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Films with theme "Films about classical music and musicians", sorted by rating

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Funny Face
Funny Face (1957)
, 1h43
Directed by Stanley Donen, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Bess Flowers

Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend. She wants a new look for the magazine. Maggie wants the look to be both "beautiful" and "intellectual". She and famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) want models who can "think as well as they look." The two brainstorm and come up with the idea to find a "sinister-looking" book store in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. They subsequently find a bookstore named "Embryo Concepts."
Gauche the Cellist
Gauche the Cellist (1982)

Directed by Isao Takahata
Genres Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Political films
Actors Fuyumi Shiraishi, Keiko Yokozawa, Christophe Lemoine, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Masashi Amenomori, Éric Legrand

Goshu est un violoncelliste d'orchestre maladroit et timide, toujours réprimandé par son professeur. Il va être aidé dans la préparation de son concert par la visite d'une succession d'animaux : un chat, un coucou, un tanuki et un mulot, chacun lui apportant des vertus telles que la patience, le goût de la communication et la rigueur. Le chat, provocateur, insolent et chapardeur, révèle à Goshu sa faculté d'exprimer sa colère. L'oiseau chantant son fameux « coucou » sur deux notes est un modèle pour Goshu qui tentera de multiples variations sur cet air ; le tanuki approfondit l'enseignement du rythme avec son tambour. Enfin, la souris suppliera Goshu de jouer pour la guérison de son souriceau malade, ce qui sera l'occasion pour Goshu de faire montre de sa compassion et de sa générosité. Ces animaux, dans leur comportement authentique, auront tous contribué, par l'échange, à l'apprentissage intime du jeune héros.
Anchors Aweigh
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
, 2h23
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, Dean Stockwell, Pamela Britton, José Iturbi

Joe Brady and Clarence Doolittle are Navy sailors who have a four-day leave in Hollywood. Joe has his heart set on spending time with his girl, the unseen Lola. Clarence, the shy choir boy turned sailor, asks Joe to teach him how to get girls. Donald, a little boy who wants to join the navy, is found wandering around the boulevard by a cop, who takes him to the police station. Clarence and Joe end up being picked up by the cops to help convince Donald to go home. After the two sailors wait at home and entertain Donald, Donald's Aunt Susie arrives. Clarence is smitten with her from the beginning. Susan goes on to tell them that she has been trying to find work in music, and longs to perform with José Iturbi. Trying to make Susan impressed with Clarence, Joe tells her that Clarence is a personal friend of Iturbi, and that he has arranged an audition for Susan with him. That night, they go out to a cafe, where Clarence meets a girl from Brooklyn, and they hit it off. The next day, Joe visits Donald's school, and tells the kids the story of how he got his medal, and how he brought happiness to a lonesome king (played by Jerry Mouse of Tom and Jerry), and joy to the forest animals of the kingdom.
Mahler
Mahler (1974)
, 1h55
Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Lee Montague, Miriam Karlin, Ronald Pickup, Rosalie Crutchley

After a spectacular prelude, the film begins on a train journey with Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) and his wife Alma (Georgina Hale) confronting their failing marriage. The story is then recounted in a series of flashbacks (some of which are surrealistic and nightmarish), taking one through Mahler's childhood, his brother's suicide, his experience with anti-semitism, his conversion from Judaism to Catholicism, his marital problems, and the death of his young daughter. The film also contains a surreal fantasy sequence involving the anti-Semitic Cosima Wagner (Antonia Ellis), widow of Richard Wagner, whose objections to his taking control of the Court Opera were supposedly removed by his conversion to Catholicism. In the process, the film explores Mahler's music and its relationship to his life.
Deception
Deception (1946)
, 1h50
Directed by Irving Rapper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical, Noir, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Films based on plays
Actors Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, John Abbott, Russell Arms, Benson Fong

Christine Radcliffe (Bette Davis) runs up the stairs of a college concert hall in the rain. The hall is filled with enraptured students, and her eyes fill with tears as she recognizes the cellist on stage: Karel Novak (Paul Henreid) who spent the war trapped in neutral Sweden. After the performance, Novak is mobbed by well-wishers, and a student reporter questions him about his favorite composers. Novak lists some famous ones, then adds, "And, of course, Hollenius."
The Page Turner
The Page Turner (2006)
, 1h25
Directed by Denis Dercourt
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Piano, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory, Xavier de Guillebon, Christine Citti, Jacques Bonnaffé

A young girl, Mélanie Prouvost, aspires to be a pianist and auditions in front of famous pianist Ariane Fouchécourt for a place at a conservatoire. Ariane signs an autograph for an admirer during the recital, distracting Mélanie and affecting her performance. She leaves the audition with her mother, heart broken.
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess (1959)
, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters

Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully. While high on cocaine supplied by Sportin' Life, Crown kills Robbins after the latter vanquishes him in a craps game; Bess urges Crown to flee. Sportin' Life suggests she accompany him to New York City, an offer Bess declines. She seeks refuge with her neighbors, all of whom refuse to help her. Porgy finally agrees to let her stay with him.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Pictures at an Exhibition (1966)
, 37minutes
Directed by Osamu Tezuka
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians

Une série de courts segments animés, sans dialogue, explore les principaux personnages de la société moderne, tels que le chirurgien plastique, la femme obsédée par la mode, le colporteur de rumeurs, et d'autres, pour aboutir à un commentaire final sur le progrès de la civilisation.