Concert film

Audiovisual recording of a concert performance

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023) holds the record of the highest-grossing concert film of all time.[1]

A concert film or concert movie is a film that showcases a live performance from the perspective of a concert goer, the subject of which is an extended live performance or concert, by either a musician[2] or a stand-up comedian.[3]

## Early history

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Poster for Concert Magic in 1948 at the Towne Cinema in Toronto, Ontario

One of the earliest-known concert films is the 1944 film Adventure in Music.[4] Another early film is the 1948 picture Concert Magic. This concert features virtuoso violinist Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) at the Charlie Chaplin Studios in 1947. Together with various artists he performed classical and romantic works of famous composers such as Beethoven, Wieniawski, Bach, Paganini and others.[5]

The earliest known jazz concert film is the 1959 film Jazz on a Summer's Day. The film was recorded during the fifth annual Newport Jazz Festival.[6] The earliest known rock concert film is Rock’n’Roll, a 1959 feature film produced by the promoter Lee Gordon. As it also features some Jazz performances and was released prior to Jazz on a Summers Day, it arguably has claims to being the first Jazz concert film as well.

A latter notable concert film, the T.A.M.I. Show, featured acts such as The Beach Boys, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and the Rolling Stones.[7]

One of popular music's most ground-breaking concert films is Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972), directed by Adrian Maben, in which Pink Floyd perform a short set of songs inside the amphitheatre of Pompeii without an audience (save for the recording crew).

## Examples

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### Rockumentary

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The term "rockumentary" was first used by Bill Drake in the 1969 History of Rock & Roll radio broadcast and is a portmanteau of "rock" and "documentary".[8][9] The term was subsequently used to describe concert films containing appearances by multiple artists.[10][11] Then, in 1976, the term was used by the promoters of the live musical production Beatlemania which documented the evolving career of The Beatles.[12] The 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap notably parodied the rockumentary genre.[13]

### Others

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Other examples of this type of film include Menudo's 1981 film, Menudo: La Película, and Duran Duran's 85-minute 1984 video, Sing Blue Silver. The former mixes a Menudo concert (in Merida, Venezuela) with movie scenes and a plot, while the latter follows Duran Duran as they travel around Canada and the United States doing concerts and actual tourism.

## Highest-grossing concert films

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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, which has grossed $267 million worldwide,[14][15] is the highest-grossing concert film of all time; the previous record for the concert film was held by Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011).[16][17]

† Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 1 August 2025 in theaters around the world.

Highest-grossing concert films[18] Rank  | Title  | Year  | Performer  | Type  | Worldwide gross

