Composer Movies

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

A thoroughly researched biopic of Charles Ives, America's greatest and most innovative composer (and insurance executive), who combined strikingly...

There is a rumor in the Kyiv musical community: once upon a time, in private conversation, Queen Elizabeth II mentioned Valentyn Silvestrov as one of...

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

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

Recorded Live in Paris in 1980, this is a rare recording of Frank Zappa performing at the peak of his career with his incredible backing band,...

Brilliant composer and violinist George Enescu is at the peak of his career and wants to compose an opera. He falls in love with a princess, Maruca,...

A prolific composer and one of the most celebrated poets in Brazilian music, Paulo César Pinheiro is the author of Canto das Três...

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His...

Ricardo Alfaro is a popular composer and singer who has failed in life because of alcohol. However, things change when he meets Teresa Montes, a...

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and...

Ivan Ivanović, a party functionary, arrives in a provincial town as a temporary replacement for a cultural official. The newcomer is fanatically...

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

Venice Film Festival 1955

Aging composer Franz Liszt lives in an abbey. On his birthday, a priest brings him a box that was just delivered; there is no return address. In the...

A young man loses his fiancee, struck by lightning, on his wedding day.

An overview of Cole Porter’s musical contributions to the film Broadway Melody of 1940.