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🎹 Piano players
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A collection of films and TV shows celebrating pianists and the world of piano music, from captivating performances to the stories behind the keys.


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Movie: The Legend of 1900 ( 1998 )
A baby boy discovered on an ocean liner in 1900 grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.
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Movie: The Pianist ( 2003 )
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
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Movie: La La Land ( 2016 )
Aspiring actress serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and jazz musician Sebastian scrapes by playing cocktail-party gigs in dingy bars. But as success mounts, they are faced with decisions that 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.
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Movie: The Pianist ( 1992 )
Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in V...Read all
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Movie: The Pianist ( 1998 )
At the beginning of the 21st century, the drop in the birth rate creates serious problems. Seiji, our hero, is born into this world. By the time he is an adult, there are more robots than human beings. He was a professional pianist, but three years ago he suffered an accident. Since then, he hasn't been able to play the piano professionally. He lives with Yuna, an android, who is the same model as the nurse who took care of him in the hospital. Seiji treats Yuna like a human being-rather than a robot. One day, he decides to teach Yuna how to play the piano. His effort works, and Yuna learns to perform at a higher level, especially after Seiji takes her to a live concert.
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Movie: The Pianist ( 2014 )
The Pianist is a short movie about a 14 year old singer-songwriter who is going through some personal issues when he meets a young girl who changes his outlook on life, so he writes a song for her.
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Movie: The Pianist's Melody ( 2013 )
A struggling pianist in search of completing his melody. With his bike, he wanders around the busy city of Toronto in search of a piano through hotels, music stores, churches; whatever he can get his hands on to play his beloved melody.
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Movie: Green Book ( 2018 )
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
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Movie: In Darkness ( 2018 )
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
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Movie: Five Easy Pieces ( 1970 )
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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Movie: The Piano ( 1994 )
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
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Movie: Moonlight Sonata ( 1938 )
Mr. Paderewski performs classical piano works including Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which enhances the bond between two young lovers, just as his having previously played this same lovely melody had brought the girl's parents together.
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Movie: Pianomania ( 2011 )
Pianomania follows Stefan Knüpfer, a piano tuner from Steinway and his famous clients Lang Lang, Brendel, Buchbinder and Pierre-Laurent Aimard as they search for the perfect pitch. Truly an unusual and entertaining peek behind the curtain at the world's great concert halls.
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Movie: The Hands of Orlac ( 1928 )
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.
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Movie: The Hands of Orlac ( 1964 )
A pianist who loses his hands in a plane crash receives the transplanted hands of an executed criminal but his new hands have the murderous tendencies of their previous owner.
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Movie: The Passionate Pianist ( 1957 )
The story of a teenage pianist who prefers football to practicing.
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Movie: Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story ( 2006 )
In 1964, Leon Fleisher's career as a concert pianist was thriving. A seemingly minor accident - a cut on his right thumb - led to dystonia, the involuntary curling of his right hand's ring ...
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Movie: Wonder of Women ( 1929 )
A German pianist is going to break up with his unfaithful wife, when he receives the message that his favourite stepchild has died.
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Movie: The Piano (Short 2008)
This is the story of Chinese girl who came with her parents to the U.S. She is very talented in music but the pressure from her mother makes her want to quit. Finally she breaks her hand in an accident and breaks her mother's dream.
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Movie: The Piano Teacher ( 2001 )
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
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Movie: The Piano Tuner ( 2010 )
Adrien is a young pianist prodigy. He collapsed psychologically having failed in a renowned competition and henceforth works as a piano tuner. As remedy to this life, he invents a blind person's mask to penetrate into the intimacy of his customers. This subtlety allows Adrien to get back the taste for music. But since he sees things he should not see, Adrien ends up witnessing a murder.
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Movie: Gloomy Sunday ( 1999 )
Follows three men who are in love with a beautiful waitress during World War II: an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician, and an erratic businessman.
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Movie: The Piano Lesson ( 1995 )
An African-American family struggles to retain their heritage, in the form of a history told in the carvings on the family piano. Boy Willie wants to sell the piano and use the money to buy farmland, but sister Berniece won't part with it.
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Movie: The Piano Man ( 2018 )
Alex Sullivan (Christian Winter) is a piano man who plays at local bars and is struggling to get a record deal. He lives with his girlfriend, Lisa (Jamie Leo), a ballerina turned waitress so the two can have a reliable income. When Alex gets the chance to get signed on to a deal with the best producer on the East Coast, Mia Filliano (Abigail Dwight), he has to write the perfect song to prove his worth. But now the real question is at what cost does it take for him to achieve his dream of being an icon.
