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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman, married to a wealthy man, but miserably lonely; trapped within a world ruled with an iron fist. Katerina is driven by a lust for life and for love. Her husband, though, is impotent; her father-in-law a tyrant. No wonder, then, that ...
Style:
dark, intense, bleak, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
opera, loneliness, murder, marriage, affair, adultery, patriarchy, tragedy, passion, oppression, mature, repression ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story:
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies ...
Plot:
opera, dancing, live performance, soldier, love triangle, pistol, singer, seduction, dancer, singing, rage, betrayal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Mozart's genius in setting to music da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks COSI FAN TUTTE as one of the great works of art from the Age of Enlightenment. Nicholas Hytner's beautiful new production, with its ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
disguise, seduction, sibling relationship, opera, marital infidelity, male female relationship, con trick, couple relations, family relations, humour, sisters, escapades ...
Place:
naples italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK, Romania
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).
Style:
sincere, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot:
opera singer, starting over, musician's life, classical music, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, aging, showbiz, friendship, celebrity culture, hopes, opera ...
Time:
year 2002, year 1977, 70s
Place:
greece, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that ...
Style:
art house, stylized, spiritual, exciting, semi serious ...
Plot:
opera, music, classical music, stage play, spirituality, surrealism, circus, music and dance, danger, escapades, clergy, heroes ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 18th century
Place:
england, tokyo, vienna
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, obsession, gays and lesbians, midlife crisis, opera, doctors and patients, unfulfilled love, ocean, family problems, young lovers, family gatherings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice
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Genre: Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
Live From Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with Thirteen/WNET in New York City.
A series of concerts, ballets, operas, and recitals telecast, as the title ...
Style:
anthology, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot:
theater, live performance, ballet, opera, concert, classical music, performance art, orchestra, dance, dancing, choir, jazz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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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: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style:
saga, epic, neo noir, visually appealing, bad ending ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, gangster, violence, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, guilt, sicilian mafia, assassination, catholic church ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, new york, atlantic city new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cher is devastatingly funny, sinuous and beautiful as Loretta, an unlucky-in-love Italian widow who finds romance through the intervention of the Manhattan moon. With her wedding to a close friend just weeks away, she meets - and falls hopelessly in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
love story, dysfunctional family, couples, love, female protagonist, fall in love, marriage proposal, full moon, love triangle, love and romance, brother brother relationship, wedding ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, gothic horror, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
unfulfilled love, musician, obsession, theater, disfigurement, opera singer, live performance, singer, destructive relationship, dancing, mysterious man, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, 1910s, year 1919, 1870s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Years after a violent attack sent her into retirement, opera soprano Sarah Conrad has agreed to a comeback event. But when she steps back into the limelight, a series of new dangers threaten to keep her from ever singing again.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
opera singer, opera, kidnapping, singer, threat, fanatic, obsessed fan, threat to kill, fanaticism, female protagonist, problem, female singer ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Moving Wallpaper is a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, clever, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
artists and showbiz, workplace, workplace situations, media, opera, satire, behind the scenes, professional rivalry, ambition, female protagonist, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While working part-time as a food deliveryman, Antoine, an aspiring young rapper from the suburbs of Paris, meets Mrs. Loiseau, an eminent teacher at the Paris Opéra. Stunned by the young man's raw talent, she introduces him to the world of ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
opera singer, rap, theater, opera, singer, female singer, audition, musician's life, music, music teacher, double life, satire ...
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Animation
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life of Sharp-Ears, a fox who is captured by a forester as a cub and raised in his home prior to ...
Style:
pastoral, lyrical, period piece, wistful
Plot:
fox, forest, hunter, opera, escape, wildlife, nature, human animal relationship, animal protagonist, captivity, mortality, village life ...
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Genre: Musical, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A comedy musical stage version of the Phantom of the Opera, filmed live on-stage during a performance in Florida.
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, romantic, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
phantom of the opera, phantom, catacomb, opera, love triangle, obsession, unrequited love, beauty and the beast, jealousy, haunted, rescue mission, claustrophobia ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
paris france
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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 ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, tragic ending, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, opera, italian opera, live performance, revenge, passion, classical music, jealousy, performance art, family feud, fate, identity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain
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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.
Style:
costume drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
skating, opera, tragic love, passion, dance, figure skating, classical music, adaptation, jealousy, fate, spectacle, sensuality ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain, andalusia
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
Style:
dramatic, intense, art film, historical drama, period piece ...
Plot:
opera, classical music, theater, live performance, orchestra, adaptation, passion, jealousy, train conductor, seduction, tragic love, performance art ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
london, spain
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the ...
Style:
emotional, tragic ending, period drama
Plot:
legend, opera, chinese mythology, folklore, supernatural, myth, female protagonist, sacrifice, shape shifting, transformation, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
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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)
Style:
dramatic, mystical, emotional, dark fantasy, intellectual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, classical music, enchantment, illusion, sorcery, female antagonist, transformation, island, magic, betrayal, tragic romance, adaptation ...
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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.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, art house, costume drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, suicide, tragic romance, classical music, cross cultural relations, longing, loss, honor, female protagonist, heartbreak, sacrifice, desperation ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Style:
romantic, lyrical, melancholic, whimsical
Plot:
shakespeare, opera, fairy, woods, magic, adaptation, supernatural, magical creature, choir, farce, donkey, unrequited love ...
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, History, Music
Country: France
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Henry VIII is an opera in four acts by Camille Saint-Saëns, from a libretto by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre, based on El cisma en Inglaterra (The schism in England) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It was revived in 1991 at the Théatre ...
Style:
costume drama, art house, political drama, period drama, tragic
Plot:
opera, royalty, henry viii, power struggle, palace intrigue, classical music, monarchy, live performance, renaissance, biopic, anne boleyn, literary ...
Time:
16th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers ...
Style:
black comedy, allegory, period piece, philosophical
Plot:
renaissance, criminal underworld, opera, social commentary, gangster, satire, corruption, poverty, class struggle, moral ambiguity, literary, political satire ...
Time:
18th century, 1920s
Place:
eastern europe
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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
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden Couple', Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko as the protagonists, Rodolfo and Mimi. ...
Style:
serious, stylized, captivating, romantic, realistic
Plot:
love affair, opposites attract, lifestyle, tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, social differences, couples, male female relationship, opera ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Hungary
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Johanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death's doorstep. Touched by grace, Johanna cures patients by offering her body. The head doctor is frustrated by her continued ...
Style:
experimental, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot:
hospital, coma, medical, life is a bitch, healing power, addiction, drug abuse, rehabilitation, doctors and patients, old man, nurse, opera ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, frightening, grindhouse ...
Plot:
phantom of the opera, supernatural, opera, murder, monster, unrequited love, singer, catacomb, master criminal, rat, disfigured face, disfigurement ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1900, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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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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