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1. The Lives of Others (2006)
R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 411,857 | Gross: $11.29M
2. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 72,266 | Gross: $1.90M
3. The Debt (I) (2010)
R | 113 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain
Votes: 71,979 | Gross: $31.18M
4. The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, José Baviera
Votes: 35,669
5. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki
Votes: 11,913 | Gross: $0.28M
6. A Heart in Winter (1992)
105 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Stéphane is an emotionally distant but professionally dedicated violin restorer whose cold heart is tested when his employer's new girlfriend, a beautiful violinist, falls for him.
Director: Claude Sautet | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, André Dussollier, Elizabeth Bourgine
Votes: 10,683 | Gross: $1.67M
7. The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Romain Duris, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos, Niels Arestrup
Votes: 20,538 | Gross: $1.02M
8. Saraband (2003)
R | 107 min | Drama, Music
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Votes: 8,541 | Gross: $0.65M
9. Copying Beethoven (2006)
PG-13 | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Matthew Goode, Ralph Riach
Votes: 14,144 | Gross: $0.35M
10. Swann in Love (1984)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th century Parisian aristocrat (Jeremy Irons) falls in love with a lower-class prostitute (Ornella Muti) who seduces him but never loves him.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant
Votes: 2,191
11. Guernica (2016)
R | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance
The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.
Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: James D'Arcy, María Valverde, Jack Davenport, Ingrid García Jonsson
Votes: 2,505
12. The Sonata (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Music, Mystery
A gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances. She discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret.
Director: Andrew Desmond | Stars: Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer
Votes: 1,651
13. Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
R | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Music
A tangled web of unruly passion lies at the center of this drama, chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin and the flamboyant feminist writer George Sand.
Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Danuta Stenka, Adam Woronowicz, Bozena Stachura
Votes: 810
14. Mozart's Sister (2010)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.
Director: René Féret | Stars: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau
Votes: 1,618 | Gross: $0.71M
15. Mélo (1986)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
In Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who's the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it ... See full summary »
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier
Votes: 1,843
16. Seymour: An Introduction (2014)
PG | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.
Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke, Sam Bachelder, Sam Bachelor
Votes: 1,153 | Gross: $0.58M
17. In Search of Chopin (2014)
PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary
In a quest to discover new insights into Fryderyk Chopin, the man and his musical genius, Grabsky traveled the globe over four years recording performances by world-class musicians and interviewing respected historians and musicologists.
Director: Phil Grabsky | Stars: Juliet Stevenson, David Dawson, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim
Votes: 119
18. Kreytserova sonata (1987)
158 min | Drama, Romance
During a discussion about love and marriage on a train, Poznyshev (Oleg Yankovsky) announces that he murdered his wife. He then begins to tell another passenger his story and the ... See full summary »
Directors: Sofiya Milkina, Mikhail Shvejtser | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Aleksandr Trofimov, Irina Seleznyova, Dmitriy Pokrovskiy
Votes: 282
19. Melodia: a short film in rondo form (2022)
9 min | Short, Music
A rendezvous in Taiwan's capital city. A musician gives voice to the day as contrasting lives intersect.
Director: A T Beaune | Stars: Yi-An Chen, Aaron Don Don, Dora Lo, Anna Tian
20. La sonate à Kreutzer (1974 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Director: Marcel Cravenne | Stars: Raymond Baillet, Alain Boyer, Benoist Brione, Henri de Livry
21. What Do You Think? (Number Three) (1938)
Approved | 11 min | Short
This short looks at the possibility that those who have passed on can communicate with us in ways we least expect.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Carey Wilson, Roger Converse, Mary Forbes, Mahlon Hamilton
Votes: 93
23. Brendel on Beethoven (1994 TV Special)
60 min | Documentary, Music
Alfred Brendel discusses the sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Director: Mischa Scorer | Star: Alfred Brendel
24. Concert de Julius Katchen et Myriam Solovieff (1963 TV Special)
51 min | Music
Stars: Miriam Solovieff, Julius Katchen, Jacqueline Clair, Guy Erismann
25. Beethoven and All That Jazz (1965)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Music
An experimental film in which a jazz orchestra is seen playing against background music of a Beethoven's Piano Sonato No. 29.
Director: Peter Tammer | Star: Frank Traynor's Jazz Preachers
26.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
The Terror in Teakwood
(1961)
TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A concert pianist, so obsessed by the death of an arch-rival that he desecrates his grave, announces he will play a sonata written especially for the dead man's oversized hands.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Boris Karloff, Guy Rolfe, Hazel Court, Charles Aidman
Votes: 200
27.
Brava Gente (2000–2003)
Episode:
A Sonata
(2001)
46 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director: Mário Márcio Bandarra | Stars: Ângelo Antônio, Nair Bello, José Augusto Branco, Daniela Escobar
28.
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2013–2014)
Episode:
Trust Me
(2013)
TV-PG | 44 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A flashback reveals how Alice and Cyrus fell in love.
Director: Romeo Tirone | Stars: Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby
Votes: 363
29.
Les grands maîtres de la musique (1963–1969)
Episode:
Brahms
(1966)
31 min | Short, Biography, Music
Director: Maurice Beuchey | Stars: Claude Rostand, Julius Katchen
30.
Les grands maîtres de la musique (1963–1969)
Episode:
Gabriel Fauré
(1965)
31 min | Short, Biography, Music
Director: Annie Aizieu | Stars: Claude Rostand, Roger André, Jean Françaix
31.
Les grands maîtres de la musique (1963–1969)
Episode:
Mozart
(1965)
26 min | Short, Biography, Music
Director: Maurice Beuchey | Stars: Claude Rostand, Bracha Eden, Alexander Volkoviski Tamir
32.
Marguerite Long et nous (1966)
Episode:
1er mouvement: Suite nîmoise
(1966)
29 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Director: Robert Crible | Stars: Marguerite Long, Claude Santelli, Bruno Leonardo Gelber
33.
Grâce à la musique (1979–1982)
Episode:
Ludwig van Beethoven: 2ème partie
(1982)
61 min | Biography, Music, Talk-Show
Director: François Reichenbach | Stars: Brigitte Massin, Jean Massin, Miguel Ángel Estrella, Olivier Charlier
34.
Grâce à la musique (1979–1982)
Episode:
Le piano
(1982)
103 min | Biography, Music, Talk-Show
Director: Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe | Stars: Paul Badura-Skoda, Martha Argerich, Michel Beroff, Marcel Brion
35.
Grâce à la musique (1979–1982)
Episode:
Le violoncelle
(1982)
91 min | Biography, Music, Talk-Show
Director: François Reichenbach | Stars: Alain Meunier, Henri Dutilleux, Pierre Fournier, Brigitte Massin
36.
Les grandes répétitions (1965–1972)
Episode:
Against order: John Cage
(1972)
59 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Jean-Michel Meurice | Stars: John Cage, Gérard Frémy, Jean-Michel Damian