list of piano movies

[pianojems]

Hey I know that we have mentioned similar stuff on other threads but I would love to compile a thorough list of any piano related movies. I also think that the posters should give it a quick review, and a rating;lets say on a scale of 1-5. This would be a good resourse for all of us! thanks for humoring me hehe

[goansongo]

Movies, a short summary, and the score of 1-5 (1 being worst movie, 5 being really well worth it to watch)

Shine
This is a movie about David Helfgott.  He's pushed around by his dad most of his life until he leaves one day.  He plays the Rach 3.  Eventually, he goes a little looney. 
Score:  4

A Song to Remember
A movie about Chopin and his life.  Starts out in his early childhood years.  He meets Liszt along the way too!  Great movie.  You gotta love the music. 
Score: 5

The Pianist
This movie is more about the war than playing piano.  You'll hear lots of piano pieces from Chopin throughout the movie, but there's not too much actual playing.  Anyway, it's a great movie though.  It's about Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist, and how he survives World War II.  At the end of a movie, there's a nice scene of someone playing The Grande Polonaise Brillante. 
Score: 5 (but again, it's not really a piano movie) 

 

[paris]

Amadeus- surprise surprise it's about Mozart    his life from childhood, to death, with jealous Salieri...hmm, in that movie Mozart is showed as quite crazy guy i think...  remember the scene under the table with Constanza 

i like that movie very much so i'll rate it 5

[Chrysalis]

Liszt's Rhapsody -

Probably the worst film of a composer ever made... A guy who doesn't look like liszt, pretents to be liszt in all the wrong ways. He is headbanging behind his piano trying to irritate the spectators. this irritated one spectator; ME, skip it...


Rating on a scale of 5 : -1234567890

[pianojems]

Immortal Beloved
A movie about the life of Beethoven which is very interesting and heartgrabbing. It shows his crudeness and his manic personality. Uh...this is not for young audiences though because there is a lot of sex and nudity in it. I would rate it a 5 because it is an excellent movie overall

The piano
a movie about a woman and how a guy holds her hostage and sexual slave..hehe. Very dramatic and grotesque at times. I would say its a 4

[joell12068]

"The Competition"

This movie from the 80s stars Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving competing in a piano competition.  Both make it to the final round.  The music is great, but the story is pretty ridiculous.  Would you believe that Amy Irving's character is declared the winner - even after starting one concerto (Mozart) - completely stopping after a minute or two - then telling the conductor says she wants to play a different concerto (Prokofiev 3rd)?  Are we supposed to believe that would happen in a real life competition?     Grade 3

[thalbergmad]

The song that never ends was an awful film about Liszt with Dirk Bogard in the leading role. score 0

[llamaman]

Beethoven Lives Upstairs- About a young boy, who has Beethoven living in his house, in a room on the upper floor, and how he dislikes it, and turns to think that Beethoven is crazy, until Beethoven dies, when he realises that a genius was living with him.

2 out of 5 (**) It is an OK movie, but it gets rather dull after a little while.

[Goldberg]

Has anyone ever seen Mephisto Waltz? I just saw like 5 minutes of it on TV, it actually looks decent for what it is (a weird, 80's or 70's era horror flick, I think). At least, they had the Liszt piece playing in the background first as kind of a floaty synthesiser thing and it morphed into an actual performance of it that was actually really good lol, and that was enough to make me think it's a decent movie.

Other than that, I'm not sure I know what it's about. There was a brief summary of it on the TV and basically I think it's something like a demon posesses a dead concert pianist's body and.....does evil stuff or something. Who the heck knows. I think Alan Alda's in it, or maybe I'm mistaken...

[thalberg]

Richter: The Enigma.

A non-fictional documentary on the life of Sviatoslav Richter.  AMAZING playing, exclusive interview footage, great scenery, three hours long.  Rating: 5

[thalberg]

32 Short Films about Glenn Gould

Great for people with ADD.  Films constantly change topic, non are more than a few minutes, some are under a minute.  Fascinating coverage of every aspect of this pianist's life.  Would be a 5, but I must deduct one point because Gould in general was just so pompous (though I love him).

