A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

The Devil's Violinist

2013

English

6.0

♡ 12

31%

Bernard Rose Director

Andrea Deck as Charlotte Watson

Veronica Ferres as Elizabeth Wells

Helmut Berger as Lord Burghersh

Jared Harris as Urbani

The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

Enter the Dangerous Mind

2013

English

5.1

♡ 10

9%

Youssef Delara Director

Andrew Bowser as DJ Mude

Jason Priestley as Dr. Dubrow

Daniel Edward Mora as Professor Lacayo

Nikki Reed as Wendy

A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.

Road Games

2015

English

5.3

♡ 33

83%

Abner Pastoll Director

Frédéric Pierrot as Grizard

Barbara Crampton as Mary

Edward Hogg as Unknown Man

Joséphine de La Baume as Véronique

When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…

Opus Zero

2017

Spanish

4.8

♡ 10

42%

documentary filmmaking

Daniel Graham Director

Cassandra Ciangherotti as Fernanda

Leonardo Ortizgris as Gilles

Irene Azuela as Maia

Willem Dafoe as Paul

Paul, an American composer, arrives in the desert town of Real de Catorce where his father recently died. For the past ten years, Paul has been consumed with the task of composing an ending for the masterpiece of an early twentieth century musician. Being isolated from the world, he sees an opportunity to finish the symphony. However, Paul is caught up in a new mystery, the disappearance thirty years ago of a woman named Marianne.

The Cat and the Fiddle

1934

English

6.3

♡ 4

17%

Sam Wood Director

Sterling Holloway as Flower Messenger

Armand Kaliz as King in Show

E. Alyn Warren as Orchestra Leader

Frank Conroy as Theatre Owner

A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.

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.

Song of Norway

1970

English

4.2

♡ 6

50%

Action

based on play or musical

Andrew L. Stone Director

Robert LuPone as Dancer

Oskar Homolka as Engstrand

Edward G. Robinson as Krogstad

Florence Henderson as Nina Hagerup

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 Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.

Bathtubs Over Broadway

2018

English

7.6

♡ 3

100%

Dava Whisenant Director

Adam Lambert as Self

Florence Henderson as Self

Ed McMahon as Self

Martin Short as Self

When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.

The Broken Butterfly

1919

English

6.4

♡ 3

Maurice Tourneur Director

Lew Cody as Darrell Thorne

Pauline Starke as Marcene Elliot

Peaches Jackson as Marcène's Child

Mary Alden as Zabie Elliot

A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.

Immortal Beloved

1994

English

7.4

♡ 52

57%

Bernard Rose Director

Valeria Golino as Giulietta Guicciardi

Gary Oldman as Ludwig van Beethoven

Ruby Rose as Mimi Erdödy

Nikky Smedley as Orchestra Vocalist

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.

Rhapsody in Blue

1945

English

7.0

♡ 5

29%

Irving Rapper Director

Robert Alda as George Gershwin

Darryl Hickman as Ira Gershwin

Kenneth Gibson as Nightclub Patron

Rosemary DeCamp as Rose Gershwin

Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Zappa

2020

English

7.5

♡ 35

96%

Alex Winter Director

John Lennon as Self

Kathie Lee Gifford as Self

Regis Philbin as Self

Vinnie Colaiuta as Self

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

Besieged

1998

Italian

6.8

♡ 1

75%

Bernardo Bertolucci Director

Claudio Santamaria as Agostino

David Thewlis as Jason Kinsky

Cyril Nri as Priest

Thandie Newton as Shandurai

While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.

Fuga

2006

Spanish

6.3

♡ 3

60%

Pablo Larraín Director

Luis Dubó as Dubo

Héctor Noguera as Klaus Roth

Paulina Urrutia as Macarena

Marcial Tagle as Miguel

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 taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.

A Song to Remember

1945

English

6.6

♡ 3

53%

Charles Vidor Director

Cornel Wilde as Frédéric Chopin

Ian Wolfe as Pleyel's Clerk

Darren McGavin as Student

William Challee as Titus

Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

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.

The Last Word

2008

English

6.2

♡ 9

40%

Geoffrey Haley Director

Winona Ryder as Charlotte

Katherine Boecher as Clara

Wes Bentley as Evan

Kurt Caceres as Sammy

An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother.

Mr. Holland's Opus

1995

English

7.3

♡ 18

75%

husband wife relationship

Stephen Herek Director

Forest Whitaker as Bobby Tidd - Adult

Alicia Witt as Gertrude Lang

Joanna Gleason as Governor Gertrude Lang

William H. Macy as Vice Principal Gene Wolters

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Hangover Square

1945

English

7.3

♡ 6

72%

John Brahm Director

Faye Marlowe as Barbara Chapman

Linda Darnell as Netta Longdon

Leslie Denison as Policeman

Alan Napier as Sir Henry Chapman

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.

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