contemporary classical music movies

The Serena Variations (2024)
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Thriller

A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores.

Einstein on the Beach (2014)
8.8 / 10

Music, Drama

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its...

Philip Glass: Looking Glass (2005)
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Documentary

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

Accept (2016)
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Documentary

No Ideas But in Things - the composer Alvin Lucier (2012)
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Documentary

“Don’t ask me what I mean, ask me what I’ve made” – inspired by this motto, the documentary accompanies the American composer Alvin Lucier...

Tomorrow will be the same (2017)
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Music, Mystery, Romance, Adventure

Insatiable lust reigned over senseless flesh. Like august flies, trying to escape certain death, people before the apocalypse started to copulate,...

The Opening of the Wells (1966)
7 / 10

Music

The Opening of the Wells with music by the Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu was supposed to be part of Laterna Magika II.: Tour programme in 1960....

Soñarse muerto (2013)
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Documentary

José Manuel Ortiz, 32, has had a great interest and sensitivity towards music since he was very young. He grows up listening to the anecdotes of his...

John Adams conducts John Adams (2015)
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Music

Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the...

Pōneke Classical Sessions (1969)
10 / 10

Documentary, Music

Short documentary about a group of young musicians in Pōneke, Wellington who are trying to decolonise the classical music space.

To B or to B Flat - the composer Boudewijn Buckinx (2019)
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Documentary

Who gets the idea to write “Nine unfinished symphonies” - one of them perhaps the shortest Symphony in music history? Or "1001 sonatas’ - each...

A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo (2016)
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Documentary

Jo Kondo (*1947) is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan. His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it...

Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (2014)
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Documentary

A cello piece A punt ride Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating...

The Fire and the Rose (1990)
10 / 10

Documentary

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

Knots and Fields (2010)
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Documentary, Music

Knots and Fields examines the aesthetic debates and tensions that have animated the Darmstadt courses over six decades, exploring their relevance...

The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings (2021)
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Music

Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty...

Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (2006)
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Documentary

Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against...

Choreography for a Camera and Dancers (1968)
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Documentary

The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in...

The Lost Paradise (2015)
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Documentary

He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels...

Reich: Three Tales (2002)
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Music, Documentary