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Eugene Onegin (2007)
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
The Wiener Philharmoniker mounts, and Andrea Breth stages, this 2007 production of Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, starring Peter Mattei, Joseph Kaiser, Anna Samuil and Renée Morloc. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor lends added musical accompaniment, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
opera, live performance, classical music, duel, unrequited love, melancholy, regret, character study, aristocracy, choir, love, murder, menage a trois, letter, festival, marriage, live broadcast
Time:
19th century
Place:
russian
Most similar movies to Eugene Onegin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, emotional, dramatic and melancholic films with plots about opera, classical music, live performance, betrayal, jealousy, tragedy and italian opera mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Eugene Onegin: La traviata (2005), Cavalleria Rusticana (1968), Massenet: Werther (2010), Rigoletto (2010), Rigoletto (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, Japan, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his feelings to Violetta, who is already suffering from consumption. She vacillates between ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
opera, live performance, tragedy, passion, choir, dancing, death, jealousy, adaptation, consumerism, tuberculosis, party ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Film of the opera Cavalleria Rusticana conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Style:
tragic ending, sentimental, period drama
Plot:
opera, jealousy, classical music, italian opera, revenge, passion, betrayal, love triangle, choir, adultery, honor, village life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther should travel - but not forget her. In addition to the singing and orchestral accompaniment, the ...
Style:
romantic, dramatic, emotional, poignant, melancholic ...
Plot:
opera, classical music, tragedy, unrequited love, tragic romance, love triangle, passion, heartbreak, sacrifice, loyalty, adaptation, literary ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, UK, France, Japan, USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans to seduce her. When Count Monterone confronts the Duke ...
Style:
dramatic, dark, emotional, costume drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
opera, revenge, italian opera, tragedy, classical music, jester, curse, betrayal, seduction, murder, palace intrigue, aristocracy ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
79%
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395
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The ...
Style:
heartbreaking, dark, bleak, emotional, gothic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, father daughter relationship, seduction, dancing, tragedy, italian opera, revenge, fatalism, moral ambiguity, forbidden love, palace intrigue, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, medieval times
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
José Cura, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Verónica Villarroel and Yvonne Naef lead the star cast of Verdi's blazingly passionate opera IL TROVATORE, in Elijah Moshinsky's new Royal Opera House production co-produced with Teatro Real Madrid, with ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, tragic ending, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, opera, italian opera, live performance, revenge, passion, classical music, jealousy, performance art, family feud, fate, identity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine. Starring Luciano Pavarotti.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
opera, classical music, italian opera, theater, live performance, choir, passion, orchestra, masquerade, assassination, spectacle, tragic romance ...
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73%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Style:
dark, intense, dramatic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
opera, macbeth, tragedy, ambition, shakespeare, power, guilt, betrayal, murder, witch, adaptation, madness ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics, for their part, have often had problems with Tosca’s rather grungy subject matter, ...
Style:
emotional
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, italian opera, diva, classical music, tragedy, betrayal, heroine, passion, heartbreak, jealousy, political oppression, fatalism ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House were under the baton of Antonio Pappano, the Music Director of the Royal ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
opera, live performance, italian opera, passion, love, classical music, relationships, problem, intrigue, orchestra, sacrifice, jealousy ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 203 min.
Story:
Live from Munich 2004
Plot:
opera, queen, rivals, live performance, opera live performance
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
David McVicar's spectacular production of Charles Gounod’s Faust, featuring a divine cast of opera’s superstars: Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Sophie Koch – recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent ...
Style:
thrilling, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
opera, classical music, deal with the devil, faust, live performance, theater, problem, ghost, music, deal, intrigue, orchestra ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, intense, baroque
Plot:
opera, classical music, live performance, political intrigue, ambition, jealousy, moral ambiguity, ritual, coronation, king, italian opera, artistic ...
Time:
17th century
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gala Performance in honour of Sir Georg Solti's 80th birthday.. 27 October 1992. BBC 2 Television live relay.
