Ludwig van Beethoven

The Metropolitan Opera: Fidelio (2025)

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

The Loneliest City on South America (2024)

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

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 9 - Leipzig, Paris, Mailand, Wien (2024)

Conductors Andris Nelsons, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Chailly, and Petr Popelka will take turns conducting the four movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. This concert event celebrates the bicentennial of the premiere of Beethoven's masterpiece. ...

Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity (2024)

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

Delírio Primaveril (2023)

Sound! Euphonium: Ensemble Contest (2023)

Awaiting new club leader Kumiko is the Ensemble Contest, and the school's preliminary competition to determine the representative team to participate. Kumiko tries her best to make it to the preliminaries without incident, but the concert band club is so l ...

The Janitor (2023)

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

Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (2022)

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

Eu Odeio Poeira (2022)

Currentzis conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (2022)

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 well-known poem by Friedrich Schiller, written on the threshold of the French Revolution (1786). In his mature an ...

Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos (2021)

Krystian Zimerman joined forces with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra last December in Beethoven's five piano concertos. Their spellbinding performances, streamed on DG Stage from LSO St Luke's and recorded live by Deutsche Grammophon, ha ...

Just Like Another Day (2021)

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

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 (2021)

In the ancient theater of Delphi, against the backdrop of the ruins of the Temple of Apollo, musicAeterna, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, performs Ludwig van Beethoven's 7th Symphony, in conjunction with a new choreography by Sasha Waltz and her company. ...

Systam (2021)

SYSTAM highlights the inhumanity of those highest on the hierarchy, the dominant to the destitute. The film metaphorically depicts the whole process of child trafficking in a systematic way to unveil this hidden scheme. It further accentuates the reality o ...

RCO: Pappano conducts Beethoven & Schumann (2021)

Louis van Beethoven (2020)

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 the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconvent ...

Beethoven: Fidelio (2020)

Beethoven's only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, David Butt Philip plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as 'Fidelio') who ...

Just Before I Leave (2020)

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

An Afternoon at the Cinematheque (2020)

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

New Year’s Concert 2020 (2020)

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. Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausor ...

VICTORIA XXI (2019)

"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 III. Even though my parents didn't believe me, I still love them very much. Their wedding anniversary is soon. ...

Belmonte (2019)

Federico Veiroj's fourth feature examines the many, often contradictory layers that make up one's persona, in this case, a single dad and acclaimed artist who must learn to balance family with creativity. ...

Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1-5 - Uchida, Rattle (2018)

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos. Beethoven's own instrument was the piano, and in his improvisations – which made him the darling of the Viennese salons – he merged virtuosity and unbridled ...

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 3 (2016)

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 2 (2016)

The Simpsons couch gag [YOU'RE NEXT] (2015)

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 particularly mean prank on them. ...

Beethoven Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 (2015)

Bad Times At Conformity High (2015)

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 goddess (Lucrita Hodkinson) has been forced into The Australian School System of All Things Conformity at -- yo ...

Beethoven: Fidelio - Salzburg Festival (2015)

Beethoven Violin Concerto (2015)

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

Beethoven: Symphony 9 by Riccardo Muti (2014)

Experience what Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti calls "the work of a divine architect" in this special encore presentation of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Recorded live September 18, 2014, at Orchestra Hall during one of the opening programs of the Chicag ...

Leaving (2014)

Renata's heroine silently walks through the fields, an autumn garden, an old mansion, an abandoned greenhouse to the lyric melody of Ludwig van Beethoven, only occasionally turning to the camera. In the frame, Litvinova appears as a brunette who wears long ...

Beethovenova 9. symfonie – Koncert pro EU (2014)

A festive event marking the 10th anniversary of the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union, during which the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a live broadcast of L. van Beethoven's popular Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, with Ode to J ...

Ode to Joy (2013)

Photographer and Director Robert Ascroft envisions the inner struggle of working with an Anger Management Therapist. Realized through the eyes of two time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz. ...

