Classical Music Movies

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Two friends from university, Henry May and Henry Long, have not had contact in quite some time. They meet by chance and attempt to re-kindle their...

The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as it prepares to...

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...

Luca wanders around aimlessly, devastated by his friend's passing in an unsolved murder case. As the night draws on, tormented by his paranoia,...

This short film is made for the "Chopin-Pletnev" disc which marked Mikhail Pletnev's debut as a pianist on Deutsche Grammophon. In the film, we...

Robots live alongside mankind in a not too distant future, but are they really living?

When army of Gigans tries to invade and destroy the Earth, the only one who can stop them is Godzilla.

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret,...

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism was constantly pursued by Securitate troops.

After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music classes to teenagers in a public school. He soon...

Set against the backdrop of a 1960s jungle seaport in tropical Australia and the rich concert halls of wintry Vienna, talented eighteen year old...

This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional...

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death....

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a...

A family takes a journey across the globe on a strange and amazing flying machine, experiencing a series of adventures along the way.