Style:
tragic ending, costume drama, concert film
Plot:
opera, shakespeare's othello, jealousy, betrayal, classical music, manipulation, live performance, tribute, choir, military, dancing, elite ...
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59%
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Live performance, part of Monteverdi cycle staged by Oper Zürich with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Zürich Opera House Monteverdi Ensemble. Staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Filmed 28 march - 20 April. Sound recorded 1 - 25 ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, baroque
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
Style:
dramatic, intense, art film, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
opera, classical music, theater, live performance, orchestra, adaptation, passion, jealousy, train conductor, seduction, tragic love, performance art ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
london, spain
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59%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Style:
sensual, intense, emotional, erotic, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, passion, classical music, jealousy, tragedy, obsessive love, adaptation, gypsy, forbidden love, character study, fatalism, soldier ...
Time:
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Story:
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Style:
dramatic, emotional, heroic, period drama
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
opera, passionate love, classical music, music, unrequited love, dancing, stage play, european, girl, concert, soldier, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 1920s
Place:
spain, europe, paris france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Spain
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Style:
captivating, philosophical, atmospheric, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
opera, shakespeare, murder mystery, tragedy, shakespeare's hamlet, murder, death, revenge, tragic hero, murderer, uncover truth, intrigue ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
costume drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
skating, opera, tragic love, passion, dance, figure skating, classical music, adaptation, jealousy, fate, spectacle, sensuality ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain, andalusia
Similarity:
52%
287
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, romantic drama, tragic ending, period drama
Plot:
emotional manipulation, tragic romance, obsessive love, regret, melancholy, character study, heartbreak, jealousy, loneliness, male protagonist, mature, isolation ...
Place:
arabia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.
Style:
dark, melancholic, sinister, suspenseful, lyrical ...
Plot:
opera, guilt, isolation, sea, tragic hero, alienation, tragedy, apprentice, classical music, moral ambiguity, misunderstanding, haunting ...
Time:
victorian era
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
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Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, art house, costume drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, suicide, tragic romance, classical music, cross cultural relations, longing, loss, honor, female protagonist, heartbreak, sacrifice, desperation ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
47%

Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
While the rest of the Hebrews bewail their fate, Samson alone trusts in God's promise of liberty. Abimelech, the Philistine satrap of Gaza, enters to mock the Hebrews' God, proclaiming the superiority of Dagon, and the Hebrews are afraid ...
Style:
biblical, dramatic, tense, emotional, epic ...
Plot:
opera, seduction, betrayal, deception, religious, strength, faith, tragedy, religious conflict, ancient history, tragic hero, power struggle ...
Time:
biblical epic
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, crying, baroque
Plot:
classical music, breakup, restaurant, divorce, flashback, extramarital affair, betrayal, love, singing, singer, bitterness, male female relationship ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her ...
Style:
dark, bleak, art house, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
murder, betrayal, female protagonist, adaptation, adultery, political repression, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, sexuality, infidelity, jealousy, fatalism ...
Time:
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Place:
siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this release of a filmed performance captured live during a 2000 production staged at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. Mireille ...
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, intense, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
opera, live performance, classical music, ambition, betrayal, love triangle, power struggle, ancient rome, political intrigue, female protagonist, cupid, coronation ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
provence
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, life and death, abandon and union, showing that in the end of ...
Style:
independent film, meta
Plot:
suicide, coming of age, stream of consciousness, bible, tragedy, filmmaking, letter, loneliness, destiny, opera, life after death, symbolism ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Henry VIII is an opera in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns, from a libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre, based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The schism in England) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It was revived in 1991 at the Théatre ...
Style:
costume drama, art house, political drama, period drama, tragic
Plot:
opera, royalty, henry viii, power struggle, palace intrigue, classical music, monarchy, live performance, renaissance, biopic, anne boleyn, literary ...
Time:
16th century
Similarity:
37%
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