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Corpse Bride(2005)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 17min | Romance / Love, Fantasy, Animation
3.8/5 (with 3,939 votes)

Set in a 19th-century European village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the living.

Directed by Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

The First Great Train Robbery(1978)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 145 votes)

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

The Nutty Professor(1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 178 votes)

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

Stoker(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,000 votes)

After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

The Piano(1993)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

Chloe(2010)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 756 votes)

A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.

Tristana(1970)

1h 35min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero, Lola Gaos, Antonio Casas, Jesús Fernández Hernández, ...

Voice from the Stone(2017)

2.8/5 (with 214 votes)

Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

Victoria(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 18min | Crime, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 529 votes)

A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.

Grand Piano(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 30min | Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 225 votes)

Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.

Laurel Canyon(2003)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 84 votes)

Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up in her lavish digs. As Sam and Alex settle in at Jane's, they gradually lose their straight-and-narrow approach to life and begin to experiment.

The Bloodstained Butterfly(1971)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Thriller, Mystery, Horror
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...

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Topsy-Turvy(1999)

2h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Music, History
3.4/5 (with 61 votes)

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

The Walking Dead(1936)

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

The Kiss of the Vampire(1963)

1h 28min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

Honeymooning in Bavaria, a young couple becomes stranded and is forced to stay the night in the area. Doctor Ravna, owner of the impressive chateau that sits imposingly above the village, invites them to dinner that evening. Their association with Ravna and his charming, beautiful family is to prove disastrous.

Fair Haven(2017)

1h 30min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 37 votes)

After a long stint in gay conversion therapy, James, a young piano prodigy, returns home to his family farm and his emotionally-distant father, Richard. After Richard pressures James to give up his music career and take over the farm, James agrees as a way to make up for his past. Soon, however, James finds himself face-to-face with a former lover, Charlie, who wants to help him turn away from his new beliefs and family expectations and follow his dreams of studying music.

Directed by Kerstin Karlhuber - With Michael Grant, Tom Wopat, Gregory Harrison, Josh Green, Tom Malloy, Jennifer Taylor, ...

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.

Johann Mouse(1953)

3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

At the home of Viennese composer Johann Strauss lived Johann Mouse. Whenever the composer played his waltzes, the mouse would dance to the music, unable to control himself. One day, when Strauss was away, the house cat played his master's music. When word got out about a piano-playing cat and a dancing mouse, they were commanded to perform for the emperor.

The Beast with Five Fingers(1947)

1h 28min | Thriller, Horror
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.

The Piano Lesson(1995)

1h 35min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.

Phantom of Death(1988)

1h 40min | Horror
2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...

Let No Man Write My Epitaph(1960)

1h 45min | Drama
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

Come Tomorrow...(1962)

3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

The girl Frosya Burlakova comes to Moscow from the remote Siberian village of Eltsovka to become a singer. She stops at the sculptor Nikolai Vasilyevich, who studied at a school in Zaporozhye, where their mutual friend worked — a school caretaker, who then moved to Siberia. Completely unfamiliar with the life of big cities, Frosya amuses Nikolai Vasilyevich himself, his girlfriend Natasha and the housekeeper with his provinciality and spontaneity. However, the absolute sincerity and spiritual purity of Frosy make the sculptor think that he himself has long been stuck in lies, vanity and commercial work, exchanged his artistic talent for trifles and lost his creative path.

The Planet of Junior Brown(1997)

1h 31min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.

Directed by Clement Virgo

Destination Murder(1950)

1h 12min | Crime
2.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Laura Mansfield catches a glimpse of mob hit man Jackie Wales after he shoots her businessman father. At the police station, Laura identifies Jackie as the murderer, but the policeman in charge of the case, Lt. Brewster, lets him go, citing a lack of corroborating evidence. Outraged, Laura worms her way into the unsuspecting Jackie's heart, trying to snare him and mob-connected club owner Armitage in her trap.

Grand Piano Legend(2014)

3min | Drama

If you are going to be really good at something, you need to start early. If you are a piano player too.

Esther's Choice(2020)

Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still keeps his Ex-girlfriend's belongings in his closet. What follows is an emotional roller coaster of a film exploring the great lengths an artist chooses to go to for the sake of inspiration.

Big Man from the North(1931)

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Bosko is a Mountie in the cold, snowy north. His sergeant demands that he get his man: a peg-legged villain wanted dead or alive.

Pianoforte(2023)

1h 31min | Documentary

Young pianists take part in the legendary International Chopin Piano Competition. A unique chance of a lifetime, portrayed from backstage and set to Chopin’s music.

The Revelers(1927)

9min | Music
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The Revelers sing a couple of songs around the piano.

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