Composer Movies

Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on...

About the life of the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.

In 19th-century Hungary, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt struggles to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive...

About one of the most famous composers of the 20th century, Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich.

Celebrated Broadway composer Elliot invites his daughter Emma on a gay cruise through the Caribbean in 1991 – a dazzling, liberating world of...

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...

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.

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...

There is a rumor in the Kyiv musical community: once upon a time, in private conversation, Queen Elizabeth II mentioned Valentyn Silvestrov as one of...

Priya, an exceptional yet obsessive pianist at Berklee School of Music, struggles to meet the demands of her professor’s unorthodox senior...

Blue for a Moment is a documentary portrait of Swedish-born, Berlin-based musician Sven-Åke Johansson, a key figure in European improvised and...

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while...

The incredible tale of Mozart's Prague years.

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

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...

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

An in-depth look of the 40 year journey, from post-war Germany to Hollywood royalty, of Hans Zimmer, the man who’s become the dominant force in...

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

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