Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’. Picture by Macall Polay. © 2025 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Rock and Roll musicians at all times make attention-grabbing topics for biopics, and sometimes win Oscars like within the case of ‘Ray’ or Bohemian Rhapsody.’
Final 12 months, we noticed the discharge of biopics about Bob Marley (‘Bob Marley: One Love’), Amy Winehouse (‘Again to Black’) and Bob Dylan (‘A Full Unknown’), and now we have now ‘Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere’ opening in theaters on October twenty fourth, which stars Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen.
“Everybody is aware of his music. However nobody is aware of the second all the things modified.”
Launch Date: Oct 24, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr
In honor of the brand new movie, Moviefone is counting down the highest 20 Rock and Roll biopics of all time.
NOTE: Because the time period “Rock and Roll” can cowl a number of completely different genres of music, we’re solely together with motion pictures about musical artists who have been recognized for performing standard music throughout the rock style, together with jazz, blues, nation, rap, and so on.
With out additional ado, let’s start!
Lou Diamond Phillips as Ritchie Valens in ‘La Bamba’. Picture: Columbia Footage.
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens (Lou Diamond Phillips) turns into an in a single day rock ‘n’ roll success in 1958, due to a love ballad referred to as “Donna” that he wrote for his girlfriend. However as his star rises, Valens has conflicts together with his jealous brother, Bob (Esai Morales), and turns into haunted by a recurring nightmare of a aircraft crash simply as he begins his first nationwide tour alongside Buddy Holly (Marshall Crenshaw).
“Born into poverty. Destined for stardom. He lived the American dream.”
Launch Date: Jul 24, 1987
Run Time: 1 hr 48 min
Finances: $6,500,000
(L to R) Douglas Sales space, Colson Baker, Daniel Webber and Iwan Rheon as Mötley Crüe in ‘The Grime’. Picture: Netflix.
“Their Music Made Them Well-known, Their Lives Made Them Notorious.”
Launch Date: Mar 22, 2019
Run Time: 1 hr 48 min
Kingsley Ben-Adir as “Bob Marley” in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ from Paramount Footage.
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley (Kingsley Ben-Adir) overcomes adversity to develop into probably the most well-known reggae musician on the planet.
“First he modified music, then he modified the world.”
Launch Date: Feb 14, 2024
Run Time: 1 hr 44 min
Finances: $70,000,000
(L to R) Alia Shawkat as Robin Robins, Riley Keough as Marie Currie, Scout Taylor-Compton as Lita Ford, Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie in ‘The Runaways’. Picture: Summit Leisure.
Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), two rebellious youngsters from Southern California, develop into the frontwomen for the Runaways — the now-legendary group that paved the best way for future generations of feminine rockers. Below the Svengali-like affect of impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), the band turns into an enormous success.
“It is 1975 and so they’re about to blow up.”
Launch Date: Mar 19, 2010
Run Time: 1 hr 46 min
Finances: $10,000,000
Chadwick Boseman as James Brown in ‘Get On Up’. Picture: Common Footage.
A chronicle of James Brown’s (Chadwick Boseman) rise from excessive poverty to develop into one of the influential musicians in historical past.
Launch Date: Aug 1, 2014
Run Time: 2 hr 19 min
Finances: $30,000,000
Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in ‘Miles Forward’. Picture: Sony Footage Classics.
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis (Don Cheadle).
“When you gonna inform a narrative, include some angle.”
Launch Date: Apr 22, 2016
Run Time: 1 hr 40 min
André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in ‘Jimi: All Is by My Facet’. Picture: Darko Leisure.
A drama based mostly on Jimi Hendrix’s (André 3000) life as he left New York Metropolis for London, the place his profession took off.
Launch Date: Could 31, 2014
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
(Left) Sam Riley as Ian Curtis in ‘Management’. Picture: The Weinstein Firm.
The story of Pleasure Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band’s first American tour in 1980.
“He had the spirit, however misplaced the sensation.”
Launch Date: Oct 10, 2007
Run Time: 2 hr 1 min
Finances: $5,000,000
Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in twentieth Century Studios’ ‘Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere’. Picture courtesy of twentieth Century Studios. © 2025 twentieth Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Bruce Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White), a younger musician on the cusp of world superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his previous.
“Everybody is aware of his music. However nobody is aware of the second all the things modified.”
Launch Date: Oct 24, 2025
Run Time: 2 hr
11. ‘Ray’ (2004)
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in ‘Ray’. Picture: Common Footage.
