The Best Movies About Or Featuring Classical Music & Composers
“What are the best movies about or featuring classical music and composers?” We looked at 240 of the top Classical Music films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 53 films, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Classical Music” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 150+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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Top 53 Movies Featuring Classical Music Or Composers
53 .) 2001: A Space Odyssey
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world’s most advanced super computer.
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52 .) A ClockWork Orange
Lists It Appears On:
- Taste Of Cinema
- WQXR
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of “droogs”. But he’s a boy who also likes Beethoven’s Ninth and a bit of “the old in-out, in-out”. He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing experiment designed to take violence off the streets.
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51 .) A Song to Remember
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
Biography of Frederic Chopin. Vidor romanticizes Chopin’s patriotism in the film, which was produced during World War II. Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by Mozart, but suddenly starts
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50 .) Apocalypse Now
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, “does not exist, nor will it ever exist.” His goal is to locate – and eliminate – a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
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49 .) Baiju Bawra
Lists It Appears On:
- QUE
- Wikipedia
A young singer, in the time of Emperor Akbar the Great, sets out to avenge his father, killed in a disturbance near the house of a member of the Court.
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48 .) Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- QUE
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 music. This lighthearted family drama was awarded the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program.
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47 .) Bride of the Wind
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
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.
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46 .) Copying Beethoven
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- WQXR
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.
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45 .) Elgar
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
A partly dramatised account of the life of Sir Edward Elgar classical composer. Huw Wheldon narrates the life story over backdrops of beautiful mountain scenery, especially memorable is the image of young Elgar riding his horse around Malvern Hills.
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44 .) Humoresque
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
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43 .) I, Don Giovanni (2009)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his “Don Giovanni” opera.
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42 .) La Symphonie Fantastique
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- Wikipedia
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.
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41 .) Ludwig
Lists It Appears On:
- Classical Music
- Wikipedia
A history of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886.
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40 .) Mahler on the Couch (2010)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
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.
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39 .) Manhattan
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend’s mistress.
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38 .) Mozart’s Sister
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
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.
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37 .) Mr. Holland’s Opus
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- CMuse
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.
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36 .) Paganini (1989)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
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 honest insight into his own life; a life of extremities
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35 .) Platoon
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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34 .) Raging Bull
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family’s love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it’s his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.
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33 .) Serenade
Lists It Appears On:
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia
Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardelli’s Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is spotted by Kendall Hale, a society girl who enjoys launching young artists while making them her lovers before dumping them after use. Damon is no exception to the rule: he becomes famous but Kendall leaves him abruptly. He feels so affected that he must give up singing. In Mexico, where he has got back in touch with his inner self, Damon meets Juana Montès.They are happy and get married. But Kendall is still around…
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32 .) Song of Love
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
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31 .) Song of Summer
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
The last five years of Frederick Delius’s life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
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30 .) Song without End
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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29 .) Tchaikovsky
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
The film is dedicated to the great Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). It tells of the last twenty years of the great master’s life, of his friendship with Baroness von Meck, an outstanding woman of her time, who for many years was Tchaikovsky’s guardian angel. The film also includes retrospections of the composer’s childhood and adolescent years, with Tchaikovsky’s life poetically recounted against the background of fragments from his operas and ballets performed by the best Russian musicians.
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28 .) The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
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 BACH’s intense emotional pull can be understood by its status as a musical film in the most thorough sense: its performances – staged as extended sequences set within the very spaces once occupied by Bach himself, with trained performers both donning and playing items accurate to the period – are immense, bringing us closer to the sound than was ever thought possible. Immaculately restored on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH invites viewers to experience a bygone age.
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27 .) The Devil’s Violinist (2013)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
Superstar violinist David Garrett portrays legendary virtuoso Niccolo Paganini. Known as the “Devil’s Violinist” for his musical abilities and as a scandalous cad for his conquests, his story of lust, power and the lure of fame is brought to life.
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26 .) The Full Monteverdi
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- Wikipedia
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25 .) The Great Waltz
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- Wikipedia
Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer.
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24 .) The Life of Verdi
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
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23 .) The Seventh Veil
Lists It Appears On:
- CMuse
- Wikipedia
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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22 .) The Shawshank Redemption
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates — including an older prisoner named Red — for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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21 .) The Shining
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren’t prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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20 .) The Soloist (2009)
Lists It Appears On:
- CMuse
- Connolly Music
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
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19 .) The Waltz King
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
This biopic from Walt Disney studios chronicles the life and times of Johann Strauss, Jr. as he tries to prove himself as talented as his overbearing father.
