Best "composer" Movies of All Time

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Amadeus(1984)

4.0/5 (with 1,824 votes)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a remarkably talented young Viennese composer who unwittingly finds a fierce rival in the disciplined and determined Antonio Salieri. Resenting Mozart for both his hedonistic lifestyle and his undeniable talent, the highly religious Salieri is gradually consumed by his jealousy and becomes obsessed with Mozart's downfall, leading to a devious scheme that has dire consequences for both men.

Directed by Miloš Forman - With F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, ...

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TÁR(2022)

| 2h 38min | Drama, Music

3.6/5 (with 480 votes)

Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.

Directed by Todd Field - With Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, ...

Youth(2015)

| 1h 58min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 921 votes)

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino - With Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Ed Stoppard, ...

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tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)

PG-13

| 1h 55min | Drama, Music

3.9/5 (with 854 votes)

On the cusp of his 30th birthday, Jonathon Larson, a promising young theater composer, navigates love, friendship, and the pressures of life as an artist in New York City.

Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda - With Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, ...

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August Rush(2007)

| 1h 54min | Kids & Family, Drama, Music

3.7/5 (with 1,225 votes)

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.

Directed by Kirsten Sheridan - With Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler, ...

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The Red Shoes(1948)

| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 255 votes)

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

Directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell - With Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Albert Bassermann, ...

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The Changeling(1980)

| 1h 43min | Horror

3.5/5 (with 246 votes)

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

Directed by Peter Medak - With George C. Scott, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, Barry Morse, Madeleine Sherwood, Eric Christmas, ...

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Three Colors: Blue(1993)

| 1h 38min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 712 votes)

Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. But avoiding human interactions on the bustling streets of Paris proves impossible, and she eventually meets up with Olivier, an old friend who harbors a secret love for her, and who could draw her back to reality.

Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski - With Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Riva, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Guillaume de Tonquédec, ...

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Once(2007)

| 1h 25min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 575 votes)

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

Directed by John Carney - With Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová

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Immortal Beloved(1994)

| 2h 1min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 140 votes)

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.

Directed by Bernard Rose - With Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Miriam Margolyes, Barry Humphries, Valeria Golino, ...

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Mr. Holland's Opus(1995)

| 2h 17min | Drama, Music, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 173 votes)

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Directed by Stephen Herek - With Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, Alicia Witt, ...

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Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life(2010)

2h 10min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 144 votes)

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 the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Directed by Joann Sfar - With Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones, Anna Mouglalis, Mylène Jampanoï, Sara Forestier, ...

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Death in Venice(1971)

2h 10min | Drama, History

3.7/5 (with 204 votes)

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Marisa Berenson, Carole André, ...

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George Harrison: Living in the Material World(2011)

3h 28min | Music, Documentary

3.9/5 (with 91 votes)

Director Martin Scorsese profiles former Beatle George Harrison in this reverent portrait that mixes interviews and archival footage, featuring commentary from the likes of Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Neil Aspinall, George Martin, Olivia Harrison, ...

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Quincy(2018)

2h 4min | Documentary, Music

3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

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 cultural boundaries; his story is inextricably woven into the fabric of America.

Directed by Rashida Jones

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La Vie de Bohème(1992)

1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 47 votes)

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki - With Matti Pellonpää, Évelyne Didi, André Wilms, Kari Väänänen, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laika, ...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda(2017)

1h 40min | Documentary, Music

3.7/5 (with 15 votes)

One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades, from techno-pop star to Oscar-winning film composer. The evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. Following Fukushima, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan’s social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following cancer, his haunting awareness of life crises leads to a resounding new masterpiece. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA is an intimate portrait of both the artist and the man.

Directed by Stephen Nomura Schible - With Ryuichi Sakamoto

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Copying Beethoven(2006)

PG-13

| 1h 44min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 73 votes)

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, loneliness and personal trauma. A copyist is urgently needed to help the composer. A fictional character is introduced in the form of a young conservatory student and aspiring composer named Anna Holtz. The mercurial Beethoven is skeptical that a woman might become involved in his masterpiece but slowly comes to trust in Anna's assistance and in the end becomes quite fond of her. By the time the piece is performed, her presence in his life is an absolute necessity. Her deep understanding of his work is such that she even corrects mistakes he has made, while her passionate personality opens a door into his private world.

Directed by Agnieszka Holland - With Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Phyllida Law, Joe Anderson, Matthew Goode, Angus Barnett, ...