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Movie: Under the Piano ( 1998 )
An autistic child growing up in the 1940's and 50's with a mother who is bitter because her fear of success has denied to herself a possible career in opera. This anger translates into an over-protectiveness of her mentally ill daughter, even into the child's adulthood. But a loving sister, herself having an arm that is paralyzed, is a bastion against the limitations ...Read all
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Movie: God of the Piano ( 2019 )
For Anat, music is everything. Having never been able to reach her father's musical standards, she rests her hopes on the child she's about to have. When the baby is born deaf, Anat succumbs to extreme measures to keep the dream alive and raise the musical prodigy she was planning on. But as the young pianist grows up, his lack of respect for his grandfather becomes an obstacle to his career. Anat will have to confront her father.
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Movie: Secret ( 2007 )
Ye Xiang Lun, a talented piano player is a new student at the prestigious Tamkang School. On his first day, he meets Lu Xiao Yu, a pretty girl playing a mysterious piece of music.
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Movie: The Piano in a Factory ( 2011 )
Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a loss. He doesn't mind divorcing a woman who has become a stranger, but he can't bear to part with his daughter. Chen has worked hard to give her a respectable life and has taught her his love of music. When asked if she'd rather stay with her father or go with her mother, the girl gives a practical, devastating answer: she'll go with whomever can provide her with a piano. Chen cannot afford such a luxury item, but the piano becomes his last hope to save what little is left of his family. With the help of his loyal friends and the support of his lover - the singer in his band - Chen concocts several plans to fulfill his daughter's wish, from sneaking her into the local music school at night to drawing a fake piano. He even tries to steal the instrument from the school - anything to keep her near him. Nothing works for long, until Chen looks around his fading steel factory town and hits on the perfect solution.
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Movie: The Piano Nerd (Short 2014)
5 film makers received a log line and had 120 Hours to write, film, and edit a short film for the 120 Hour Film Festival. The log line was: A computer nerd isn't a computer nerd, he is actually a ---"
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Movie: The Piano Lesson ( 2006 )
Like most children, Conrad is often distracted and can't find time to fulfill the strict practice demands of his piano teacher. When he arrives unpracticed and late for his weekly lesson, Conrad begins a comic struggle to outwit his haughty old teacher and survive the piano lesson.
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Movie: Gloomy Sunday ( 2016 )
A girl is murdered by the legendary suicide song Gloomy Sunday. The story is based on a recurring urban legend that the music is linked to many suicides, including the death of its composer.
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Movie: Grand Piano ( 2013 )
A pianist with stage fright endures a performance under the eyes of a mysterious sniper, who will shoot and kill him if a wrong note is played.
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Movie: The Page Turner ( 2006 )
After failing the audition to a prestigious music school because of the rude behavior of one of the testers, a girl takes revenge by gaining the trust of the same woman some years later and becoming indispensable for her.
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Movie: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (Short 2013) ( 2013 )
The Lady In Number 6 is one of the most inspirational and uplifting stories of the year. 109 year old, Aliza Sommer-Herz, the world's oldest pianist and Holocaust survivor shares her story on how to achieve a long and happy life. She discussed the importance of music, laughter and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.
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Movie: Spring Symphony ( 1986 )
Chronicles the illustrious 19th-century love affair between composer Robert Schumann and pianist Clara Wieck.
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Movie: Rhapsody in Blue ( 1945 )
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
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Movie: Low Down ( 2015 )
A look at the life of pianist Joe Albany from the perspective of his young daughter, as she watches him contend with his drug addiction during the 1970s jazz scene.
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Movie: Great Balls of Fire! ( 1989 )
The life and career of wildly controversial rock 'n' roll star Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Movie: The Piano Mover (Short 1932) ( 1932 )
A piano must be delivered by Krazy in his beat up old horse wagon to a skyscraper in the middle of a city. He struggles to set up a winch and pulley, getting caught in it, ending up on a ledge, where Kitty comes out of a window to join him to do a little singing, dancing and make trouble.
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Movie: Set the Piano Stool on Fire ( 2011 )
An intimate account of the relationship between young composer and pianist Kit Armstrong and the world renowned Alfred Brendel, Set the Piano Stool on Fire captures both the creative process and champions the value of teaching and collaboration. Featuring the only filmed footage of Brendel during his farewell tour, this is highly revealing and essential viewing for anyone interested in classical music.
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Movie: The Beast with Five Fingers ( 1947 )
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.
