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Vladislav Lavrov is the owner of a powerful construction empire. He is lucky in everything – the business is booming, his beautiful wife is making a breakneck career on stage, and his beloved daughter is on television. But one day, his old friend Sasha Frolov appears in Lavrov's house. He is poor, terminally ill, and everyone calls him Sasha the Saxophone for his virtuoso playing of the instrument. This man completely destroys Lavrov's stable and orderly life in one day. "Solo on the Saxophone" will reveal to us the secrets of this family and this friendship one by one, as well as the main secret that binds former friends, now a criminal and a construction magnate.

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Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as the greatest living jazz improviser. In 1986, filmmaker Robert Mugge produced Saxophone Colossus, a feature-length portrait of Rollins, named after one of his most celebrated albums.

A man stumbles upon a saxophone.

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Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an education, so they change places.

A serenade to life and virtue with the luscious tune of the alto saxophone. They said he couldn't do it, they said he wouldn't... He did. They didn't know what to say.

The saxophonist arrives at the recording studio and enters hesitantly – the light is off, the chairs and tripods are in disarray.

A teenage son arrives on vacation to a chaotic surfer father. Over the summer, he needs to decide on an instrument for music school. Will the father be able to help his son make the right choice?

The Lick of Death follows Clyde Saxophone in another dastardly case. A new mysterious criminal has emerged and it’s up to Clyde Saxophone to stop them. Does he have what it takes to solve this enigma? Or will he get lost in the sauce? Laugh, cry, vomit, and piss yourself just a little bit in this breakout classic from award-winning directors Dan Griffiths and Magnus Paulak

C/U of the artists hand as he draws a wheel with something moving inside it. When the wheel suddenly expands it turns out to be Jerry sleeping in front of a fire. Jerry snores and his back moves up and down. In another room a man prepares to play a saxophone. The man has a stretchy neck which extends when he looks at his music. He plays and notes come swaying out of the instrument. He taps his foot. Some of the notes turn up in the room where Jerry is sleeping and they move around and over his body.

Grammy-winning composer Michael Kamen delights fans with his Concerto for Saxophone featuring David Sanborn and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. Special guests include Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Gilmour and Ray Cooper. The late Kamen was famous for his collaborations with bands Pink Floyd, Aerosmith and Metalica as well as for his work on songs for the films Mr. Holland's Opus and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

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A ten year old boy finds spiritual connection for the first time.

Poet Kamau Daáood, “the word musician,” looks at survival as an oral poet in an electronic age, with interpretations of his work by musicians Billy Higgins, Nirankar Singh Khalsa, Dadisi Komolafe, Roberto Miranda, artist Gale Fulton Ross, martial artist Dadisi Sanyika and dancer Lula Washington.

A sad man goes to a river to face the music. He never intended to do it so literally.

A behind the scenes documentary from the set of Johnny Fort’s “Sonnet 139."

In Petri Luukkainen’s combination of music documentary and personal portrait, we get to know the mental landscape of saxophonist Timo Lassy, who has long been one of the foremost names in Finnish jazz. “What makes me happy as a person and an artist?” asks Lassy, who is struggling with aging and life changes and has realized that he cannot continue living as before.

The film tells the story of Veronika Kozhukharova, a red-haired orphanage girl who managed to realize the "Ukrainian dream" and became a classical saxophone star at the age of 23.

Zofira Kiniorska conducts a concert entitled ‘Classique et engagé-e-x!’ (Classical and politically engaged!), devoted to women composers. For the occasion, the Polish conductor has devised a programme ranging from Mel Bonis to Sandrine Rudaz, with saxophonist Valentine Michaud as soloist.

Queen Poppy and Branch make a surprising discovery — there are other Troll worlds beyond their own, and their distinct differences create big clashes between these various tribes. When a mysterious threat puts all of the Trolls across the land in danger, Poppy, Branch, and their band of friends must embark on an epic quest to create harmony among the feuding Trolls to unite them against certain doom.

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, scream, regain a lost brotherhood. Overcome this silence! That’s how some young German, British, Dutch, Belgian… musicians made Europe exist long before Maastrich and have kept on cherishing, imperturbably, their freedom! They are no longer twenty-year-olds, but others have followed. They set themselves one constraint: reinvent everything every time. A way to take the very instant into account, to let the unexpected in, to match to the world.

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone. Clarence ingratiates himself with the wealthy and eccentric Wheeler family, though daughter Cora can't stand the boy.

An elderly street guitarist is helped by a unique passerby after being robbed. Together they will try to recover the lost money.

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her bizarre, unemployed, wise-cracking brother and various neighbors while keeping house in their Brooklyn tenement.

In downtown Manhattan, twentysomething Allie, whose father is not around and whose mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost subconsciously searches for meaning in his life and meets some idiosyncratic characters along the way.

It is about a music school in Philadelphia, The Paul Green School of Rock Music, run by Paul Green that teaches kids ages 9 to 17 how to play rock music and be rock stars. Paul Green teaches his students how to play music such as Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa better than anyone expects them to by using a unique style of teaching that includes getting very angry and acting childish.

Tells the story of a boy, a saxophone, a girl, and a rainy afternoon to show how the moments in one's life are usually small and often go unnoticed.

A telegraph postal union worker has no luck when asks a pretty co-worker to marry him. She says he'd have to be a magician to get her to say yes. Things are complicated when, as a favor to a stuttering acquaintance, he takes his overweight girlfriend to the movies to propose to her by proxy. Unfortunately the pretty co-worker spots him with her in the theater, so he begins to learn magic tricks.

Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.

"Ballroom" is an inclusive wheelchair ballroom dance movie about a struggling dancer, Violet, who needs the help of the charming ballroom dance instructor, Petro Saenko, to learn all the Latin dances in two weeks for an upcoming crucial audition. When Violet's depressive mother, Janet, causes her to have a devastating car accident and become paraplegic, Petro helps Violet regain her love for life by showing her she can still dance and audition -- in a wheelchair. However, Violet's controlling mother and Petro's fiery jealous business partner, Emery, will stop at nothing to prevent Violet from realizing her dreams.

Surpresa (Surprise) is a short documentary animation made using a recorded conversation (that is, not acted, not rehearsed, not scripted…) between a mother, Joana, and her three-year-old daughter, Alice, who is recovering from kidney cancer. They both talk – openly and frankly – about the illness, their present circumstances, struggles and successes.