Classical composer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant classical composer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, period drama, historical drama and independent film films and TV shows about / with classical composer, composer, musician, biopic, classical music, musician's life, music, artists and showbiz, art and artist plots mostly in Music, Drama and Biography genres shot in UK, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as classical composer: Amadeus (1984), Immortal Beloved (1994), Chevalier (2022), Mahler (1974), Lisztomania (1975), Eroica (2003), The Music Lovers (1971), Song of Norway (1970), Wagner (1983), Spring Symphony (1983).
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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: 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, 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: 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, 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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705
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: 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: 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, 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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677
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 ...
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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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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: 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: 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: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers us an incredibly profound and ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
classical music, ambition, musician's life, music, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, sexual relations, violinist, composer, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, death of protagonist ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
europe, italy, venice
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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, costume drama, cult classic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
classical music, writers, female artist, piano, music, women, older woman younger man relationship, renaissance, novelist, duchess, musician, art ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, year 1991, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
france, europe, london, seattle, england
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877
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, 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, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, France, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
composer, male female relationship, artist, german history, napoleon bonaparte, world history, classical composer, age-gap relationship, concert tour, syphilis, loss of husband, carnival ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, 1860s
Place:
germany, hamburg germany
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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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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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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, 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, 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: 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: 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: 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: Horror, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Rock and roll band purchases piece of music to record that were used in satanic rituals. Band decides to record and tape video of song in mansion where rituals took place. As one may guess, the spirits are summoned to commit mayhem and murder.
Style:
slasher, horror musical, suspense, independent film, psychotronic ...
Plot:
rock, curse, supernatural, mansion, hard rock, punk, plot twist, rock and roll, dancing, pact with the devil, killing spree, deal with the devil ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
venice, italy
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909
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An innocent project transforms into a perilous nightmare when researcher Susan Roberts arrives in France in search of information on a deceased composer. She contacts his widow whose mental deterioration, precipitated by the death of her husband, ...
Style:
sexual, psychological thriller, grindhouse, noir, independent film ...
Plot:
disability, skinny dipping, dream, composer, curses spells and rituals, addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, master and servant, twins, student, paranoia ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, south of france
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Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, touching, bleak
Plot:
musician's life, dishonesty, mental institution, artists and showbiz, mentally unstable, uncover truth, obsession, haunted by the past, mental disorder, composer, losing-it hero, desire for fame ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, argentina
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