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I have been watching alot of movies lately online, and I wanted to watch some music movies, since I'm a music nut.
Can someone tell me some good old or new music movies?
I prefer classical music.

"The Pianist."

The Red Violin
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

It has been years since I've seen it but the move Deception from 1946 (synopsis here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038461/) is about a love triangle involving a cellist (Paul Henreid), a pianist (Bette Davis), and a composer (Claude Rains) and is noteworthy for featuring Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Cello Concerto.

Cypressdome

August Rush. It's a little on the cheesy side, but whatever. It's more contemporary, however.

cypressdome wrote:It has been years since I've seen it but the move Deception from 1946 (synopsis here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038461/) is about a love triangle involving a cellist (Paul Henreid), a pianist (Bette Davis), and a composer (Claude Rains) and is noteworthy for featuring Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Cello Concerto.

Not quite. Korngold wrote the concerto (and the rest of the music) for the film, and then made a concert version later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_Harmonists

Movie about a popular singing group in Germany during the rise of the Nazi party. Three of the six members were Jewish. Not quite classical music, but very good nonetheless.

Some movies based mostly on the great composers of Classical Music:

Impromptu (Frederic Chopin and George Sand)
A Song to Remember (Frederic Chopin)
Song Without End (Franz Liszt)
Song of Norway (Edvard Greig)
Spring Symphony (Robert Schumann)
Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Amadeus (W.A. Mozart and Antonio Salieri)
Immortal Beloved (L.V. Beethoven)
Mozart's Sister (Maria Anna Mozart)

These are the good ones on classical music which I know- and have seen.
Most of them are hard to find; I have spend years collecting them!

Tous les Matins du Monde. Unlike most composer movies, this is both musically and visually authentic, with viola da gamba performances by the famed Jordi Savall. It is also a very good movie.

Synopsis from IMDB:
The viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe comes home to find that his wife died while he was away. In his grief he builds a small house in his garden into wich he moves to dedicate his life to music and his two young daughters Madeleine and Toinette, avoiding the outside world. Rumor about him and his music is widespread, and even reaches to the court of Louis XIV, who wants him at his court in Lully's orchestra, but Monsieur de Sainte Colombe refuses. One day a young man, Marin Marais, comes to see him with a request, he wants to be taught how to play the viol.

Synopsis from Netlifx (note the emphasis on the actors):
Racked with grief after his wife's untimely death, gifted viola da gamba player Monsieur de Sainte Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) moves into a small house in his garden to keep himself and his two young daughters (Anne Brochet and Carole Richert) safe from the outside world. But their solitude is broken when a young musician comes calling (played by Gerard Depardieu's son, Guillaume, and later by Depardieu himself) in search of a lesson.


--Sixtus

I really enjoyed Mr. Holland's Opus. It has a great story going for it, and always makes me smile when I watch it.

You will find a very different approach to the topic with the movies "The Art of conducting" or "The art of playing piano".

"Amadeus" is not to be recommended, because historical extremly wrong. Salieri had been an endearing, fine gentleman - e.g. encouraged and teached Beethoven.

Greetings.
Paulsson

Does Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band count from 1978?

One of my all time favourites!

My favorites are “24 hour happy people” and “Sid&Nancy” and of course “Amadeus” about classics.

Most movies by Stanley Kubrick have classical music scores, many of them became legendary: 2001, Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining.