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Green Book(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 4,969 votes)

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

La La Land(2016)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, Music
4.0/5 (with 7,870 votes)

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

The Pianist(2002)

R
| 2h 30min | Drama, War
4.2/5 (with 4,313 votes)

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

Rocketman(2019)

R
| 2h 1min | Music, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 2,083 votes)

The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

Seven Pounds(2008)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 3,084 votes)

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Twin Dragons(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Action
3.3/5 (with 151 votes)

Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.

The Piano Teacher(2001)

R
| 2h 11min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 455 votes)

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

Ray(2004)

PG-13
| 2h 32min | Drama, Music
3.7/5 (with 833 votes)

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

Secret(2007)

1h 41min | Fantasy, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 69 votes)

Ye Xiang Lun is a music student majoring in piano who just transferred to Tamkang, a school famous for its musically talented students, especially those who play piano. On his first day of school, he hears a mysterious melody being played, and following it meets Lu Xiao Yu, another piano major. When he asks her about the song she was playing, she tells him that it is a secret that cannot be told. The two form a friendship that quickly evolves into a romantic relationship. However unbeknownst to Xiang Lun, there is more to Xiao Yu than initially meets the eye.

The Piano(1993)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 632 votes)

After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.

Deep Red(1975)

R
| 2h 7min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 616 votes)

A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

Nocturne(2020)

2.9/5 (with 174 votes)

Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

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Once(2007)

R
| 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.

Andhadhun(2018)

2h 19min | Crime, Thriller, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 192 votes)

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

Directed by Sriram Raghavan - With Tabu, Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte, Anil Dhawan, Zakir Hussain, Ashwini Kalsekar, ...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 28min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 171 votes)

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.

Autumn Sonata(1978)

PG
| 1h 33min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 234 votes)

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Running on Empty(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 56min | Drama, Crime, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 123 votes)

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.

Shine(1996)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 274 votes)

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Shoot the Piano Player(1960)

NR
| 1h 25min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 174 votes)

Charlie is a former classical pianist who has changed his name and now plays jazz in a grimy Paris bar. When Charlie's brothers, Richard and Chico, surface and ask for Charlie's help while on the run from gangsters they have scammed, he aids their escape. Soon Charlie and Lena, a waitress at the same bar, face trouble when the gangsters arrive, looking for his brothers.

That Day, on the Beach(1983)

2h 46min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped(2005)

NR
| 1h 47min | Music, Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso pianist who cannot speak French - music is their only exchange. But pressures from the ugly world of his day job soon become more than he can handle...

Keys to the Heart(2018)

4.0/5 (with 12 votes)

An older brother is a washed-up boxer. His younger brother is a genius pianist with physical disability. The brothers make up through their mother who is full of stories of her past.

Ragtime(1981)

PG
| 2h 35min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Attila Marcel(2013)

1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 28 votes)

Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhood and awakens the most delightful of fantasies.

Those People(2015)

1h 29min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 160 votes)

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.

Directed by Joey Kuhn - With Haaz Sleiman, Britt Lower, Stephen Gevedon

BUtterfield 8(1960)

PG
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.

Have a Song on Your Lips(2015)

2h 12min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Yuri Kashiwaga was once known as a genius pianist. One day, she returns to her hometown in Goto Islands from Tokyo. There, she begins to work as a temporary teacher at a middle school and advisor for the school chorus. The chorus aims to take part at a competition. Yuri gives the members of the chorus members an assignment. She instructs them to write a letter with the title of “To myself 15 years later.” The 15-year-old boys and girls write about their secrets and worries.

Low Down(2014)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama, Music
2.8/5 (with 26 votes)

The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.

Directed by Jeff Preiss - With John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Lena Headey, Glenn Close

The Hands of Orlac(1924)

NR
| 1h 38min | Horror, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

Rhapsody Rabbit(1946)

3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

When Bugs attempts to perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, he is troubled by a mouse.

Directed by Friz Freleng
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