Here we've displayed a list of the best Violinist films : High Fidelity: The Guarneri String Quartet(1989), The Red Violin(1998), Humoresque(1946), To Joy(1949), A Late Quartet(2012), The Pursuit of Happiness(1934), Orchestra of Exiles(2012), Chicken With Plums(2011), Golden Boy(1939), They Shall Have Music(1939), Wunderkinder(2011), Code of Scotland Yard(1947) ... ...
Documentary
USA
1989
85 Minutes
violinist cellist musician rival coworker engaging fascinating amusing stage recording studio united states university music performance rehearsal rivalry relationships guarneri string quartet rivalry transformation
Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, family life of the members of the Guarneri string quartet
Drama
Canada|Italy|USA|UK|Austria
1998
131 Minutes
Samuel L. Jackson Don McKellar Carlo Cecchi Irene Grazioli Jean-Luc Bideau Christoph Koncz Jason Flemyng Greta Scacchi Sylvia Chang Liu Zifeng Colm Feore
musical prodigy gypsy servant husband violinist appraiser passionate solemn auction house canada england china italy music death investigation communism obsession secret love
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
Drama
USA
1946
125 Minutes
Joan Crawford John Garfield Oscar Levant J. Carrol Naish Craig Stevens Tom D'Andrea Peggy Knudsen Paul Cavanagh
benefactor violinist husband pianist emotional melodramatic raw stage new york city obsessive love music alcoholism wealth poverty forbidden love rise temptation 1940s
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
Drama
Sweden
1949
88 Minutes
Stig Olin Maj-Britt Nilsson John Ekman Victor Sjöström Birger Malmsten Margit Carlquist
husband wife violinist conductor son daughter disheartening raw uneasy emotional sweden concert hall family home marriage infidelity pregnancy ambition classical music spousal abuse love
Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.
Drama
USA
2012
105 Minutes
Philip Seymour Hoffman Christopher Walken Mark Ivanir Catherine Keener Imogen Poots Wallace Shawn Madhur Jaffrey Liraz Charhi
cellist violinist musician wife bleak touching new york city music hall household musical performance friendship disease infidelity discovery transformation 2010s
Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Francis Lederer Joan Bennett Charles Ruggles Mary Boland Minor Watson Adrian Morris Barbara Barondess Walter Kingsford Duke York Burr Caruth Jules Cowles
hessian violinist beautiful woman innkeeper daughter father charming amusing witty connecticut barn inn romance culture clash american revolutionary war dessertion romantic dilemma love pursuit american revolution
Lederer is a Hessian soldier who defects to the Americans during the Revolutionary War.He falls in love with a Yankee girl, but a thuggish local militiaman jealously makes things hard for him while he's a prisoner of war.
Documentary
USA|Israel
2012
85 Minutes
Zubin Mehta Itzhak Perlman Joshua Bell Pinchas Zukerman Leon Botstein
violinist israeli director suspenseful nazi germany europe exile musicians nazis mystery
Some stories get lost in the turmoil of their times. It is often only in retrospect that we can discover the true shapers of history. One such man is the prodigious Polish violinist ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France|Germany|Belgium
2011
91 Minutes
Mathieu Amalric Vincent Paronnaud Édouard Baer Maria de Medeiros Golshifteh Farahani Éric Caravaca Chiara Mastroianni Mathis Bour Enna Balland Didier Flamand Rona Hartner
violinist wife angel child dreamy passionate heartwarming tehran, iran household dreamworld music marital problems family dysfunction death supernatural loss adventure transformation 1950s
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Drama
USA
1939
99 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Adolphe Menjou William Holden Lee J. Cobb Joseph Calleia Sam Levene Edward Brophy Beatrice Blinn William H. Strauss Don Beddoe
boxer promoter father girlfriend violinist gangster gritty engaging emotional city boxing ring boxing music family love death rise fall escape transformation
Despite his musical talent, Joe Bonaparte wants to be a boxer.
Musical
USA
1939
101 Minutes
Joel McCrea Andrea Leeds Walter Brennan Gene Reynolds Terry Kilburn Tommy Kelly Chuck Stubbs Walter Tetley Arthur Hohl Marjorie Main Porter Hall
poor boy classmate teacher violinist schoolmaster touching inspiring engaging music conservatory new york city basement classroom classical music talent bankruptcy music education friendship poverty discovery underdog
A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.
