Movies like Il Trovatore

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Il Trovatore (2002)
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Il Trovatore (2002)
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 sets by the noted film designer Dante Ferretti and costumes by Anne Tilby.
Plot: ballet, gypsy, love triangle, tragedy, filicide, revenge, opera, italian opera, live performance, anvil, opera live performance
Place: spain

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Most similar movies to Il Trovatore

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sexual films with plots about opera, live performance, opera live performance, dancing, italian opera, murder and jealousy mostly in Music, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Il Trovatore: Macbeth (1993), Carmen on Ice (1990), Rodelinda (2005), Rigoletto (2010), L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Macbeth (1993)
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.
Plot: opera, live performance, tragedy, curse, macbeth, italian opera
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Carmen on Ice (1990)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
Plot: skating, dancing, soldier, murder, love triangle, seduction, sexuality, gypsy, fight, tragedy, opera, magic ...
Place: spain
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83%
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Rodelinda (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 203 min.
Story: Live from Munich 2004
Plot: opera, queen, rivals, live performance, opera live performance
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Rigoletto (2010)
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 ...
Plot: opera, court, revenge, kidnapping, murder, disguise, clown, live performance, duke, italian opera
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1979)
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
Plot: opera, coronation, king, italian opera, opera live performance
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Othello (1992)
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.
Plot: opera, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's othello, opera live performance
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75%
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Orpheus (1978)
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 ...
Plot: opera, italian opera, hell, husband wife relationship, opera live performance
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74%
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Turandot (1983)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: From the world famous Arena of Verona, an international cast perform one of Puccini's best loved operas. The cruel Princess Turandot, ruler of China, will only wed a prince who can answer correctly her three riddles. Those who fail are ...
Plot: opera, dancing, italian opera, massacre, queen, sacrifice, live performance, quiz, opera live performance
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Carmen (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Georges Bizet's Carmen, filmed at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, and conducted by Antonio Pappano, tells the tragic story of a soldier who falls for the sultry Carmen and abandons his career and family to be with her.
Plot: opera, dancing, female fight, jealousy, topless woman, passion, live performance, knife fight, cultural conflict, opera live performance, women fight, french opera
Time: 18th century
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (2000)
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: baroque
Plot: opera, coronation, music festival, torment, live performance, menage a trois, god, italian opera, opera live performance
Place: provence
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64%
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Carmen (1989)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
Plot: dancing, opera, gypsy, menage a trois, bullfighter
Place: spain
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Un Ballo In Maschera (1991)
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.
Plot: opera, murder, assassination, regicide, masquerade, opera live performance, stabbed in the chest, actress playing male role
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Roberto Devereux (1997)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A lyric tragedy in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. Roberto Devereux was composed in the summer of 1837, the year, according to biographers, in which Donizetti seems to have suffered most, having lost his third son ...
Plot: opera, duchess, duke, nobility, treason, love triangle, queen, jealousy, adultery, ghost, ring, tower of london ...
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Madama Butterfly (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The heroine of this beloved opera finds herself faced with a dreadful choice: life without dignity or death with honor. Hear some of Puccini's most soaring and captivating music in this classic story of colliding hearts and cultures.
Plot: italian opera, deception, suicide, betrayal, opera, live performance, geisha, bigamy, death, cheating
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57%
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Rigoletto (1987)
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: freeze frame
Plot: opera, dancing, ballet, father daughter relationship, seduction, palace, duke, fence
Time: medieval times
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56%
Eugene Onegin (2007)
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 ...
Plot: opera, love, murder, marriage, live performance, festival, menage a trois, letter, duel, live broadcast
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Les Indes Galantes (2004)
Genre: Music, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 190 min.
Story: "William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's extravagant, highly baroque staging presents the four exotic love stories vibrantly. ...
Plot: opera, ballet, omnibus, live performance, native american, opera live performance, french opera
Place: india, paris france
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Notre Dame de Paris - Live Arena di Verona (2002)
Genre: Musical, Music, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier ...
Plot: live performance, hunchback, priest, unfaithful, notre dame cathedral, gypsy, dancing, obsession, singing, opera, stage musical, obsessive love ...
Time: middle ages
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Alcina (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Handel's Alcina. Anonymous libretto, adapted from the libretto of Riccardo Broschi's "L'isola d'Alcina", based on Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando furioso" (uncredited)
Plot: female nudity, live performance, opera, cross dressing, opera live performance, undressing
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Madama Butterfly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Opera at La Scala Milan
Plot: opera, suicide, betrayal, italian opera, bigamy, live performance, tragedy, sailor, geisha
Place: japan
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Samson et Dalila (1981)
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
Plot: opera, old testament, religion, religious differences, live performance, hair, betrayal, seduction, priest, demolition, french opera
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43%
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La traviata (2005)
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 ...
Plot: opera, death, jealousy, dancing, consumerism, tuberculosis, doctor, father, party, italian opera, live performance, toast ...
Place: paris france
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Carmen (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, sexual, emotional
Plot: opera, classical music, music, dancing, concert, stage play, european, girl, soldier, tragic love, love triangle, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century
Place: spain, europe
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A Love Bewitched (1986)
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela ...
Style: art house, captivating, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: flamenco, music and dance, gypsy, dance, love, magic spell, betrayal, social misfits, music, dancer's life, redemption, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: spain, europe
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The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation from the controversial John Adams opera about the true life incident that took place in the mid 80s. The liner "Achille Lauro" is on a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean. While the ship is docked in Alexandria, a maid ...
Plot: opera, terrorism, murder, hostage
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Othello (1986)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, USA, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: opera, shakespeare, obsession, betrayal, medieval, dancing, tragedy, rivalry, dishonesty, love and romance, losing-it hero, intrigue ...
Place: italy, europe, venice
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34%
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Peter Grimes (1995)
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.
Plot: opera, inquest, violence, child abuse, drowning, murder, suicide, apprentice, sinking boat, nonconformity, preacher, landlady ...
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Rigoletto (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Live recording at Royal Opera House, 22 September, 2001. Television live relay. In one of the Royal Opera's most celebrated and popular productions, director David McVicar mixes lavish historical costumes and dark stylized settings to ...
Plot: opera, dancing, male nudity, female nudity, revenge, curse, hunchback, grudge, female full frontal nudity
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32%
Cavalleria Rusticana (1968)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Film of the opera Cavalleria Rusticana conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Plot: opera, peasant, duel, church, easter, innkeeper, jealousy, seduction, infidelity
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Le Comte Ory (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Story: Glyndebourne's intimate opera house provides the perfect setting for Rossini's third French opera, a sparkling medieval comedy of lust and chastity.
Plot: opera, recluse, seduction, pilgrim, man disguised as a woman, countess, impostor, opera live performance, wine cellar
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