Jack-Jack Attack

Brad Bird Director

Bud Luckey as Agent Rick Dicker

Eli Fucile as Jack-Jack

Bret 'Brook' Parker as Kari McKeen

Jason Lee as Syndrome

The Parrs' baby Jack-Jack is thought to be normal, not having any super-powers like his parents or siblings. But when an outsider is hired to watch him, Jack-Jack shows his true potential.

Four Minutes

2006

German

7.3

♡ 17

77%

Chris Kraus Director

Monica Bleibtreu as Gertrud 'Traude' Krüger

Richy Müller as Kowalski

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer as Pater Vincens

Edita Malovcic as Traude - jung

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 was.

Copying Beethoven

2006

English

6.7

♡ 8

29%

Agnieszka Holland Director

Diane Kruger as Anna Holtz

Ed Harris as Ludwig van Beethoven

Matthew Goode as Martin Bauer

Karl Johnson as Stefan Holtz

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, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.

Deception

1946

English

7.1

♡ 4

70%

Irving Rapper Director

John Abbott as Bertram Gribble

Richard Erdman as Jerry Spencer

Russell Arms as Music Student

Theodore Lorch as Well-wisher at Concert

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

Allegro non troppo

1976

Italian

7.4

♡ 11

89%

Bruno Bozzetto Director

Osvaldo Salvi as Man in gorilla costume

Maurizio Nichetti as The Animator

Néstor Garay as The Orchestra Master

Maurizio Micheli as The Presenter

The film is a parody of Disney's Fantasia, though possibly more of a challenge to Fantasia than parody status would imply. In the context of this film, "Allegro non Troppo" means Not So Fast!, an interjection meaning "slow down" or "think before you act" and refers to the film's pessimistic view of Western progress (as opposed to the optimism of Disney's original).

Lisztomania

1975

English

6.1

♡ 11

46%

Ken Russell Director

Kenneth Colley as Frederic Chopin

Aubrey Morris as Manager

Harry Fielder as Man Up Ladder

Rick Wakeman as Thor

In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.

Beethoven's Hair

2005

English

7.4

♡ 2

62%

Larry Weinstein Director

Max Wittmann as Ferdinand Hiller

Nicky Guadagni as Narrator

Michael Fletcher as Narrator

Marcel Hillaire as Self

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern times, when a pair of Beethoven enthusiasts purchase the hair at a Sotheby's auction. The story then looks at the lock's previous owners and culminates in the science that reveals Beethoven's "medical secret". Set to a lush score of some of Beethoven's most glorious music, the film explores the world of forensic testing in sharp relief against the romance of 19th-century Vienna and the horrors of 20th-century Nazi Germany.

Yannick

2018

English

7.7

♡ 1

Christiaan van Schermbeek Director

Yannick Nézet-Séguin as Self

At 41 years old, the Quebecois conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has established himself as one of the most gifted maestros of his generation, with numerous prestigious posts with some of the world’s greatest orchestras already under his belt, including the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (music director), London Philharmonic Orchestra (principal guest conductor), and the Orchestre métropolitain de Montréal. One week before Nézet-Séguin's official nomination as music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, filmmaker Christiaan van Schermbeek met the maestro for the first time. The once-in-a-lifetime event inspired Schermbeek to begin this documentary project, giving us a fascinating glimpse into the life of a truly extraordinary individual.

Mahler

1974

English

7.0

♡ 5

75%

Ken Russell Director

Kenneth Colley as Krenek

Rosalie Crutchley as Marie Mahler

Richard Morant as Max

Ronald Pickup as Nick

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

French

7.2

♡ 31

86%

parent child relationship

paris, france

Romance

Thriller

Jacques Audiard Director

Aure Atika as Aline

Vladislav Galard as Clerk

Linh Dan Pham as Miao Lin

Mélanie Laurent as Minskov's Girlfriend

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

1978

French

6.9

♡ 2

83%

husband wife relationship

Romance

stricken

Bertrand Blier Director

Philippe Brigaud as Le docteur Papillon

Gérard Depardieu as Raoul

Carole Laure as Solange

Patrick Dewaere as Stéphane

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.

