List of films about bands

Columns: Year | Film/Title | Director ( s ) | Cast/Leads | Notes
1983 | Eddie and the Cruisers | Martin Davidson | Ellen Barkin Tom Berenger | A Jersey band in the 1960s rises to fame but right before their second album comes out , the master recordings and the lead singer Eddie , mysteriously disappear . Twenty years later a reporter investigates | 1984 | Purple Rain | Albert Magnoli | Prince Apollonia Kotero | A singer with a trouble past , the Kid ( Prince ) is a Minneapolis musician on the rise with his band , The Revolution . While trying to avoid making the same mistakes as his father , the Kid navigates the music scene and a rocky relationship with a captivating singer . But a rival musician , Morris ( Morris Day ) , looks to steal the Kid 's spotlight -- and his girl | 1984 | This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | Michael McKean Christopher Guest | A famous mockumentary about a heavy metal band trying to make a comeback while being followed around by a filmmaker | 1986 | Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox | Gary Oldman Chloe Webb | ( Also known as Sid and Nancy : Love Kills ) A 1986 British film which portrays the life of Sid Vicious , bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols . It stars Oldman as Vicious and Webb as his girlfriend , Nancy Spungen . The movie chronicles the lives of the couple and their early deaths | 1987 | La Bamba | Luis Valdez | Lou Diamond Phillips Esai Morales Rosanna DeSoto | Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper | 1987 | Rock ' n ' Roll Nightmare | John Fasano | Jon Mikl Thor | The rock band Triton travels to a remote farmhouse to rehearse only to be attacked by an evil presence there

Example questions:
What was the genre of the 1954 film about a band directed by Anthony Mann ? | What was the genre of the 1956 film about a band directed by Fred F. Sears ? | Who was the writer of the 1975 film about a band directed by Richard Loncraine ? | What was the genre of the 1964 film about a band directed by Richard Lester ?

Answers:
biographical | musical | Andrew Birkin | musical comedy