Linda Linda Linda (2005)

A Japanese high school girls' band loses members just before the school festival and has three days to learn a new set, built around covers of the Blue Hearts, the 1980s Japanese punk band whose song gives the film its title. Their new singer is Son, a Korean exchange student who has never sung in a band, and Bae Doona plays her with perfect deadpan comic timing. Nobuhiro Yamashita lets the film drift through late-night rehearsals, borrowed rooms and nervous waiting, so it feels like the real rhythm of getting a band ready. The payoff is one of the most rousing final gigs on this list. Slow by design, so go in ready to hang out. James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins wrote the score.