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Testimony (1987)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Netherlands, UK, Denmark, West Germany, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
Style:
black and white, independent film
Plot:
composer, musician, art, cold war, cold war era, classical composer, biopic, survival, world war two, friendship, sherlock holmes, journalist, death, dream, classical music, opera, totalitarianism, orchestra, russian history, humiliation, surrealism, socialism, josef stalin, husband wife relationship, propaganda ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
ussr, new york, russia, soviet union, russian
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Most similar movies to Testimony
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and captivating films with plots about biopic, musician, composer, classical music, husband wife relationship, musician's life and music mostly in Drama, Biography and Music genres. Some movies like Testimony: Eroica (2003), Dreams of Love - Liszt (1970), Wagner (1983), Copying Beethoven (2006), The Bohemian (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Using letters Anna Magdalena Bach wrote to her husband, seminal composer Johann Sebastian, filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most precise, rewarding biopics ever put to screen. CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA ...
Style:
contemplative, spiritual, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
composer, piano, music, biopic, musician, music composer, jazz, artist, spirituality, classical composer, art, european ...
Time:
year 1968, 18th century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
95%
705
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, disturbing, period piece ...
Plot:
classical music, composer, beethoven, musician, art, musician's life, male female relationship, life, relationship problems, historical character, king, changing lives ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Hungary, Soviet Union
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, period piece, period drama
Plot:
composer, passion, biopic, piano, classical music, musician, aristocracy, wooing, melancholy, infidelity, royalty, family drama ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
russia, hungary, soviet union, paris france, ussr
Similarity:
66%
677
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: UK, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 300 min.
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A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
Style:
historical drama, serious, realistic, epic, emotional ...
Plot:
composer, opera, musician, classical music, politics, biopic, singing, singer, orchestra, anarchist, classical composer, anti semitism ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, year 1981, victorian era
Place:
germany, europe, prussia, switzerland, austria ...
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62%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, ...
Style:
period piece, captivating, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
composer, classical music, musician, horse, mute or deaf, artist, music, biopic, musician's life, contests and competitions, love and romance, obsession ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, ancient times, 1800s, year 2006 ...
Place:
germany, austria, europe, vienna
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to become an opera composer. The city, full of talented and already-established composers, seems closed to him. Looking for work as a violinist, he comes ...
Plot:
male nudity, based on real people, nudity, italian history, music, biopic, music composer, mozart, wealth, male pubic hair, bare chested male, musician ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s
Place:
venice, central europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Romania
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, dramatic, historical drama, intense ...
Plot:
biopic, world war two, classical music, orchestra, exile, train conductor, legacy, ambition, survival, resilience, rise and fall, perseverance ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
germany, romania
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Farinelli is a 1994 biopic film about the life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Style:
sexy, emotional, heartbreaking, realistic, factual ...
Plot:
opera, music, art, opera singer, brother brother relationship, classical music, destiny, life philosophy, musician, siblings relations, sex, artist ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 1994
Place:
europe, madrid, napoli italy, italy, london ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, dramatic, art house, period drama
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, flashback, inspiration, nostalgia, melancholy, musical performance, orchestra, creative process, memory, violinist ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century
Place:
central europe, london
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), ...
Style:
historical drama, art house, road movie, psychedelic, realistic ...
Plot:
classical music, composer, biopic, music composer, artist, classical composer, marriage, flashback, opera singer, mountain, surrealism, music conductor ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 20th century, turn of the century, 1900s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
United States, 1926: Dutch 24-year-old Willy Wolters has immigrated to the American continent with her parents as a child. She dreams of becoming a conductor, but this is an ambition that no one takes seriously. Unbeknownst to her, she'll also ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
musician, sexism, dream, female protagonist, social problems, musician's life, pianist, music conductor, classical music, parents, biopic, female musician ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
new york, berlin germany, amsterdam
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
About Russian space program and missile industry, and it's founder Sergei P. Korolev, from the 1920s to the first man in space in 1961.
Style:
epic, inspirational, serious, dramatic, educational ...
Plot:
space program, cold war era, space exploration, biopic, innovation, perseverance, ambition, industrialization, triumph, scientific discovery, patriotism, world war two ...
