Rock: the origin

Seed of the Son

November 2023 •Spanish

Spanish musician Santiago Auserón soaked up the rhythmic wisdom of son during his first visit to Cuba in 1984, an influence he soon transferred to his own work.

POST MORTEM: THE DOCUMENTARY

September 2023 •Spanish

In this medium-length documentary, which goes through emotional and funny moments, we discover how Post Mortem transcended its condition of being a debut album to become an authentic artistic movement.

Razões Africanas

October 2023 •Portuguese

Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!

January 2022 •English

Go deep inside the film tick, tick...BOOM! with director Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor Andrew Garfield and the rest of the film's acclaimed ensemble. The award-winning biopic tells the story of the late Tony Award®-winning legend Jonathan Larson, an artist at a crossroads desperate to tell his story.

O Fim do Mundo, Enfim

February 2016 •Portuguese

Stradivari's Heirs

January 2011 •German

Scientists, luthiers and musicians lead an international quest to recreate the sound of the famous Stradivari violin.

Cat Dylan

Invalid date •Spanish

Pearl Harbor & the Explosions

January 1978 •English

Short LGBT rock musical based around new wave group Pearl Harbor and the Explosions.

ZAUBERWEGE - On the path to music

April 2023 •Italian

Head

November 1968 •English

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary.

The Three Musketeers

December 2012 •Swedish

Tommy

March 1975 •English

After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.

Starmania 78 - le best of

December 1978 •French

Live concert of the french musical with original cast.

Forbidden Zone

March 1980 •English

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and it is up to the Hercules family and friend Squeezit Henderson to rescue her.

Repo! The Genetic Opera

November 2008 •English

By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

July 1982 •English

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Starmania

December 1990 •French

STARMANIA is a cyberpunk rock opera that premiered on stage in 1979. In the near future, most developed countries have merged. Zéro Janvier, CEO of the biggest corporation in "The Occident" (as the new Western state is known) is campaigning to become President on a platform vowing to eliminate the terrorist group The Black Stars and their leader Johnny Rockfort. He has convinced the Stars' information broker Sadia to secretly work for him, while also courting the retiring film star Stella Spotlight. Meanwhile, Johnny Rockfort plans to kidnap television sweetheart Cristal, but he falls in love with her instead. Overlooking all this is Marie-Jeanne, a waitress in the café where the Black Stars meet, and her friend Ziggy, an obsessive David Bowie fan whose dearest wish is to appear on Cristal's music program STARMANIA. The show recounts these entwined love stories set in parallel, touching also on themes of terrorism, totalitarianism, and an individual's right to decide his own destiny.

AD/BC: A Rock Opera

December 2004 •English

An all-singing, all-dancing, star-spangled musical leap around the biblical story of the Nativity, set in 1972. With a comic twist, this familiar story is brought to life through the eyes of the innkeeper. Despairing after a bad year, he contemplates suicide but his attempt is stalled by a voice from above who points out that King Herod is coming to town.

Phantom of the Paradise

October 1974 •English

Singer-songwriter Winslow Leach seeks revenge on the nefarious music producer Swan, who steals both Winslow's music and his favorite singer for the grand opening of his new rock palace, the Paradise.

Strangers in Paradise

January 1984 •English

Mesmerist Jonathan Sage escapes Nazi Germany via a cryogenic tube. In the 1980s, a group of Fascist Americans thaw him out, hoping to use him as a way to rid their community of homosexuals, free-thinkers, and other "radicals."