Classical music movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
International composer Peter Pilger faces the challenge of his life: to deliver a Requiem for his former college St Jude’s in time for the Memorial Celebrations while facing down revelations about his past and living up to his new authority as ...
Style:
satirical, atmospheric, dark comedy
Plot:
classical music, character study, celebrity culture, scandal, teenage rebellion, composer
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, UK, France, Japan, USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Guiseppi Verdi's opera about Rigoletto, the unattractive, hunchbacked jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. The Duke has noticed a young lady going to church each Sunday and he plans to seduce her. When Count Monterone confronts the Duke ...
Style:
dramatic, dark, emotional, costume drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
opera, revenge, italian opera, tragedy, classical music, jester, curse, betrayal, seduction, murder, palace intrigue, aristocracy ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine. Starring Luciano Pavarotti.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
opera, classical music, italian opera, theater, live performance, choir, passion, orchestra, masquerade, assassination, spectacle, tragic romance ...
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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: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pierre, a successful expert in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks.
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, older man younger woman relationship, classical music, mistress, road accident, reckless driving, speed, sports car, psychoanalyst, love, post war, trippy ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by ...
Style:
political, surreal, psychedelic, mind bending, depressing ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, coming of age, flashback, insomnia, poison, adultery, adulterous husband, children, female nudity, orphan, youth, childhood ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for ...
Style:
period piece, visual, serious, realistic, period drama ...
Plot:
music teacher, classical music, young couple, musician, music, singing competition, performer's life, love and romance, prodigy, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, unfulfillment ...
Time:
18th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
belgium
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, first love, cinema, nostalgia, filmmaking, love story, flashback, haunted by the past, philosophy, friendship, adolescence ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, rome italy, europe, corsica
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne ...
Style:
harsh, stylized, disturbing, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
napoleonic wars, betrayal, war, nobility, aristocracy, cavalry charge, battles, lawsuit, military, haunted by the past, homecoming, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, year 1994, 1800s, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, london, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The Full Monteverdi follows the simultaneous break-up of six couples, from shocking revelation, vengeful anger and erotic longing for reconciliation, as an ensemble film. Vulnerable and disarming, it draws viewers into its emotional journey and ...
Style:
independent film, crying, baroque
Plot:
classical music, breakup, restaurant, divorce, flashback, extramarital affair, betrayal, love, singing, singer, bitterness, male female relationship ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth Symphony.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
inspiration, lecture, snow, student, beethoven, classical music, adventure hero, escapades, journey, mountaineer, solitude, transformation ...
Place:
alps
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Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
From a poor village girl to a famous wayang (Chinese Opera) star, Titoudao chronicles the colourful and turbulent life of celebrated wayang star Oon Ah Chiam. Born into a poor family of 12 children, Ah Chiam's father was always trying to get ...
Style:
dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
biopic, music, performer's life, opera singer, female singer, singing, celebrity, life is a bitch, life, classical music, fight, opera ...
Place:
singapore
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2K
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: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Millie is a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend behind to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer…in the Scottish Highlands! She begins intense vocal training lessons with ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, disturbing, sincere, lighthearted ...
Plot:
opera singer, female singer, musician, changing lives, ambitious woman, follow your dream, female protagonist, aspiration, ambition, classical music, direction and purpose, dream ...
Time:
future
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
When former Princeton music professor Arthur Cochran unexpectedly stumbles into choir practice at a small-town church, he finds a group of singers that are out of tune in more ways than one.
Style:
sitcom, feel good, sincere, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
choir, church choir, religion, heartwarming, community, fish out of water, small town, music, satire, church, singer, ambition ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Russia
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story:
Biography of the most famous Russian chansonnier of the 20th century. The story of the artist who left Russia in 1919 and returned to the USSR in 1943, in the midst of World War II. Vertinsky lived, sang, and was popular in Constantinople, Paris, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, thought provoking, historical drama ...
Plot:
biopic, music, compassion, empathy, musician's life, musician, performer's life, celebrity culture, life philosophy, classical music, artist, historical figure ...
