Purple Rain (1984) DVD

Take a richly-human story of survival and triumph, a new soundtrack by hottest bands around and the startling presence and musicality of rock superstar Prince - the man who lived the music - and you've got what may be in Rolling Stone's words "the smartest, most spiritually ambitious rock-'n'-roll ever made." Winner of Grammy and Academy Awards for its pulsating song song score, Purple Rain marks the electrifuing movie debut of Prince as The Kid, a Minneapolis club musician as alienated as he is talented. The Kid struggles with a tumultuous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sexy Apollonia Kotero.