Movies: Chet Baker

Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, ...

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least o...

A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico....

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a ...

The pilot, co-pilot, and crew of a bomber try to hit a Korean bridge in bad weather....

A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor....

A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring ...

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style....

Alex, a former mercenary out of business, lives on a yacht anchored off Antibes with his wife, the beautiful and tight Helen and John, a former lover of it. Around this trio, revolves Heidi, an angelic blonde catalyst tragic events that will succeed ...

Chet Baker plows a uniquely individual furrow in the field of jazz. His trumpet playing is beautifully delicate and takes standard ballads into hitherto unexplored emotional territories. Here Chet is accompanied by Michel Grailler on piano and Riccar...

Preiss had the rare chance to salvage a selection of 8mm reeled from his archive; 30 years after it was first shot, this lovingly refashioned material returns as…a luminescent ode to the friends, filmmakers and artists with whom Preiss lived and work...

The story of a light ray falling from a music note. It's also a tribute to a musician... It's the music of a legend, the portrait of a romance. Not long before his death, on November 25, 1987 Chet Baker plays "I'm a fool to want you" for the camera ...

Juliette is twenty years old. She returned from the supermarket and is lost in her thoughts. A man tries to approach... Juliet enters the apartment she shares with William and there's a tension around a message left on the answering machine by a man ...

This performance by legendary jazz horn player Chet Baker was recorded in Tokyo, Japan on June 14, 1987, and features such classics as "Stella by Starlight," "My Funny Valentine," and "I'm a Fool to Want You." Accompanying Baker in the performance ar...

Documentary exploring the meaning and history of cool through the American music that started in the 1940s in the bars of New York and LA, and became known as cool jazz....

A collection of varieties numbers from various night clubs....

This documentary includes performances of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker joined by Michel Graillier and Red Mitchell on piano and Jean-Louis Rassinfosse on bass. Also, an interview with Baker is included....

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Chet Baker silently wanders through an Antonioniesque landscape in a Felliniesque state of wonderment as his improvised trumpet solos alternate between earnestly offering the obvious and mocking the artiness of the whole affair....

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