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx) went blind at seven. Impressed by a fiercely impartial mother who insisted he make his personal manner, He discovered his calling and his present behind a piano keyboard. Touring throughout the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a fame after which exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and nation collectively.
“The extraordinary life story of Ray Charles.”
Launch Date: Oct 29, 2004
Run Time: 2 hr 32 min
Finances: $40,000,000
(L to R) Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen in ‘SId and Nancy’. Picture: Palace Footage.
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Intercourse Pistols enterprise out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) is pressured by his band mates to journey with out his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo profession in a hostile metropolis, the turbulent couple positively falls into the depths of drug dependancy.
Launch Date: Nov 7, 1986
Run Time: 1 hr 54 min
Finances: $4,000,000
Paul Dano as Brian Wilson in ‘Love & Mercy’. Picture: Lionsgate.
Within the late Nineteen Sixties, the Seashore Boys’ Brian Wilson (Paul Dano and John Cusack) stops touring, produces “Pet Sounds” and begins to lose his grip on actuality. By the Nineteen Eighties, Wilson, below the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter (Elizabeth Banks).
“The Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson”
Launch Date: Jun 19, 2015
Run Time: 2 hr
Finances: $10,000,000
Taron Egerton as Elton John in ‘Rocketman’. Picture: Paramount Footage.
The story of Elton John’s (Taron Egerton) life, from his years as a prodigy on the Royal Academy of Music by his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin (Jamie Bell).
“Based mostly on a real fantasy”
Launch Date: Could 31, 2019
Run Time: 2 hr 1 min
Finances: $40,000,000
7. ‘Elvis’ (2022)
Austin Butler as Elvis in Warner Bros. Footage’ drama ‘Elvis,’ a Warner Bros. Footage launch. Picture Credit score: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Footage. Copyright: © 2022 Warner Bros. Leisure Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The life story of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) as seen by the difficult relationship together with his enigmatic supervisor, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).
“The Man. The Legend. The King of Rock & Roll.”
Launch Date: Jun 24, 2022
Run Time: 2 hr 39 min
Finances: $85,000,000
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in ‘What’s Love Bought to Do with It’. Picture: Touchstone Footage.
Singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett) rises to stardom whereas mustering the braveness to interrupt free from her abusive husband Ike (Laurence Fishburne).
“Who Wants A Coronary heart When A Coronary heart Can Be Damaged?”
Launch Date: Jun 9, 1993
Run Time: 1 hr 58 min
Finances: $15,000,000
Cate Blanchett as Jude Quinn in ‘I am Not There’. Picture: The Weinstein Firm.
Six actors (Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw) painting six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting varied levels of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to worldwide icon and revealing how Dylan consistently reinvented himself.
“All I can do is be me, whoever that’s.”
Launch Date: Dec 7, 2007
Run Time: 2 hr 15 min
Finances: $20,000,000
(L to R) Reese Witherspoon as June Carter and Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Money in ‘Stroll the Line’.
A chronicle of nation music legend Johnny Money’s (Joaquin Phoenix) life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Solar Data in Memphis, the place he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
“Love is a burning factor.”
Launch Date: Nov 18, 2005
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min
Finances: $28,000,000
Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in ‘The Doorways’. Picture: Tri-Star Footage.
The story of the well-known and influential Nineteen Sixties rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison (Val Kilmer).
“The ceremony is about to start.”
Launch Date: Mar 1, 1991
Run Time: 2 hr 20 min
Finances: $38,000,000
O’Shea Jackson Jr. as O’Shea “Ice Dice” Jackson Sr. in ‘Straight Outta Compton’. Picture: Common Footage.
In 1987, 5 younger males, utilizing brutally trustworthy rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in probably the most harmful place in America into probably the most highly effective weapon they’d: their music. Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr. as O’Shea “Ice Dice” Jackson, Corey Hawkins as Andre “Dr. Dre” Younger, and Jason Mitchell as Eric “Eazy-E” Wright.
“The world’s most harmful occasions created the world’s most harmful group.”
Launch Date: Aug 14, 2015
Run Time: 2 hr 27 min
Finances: $28,000,000
Timothée Chalamet in ‘A Full Unkown’. Picture by Macall Polay, Courtesy of Searchlight Footage. © 2024 Searchlight Footage All Rights Reserved.
Set within the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, ‘A Full Unknown’ follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a people singer to live performance halls and the highest of the charts – his songs and mystique changing into a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electrical rock and roll efficiency on the Newport Folks Competition in 1965.
“The ballad of a real unique.”
Launch Date: Dec 25, 2024
Run Time: 2 hr 20 min
Finances: $65,000,000