Copying Beethoven

6.5

2006

104 mins

Drama

Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.

TÁR

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.1

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

Maria

Year : 2024Rating : ⭐ 6.5

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Richard Jewell

Year : 2019Rating : ⭐ 7.4

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

The Current War

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.7

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Victoria & Abdul

Year : 2017Rating : ⭐ 6.9

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

The Tales of Hoffmann

Year : 1951Rating : ⭐ 7.1

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Year : 2013Rating : ⭐ 7.0

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

tick, tick... BOOM!

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 7.6

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Genius

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 6.5

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.

I Believe in Unicorns

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.7

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

Steve Jobs

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.8

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

The Ron Clark Story

Year : 2006Rating : ⭐ 7.6

Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his ground-breaking classroom rules, to help them reach their potential. Based on a true story.

The Girl in the Book

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 5.8

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Music of the Heart

Year : 1999Rating : ⭐ 6.7

After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.

Radium Girls

Year : 2020Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Year : 1972Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

Colette

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.9

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

The Zone of Interest

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 7.0

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

If I Stay

Year : 2014Rating : ⭐ 7.3

Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock singer/guitarist. However, a car wreck changes everything in an instant, and now Mia's life hangs in the balance. Suspended between life and death, Mia faces a choice that will decide her future.

Origin

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.2

While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.