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1  | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | 2023  | Taylor Swift | Music  | $267,100,000[15]
2  | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | 2011  | Justin Bieber | $99,034,125
3  | Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | 2008  | Miley Cyrus | $70,712,099
4  | One Direction: This Is Us | 2013  | One Direction | $68,233,799
5  | Eddie Murphy Raw | 1987  | Eddie Murphy | Stand-up  | $50,504,655
6  | Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé | 2023  | Beyoncé | Music  | $44,389,684
7  | The Original Kings of Comedy | 2000  | Steve Harvey · D.L. Hughley · Cedric the Entertainer · Bernie Mac | Stand-up  | $38,236,338
8  | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | 1982  | Richard Pryor | $34,970,309
9  | Woodstock | 1970  | Various  | Music  | $34,699,266[19]
10  | Katy Perry: Part of Me | 2012  | Katy Perry | $32,700,439
12  | Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain | 2013  | Kevin Hart | Stand-up  | $32,327,255
13  | Metallica Through the Never | 2013  | Metallica | Music  | $31,900,000
14  | Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience | 2009  | Jonas Brothers | $30,428,831
15  | BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas | 2023  | BTS | $29,291,883
16  | Madonna: Truth or Dare | 1991  | Madonna | $29,012,935
17  | U2 3D | 2008  | U2 | $26,170,402
18  | Kevin Hart: What Now? | 2016  | Kevin Hart | Stand-up  | $23,591,043
19  | Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat | 2002  | Martin Lawrence | $19,184,820
20  | Glee: The 3D Concert Movie | 2011  | Glee | Music  | $17,462,398
21  | Richard Pryor: Here and Now | 1983  | Richard Pryor | Stand-up  | $16,156,776
22  | Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers | 2021  | The Chosen | Religion  | $13,388,000
23  | You So Crazy | 1994  | Martin Lawrence | Stand-up  | $10,184,701
24  | Burn the Stage: The Movie | 2018  | BTS | Music  | $9,881,954
25  | U2: Rattle and Hum | 1988  | U2 | $8,600,823
26  | Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires | 2022  | Coldplay | $8,400,000[20]
27  | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | 2011  | Kevin Hart | Stand-up  | $7,712,436
28  | Mayday Life | 2019  | Mayday | Music  | $7,272,220
29  | The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall | 2012  | The Phantom of the Opera | Stage production  | $7,106,631
30  | Prima Facie | 2022  | Prima Facie | $6,646,622
31  | BTS World Tour: Love Yourself in Seoul | 2019  | BTS | Music  | $6,587,004
32  | Stop Making Sense | 1984  | Talking Heads | $5,694,759
33  | Hamlet | 2015  | Hamlet | Stage production  | $5,350,452
34  | Divine Madness | 2018  | Bette Midler | Music  | $5,318,098
35  | Les Misérables: The Staged Concert | 2019  | Les Misérables | Stage production  | $5,042,935
36  | IM Hero: The Final | 2023  | Lim Young-woong | Music  | $4,514,656
37  | National Theatre Live: The Audience | 2013  | The Audience | Stage production  | $4,330,068
38  | Romeo and Juliet (Secret Cinema 2018) | 2018  | Romeo and Juliet | $4,282,983
39  | André Rieu 2018 Maastricht Concert | 2018  | André Rieu | Music  | $3,869,719
40  | André Rieu: 70 Years Young | 2020  | $3,788,405
41  | Miss Saigon 25th Anniversary Performance | 2016  | Miss Saigon | Stage production  | $3,720,532
42  | Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams | 2018  | Coldplay | Music  | $3,500,000[21]
44  | André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert | 2019  | André Rieu | $3,495,372
44  | National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | 2011  | Frankenstein | Stage production  | $3,351,486
45  | Let's Spend the Night Together | 1983  | The Rolling Stones | Music  | $3,282,561
46  | Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor | 2017  | Floyd Mayweather Jr. · Conor McGregor | Sports  | $3,250,019
47  | André Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert | 2016  | André Rieu | Music  | $3,220,727
48  | The Winter's Tale | 2015  | The Winter's Tale | Stage production  | $3,097,621
49  | André Rieu's 2017 Maastricht Concert | 2017  | André Rieu | Music  | $3,097,621
50  | The Met: Live in HD – Aida | 2013  | Aida | $2,943,797

### Music

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The top 15 are among the highest-grossing concert films. André Rieu is the most frequent performance with 13 titles on the list.

† Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 1 August 2025 in theaters around the world.

Highest-grossing music concert films[18] Rank  | Title  | Year  | Performer  | Worldwide gross