Drama
Germany
2011
100 Minutes
Gedeon Burkhard Natalia Avelon Rolf Kanies Gudrun Landgrebe Michael Mendl Catherine H. Flemming Kai Wiesinger Ingo Naujoks Michael Brandner
violinist pianist joseph stalin jew touching spirited emotional ukraine russia concert hall classical music friendship dreams war third reich pursuit rivalry 1940s
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Oscar Homolka Derek Farr Muriel Pavlow Kenneth Griffith Manning Whiley Kathleen Harrison Diana Dors
antique dealer blackmailer violinist frenchman refugee murderer bleak chilling melodramatic intense powerful uneasy antique shop london blackmail murder father/daughter relationship antiques crime protection
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
Romance
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman Edna Best John Halliday Cecil Kellaway Enid Bennett Ann E. Todd Douglas Scott Eleanor Wesselhoeft Marie Flynn
pianist daughter wife son violinist engaging melodramatic stockholm new york city affair music family love triangle forbidden love temptation 1930s
A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher/Ingrid Bergman play and asks her to play on his next int'l tour. They fall in love.
Drama
France
1983
85 Minutes
Maruschka Detmers Jacques Bonnaffé Myriem Roussel Christophe Odent Jean-Luc Godard Jacques Villeret Jean-Pierre Mocky Hippolyte Girardot
beautiful woman security guard terrorist violinist filmmaker valet creative dense intricate offbeat paris hotel concert hall beach house bank filmmaking meta film sex trust alienation
A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1994
90 Minutes
Armin Mueller-Stahl Maureen Stapleton Lionel Stander Olivia d'Abo Adrian Pasdar
violinist retiree mobster woman neighbor charming tender new york city apartment building hospital aging alzheimer's disease philosophy musical performance passion domestic violence love underdog 1990s
Joseph, a former professional musician who has withdrawn into a quiet life after the death of his wife. Remaining mostly isolated, he stays at home, playing his violin in the evenings for ... See full summary »
Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
2001
94 Minutes
Evan Rachel Wood Michael Angarano David Gallagher Vivica A. Fox Jan Broberg Rick Macy Paul Kiernan Tayva Patch Landon Kunzelman
violinist girl neighbor best friend love interest mother lighthearted endearing hilarious household salt lake city backyard school suburbia utah friendship therapy fitting in secrets young love
A fourteen-year-old aspiring violinist finds herself under an increasing amount of pressure to keep secrets for herself, her family and her newfound best friend.
Romance
USA
1954
115 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Vittorio Gassman John Ericson Louis Calhern Michael Chekhov Barbara Bates Richard Hageman Richard Lupino Celia Lovsky Stuart Whitman Madge Blake
millionaire heiress student violinist love interest pianist emotional melodramatic france villa music conservatory switzerland zurich love triangle music betrayal love love rivalry rise
Spoiled heiress Louise Durant (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) decides to leave the comfort of her father's estate in southern France to study piano at the Music Conservatory in Zurich, despite ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
83 Minutes
Carmen Miranda Don Ameche William Bendix Vivian Blaine Felix Bressart B.S. Pully Emil Rameau Frank Orth Torben Meyer Herb Evers Hal K. Dawson
composer club owner singer violinist henchman love interest lighthearted cheery greenwich village new york city apartment theater jail stage composing music swindling drunkenness ambition disillusionment
In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
War
USA
1942
82 Minutes
Pat O'Brien George Murphy Jane Wyatt Jackie Cooper Carl Esmond Max Baer Desi Arnaz Ray Collins Lee Bonnell Frank Jenks John Maguire
gunner sailor ex-girlfriend violinist nazi patriotic rousing ship naval base world war ii navy naval warfare redemption love pursuit adventure transformation 1940s
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Biography
USA
1953
109 Minutes
impostor wife ballerina opera singer violinist broadway star melodramatic uplifting ukraine russia new york city broadway performance show business opera rise 1910s
Story of the legendary impresario Sol Hurok and the many stars that he introduced and represented to the world of music.
