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Kanopy
88
8.1
/42560/
80
/943/
80
/713/
4.4
/139190/
98
/65/
91
/825/
cc age 10+

The Red Shoes (1948)
Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
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87
8.4
/461217/
81
/7804/
80
/4560/
4.3
/459830/
90
/159/
95
/7757/
87
/28/
cc age 15+

Amadeus (1984)
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Hulu
85
8.2
/5619/
83
/492/
80
/72/
4.0
/19126/
100
/49/
97
/52/
74
/12/
cc age 10+

Music by John Williams (2024)
His unforgettable scores are an essential part of some of the most beloved movies of our time, over a career that spans decades. See and hear maestro John Williams' own story, with insights from filmmakers, musicians, and others he has inspired, complete with rare behind-the-scenes looks at the making of movie history.
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85
7.8
/124278/
76
/2805/
74
/1402/
3.9
/104540/
97
/159/
91
/18305/
90
/33/
cc age 13+

Once (2007)
A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.
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Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/117316/
76
/2054/
76
/1816/
4.2
/229861/
96
/57/
93
/1913/
87
/11/

Three Colors: Blue (1993)
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
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82
7.6
/1280/
75
/94/
81
/26/
3.7
/2755/
100
/37/
90
/24/
78
/11/

Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018)
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job. But while gathering material for a segment on the show, Steve stumbled onto a few vintage record albums that would change his life forever.
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NBC
81
7.4
/107219/
72
/3861/
70
/1433/
3.9
/591270/
91
/361/
74
/222/
93
/60/
cc age 15+

TÁR (2022)
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.
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Netflix
81
7.5
/126795/
76
/4569/
76
/2222/
3.8
/793943/
88
/224/
96
/29/
74
/44/
cc age 13+

tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.5
/3935/
76
/270/
73
/61/
3.8
/8931/
96
/69/
82
/39/
76
/16/

Zappa (2020)
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
poster
76
7.5
/1450/
74
/103/
73
/26/
3.7
/1515/
92
/73/
74
/20/
74
/22/

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
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Hulu
74
7.4
/43730/
75
/1000/
69
/435/
3.5
/22728/
75
/28/
84
/2208/
59
/21/
cc age 10+

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
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74
7.4
/27308/
74
/537/
70
/357/
3.5
/11704/
57
/54/
86
/1038/

Immortal Beloved (1994)
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
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Netflix
73
7.6
/5638/
76
/295/
73
/111/
3.8
/10788/
82
/33/
82
/22/
60
/11/
cc age 15+

Quincy (2018)
An intimate look into the life of icon Quincy Jones. A unique force in music and popular culture for 70 years, Jones has transcended racial and cultural boundaries; his story is inextricably woven into the fabric of America. Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor before working on pop music and film scores. He moved easily between musical genres, producing major pop hits of the early 1960s and serving as an arranger and conductor for several collaborations in the same time period.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
7.5
/5120/
78
/328/
71
/115/
3.7
/6654/
91
/35/
84
/53/
67
/9/

Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)
Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on the overlooked craft of film composing, gathering many of the art form’s most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, to uncover their creative process. Tracing key developments in the evolution of music in film, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks, 'Score' is an aural valentine for film lovers.
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The Roku Channel
72
7.1
/43807/
71
/1306/
69
/692/
3.6
/59717/
85
/26/
79
/1090/
70
/9/

The Changeling (1980)
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
poster
71
7.3
/24484/
68
/368/
73
/518/
3.7
/32148/
70
/27/
81
/363/

Death in Venice (1971)
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
poster
70
7.3
/87432/
68
/3165/
69
/2145/
3.7
/82873/
72
/213/
69
/390/
64
/41/
cc age 17+

Youth (2015)
Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
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Criterion Channel
69
6.5
/5915/
65
/139/
59
/119/
3.5
/11488/
86
/14/
66
/57/

The Shout (1978)
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
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Fandor
69
6.9
/10564/
72
/211/
69
/348/
3.6
/8616/
73
/82/
68
/312/
58
/26/

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010)
A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.
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Criterion Channel
77
67
7.5
/7057/
73
/101/
74
/141/
4.0
/11014/
86
/43/

La Vie de Bohème (1992)
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
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MGM Plus
66
7.2
/3450/
69
/25/
65
/52/
3.7
/3396/
59
/17/
74
/42/

The Music Lovers (1971)
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.
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Hoopla
65
7.4
/113875/
75
/3227/
74
/2779/
3.3
/58409/
36
/121/
82
/20278/
38
/27/
cc age 8+

August Rush (2007)
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
poster
82
63
8.5
/1079/
83
/75/
81
/21/
4.1
/4190/

Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert (2025)
An extraordinary live performance of Hans Zimmer's most beloved and renowned movie soundtracks, including music from Dune, Gladiator, Interstellar, and The Lion King. Featuring conversations with creative collaborators Billie Eilish, Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, Finneas, Jerry Bruckheimer, Pharrell Williams, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, and more.
poster
63
6.8
/5400/
62
/51/
66
/64/
3.5
/2074/
75
/48/
80
/105/

Besieged (1998)
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
poster
72
61
7.3
/4454/
71
/90/
69
/69/
3.8
/7023/
72
/568/

Hangover Square (1945)
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.
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81
61
7.6
/2277/
77
/102/
73
/48/
4.1
/11955/
98
/46/
84
/10/
78
/13/

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)
Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. His anti-nuclear activism grew after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, and his career only paused after a 2014 cancer diagnosis.
poster
61
6.1
/3365/
64
/58/
58
/36/
3.4
/5171/
46
/13/
59
/69/

