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The Audition (2019)
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Original name: Das Vorspiel
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Anna teaches violin at a music school, her husband is an instrument-maker. They have a 10-year-old son, Jonas. At school, Anna champions young Alexander, in whom she alone sees great talent. She devotes much energy and attention preparing him for the next stage exam to prove she was right. Soon Anna devotes more time to him than to Jonas, bringing the two boys into rivalry. At the same time her marriage is collapsing, she withdraws increasingly from her own family and starts an affair with her colleague Christian, who is encouraging her to join a quartet. When she fails during their joint concert, the pressure mounts. With Alexander now her vehicle, she drives him ever onwards and upwards. Come the day of the exam, events take a tragic turn...
Plot:
marital infidelity, cuckold, violinist, violin, musician, parents, woman, teacher, birthday, restaurant, male nudity, tragedy, bus, fish, father son relationship, infidelity, classical music, basement, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, concert, audition, disciple, unfaithful wife ...
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to The Audition
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, psychological and serious films with plots about musician, classical music, husband wife relationship, male nudity, infidelity, concert and music mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like The Audition: Tár (2022), Music of the Heart (1999), Four Windows (2006), The Playroom (2012), A Late Quartet (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dark drama, dorama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lgbt, classical music, orchestra, lesbian, music conductor, composer, musician, massage parlor, narcissism, orchestra conductor, music, female protagonist ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, southeast asia, the philippines, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, kids, chick flick
Plot:
teacher, dedicated educator, musician, school teacher, music teacher, female protagonist, teacher student relationship, school, happy ending, music, violinist, single mother ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
They want to get away from each other, but they clasp each other even more firmly. They seek to save appearances at all force. The more they laugh, the quieter it gets around them. The cracks in the family picture widen until an inescapable secret ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
unfaithful husband, marital infidelity, dysfunctional family, gay son, gay, family problems, family relations, father daughter relationship, kids and family, adultery, eccentric family, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
cuckolded husband, family relations, marital infidelity, parents and children, lifestyle, society, siblings relations, adultery, loveless marriage, infidelity, jealousy, cuckold ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, england
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, intense, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, aging, music, musician's life, rehearsal, ego clash, intrigue, friendship, life is a bitch, rivalry, overcoming ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style:
realistic, touching, crying, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
coming of age, deaf mute, father daughter relationship, musician, sign language, telephone call, audition, love, bicycle, aunt niece relationship, skinny dipping, deafness ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 18th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, italy, argentina, tokyo
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, stylized, atmospheric, depressing ...
Plot:
father son relationship, youth, hopes, music, coming of age, prodigy, rise to the top, musician's life, teenage life, teachers and students, humanity, family relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 19th century
Place:
china, beijing china, asia, tokyo, california
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Hannah and Daniel are in their 40's , both musicians. She is french and he is quebecer living in Montreal. They live by their music, reviving Synagogal french music composed between the late 19th century and the beginning of the 20th., genuine ...
Style:
emotional, art house, tension, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
musician, financial difficulty, couples, intimate, resilience, introspection, commitment, nostalgia, identity, rehearsal, music band, singing ...
Place:
montreal, quebec
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The real life story of East German singer and writer Gerhard Gundermann and his struggles with music, life as a coal miner and his dealings with the secret police (STASI) of the GDR.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
stasi, musician, rehearsal, songwriter, musician's life, rising to stardom, glory, music band, music, death of father, husband wife relationship, husband wife conflict ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1992
Place:
germany, budapest
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
disability, multiple sclerosis, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, musician's life, crumbling marriage, couples, family in crisis, life turned upside down, depression, violinist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, london, ussr
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The movie tells the story of Laerte (Lázaro Ramos), a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school at Heliopolis. His path is full of difficulties, but ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, touching, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
music teacher, teacher, political persecution, police chase, teenager, death, police, chase, homeless, poverty, classical music, phone ringing ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, violin, family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, lifestyle, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Germany, Mexico, UK, Uruguay
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Pablo, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has an affair with Luciana, one of his students. Natalia, another professor at the University of Buenos Aires starts an affair with her student Gonzalo. Two stories, as two sides of the same coin.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
extramarital affair, cheating wife, infidelity, professor, female teacher, teacher student romance, problem, teacher, relationship problems, older woman younger man relationship, older man younger woman sex, sex scene ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
pianist, women's prison, lgbtq, classical music, prison, hopes, lgbt, prodigy, musician, female friendship, lesbian, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A twisted Gen X comedy disguised as a 1970s drive-in flick, KILL THE MOONLIGHT is the story of Chance, a fish hatchery worker, toxic waste cleaner and aspiring race car driver whose goal in life is to fix up his Camaro and follow his dreams of ...
