Peter Taussig Home

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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
5000 Fingers of Dr. T, The
A mi madre le gustan las mujeres
Abbronzatissimi
Above Suspicion
Abschiedswaltzer (Farewell Waltz)
Accompagnatrice, L'
Adini anmayacagim
Adults Only
Adventures of the American Rabbit, The
Afgrunden
Al lupo, al lupo
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Alice's Fishy Story
All Men Are Liars
All That Jazz (1979)
Allegro
Allegro Barbaro
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Amadeus
Amori di mezzo secolo
An American in Paris
Anchors Aweigh
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen…
Animal Crackers
Ants in the Pantry
Apolonio Brasil
Appassionata
Around the World in 80 Days
Art Imitating Life
Arthur
Austin Powers, The Spy who Shagged Me
Autumn Sonata
Avenue Montaigne
Azúcar amarga
Babes in Arms
Babylon: la paura è la migliore amica dell'uomo
Bachelor's Daughters, The
Balmy Swami, A
Barkleys of Broadway
Basta! Adesso tocca a noi
Bâton rouge
Battle of the Villa Fiorita, The (1965)
Beast with Five Fingers, The (1946)
Beat that my heart Skipped, The (De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté) (2005)
Beautiful Girls (1996),
Beauty Shop
Behind the Screen (1916)
Bei Dir war es immer so schön (1954),
Besieged (1998, or ‘88?),
Best of Youth, The (2005)
Betty Blue
Betty Boop and Grampy
Betty Co-ed
Big (1988)
Big Broadcast, The (1932)
Big City Dick
Big Show-Off, The
Billy Twist
Bimbo
Birthday Party, The
Black Angel
Black Duck, The
Blade Runner, The
Bloom in the moonlight
Blue (?) / France, Kislowsky, Juliette Binoche is a composer’s widow, secretly wrote his music, love with copyist
Blue Jeans
Blue Rhythm
Blues in the Night
Booby Traps
Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid
Boy Meets Joy
Bravo maestro
Breaking the Waves
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Broadway Hostess
Broadway Serenade
Brute Man, The
Brzezina
Bugged in a Rug
Bumble Boogie
Burnt by the Sun (the visitor plays the piano)
Cactus Kid, The
Cafe Hostess
Café Olé
Canção da Saudade, A (1964), father son generation gap, father is pianist of old fashioned melodies while son leads a twist band, conflict gets resolved in a new type of club that plays both types of music
Careful, He Might Hear You
Carle Comes Calling
Carly in Concert: My Romance
Carne, La
Carnegie Hall (1947), Music, Edgar G. Ulmer/ stage mother wants kid to be pianist, real performances of Rubinstein as himself, other musical luminaries [DVD]
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Carry on Teacher
Casablanca (1942)
Castaway, The
Cat and the Fiddle, The (1934) Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novaro (story about a song writer)
Cat Concerto, The
Cavalcade of Broadway: The Embers
Changeling, The (1980) George C. Scott, horror
Charlie Bartlett (2007) teen flick, eccentric boy plays grand piano
Chopsticks
Christmas In Connecticut (1945) two lovers brought together by the piano
Class of 1984
Cocoanuts, The (193?)/ Marx Brothers
College Wild Parties Vol. 2
Colossus of New York, The
Comedian Harmonists
Competition, The, (1980), Drama, Joel Oliansky/ Richard Dreyfus, Amy Gilbert, Lee Remick, two pianists fall in love during piano competition [VHS]
Composer Meets Quartet
Con Amore – Polish movie about 2 pianists in a Chopin competition
Concert, The
Concert, The (1921), A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.
Concerto
Concerto in B Flat Minor
Cook Visits the Parlor, The
Copying Beethoven (2006)
Corpse Bride (2005) Tim Burton/ (voices: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter) animated movie with a good piano duet scene (skeleton playing)
Cosas del querer, Las
Cover Girl
Cowboy and the Girl, The
Cradle Will Rock (1999), Orson Wells Susan Sarandon, composer at the piano
Dancing on the Bowery
Dangerous Moonlight (aka. Suicide Squadron) (1941), UK, Drama Brian Desmond Hurst/ American newswoman falls for a refugee Polish piano virtuoso...who wants to go back and fight as pilot in Poland [VHS] The original of the Warsaw Concerto!
Dangshini miwajil dae (1970), housewife whose husband is cheating on her takes a job as a pianist to be near her former music teacher with whom she is secretly in love
Danny the Dog
Dawn at Socorro (1954), a gunslinginger who used to be a classical pianist, is wounded in a gunfight. En route to Colorado for his tuberculosis, he stops in Socorro, New Mexico to save a girl from a life as a saloon girl (???)
Day at the Races, A (1937) / Marx Brothers – Harpo destroys a piano!
