Here we've displayed a list of the best Composer films : Amadeus(1984), Khachaturian(2003), The Red Shoes(1948), Limelight(1952), Ludwig(1973), Score: A Film Music Documentary(2016), Hangover Square(1945), Death in Venice(1971), Cloud Atlas(2012), City for Conquest(1940), Youth(2015), Mr. Holland's Opus(1995) ... ...
Biography, Drama, History
USA|France|Czechoslovakia|Italy
1984
158 Minutes
F. Murray Abraham Thomas Hulce Jeffrey Jones Elizabeth Berridge Simon Callow Roy Dotrice Christine Ebersole Charles Kay Kenny Baker Lisbeth Bartlett Barbara Bryne
composer rival musician engaging passionate vienna royal court ambition music jealousy deception wolfgang amadeus mozart royalty rivalry fall 18th century
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Documentary
USA
2003
76 Minutes
composer joseph stalin russian musician communist calm fascinating touching georgia soviet union concert hall aram khachaturian classical music propaganda artistic struggle music history communism rise sacrifice temptation
A documentary about the life of Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturyan. Among other events, the film covers Khachaturyan's difficulties working as a creative artist during the Stalin era.
Romance, Drama
UK
1948
133 Minutes
Emeric Pressburger Moira Shearer Anton Walbrook Marius Goring Robert Helpmann Leonide Massine Albert Basserman Ludmilla Tcherina Esmond Knight
dancer instructor composer emotional passionate spirited france waterfront stage ambition dance love romance forbidden love rivalry discovery rise sacrifice 1940s
A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1952
145 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Claire Bloom Sydney Chaplin Nigel Bruce Buster Keaton Norman Lloyd Andre Eglevsky Melissa Hayden
clown dancer composer theater owner amusing melodramatic sad london stage dressing room office street apartment theater ambition love aging rise sacrifice love
A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.
Biography
Italy|France|West Germany|Monaco
1973
257 Minutes
Helmut Berger Romy Schneider Trevor Howard Silvana Mangano Helmut Griem Gert Froebe Marc Porel Nora Ricci
emperor king ludwig i cousin artist musician composer melodramatic emotional engaging heartwarming sad charming austria castle luxury luxury living wealth music mental illness ambition
The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.
Documentary, Music
USA
2016
94 Minutes
steven spielberg composer film critic actor director producer thrilling emotional inspiring recording studio house film set hollywood, calif. music filmmaking music history composing adventure discovery mystery
A look at the cinematic art of the film musical score, and the artists who create them.
Crime, Drama
USA
1945
77 Minutes
Laird Cregar Linda Darnell George Sanders Glenn Langan Faye Marlowe Alan Napier Frederick Worlock J.W. Austin Leland Hodgson Clifford Brooke John Goldsworthy
composer friend father doctor singer love interest dark suspenseful london apartment music hall mental illness violence jealousy blackouts music transformation fall 1890s
A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Italy|France
1971
130 Minutes
Dirk Bogarde Björn Andrésen Silvana Mangano Marisa Berenson Mark Burns Romolo Valli Nora Ricci Carole André Masha Predit Leslie French Franco Fabrizi
composer teen boy family member governess mother brooding intense venice, italy resort vacation beauty obsession cholera outbreak artistic struggle unrequited love forbidden love temptation 1910s
While recovering in Venice, sickly Composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|Germany|Hong Kong|Singapore|China
2012
172 Minutes
Tom Hanks Tom Tykwer Halle Berry Jim Broadbent Hugo Weaving Jim Sturgess Bae Doo-na Ben Whishaw James D'Arcy Susan Sarandon
attorney composer journalist publisher worker tribesman profound touching fascinating dark heartwarming pacific ocean europe united states united kingdom earth family home human connection historical events life story
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Drama
USA
1940
101 Minutes
James Cagney Ann Sheridan Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Arthur Kennedy
boxer dancer girlfriend younger brother truck driver composer uplifting gripping gritty melodramatic new york city lower east side carnegie hall boxing ring apartment boxing self-sacrifice aspirations corruption blindness
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Drama
Italy|France|UK|Switzerland
2015
118 Minutes
Michael Caine Harvey Keitel Rachel Weisz Paul Dano Jane Fonda Robert Seethaler Alex MacQueen Luna Zimic Mijovic Tom Lipinski Chloe Pirrie Alex Beckett
composer screenwriter harvey keitel emotional resort hotel eternal youth vacation life transformation 2010s
A retired orchestra conductor is on vacation with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.
Drama, Music
USA
1995
142 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss Glenne Headly Jay Thomas Olympia Dukakis William H. Macy Alicia Witt Jean Louisa Kelly Nicholas John Renner Joseph Lee Anderson Anthony Natale
composer teacher wife student deaf person son uplifting endearing high school portland, ore. redemption education loyalty dreams lifetime achievement family sacrifice love transformation discovery
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.
Mystery & Thriller
South Korea
1960
90 Minutes
Eun-shim Lee Kim Jin Kyu Jeung-nyeo Ju Jin Kyu Kim Ahn Sung-ki Aeng-ran Eom Seok-je Kang Seon-ae Ko Jeong-ok Na
composer wife maid son student femme fatale tense creepy family home south korea obsession affair miscarriage pregnancy violence relationships fall rivalry 1960s
A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.
Musical
Israel
2000
114 Minutes
Benoît Magimel Boris Terral Tcheky Karyo Colette Emmanuelle Cécile Bois Claire Keim Johan Leysen Idwig Stephane Emil Tarding Jacques François Caroline Veyt
king composer molière dancer anne of austria cardinal mazarin spectacular passionate versailles, france palace court royalty jean-baptiste de lully friendship french history baroque music king louis xiv rise rivalry love
A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pesach Burstein and his family.
Musical, Biography
USA
1952
89 Minutes
Clifton Webb Debra Paget Robert Wagner Ruth Hussey Finlay Currie Benay Venuta Roy Roberts Thomas B. Henry Lester Matthews Maudie Prickett Erno Verebes
composer musician wife girlfriend audience member rousing inspiring washington, d.c. atlanta chicago brooklyn, n.y. stage music patriotism john philip sousa marine life sacrifice transformation 1890s
A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Horror
Canada
1980
107 Minutes
George C. Scott Trish Van Devere Melvyn Douglas John Colicos Jean Marsh Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood
composer friend senator ghost suspenseful creepy engaging somber washington state mansion haunting grief murder isolation accident discovery pursuit mystery 1970s
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at an old mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Drama
USA
1947
102 Minutes
Dana Andrews Merle Oberon Ethel Barrymore Hoagy Carmichael Jacqueline White Donald Curtis Walter Reed Jane Jones Whit Bissell Leonard Bremen
composer socialite best friend older woman blind man conductor melodramatic passionate san francisco nightclub apartment beach concert hall new york city blindness music contest impersonation friendship deception
When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity.
Crime, Drama
USA
1946
112 Minutes
Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid John Abbott Benson Fong
musician composer lover conductor student melodramatic suspenseful new york city concert hall dressing room love triangle affair love rivalry 1940s
After marrying her long lost love, a musician finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.
Musical, Romance
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Deanna Durbin Herbert Marshall Gail Patrick Arthur Treacher William Frawley Jackie Moran Helen Parrish Marcia Mae Jones Christian Rub Charles Peck Elisabeth Risdon
schoolgirl celebrity composer valet mother classmate amusing lighthearted uplifting switzerland paris boarding school train station press conference father figure mother/daughter relationship impersonation deception imagination jealousy
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she... See full summary »
Romance
USA
2008
112 Minutes
Jason Segel Kristen Bell Mila Kunis Russell Brand Bill Hader Liz Cackowski Jack McBrayer Taylor Wily Da'Vone McDonald Steve Landesberg Jonah Hill
composer ex-girlfriend rocker actress employee hostess hilarious hawaii hotel beach breakup betrayal revenge escape 2000s
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex - and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1997
110 Minutes
Jason Alexander Randy Becker Stephen Bogardus John Glover John Benjamin Hickey Justin Kirk Stephen Spinella
choreographer theater fan composer musician friend twin emotional witty upstate new york house homosexuality aids friendship relationships siblings vacation escape discovery love 1990s
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who ... See full summary »
Biography
USA
1945
139 Minutes
Robert Alda Joan Leslie Alexis Smith Charles Coburn Jacqueline Wells Albert Basserman Morris Carnovsky Herbert Rudley Rosemary DeCamp
composer brother mother professor singer al jolson confident creative moving new york city music store theater music hall los angeles george gershwin music family broadway romance illness
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
Musical, Documentary
Spain|France
2005
120 Minutes
Sara Baras Antonio Canales Aída Gómez Marta Carrasco Enrique Morente Estrella Morente
dancer performance artist composer dance instructor confident creative engaging striking spain dance studio stage dance classical music the iberia suite isaac albéniz performance adventure transformation discovery 2000s
A series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz's "Iberia" suite.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1940
92 Minutes
songwriter musician composer friend airy charming inn party pawn shop stage ghost writing secret chance meeting unusual romance music industry deception love quest rivalry 1940s
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1957
117 Minutes
Fred Astaire Cyd Charisse Janis Paige Peter Lorre George Tobias Jules Munshin Joseph Buloff Barrie Chase Wim Sonneveld
producer composer russian agent bureaucrat charming lighthearted paris nightclub hotel moscow music industry culture clash westernization seduction transformation temptation forbidden love 1950s
A musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to ... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Claude Rains Rosemary Lane John Garfield Lola Lane Priscilla Lane Gale Page Jeffrey Lynn Frank McHugh May Robson Dick Foran
musician father daughter composer suitor aunt melodramatic small town household hospital music family love triangle marriage rivalry love 1930s
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA|Turkey|UK|Portugal
2016
99 Minutes
ex-convict writer director turkish man turkish woman composer engaging creative fascinating moving powerful raw turkey documentaries filmmaking cross-cultural relations drug smuggling pop culture prison life discovery
The documentary "Midnight Return" explores the enduring and emotional power of film as seen through the lens of the blockbuster success Midnight Express (1978).
Biography
France|Italy|Belgium|UK
1994
110 Minutes
Stefano Dionisi Enrico Lo Verso Elsa Zylberstein Jeroen Krabbé Caroline Cellier Marianne Basler Omero Antonutti Pier Paolo Capponi
opera singer brother lover handel composer king philip v of spain spectacular confident cheery wild opera house backstage hotel naples, italy london madrid farinelli sibling rivalry fame opera
The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli.
Drama, History
USA
1947
119 Minutes
Katharine Hepburn Paul Henreid Robert Walker Henry Daniell Leo G. Carroll Gigi Perreau Tala Birell Henry Stephenson Elsa Janssen Ann Carter Janine Perreau
composer pianist wife child love interest melodramatic somber moving germany asylum house clara wieck robert schumann johannes brahms music love debt love sacrifice temptation
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Drama
UK
1978
87 Minutes
Alan Bates Susannah York John Hurt Robert Stephens Tim Curry Carol Drinkwater
stranger husband wife composer tense uneasy england countryside mental institution mysticism music isolation strange happenings supernatural mental illness discovery escape 1970s
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.