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1) La La Land
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
2) Grand piano
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic performance, he reappears in public in a long awaited concert in Chicago. In a packed theater, in front of the expectant audience, Tom finds a message written on the score: ₁Play one wrong note and you die₂. Without leaving the piano, Tom must discover the anonymous sniper₂s motives and look for help...
3) Coda
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A famous pianist (Patrick Stewart) struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic (Katie Holmes). CODA also stars Giancarlo Esposito.
4) Those people
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young painter finds the man of his dreams in an older pianist from across the globe who is secretly in love with his manipulative best friend.
6) Ivory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Step inside one of the most competitive conservatories in the world, where the allure of fame, money, and the pressure to achieve a concert career push a group of young pianists to the brink, testing friendship, love, and their sense of community. Andreas Goodman, needing success on the competition circuit, heads to Oberlin to study with Olga Primakova, herself a major competition winner, who he thinks will bring him that success. The experiences...
7) La la land
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English subtitle version].
Language
Afrikaans
Description
The gripping true story of musical prodigy Phillip Schuman, a fifteen-year-old boy whose real world pain threatens to overshadow the light of his incredible talent as a world renowned pianist. A father and son story that promises to touch every viewer. An inspirational film that highlights the beauty of God-given talents, while also pointing to the power of forgiveness and healing.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Set in eighteenth century Vienna, this is the true story of Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and friend of Mozart, who lost her eyesight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, her parents entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer. With the doctor's innovative technique using magnetism, Maria slowly recovers her sight. But this miracle comes at a price as Maria progressively starts to lose her gift for music.
10) Why stop now
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Eli Bloom, a piano prodigy, has gotten the most important audition of his life. But before he can go, he must drop his mother off at drug rehab. Since she has to test positive for admission, the two end up at her dealer's door seeking one last score. But problems arise when mom can't pay and dealer is low on product, thus creating a series of comically unfortunate obstacles to each character's goals.
12) Fair haven
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After a long stay in anti-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...
13) God of the piano
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
עברית
Description
Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best Actress) has never been able to reach her father's exacting musical standards, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf, she cannot accept it and resorts to extreme measures to ensure that her child will be the composer that her father always wanted. But when the boy grows up indifferent to his destiny as a great...
14) The competition
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two young competitors at one of the world's most important music awards defy the rivalry that should exist between them and fall in love. He knows that this may be his last chance for success, and she is the protege of a famous teacher who warns her to stay away from romance, so the competition tests the strength of their love.
16) Fingers
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen format (1.85:first).
Language
English
Description
"Jimmy Fingers lives in two worlds. In one, he's a supremely talented pianist with Carnegie Hall aspirations. In the other, he's a brutal collector who violently squeezes anyone who reneges on debts owed [to] his mobbish, loan-shark father. Jimmy is a house divided. His dual life will come crashing in on him"--Container.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
18) Three extremes
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
2-disc special ed.
Language
Korean
Description
A bracing anthology of horror stories uniting three of East Asia's most compelling directors : Fruit Chan's Dumplings, Park Chan-Wook's Cut and Miike Takashi's Box.
19) Deception
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
World War II has separated pianist Christine Radcliffe from her great love, cellist Karel Novak. Thinking Karel has been killed in action, she is unexpectedly reunited with him. Now, Christine desperately strives to hide her wartime dalliance as the mistress of a wealthy, sadistic composer. She'll lie to keep her shameful past a secret.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Jack Ridge, a former piano prodigy once mentored by Van Cliburn, who has retreated to his family's farmland in north Texas. His wife has left him, and the week of the annual county piano competition, he punches his fist into a wall, threatening his first public performance in years. When the local corporate farm ratchets up the pressure on him to sell his land, his only allies are Phillip and Alyssa.
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