Lisztomania (1975)
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
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Kanopy
67
60
6.7
/4408/
67
/92/
65
/68/
3.6
/9167/
71
/14/
68
/46/
61
/7/

Paris Blues (1961)
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
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Kanopy
56
5.3
/4013/
57
/243/
53
/91/
2.8
/1852/
83
/18/
44
/21/
44
/4/

Road Games (2015)
When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…
poster
74
55
6.9
/2423/
69
/24/
66
/29/
3.3
/1440/
100
/9/
79
/41/

Four Daughters (1938)
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
poster
57
55
6.7
/14400/
66
/265/
64
/178/
3.1
/3733/
29
/80/
56
/451/
59
/20/
cc age 13+

Copying Beethoven (2006)
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.
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Amazon Prime Video
54
6.0
/4016/
68
/144/
66
/177/
2.8
/1738/
31
/13/
45
/32/
38
/7/

The Devil's Violinist (2013)
The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.
poster
72
53
7.2
/2910/
71
/39/
68
/34/
3.5
/1307/
80
/5/
73
/39/

City for Conquest (1940)
The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?
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83
50
8.2
/1726/
79
/30/
79
/20/
4.1
/1302/
95
/314/

The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
81
48
7.9
/1181/
81
/50/
70
/28/
3.9
/3486/
100
/11/
82
/8/

Six by Sondheim (2013)
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.
poster
77
47
7.1
/688/
70
/70/
69
/27/
3.6
/2603/
100
/6/
85
/11/

The Sweatbox (2002)
Trudie Styler, a documentarian, had been allowed to film the production of 'Kingdom of the Sun'/'The Emperor's New Groove' as part of the deal that originally brought her husband Sting to the project. As a result, Styler recorded much of the struggle, controversy, and troubles that went into making the picture on film (including when producer Fullmer called Sting to inform the pop star that his songs were being deleted from the film). Styler's completed documentary, The Sweatbox, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on September 13, 2002. Disney owns the rights to the documentary and has not released it on home video or DVD.
poster
73
45
7.1
/423/
75
/95/
73
/239/
3.8
/7473/

Wandering Stars (2019)
This film follows the making of Nekfeu's 3rd album, between Paris, Japan, Greece and the United States.
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Criterion Channel
71
44
7.3
/1736/
73
/36/
73
/51/
3.8
/2352/
60
/15/

The Castle of Sand (1974)
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
poster
69
43
6.8
/1646/
70
/77/
75
/76/
3.2
/1390/

The Liar and His Lover (2013)
Set within music field, this film depicts a love story between a 25-year-old sound engineer and 16-year-old high school student Riko, who posessess a gifted voice. 25-year-old sound engineer Aki is a member of popular band "Crude Play," but right after the band decides to make their major record debut Aki quits the band. But, Aki provides his music to Crude Play under the name of producer Soichiro. Aki begins to date Riko, whose father runs a fruit and vegetable shop. Riko doesn't know about Aki's background, but she likes to listen to him hum. Riko is in a band herself, with childhood friend Yuichi and Sota. One day she is scouted by producer Soichiro.
poster
75
42
6.6
/330/
61
/11/
73
/13/
3.8
/2959/
100
/9/

Rewind & Play (2023)
The lack of respect with which the Black musician Thelonious Monk was treated in Autumn, 1969. At the end of his European tour, legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk appears on an interview show in Paris for French state television.
poster
57
42
6.1
/3436/
66
/33/
59
/34/
2.9
/1391/
60
/5/
41
/66/

Night and Day (1946)
When his first stage show fails, songwriter Cole Porter goes off to fight in WWI until, injured, he lands in a hospital. He impresses nurse Linda Lee with his creativity, but their budding romance must wait as Cole heads home. Back in New York, he mounts a series of popular shows, and when his work brings him back to Europe, he eventually marries Linda. But success doesn't spare him from marital complications or bad news about a beloved relative.
poster
75
40
7.5
/441/
69
/18/
62
/6/
93
/41/
80
/22/
71
/8/

In Search of Beethoven (2009)
In Search of Beethoven offers a comprehensive documentary about the life and works of the great composer. Over 65 performances by the world's finest musicians were recorded and 100 interviews conducted in the making of this beautifully crafted film. Eleven interviews are included in the Extras and Six complete movements.
poster
Hoopla
54
40
6.2
/3363/
62
/87/
57
/74/
3.0
/707/
40
/5/
48
/152/

The Last Word (2008)
An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother.
poster
62
39
6.5
/1061/
62
/64/
64
/64/
3.0
/4589/

Boléro (2024)
Boundary-pushing Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein selects renowned French composer Maurice Ravel to compose the music for her next ballet. Ravel ends up creating his greatest success ever: Boléro.
poster
75
38
7.3
/138/
70
/5/
72
/6/
3.8
/1149/
86
/29/
79
/364/

Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985)
Documentary about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions for his 1984 album "Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia".
poster
54
36
6.2
/2569/
58
/110/
58
/197/
3.0
/1934/
36
/2/

Un + une (2015)
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
poster
YouTube TV
64
34
6.7
/1692/
63
/23/
61
/24/
3.3
/782/
66
/154/

The Constant Nymph (1943)
The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. When her father dies, an uncle arrives with his own grown daughter, who begins a romance with the composer which culminates in marriage but creates an emotional rivalry that affects the three.
poster
34
5.7
/750/
54
/9/
37
/8/
11
/64/
37
/13/
35
/26/

Bride of the Wind (2001)
A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.


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