Films: Musique

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....

Eight segments of opera films: Sheng Xinma performs a monologue from A King's Revenge (1955), followed by an excerpt of The Patriot's Sword (1958). Cibo Liang is featured in An Immortal Refuses Love (1958), and Yutang Bai appears in The Wonder Boy (1...

Traveling salesman meets a young woman who's running away from home, and helps her evade detectives who are tracking her....

Young singer becomes famous, has an affair with a married man....

When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to fly. And when the clash takes place in a glorious, but rarely performed, opera by Massenet, it’s a d...

A survivor, provocateur and true original, Marianne has spent more than six decades defying expectations — releasing over thirty-five albums while constantly reinventing herself. Made with her full involvement, Broken English is an intimate and unfli...

Soso is a girl engaged to a rich man, but she does not love him. By chance, there is a singer named Soso whose voice a naval officer admires. He keeps sending letters to her, and by chance she sends a picture of her sister to him....

A retelling of Mahabharata through the perspectives of KARNA and DURYODHANA. The film uses dialogue and poetry written in Classical Telugu/ Grandhika Basha....

A wealthy, good-for-nothing man wastes his fortune, loses his house and moves in with his private secretary's family. He falls in love with the secretary's daughter. After a few disastrous attempts at salaried employment, he pawns the family ring an...

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Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and commentary from his collaborators and the master himself. Highlights include performances of Adams's Grammy A...

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When Ranger Raymond is killed during a stage holdup, Wells Fargo Agent Whip Wilson assumes his identity....

A contemporary musical version of the classic Cinderella story in which the servant step daughter hope to compete in a musical competition for a famous pop star....

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A couple enters a haunted house and are terrorized by spirits...

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory,...

A film about Serbian baritone Zeljko Lucic....

After being misled by the police about a rape and murder near a popular Washington, D.C. Go-Go club, a jaded journalist begins digging into the establishment's racist framework....

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime....