Movies like Svengali

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) ...

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Svengali

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.

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Quartet

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.

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The Glass Mountain

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 »

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Farewell My Concubine

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.

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Metropolitan

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.

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I Loved a Woman

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 »

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Terror at the Opera

A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."

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The King of Masks

Having no heir to carry on his art, an aging Chinese street performer (Zhu Xu) buys a child (Zhou Renying) on the black market.

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Interlude in Prague

The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.

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Luna

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.

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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Dark fairy-tale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.

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M. Butterfly

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.

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Fences

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

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Deliverance

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.

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Topsy-Turvy

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.

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Hounds of Love

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.

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The Desperate Hours

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

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Trapped

A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.

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Drishyam

A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.

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The Escape

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

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Galveston

After escaping a set up, a dying hitman returns to his hometown of Galveston where he plans his revenge.

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