Composer Movies

Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death....

A biography and tribute to one of Japan's most prolific composers.

A desperate composer is tormented by ghosts of her past after she takes credit for her late mother’s unfinished symphony.

"A soundscape is any collection of sounds, almost like a painting is a collection of visual attractions," says composer R. Murray Schafer. "When you...

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

A loving mother who has lost her family because of her alcoholism, tries her hardest to make things right as she is slowly consumed by her very own...

Álvaro Norte, a celebrated composer and cellist, invites his talented student Mauro to be his assistant. However, Mauro reveals he has other...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the...

Leonard Bernstein discusses his Boston childhood, his musical growth at Harvard and the Curtis Institute and the influence of great masters like...

Ever-innovative and pioneering contemporary composer İlhan Usmanbaş celebrated his 100th birthday! Usmanbaş shared his life story with...

Başyapıt (Masterpiece) tells the tragicomic story of Nejat, a man who is convinced that Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is actually a...

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...

Two friends, a rich landowner and a flight lieutenant, compete for the love of the same woman, singer Claire Wanner.

A portrait of the film-composer David Raksin, made for German television. Released in 1994.

In a mixture of feature film, music documentary and animated comics, historical facts are retold, analyzed and interpreted in modern settings. Ludwig...

An exploration of Edmond Dédé and Basile Barès were 19th-century New Orleans composers of color. Dédé, born free,...

Petr and Richard are among those for whom fixed working hours are a nightmare. They want to be masters of their own time and not be subordinate to...

Depicts the final years of the life of 19th century Austrian composer Franz Schubert. This is the shortened theatrical version of the miniseries,...

Ahmed Malek’s name might have been forgotten by his fellow Algerians but his timeless tunes certainly haven’t. Called the Ennio Morricone...