The Sparks Brothers

Jun 18, 2021

2h 20m

★ 7.4

50 years. 25 albums. 345 songs. Unlimited genius.

Overview

Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.

Genres

Documentary

Music

Production Companies

Complete Fiction

MRC Non-Fiction

The Sparks Brothers Trailers

Cast

Self

Ron Mael

Self

Russell Mael

Self

Beck

Self

Gary Stewart

Self

Mike Berns

Self

Jane Wiedlin

Self

Sal Maida

Self

Christi Haydon

Self

Dean Menta

Self

Harley Feinstein

Self

Tony Visconti

Self

Mike Myers

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

5.0

Los otros californios

Sep 1, 2011

Isolated in Mexican South Baja California desert, exciting and fragile, rancher´s life is showed by amazing as unknown characters.

7.7

Punk is not vraiment dead ?!

Jun 1, 2023

No overview available.

8.0

Coluche, une époque formidable

Jun 11, 2021

Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.

8.0

Balladur-Chirac, mensonges et trahisons

Mar 23, 2017

No overview available.

7.2

Top Hat

Aug 29, 1935

Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.

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5.0

Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide

Jun 1, 1971

A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous community formed a cooperative to defend their rights from settlers and colonists, but the government organized a military operation to protect the latter and foreign companies.

9.0

L'Adieu à Solférino

Feb 16, 2019

No overview available.

10.0

Iron Butterflies

Jul 20, 2023

This lesson in political revelation focuses on the shooting down of the Malaysian passenger jet MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014. A meticulous, investigative exposé that lays bare the mechanisms of Russian warfare.

7.0

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Oct 22, 2025

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.

0.0

Die Brust in der Kunst

Jan 28, 2024

The female breast has been a motif for as long as there has been art. For centuries, people have been creating works that showcase this intimate and emotionally charged part of the body. Today, female artists are questioning traditional ideals of beauty and countering the male-dominated perspective of the breast with their own.

10.0

Personal Che

Sep 1, 2007

A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret the legend of Che Guevara at will: from the rebel living in Hong Kong fighting Chinese domination, to the German neonazi preaching revolution and the Castro-hating Cuban. Their testimonies prove that the Argentinian revolutionary's historical impact reverberates still. But like with all legends, each sees what he will, in often contradictory perspectives.

6.6

The Angel of Vengeance: The Female Hamlet

Jan 1, 1976

Hamlet returns home from drama school in United States, after the cold-blooded assassination of her father by her uncle, who has married Hamlet’s mother. After seeing her father’s ghost, Hamlet decides to feign insanity, in order to get to the truth.

7.0

1974, l'alternance Giscard

Oct 5, 2019

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternation of power that did not speak its name opened the doors of power to a reforming president. Abortion, divorce by mutual consent, lowering the age of majority to 18 - in less than two years, the youngest President of the Republic - at the time - carried out reforms with a vengeance, without a united majority in Parliament, before failing in the economic sphere and losing the battle against unemployment. At the age of 90, the former President of the Republic has agreed to look back on these years and gives us a valuable account of his time in power.

0.0

Herbie

Jan 23, 2025

No overview available.

8.5

Corée du Sud, de la K-pop au bouddhisme

Jun 1, 2022

No overview available.

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0.0

The Beach Boys - California Surfin

Jan 1, 2004

No overview available.

5.0

Koho – Future from Forssa

Feb 1, 2022

A documentary about Kari Aro, the distinctive manager of Koho -hockey-stick factory, whose visions were to change the world. Story about the fairy-tale -like success, the destructive power of money and Aro's faith in goodness of people.