Jazz Movies

1950s Soho beats with far more energy than its 21st century counterpart in this vivid time capsule.

Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate...

A documentary about the legendary Jazz player Charlie (Bird) Parker.

Renowned journalist and jazz critic Nat Hentoff tells the story of his longtime colleague, pioneering TV writer/director/producer, Robert Herridge....

The multi-award-winning Finnish documentarian Mika Kaurismäki, brother of Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past), helms the nonfiction...

On the eve of graduation, a high school student finds herself dealing with both college applications and an unfaithful boyfriend.

Oswald the Rabbit puts on a concert for a group of barn animals - but when they discover that he's miming to a record of his idol, Paul Whiteman -...

A young, bored and unhappy 9-5 office worker drifts into daydream at his desk about his true passion of jazz, only to snap back into reality.

As seen and heard by... the Standing on the corner art ensemble, an "Exhibition" Index Film

A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

A monumental homage to Glenn Miller, a one shot film - Glenn Miller 2000. This 26- minute long piece, shot on a circular road in Novi Zagreb in many...

Dependence and demarcation, one's own position in a system that appears open but often allows for nothing structurally. The feeling of constantly...

A scarce and seldom seen cartoon from 1937 with excellent hot jazz and containing caricatures of Cab Calloway, Ted Lewis and Bessie Smith.

Musical performers put on a show in a pawn shop to convince a man to give them the money they need to buy back their instruments.

Inspired by Edvard Munch's "Hands"

The perplexity of time disturbs a young woman's psyche as her wristwatch never stops ticking.