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    Lisztomania (1976)

    This audacious, vulgar, freewheeling fantasia on the life of pianist Franz Liszt ranks among...

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    Mister Buddwing (1966)

    An amnesiac (James Garner) wakes up in New York and turns to women (Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette)...

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    St. Louis Blues (1958)

    Musician/composer W.C. Handy (Nat King Cole) forms a band and becomes known as the father of the...

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    Paganini

    Directorial debut for actor Klaus Kinski.

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    Beethoven's Nephew (1988)

    Andy Warhol "graduate" Paul Morrissey surprised his followers with his sensitive direction of the...

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    Immortal Beloved (1994)

    The life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (Gary Oldman) unfolds in a search for the subject of his...

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    Clara

    A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

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    Ludwig (1972)

    The 19th-century King of Bavaria becomes involved in scandal. Conspired against by his own...

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    The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

    An acid-scarred composer (Herbert Lom) has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer (Heather Sears) to...

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    30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (1968)

    A young man, close to his thirtieth birthday, launches a desperate drive to achieve two ambitions,...

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    Trifling With Fate

    Heartbroken Muse Allissandra finds herself unable to inspire after Fate decrees that her lover Ralph...

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    A Song for Martin (2001)

    Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in...

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    The Dolly Sisters

    Hungarian stage sisters Jenny (Betty Grable) and Rosie (June Haver) dazzle early 1900s audiences...

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    Besieged (1999)

    An African (Thandie Newton) whose husband is a political prisoner cleans house for a reclusive...

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    The Big Split

    When driving instructor Frank meets his new student Tracy, the two immediately hit it off. A little...

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    The Legend of Teddy Edwards

    Portrait of Los Angeles saxophonist Teddy Edwards, a historically neglected exponent of the bop jazz...

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    Chopin: The Need For Love

    The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

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    Khatchaturian (2003)

    Filmmaker Peter Rosen profiles Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian, famous for the piece ``Sabre...

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    Barierata

    The creative juices have run dry in the life of divorced composer Anthony. When young Dorothea comes...

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    I Giorni Cantati (1979)

    Marco is a composer and singer who has somehow survived a suicide attempt. As he recovers, he...

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    The Changeling (1980)

    A music professor (George C. Scott) rents a Seattle mansion haunted by a boy killed and replaced...

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    Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise

    Documentary portrait of visionary artist Sun Ra and his avant-garde jazz Arkestra.

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    Casta Diva

    Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer...

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    L' Orfeo

    Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first big-name composer of operas in the middle of the...

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    Der Madchenkrieg

    This movie, based on a novel by Manfred Bieler, chronicles the complex romantic and daily lives of...

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    Modern American Composers I

    It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her...

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    We Three (1984)

    The adolescence of Mozart is chronicled in this Italian biopic. Here, young Wolfgang is seen as a...

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    Bang! (1977)

    In this drama, Hinder (Hakan Serner) is a middle-aged music teacher who has suddenly realized that...

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    Fruhlingssinfonie (1986)

    Whatever it is about 19th century composer Robert Schumann and his pianist wife Clara Wieck that...

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    Vergesst Mozart

    Amadeus only speculated on the probable causes of the death (both actual and spiritual) of...