Dead Again (1991) / Kenneth Branagh plays the piano, story of a woman suffering from amnesia is having nightmares about the murder of a pianist 40 years earlier, detective uses hypnosis to unravel the case
Death Wish Club
Debussy Has Left the Building
Deception (1946) Claude Raines, Betty Davis, composer, cellist vie for the love of a woman. Thriller
Deception, The (1909)
Decline and Fall of the American Empire, The (?) Denis Arcand/ the two women play a duet
Deer Hunter, The (1978 ) Michael Cimino / Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Cristopher Walken, John (George Dzundza) plays Chopin Nocturne #6 G Minor Op. 15/3 in the bar, his buddies quiet down and are mesmerized.
Delivery Boy, The
De-Lovely (2004) Kevin Kline plays Cole Porter, does his own piano playing
Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les
Demonio con ángel, Un
Derek and Clive Get the Horn
Desideri (1990)
Desire for Love – Polish film about Chopin
Detour (1945) Film noir with Tom Neal
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Lovers will walk off with the bride) (1995), India Bollywood movie, Sharoukh Khan, scene in fancy Paris cabaret where he pretends to be able to play the piano
Dish Ran Away with the Spoon, The
Dotkniecie reki
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1932) Frederic March – plays the piano
Duck Soup (193?) / Marx Brothers
Dumb Patrol
Earl Carroll Vanities
Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner
Eccentric Entertainer, The
Eddy Duchin Story, The (1956)
Édouard et Caroline
Ehrengard
Ek Ajnabee
Ek Paheli
El Hombre y el monstruo (The man and the monster) (1958) Mexican horror flick, A failed pianist sells his soul to the devil in return for his becoming the greatest musician in the world
El Pianista (1998) Spain, Mario Gas (Catalan director)/ Famous composer conductor meets a childhood friend, one time gifted pianist now playing in a night club. Two lives revisited, influenced by the politics of Spain [N/A]
Encounter
Engel mit der Posaune, Der (1948) Austrian film remade in England as The Angel with the Trumpet (1949)
English Patient, The (1996) Ralph Finnes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas
Eroica (2003) TV –
Escuchando a Gabriel
Été meurtrier, L'
European, The (1979) Marchant-Ivory, Lee Remick plays
Exorcist, The (there is a piano scene there, according to forum)
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989), Drama, Jeff & Beau Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Fame (1980)
Fanfaren der Liebe
Fantasia/2000
Far Shore, The (1976) Joyce Wieland/ tiny piano scene played by Kathryn Root!!!
Fauteuils d'orchestre
Felix the Cat Kept on Walking
Feud of the Trail, The
Fiddlesticks
Fingers (1978) / Harvey Keitel is a pianist who also works as a loan shark enforcer for his dad. Inspired the French movie “ The beat that my heart skipped”)
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988), John Cleese, Kevin Kline, scene of piano falling through the ceiling killing a fish.
Five Easy Pieces, (1970), Drama, Bob Rafelson/ Jack Nicholson, a classical concert pianist abandons career to become an oil rig worker, returns home to dying father to confront his past [DVD]
Flash 22
Flawless ( ) Robert DeNiro gets singing lessons on an electric piano (does he actually play??)
Flügel
Flying Down to Rio (1934), Fred Astair ,Ginger rogers
Flying High (1939), Bert Lahr (the cowardly lion in Wizard) and Charlotte Greenwood, stunt movie about flying (must have a piano scene because it was part of my Hollywood show in London Ont.)
