# Recommend some good musical biopics?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-good-musical-biopics/482199 "2009-01-20T20:19:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-good-musical-biopics/482199/21 "2009-01-22T03:32:14Z")

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For no particular reason, I’m going to rank my top ten among actual (not _ersatz_) biopics we’ve listed:

1. Amadeus
2. Coal Miner’s Daughter
3. The Buddy Holly Story
4. Great Balls of Fire (Not to be taken too seriously. The over the top performance by Dennis Quaid is hilarious.)
5. Walk the Line
6. La Bamba
7. Control
8. Elvis
9. Sid and Nancy
10. Ray

Those are all very good and very much worth watching.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-good-musical-biopics/482199/22 "2009-01-22T03:41:53Z")

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De-Lovely I did see a few years ago and enjoyed, along with Sid and Nancy. I’m putting a lot of these on in my queue. I had no idea John Carpenter did an Elvis movie!

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**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-good-musical-biopics/482199/23 "2009-01-22T13:54:47Z")

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[Tout les matins du monde](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103110/), a french film about the relationship between baroque composer Marin Marais and his teacher Monsieur de Sainte Colombe. Also, one of my favorite soundtrack CDs of all time.

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