Composer Movies

A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted...

This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's...

Philippe, an opera composer in search of inspiration, is forced to take in Simone, his rebellious, eccentric niece whose best friend is a skunk....

This film follows the making of Nekfeu's 3rd album, between Paris, Japan, Greece and the United States.

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and...

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

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

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

In a triumphant career that lasted forty years Erroll Garner pushed the playability of the piano to its limits, developed an international...

A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother's fiancée.

A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.

The Polish artist Julia and her husband Piotr, a talented and successful composer, live in Kraków. When Julias's mother, Barbara falls ill...

Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko goes for a walk in Kyiv. Along the way, his memory takes him back in time: first to his childhood in the village of...

A section from the life of composer Franz Schubert as a material for a love story. Also known in English as Gently My Songs Entreat. An English...

Relying on a bounty of archival footage and interviews with prominent musicians and intimates, Philo Bregstein's film traces the life and career of...

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His...

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's...