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18 .) Wagner – The Complete Epic
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Wikipedia
This nine-hour epic traces the incredible saga of the famed but enigmatic composer Richard Wagner, a legend in his own lifetime and one of the greatest classical composers of all time. Screen icons Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier and Gabriel Byrne star.
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17 .) A Late Quartet (2012)
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- CMuse
- Wikipedia
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.
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16 .) Brief Encounter (1945)
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- SFCV
- Taste Of Cinema
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
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15 .) Death in Venice
Lists It Appears On:
- Gramophone
- Taste Of Cinema
- Wikipedia
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
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14 .) Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- CMuse
- Wikipedia
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
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13 .) Impromptu (1991)
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- SFCV
- Wikipedia
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
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12 .) Lisztomania (1975)
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- CMuse
- Wikipedia
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 the time when Franz would give piano performance to a crowd of shrieking teenage fans while maintaining affairs with his (multiple!) mistresses. He eventually seeks Princess Carolyne of St. Petersburg (at her invitation), elopes, and, after their marriage is forbidden by the Pope, he embraces the monastic life as an abbé.
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11 .) The Pianist
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- Taste Of Cinema
- Wikipedia
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 stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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10 .) The Red Violin (1998)
Lists It Appears On:
- Connolly Music
- SFCV
- Wikipedia
Spans 300 years in the life of one famed musical instrument that winds up in present-day Montreal on the auction block. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin derives its unusual color from the human blood mixed into the finish. With this legacy, the violin travels to Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake.
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9 .) Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Lists It Appears On:
- CMuse
- SFCV
- Wikipedia
Director Francois Girard explores the life of legendary pianist Glenn Gould in 32 vignettes – each a variation on a theme of the Gould phenomenon, resulting in a biographical mosaic of a film deftly capturing the artist’s uniquely personal journey.
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8 .) Tous les matins du monde (1991)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- SFCV
- Wikipedia
All The Mornings in the World tells a provocative tale of romance, lust, desire, and intrigue based ob the lives of 17th Century French composer, Sainte Colombe and his protege, Marin Marais.
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7 .) Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Classic FM
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
Paris 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres “The Rite Of Spring”. Coco Chanel is mesmerized…But the revolutionary work is too modern: the enraged audience boos. A near riot ensues. Seven years later, Coco Chanel meets Stravinsky again – a penniless refugee living in exile after the Russian Revolution. The attraction between them is immediate and electric.
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6 .) The Music Lovers (1970)
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- CMuse
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
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.
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5 .) Mahler (1974)
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Classic FM
- IMDB
- IMDB
- Wikipedia
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), taking one through Mahler’s childhood, his brother’s suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler’s music and its relationship to his life.
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4 .) Fantasia (2000)
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- CMuse
- QUE
- Taste Of Cinema
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia
Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original ‘Fantasia’ restores ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and adds seven new shorts.
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3 .) Shine (1996)
Lists It Appears On:
- Classic FM
- CMuse
- Connolly Music
- SFCV
- Taste Of Cinema
- Wikipedia
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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2 .) Immortal Beloved (1994)
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Classic FM
- CMuse
- Connolly Music
- IMDB
- SFCV
- WQXR
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 many women in his life.
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1 .) Amadeus (1984)
Lists It Appears On:
- 52 Composers
- Classic FM
- CMuse
- Connolly Music
- Gramophone
- IMDB
- QUE
- SFCV
- Taste Of Cinema
- Wikipedia
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.
