Danny 'Sweet Touch' Caputo is a young sax player on the verge of crowning his life's dream, to play in the festival that will send him to the top amongst the jazz greats. With just 50 minutes standing between him and his consecration, as he runs over his last simple question more to pass time than anything else. Danny tries to answer, but instead finds himself projected into another world, one populated by the sensual and very real ghosts of his past...

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris b...

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his prese...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording "Daybreak Express", this is a five-minute short of the soo...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished director...

Jim is the drummer for the great black musician Billy Swann. With him, he plays in a club called San...

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

The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by...

In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, de...

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who ne...

In 1955, on his report, a medical examiner wrote in the box: age, “about 53 years”. Charlie Parker n...

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love ...

Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and ...

Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home whe...