Rhapsody
M-G-M's Magnificent Drama of Music and Romance
Genres
Overview
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
115 min
Release Date
1954-04-16
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
26
Vote Average
6.7
Elizabeth Taylor
Louise Durant
Vittorio Gassman
Paul Bronte
John Ericson
James Guest
Louis Calhern
Nicholas Durant
Michael Chekhov
Prof. Schuman
Barbara Bates
Effie Cahill
Richard Hageman
Bruno Fürst
Richard Lupino
Otto Krafft
Celia Lovsky
Frau Sigerlist
Stuart Whitman
Dove
Madge Blake
Mrs. Cahill
Jack Raine
Edmund Streller
Birgit Nilsen
Madeleine
Jacqueline Duval
Yvonne
Norma Nevens
Student Pianist
6.4
Ladies in Lavender
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
2004-11-12 | en
7.0
If Only
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.
2004-01-23 | en
6.9
Stardust Memories
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
1980-09-26 | en
6.4
Chevalier
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.
2023-04-20 | en
5.0
Songs of Love from Hawaii
Embark on a mesmerizing musical journey through the multi-faceted history of Korean American immigrants in Hawaiʻi with SONGS OF LOVE, a captivating reverie of song and history.
2024-10-30 | ko
6.7
Intermezzo: A Love Story
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
1939-10-06 | en
6.5
Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
1941-04-25 | en
6.9
Making Love
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music, between Jeno and Sophie.
2000-02-11 | en
6.5
Summer Rain
The alluring sounds of violin music bring back memories that reunite a father and daughter separated at birth. Though neither realized what had happened in the past, they were unmistakably drawn to each other when they did meet.
2024-10-15 | en
3.2
Cock o' the Walk
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires.
1930-04-13 | en
6.7
Music of the Heart
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
1999-10-29 | en
7.1
Humoresque
A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.
1947-01-25 | en
4.5
Broken Strings
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.
1940-01-01 | en
6.6
Clapham Junction
Set in the Clapham district of south London, England, the film is inspired by true events. The paths of several men intersect during a dramatic thirty-six hours in which their lives are changed forever.
2007-07-22 | en
6.9
To Joy
Two violinists in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.
1950-02-20 | sv
0.0
Kesäillan valssi
A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri Alanko and the daughter of the rich Grahn family Annina. Annina’s family doesn’t approve of the relationship, and the couple’s happiness is also threatened by Lauri’s worsening eye disease.
1951-10-05 | fi
6.1
The Rite
Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
2011-01-28 | en
6.1
The Violin Player
A celebrated violin player, Karin, has to end her stellar career after a car accident makes her fingers stop working their magic. She starts teaching students who are twenty years younger than her, only to find herself falling in love with Antti, one of her students. They are not an easy match, both being passionate about the music and overly ambitious about their careers.
2018-01-05 | fi
0.0
Amin
AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing steep financial, cultural and political obstacles are dedicated to their art and culture. Amin travels to remote towns and villages to record the music of the surviving masters whose numbers decline each year. His nomadic family are selling their meager belongings to help support their son's education in performance and ethnomusicology at Tchaikovsky's Conservatory in Kyiv, Ukraine, but it is not enough. Amin, desperate to finish his academic education, sells his violins one at a time just to pay for his tuition.
2010-10-23 | en
7.0
Chicken with Plums
Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
2011-10-26 | fr