Piano movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant piano movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, cult classic, weird, psychological and independent film films and TV shows about / with piano, pianist, musician, music, musician's life, classical music, kiss, love, female nudity and lifestyle plots mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as piano: The Piano (1993), Your Lie in April (2014), Shine (1996), Amadeus (1984), Blind Date (2015), The Piano Player (2002), Four Minutes (2006), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), The Piano Teacher (2001).

List of piano movies

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 7.5
 95K
The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man ...
Style: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, human nature, mother daughter relationship, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
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Your Lie in April (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kousei Arima was a genius pianist until his mother's sudden death took away his ability to play. Each day was dull for Kousei. But, then he meets a violinist named Kaori Miyazono who has an eccentric playing style. Can the heartfelt sounds of ...
Style: anime, touching, stylized, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, pianist, piano, classical music, death of mother, violinist, contests and competitions, music, love and romance, depression, school, trauma ...
Place: japan
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 7.6
 56K
Shine (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Style: inspirational, emotional, feel good, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: music, classical music, piano, biopic, pianist, prodigy, schizophrenia, child prodigy, psychology, father son relationship, mental illness, genius ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, 70s
Place: australia, middle east, oceania, london, south australia
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 8.4
 425K
Amadeus (1984)
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: inspirational, epic, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: music, classical music, composer, genius, mozart, envy, opera, musician, musician's life, mentor, obsession, bohemian life ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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 6.6
 7K
Blind Date (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: He invents puzzles. He’s committed body and soul to his work and needs silence to be able to concentrate. She is an accomplished pianist and can’t live without music. She must prepare for a competition that could change her life. They are going ...
Style: feel good, romantic, disturbing, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: puzzle, piano, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, love, audition, romantic relationship, relationships, opposites attract, love and romance, love affair, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2015
Place: paris france, france
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The Piano Player (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: piano, master criminal, danger, criminal heroes, confined, mission of murder, chase, undercover, manhunt, law enforcement, hidden identity, frame up ...
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
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 7.3
 7K
Four Minutes (2006)
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: women's prison, pianist, classical music, prison, lgbt, prodigy, lesbian, female friendship, musician's life, hopes, teachers and students, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: germany
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The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Frank and Jack Baker are professional musicians who play small clubs. They play smaltzy music and have never needed a day job...
Style: sexy, offbeat, sex comedy, sensual, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: jazz, nightclub, hotel, music, brother brother relationship, piano, dog, audition, art, rock and roll, drinking, brothers ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: seattle, washington state, usa
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso ...
Style: tense, neo noir, lyrical, stylized, talky ...
Plot: piano, male nudity, going straight, violence, father son relationship, storytelling, dysfunctional family, pianist, hopes, follow your dream, teachers and students, gang war ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, china
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style: sexual, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, teacher, mother daughter relationship, sexual relations, desire, rape, masochism, fetish, sex, perversion ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, france, austria, europe, vienna
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
Style: road movie, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: road trip, character study, dysfunctional family, on the road, drifter, alienation, hitchhiker, working class, piano, self discovery, pianist, bowling ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: california, usa, oregon, washington state, northern california ...
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 7.3
 33K
House (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret......
Style: surreal, experimental, psychedelic, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, cat, surrealism, haunted house, possession, house, piano, skeleton, evil wins, characters murdered one by one, white cat, coming of age ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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 7.1
 358K
Pretty Woman (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
Style: feel good, romantic, sweet, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, prostitute, fall in love, character change, hotel, opposites attract, cinderella story, rich man poor woman, social differences, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: los angeles, beverly hills, madagascar, usa, san francisco ...
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, avant garde, black comedy, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, room, social satire, religion, dinner party, satire, isolation, mansion, piano, class differences, philosophy, trapped ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
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The Legend of 1900 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 169 min.
Story: The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 (Tim Roth) learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of ...
Style: touching, breathtaking, sincere, inspirational, sentimental ...
Plot: jazz, music, genius, ship, prodigy, musician, child prodigy, pianist, cruise ship, orphan, piano, trumpet player ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, year 1998, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: italy, america, new york, new orleans
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Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Style: stylized, realistic, factual, cult classic, entertaining ...