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The 150+ Additional Best Classical Music Movies
# | Films | Lists | |
(Movies Appear On 1 list each) | |||
54 | A Corny Concerto | Wikipedia | |
55 | A Heart in Winter | Wikipedia | |
56 | A Heart Returns Home | Wikipedia | |
57 |
A Night at the Opera (1935)
|
SFCV | |
58 | A Waltz by Strauss | Wikipedia | |
59 | Albéniz | Wikipedia | |
60 | Allegro Non Troppo | Wikipedia | |
61 | Almost Angels | Wikipedia | |
62 | Anchors Aweigh | Wikipedia | |
63 | Angeli senza paradiso | Wikipedia | |
64 | Anna Magdalena | Wikipedia | |
65 | Annamayya | Wikipedia | |
66 | As It Is in Heaven | Wikipedia | |
67 |
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
|
Wikipedia | |
68 | Bharatham | Wikipedia | |
69 |
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
|
WQXR | |
70 | Black Swan | Taste Of Cinema | |
71 | Bohemian Rapture | Wikipedia | |
72 | Callas Forever | Wikipedia | |
73 | Callas Forever (2002) | CMuse | |
74 | Carnegie Hall | Wikipedia | |
75 | Casta Diva | Wikipedia | |
76 | Chopin: Desire for Love | Wikipedia | |
77 | Counterpoint | Wikipedia | |
78 | Countess Dora | Wikipedia | |
79 | Dance of the Seven Veils: | 52 Composers | |
80 | Dance of the Wind | Wikipedia | |
81 | Dangerous Moonlight | Wikipedia | |
82 | Deception | Wikipedia | |
83 | Desire for Love | 52 Composers | |
84 | Doctor Faustus | Wikipedia | |
85 |
Don’t Shoot The Composer:
|
52 Composers | |
86 | Dreams of Love | Wikipedia | |
87 | Dreaming | Wikipedia | |
88 | Duet for One | Wikipedia | |
89 | England, My England | Wikipedia | |
90 | Eroica | Classic FM | |
91 | Eternal Melodies | Wikipedia | |
92 | Evensong | Wikipedia | |
93 | Falstaff in Vienna | Wikipedia | |
94 |
Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle
|
52 Composers | |
95 | Farewell to St. Petersburg | Wikipedia | |
96 | Farinelli | Wikipedia | |
97 | Find Your Voice | Wikipedia | |
98 | Forget Mozart | Wikipedia | |
99 | Franz Lehár | Wikipedia | |
100 | Franz Liszt | Classical Music | |
101 | Franz Schubert | Wikipedia | |
102 | Frederick Delius | Classical Music | |
103 | Friedemann Bach | Wikipedia | |
104 | Fryderyck Chopin | Classical Music | |
105 | Geliebte Clara | Wikipedia | |
106 | Gently My Songs Entreat | Wikipedia | |
107 | Giacomo Puccini | Classical Music | |
108 | Giuseppe Verdi | Wikipedia | |
109 | God Rot Tunbridge Wells! | Wikipedia | |
110 | Grand Piano | Wikipedia | |
111 | Handel’s Last Chance | Wikipedia | |
112 | Hungarian Rhapsody | Wikipedia | |
113 | I’ve Always Loved You | Wikipedia | |
114 | Igor Stravinsky | Classical Music | |
115 | Immortal Waltz | Wikipedia | |
116 | In Search of Janáček | Wikipedia | |
117 | In the Bleak Midwinter | 52 Composers | |
118 | Interrupted Melody | Wikipedia | |
119 | Interlude | Wikipedia | |
120 | Intermezzo | Wikipedia | |
121 | Isai | Wikipedia | |
122 | It’s Only Love | Wikipedia | |
123 | La Belle Meunière | Wikipedia | |
124 | Last Love | Wikipedia | |
125 | Le Concert | Wikipedia | |
126 | Le Roi danse | Wikipedia | |
127 | Lisinski | Wikipedia | |
128 | Mad About Opera | Wikipedia | |
129 | Maestro! | Wikipedia | |
130 | Magic Fire | Wikipedia | |
131 | Malaya Marutha | Wikipedia | |
132 | Marin Marais | Classical Music | |
133 | Meera | QUE | |
134 | Mein Name ist Bach | Wikipedia | |
135 | Melancholia | Taste Of Cinema | |
136 | Melba | Wikipedia | |
137 | Melody of Fate | Wikipedia | |
138 | Mit meinen heißen Tränen | Wikipedia | |
139 | Morning Raga | QUE | |
140 | Mozart | Wikipedia | |
141 | Music Land | Wikipedia | |
142 | Mussorgsky | Wikipedia | |
143 | My Name Is Bach (2003) | IMDB | |
144 | Narcissus | Wikipedia | |
145 | Night Song | Wikipedia | |
146 | Nocturne of Love | Wikipedia | |
147 |
Notturno, (“Mit meinen heissen Tränen”)
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52 Composers | |
148 | Once More, with Feeling! | Wikipedia | |
149 | Orchestra Rehearsal | Wikipedia | |
150 | Paganini in Venice | Wikipedia | |
151 |
Paganini: The Devil’s Violinist
|
Classic FM | |
