Best music biopics

Hollywood films love to inspire awe and encourage viewers to pursue their dreams—because, after all, anything is possible! Who knows which viewer might become the next Elvis or Madonna?

And Hollywood loves to do that by featuring successful musicians, bands, and singers as the protagonists of their movies.

Sometimes they're based on real people.

Music biography movies on netflix

Music biography movies on netflix

Female singer biography movies

Music biography books

Movies about singers who died

Recent movies about musicians

Sometimes they're made up.

From obsessed artists to inspirational biopics, here are our picks for the best movies about musicians, bands, and famous singers. (That doesn't mean these are all musicals, by the way!)

Rocketman ()

We saw a flurry of musical film releases in and , with a big trend in biopics.

After the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, Hollywood took to telling another whimsical celebrity's story: Elton John.

Dexter Fetcher directs this glitzy, sequin-studded drama that stars Taron Egerton as the androgynous British pop star.

Rocketman opens with Elton's childhood a