Rating: 4

[Teddybear]

Has anyone ever seen Mephisto Waltz?

I saw it when I was little. I thought it was extremely scary. There were Alan Alda and this wonderful German guy... uh.. Kurt something? The bad guy from The Spy Who Loved Me? Ah, Curt Jürgens (amazing guy, he spoke several languages fluently).

T

[yamagal]

The 1980 made-for-TV movie Playing for Time is very good.  Based on a true story, takes place in Auschwitz, is about prisoners forced to play in an orchestra for the Nazis' entertainment.  I think the lead character played piano but I'm not sure -- it's been so long since I saw it.  It's on video - saw a listing at Amazon.

[yamagal]

oops I did't rate it - I'd give it 4.5/5

[bernhard]

Has anyone ever seen Mephisto Waltz? I just saw like 5 minutes of it on TV, it actually looks decent for what it is (a weird, 80's or 70's era horror flick, I think). At least, they had the Liszt piece playing in the background first as kind of a floaty synthesiser thing and it morphed into an actual performance of it that was actually really good lol, and that was enough to make me think it's a decent movie.

Other than that, I'm not sure I know what it's about. There was a brief summary of it on the TV and basically I think it's something like a demon posesses a dead concert pianist's body and.....does evil stuff or something. Who the heck knows. I think Alan Alda's in it, or maybe I'm mistaken...

The problem I found with the “The mephisto waltz” (A famous concert pianist is secretly a Satanist who has been living eternally by transferring his soul to different bodies through the ages) is the way the plot develops at the end. 

This is how it ends: the evil pianist succeeds in transferring his soul to the body of a music critic  (!). But the critic’s wife finds out about it, and cunningly transfers her own soul to the body of the evil pianist’s lover (without him knowing about it). This ending did not make much sense to me, after all she did not get her husband back, just her husband’s body. But maybe that was all she was interested in after all (Curd Jurgens is the evil pianist, Alan Alda is the critic and Jaqueline Bisset his wife). Yet thoroughly enjoyable. Rating: 5.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[bernhard]

Impromptu - The life of Chopin. I could not take this movie too seriously mostly because I could not really see Hugh Grant as Chopin (But Julian Sands was perfectly cast as Lizst and so was Judy Davis as George Sand – although she is probably too pretty). If you are interested in Chopin, I will give it a 5 (although it is  a pretty clichéd biopic). If not I will give it a 2.

Much more interesting  and satisfying is “The mystery of Chopin /The strange affair of Delphina Potocka”. Drama which probes the mystery of some pornographic and anti-Semitic letters supposedly sent by Chopin to a lady which came to the surface when the lady's great granddaughter took them to the Polish Authorities in 1945. Also included is an hour-long recital of Chopin's music by Valentina Igoshina who also talks about his work. Rating: 5.

The piano lesson -  Isabelle Hupert plays the piano teacher from hell (Yes, she gives Hanon to their students – and other stuff besides). A lot of Schubert, but definitely not for the faint hearted (or the below 18s). Rating: 5

”Merci pour le chocolat” is another French film (by Claude Chabrol)  again with Isabelle Hupert this time playing the murderous wife of a famous concert pianist. Liszt’s Funerailles is the centrepiece (played by Claudio Arrau). There is not much of piano playing though, since most of the plot revolves around the wife’s machinations. Rating: 4.