152 | Passion | Wikipedia | |
153 | Pergolesi | Wikipedia | |
154 | Prokofiev: | 52 Composers | |
155 | Puccini | Wikipedia | |
156 | Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky | Classical Music | |
157 | Quartet | Classic FM | |
158 | Rhapsody | Wikipedia | |
159 | Rhapsody in Blue | Classic FM | |
160 | Richard Wagner | Classical Music | |
161 | Rimsky-Korsakov | Wikipedia | |
162 | Rossini | Wikipedia | |
163 | Rossini! Rossini! | Wikipedia | |
164 | Rossini’s Ghost | Wikipedia | |
165 | Sanaadi Appanna | Wikipedia | |
166 | Sangeeta Samrat | Wikipedia | |
167 | Sankarabharanam | Wikipedia | |
168 | Sargam | Wikipedia | |
169 | Schubert’s Dream of Spring | Wikipedia | |
170 | Seenu | Wikipedia | |
171 | September Affair | Wikipedia | |
172 | Shankarabharanam | QUE | |
173 | Shrutilayalu | Wikipedia | |
174 | Sibelius | Wikipedia | |
175 | Song of Norway | Wikipedia | |
176 | Song of Russia | Wikipedia | |
177 | Song of Scheherazade | Wikipedia | |
178 |
Spring Symphony(“Frühlingssinfonie”)
|
52 Composers | |
179 | Strauss Is Playing Today | Wikipedia | |
180 | Swarabhishekam | Wikipedia | |
181 | Swati Kiranam | Wikipedia | |
182 | Symphony of Love | Wikipedia | |
183 | Tyagayya | Wikipedia | |
184 | Taking Sides | Wikipedia | |
185 | Tales of Old Vienna | Wikipedia | |
186 | Ten Pieces | Wikipedia | |
187 | Testimony | Wikipedia | |
188 | The Accompanist | Wikipedia | |
189 | The Big Lebowski | Taste Of Cinema | |
190 | The Chorus | Classic FM | |
191 | The Competition | Connolly Music | |
192 | The Composer Glinka | Wikipedia | |
193 | The Debussy Film: | 52 Composers | |
194 | The Deserter’s Wife | Wikipedia | |
195 | The Divine Spark | Wikipedia | |
196 | The Eternal Waltz | Wikipedia | |
197 | The Getting of Wisdom | Wikipedia | |
198 | The Great Awakening | Wikipedia | |
199 | The Great Caruso | Classic FM | |
200 | The Great Glinka | Wikipedia | |
201 | The House of Three Girls | Wikipedia | |
202 | The King’s Speech | Taste Of Cinema | |
203 | The Last Good Time | Wikipedia | |
204 | The Last Waltz King | Wikipedia | |
205 |
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky
|
Wikipedia | |
206 | The Lovers | Wikipedia | |
207 | The Magic Bow | Wikipedia | |
208 | The Money Pit | Wikipedia | |
209 | The Mystery of Dr Martinu, | 52 Composers | |
210 | The Orchestra Conductor | Wikipedia | |
211 | The Page Turner | Wikipedia | |
212 | The Paris Waltz | Wikipedia | |
213 | The Piano | Classic FM | |
214 | The Piano (1993) | SFCV | |
215 | The Piano Teacher | Wikipedia | |
216 |
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax:
|
52 Composers | |
217 | The Silence of Lambs | Taste Of Cinema | |
218 |
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner:
|
52 Composers | |
219 | The Strauss Family | Wikipedia | |
220 |
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|
Taste Of Cinema | |
221 | They Shall Have Music | Wikipedia | |
222 | Three Girls for Schubert | Wikipedia | |
223 |
Through the Forests and Through the Trees
|
Wikipedia | |
224 | Thukkaram | Wikipedia | |
225 | To Rome with Love | Wikipedia | |
226 | Together | Wikipedia | |
227 |
Un Grand Amour de Beethoven
|
WQXR | |
228 | Unfaithfully Yours | Wikipedia | |
229 | Unfinished Symphony | Wikipedia | |
230 | Upasane | Wikipedia | |
231 | Verdi, the King of Melody | Wikipedia | |
232 | Vienna Waltzes | Wikipedia | |
233 | Viennese Girls | Wikipedia | |
234 | Vision | Wikipedia | |
235 | Wahnfried | Wikipedia | |
236 | Waltz War | Wikipedia | |
237 | Waltzes from Vienna | Wikipedia | |
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CMuse | 13 Best Classical Music Movies |
Connolly Music | 6 Top Movies About Classical Musicians For Holiday Enjoyment |
Gramophone | Top 10 Classical Music Moments in Cinema |
IMDB | good movies about classical music composers |
QUE | MOVIES WITH GREAT CLASSICAL MUSIC SOUNDTRACKS |
SFCV | San Francisco Classical Voice |
Taste Of Cinema | The 20 Best Uses of Classical Music in Movies |
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