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- A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.
- A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
- The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was--not easy, as Beethoven has had many women in his life.
- Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives.
- A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It's imagery reflects Owen's story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars, including World War II, Vietnam, and Angola.
- Abandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
- Famous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.
- Followup Los Angeles concert to Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert (1990). Several songs are sung in English, and celebrity attendees include the (then former) 41st US President and the (then future) 38th governor of the state of California.
- Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana, who believes Onegin is her fated love. She writes a note telling him so, but he rejects her. Years later he returns, finding her married, but now he's smitten with her.
- A tramcar in the suburbs of Paris, a woman commenting on its passengers who are as different as a young man with flowers, a whimsical old lady, a man who doesn't want to be just a customer. But as soon as they all get off, everything seems to go tragically wrong.
- The Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
- Courtesan falls in love, lives with her man, but his father convinces her to give him up. Some time after they parted, they have an ugly public confrontation. Ultimately, consumption decides her fate, and her lover regrets his actions.
- Concert of the 'Requiem', marking the 200th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, record live at St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, Austria.
- The story behind "Requiem" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- The figure of a black saxophone player with a Star of David represents the survival of music. This character was created by the Nazis as a portrayal of everything Degenerate Music represented. It is a grotesque exaggeration of the original poster for the work "Jonny spielt auf", an opera by Ernst Krenek that reflected the new modern age musically as well as with scenery and in subject matter. The saxophone player with a Star of David carnation was used as the face for all the art not officially approved by the Nazi regime: the entire group of painters, sculptors, writers and composers whose body of work became known as "Entartete Kunst" or "Degenerate Art".
- Carole Farley stars in two one-act operas about telephones, Menotti's comedy, The Telephone, or L'Amour à Trois, and Poulenc's drama, La Voix Humaine.
- The Prince changes places with his valet - and meets the girl of his dreams!
- 1978– 1h 43m7.4 (33)TV EpisodeAn in-depth portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
- The post-war exploration of music, impelled by the LP, the transistor radio and the television, has taken Western music beyond early jazz into folk, rock and electronic music. Yet as old rules are questioned, man clings to the forms of music that will always remain rooted in the deepest instincts of his nature. Yehudi Menuhin examines the divergent trends in music following World War II: Bela Bartok's arrangements of traditional folk tunes; Oscar Peterson's jazz improvisations; John Cage's exploration of random sound; and the Beatles' impact as "pop idols" on an entire generation.