Madame Sousatzka – Another piano teacher, this time played by Shirley Maclaine. Her student gets to kiss Twiggy and to play (and mess up) the Schumann piano concerto. Allegedly the Mme. Sousatzka character was inspired on Adelle Marcus. Rating: 5


Fingers – A very intriguing movie with Harvey Keitel (of “The piano” fame), this time playing a gangster who also plays the piano. He wants to enter a music school but he is unable to perform in public, so instead he tries to present to the school’s admission board a tape of his playing, which is refused. Depressing but  extremely interesting – Keitel is always a joy to watch. Rating 5+

There is also a 50’s biopic of Lizst (played by Dirk Bogarde) – I do not remember the name – The movie is not very good (actually it is pretty bad, since Bogard is completely miscast), but the soundtrack is played by Jorge Bolet – who up to that point (he was already in his forties) was a completely unknown pianist. Being in that movie (not as an actor  - as the pianist) pretty much launched his career. Rating: 3

Mr. Holland’s opus – After competing against Amy Irving, Richard Dreyfuss this time plays a frustrated pianist and composer who has to go into teaching in order to make ends meet. If you like tear-jerkers highlighting the plight of music teachers, this is for you. The ending was not very convincing either (trying to be uplifting about the guy being sacked). Rating: 4

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[bernhard]

Here are a few more:

Moonlight Sonata – the movie is pretty bad, but it has Paderewski in it, playing himself (and playing the piano). I saw it on video. If you have an interet in Paderwski I will give it a 5. Otherwise the rating has to be 1.

I cannot remember the name of this one. But it has Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in it. Liz is married to a pianist who cracks down once she decides to leave him for Richard Burton. He stops playing and becomes a depressive wreck. She then decides to come back to him and help him regain his piano prowess. Must be the only piano movie that has someone practising scales and Hanon! (no kidding!)

Serafina – A failed performer, now a piano teacher helps an African refugee to rescue her husband from prison, falling in love with her in the process. Nice soundtrack (Scriabin, Grieg and Mendelssohn). Rating 4.

Truly, madly deeply. This is about a woman (played by Juliet Stevenson) who plays the cello. Her partner (played by Alan Rickman) plays the piano and they form a duo. He dies unexpectedly, and she is grief stricken. So Alan Ricknman’s ghost comes back to continue playing with her. Eventually she finds someone else and both their lives move on – he to other realms beyond the limbo he found himself in. Beautiful soundtrack (mostly the Bach Cello sonatas). Rating 5.

The Baker Boys - Jeff Bridges and his real life brother Beau star as fictional brothers that have a two-piano act that travels from hotel to hotel. (Apparently they can play the piano for real) Everything starts to fall apart when they decide to revamp their act by hiring a singer (Michelle Pfeifer). No classical music (except for a brief mention of Clair de Lune), but hugely enjoyable. Rating: 5+


L' Effrontee (don’t know how they translated the title in English – saw it on the French channel) – director: Claudia Miller.

Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a  young working class teenager who lives in a rundown neighbourhood. Life picks up a little color when a new friend (Clothilde Baudon),  comes into the picture, a pianist from the other side of the tracks who is going to give a recital in town. The more sophisticated pianist jokes that maybe Charlotte should be her manager, and that sets off a series of misunderstandings that lead to some pretty wild moments. Rating: 4.

The tic code - A young boy with Tourette's syndrom is a piano (jazz mostly) prodigy. He befriends a jazz sax player (played by Gregory Hines) who suffers from the same condition. More about Tourette's syndrom than piano playing. There are some historical clips of Art Tatum and the suggestion that he too might have had the condition. A bit of a tearjerker (the boy’s father, who is divorced from his mother and lives in another town and is about to remarry, although rich, refuses to listen to the boy’s playing or even to consider giving him a piano). Rating: 4.


Great Balls of fire - Jerry Lee Lewis (played by Dennis Quaid) marries 13 year old cousin (played by Winonna Rider) and sets fire to pianos on stage. Great fun. Rating: 5+

An American In Paris.  A Gene Kelly musical.  One of the characters is a pianinst who fantasises about being a great concert pianist. Gershwin is in the soundtrack. Rating: 1 (if you hate musicals) or 5 (if you love them).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[thalbergmad]

Anyone seen the old black and white horror called "The beast with 5 fingers".

About a 1 handed pianist. His old severed hand comes back at night and plays the Brahms/Bach chaconne on the piano.

Pretty creepy and well worth a watch.

[bernhard]

Anyone seen the old black and white horror called "The beast with 5 fingers".