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1  | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | 2023  | Taylor Swift | $267,100,000[15]
2  | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | 2011  | Justin Bieber | $99,034,125
3  | Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert | 2008  | Miley Cyrus | $70,712,099
4  | One Direction: This Is Us | 2013  | One Direction | $68,233,799
5  | Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé | 2023  | Beyoncé | $44,043,065
6  | Woodstock | 1970  | Various  | $34,699,266[19]
7  | Katy Perry: Part of Me | 2012  | Katy Perry | $32,700,439
8  | Permission to Dance on Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing | 2022  | BTS | $32,600,000
9  | Metallica Through the Never | 2013  | Metallica | $31,900,000
10  | Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience | 2009  | Jonas Brothers | $30,428,831
11  | BTS: Yet to Come in Cinemas | 2023  | BTS | $29,291,883
12  | Madonna: Truth or Dare | 1991  | Madonna | $29,012,935
13  | U2 3D | 2008  | U2 | $26,170,402
14  | Burn the Stage: The Movie | 2018  | BTS | $20,347,513
15  | U2: Rattle and Hum | 1988  | U2 | $8,600,823
16  | Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires | 2022  | Coldplay | $8,400,000[20]
17  | Mayday Life | 2019  | Mayday | $7,272,220
18  | BTS World Tour: Love Yourself in Seoul | 2019  | BTS | $6,587,004
19  | Stop Making Sense | 1984  | Talking Heads | $5,694,759
20  | Divine Madness | 2018  | Bette Midler | $5,318,098
21  | IM Hero: The Final | 2023  | Lim Young-woong | $4,514,656
22  | André Rieu 2018 Maastricht Concert | 2018  | André Rieu | $3,869,719
23  | André Rieu: 70 Years Young | 2020  | $3,788,405
24  | Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams | 2018  | Coldplay | $3,500,000[21]
25  | André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert | 2019  | André Rieu | $3,495,372
26  | Let's Spend the Night Together | 1983  | The Rolling Stones | $3,282,561
27  | André Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert | 2016  | André Rieu | $3,220,727
28  | André Rieu's 2017 Maastricht Concert | 2017  | $3,097,621
29  | The Met: Live in HD – Aida | 2013  | Aida | $2,943,797
30  | The Beatles Get Back: The Rooftop Concert | 2022  | The Beatles | $2,881,726
31  | André Rieu's 2015 Maastricht Concert | 2015  | André Rieu | $2,862,599
32  | André Rieu: Christmas with Andre 2016 | 2016  | $2,809,890
33  | André Rieu's Sydney Town Hall Concert – An Australian Celebration | 2018  | $2,806,603
34  | Greatest Hits Live | 2019  | Take That | $2,549,176
35  | Depeche Mode: Spirits in the Forest | 2019  | Depeche Mode | $2,442,030
36  | André Rieu's 2014 Maastricht Concert | 2014  | André Rieu | $2,190,155
37  | Metallica & San Francisco Symphony S&M2 | 2019  | Metallica · San Francisco Symphony | $2,179,640
38  | Billie Eilish Live at the O2 | 2023  | Billie Eilish | $2,117,195
39  | André Rieu 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love is All Around | André Rieu | $1,897,239
40  | André Rieu Live in Dublin | $1,826,384
41  | N'SYNC: Bigger Than Live | 2001  | NSYNC | $1,808,679
42  | Cliff Richard Live: 60th Anniversary Tour | 2018  | Cliff Richard | $1,686,021
43  | Rammstein: Paris | 2017  | Rammstein | $1,658,090
44  | Twenty One Pilots: Cinema Experience | 2022  | Twenty One Pilots | $1,560,000
45  | André Rieu: Christmas with André 2021 | 2021  | André Rieu | $1,559,304
46  | Take That Live 2015 | 2015  | Take That | $1,553,608
47  | Take That: Wonderland Live from the O2 | 2017  | $1,422,889
48  | Big Bang Made | 2016  | BigBang | $1,404,745
49  | André Rieu's: Magical Maastricht – Together in Music | 2020  | André Rieu | $1,295,288
50  | David Gilmour Live at Pompei | 2017  | David Gilmour | $1,273,347

### Stand-up

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Highest-grossing stand-up concert films[18] Rank  | Title  | Year  | Performer  | Worldwide gross

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1  | Eddie Murphy Raw | 1987  | Eddie Murphy | $50,504,655
2  | The Original Kings of Comedy | 2000  | Steve Harvey · D.L. Hughley · Cedric the Entertainer · Bernie Mac | $38,236,338
3  | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | 1982  | Richard Pryor | $34,970,309
4  | Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain | 2013  | Kevin Hart | $32,327,255
5  | Kevin Hart: What Now? | 2016  | $23,591,043
6  | Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat | 2002  | Martin Lawrence | $19,184,820
7  | Richard Pryor: Here and Now | 1983  | Richard Pryor | $16,156,776
8  | Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy | 1994  | Martin Lawrence | $10,184,701
9  | Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain | 2011  | Kevin Hart | $7,712,436
10  | The Fluffy Movie | 2014  | Gabriel Iglesias | $2,827,393
11  | Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic | 2005  | Sarah Silverman | $1,324,244

### Stage production

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† Background shading indicates films playing in the week commencing 1 August 2025 in theaters around the world.

