Top 24 Music Movies Editor's Choice from 2000

A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. Get info on Almost Famous / IMDB / YouTube

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress. More about High Fidelity / IMDB / YouTube

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family. Read about Billy Elliot / IMDB / YouTube

Aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons, comes out of her shell. Info on Coyote Ugly / IMDB / YouTube

An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music. More about Fantasia 2000 / IMDB / YouTube

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman. Check out Sweet and Lowdown / IMDB / YouTube

Five youngsters embrace the 90s clubbing scene on a drug-fuelled weekend of partying in Cardiff. More about Human Traffic / IMDB / YouTube

A group of teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance. Read about Center Stage / IMDB / YouTube

Two inseparable, hormonal, English BFF teen boys, avoided by all others, head to Ibiza with Kevin's parents. Will they lose their virginity there? More about Kevin & Perry Go Large / IMDB / YouTube

Set in the 1880s, chronicles how during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado. Look into Topsy-Turvy / IMDB / YouTube

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit. Check out Bamboozled / IMDB / YouTube

A professional karaoke hustler reconnects with his daughter and a bored suburban businessman turns outlaw karaoke singer, among other plotlines. Info on Duets / IMDB / YouTube

When three rappers want to get even with a pimp, they accidentally unleash a leprechaun who goes on a killing rampage in tha 'hood. Find out about Leprechaun 5: In the Hood / IMDB / YouTube

A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols. Info on The Filth and the Fury / IMDB / YouTube

A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd. Get info on Black & White / IMDB / YouTube

An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot the film like a classic 1930s musical. It tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. Find out about Love's Labour's Lost / IMDB / YouTube

An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene. Find out about Groove / IMDB / YouTube

A live Metallica concert backed by a 80 piece symphony orchestra, conducted by Michael Kamen. Two songs are debuted, - Human and No Leaf Clover. A documentary is included. It also was released on audio CD. Read about Metallica: S&M / IMDB / YouTube

Mona Bergström is a sweet Melodifestivalen-obsessed woman in her 30's. She is married to an unemployed man and they have 4 daughters, all named after her favorite Swedish Melodifestivalen popstars. Her sister is a trans woman with AIDS self-titled Candy. Mona works on a retirement home for disabled people, where she is responsible for taking care of a young man name. Check out Once in a Lifetime / IMDB / YouTube

Charismatic tap dancing Sean tries to find a way out of working at the steel mill. When failure brings him home he starts his own dance group wearing hardhats. He must then find inspiration in the steel mill he once tried to escape. Learn about Bootmen / IMDB / YouTube

Sociology professor by day, famous artist by night. Ersin Balkan finds it harder and harder to balance his dual lives. Check out Abuzer Kadayif / IMDB / YouTube

Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its ultimate setting: Versailles. There are two protagonists - first the title character, Louis XIV, the French sun-king who has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm. Find out about Le roi danse / IMDB / YouTube

A young man who smuggles illegal weapons and people back and forth over the borders between India and Pakistan falls in love with a young woman whose family he helped. Details on Refugee / IMDB / YouTube

An adaptation of Proust's La Prisoniere (book five of Remembrance of Things Past). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love. Read about The Captive / IMDB / YouTube