About a 1 handed pianist. His old severed hand comes back at night and plays the Brahms/Bach chaconne on the piano.

Pretty creepy and well worth a watch.

I've seen a similar one: A pianist loses his hand, and gets another one reimplanted. The operation goes successfully. The problem is, unknown to him, the new hand belonged to a mass murdere and it has a will of its own...

Can't remember the name though...

[bernhard]

A few more:

"The Eddie Duchin Story".. Eddie Duchin arrives in New York and soon impresses everyone in the night club scene. He is hired as a backup piano player but soon rises to head up his own band with the help of his future wife, played by Kim Novak (yummi). Everything is going Eddie's way until she becomes ill and suddenly dies, shattering Eddie's enthusiasm. How Eddie deals with this tragedy, along with his relationship with his son become the basis for the rest of the film..The playing was done by Carmen Cavallaro. Rating: 4

“The talented Mr. Ripley”. Ripley (played by Matt Damon) is an amoral character who murders his way to wealth and plays the piano. In the sequel (“Ripley’s game”), John Malkovich gets to play Ripley (but not the piano – except for a short scene where he plays his wife newly rebuilt harpsichord with terrible technique). The wife though is a famous harpsichordist who seems oblivious to the true character of her husband (he is still murdering for profit). Hugely enjoyable, both of them. Rating: 5+

Still on the subject of murderous pianists, we have of course Dr. Hannibal Lecter (“Silence of the Lambs”, “Hannibal” and “Dragon”), where Anthony Hopkins (who apparently can play the piano really well) palying amongst other things the Goldberg variations. Rating: 5+

Captain Hook plays convincing arpeggios with his hook in Shrek 2. Rating 5+

Stanley Kubrick’s last movie: “Eyes Wide Shut” features prominently a pianist, a piano and some weird music to accompany the rituals of the sex cult to which the pianist introduces Tom Cruise’s character (and gets murdered for it). In spite of all may admiration for Kubrick, and a very good first half, ultimately this film was a huge disappointment, since nothing ever gets properly explained. Rating: 2 (that go all to Nicole Kidmann).
 
In “Betty Blue” (dir.: Jean Jacques Beineix) the characters played by Jean Hughes Anglade and Beatrice Dalle go to live in a small town to manage a piano shop. Besides a lot of pianos, there is a suspenseful event involving the transport of a concert grand. The movie is about an unconventional woman (Beatrice) who ends up locked as a nutter. Rating: 5

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[thalbergmad]

I've seen a similar one: A pianist loses his hand, and gets another one reimplanted. The operation goes successfully. The problem is, unknown to him, the new hand belonged to a mass murdere and it has a will of its own...

Can't remember the name though...

If you do remember Bernhard, please let me know.

I would love to see it again.

[bernhard]

If you do remember Bernhard, please let me know.

I would love to see it again.

I found it!

https://www.hypnoticvideo.com/H-titles.html

THE HANDS OF ORLAC

1960, B&W

Mel Ferrer plays Orlac, a concert pianist who loses use of his hands in
a plane crash and has them replaced in a transplant surgery. But he
becomes suspicious that his new hands came from a recently executed
murderer, almost driving him to madness. Christopher Lee is at the top of
his game as a sleazy magician who torments and attempts to blackmail
Orlac with the help of his sexy assistant Dani Carrel. This superb British
thriller is quite underrated and features one of Lee's finest performances.


And here is a similar one:

HANDS OF A STRANGER

1962, B&W

The hands of a dead murderer are surgically attached to a pianist
who lost his own hands in a vehicle accident. Unable to perform again,
he goes mad and seeks revenge on the doctors who operated on him.
An atmospheric telling of THE HANDS OF ORLAC story.

Enjoy!

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[chozart]

Don't think this was mentioned yet...
The Red Violin

not really piano, lol.. but I heard it was pretty good, and I'd like to see it
Also, I heard an interview on the radio with the solo violinist, Joshua Bell, who talked a bit about it and performed music that's featured in it
seems interesting

here's a bit about it: https://www.sonyclassical.com/music/63010/

[dmk]

Not strictly on piano but

Voices from a Locked Room: with Jeremy Northam about the life of Phillip Heseltine/Peter Warlock...how much is fact or fiction is debateable but its an interesting film!