Plot: gay, aids, pianist, biopic, gays and lesbians, showbiz, celebrity, couples, piano, music, lgbt, art ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2013, 2000s, year 1979 ...
Place: las vegas, indiana, southern california, usa
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 7.3
 230K
Elvis (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 159 min.
Story: The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Style: historical drama, touching, semi autobiographical, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: rock music, career, male protagonist, legend, singer, fame, music, musician, singing, manager, christmas, famous singer ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 1950s, 2020s, year 1968 ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, memphis, germany
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 5.9
 65K
Reminiscence (2021)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: flood, memory, love, female singer, riot, femme fatale, environmental issue, piano, inheritance, veteran, nightclub, time travel ...
Time: future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: miami, new orleans
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 7.8
 241K
Little Women (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style: romantic, sentimental, inspirational, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot: love, sisters, writers, coming of age, generosity, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, friendship, intrigue, publisher, sister, jealousy ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019
Place: france, new york, paris france, massachusetts
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The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. ...
Style: satanic, grindhouse, atmospheric, horror musical, slasher ...
Plot: occult, witchcraft, piano, incestuous sex, folk horror, deal with the devil, satanist, supernatural, witch, macabre, black magic, heaven ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: los angeles, mexico
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 8.5
 904K
The Pianist (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style: emotional, harsh, bleak, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, pianist, nazi occupation, hunger ...
Time: 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place: poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, persia ...
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The Music Lovers (1971)
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: historical drama, psychological, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot: composer, classical music, biopic, piano, music, kremlin, gay, music composer, musician, lgbt, female nudity, dancing ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 1890s, victorian era
Place: europe, russia, london, england, moscow russia
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 4.9
 3K
Tone-Deaf (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman leaves for a quiet weekend in the country after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies. Soon, two ...
Style: horror comedy, sadistic, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot: millennial, political satire, dementia, piano, psychopath, insane, suicide, murder, disturbed individual, violence, socially awkward, secret past ...
Place: los angeles
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 6.1
 3K
Lisztomania (1975)
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: cult classic, surreal, erotic, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: composer, piano, male nudity, classical music, musician, biopic, music, rock, bondage, rock and roll, the beatles, pop music ...
Time: year 1975, 19th century, 1840s, 1800s
Place: europe, st. petersburg russia, berlin germany, russia
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 6.8
 5K
Impromptu (1991)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Style: period piece, cult classic, costume drama, humorous, witty ...
Plot: classical music, writers, composer, piano, music, female artist, women, older woman younger man relationship, musician, art, duchess, house ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, year 1991, victorian era, 1830s
Place: france, europe
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 6.8
 3K
Fingers (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Keitel plays the lead in this schizophrenic movie in which he is continually pulled by the two conflicting sides of his personality, on the one hand that of a quiet piano virtuoso and on the other a ruthless debt collector for his mobster father. ...
Style: neo noir, grim, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: piano, mafia, character study, caper, american mafia, gangster, schizophrenia, violent content, profanity, musician's life, lifestyle, parents and children ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.9
 20K
Grand Piano (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, horror musical ...
Plot: music, murder, secrets, sniper, prodigy, musician's life, pianist, haunted by the past, piano, danger, comeback, kidnapping ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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Suite Française (2014)
Genre: Drama, 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: emotional, realistic, romantic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, war, fall in love, wartime life, occupied france, nazi occupied france, adultery, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, ancient times, 20th century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Ten Little Indians (1965)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion.When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style.It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 ...
Style: suspenseful, talky, psychological, tense, black comedy ...
Plot: murder mystery, serial killer, isolation, murder, mind game, private detective, investigation, whodunit, characters killed one by one, guilt, false accusation, weekend ...
Time: 60s
Place: alps, austria
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Scream of Fear (1961)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, disability, chauffeur, father, female protagonist, uncover truth, investigation, corpse, false identity, piano, mistaken identity, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: france, french riviera, cote d'azur, riviera
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