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Movie: The Mephisto Waltz ( 1971 )
An old, dying satanist arranges to transfer his soul into the body of a young concert pianist.
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TV Show: Nodame Cantabile ( 2007 )
Shinichi Chiaki is a first class musician whose dream is to play among the elites in Europe. Coming from a distinguished family, he is an infamous perfectionist; not only is he highly critical of himself, but of others as well. The only thing stopping Chiaki from leaving for Europe is his fear of flying. As a result, he's grounded in Japan.During his 4th year at Japan's top music university, Chiaki happens to meet Noda Megumi—or as she refers to herself, Nodame. On the surface, she seems to be an unkempt girl with no direction in life. However, when Chiaki hears Nodame play the piano for the first time, he is in awe at the kind of music she plays. To Chiaki's dismay, Nodame turns out to be his neighbour and she falls head-over-heels in love with him.Nodame Cantabile tells the story of Chiaki and Nodame, as they not only learn to deal with each other, but learn lessons from one another as they strive for the top of the musical world.
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TV Show: Nodame Cantabile ( 2006 )
Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a preschool teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized. Shinichi Chiaki is Momogaoka's top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. They meet by accident and sparks fly!
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Movie: Nodame Cantabile: The Movie I ( 2009 )
Aspiring conductor Chiaki Shinichi and talented but undisciplined pianist Noda Megumi (nicknamed "Nodame") travel to Paris to pursue careers as classical musicians. Chiaki finds himself at the helm of an orchestra that has fallen on hard times while Nodame pursues her studies at a conservatory. The actors reprise their roles from the television series "Nodame Cantabil...Read all
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Movie: Nodame Cantabile: The Movie II ( 2010 )
Nodame (Juri Ueno) is still pining for the affections of Chiaki (Hiroshi Tamaki), but Chiaki wants them to concentrate on their musical careers and moves out. Chiaki then gets the opportunity to perform with Song Rui (Yu Yamada) and the Wiltord Orchestra of Vienna. Meanwhile, Nodame remains at the conservatory in Paris, but Professor AuClair refuses to let her compete...Read all
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Movie: Solistin Anna Alt ( 1945 )
Celebrated conservatory graduates Anna and Joachim marry, but since Joachim doesn't seem able to compose anything of value he grows so jealous of pianist Anna's successful cooperation with conductor Westberg that he leaves her.
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Movie: A Song to Remember ( 1945 )
Biography of Frederic Chopin.
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Movie: Beloved Clara ( 2008 )
A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.
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Movie: Lisztomania ( 1976 )
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).
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Movie: Amadeus ( 1984 )
The life and work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart seen through the eyes of his contemporary and rival, Antonio Salieri.
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Movie: Four Minutes ( 2008 )
An elderly piano teacher trains a young convict at a women's penitentiary.
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Movie: Imaginaerum ( 2013 )
A coma sends an old man into his childhood's sinister fantasy world, where he must fight dementia and gain back his memories before it's too late.
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Movie: Lonely Heart ( 1985 )
Lonely and love-struck, high-school student Hiroki pursues one girl but another one mysteriously appears in his life. Is she a figment of his lonely psyche, or real? An intricate triangle develops, and the viewer can't quite be sure what is happening until the whole story is neatly resolved at the end.
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Movie: Passion ( 1999 )
The complicated relationship between Percy Grainger, famous Australian-born early 20th century folk musician, and his abusive unstable mother that lead to his interest in S&M, instability and failed relationships with women.
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Movie: Scott Joplin ( 1977 )
Details the life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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Movie: Madame Sousatzka ( 1988 )
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek Sen. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When his single mother Sushila's business fails, he must make a career decision.
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Movie: Stolen Heaven ( 1938 )
Stolen Heaven is a 1938 American drama film directed by Andrew L. Stone and written by Eve Greene, Frederick J. Jackson and Stone. The film stars Gene Raymond, Olympe Bradna, Glenda Farrell, Lewis Stone, Porter Hall and Douglass Dumbrille. The film was released on May 13, 1938, by Paramount Pictures.
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Movie: The Music Lovers ( 1971 )
Piano teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his latent homosexuality by getting married. Unfortunately he chooses nymphomaniac Antonina Milyukova, a depressed former student whom he cannot satisfy.
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Movie: Voice in the Wind ( 1944 )
A concert pianist has lost his memory, the result of his being arrested and tortured by the Germans during the war for playing a banned song. He journeys to the island of Guadelupe to try to regain his memory and his health.