[bernhard]

In several of Gerard Depardieu’s movies there is a piano around which he plays (badly):

“Green Card” (with Andy Macdowell). Depardieu is a French illegal alien in the USA who marries Andie in order to get a green card. And she marries him to get a flat in a building where only married couples are allowed. She pretends to the neighbours that he is a composer travelling through Africa to research new rhythms in order to explain why he is never around. Since she heads some sort of charity, at a fund-raising event she must produce her husband. Arguably in the best scene of the movie, Depardieu sits at the piano to show the guests his “compositions”. Unmissable. Rating: 5.

“My Father the Hero” – try to get the French original, not the Hollywood remake (with Depardieu as well). The original movie is hilarious, the remake is very flat. Depardieu is a divorced father who every year takes his daughter to a holiday in the Caribean. But now she has become a teenager interested in the boys. To make herself more interesting, she invents a lie that Depardieu is her older lover, and convinces him to play along, which leads (in the original French movie) to some extremely funny moments as the lies get out of hand. Ah yes, the piano. Depardieu gets to play Chopin on the hotel lobby’ piano. Rating: 5 (original version) or 1 (Hollywood remake).

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[Appenato]

I cannot remember the name of this one. But it has Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in it. Liz is married to a pianist who cracks down once she decides to leave him for Richard Burton. He stops playing and becomes a depressive wreck. She then decides to come back to him and help him regain his piano prowess. Must be the only piano movie that has someone practising scales and Hanon! (no kidding!)

Rhapsody? At the end the guy plays Rach's 2nd concerto?

[Appenato]

Impromptu - The life of Chopin. I could not take this movie too seriously mostly because I could not really see Hugh Grant as Chopin (But Julian Sands was perfectly cast as Lizst and so was Judy Davis as George Sand – although she is probably too pretty). If you are interested in Chopin, I will give it a 5 (although it is  a pretty clichéd biopic). If not I will give it a 2.

haha... no. it was a bit dry. liszt was amusing, if anything.

[bernhard]

haha... no. it was a bit dry. liszt was amusing, if anything.

I agree. Julian Sands (typically) stole the movie.

[Dazzer]

Ah forget the post... was irrelevant. heh woops.

[bernhard]

Rhapsody? At the end the guy plays Rach's 2nd concerto?

That may well be it.

[thalbergmad]

Many years ago, i remember seeing a film that ended with someone playing the piano in the famous open air Minack theatre in cornwall.

Not a lot of info, but if anyone knows what this was called, please let me know as i would love to see it again.

My money is on Bernhard coming up with the answer.

[bernhard]

Many years ago, i remember seeing a film that ended with someone playing the piano in the famous open air Minack theatre in cornwall.

Not a lot of info, but if anyone knows what this was called, please let me know as i would love to see it again.

My money is on Bernhard coming up with the answer.

"Love Story" with Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger - 1944

Lockwood is a concert pianist who has a terminal disease. After discovering she has only a short time to live, she travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there she falls in love with mineral prospector Grange a man embittered towards life (you see, he also has a secret).

The course of true love, however, never runs smooth, and after discovering Grange's dark secret (he is going blind), and then losing him to a love rival, Lockwood leaves Cornwall and embarks on a long and tiring concert tour. On hearing her climax Albert hall performance on the radio Granger finally realises that it is her that he loves. 

Is that the one?

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[thalbergmad]

"Love Story" with Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger - 1944

Lockwood is a concert pianist who has a terminal disease. After discovering she has only a short time to live, she travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there she falls in love with mineral prospector Grange a man embittered towards life (you see, he also has a secret).

The course of true love, however, never runs smooth, and after discovering Grange's dark secret (he is going blind), and then losing him to a love rival, Lockwood leaves Cornwall and embarks on a long and tiring concert tour. On hearing her climax Albert hall performance on the radio Granger finally realises that it is her that he loves. 