Comedy
USA
1985
93 Minutes
Tom Hanks Dabney Coleman Lori Singer Charles Durning Carrie Fisher Edward Herrmann James Belushi Irving Metzman Tom Noonan Gerrit Graham David L. Lander
violinist femme fatale government official friend quirky madcap washington, d.c. government building airport mistaken identity espionage conspiracy unlikely romance working undercover music pursuit rivalry adventure love 1980s
A man picked randomly out of a crowd is made the target of CIA survelliance and pursuit.
Horror
USA
1943
92 Minutes
Claude Rains Nelson Eddy Susanna Foster Edgar Barrier Jane Farrar Barbara Everest Steven Geray Frank Puglia Hans Herbert Fritz Feld J. Edward Bromberg
disfigured person murderer opera singer suitor stalker violinist suspenseful eerie melodramatic opera house paris france stage catacombs obsessive love rise to stardom opera mysterious deaths dark secrets investigation
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Crime, Drama
USA
1929
66 Minutes
gangster socialite violinist friend police officer robber melodramatic gripping spirited new york city street fundraiser brooklyn bridge concert hall forced marriage financial troubles mobsters love triangle alcoholism botched crime
A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2008
97 Minutes
Jessica Alba Xavier Palud Alessandro Nivola Parker Posey Rade Serbedzija Fernanda Romero Rachel Ticotin Obba Babatundé Danny Mora Chloë Grace Moretz Tamlyn Tomita
violinist doctor sister therapist ghost chilling frightening tense mexico car doctor's office apartment hospital clairvoyance deadly visions supernatural alternate reality corneal transplant blindness mystery
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Romance
USA
1930
70 Minutes
Billie Dove Basil Rathbone Kay Francis Montagu Love Kenneth Thomson Philip Strange Gino Corrado Elinor Vanderveer
aristocrat violinist countess doctor husband old flame melodramatic emotional england party family home seaside resort marriage high society class distinctions fame mental breakdown infidelity love
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
Romance
USA
2020
94 Minutes
Lucy Hale Mindy Cohn Jackie Cruz Leonidas Gulaptis Adhir Kalyan Stephen Friedrich Skye P. Marshall Leah McKendrick
violinist ex-boyfriend woman amusing inspiring cheeky gutsy lighthearted house town sex shop sexual awakening risk adventure rise discovery love 2020s
After being accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend, a violinist creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind journey of self-discovery.
Drama
USA
1983
100 Minutes
Nastassja Kinski Rudolf Nureyev Harvey Keitel Ian McShane Bibi Andersson Ron Randell Pierre Clémenti Dov Gottesfeld James Russo Marion Varella
violinist beautiful woman secret agent terrorist emotional sultry new york city apartment paris relocation romance deception investigation espionage discovery love pursuit 1980s
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind, and escapes to New York City. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During ... See full summary »
Other, Drama, Romance
2020
83 Minutes
Lucia Micarelli Michael Rady James Saito Ashley Campbell Jyl Kaneshiro Tim Threlfall Nate Bynum Kenneth Cummins Joy Perry Anne Sward Annette Ciavarella
violinist old friend charming emotional endearing united states dreams loss of job accident love love interest love sacrifice transformation 21st century
When an accident puts her music dreams on hold, a gifted violinist reconnects with an old family friend, who helps her heal and find love during the holidays.
Comedy, Drama
2003
90 Minutes
Colm Meaney Bernard Hill Andrea Corr Philip Barantini Charlotte Bradley Shaun Evans Patrick Bergin Margi Clarke Stephanie Hill Marc O'Shea Philip Richey
brother band leader pianist flutist violinist ex-girlfriend lighthearted ireland pub family home sibling rivalry folk music tradition forbidden love single mothers competition rivalry quest love 1960s
A traditional music competition rekindles a rivalry between two estranged brothers (Colm Meaney, Bernard Hill) from Ireland.
Documentary
2010
84 Minutes
musician friend nathan khyber clark stiles guitarist violinist amusing fascinating touching louisiana california memphis, tenn. kentucky derby house rv dreams music perseverance traveling friendship
Two longtime musicians set out on a 24-day road trip with ambitious plans to record a song with a local artist in every city they visit.