seeing the impressive world that we are living in without spending too much money from our wallets.

If you want to see the most exotic and beautiful landscapes, from Alaska’s glaciers to Namibia’s deserts passing through white sand beaches from New Zealand this documentary is what are you looking for.

From the last remaining forests of British Columbia, the red rock canyons of Utah and Arizona, the tropical jungles and underwater mysteries of Borneo to the ancient ruins of Thailand, all gathered in a single piece of art.

Don’t you want to know your world better and to value it even more?

Release Date:  22 April 2004 (USA)

Genre: Documentary, Short

Cast: Robert Redford, Arapata McKay, Tsaan Ciqae, Mae Tui, Cy Peck Jr., Mutang Urud

Director: Jon Long

The Rocker Poster

“The Rocker” is a comedy with a very optimistic message as it emphasizes the fact that it is never too late for dreams to come true.

It supports the idea that you must never stop fighting for your dreams, for what you really like in life, even when the chances to actually succeed seem minimal.

Robert ‘Fish’ Fisherman was, in the 1980′s, a passionate and dedicated drum player in the rock band called Vesuvius; unfortunately he was kicked out of the band without too many explanations exactly before they became famous and appreciated all over the world.

He was forced to get an ordinary job in order to pay his bills, and 20 years later he gets a chance to start his music career all over again when a teen band hires him as their drum player.

Release Date: 20 August 2008

Genre: Comedy, Music

Cast: Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Teddy Geiger, Josh Gad, Emma Stone

Director: Peter Cattaneo

England, 1936. Sisters Ursula and Janet peacefully spend their retirement years in Cornwall.

Peacefully…..until they find a half-dead young man on the beach one morning. They devotedly take care of him and during his convalescence they try to teach him English, in order to communicate better.

They manage to find out that his name is Andrea and that he is Polish and a very talented violin player. The two women fall in love with him and they tend to get really possessive and jealous, but he doesn’t even notice that.

He is in love with Olga Daniloff, the sister of the great violin player Boris Daniloff, now on vacation in Cornwall. She promises him she will help him with his career by introducing him to her brother in London.

Although he is quite attached to the old ladies, Andrea leaves with Olga without telling them a word; he later sends them a portrait of him painted by Olga, a thank you letter and an invitation to his first public concert.

Release Date: 29 April 2005

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Brühl, Miriam Margolyes, Natascha McElhone,

Director: Charles Dance

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La Boheme

The opera “La Bohème” is based on the tragic love story of Mimí and Rodolfo, and it is set in Paris during the 1830s.

Puccini’s most expressive opera shows us the true face of the life of bohemian Parisian artists who enjoyed a very relaxed life and only worked enough to pay for their dinner.

Hungry but cheerful, Rodolfo, the poet, shares a tiny dirty room with Marcello, the painter, and two other friends.

On Christmas Eve, fragile Mimi shows up at their door and Rodolfo falls madly in love with her.

In the meanwhile, Marcello is in a relationship with Musetta, who is more preoccupied with flirting than with the artist standing next to her.

Things between Rodolfo and Mimi go fine for a while, but he is extremely jealous and they finally break up; unfortunately, he does not know she is about to die and they only get a few moments of love before death separates them forever.

Release Date: 19 December 2008

Genre: Music, Romance

Cast: Nicole Cabell, Boaz Daniel, Stéphane Degout, Ioan Holender, Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón

Director: Robert Dornhelm

The Boat That Rocked

“The Boat That Rocked” is a romantic comedy which says the love story between the youth of the ’60 and pop music.

This is about a group of pirates DJs, who captivated Great Britain, giving to the public the music which formed an entire generation opposite to a government who prefers the jazz.

The Count, an American god of radio waves, Quentin, the boss of rock at the radio which was situated in the middle of Northern Sea, on a ship populated by an electric crew of DJs; Gavin, the most famous DJ from Great Britain, recently returned from an American tour and Dave, the most ironic and funniest member of this crew.