Time:
60s, 1920s, 1950s, post world war two
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, ukraine, russia, ussr
Similarity:
47%
153
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, historical drama, period piece, political drama
Plot:
dissident, exile, hunger, human rights, authoritarianism, oppression, political repression, biopic, activism, civil rights movement, nobel prize, cold war ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Style:
existential, independent film, anthology, spiritual, serious ...
Plot:
biopic, classical music, piano, obsession, musician, radio, artist, spirituality, composer, art history, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time:
year 1993
Place:
canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, dramatic, emotional ...
Plot:
outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, space mission, cosmonaut, national hero, folk hero, follow your dream, rise to the top, biopic, workplace, escapades ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, ukraine
Similarity:
44%
464K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style:
clever, costume drama, period piece, atmospheric, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
classical music, music, composer, genius, mozart, musician, envy, opera, character study, musician's life, mentor, prodigy ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, 1780s ...
Place:
vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dark, art house, suspense ...
Plot:
artist, sculptor, moral dilemma, political oppression, totalitarianism, surveillance, symbolism, sculpture, propaganda, paranoia, biopic, accomplice ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, central europe
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The life of revered the 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova (Vilen Galstyan). Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, poetic, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Plot:
poet, surrealism, religion, poetry, trippy, writers, medieval, biopic, magic realism, art, metaphor, death ...
Time:
18th century, year 1969
Place:
soviet union, russia, caucasus, ussr, georgia ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers us an incredibly profound and ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
classical music, ambition, musician's life, music, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, sexual relations, violinist, composer, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, death of protagonist ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
europe, italy, venice
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow's stand against Senator McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
Style:
political, tense, period piece, factual, melancholic ...
Plot:
politics, media, television, mccarthyism, journalist, reporter, fighting the system, cold war, propaganda, terrorist, patriotism, communism ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 2005, 90s ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., california, usa, soviet union ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It's late 17th century. The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his ...
Style:
visually stunning, stylized, emotional, crying, mesmerizing ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, music, cello, art, artist, composer, food, shoemaker, skinny dipping, death, suffering ...
Time:
17th century, year 1991, 19th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, versailles, paris france
Similarity:
42%
339
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, UK, Sweden
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the ...
Style:
reflective, emotional, dramatic, melancholic, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
composer, biopic, opera, musician, classical music, performer's life, ambition, creative process, legacy, nationalism, grief, cleaning ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
italy, milan italy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil.
Plot:
composer, musician, fictional biography, biopic, passion, cellist, pianist, saxophonist, time, heart condition, childhood, memory ...
Time:
1940s, 1890s, 1900s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, new york, brazil, paris france
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Leningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they ...
Style:
inspirational, romantic, art house, art film, black and white ...
Plot:
rock, musician's life, youth, destiny, skinny dipping, rock music, musician, male pubic hair, male nudity, husband wife relationship, drinking, love triangle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, realistic, costume drama, period drama ...
Plot:
violinist, composer, musician, biopic, interracial relations, society, life, musician's life, music, classical composer, direction and purpose, lifestyle ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
41%
69K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This fearless love story chronicles the complicated lifelong relationship between music legend Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, cerebral, crying ...
Plot:
love, marriage, composer, gay, musician, male female relationship, biopic, actress, relationships, love story, couple relations, love interest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1978, 20th century, 70s, 1950s ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII, the movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
politics, rebellion, musician's life, prodigy, lifestyle, injustice, rivalry, society, life is a bitch, biopic, international relations, countryside ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Finland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by ...
Plot:
biopic, singer, flashback, husband wife relationship, alcoholism, marriage, marriage crisis, fame, letter, cheating, musician, adultery ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 60s, 1950s, year 1939
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Style:
costume drama
Plot:
world war two, gypsy camp, musician, guitarist, biopic, art, jazz, gypsy, black, swing, blues, train conductor ...
Time:
year 2017, 1940s, year 1943, year 1945
Place:
switzerland, paris france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Style:
sexual, historical drama, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
composer, piano, classical music, homosexual love, snow, biopic, music, gay husband, gay, male homosexuality, lgbt, music composer ...
Time:
1880s, 1890s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
europe, london, russia, england, moscow russia
Similarity:
37%
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