Style:
independent film, experimental, avant garde
Plot:
slacker, drug trade, money raising, car, drug, bare chested male, car crash, voice over narration, stealing, nudity, daydreamer, theft ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, southern california
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This drama deals with a woman, whose life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family. Marie and Thomas, both musicians before their marriage, are an apparently happy couple, living together with their two children. One day, ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining
Plot:
adultery, musician, married couple, family life, medea, second wife, marital problem, love triangle, family relations, double life, couple relations, relationships ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The film is a love story which tells the impossible tale of two youths who have never before met. The action unrolls in Paris between 1979 and 1980.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, baroque
Plot:
classical music, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, in love, changing lives, love affair, fall in love, music, musician, feminist, youth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland, UK, Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, atmospheric, art house
Plot:
classical music, renaissance, composer, holocaust survivor, piano, love triangle, creative process, character study, trauma, musician, legacy, isolation ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective
Plot:
male nudity, masturbation, female nudity, funeral, infidelity, illegitimate child, family drama, architecture, midlife crisis, estranged father, family reunited, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
alps
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai, Blind Man's Bluff takes a bittersweet look at the life of a young Israeli woman. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, art house, psychological, period drama
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, musician, holocaust survivor, pianist, self discovery, independence, identity, classical music, mature woman, resilience, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tel aviv israel
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man and a woman at an art exhibition share a fleeting moment of attraction, which neither can act upon. Days later, a chance second meeting leads to an innocent coffee and the two strangers – both married - toy with their unexplainable ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, emotional, contemplative
Plot:
forbidden love, unfaithful wife, infidelity, adultery, lovers apart, horny woman, marital infidelity, married woman, couple relations, workplace, crumbling marriage, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, asia, frankfurt germany, indonesia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, anthology, art house, sincere ...
Plot:
love, classical music, violin, passion, unrequited love, music, obsession, violinist, love story, passionate love, glamour, asexual ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, amsterdam, vienna ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago.
Style:
sexy, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
husband wife relationship, friendship, mother daughter relationship, musician, family relations, family problems, troubled marriage, musician's life, female protagonist, dysfunctional marriage, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
40%
214
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kreola arrives in Santa Domingo to join her photographer husband Andy. Although Andy is initially jealous of Marco, who is in town looking for his missing girlfriend who did not return from Santa Domingo with her coworkers after a girls getaway. ...
Style:
erotic, sexy
Plot:
unfaithful wife, cuckold, erotica, romantic triangle, infidelity, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, nudity, female pubic hair, horny wife, bare breasts, neglected wife ...
Similarity:
40%
418
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, multicultural ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, train conductor, orchestra conductor, orchestra, musician, problem, social problems, music, classical music, social commentary, mentor, identity ...
Place:
israel, palestine, germany
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style:
atmospheric, depressing, black comedy, meditative, contemplative ...
Plot:
music, homeless, musician, loneliness, musician's life, cat, character study, depression, financial problem, aspiring singer, road trip, melancholy ...
Time:
60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana, chicago, somalia ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, cerebral, meditative, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, destiny, marriage, parenthood, character study, parents and children, love and romance, introspection, couples, family problems, human nature, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
australia, hamburg germany, st. petersburg russia, eastern europe, munich germany ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In this story, a musical group whose music sets the mood for Events, finds itself at a very crucial moment in its carreer. All of the members face the dilemma of fighting for their dreams or quitting forever.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, uplifting, realistic
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, hopes, youth, perseverance, ambition, teenager, jazz, rehearsal, aspiration, determination, sacrifice ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style:
touching, inspirational, uplifting, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, teacher, childhood, music, teachers and students, abuse, musician, children, boarding school life, friendship, boss, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2004
Place:
france, new york, switzerland, europe, paris france ...
Similarity:
40%
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