All the above will compete with an official character of the government who wants to put an interdiction for the ones who encourage the pop music to a nation he loves too much.

Release Date: 30 April 2009 (Netherlands)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gemma Arterton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson, Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans.

Director: Richard Curtis

Garden Party

“Garden Party” is a drama about a group of confused teenagers from Los Angeles, who dream to become famous as dancers, musicians, photographers or models.

Unfortunately, they are tricked by the devilish Sally St. Clair, a woman who has built her business on her sex-appeal and on some well hidden secrets from her past.

She seems to have a sixth sense to identify the lost souls who are looking for a way in life.

Nathan, Sally’s assistant, moved from Nebraska to Los Angeles hoping to be a known dancer but, because to his lacks of confidence and guidance, he ended up taking porno photos for Sally’s devoted clients.

But hope comes in and even a relation that passes through the borders of friendship, when he meets Sammy, a street boy with music talent, who comes with him to have a roof over his head.

In their group enters April, a 15-year-old beautiful girl who hopes to find a solution without posing nude but, she become a model for Sally’s and Todd’s porn network.

Release Date: 11 July 2008 (USA)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Willa Holland, Vinessa Shaw, Richard Gunn, Erik Smith, Patrick Fischler.

Director: Jason Freeland

La Vie en Rose

From childhood to glory, from victories to sufferings, from Belleville to New York, “La Vie en Rose” presents the unusual life of Edith Piaf.

Along to a highly improbable destiny we discover the soul of an artist and the heart of a woman.

Full of life, fragile and, in the same time, indestructible she dedicated her life until sacrifice becoming an immortal singer.

“L`oiseau de Paris” was named by the press and public, the famous singer Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard).

From the Paris’s pour neighborhoods to the New York’s dazzling lights, the life of the singer was a continuous struggle: to sing, to survive, to love, to live.

Grown in beggary, Edith’s salvation was her magical voice, her passionate romances and friendship that connected her to known names of that time: Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan etc, succeeding as one of the greatest musical figures all over the world.

Release Date: 2007

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gerard Depardieu, Clotilde Courau, Sylvie Testud.

Director: Olivier Dahan

‘Talento de Barrio’ is a film produced by Daddy Yankee, starring Daddy Yankee, Cesar Farrait and Eddie Avila.

Edgar Dinero is a very angry young man who lives in the slums of Puerto Rico, and who is caught in the middle of his the bully life he is leading and the rhythm of life of his neighborhood.

Edgar falls in love with a city girl and slowly grows apart from his neighborhood gang as she mustn’t know anything about the bad world he comes from.

Edgar can run, but he cannot hide….not from the ties with his people and not from corrupted cops.

Soon enough he has to make a decision: to die as king of the underground world, or to live as king of reggaeton.

Release Date: 10 October 2008

Genre: Music, Drama, Crime, Action, Romance

Cast: Daddy Yankee, Maestro, Katiria Soto, César Farrait, Angélica Alcaide, Norma Colón

Director: José Iván Santiago

8 Mile

In 1995, Detroit was one of the most dangerous cities in America; a city of crime, a fallen empire whose nicest neighborhoods have fallen in decay.

The people who made the city so great fled and left behind just a bunch of broken promises; the much promised industrial power was then the starting point of economical and racial problems.

The 8 Mile Road street, which goes around the perimeter of the city, now marks the frontier between the urban and the suburban, between black and white.

Detroit has a long tradition of creativity under pressure, and the music of this town has always expressed the truth about the facts of life there.

The film tells the story of Jimmy Smith, a young man from Detroit, also known as B-Rabbit. We can see how Jimmy got to be famous, where he started off, how he had to face strong opposition from several groups living in other neighborhoods than his own.

Despite all that, he did it; a white boy managed to improvise rap lyrics on a scene in front of a real audience, and there couldn’t have been a better choice than Eminem to achieve it.

