Composer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant composer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional and psychological films and TV shows about / with composer, musician, classical music, biopic, music, musician's life, piano, love, love and romance and art plots mostly in Drama, Music and Biography genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as composer: Copying Beethoven (2006), Chopin: Desire for Love (2002), Amadeus (1984), Interlude in Prague (2017), All the Mornings of the World (1991), The Music Lovers (1971), Immortal Beloved (1994), The Devil's Violinist (2013), Lisztomania (1975), Eroica (2003).
Best films
New films
| Stories of Samba (2023) | 7.0 | |
| Gloria! (2024) | 6.5 | |
| Rhinegold (2022) | 6.7 | |
| Maestro (2023) | 6.5 | |
| Love Me, Love My Voice (2023) | 7.7 |
List of composer movies
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: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
composer, chess, biopic, prodigy, lifestyle, musician's life, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, society, fall in love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place:
poland, paris france, mallorca, siberia, warsaw poland ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.
Style:
period piece, sincere, stylized, romantic, captivating ...
Plot:
composer, musician, aristocrat, nobleman, love triangle, opera, love and romance, society, classical music, tragic romance, inspiration, music composer ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, georgian era
Place:
prague, central europe
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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
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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
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had ...
Style:
emotional, visually stunning, visual, dramatic, touching ...
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, music, musician, classical composer, artist, art, deafness, true love, beethoven, piano ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, regency period, 1820s, ancient times ...
Place:
austria, europe, hungary
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, costume drama ...
Plot:
musician's life, composer, violinist, deal with the devil, rise to the top, genius, classical music, musician, music, biopic, rising to stardom, womanizer ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1830s, victorian era, georgian era
Place:
italy, london
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during ...
Style:
erotic, cult classic, surreal, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
composer, classical music, nobility, piano, surrealism, musician, bondage, biopic, music, rock, the beatles, rock and roll ...
Time:
19th century, year 1975, 1840s, 1800s
Place:
europe, st. petersburg russia, berlin germany, russia
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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
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
Style:
suspense, gothic, creepy, spooky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, isolated house, macabre, haunted, mansion, musician, supernatural, senator, death of wife, revenge, murder ...
Time:
year 1980, victorian era, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place:
seattle, usa, new york, washington d.c., washington state ...
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88K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, UK, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing ...
Style:
sexy, philosophical, cerebral, meditative, melancholic ...
Plot:
composer, screenwriter, hotel, life, husband wife relationship, love, aging, sex scene, spa, nude women, father daughter relationship, sauna ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, italy, venice, alps
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
If you’re a fan of Ken Russell’s particular brand of stylistically dizzy biographies covering the lives of old-school classical composers, then you’re going to love The Blue Note, Zulawski’s outré ode to Frédéric Chopin (played here by ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde
Plot:
composer, female nudity, nudity, feminist, pianist, picnic, teenage girl, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, dying man, male female relationship, musician ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1800s
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.
Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, sweet, powerful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
theater, believe in yourself, broadway, gay interest, composer, music, musician, gay friend, male male relationship, screenwriter, lost love, best friend ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, year 1992, year 1990
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, north america
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Country: UK, Austria, Hungary
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
king of france, french history, performer's life, royal family, royalty, composer, ballet, forbidden love, dancing, playwright, intrigue, dishonesty ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, versailles, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, obsession, composer, danger, dangerous attraction, stalking, haunted by the past, character study, psychosis, paranoia, isolation, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, america
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style:
cerebral, sexy, philosophical, visual, art house ...
Plot:
grief, classical music, musician, solitude, loss of child, sex, mourning, trauma, loneliness, depression, stripper, car accident ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
Is relevant?
109K
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: Biography, Music, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bio-pic about Czech composer Antonin Dvoraák at the height of his career. Dvorák learns that his love and lifelong muse is ill and must return to her side.
Style:
melancholic, dramatic, emotional, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
composer, love triangle, czech history, classical music, biopic, character study, muse, sacrifice, getting home, moral dilemma, family drama, illness ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan ...
Style:
historical drama, satirical, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
composer, marriage, biopic, husband wife relationship, perseverance, love story, relationships, male female relationship, love interest, couples, historical figure, couple relations ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
japan
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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
Is relevant?
114K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, kids, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
music, musician, orphan, prodigy, child prodigy, child protagonist, dancing, childhood, boy, youth, chance meeting, cellist ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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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
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including ...
Style:
independent film, captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
composer, biopic, art, classical composer, artists and showbiz, ambition, music, musician's life, love and romance, society, rise to the top, lifestyle ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Composer Steven Lauddem is creatively blocked and unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. At the behest of his wife Patricia, formerly his therapist, he sets out in search of inspiration. What he discovers is much more than he ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling, indie film ...
Plot:
one night stand, writer's block, composer, passion, secret relationship, male female relationship, opera, inspiration, creative block, satire, husband wife relationship, lifestyle ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gender, nun, medieval, saint, healing power, composer, visionary, seer, monk, nobility, prophet, convent ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, 12th century
Place:
germany, rome italy, europe
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