Composer Movies

This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...

Idiosyncratic composer, unique musician and ground-breaking film director…..Frank Zappa packed more into his short lifetime than most men would...

A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.

An exploration of Edmond Dédé and Basile Barès were 19th-century New Orleans composers of color. Dédé, born free,...

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.

Six composers work on a composition to be performed in a shopping mall.

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April...

An early morning phone call in 2017 changed the lives of two teenage brothers bonded by their love of percussion. One died tragically in a car...

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family...

The film, in individual episodes, captures the fate of Bedřich Smetana from 1856 until the end of his life, from his young years until the...

Beautiful tribute to the composer Elton Medeiros. Together with his last partner Vidal Assis, he sings, tells stories and moves.

Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in...

Álvaro Norte, a celebrated composer and cellist, invites his talented student Mauro to be his assistant. However, Mauro reveals he has other...

Documentary about the life of the great pianist and composer Chopin and the story of the women whose voices inspired his music. It is undeniable that...

Sam Green's intimate portrait of Annea Lockwood shares with us a glimpse into the enthralling world of sound that she has been exploring and creating...

The film tells the story of Eva, a pianist who followed her husband, musician and composer Peter, to a small village on the Slovak-Hungarian border....