Pianist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant pianist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, sincere, touching and captivating films and TV shows about / with pianist, piano, musician, love, storytelling, music, friendship, dialogue, mentor and runaway plots mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as pianist: The Pianist (2002), The Piano Teacher (2001), Four Minutes (2006), The Legend of 1900 (1998), Once (2006), Desire (2000), Why Stop Now? (2012), Secret (2007), Grand Piano (2013), The Accompanist (1992).
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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, sad, harsh, reflective, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, genocide, nazi, classical music, wartime, war, nazism, anti semitism, hunger, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1939, 1930s, year 2002 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
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:
disturbing, sexual, controversial, psychological, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, masochism, age difference, perversion, rape, desire, teacher, obsession, sex scene, sex, sexual relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
vienna, france, germany, austria, europe ...
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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:
pianist, women's prison, lgbtq, classical music, prison, hopes, lgbt, prodigy, musician, female friendship, lesbian, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
germany
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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, ship, genius, musician, prodigy, pianist, child prodigy, loneliness, cruise ship, trumpet player, piano ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 90s, year 1998, 1920s ...
Place:
america, italy, new york, new orleans
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125K
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, independent film, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
music, musician's life, love, street musician, pianist, love and romance, musician, friendship, singer, young lovers, love story, recording studio ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, london, czech republic
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118
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An affair between a pianist and a teacher begins to disintegrate when girls from her school turn up missing.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, thrilling
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, love, psycho, in love, male female relationship, mentally unstable, tragic love, psychopath, star crossed lovers, love interest, female protagonist, mental disorder ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, emotional, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, family relations, dealer, lifestyle, drug dealing, partner, disorder, student life, eccentric family, nothing goes right, piano, prodigy ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
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10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ye Xiang Lun is a music student majoring in piano who just transferred to Tamkang, a school famous for its musically talented students, especially those who play piano. On his first day of school, he hears a mysterious melody being played, and ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
asthmatic, asthma, true love, college, fall in love, pianist, power of love, graduation, love and romance, imaginary, changing the past or future, time travel ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1999
Place:
asia, taiwan
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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:
tense, psychological, suspense, horror musical, cult classic ...
Plot:
sniper, music, murder, secrets, prodigy, musician's life, haunted by the past, musician, piano, danger, comeback, kidnapping ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, england
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, crying
Plot:
world war two, betrayal, passion, singer, pianist, maid, railway, obsession, politics, infidelity, love, strong female presence ...
Time:
year 1992, 1940s
Place:
paris france, england, london, france, europe ...
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112K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, rough, action packed, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fighter, fight, vengeance, underground fighting, pianist, haunted by the past, friendship, self discovery, kidnapping, wuxia ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, glasgow scotland, hong kong, china
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style:
art house, depressing, emotional, philosophical, intense ...
Plot:
marriage, autumn, dysfunctional family, mother daughter estrangement, child neglect, pianist, intimacy, reconciliation, classical music, family relations, musician, women ...
Time:
year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot:
teenage love, fall in love, youth, teenage life, father daughter relationship, love, teen romance, teenage girl, love story, summer romance, enemies to lovers, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
georgia, north carolina, usa, san francisco, california ...
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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:
realistic, stylized, factual, cult classic, period piece ...
Plot:
gay, pianist, aids, lgbtq, celebrity, couples, gays and lesbians, biopic, closeted homosexual, gay romance, music, showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2013, year 1979, year 1986 ...
Place:
las vegas, southern california, indiana, usa, california
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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, serious, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
road trip, on the road, character study, alienation, dysfunctional family, drifter, piano, pianist, father son relationship, hitchhiker, oil field, diner ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
california, usa, washington state, oregon, northern california ...
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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
Is relevant?
673K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style:
feel good, road movie, uplifting, funny, inspirational ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
racism, road trip, musician, interracial friendship, travel, lgbtq, racial prejudice, journey, friendship, driver, black american, dignity ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
southern usa, bronx new york city, america, birmingham alabama, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lady, sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, passion, female pubic hair, forbidden love, affair, sensuality, unhappy marriage, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mediterranean sea, riviera, europe, france
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115K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.
Style:
funny, suspense, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
musician, blindness, blind man, pianist, murder, witness, affair, illicit affair, lovers, evidence, murder witness, blindness and impaired vision ...
Place:
middle east, europe, india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. (He does express himself through colourful suits that would ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, disorder, uncover truth, misfit, orphan, parents and children, memory loss, hidden truth, parents, pianist, mute or deaf, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, newfoundland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Style:
tense, bleak, enigmatic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, gay romance, homosexuality, gay interest, gay best friend, painter, best friend, male male relationship, gay lead character ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, beirut lebanon, lebanon
Is relevant?
164K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
jazz, addiction, musician, musician's life, music, african american, blindness, biopic, blind character, heroin, blind boy, disability ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 1930s, 50s, 2000s ...
Place:
georgia, new york, california, indianapolis indiana, usa ...
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101K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: New Zealand, Australia, France
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, sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, couple relations, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, feminist, love, love affair, couples, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania, scotland
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5K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Vitus tells the story of a highly-gifted boy (played by real-life piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) whose parents have demanding and ambitious plans for him.
Style:
sincere, semi serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
child prodigy, prodigy, boy, music, youth, coming of age, childhood, family relations, pianist, rebelliousness, parents and children, friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe, zurich switzerland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti ...
Style:
slasher, detective, terrifying, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, pianist, psycho, murder, prostitute, gory, terminal illness, pregnancy, riddles and clues, psychopath, investigation, violence spree ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight"s Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires.
Style:
rom com, heartbreaking, sweet, cult classic, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, slut, coming of age, slutty attitude, lolita, cheating wife, extramarital affair, high school reunion, love story, pianist, passion, high school ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
minnesota, massachusetts, new england, usa, new jersey ...
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750K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, teens, family outing
Plot:
music, jazz, dancing, love, musician, audition, bigger dreams, jazz club, love story, destiny, traffic jam, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2015, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, paris france, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A piano player pretending to be visually-impaired, unwittingly becomes entangled in a number of problems as he witnesses the murder of a former film actor.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
witness, pianist, pretending to be blind, problem, pretense, murder witness, testimony, con trick, witnessing a crime, deception, moral ambiguity, disguise ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
Style:
slasher, southern gothic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
plastic surgery, plastic surgeon, pianist, dual role, surgical operation, heiress, missing daughter, surgeon, impersonation, inheritance, murderer, false identity ...
Place:
louisiana
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, scary, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, dark hero, vampirism, monster as victim, blood, bonding, vampire bite, child vampire ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, paris france, san francisco, france ...
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