20 movies like Svengali, ordered by similarity : Quartet(2012), The Glass Mountain(1949), Farewell My Concubine(1993), Metropolitan(1935), I Loved a Woman(1933), Terror at the Opera(1987), The King of Masks(1996), Interlude in Prague(2017), Luna(1979), The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes(2005), M. Butterfly(1993), Fences(2016) ...
5.6/10
Drama
UK
1955
82 Minutes
Hildegarde Neff Donald Wolfit Terence Morgan Derek Bond Paul Rogers David Kossoff Hubert Gregg Noel Purcell Alfie Bass Harry Secombe Peter Illing
hypnotist opera singer creepy campy frightful striking opera house hypnosis opera mind control escape transformation 1950s
The story of a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer, and how she escapes from his influence only by his death.
6.8/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
2012
99 Minutes
Maggie Smith Tom Courtenay Billy Connolly Pauline Collins Michael Gambon Sheridan Smith Andrew Sachs Gwyneth Jones Trevor Peacock David Ryall Michael Byrne
retiree opera singer diva ex-husband opera director elderly person winsome heartwarming retirement home english countryside aging opera friendship second chance fundraising discovery transformation 2010s
At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Composer Giuseppe Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1949
94 Minutes
Michael Denison Dulcie Gray Valentina Cortesa Tito Gobbi Sebastian Shaw Antonio Centa Sidney King Elena Rizzieri Arnold Marle
composer wife resistance fighter singer melodramatic emotional spectacular airplane dolomite mountains england opera house marriage opera world war ii rescue legends plane crash forbidden love transformation rescue
1648. French people are relieved: the Thirty Years War is over and they will be able to live in peace. This feeling is shared by General Cadeau, the hero of the war, and his loyal aide, ... See full summary »
8.1/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
China|Hong Kong
1993
157 Minutes
Leslie Cheung Fengyi Zhang Gong Li Qi Lü You Ge Di Tong Da Ying Han Lei Zhi Yin
actor singer prostitute teacher headmaster bleak dark solemn moving china opera house school brothel beijing abuse opera friendship prostitution love forbidden love
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
6.7/10
Musical
USA
1935
80 Minutes
Lawrence Tibbett Virginia Bruce Alice Brady Cesar Romero Thurston Hall Luis Alberni George F. Marion Ruth Donnelly Franklyn Ardell Adrian Rosley Christian Rub
opera singer conductor opera director love interest diva friend engaging spirited positive new york city opera house house philadelphia theater opera creative process rehearsal big break egoism new romance
Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
6.0/10
Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Kay Francis Genevieve Tobin Robert Barrat Murray Kinnell Robert McWade J. Farrell MacDonald Henry Kolker
business owner theodore roosevelt mother wife opera singer socialite melodramatic passionate emotional athens, greece stockyard apartment courtroom family home chicago fraud love triangle infidelity family business failing marriage
Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1987
90 Minutes
Cristina Marsillach Urbano Barberini Daria Nicolodi Ian Charleson Antonella Vitale William McNamara
actress opera singer opera director murderer macbeth detective bleak brutal creepy dark intense frightening opera house stage apartment opera murder serial murders terror sadism
A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Drama
1996
101 Minutes
Zhu Xu Zhou Renying Zhang Zhigang
orphan street performer singer acrobat tender bleak engaging china opera performance prejudice father/daughter relationship quest sacrifice escape 1930s
Having no heir to carry on his art, an aging Chinese street performer (Zhu Xu) buys a child (Zhou Renying) on the black market.
6.1/10
Drama, Romance, Biography, History
Czech Republic|UK
2017
103 Minutes
Aneurin Barnard James Purefoy Samantha Barks Morfydd Clark Charlotte Peters Adrian Edmondson Trent Garrett Ruby Bentall Klára Issová Dervla Kirwan
musician wolfgang amadeus mozart soprano young woman composer brooding disturbing frenetic intense rousing prague opera house opera romance dramatization forbidden love 1700s
The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.
