Hi, I have some soul movies, can anyone recommend more.

The Five Heartbeats

Ray

Lady sings the Blues

Coast to Coast

Dreamgirls

Temptations

Cheers, Westy

Hi, I have some soul movies, can anyone recommend more.

The Five Heartbeats

Ray

Lady sings the Blues

Coast to Coast

Dreamgirls

Temptations

Cheers, Westy

got the five heartbeats (vhs poor)

& coast to coast

seen ray

not seen the rest are they any good??

chris

Edited November 23, 200717 yr by ChrisOD1964

Dreamgirls is about a female group very much Supremes story

Lady sings the blues, Havent watched it in ages about Billie Holiday starring Diana Ross

Temptations is a film about the temptations using actors, its over 3 hours long and you can get it for about a fiver, worth every penny

Clips available on youtube

on youtube put temptations movie otherwise you get the real temps

HI,

ANYONE REMEMBER ( THE SOULSURVIVORS )

TV MOVIE ON BBC WITH IAN McSHANE , ISAAC HAYES ANTONIO FARGAS (HUGGY BEAR ) & TAUREAN BLACK ( HILL STREET BLUES )

DON'T THINK IT'S FOR SALE ANYWHERE ?? ,CAME OUT MID NINETIES I THINK,

CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS MUCH GOOD OR NOT,

JOE.

The Commitments... ....Excellent brother Rabbit!

Saw a film based on the Dells about 10 years ago, can't remember what it was called though.

Saw a film based on the Dells about 10 years ago, can't remember what it was called though.

The Five heartbeats.

For me this is the best of all the soul films, got everything. make you laugh, make you vry, make you sing, brilliant!

Very similar to the Temps film, but better.

The Five heartbeats.

For me this is the best of all the soul films, got everything. make you laugh, make you vry, make you sing, brilliant!

Very similar to the Temps film, but better.

I thought the Five Heartbeats was the Temps film, what was that called then?

5 Heartbeats IS based on The Dells - check the credits and they also do a track on the album too.

Brill film which covers just about everything soul from civil rights to brotherly love to dodgy deals with managers etc etc - its got the lot and the soundtrack is spot on as well.

5 Heartbeats IS based on The Dells - check the credits and they also do a track on the album too.

So which member of the Dells left the group, died of drugs etc. The Dells were consultants on the film in that writer , producer and director Robert Townsend accompanied them on tour. I am sure they gave him lots of stories which he included in the film. Like the story when Jackie Wilson was hung out of a window.

The Five Heartbeats was mostly an exaggerated film based on The Temptations but given that most of them were alive when it was filmed it could not mention the group. The Temptations Movie was based on the memoirs of sole surviving original member Otis Williams so it would have been difficult to sue.

The ells were formed in the early 50s in Harvey, Illinois by high school friends Marvin Junior, Charles Barksdale, Johnny Funches, Verne Allison, and Michael McGill. In 1961, a frustrated Funches left the group and was replaced by falsetto singer Johnny Carter.

the current line up is still Marvin Junior (lead baritone), John Carter (lead tenor), Charles Barksdale (bass), Michael McGill (baritone) and Verne Allison (second tenor) .that's what over 45 years continuity and their nearest competitors in the longevity state with a stable line up were the Four Tops.

The Commitments... ....Excellent brother Rabbit!

God I can't stand that film! When that film came out in Ireland the amount of people that thought the Committments were Soul music was unreal. People would ask "what kind of music are you into?" "Soul" I would respond. The you would get one of 2 comments: "God I love the Committments as well" or "Not my thing really, you must love the committments?" Then you would try and tell them something about Soul and they wouldn't want to know.

Some folk new what Soul music was up in Dublin and there were a few other Soulies scattered about the rest of the country but generally the masses hadn't a clue. I recall people saying they preferred the Committments to the original artists, I almost wanted to hit them.

Anyhow back to Soul films, that BLUE JUICE with Sean Pertwee and Catherine Zeta Jones from the 90's has Ion/Keb Darge and a few other Soulsters dancing about at a Soul nighter in the west country.

2 that spring to my mind (loosely) are:-

WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT - angela bassett , about ike and tina turner

and THE BLUES BROTHERS

as for the temptations , here it is on imdb and on ebay

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164292/

ebay item number 150185404396

took my daughter to see hairspray..thought i was gonna be bored shitless..but it was alright ...some good tunes and funny but had a serious message too about black music being heard for the first time on tv etc....queen latifa was even called "big maybelle"..she had a record shop...kept looking at the covers and being an anorak as some werent even out when this was supposed to be based....a good xmas prezzie for your kids...would rather sit through that a hundred times than some that are out there!

All I said was it was "based" on The Dells NOT their true story.

Agree ref the Nat Tornapol scene - hanging out the window - and suprise suprise there was a rumoured libel case which was apparently quashed over that!

Still its my choice as best soul film = or am I denied that as well