Toscanini in His Own Words

2009

English

6.6

♡ 1

Larry Weinstein Director

Barry Jackson as Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini as Self

Joseph Long as Walter Toscanini

Michael Brandon as Wilfrid Pelletier

This film is a docufiction on the great Toscanini directed by well-known filmmaker Larry Weinstein; who pushes the boundaries of conventional documentary storytelling by borrowing tools from fiction films; including dramatic reconstructions and historical cinematic stylings.

Beat

2022

English

5.5

♡ 4

Jye Currie Director

Brendan Bacon as Adam

John Wood as Dr. Mordon

Alexandra Jensen as Ellie

Rachael Carpani as Susan

After a heart transplant a young woman finds herself connecting with a homeless man through classical music. Throughout a series of dramatic performances and emotional events the two worlds begin to merge as one.

Broken People

2023

English

4.3

♡ 2

Travis Ketzak Director

Harley Jennings as Brett Ashley

Nick Scott as Jake Barnes

Raini MacGibbon as Jill Gorton

Ethan Ketzak as Mike Campbell

Brett and Jake meet in a bar and decide to drown their sorrows in whiskey, forgetting the past, ignoring the future, and exploring life, love, and tragedy together for one fateful night.

Louis van Beethoven

2020

German

6.3

♡ 3

Niki Stein Director

Ulrich Noethen as Christian Gottlob Neefe

Tobias Moretti as Ludwig van Beethoven

Johanna Gastdorf as Therese

Sabin Tambrea as Tobias Pfeiffer

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconventional genius and French Revolution are sparking a fire in Louis' heart; he doesn't want to serve a master - only the arts. Facing times of family tragedies and unrequited love, he almost gives up. However, Louis makes it to Vienna to study under Haydn in 1792, and the rest is history. Who was this man, whose music has since touched countless hearts and minds? At the end of his life, the master is isolated by loss of loved ones and hearing. Surely though, he was way ahead of his times.

La symphonie fantastique

1942

French

5.8

♡ 1

Biography

classical music

Drama

Christian-Jaque Director

Bernard Blier as Antoine Charbonnel

Jean-Louis Barrault as Hector Berlioz

Maurice Schutz as Niccolò Paganini

Jules Berry as Schlesinger

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.

Lindsey Stirling: Live from London

2015

English

7.7

♡ 6

Pasqual Gutierrez Director

Lindsey Stirling as Self

Stephen Stevo Jones as Self

Jason Gaviati as Self

Drew Steen as Self

Lindsey Stirling brings her futurist world of electronic big beats fused with violin, dance, and animation to London's Forum Theatre. Filmed live during her 2014 Shatter Me World Tour, the 90 minute live show features her smash single Shatter Me along with several other tracks from her sophomore album which debuted at #2 on Billboard s Top 200 album chart.

A Late Quartet

2012

English

7.1

♡ 2

77%

Yaron Zilberman Director

Imogen Poots as Alexandra Gelbart

Wallace Shawn as Gideon Rosen

Stephen Payne as Jack

Christopher Walken as Peter Mitchell

When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert — quite possibly their last — only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.

Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra

2009

English

7.6

♡ 5

Russell Thomas Director

Andy Linden as Alpine Roadie

Anne Dudley as Self

Bill Bailey as Self

BBC Concert Orchestra as Themselves

The show, recorded at London's magnificent Royal Albert Hall, is Bill's own hilarious and irreverent guide to the sounds, styles, and instruments of the orchestra, with a wide and eclectic range of subjects, including music for '70s cop shows, sci-fi films, horror movies, news themes, plus some of Bill's own songs re-imagined for an orchestra, and including Anne's own specially written new works.