Is that the one?

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

Sounds good to me Bernhard.

Thanks

[quantum]

The Red Violin:
Follows the story of a particular violin throughout the centuries and the music that has been played on it.  Although not a piano movie, I would highly recommend. 
Rating: 5+

[pianojems]

yeah the red violin is a bit on the pornographic side, but I would also rate it a 5 good movie. The violinist is inspired to play music while he is having sex.

[Jacey1973]

Last night i got watching this black and white film - think from 1952, it had Charlie Chaplin in it and he played an old music hall performer whose career was failing/had failed (he was called Calvero i think). I think the film was called "Limelight". Anyone seen it?

I found it quite amusing. Calvero looks after this ballet dancer who thought she was crippled then he helps her recover and she becomes famous, then his career goes crap whilst hers is going well. Then she falls in love with him and they decide to marry, then at the end his career finally gets on track again...just before he dies!!! There's like a love triangle thing going on with a composer/pianist guy who the ballerina girl used to serve music manuscript to when she worked in a little store. And the composer called "Mr Neville" (think the actor who played him was called Sydney Chaplin) was really poor so she used to give him extra sheets of manuscript paper (as she used to fancy him and felt so sorry for him when it was obvious he had used his last money to buy manuscript paper instead of food! Lol!).

Later in the film the composer falls in love with the ballerina as he finally gets successful with his music for a ballet she has the lead in (his music sounds like Rachmaninov - obviously!)

Someone must have heard of this?

[bernhard]

Ken Russel’s – “The music lovers”, with Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovski and Glenda Jackson as his nymphomaniac wife. Hugely enjoyable, over the top, Ken Russel romp. (But then I like Ken Russel) Rating: 5

And for a more subdued  (and far better piece of movie making) composer biopic from Russel, try his wonderful “Delius”. Rating: 5+

(he also made biopics of Elgar, Mahler and Lizst – the dreadful “Lizstomania” with one of the worst cases of miscasting – Peter
Townshend form the Who plays Liszt)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[thracozaag]

  There's a wonderful (albeit brief) scene in this fantastic French Film, "Man on the Train" with one of the protagonists playing a Schubert Impromptu and actually making some wonderful observations on piano playing/composers. 

koji

[freddychopin]

OK since not all of the movies listed above is an actually "piano movie" Here is my tip:

"The Peacemaker" with George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. Fun and decent action movie, but more important. The villan who wants to destroy the world plays the piano: Chopin's Nocturne Opus 55 no.1 in F minor. Not a thing you expect when you watch this movie 

[joell12068]

Although not really a "movie", there's a really memorable episode of the TV series M*A*S*H in which a soldier begs not to have his wounded right hand amputated, but it became necessary to amputate it to save his life.  Later we discover this soldier is really a "Concert Pianist" and the soldier quickly falls into despair.  Later, the surgeon who operated on him (who is a huge classical music lover) tells him the story of Paul Wittgenstein (who also lost his right hand during combat), and how although he will have to make changes, he must not give up his career or passion for music.  The surgeon presents him with the score of Ravel's concerto for the left hand, which the solder proceeds to play on a klunky piano.
 

[bernhard]

How about a movie mixing up martial arts and piano playing? Well this dream-come-true is on the cinema’s right now: “Unleashed” with Jet Li playing a emotionally scarred killer who has been trained by a gangster to be his “dog”, which he “unleashes” on people who do not pay their debts in time. At one point in the movie, however, Jet Li comes to believe that his boss has been killed and ends up living with a blind piano tuner (played by Morgan Freeman), whose daughter is studying the piano in the conservatory. They slowly teach Jet Li to be “human” again (Has anyone seen Herzog’s movie “Kaspar Houser”? There are many similarities here). Then – predictable, I know – the gangster turns out not to be dead and comes back to reclaim his “dog”.