Place:
moscow russia, paris france, berlin germany, new york, constantinople ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
Hakubo tells the story of two young people who live in rural Fukushima: Sachi Koyama, a girl who excels at playing the violin, and Yuusuke Kijinami, a boy who loves to paint. After an awkward, chance encounter, the two meet and begin to fall in ...
Style:
anime, romantic drama, touching, stylized, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slice of life, young love, fukushima, prodigy, violinist, art, music, friendship, high school life, depression, classical music, violin ...
Place:
japan, poetic realism
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15K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An incredibly gifted pianist makes a Faustian bargain to overtake her older sister at a prestigious institution for classical musicians.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tragic ending, ambiguous ending, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sister sister relationship, suicide, fraternal twins, pianist, occult, interracial sex, betrayal, musician, moral corruption, terror, nightmare, desire for fame ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Gioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival with Ann Murray and Francisco Araiza as Cinderella and the Prince. Director Michael Hampe envisions La Cenerentola less as a fairy tale and ...
Style:
lighthearted, dramatic
Plot:
cinderella, opera, live performance, disguise, classical music, social commentary, satire, class differences, mistaken identity, love at first sight, forgiveness, family drama ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Russian composer and Japanese pianist enter a relationship strained by their geographic and cultural boundaries.
Style:
romantic drama, art house, lyrical, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
composer, pianist, classical music, culture clash, separation, longing, melancholy, heartbreak, nostalgia, alienation, language barrier, character study ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, japan, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.
Style:
dark, melancholic, sinister, suspenseful, lyrical ...
Plot:
opera, guilt, isolation, sea, tragic hero, alienation, tragedy, apprentice, classical music, moral ambiguity, misunderstanding, haunting ...
Time:
victorian era
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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, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress.
Style:
emotional, reflective, contemplative
Plot:
cellist, pianist, loss of mother, mourning, grief, mother daughter relationship, family drama, classical music, family secret, father daughter relationship, reconciliation, memory ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Yu-Siang is blind – but he has a superb sense of hearing. Born in rural Taiwan, this extremely talented musician moves to the capital Taipei to study the piano. But how will he manage on his own? Even the walk across campus from his halls of ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, motivational, heartfelt ...
Plot:
blind character, blindness, hopes, prodigy, human spirit, follow your dream, musician's life, artists and showbiz, piano, music, disability, inspiration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia, china
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Matthew Bourne choreographs this performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet, filmed live in London. The show, the longest running ballet on both Broadway and the West End, follows the story of Prince Siegfried, who promises his love to swan maiden ...
Style:
aesthetic, dramatic, emotional, poignant, melancholic ...
Plot:
ballet, theater, choreography, dance, human becomes animal, classical music, live performance, adaptation, tragic love, broadway, spectacle, lgbtq ...
Place:
london, west end london
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Former orchestra conductor Gethsemane Brown moves to Ireland to teach at a boarding school. After deciphering a musical message, she meets a renowned composer's ghost who is rumored to be behind the death of his lover.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, orchestra conductor, composer, female protagonist, classical music, supernatural, secret message, macabre, boarding school, investigation, revelation, whodunit ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets Carmen is packed with some of the best-loved and memorable music in all of opera. In this ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, dramatic ...
Plot:
opera, betrayal, rebelliousness, dishonesty, destructive relationship, couples, wooing, infidelity, murder, live performance, jealousy, passion ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After star composer Richard Wagner's fatal cardiac arrest in Venice, his Hungarian-Italian-turned-French widow Cosima has a testament faked so she can inherit the family franchise, notably the annual Bayreuth Festspiele festival, 'until ...
Style:
historical drama, family saga, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
legacy, blackmail, fatherhood, trial, biopic, problem, undercover, inheritance, musician, deception, secret, classical music ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, venice
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A boys love story about two musicians who are part of an orchestra. Considered as a musical genius, Tonoin Kei became the new conductor of Fujimi much to the disappointment of Morimura Yuuki who is the acknowledged leader of the group. Yuuki who was ...
Style:
yaoi, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
orchestra, orchestra conductor, unrequited love, lgbt, train conductor, lgbtq, gay romance, problem, relationships, changing lives, musician's life, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
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