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Movie: Vitus ( 2006 )
A twelve-year-old piano prodigy who suffocates from his parent's big dreams for him decides to make his escape--and with the aid of his grandfather--chase his own dreams instead.
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Movie: The World of Henry Orient ( 1964 )
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
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Movie: I've Always Loved You ( 1946 )
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
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Movie: Hands of a Stranger ( 1962 )
A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.
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Movie: Chopin ( 1984 )
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Movie: Chopin: Desire for Love ( 2002 )
A tangled web of unruly passion lies at the center of this drama, chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin and the flamboyant feminist writer George Sand.
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Movie: In Search of Chopin ( 2014 )
In a quest to discover new insights into Fryderyk Chopin, the man and his musical genius, Grabsky traveled the globe over four years recording performances by world-class musicians and interviewing respected historians and musicologists.
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Movie: Chopin ( 1965 )
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Movie: Copying Beethoven ( 2007 )
A fictionalized account of the last year of Beethoven's life.
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Movie: Träumerei ( 1944 )
A movie about Clara Schumann, wife of Robert Schumann. Originally Zarah Leander should have played the lead role!
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Movie: The Competition ( 1980 )
Paul Dietrich, at almost 30 years old, is a fading piano prodigy. Heidi Schoonover is a talented young pianist with a promising future. When Paul hears of an upcoming competition that could make his career, he dedicates himself to winning.
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Movie: The Eddy Duchin Story ( 1956 )
The life story of the famous pianist and band leader of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Movie: Shine ( 1997 )
David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.
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Movie: His Musical Career (Short 1914) ( 1914 )
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St. They confuse the addresses. The difficulties of delivering the piano by mule cart, and most of the specific gags, appeared later in Laurel and Hardy's "The Music Box".
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Movie: The Beat That My Heart Skipped ( 2005 )
Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist?
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Movie: Behind the Candelabra ( 2013 )
A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.
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Movie: A Piano for Mrs. Cimino ( 1982 )
An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.
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Movie: Glass ( 2008 )
Academy Award®-nominated director Scott Hicks ("Shine") documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.
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Movie: You Will Be Mine ( 2009 )
Marie leaves home to study the piano at the conservatory in Lyons. Through lack of money, she is obliged to share an apartment with Emma, a friend of the family who has lived alone since the death of her father. The two young women develop a strange fascination for one another, which soon develops into an intense mutual need...
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Movie: Getting Started (Short 1979) ( 1979 )
A concert pianist prepares to begin his practising for a major concert coming up. Unfortunately, he has this procrastination problem that prevents him from getting any serious time done, even when his frustration with it literally driving him into a frenzy.
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Movie: Strange Fascination ( 1952 )
Pianist Paul Marvan is sponsored by wealthy widow Diana Fowler in America. He marries dancer Margo, straining his relationship with Diana. Facing financial troubles, he tries to collect insurance by intentionally injuring himself.
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Movie: The Seventh Veil ( 1946 )
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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Movie: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould ( 1993 )
A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
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Movie: The Walking Dead ( 1936 )
After hapless pianist and ex-con John Elman is framed for murder, he is resurrected by a scientist after his execution.
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Movie: The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 )
In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
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Movie: Your Lie in April ( 2016 )
A piano prodigy who lost his ability to play after suffering a traumatic event in his childhood is forced back into the spotlight by an eccentric girl with a secret of her own.
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Movie: When Tomorrow Comes ( 1939 )
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
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Movie: Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser ( 1989 )
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Sphere Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with friends and family about the offbeat genius.
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Movie: The Deserter's Wife ( 1991 )
Nina, a French pianist, marries Ilan, an Israeli computer scientist. They settle in Israel. Leaving on reserve service, Ilan returns seriously injured. Nina will try to understand the reasons which provoked this drama.
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Movie: The Fabulous Baker Boys ( 1989 )
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.
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Movie: September Affair ( 1950 )
An industrialist and a pianist who fall in love in postwar Italy are pronounced dead when they miss their flight home, but the former's wife does not give him up.
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Movie: Song Without End ( 1960 )
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
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Movie: Mad Love ( 1935 )
In Paris, a demented surgeon's obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert-pianist husband's mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing.
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Movie: Suicide Squadron ( 1942 )
During World War II, an American newswoman falls for a Polish piano virtuoso...who wants to go back and fight.
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Movie: Orchestra Seats ( 2007 )
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood.
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Movie: Note by Note (Short 2017)
A young pianist struggles to play a piece of music.