Samsara

Garin Nugroho Director

Alit Aryani Willems as Balian

Cok Sawitri as Darta's Friend

Ketut Arini as House Keeper

Tara Anindya Butterly as Little Sinta

Darta, a man from an impoverished family, is rejected by the wealthy parents of the woman he loves. Desperate, he strikes a bargain with the Monkey King, performing a dark ritual to gain wealth. However, in doing so, he accidentally curses his wife and child to a life of suffering. Rooted in Indonesian mysticism, this universal narrative explores the insatiable hunger to become something one is not and the boundaries one is willing to cross to achieve it.

To Joy

1950

Swedish

7.1

♡ 16

78%

Ingmar Bergman Director

Ingmar Bergman as Expecting Father at the Maternity Ward

Astrid Bodin as Guest at Marta's Birthday Party

Marrit Ohlsson as Guest at Marta's Birthday Party

Agda Helin as Nurse

Two violinists in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.

Playing for Time

1980

English

7.3

♡ 29

74%

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

based on memoir or autobiography

Joseph Sargent Director

Clarence Felder as Commandant Kramer

Marisa Berenson as Elzvieta

Robin Bartlett as Etalina

Melanie Mayron as Marianne

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.

Gauche the Cellist

1982

Japanese

7.0

♡ 23

Isao Takahata Director

Fuyumi Shiraishi as Cat

Ryûji Saikachi as Concertmaster

Kaneta Kimotsuki as Cuckoo

Kôji Yada as Master of Ceremonies

Gauche is a diligent but mediocre cellist who plays for a small town orchestra and the local cinema in the early 20th century. He struggles during rehearsals and is often berated by his conductor during preparations for an upcoming performance of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony. Over the course of four nights, Gauche is visited at his mill house home by talking animals as he is practicing.

Metallica & San Francisco Symphony - S&M2

2019

English

8.6

♡ 21

Wayne Isham Director

Lars Ulrich as Self

Kirk Hammett as Self

James Hetfield as Self

Robert Trujillo as Self

S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs from the two-night event that opened San Francisco’s new Chase Center, with many Metallica fan favourites and two unique classical songs chosen by San Francisco Symphony Musical Director, Michael Tilson Thomas. S&M2 is newly re-edited by the band, with re-mixed and remastered audio, for a whole new look and sound from the original theatrical run in October 2019.

Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

1941

English

6.3

♡ 2

Harold S. Bucquet Director

Horace McMahon as Jarod 'Foghorn' Murphy

Margaret Bert as Nurse

Ann Doran as Nurse at Party

John T. Murray as Strange Man in Elevator

A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont.

Counterpoint

1967

English

6.4

♡ 3

Ralph Nelson Director

Maximilian Schell as Gen. Schiller

Linden Chiles as Lt. Long

Bill Erwin as Trumpet Player

Leslie Nielsen as Victor Rice

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

Tous les matins du monde

1991

French

7.5

♡ 11

Alain Corneau Director

Michel Bouquet as Baugin

Myriam Boyer as Guignotte

Gérard Depardieu as Marin Marais

Guillaume Depardieu as Young Marin Marais

Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.

Golden Orchestra!

2016

Japanese

6.5

♡ 4

96%

Tôru Hosokawa Director

Anne Watanabe as Chizuru koyama

Takashi Sasano as Hidetaro Nonomura

Yoshiyuki Morishita as Rabauru

Kentarô Sakaguchi as Sakashita

When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.

Score

2016

English

7.5

♡ 47

91%

Matt Schrader Director

Diane Warren as Herself

John Williams as Himself

Steven Spielberg as Himself

Randy Newman as Himself

Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on the overlooked craft of film composing, gathering many of the art form’s most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, to uncover their creative process. Tracing key developments in the evolution of music in film, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks, 'Score' is an aural valentine for film lovers.

Morricone conducts Morricone

2006

German

7.9

♡ 1

Giovanni Morricone Director

Gilda Buttà as Piano

Ennio Morricone as Self

Bavarian Orchestra Choir as Themselves

Munich Radio Orchestra as Themselves

Legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone conducts the Munich Radio Orchestra, performing his most famous works, along with some more obscure ones, in a concert held in Munich, Germany, on October 20, 2004.

The Hidden Face

2011

Spanish

7.3

♡ 24

73%

Andrés Baiz Director

Quim Gutiérrez as Adrián

Clara Lago as Belén

Alexandra Stewart as Emma

Martina García as Fabiana

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

The Concert

2009

French

7.5

♡ 7

61%

Radu Mihaileanu Director

Aleksey Guskov as Andrey Simonovich Filipov

Mélanie Laurent as Anne-Marie Jacquet / Lea

Hervé Pauchon as Barman Châtelet

Anna Kamenkova as Irina Filipova

A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.

Fantasia 2000

1999

English

7.1

♡ 59

80%

live action and animation

James Algar Director

Penn Jillette as Himself - Host

Dennis Quaid as Self - Co-Host

Danny Mann as Various

Townsend Coleman as Various

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.

Blown Away

1994

English

6.2

♡ 22

39%

40%

Action

boston, massachusetts

Stephen Hopkins Director

Forest Whitaker as Anthony Franklin

Jeff Bridges as James 'Jimmy' Dove / Liam McGivney

Ken Kerman as Prison Guard

Josh McLaglen as Prison Guard

Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove, who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force, his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.

Fantasia

1940

English

7.7

♡ 79

95%

Wilfred Jackson Director

Bela Lugosi as Chernabog

Tim Matheson as Narrator

James MacDonald as Percussionist

Paul J. Smith as Violinist

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again.

Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day

2019

Japanese

7.3

♡ 18

96%

Action

Animation

based on novel or book

Naoko Yamada Director

Sora Amamiya as Kanade Hisaishi

Misaki Kuno as Satsuki Suzuki

Azusa Tadokoro as Tomoe Kabe

Erika Harlacher as Tomoe Kabe / Additional Voices

Kumiko is now a second year and one of the senior players of the euphonium section. With new underclassmen joining the concert band, Kumiko will have to learn new things in order to deal with awkward and difficult underclassmen. She and third-year trumpeter Tomoe Kabe have been chosen to lead the new underclassmen members. Among the new members to Kumiko's bass section are euphonist Kanade Hisaishi, whose appearances are deceiving; tuba player Mirei Suzuki, who cannot adapt to her new environment; tuba player Satsuki Suzuki, who wants to get along with Mirei; and double bassist Motomu Tsukinaga, who cannot talk about himself. Between the Sunrise Festival, chair placement auditions, and the competition, a number of problems quickly begin to arise.

Nimic

2019

English

6.5

♡ 12

74%

Yorgos Lanthimos Director

Questo Iberoamericana as Chamber Orchestera

Lizzi Ceniceros as Conductor

Matt Dillon as Father

Daphne Patakia as Mimic

A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.

Unfaithfully Yours

1948

English

7.4

♡ 5

100%

older man younger woman relationship

Preston Sturges Director

Colin Kenny as Concert Attendee

Harry Carter as Reporter

Rex Harrison as Sir Alfred De Carter

Frank Mills as Stage Hand

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.

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To Joy

Playing for Time

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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day

Counterpoint

Tous les matins du monde

Golden Orchestra!

Score

Morricone conducts Morricone

The Hidden Face

The Concert

Fantasia 2000

Blown Away

Fantasia

Sound! Euphonium the Movie - Our Promise: A Brand New Day

Nimic

Unfaithfully Yours