Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-franz-schubert"

1. The Intouchables (2011)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot

Votes: 929,586 | Gross: $13.18M

2. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

Detective Sherlock Holmes is on the trail of criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, who is carrying out a string of random crimes across Europe.

Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris, Rachel McAdams

Votes: 480,506 | Gross: $186.85M

3. If I Stay (2014)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music

Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had imagined. The choice is hers if she can go on.

Director: R.J. Cutler | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard

Votes: 128,256 | Gross: $50.47M

4. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A depressed musician reunites with his lover. However, their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt

Votes: 108,162 | Gross: $1.88M

5. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover

Votes: 24,814

6. Taking Sides (2001)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Music, War

After the end of World War II, a famous German conductor is accused of loyalty to the Nazi regime. He argues that art and politics are separate. An investigator thinks otherwise.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birgit Minichmayr

Votes: 3,801 | Gross: $0.19M

7. The Young Victoria (2009)

PG | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 66,397 | Gross: $11.00M

8. Amour (2012)

PG-13 | 127 min | Drama

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert, Alexandre Tharaud

Votes: 105,698 | Gross: $6.74M

9. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,660 | Gross: $2.22M

10. Whatever Works (2009)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A middle-aged, misanthropic divorcé from New York City surprisingly enters a fulfilling, Pygmalion-type relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated Southern girl.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Larry David, Henry Cavill, Adam Brooks

Votes: 76,900 | Gross: $5.31M

11. My Father the Hero (1994)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover.

Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Katherine Heigl, Dalton James, Lauren Hutton

Votes: 11,720 | Gross: $25.48M

12. One Fine Morning (2022)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia

Votes: 6,900

13. Death and the Maiden (1994)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova

Votes: 26,815 | Gross: $2.10M

14. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Bill Bernstein, Claire Bloom

Votes: 60,798 | Gross: $18.25M

15. The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan

Votes: 12,674 | Gross: $3.69M

16. The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)

G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin

Votes: 12,030 | Gross: $0.09M

17. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault

Votes: 4,285

18. The Brand New Testament (2015)

Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter?

Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve, François Damiens

Votes: 35,003 | Gross: $0.09M

19. Down a Dark Hall (2018)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A troubled teen named Kit Gordy is forced to join the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, just to find herself trapped by dark forces around its mysterious headmistress, Madame Duret.

Director: Rodrigo Cortés | Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Uma Thurman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles

Votes: 14,917

20. Princess Caraboo (1994)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

Director: Michael Austin | Stars: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline

Votes: 2,980 | Gross: $3.02M

21. Children of the Century (1999)

135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.

Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci

Votes: 2,022 | Gross: $0.05M

22. Love at Second Sight (2019)

117 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.

Director: Hugo Gélin | Stars: François Civil, Joséphine Japy, Benjamin Lavernhe, Camille Lellouche

Votes: 6,027

23. The Limits of Control (2009)

R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Jean-François Stévenin, Óscar Jaenada

Votes: 21,255 | Gross: $0.43M

24. A Late Quartet (2012)

R | 105 min | Drama, Music

Members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos, and insuppressible lust.

Director: Yaron Zilberman | Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir

Votes: 15,330 | Gross: $1.56M

25. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, History, Music

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney

Votes: 13,837 | Gross: $2.93M

26. The Band's Visit (2007)

PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.

Director: Eran Kolirin | Stars: Sasson Gabay, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour

Votes: 14,149 | Gross: $3.05M

27. Blutjunge Verführerinnen 3. Teil (1972)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy

A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends' sexual escapades.

Director: Erwin C. Dietrich | Stars: Ingrid Steeger, Karin Hofmann, Nadine De Rangot, Chitta Coray

Votes: 276

28. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)

Passed | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.

Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn

Votes: 1,799

29. Too Beautiful for You (1989)

R | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A sharp love triangle is formed by a wealthy businessman.

Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet, François Cluzet

Votes: 3,019 | Gross: $1.78M

30. Christine (1958)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Vienna in 1906: Frantz Lobheimer has just broken off the discrete love affair he was having with the baroness Eggersdorf, now that he's discovered true love with the young and tender Christine.

Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit | Stars: Romy Schneider, Alain Delon, Jean-Claude Brialy, François Chaumette

Votes: 1,186

31. Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)

442 min | Biography, Drama

Director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg examines the rise and fall of the Third Reich in this brooding seven-hour masterpiece, which incorporates puppetry, rear-screen projection, and a Wagnerian ... See full summary »

Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg | Stars: Heinz Schubert, Peter Kern, Hellmut Lange, Rainer von Artenfels

Votes: 906

32. Ariane's Thread (2014)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

On her birthday anniversary, the unhappy middle-aged celebrator, Ariane, finds herself abandoned by her family and winds up in a picturesque seaside café in sun-kissed Marseilles. Will she follow her heart to untangle her creative thread?

Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Jacques Boudet, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anaïs Demoustier

Votes: 367

33. Seymour: An Introduction (2014)

PG | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.

Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Seymour Bernstein, Ethan Hawke, Sam Bachelder, Sam Bachelor

Votes: 1,151 | Gross: $0.58M

34. Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?) (2010)

Not Rated | 116 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

The life and work of the enigmatic folk rock singer-songwriter.

Director: John Scheinfeld | Stars: Gerry Beckley, Lee Blackman, Perry Botkin Jr., Ray Cooper

Votes: 1,871 | Gross: $0.03M

35. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

128 min | Crime, Drama, History

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 2,326

36. Should a Schoolgirl Tell? (1969)

R | 67 min | Comedy

Schoolgirl Josefine learns from an early age to use sex to gain advantages. The school's gym teacher is arrested and accused of indecent behavior but the court dismisses the case when Josefine uses her female charm on the jurors.

Director: Géza von Cziffra | Stars: Barbara Capell, Karl Lieffen, Rolf Eden, Ivano Davoli

Votes: 89

37. Winter Journey (2019)

87 min | Biography, Drama, History

Martin Goldsmith never knew what happened to his parents before they escaped from Germany in 1941. Over a weekend, he confronts his father and we are brought back to the complex and confusing 1930s when the parents were young musicians.

Directors: Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Martin Goldsmith, Harvey Friedman, Leonard Scheicher

Votes: 140

38. Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2001)

Unrated | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A hair stylist who can read the minds of those whose hair he cuts decides to act on his gathered information.

Director: Rahul Bose | Stars: Rehaan Engineer, Koel Purie, Rahul Bose, Pooja Bhatt

Votes: 347

39. Murder Without Conviction (2004 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama, Mystery

Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Megan Ward, Morgan Weisser, Rutanya Alda, David Proval

Votes: 227

40. Barbra Streisand and Other Musical Instruments (1973 TV Special)

52 min | Music, Musical

Barbra Streisand's fifth TV special featuring rhythm and blues great Ray Charles.

Director: Dwight Hemion | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Martin Erlichman, Jack Parnell Orchestra

Votes: 291

41. A Soul to Redeem (2017 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 84 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The detective story set in the early 20th century is full of suspense, twists and emotions. Love, hate and desire for revenge are the strongest motivation for the trio of its protagonists. ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Viktor Antonio, Igor Bares, Jirí Capka, Viktorie Cermáková

Votes: 80

42. Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night (1998 Video)

G | 48 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

A whimsical animated tale that tells the story of how the beloved holiday hymn Silent Night was created. Join our heroes, Buster and Chauncey, two musical mice who accidentally create a holiday miracle and make musical history.

Director: Buzz Potamkin | Stars: Phil Hartman, Marie Osmond, Tom Arnold, Judith Blazer

Votes: 303

43. Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965)

164 min | Drama, Romance, War

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier, but at the front Werner begins to understand the ... See full summary »

Director: Joachim Kunert | Stars: Klaus-Peter Thiele, Manfred Karge, Arno Wyzniewski, Günter Junghans

Votes: 373

44. In Search of Chopin (2014)

PG-13 | 110 min | Documentary

In a quest to discover new insights into Fryderyk Chopin, the man and his musical genius, Grabsky traveled the globe over four years recording performances by world-class musicians and interviewing respected historians and musicologists.

Director: Phil Grabsky | Stars: Juliet Stevenson, David Dawson, Leif Ove Andsnes, Daniel Barenboim

Votes: 118

45. Vladimir Horowitz: The Last Romantic (1985 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

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Directors: Albert Maysles, David Maysles | Stars: Vladimir Horowitz, Wanda Toscanini-Horowitz, Franz Mohr, Richard Probst

Votes: 103

46. Desire (1989)

88 min | Documentary, History, Romance

Stuart Marshall's forceful new film (separately commissioned, but screened in Britain as part of - and the most-watched episode of - Channel Four's lesbian and gay magazine series) isn't ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Marshall

Votes: 32

47. Death and the Maiden: Marg Va Dokhtare Javan (2016)

106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The time is the present and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could be any country that has given itself a democratic government just after a long period of dictatorship. ... See full summary »

Director: Mohsen Sadeghian | Stars: Mohammad Babaea, Jafar Del Del, Nazanin Khoshnood

48. Krásno (2014)

119 min | Comedy, Crime

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.

Director: Ondrej Sokol | Stars: Ondrej Sokol, Martin Finger, Jana Krausová, Karel Roden

Votes: 145

49. Julius Katchen (1968 TV Special)

46 min | Music

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Director: Gérard Herzog | Stars: Bernard Gavoty, Julius Katchen, Ronald Zollman

50. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: Eagle Day (2002)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Foyle investigates a man found with a knife in his stomach in a bombed out building while son Andrew gets involved in a top secret radar program.

Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: Bill Thomas, Katy Brittain, Fergus Webster, Tom Bowles

Votes: 819