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Paris Blues(1961)

1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama, Music

3.3/5 (with 24 votes)

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll, Moustache, ...

Score: A Film Music Documentary(2017)

| 1h 34min | Music, Documentary

3.6/5 (with 49 votes)

Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible to audiences. Matt Schrader shines a spotlight on the overlooked craft of film composing, gathering many of the art form’s most influential practitioners, from Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman to Quincy Jones and Randy Newman, to uncover their creative process. Tracing key developments in the evolution of music in film, and exploring some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks, 'Score' is an aural valentine for film lovers.

Directed by Matt Schrader

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The Shout(1978)

| 1h 26min | Horror, Drama

3.0/5 (with 46 votes)

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.

Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski - With Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry, Carol Drinkwater, ...

The Liar and His Lover(2013)

1h 57min | Music, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 32 votes)

Set within music field, this film depicts a love story between a 25-year-old sound engineer and 16-year-old high school student Riko, who posessess a gifted voice. 25-year-old sound engineer Aki is a member of popular band "Crude Play," but right after the band decides to make their major record debut Aki quits the band. But, Aki provides his music to Crude Play under the name of producer Soichiro. Aki begins to date Riko, whose father runs a fruit and vegetable shop. Riko doesn't know about Aki's background, but she likes to listen to him hum. Riko is in a band herself, with childhood friend Yuichi and Sota. One day she is scouted by producer Soichiro.

Directed by Norihiro Koizumi - With Takeru Satō

Lisztomania(1975)

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Music

2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as 19th century genius pianist Franz Liszt in this brash, loud and free-wheeling rock 'n' roll fantasia centered around an imagined rivalry between Liszt and composer Richard Wagner-- painted here as a vampiric harbinger of doom and destruction.

Directed by Ken Russell - With Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr, Rick Wakeman, Fiona Lewis, ...

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Woman of Fire(1971)

1h 40min | Crime, Drama

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The lives of a composer and his wife, who live on a chicken farm, are thrown into turmoil when a femme fatale joins their household.

Directed by Kim Ki-young - With Namkoong Won, Jeon Gye-hyeon, Youn Yuh-jung

Un + une(2015)

1h 55min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

2.9/5 (with 88 votes)

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

Directed by Claude Lelouch - With Jean Dujardin

Road Games(2015)

1h 35min | Horror, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 33 votes)

When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion….

Directed by Abner Pastoll - With Andrew Simpson

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Besieged(1998)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, gifts, and music, declaring passionately that he loves her, would go to Africa with her, would do anything for her. "What do you know of Africa?," she asks, then, in anguish, shouts, "Get my husband out of jail!" The rest of the film plays out the implications of this scene and leaves Shandurai with a choice.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis, Claudio Santamaria, Massimo De Rossi, Cyril Nri

The Third Alibi(1961)

1h 8min | Thriller, Drama

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

Directed by Montgomery Tully - With Laurence Payne

The Last Word(2008)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 25 votes)

An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother.

Directed by Geoffrey Haley - With Winona Ryder, Wes Bentley, Ray Romano, Gina Hecht, John Billingsley, Katherine Boecher, ...

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About the Looking for and the Finding of Love(2005)

1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama, Music

2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.

Directed by Helmut Dietl - With Moritz Bleibtreu, Alexandra Maria Lara, Heino Ferch, Anke Engelke, Justus von Dohnányi, Uwe Ochsenknecht, ...

Movies: Best "composer" Movies

Amadeus(1984)

TÁR(2022)

Youth(2015)

tick, tick... BOOM!(2021)

August Rush(2007)

The Red Shoes(1948)

The Changeling(1980)

Three Colors: Blue(1993)

Once(2007)

Immortal Beloved(1994)

Mr. Holland's Opus(1995)

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life(2010)

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Death in Venice(1971)

George Harrison: Living in the Material World(2011)

Quincy(2018)

La Vie de Bohème(1992)

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda(2017)

Copying Beethoven(2006)

Paris Blues(1961)

Score: A Film Music Documentary(2017)

The Shout(1978)

The Liar and His Lover(2013)

Lisztomania(1975)

Woman of Fire(1971)

Un + une(2015)

Road Games(2015)

Besieged(1998)

The Third Alibi(1961)

The Last Word(2008)

About the Looking for and the Finding of Love(2005)

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