Highest-grossing stage production concert films[18] Rank  | Title  | Year  | Performance  | Worldwide gross

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1  | The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall | 2012  | The Phantom of the Opera | $7,106,631
2  | Prima Facie | 2022  | Prima Facie | $6,646,622
3  | Hamlet | 2015  | Hamlet | $5,350,452
4  | Les Misérables: The Staged Concert | 2019  | Les Misérables | $5,042,935
5  | National Theatre Live: The Audience | 2013  | The Audience | $4,330,068
6  | Romeo and Juliet (Secret Cinema 2018) | 2018  | Romeo and Juliet | $4,282,983
7  | Miss Saigon 25th Anniversary Performance | 2016  | Miss Saigon | $3,720,532
8  | National Theatre Live: Frankenstein | 2011  | Frankenstein | $3,351,486
9  | The Winter's Tale | 2015  | The Winter's Tale | $3,097,621
10  | Billy Elliot the Musical Live | 2014  | Billy Elliot the Musical | $2,815,788
11  | The London Palladium: The King and I | 2018  | The King and I | $2,692,907
12  | George Balanchine's The Nutcracker | 2011  | The Nutcracker | $2,119,994
13  | National Theatre Live: Present Laughter | 2019  | Present Laughter | $2,033,526
14  | A Little Life | 2023  | A Little Life | $2,033,043
15  | Kinky Boots – The Musical | 2020  | Kinky Boots – The Musical | $1,997,631
16  | National Theatre Live: A View From the Bridge | 2015  | A View From the Bridge | $1,943,723
17  | Met Opera: Porgy and Bess | 2020  | Porgy and Bess | $1,913,398
18  | National Theatre Live: Follies | 2017  | Follies | $1,842,192
19  | Met Opera: La Boheme | 2018  | La Boheme | $1,774,848
20  | National Theatre Live: One Man Two Guvnors | 2011  | One Man Two Guvnors | $1,714,891
21  | National Theatre Live: All About Eve | 2019  | All About Eve | $1,710,659
22  | Met Opera: Madama Butterfly | 2019  | Madama Butterfly | $1,696,923
23  | National Theatre Live: Good | 2023  | Good | $1,674,053
24  | National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men | 2014  | Of Mice and Men | $1,664,500
25  | Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker | 2017  | The Nutcracker | $1,635,459
26  | National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy | 2019  | The Lehman Trilogy | $1,531,395
27  | Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker | 2018  | The Nutcracker | $1,512,712
28  | Met Opera: Turandot (2018) Encore (2018) | 2018  | Turandot · Encore | $1,500,000
29  | Met Opera: Der Rosenkavalier | 2017  | Der Rosenkavalier | $1,498,974
30  | The Nutcracker Royal Ballet | 2015  | The Nutcracker | $1,494,137
31  | All My Sons | 2019  | All My Sons | $1,454,828
32  | Met Opera – Agrippina | 2020  | Agrippina | $1,453,796
33  | No Man's Land – NT Live 2016 | 2016  | No Man's Land | $1,380,144
34  | Allelujah! | 2018  | Allelujah! | $1,347,137
35  | De Club van Sinterklaas & Het Grote Pietenfees | 2020  | De Club van Sinterklaas | $1,336,192
36  | National Theatre Live: Hansard | 2019  | Hansard | $1,318,622
37  | National Theater Live 2017: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | 2017  | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | $1,245,590
38  | NT Live: Yerma | 2017  | Yerma | $1,238,299
39  | Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo & Juliet 2016 | 2016  | Romeo and Juliet | $1,223,663
40  | National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night | 2017  | Twelfth Night | $1,210,769
41  | National Theater Live: Cyrano de Bergerac | 2020  | Cyrano de Bergerac | $1,195,764
42  | The Nutcracker – Royal Opera, London | 2016  | The Nutcracker | $1,188,225
43  | National Theatre Live: Small Island | 2019  | Small Island | $1,180,476
44  | National Theater Live Amadeus | 2017  | Live Amadeus | $1,151,772
45  | NT Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | 2016  | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | $1,135,686
46  | Royal Opera House Swan Lake | 2018  | Swan Lake | $1,131,961
47  | Royal Opera House The Sleeping Beauty | 2020  | Sleeping Beauty | $1,097,859
48  | National Theater Live Hedda Gabler | 2017  | Hedda Gabler | $1,085,982
49  | National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 2018  | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | $1,071,526
50  | Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake | 2019  | Swan Lake | $1,068,862

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* Contemporary Western
* Dacoit Western
* Fantasy
* Florida
* Horror
* Meat pie
* Northern
* Ostern
* Revisionist
* Science fiction
* Singing cowboy
* Space
* Spaghetti
* Weird Western
* Zapata Western