Souvenirs of Serge (2011)

Thirty years after their separation, Jane Birkin goes back, dipping into the memories of the family holidays she shared with Serge Gainsbourg. With her typical honesty wit and tenderness, she commentates on her own super 8 films. Serge the protector, the c ...

The King's Speech (2010)

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 ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie en ...

The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2010)

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. In 1984 ...

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7; Coriolan Overture (2010)

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 brilliant Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment give us a new reading of old favorites that may well blow you ou ...

Eroica - Director's Cut (2009)

Using innovative camera- and editing-techniques and employing an original set design, this concert film sets a performance of Beethoven's third symphony to images. ...

Knowing (2009)

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 occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that a ...

Karajan - Beethoven: The Symphonies (2008)

Symphonien Nos. ...

Beethoven · Missa Solemnis (Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan) (2008)

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 1-4 (2008)

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonies nos. 5-8 (2008)

Karajan: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 (2008)

Pierre Fournier: Classic Archive (2008)

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

Fidelio - Beethoven - Opernhaus Zürich 2008 (2008)

Translucence, transparency – warmth' are the qualities identified by Bernard Haitink as necessary for an ideal sound performance of Beethoven's only opera, and all are present in this fantastic recording of Katharina Thalbach's 2008 production for Opernh ...

Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 & 5 (2007)

Under the guidance of famed American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, Polish classical pianist Krystian Zimerman and the Vienna Philharmonic deliver a rousing performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos nos. 3, 4 and 5. Premiered in 1808 ...

Ed's Eaten Elevenses (2006)

Jancsó's farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the father-in-law rolling in money. In a joint venture they establish the first Hungarian Prison Limited company, where there is a ...

Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica (2006)

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into li ...

Karajan: Beethoven - Symphonies 1, 2 & 3 (2005)

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 century, and around 1970 he was at his peak. ...

Dérives (2005)

Short movie ...

Three Leaders (2004)

31 Minutos en la Teletón (2003)

First (and last) participation of 31 Minutos in the Teletón. The 31 Minutos team appears with a disastrous performance at the Chilean televised charity event called Teletón, the great network of love and solidarity that unites an entire country. The trut ...

Listening (2003)

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 love. ...

Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003)

A series of poems. ...

Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major - Mikhail Pletnev, Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker (2002)

Claudio Abbado conducts the prestigious Berliner Philharmonikerfor during a concert dedicated to Beethoven. The programme includes the Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19 with the Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev whose dazzling technique adding to ...

The Cupboard (2001)

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 company ...

Fantasia 2000 (2000)

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

Symphony No. 5 (1999)

Abstract patterns and shapes that resemble butterflies in various colorful shades, tints, and hues explore a world of light and darkness whilst being pursued by a swarm of black bats. The world is ultimately conquered by light. Introduced by surviving arch ...

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federatio ...

Christmas (1996)

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

Christophe Coin, le musicien (1995)

Welcome Home (1995)

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

Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Overture to a New War (1993)

Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name Lohengramm, while Yang and his friends celebrate some welcome news. ...

Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1993)

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

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1993)

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west. ...

Dla Elizy Bagatela a-moll WoO 59 (1992)

Down a Moonlit Road (1991)

A young man suffering from insomnia cannot help but overhear a spider spinning improbable tales for his friends. ...

Ode to Freedom (1989)

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein, this is an historic performance marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. Performed on Christmas Day 1989 in the former East Berlin, a concert that unites an cast former eastern and western Berlin musicians and vocalists, among w ...

Das Mauerkonzert (1989)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5, op. 73 (1989)

Munich Philarmonic Orchestra, Friedrich Gulda conductor. ...

The Power of Speech (1988)

Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the ori ...

The Black Monk (1988)

Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy. ...

King Lear (1988)

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

Erinnerung - ein Film mit Oskar Kokoschka (1986)

Tester (1986)

The young hero's father, a famous test pilot, dies in an airplane crash. But comes the first deep feeling for the girl Tanya - and the hero finds the courage to overcome this seemingly intolerable grief. The action takes place in the fifties. ...

