Mahler (1975), Amadeus (1984), Khachaturian (2003), Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985), Three Colors: Blue (1993), Wallowitch & Ross: This Moment (1999), Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Composer movies.
Storyline: Glenn Holland is a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time', he can strive to achieve his true goal - compose one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world. As Holland discovers 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success.
Plot Keywords: music, teacher, inspirational, coming of age, family, education, dream ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when "Peggy Sue" was "Cindy Lou", a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of "That'll Be the Day" up the charts, to his marriage, breakup with the Crickets, reunion with the Crickets, and untimely death.—Jason A. Cormier <wildrose@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: biographical, musical, drama, 1950s, singer, composer, rise to fame ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, singer, composer, experimental music, art film, independent film, music history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary on the life and career of Yiddish actor Pesach Burstein and his family.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, french, court, dance, music, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1890s, Sgt. Major John Philip Sousa, leader of the Marine Corps Band, meets Private Willie Little, inventor of an instrument he calls the Sousaphone...and Little's girlfriend, shapely showgirl Lily. To support his growing family, Sousa leaves the Marines and forms his own band; Willie and Lily go along. Though he'd rather write ballads, Sousa's marches bring him increasing fame; from their debut in 1892 the band is a great success. But Sousa's 'no wives' rule threatens the romance of Willie and Lily...as does the Spanish-American War.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, history, american, composer, patriotic, 20th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: music, romance, drama, classic, black and white, hollywood, jazz ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.—Sonya Roberts <sonya_roberts@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: music, comedy, family, romance, teen, school, mother-daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fred (Michael Caine), a retired composer and conductor, vacations at a Swiss Spa with his longtime friend Mick (Harvey Keitel). As Mick crafts what may be his final screenplay, Fred is given the opportunity to perform for the Queen.
Plot Keywords: drama, life, memory, music, art, aging, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for a while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricist. Perchance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relationship.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, romance, hollywood, composer, songwriting, fred astaire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Composer George Gershwin is driven by his need to succeed. Unfortunately his drive destroys his romantic relationships with singer Julie Adams, who is desperately in love with him, and aloof socialite Christine Gilbert.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, composer, jazz, classical music, hollywood, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucien Ginsburg, a rebellious French Jewish boy with a grotesque imagination, hates playing the piano like his father, a bar professional, and manages to be admitted to Montmartre Academy as a painter, where he befriends an SS officer who helps him survive the occupation. After the war, he chooses to become a performing artist and adopts the stage name Serge Gainsbourg. His unorthodox songs bring him success, even his parents's approval, and lots of lovers, yet his marriages are all utter failures.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: biography, music, france, artist, romance, history, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, musical, history, romance, drama, classical music, composer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A biopic of the career of Joe Howard (12 Feb.,1878 - 19 May, 1961), famous songwriter of the early 20th Century. Howard wrote the title song, Goodbye, My Lady Love; and Hello, My Baby among many others. Mark Stevens was dubbed by Buddy Clark, well known singer of the 30's and 40's—David A. Williams <daw640@pobox.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, romance, comedy, historical, song and dance, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work's debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven's life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, music, drama, classical music, composer, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Professor Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chopin insults the new Russian-installed governor, and must flee the country. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, music, history, drama, romance, classical music, pianist ...
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