The music biopic genre has been around for about as long as anyone can remember, but it received a breath of fresh air when Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere landed on the 2025 movie schedule. Starring Jeremy Allen White as “The Boss,” the movie focused less on Springsteen’s career as a whole, instead on a single moment in his life: the creation of his landmark 1982 album, Nebraska.
After watching the new music biopic, I got to thinking about other iconic albums that should get a similar treatment. With so many great records having wild, crazy, and exhilarating stories behind the songs that made them classics, I think there’s a lot of potential to recreate the magic in the wake of Deliver Me From Nowhere. Here are the six movies I would love to see…