Parade of the Planets (1984)

A rare astronomical phenomenon — the parade of planets — has a strange effect on several men. The heroes of the film — an astrophysicist, locksmith, salesman, architect, loader, trolley bus driver — are called up for military training, which ends a ...

Samuel (1984)

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

First Name: Carmen (1983)

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob. ...

The Chosen Ones (1983)

A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Colombia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich. ...

The Nightingale (1981)

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 kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace. ...

The Conductor (1980)

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 symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly un ...

Fidelio (1980)

Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne. Elizabeth Söderström plays Leonore, with Elizabeth Gale as Marzelline and Curt Appelgren as Rocco. ...

Beethoven's Fidelio (1980)

Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera at Glyndebourne ...

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (1977)

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 better than Karajan's 1968 Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven 9 video (DG), filmed in the Philharmonie with no ...

The Lorry (1977)

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. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That ...

Poslední zkouška (1977)

Beethoven - Days in a Life (1976)

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 modestly and is dependent upon private patrons. Nagged by his patronizing brothers, spied upon by officials for ...

To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream (1976)

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 crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numer ...

Beethoven Piano Concertos 1-5 (1974)

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. Vladimir Ashkenazy was a graduate of the same Soviet school of piano playing that produced Sviatoslav Richter, ...

Jail Bait (1973)

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the constraints of their social surroundings. ...

Eroica (1972)

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

Space and Light (1972)

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 important post-war buildings in the United Kingdom. The film was made in celebration after architect Jack Coia wa ...

L. van Beethoven Symfonie d moll (1972)

Beethoven - Symphony No. 7 (1971)

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

Rött vin i gröna glas (1970)

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 full-length ballet "Bellman". ...

Beethoven: Fidelio (1970)

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

Sorrows (1969)

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 Ludwig II built for Wagner. ...

Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur opus 55 (Eroica) von Ludwig van Beethoven (1967)

Under the baton of the legendary Czech exile conductor, the Berlin Philharmonic will perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55. ...

Nights of Farewell (1965)

Paris, the middle of the XIX century. Young Marius Petipa is going on a long journey to St. Petersburg, where he is invited to become the first dancer. He doesn't know that his life will develop both happily and dramatically, and his work will be the glory ...

Lola (1961)

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. ...

All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)

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

The Clock Stopped at Midnight (1959)

A group of resistance members are fighting Germans in the occupied Minsk during WWII. ...

Fidelio (1956)

A film adaptation of Ludwig van Beethoven's opera of the same name. Florestan has been held in a Spanish state prison for many years. When an inspection of the prison becomes inevitable, Florestan must be eliminated. But Fidelio's young assistant can preve ...

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 9: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5/Respighi: The Pines of Rome (1952)

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #9 was of a concert on March 22, 1952, at Carnegie Hall, featuring Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Respighi's Pines of Rome. (Concerts #8 and #9 were released on "Vol. 5" i ...

Eroica (1949)

Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven. ...

Dance of Fire (1949)

The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that ti ...

Romance sin palabras (1948)

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

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (1948)

The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #1 was of a concert on April 3, 1948, at NBC Studio 8H, featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"). (Concerts #1 and #2 were released on "Vol. 1" in the DVD series. ...

Apasionadamente (1944)

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

Sant'Elena, piccola isola (1943)

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

Claro de luna (1942)

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

Fantasia (1940)

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 experience the excitement that is Fantasia over and over again. ...

The White Disease (1937)

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery speeches of a dictator, the bacillus of a highly destructive form of leprosy has spread. It is called morbus Tshe ...

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 with Sir András Schiff (2023)

Sir András Schiff performs Beethoven's dramatic Piano Concerto No.1 on a stunning model of a historic 1822 fortepiano. Schiff describes Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 from 1795 as "absolutely huge in its concept for that time. I've always though ...

Prelúdio (2022)

Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio (2004)

Nikolaus Harnoncourt is the conductor in this 2004 production of Beethoven's only opera staged at the Zurich Opera House. Finnish soprano Camilla Nyland takes the title role, with performances by Jonas Kaufmann, Laszlo Polgar and Alfred Muff. ...

Eroica (1972)

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