Ludwig van Beethoven

A concert-film using innovative cinematic techniques to set music to images. As conductor Herbert von Karajan didn't like the experimental style, he...

Sir András Schiff performs Beethoven’s dramatic Piano Concerto No.1 on a stunning model of a historic 1822 fortepiano. Schiff describes...

When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and...

At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in...

Photographer and Director Robert Ascroft envisions the inner struggle of working with an Anger Management Therapist. Realized through the eyes of two...

a short film about a lonely writer trying to adapt Shakespeare's Julius Caeser, but things go differently as he comes to terms with his solitude

Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name...

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it.

In the ancient theater of Delphi, against the backdrop of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, musicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, performs...

Symphonien Nos. 1 - 9 Gundula Janowitz · Christa Ludwig · Jess Thomas · Walter Berry Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin Berliner...

Jancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the...

The 2020 Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert took place on January 1, 2020, under the baton of Andris Nelsons in the Musikverein in Vienna....

The romance between a young aristocratic woman and an unlucky painter that takes place in the lakes of Bariloche.

Two twins fall in love with the same man and he thinks he only loves one woman.

When a man starts a new job as a college janitor, he is reminded of all that he has lost.

A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect.

This animated coming-of-age story explores the familial, societal, and religious challenges a boy faces because of his sexual orientation.

SYSTAM highlights the inhumanity of those highest on the hierarchy, the dominant to the destitute. The film metaphorically depicts the whole process...

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, David...

In The Addams Family XXX, the Addams children are all grown up now and wreaking havoc on the community. Before Wednesday and Pugsly are off to...

A day in the life of a lonely soul seems ordinary but is it really?

In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script....

Part of the 'Classic Archive series, this programme features full-length, complete musical performances coupled with encore material as well as rare...

An experimental animated short film of shapes and music notes animated by being drawn directly on Adobe Animate.

Abstract patterns and shapes that resemble butterflies in various colorful shades, tints, and hues explore a world of light and darkness whilst being...

Krystian Zimerman joined forces with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra last December in Beethoven’s five piano concertos....

A retiree who is thrown out of the lodging where he lives with a closet, his only belonging, meets a girl from the street and will keep each other...

Claudio Abbado conducts the prestigious Berliner Philharmonikerfor during a concert dedicated to Beethoven. The programme includes the Piano Concerto...

Beethoven's opera Fidelio, conducted by Karl Böhm, featuring Gwyneth Jones as Leonore and James King as Florestan

Federico Veiroj’s fourth feature examines the many, often contradictory layers that make up one’s persona, in this case, a single dad and...

Ludwig van Beethoven headed for Symphony No. 9 literally his entire life. As early as the 1790s, he had an eye on Ode to Joy, perhaps the most...

A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human...

The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena.

Bad Times At Conformity High follows Thomas (Riley Danson). A sarcastic, fly under the radar kind of guy, who by an all power, British political...

The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown...

Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe...

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned...

Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven.

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to power.

Walt Disney's timeless masterpiece is an extravaganza of sight and sound! See the music come to life, hear the pictures burst into song and...

Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.

Munich Philarmonic Orchestra, Friedrich Gulda conductor. (1989)

The Simpsons family are having a night in watching television when the cheeky bullies of Springfield Elementary enter their home and decide to pull a...

"This is a video for my generation. I'm Lucia Izmailova. And I can control time. See the future. I was eight years old when I dreamt of World War...

A pas de deux about the Swedish poet/singer/songwriter Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795) and his muse Ulla Winblad (1744-1798), later included in the...

Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the...

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little...

Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King...

A concert-film using innovative cinematic techniques to set music to images. As conductor Herbert von Karajan didn't like the experimental style, he...

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore...

Scenes in a foggy train station: a little boy and several adult figures can be seen. Underlaid with music.

Short film about the city of Cabo Frio, it's streets, people and architecture (or anti-architecture, as the director described). All of that with...

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to...

Short film about the city of Cabo Frio, it's streets, people and architecture (or anti-architecture, as the director described). All of that with...

Can a work of art remain relevant 200 years after its creation? Ludwig van Beethoven’s last completed symphony proves it’s possible.

When army of Gigans tries to invade and destroy the Earth, the only one who can stop them is Godzilla.

This short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story follows the events of a killer reminiscing on the murderous deed he committed.

Awaiting new club leader Kumiko is the Ensemble Contest -- a.k.a. "EnCon"-- and the school's preliminary competition to determine the representative...

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives...

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The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #9 was of a concert on March 22, 1952, at Carnegie Hall,...

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #1 was of a concert on April 3, 1948, at NBC Studio 8H,...

Karajan's very best video Beethoven 9th Symphony, recorded December 31, 1977. The Quartet of vocal soloists and Chorus in IV are superb. This is much...

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master....

Under the guidance of famed American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, Polish classical pianist Krystian Zimerman and the Vienna Philharmonic...

From the very first bars of the Coriolan Overture, it is apparent that this is Beethoven at his very best. Vladimir Jurowski and his absolutely...

These recordings, filmed in March and April 1974 for the BBC, occurred at the tail end of the old performance era and the very start of the new....

This set was recorded in the late 1960s to early 1970s. Herbert von Karajan is widely acknowledged to be one of the finest conductors of the 20th...

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beethoven’s own instrument was the piano, and...

Translucence, transparency – warmth’ are the qualities identified by Bernard Haitink as necessary for an ideal sound performance of...

Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the...

The bad day of a film buff at the Cinematheque. A stranger projects herself on the screen and changes its course.

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

Moments from a sophomore's life just before he leaves.

An award-winning wordless documentary that explores the architecture of the then new St. Peter's Seminary which is now seen as one of the most...

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already...

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George...

Kyung-Wha Chung performs Beethoven's violin concerto in this live recording with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt

A collaboration between mother and son, dance and film, an abandoned pier and summer weather, filmed in Aquatic Park, San Francisco, June 6 to August...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of...

Experience what Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti calls “the work of a divine architect” in this special encore presentation of...

Recording of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan playing Beethoven's 7th Symphony.

Renata's heroine silently walks through the fields, an autumn garden, an old mansion, an abandoned greenhouse to the lyric melody of Ludwig van...

The harmony performed by players who drawn by lines metamorphose.