The most important films about and with Tina Turner at a glance.
Tina Turner is dead. She died on May 24, 2023 at the age of 83 in Zurich. She died in Küsnacht after a long illness. The “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” has brought an audience of millions into ecstasy with her powerful voice, daring costumes and dance routines and exuberant energy. But she also made a name for herself as an actress. There are also some particularly engaging cinematic works about her. The most important films about and with Tina Turner at a glance.
1. “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome” (1985)
Turner played Aunty Entity, ruler of Bartertown, in this third installment in the 1985 “Mad Max” franchise. She contributed the two songs “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and “One of the Living” to the soundtrack.
2. “What’s Love Got To Do With It” (1993)
The biopic, starring Angela Bassett, was based on Turner’s autobiography I, Tina (1986) and focused on her abusive marriage to Ike Turner (Laurence Fishburne).
3. Last Action Hero (1993)
Turner played the mayor of Los Angeles in Jack Slater III, the movie-within-a-movie Last Action Hero.
4. “Tina Turner-One of the Living” (2019)
The arte documentary on Turner’s life by director Schyda Vasseghi is a particularly successful work about the legend.
5. TINA (2021)
In a sensitively arranged mix of video material and interviews, the two-hour documentary shows what made the singer exceptional and how the simultaneity of highs and lows shaped her life.
6. Guest appearances in the musical films of the 1970s
Ike & Tina Turner made guest appearances in the Rolling Stones tour documentary “Gimme Shelter” (1970), in the musical opera “Tommy” (1975) and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (1978).
7. Bonus: The James Bond song for “Golden Eye” (1995)
U2’s Bono and the Edge wrote this song especially for Tina Turner.