Saraband (2003), Stairway to Heaven - A Matter of Life and Death (1946), From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980), La grande vadrouille (1966), Young at Heart (2007), As It Is in Heaven (2004), Battle for Music (1945), Murder, She Said (1961) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Conductor movies.
Storyline: "Song for Marion", a London-set comedic drama, is about shy, grumpy pensioner Arthur who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local choir. At odds with his son James, it is left to charismatic choir director Elizabeth to try and persuade Arthur that he can learn to embrace life. Arthur must confront the undercurrents of his own grumbling persona as he embarks on a hilarious, life-affirming journey of musical self discovery.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: old man, ex-wife, son, chorus girl, conductor, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeff Wilson, the owner of a small circus, owes his partner Carter $10000. Before Jeff can pay, Carter lets his accomplices steal the money, so he can take over the circus. Antonio Pirelli and Punchy, who work at the circus, together with lawyer Loophole try to find the thief and get the money back.—Michael Zolk <mzolk@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Plot Keywords: circus performer, attorney, thief, moll, conductor, campy, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is based on a true story. During the Civil War, a Union spy, Andrews, is asked to lead a band of Union soldiers into the South so that they could destroy the railway system. However, things don't go as planned when the conductor of the train that they stole is on to them and is doing everything he can to stop them.—<rcs0411@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: soldier, spy, conductor, thrilling, rousing, railway, georgia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 20's, the talkative newly graduated in pharmacy and aspirant piano player Eddy Duchin comes from Boston to New York expecting to play with the orchestra of Leo Reisman at fancy New York's Central Park Casino. However he had misunderstood the invitation of the maestro and while leaving the place, he meets the wealthy socialite Marjorie Oelrichs that asks Leo Reisman to give a chance to Eddy. He plays in the intermission and becomes a successful piano showman. Two years later, Marjorie and Eddy get married and in the Christmas, Marjorie has a baby, Peter, but she dies after the delivery. Eddy rejects Peter blaming him for the death of Marjorie and only five years later he meets his son. With the World War II, Eddy Duchin breaks up his band and enlists to fight in the war. With the end of the war, Eddy returns to New York with the intention of getting closer to Peter but he sees the boy connected to his friend Chiquita. When Eddy discovers that he has a terminal disease, he proposes Chiquita and they get married.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: socialite, conductor, band member, band leader, estranged son, wife, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train and is referred to 'Tough Willy' Calhoun, head of the Union Station police. The all-seeing, no-nonsense Calhoun is initially skeptical, but the men (who escape) prove to be involved in a kidnap case. Calhoun calls in equally tough police Inspector Donnelly, but the ruthless kidnapper's precision planning stays one jump ahead of them. Most of the action centers around bustling Union Station.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: secretary, kidnapper, police detective, conductor, wealthy man, blind person, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals puts an engineer and his conductor in a race against time. They're chasing the runaway train in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town.
Plot Keywords: engineer, conductor, father, daughter, tense, thrilling, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Winters, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.—Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
Plot Keywords: widower, socialite, son, daughter, conductor, lighthearted, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alfred Byrne (Albert Finney) is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin, Ireland in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: conductor, bus driver, newcomer, sister, coworker, passenger, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.
Plot Keywords: opera singer, conductor, opera director, love interest, diva, friend, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of a young hero boy on Christmas Eve who boards on a powerful magical train that's headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus's home. What unfolds is an adventure which follows a doubting boy, who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole; during this ride, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery which shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Plot Keywords: young boy, santa claus, waiter, conductor, playful, creative, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter. He speaks a bit too frankly and finds he's given himself an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with the young reporter during his interlude and the accumulation of differences in their ages and background begins to mount up.—John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}
Plot Keywords: conductor, reporter, pretty woman, wife, emotional, melodramatic, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter's voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>
Plot Keywords: boy, choir director, conductor, engineer, son, inspiring, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Yosemite Valley Railroad, which runs through the breathtaking scenery and stunning vistas of the Merced River Canyon to its terminus at El Portal outside Yosemite National Park, is on the brink of failure. The grandson of a Chinese railroad laborer embarks on a romantic, but ultimately doomed, quest to save this railroad from being sold for scrap. His love of trains finds him working as a railroad-man, instead of at his father's profitable business. He manages to locate a wealthy eccentric investor to help him acquire the railroad, but its financial inviability makes this a quixotic reprieve, at best. The film also portrays the anti-Asian racism present in America at the conclusion of World War II.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: son, father, conductor, park ranger, love interest, bleak, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Franz Roberti is a famous orchestra conductor who has a number of girlfriends. While talking with his old music teacher, Professor Thalma, he meets Constance, an aspiring music composer. They see each other, fall in love and marry. They honeymoon all over Europe and are happy back home until Constance finds him with a society divorcee and leaves him.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: conductor, composer, teacher, friend, professor, confident, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An opera star (Glenn Close) falls for a married Hungarian conductor (Niels Arestrup) trying to do Wagner's "Tannhauser."
Plot Keywords: opera singer, conductor, emotional, amusing, europe, opera, love ...
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