6.5/10
Drama
Italy
1979
144 Minutes
Jill Clayburgh Matthew Barry Veronica Lazar Renato Salvatori Fred Gwynne Alida Valli Elisabetta Campeti Roberto Benigni
mother opera singer husband stepfather son lover bleak profound disturbing italy rome apartment opera house suicide family dysfunction incest mother/son relationship drug addiction troubled youth growing up
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
6.3/10
Drama
Germany|UK|France
2005
99 Minutes
Amira Casar Timothy Quay Gottfried John Assumpta Serna Cesar Sarachu
opera singer inventor love interest puppeteer dark offbeat stage fantasy world abduction opera murder insanity lost loves quest wretched excess 2000s
Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
6.8/10
Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA|Canada
1993
100 Minutes
Jeremy Irons John Lone Ian Richardson Barbara Sukowa Annabel Leventon Shizuko Hoshi Richard McMillan Vernon Dobtcheff
diplomat opera singer lover intricate melodramatic beijing china opera house apartment deception unusual romance espionage culture clash betrayal gender identity transformation fall forbidden love 1960s
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
7.2/10
Drama
USA|Canada
2016
133 Minutes
Denzel Washington Viola Davis Stephen McKinley Henderson Jovan Adepo Russell Hornsby Mykelti Williamson Saniyya Sidney Christopher Mele Leslie Boone Jason Silvis
sanitation worker son recruiter football player mother emotional engaging heartwarming touching american south house backyard bar failure family dysfunction success dreams deferred illiteracy escape growing up
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
7.7/10
Adventure, Drama
USA
1972
109 Minutes
Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox Bill McKinney Herbert Coward James Dickey Ed Ramey Seamon Glass
salesman hillbilly best friend police officer madman city slicker creepy brutal dark disturbing tense frightening georgia river wilderness small town tent american south escape survival
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
7.3/10
Drama
UK|USA
1999
160 Minutes
Jim Broadbent Allan Corduner Lesley Manville Eleanor David Ron Cook Timothy Spall Kevin McKidd Martin Savage Shirley Henderson Wendy Nottingham
playwright friend manager associate old man witty theater paris house show business risk deception opera drugs friendship rise sacrifice 1880s
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Australia
2016
108 Minutes
Emma Booth Ashleigh Cummings Stephen Curry Susie Porter Damian de Montemas Harrison Gilbertson Fletcher Humphrys Michael Muntz
couple murderer teen girl bleak disturbing creepy intense emotional house room neighborhood yard kidnapping murder plot escape survival escape pursuit quest 1980s
Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
7.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Fredric March Martha Scott Arthur Kennedy Dewey Martin Gig Young Mary Murphy Richard Eyer Robert Middleton Alan Reed Bert Freed
criminal prisoner father mother son daughter tense thrilling emotional indianapolis house home invasion escaped criminals hostages family stand-off escape love 1950s
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
7.6/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
India
2017
105 Minutes
Rajkummar Rao Geetanjali Thapa Yogendra Vikram Singh
man girlfriend roommate employee disheartening eerie frightening gripping striking uneasy mumbai mumbai, india apartment trapped survival isolation escape escape metamorphosis transformation
A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.
8.3/10
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
India
2013
164 Minutes
Mohanlal Meena Kalabhavan Shajon Siddique Roshan Basheer Irshad Kunchan Baiju V.K. Ansiba Hassan Esther Asha Sarath
cable installer operator wife daughter police officer husband gripping brutal intense incredible thrilling moving india village house police station bus station bus protection family relationships
A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.
5.9/10
Drama
UK
2017
101 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Dominic Cooper Jalil Lespert Frances Barber Marthe Keller
mother father child teacher depressed person friend solemn tense emotional disheartening moving london house train station school yard depression escape marriage family
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
6.2/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2018
91 Minutes
Ben Foster Elle Fanning Lili Reinhart María Valverde Beau Bridges Adepero Oduye Robert Aramayo Jamel Chambers
mob enforcer mob boss hit man assassin captive runner brash brooding brutal emotional dark raw galveston, texas house car hotel pool beach on the run mob
After escaping a set up, a dying hitman returns to his hometown of Galveston where he plans his revenge.
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