A good movie. The thing I disliked the most was the unreality of Morgan Freeman taking a stranger into his own house and making him a part of the family – but maybe I am just getting cynical. And some sex would be good too.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[ada]

This may be a bit tenuous but what about the old Vincent Price Dr Phibes movies about a creepy bloke who devises all sorts of nasty ways of paying back the doctors who failed to save his wife's life? (The Seven Curses of Dr Phibes)

I seem to recall he spent a lot of time playing piano in the room where he kept the body of his wife in some sort of suspended animation. Or it may have been the organ..

[jehangircama]

Does anyone know whether there was a movie called Polonaise based on Chopin? My grandmother was telling me about it.

[shasta]

In "Kinsey" Liam Neeson's character plays the Chopin etude 25/1.

[practicingnow]

I disagree with most of you -
I think "Song Without End" is a MUST SEE -
Staring Dirk Bogard as Liszt, Genevieve Page as Marie, and Capucine as Princess Caroline.
This was SUCH a cool movie, even though old Dirk doesn't look a thing like Liszt, still, he played it to the hilt - what a ham!      Definitely alot of fun!
Remember the scene when he seduces Caroline from the stage as he plays "La Campanella"?  You gotta love it!

[thracozaag]

  Just saw a terrific movie revolving around a piano composition entitled "Gloomy Sunday."

koji

[Souza]

I need your help to review an old movie, that I can't remember nothing, even  the title, about a female pianist and a conductor.   I only remember that she was not blonde. and her  quick chromatic thirds runs over the entire keyboard and her performance of  Rachmaninoff 2nd Concert. Probably a movie about 1950's.  It was a non colour, black and white movie.


Three movies had great influence in my choice to play the piano.

The first is that I don't remember nothing... please help me!   


The second,  was "5.000 Fingers of Dr. T.",   I  had seen dozen times...(shamed..), and   I always became fascinated with that strange world...(sorry)...I was six years old, I guess...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/

The third was "Apassionata" brazilian movie, a classical here in Brazil. 
https://www.adorocinemabrasileiro.com.br/filmes/apassionata/apassionata.asp



Any coments about this movie below?

https://www.londonnet.co.uk/films/thepianoteacherlapianiste.html

Film Details
The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) (18)
Drama (2001) 131mins (with subtitles) Aus/Fr
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Magimel, Annie Girardot

Erica Kohut lives with her curmudgeonly mother in a cramped apartment, completly separated from the outside world. Her hermetic life prevents her from finding romance, and her only pleasure comes from teaching piano at the Vienna Conservatory. Then one of her students, Walter, begins to take an interest in her. They embark on a sexual odyssey, but Erica's increasingly bizarre, masochistic demands begin to repulse her young lover.


Thanks in advance

{}s Pedro

[arensky]

Lizst – the dreadful “Lizstomania” with one of the worst cases of miscasting – Peter
Townshend form the Who plays Liszt)

Hey I love that movie! It's great!  The flame spitting piano, WOW!!! It's too cool!!!

But Roger Daltrey played Liszt, not Petey....

[chopiabin]

There's a RIDICULOUS movie from the early eighties called
"Anna to the Nth Degree" (or something like that) - she's like a clone that has some female composer's DNA in her and her piano teacher forces her to learn scales and the Pathetique in an effort to gain some info or something. It's dreadful, but you just can't stop watching.

Worthwhile as any type of artistic or even commercial venture or entertainment in general - - 50000

Watchability-5

The music from "Eyes Wide Shut" is Musica Ricercata by Gyorgy Ligeti

[mikey6]

can someone please explain 'the piano teacher' - my friends conned me into seeing it and it was...ahm...bloody wierd! like why did she cut herself in the bath? (i'm not gonna say where)

I rather like Cornel Wilde's Chopin - he didn't play (obviously) but he actually learnt the correct movements according to the piece in the soundtrack.
Adrien Brody actually learnt piano for his part in 'the pianist'.

What about what's opera doc? or rabbit of seville? and the three pigs trio with the wolf (can't remember the name)
Rhapsody rabbit for pianists maybe?