By movement
or period|

* Absolute
* American eccentric cinema
* Australian New Wave
* Auteur films
* Berlin School
* Bourekas
* Brighton School
* British New Wave
* Kitchen sink realism
* Budapest school
* Calligrafismo
* Cannibal boom
* Cinéma du look
* Cinema Novo
* Cinema of Moral Anxiety
* Cinema of Transgression
* Cinéma pur
* Commedia all'italiana
* Czechoslovak New Wave
* Documentary Film Movement
* Dogme 95
* Erra Cinema
* European art cinema
* Film d'art
* Film gris
* Free Cinema
* French Impressionist
* French New Wave
* German Expressionist
* German underground horror
* Golden Age of Argentine cinema
* Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
* Golden Age of Nigerian Cinema
* Grupo Cine Liberación
* Heimatfilm
* Hollywood on the Tiber
* Hong Kong New Wave
* Indiewood
* Iranian New Wave
* Italian futurist
* Italian neorealist
* Japanese New Wave
* Kammerspielfilm
* L.A. Rebellion
* Lettrist
* Modernist film
* Mumblecore
* Neorealist
* New French Extremity
* New German
* New generation
* New Hollywood
* New Nollywood
* New Objectivity
* New Queer
* No Wave
* Nuevo Cine Mexicano
* Pan-Indian film
* Parallel cinema
* Persian Film
* Philippine New Wave
* Poetic realist
* Polish Film School
* Poliziotteschi
* The Prague film school
* Prussian film
* Pure Film Movement
* Remodernist
* Romanian New Wave
* Slow cinema
* Spaghetti Western
* Socialist realist
* Social realist
* Kitchen sink realism
* Soviet parallel
* Structural
* Surrealist
* Sword-and-sandal
* Taiwan New Cinema
* Telefoni Bianchi
* Thai New Wave
* Third Cinema
* Toronto New Wave
* Vulgar auteurism
* Yugoslav Black Wave

By demographic|

* Adult
* Black
* Children and family
* Anime
* Men
* Seinen
* Stag
* Teen
* Shōnen
* Shōjo
* Women
* Chick flick
* Josei

By format,
technique,
approach,
or production|

* 3D
* Actuality
* Animation
* Anime
* Art
* Cartoon
* Computer
* Stop-motion
* Traditional
* Anthology
* Art
* B movie
* Behind-the-scenes
* Black-and-white
* Blockbuster
* Cinéma vérité
* Classical Hollywood cinema
* Collage
* Color
* Compilation
* Composite
* Computer screen
* Cult
* midnight movie
* Database cinema
* Direct-to-video
* ONA
* OVA
* Docufiction
* Ethnofiction
* Experimental
* Abstract
* Feature
* Featurette
* Film à clef
* Film-poem
* Found footage
* High concept
* Hyperlink cinema
* Independent
* Guerrilla filmmaking
* List of American independent films
* Interstitial art
* Live action
* animation
* Low-budget
* Major film studios
* Masala
* Maximalist film
* Message picture
* Meta-film
* Minimalist film
* Mockbuster
* Modernist film
* Musical short
* Mythopoeia
* Neorealist
* No-budget
* One-shot
* Paracinema
* Participatory
* Poetry
* Postmodernist
* Reverse motion
* Satire
* Sceneggiata
* Semidocumentary
* Serial
* Shinpa
* Short
* Silent
* Slow cinema
* Socialist realist
* Sound
* Television film
* Underground
* Video nasty
* Vulgar auteurism
* Z movie

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Lists of films by genre and themes

* Action
* Martial arts
* Mixed martial arts
* Ninja
* Adventure
* Pirate
* Swashbuckler
* Animation
* Avant-garde
* Biographical
* Blaxploitation
* Children's
* Animation
* Christian
* Comedy
* Parody
* Crime
* Disaster
* Documentary
* Drama
* Historical
* Slavery
* Erotic
* Fantasy
* Sword and sorcery
* Horror
* Comedy horror
* Disaster
* Eco
* Ghosts
* Mummy
* Natural
* Vampire
* Zombie
* LGBTQ
* Melodrama
* Mockumentary
* Monster
* Giant-monster
* Musical
* Live musical
* Mystery
* Noir
* Neo-noir
* Prison
* Religious
* Romance
* Romantic comedy
* Satire
* Science fiction
* Apocalyptic
* Body swap
* Dystopia
* Extraterrestrials
* Sci-fi action
* Sci-fi comedy
* Sci-fi horror
* Superhero
* Time travel
* Spy
* Sports
* Teen
* Thriller
* Erotic
* War
* Anti-war
* Western
* Euro
* Spaghetti

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