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Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (1979)
, 3h4
Directed by Joseph Losey
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Ruggero Raimondi, Lorin Maazel

After an unsuccessful attempt to seduce Donna Anna (soprano Edda Moser), Don Giovanni (baritone Ruggero Raimondi) kills her father Il Commendatore (bass John Macurdy). The next morning, Giovanni meets Donna Elvira (soprano Kiri Te Kanawa), a woman he previously seduced and abandoned. Later, Giovanni happens upon the preparations for a peasant wedding and tries to seduce the bride-to-be Zerlina (mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza), but his ambition is frustrated by Donna Elvira.
Drums of Love
Drums of Love (1928)
, 1h40
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Mary Philbin, Lionel Barrymore, Don Alvarado, Tully Marshall, William Austin, Eugenie Besserer

After finding out her father and his estate is in danger, Princess Emanuella saves his life by marrying Duke Cathos de Alvia, a grotesque hunchback. She actually is in love with Leonardo, his attractive younger brother. They already had an affair before the marriage, but continue secretly meeting each other. In the end, Cathos finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and stabs both his wife and brother to death.
Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin (1959)
, 1h48
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Ariadna Shengelaya, Svetlana Nemoliaïeva, Galina Vishnevskaya

Eugene Onegin, a jaded young dandy from the big city of St. Petersburg, travels to the country to ingratiate himself into the affection of a dying uncle. There he meets the idealistic and romantic poet Vladimir Lensky, who introduces him to the daughters of a local landowner: Olga, with whom Lensky has strong affections, and Olga's younger sister Tatyana. Tatyana falls in love with Onegin. She writes him a letter pledging her love to him and telling him that she "is his." But Onegin rejects her in a polite, but cold and condescending sermon. Instead, angered by Lensky's dragging him to Tatyana's nameday party, he asks Olga to dance and flirts with her, much to Lensky's displeasure. Lensky challenges his friend to a duel with pistols. Seconds are appointed and, opportunities for reconciliation scorned, the duel takes place. Onegin kills Lensky and leaves the country estates to take a distant military assignment. Tatyana has disturbed dreams of Onegin and visits his uncle's estate to scan the books that he was reading so as to judge his character.
Faust and Mephistopheles
Faust and Mephistopheles (1903)
, 2minutes
Directed by Alice Guy-Blaché
Origin France
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Demons in film, Musical films, Films based on operas

Une relecture du conte classique de Faust en deux minutes par la cinéaste française Alice Guy (plus tard connue sous le nom d’Alice Guy-Blaché).
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea (1923)
, 54minutes
Directed by Chester M. Franklin, Chester Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Priscilla Moran

When young Chinese woman Lotus Flower sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, she quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon the two have fallen in love, and they get married "Chinese fashion". Carver promises to take her with him when he returns home. Lotus Flower's friends warn her that he will leave without her, and one states she has been forgotten by four American husbands, but she does not believe them. However, Carver's friends discourage him from fulfilling his promise, and he returns to the United States alone.
The Devil's Brother
The Devil's Brother (1933)
, 1h30
Directed by Charley Rogers, Hal Roach
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on operas, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, James Finlayson, Henry Armetta, James C. Morton

In the early 18th century, the bandit Fra Diavolo returns to his camp in Northern Italy to tell his gang members about his encounter with Lord Rocburg and Lady Pamela. Disguised as the Marquis de San Marco, he rides with them in their carriage and charms Lady Pamela into telling him where she hides her jewels. He orders his thieves to ride to Rocburg's castle and steal his belongings and Pamela's jewels. Meanwhile, Stanlio and Ollio have also been robbed, whereupon Stanlio suggests to Ollio that they should become robbers themselves. After an unsuccessful attempt to rob a woodchopper, the duo encounters Fra Diavolo, who orders Stanlio to hang Ollio for impersonating him. Diavolo is then informed that his men have stolen Lady Pamela's jewels but have not brought the 500,000 francs hidden by Rocburg.
H.E. Double Hockey Sticks
H.E. Double Hockey Sticks (1999)
, 1h36
Directed by Randall Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Ice hockey films, Musical films, Films based on operas
Actors Will Friedle, Matthew Lawrence, Gabrielle Union, Shawn Pyfrom, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Kim Greist

Satan, in the form of Ms. Beelzebub (Rhea Perlman), sends apprentice demon Griffelkin (Friedle) to Earth's surface to steal the soul of a hotshot young hockey player named Dave (Lawrence), who aspires to be the youngest man to ever win the Stanley Cup.