Release Date: 8 November 2002

Genre: Drama, Music

Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Britanny Murphy

Director: Curtis Hanson

Nathaniel Ayers was diagnosed with schizophrenia during his second year of Conservatory, which

gradually turned him into a homeless person. Impressed by the violn player’s talent, Steve Lopez wrote a series of articles that helped him give a concert in the Disney Concert Hall.

Jamie Foxx plays the part of the musician, while Robert Downey Jr. is the journalist. Catherine Keener, who seems to be really appreciated this year, also plays a part in the film.

We have reasons to believe this film has good chances to win an Oscar, if not for one of the actors, at least for its director, Joe Wright, whom we all know from ‘Pride and Prejudice’.

Release Date: 13 March 2009

Genre: Biography, Drama, Music

Cast: Jamie Foxx (Nathaniel Anthony Ayers), Robert Downey Jr. (Steve Lopez),

Director: Joe Wright

She is a great singer and a great dancer and, along with her sister, she puts on the best show in town: hundreds, thousands of men come to see them.

But one night Velma’s sister does not show up and she has to go on stage and sing all alone; she does not get the chance to sing too much, as the police come in and arrest her for having murdered her sister.

They said she had killed her sister after finding out that she was having an affair with her lover. A witness to all this is Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger), a young singer who dreams about becoming a great star, just like Velma. Roxie’s life is also complicated; she is married to a plain and boring man (John C. Reilly), and has a lover who promises he will help her achieve success. The problem is he is telling lies, and when she finds out she shoots him to death.

Velma and Rosie are now jail mates, and the only way to escape the death row is by hiring the best lawyer in town, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere). Billy sees real star material in Rosie and decides to transform her into a media attraction; she soon becomes very famous, even without singing, but one never knows how things may turn out….

Both of them have to make their own way in life, so they want to fully enjoy the free moments they’ve got left, after the basketball championship trainings and the graduation prom preparations.

In order to make their last night together an unforgettable one, they decide to create a big musical, in which to involve the rest of the Wildcats as well. The “High School Musical” saga has reached its third sequel and it is still a movie about teenage love, catchy songs and incredible choreographies.

Disney entrusted this project to the same director of the first two movies, Kenny Ortega. As for the cast, no major changes have been made; Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens are still America’s perfect teenage couple, Ashley Tisdale is still playing the trouble-making Sharpay; Corbin Bleu, Olesya Rulin and Monique Coleman are also present.

Besides the fact that Notorious B.I.G. was a very famous rap singer, he was also a great story teller. He used to tell stories about the violent life of the streets of New York. The stories are presented in the film in a very realistic way. The movie also presents th conflict between Notorious B.I.G. and his rival, Tupac Shakur. ‘Notorious’ is a mixture of biography, drama and music.

Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records puts on film the periods of glory and decay of Chess Records Music Studios, which have launched legends of blues and rock’n roll such as Muddy Waters, Little Water, Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James or Chuck Berry.

The story of how blues music became so popular and then gave birth to rock’n roll starts in 1947, in a bar in Chicago, owned by a Polish immigrant called Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody). To entertain his customers he hired a talented but undisciplined band, formed by the calm and cerebral guitar player Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) and the impulsive harmonica player Little Walter (Columbus Short).

After Muddy Walters got his first record out, Little Walter went solo as well; but his bad temper often got him into trouble, and the only person he could talk to was Muddy’s girlfriend Geneva Wade (Gabrielle Union).

Only in 1955 did a black man from St. Louis, one of Chess’ friends, manage to become famous in a world of white singers. Unfortunately Chuck Berry (Mos Def), the founder of rock’n roll music, was arrested and imprisoned at the peak of his career.

The one who took over his place in the Chess Studio star gallery was Etta James (Beyonce Knowles), a young woman with severe emotional problems, whose vulnerability tested Leonard’s patience in the most unexpected moments and ways.

Release date: 5 December 2008

Genre: Drama, Musical

Cast:

Adrien Brody – Leonard Chess

Jeffrey Wright – Muddy Waters

Mos Def – Chuck Berry

Beyoncé Knowles – Etta James

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