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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the ...
Style:
witty, talky, independent film, historical drama, cult classic ...
Plot:
music, composer, biopic, writers, rehearsal, theater, opera, dancing, samurai, valet, inspiration, playwright ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1999, 1800s, 19th century, 1880s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
high school, music, classical music, mentor, composer, school, musician, teacher, teaching, honest, high school teacher, sign language ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
oregon, portland oregon
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, touching, stylized, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, rock music, homosexual, homosexuality, biopic, lgbt, gay, rock and roll, addiction, pop music, rising to stardom, drug use ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 70s, 2010s, future ...
Place:
california, england, los angeles, london, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In his free time, phone technician Cezars Kalnins writes songs and plays in a band he has started with friends. The band has a long road to travel in order to receive a permit and make its public debut. A member of the Culture Committee ...
Style:
independent film, tense, satirical, historical drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
artist, composer, rock music, authoritarianism, bureaucracy, youth culture, national identity, rebellion, political satire, urban, counterculture, propaganda ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
latvia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement.
Style:
entertaining, fairy tale, sweet, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, dalmatian, pets, puppy, female villain, talking animal, chase, christmas, animal, cat, burglary, rescue ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Style:
sexy, sensual, sex comedy, erotic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, beach, honeymoon, voyeur, wedding, swimming pool, extramarital affair, womanizer, songwriter, sex, sexy girls, surprise birthday party ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, mexico, latin america, beverly hills
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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
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, period piece
Plot:
composer, jazz, syphilis, piano, blaxploitation, art, art history, biopic, interracial relations, artists and showbiz, society, prodigy ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, 20th century, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
chicago, missouri, st. louis missouri
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Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set within music field, this film depicts a love story between a 25-year-old sound engineer and 16-year-old high school student Riko, who posessess a gifted voice. 25-year-old sound engineer Aki is a member of popular band "Crude Play," ...
Style:
romantic, light, shoujo, sincere, sentimental
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love, musician, composer, forbidden love, japanese teenager, impossible love, hidden identity, teenage love, romanticism, teenage life, love and romance, age difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Story:
Kang Han-Kyeol is a great yet sullen composer who becomes inspired by the voices of others and keeps his identity secret from people. He meets Yoon So-Rim, a high school student who possesses beautiful singing, whilst under his secret identity, and ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, sweet, sentimental, dorama
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
couples, composer, music industry, songwriter, muse, friendship, love, love affair, couple relations, fall in love, hopes, destiny ...
Place:
south korea, korea
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part a recurring dream, the second a Freudian analysis of the dream.
Style:
psychological, mysterious, enigmatic, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
composer, psychoanalysis, biopic, dream, subconscious, recurring dream, identity, classical music, historical figure, memory, therapy, creative process ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
prague, czech republic
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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
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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
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot:
cloning, composer, fear of death, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, solace, life turned upside down, immortal, terminal illness, scientist, genetics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern germany, canada, germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against ...
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, backwoods, serial killer, skinny dipping, hitchhiking, kidnapped, female nudity, kidnapping, dead man, automobile, psycho killer, composer ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
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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, classical composer, cold war, cold war era, art, biopic, opera, dream, death, journalist, surrealism ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
ussr, new york, russia, soviet union
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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
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style:
realistic, period piece, sexy, talky, intense ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fashion, classical music, art, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 2009, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Story:
Rock N Roll is a 2007 Malayalam film directed by Renjith. The film stars Mohanlal, Lakshmi Rai, Mukesh and Rahman in lead roles.
Style:
emotional, romantic comedy
Plot:
composer, singer, love, musician, friendship, rock, passion, dream, celebrity, ambition, concert, inspiration ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as ...
Style:
sentimental, art house, melancholic, scenic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
obsession, boy, fall in love, lgbtq, hotel, gays and lesbians, love and romance, art, forbidden love, unrequited love, teenage boy, pedophilia ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, year 1912 ...
Place:
italy, venice, europe, tokyo
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Philippe, an opera composer in search of inspiration, is forced to take in Simone, his rebellious, eccentric niece whose best friend is a skunk. Despite their diametrically opposed personalities, Philippe and Simone quickly discover that they may ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, melancholic, whimsical
Plot:
composer, orphan, opera, inspiration, uncle niece relationship, creative block, coming of age, friendship, reconciliation, skunk, character study, bonding ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Music
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
composer, children, biopic, nude bathing, classical composer, musician, couples, disability, family relations, love and romance, ambition, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, gender, horse, prodigy, domineering father, family relations, against the rules, follow your dream, musician's life, composer, dishonesty ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
europe, vienna, paris france, london, english channel ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.
Style:
sexy, captivating, humorous, romantic
Plot:
sex, afterlife, nude, pop singer, sexual frustration, composer, island, greek island, female singer, pianist, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
greece, berlin germany, germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, art house
Plot:
psychoanalysis, musician, infidelity, love triangle, couples, love affair, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love and romance, composer, crumbling marriage, doctors and patients ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
germany, europe, holland, amsterdam, vienna
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven, begins creating his masterful 9th Symphony, Christoph is won over by the majesty of his ...
Style:
independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
composer, beethoven, youth, musician, classical composer, classical music, coming of age, friendship, performer's life, biopic, disability, family relations ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, 1800s, regency period
Place:
europe, austria, vienna
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Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, weird
Plot:
casanova, mozart, opera, lifestyle, love affair, love and romance, writer's life, musician's life, rivalry, composer, womanizer, music ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 1780s, georgian era
Place:
venice, europe, italy, austria, vienna
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Style:
retro, realistic, touching
Plot:
composer, villa, lake, youth, pianist, family relations, infidelity, unfaithful wife, starting over, love and romance, opposites attract, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
painter, biopic, fall in love, artist, family relations, infidelity, passion, prodigy, lifestyle, ambition, love affair, couples ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 2001, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, new york, vienna, europe
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