Follow the Boys (1944) a war time entertainment with celebrities includes artur Rubinstein
Follow The Fleet (1936) / Fred Astaire tunes a piano, then plays it
Fome de Amor (1968) two couples at a seaside house, one Spanish the other from New York, among them a frustrated pianist and her husband. Relationships of hate, love and sex soon develop but the pianist suspects her husband and her friend are trying to eliminate her to get her money
Food For Love (2002), Drama, Germany (Spanish director, orig language English!), Ventura Pons/ Juliet Stephneson, Kevin Bishop, page turner seduced by famous gay pianist, mother not happy [DVD]
For Me and My Girl (1942), Judy Garland (plays), and Gene Kelly
Frankie Carle and His Orchestra
Free Jimmy
Geometric Impromptu
Getting Started (1979), NFB Canada, short, part of 15 piece collection The Sweater
Ghost Body
Giudizio universale, Il
Glinka (Kompozitor Glinka) (1952) – a Russian movie in which Sviatoslav Richter plays Liszt
Gloomy Sunday (Hungary) (1999), restaurant pianist, love triangle, suicides
Going and Coming Back (aka. Partir revenir) (1985), Drama, France, Claude Lelouch/ Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, old Jewish woman remembers her pianist brother who died in the holocaust [N/A]
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) Busby Berkley, - 100 girls playing pianos
Goopy Geer
Gosford Park - Jeremy Northam plays (and sings) Ivor Novello songs
Great Dictator, The (1940) Charlie Chaplin
Great Lie, The (1941), Drama, Edmund Goulding, Bete Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor is a concert pianist, two women fight over a baby and a lover come back from the dead [VHS] (Note: the hands are Norma Drury Boleslavsky who also played for Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo)
Great Train Robbery, The (1978) Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, scene when they steal the key from the banker’s house his wife and daughter play a duet (suspense)
Green Card (1990) Gerard Depardieu, Andy MacDowell
Ground Hog Day (Bill Murray learns to play Rachmaninoff in a day)
Gunsight Ridge
Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors
Hands of Orlac (1924) a Robert Wiene film with Conrad Veidt, See- Mad Love, the1935 remake with Peter Lore
Hands of Orlac, The (Les Mains d’Orlac) (1961) Horror, Edmond T. Grévillew/ Mel Ferrer, pianist hands cut off, transplant hands of a killer [VHS] This is a remake of Mad Love (1935), and the original 1924 silent
Hangover Square (1945) B-Movie thriller about a composer pianist who kills his girlfriend singer
Hannah and Her Sisters (there is a piano scene there, according to forum)
Haul in One, A
Heat and Dust (1983) Marchant-IvoryGreta Sachhi plays
Heavenly Puss
Hell Morgan's Girl
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) – an early version of someone dying prematurely and being sent back given the body of a murder victim. Later versions: Heaven Can Wait (1976), and also Down to Earth (Chris Rock 2004). There may be a piano scene in the original ’41 movie, or maybe just a piano?
He's My Guy
Hipócrita..!
His Musical Career
Hold Anything
Holiday in Mexico (1946), Musical/ Comedy, Jose Iturbi
Holiday Inn (1942) Musical, Bing Crosby
Homeless Piano
Honeydripper
Hook, Line and Stinker
Hop, Skip and a Chump
Horobicheu-reul wihayeo
Horse Feathers (1932?) / Marx Brothers
Hot Shots! (1991) Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Goliono, hilarious piano scene where Valeria sings on top (and underneath a piano), [compare The Fabulous Baker Boys, Michelle Pfeifer’s scene], and Charlie Sheen plays Tha Man I love to win her back
Hotel de Love
House Cleaning Blues
House of Darkness, The
How to Swim
Humoresque (1946), Drama, Jean Negulesco/ Joan Crawford, John Garfield, society lady falls for violinist but becomes jealous of his career, w. Oscar Levant as accompanist [DVD]
I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
I Haven't Got a Hat
I Know Who Killed Me
Idlewild
Idlewyld (2006) A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and his piano player contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club.
Immortal Beloved (1994) Gary Oldman/ biopic about Beethoven
Impromptu (1991) Hugh Grant plays Chopin
In the Line of Fire (Clint Eastwood plays in a bar while John Malkovic watches through window)
Inconnue de Hong Kong, L'
Intermezzo (1936) Sweden, Drama, Gustaf Molander/ Ingrid Bergman, famous violinist falls for accompanist but returns to his wife [DVD]
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939), US remake of Intermezzo), Drama, Gregory Ratoff/ Ingrid Bergman, Leslie Howard (Bergman's first American film) [DVD]
It All Came True (1940) Anne Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart as a gangster
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra/ Jimmy Stewart (Bailey) in his house there is a piano (does he or anyone else play it?) and also in Nick’s bar (do they play it?)
Jane Eyre (1944) Orson Wells, Joan Fontaine
Jane Eyre (1996) Franco Zefirelli, with William Hurt (May not have the piano scene of the earlier movie)
Jazz Fool, The
Jogo Subterrâneo
Johann Mouse
Johnny Guitar (1954) Joan Crawford
Jolly Fish
Journey of the Heart (1996) / Cybill Shepherd, mother stops at nothing to get proper care for her autistic son who is a musical prodigy
Judgement
Jungle Jive
Ju-yon-sai
Kanal (1957) Andzrej Wajda’s Polish movie about the Warsaw uprising
Kansas City Kitty
Karin Månsdotter
Killer Diller (2005), A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band
Kinesisk bordtennis
King of Jazz (1942) Paul Whitman orchestra aboutGershwin, a Rhapsody in Blue in a giant blue piano with people in it!
King's Daughter, The
Kiss in the Dark, A (1949), Comedy, UK Delmer Daves/ David Niven, concert pianist losing his touch, moves into apartment building he owns and gets involved in lives of his tenants incl. a pretty model [N/A]
Kiss Me Lorena
Kiss Me, Stupid
Klondike Kid, The
Kompozitor Glinka (1952) Russian film, Svyatoslav Richter plays Liszt (small role)
Kreutzer Sonata, The
Last of the Blue Devils, The
Last Ring
L'EFFRONTEE (2003) Claude Miller/ Coming of age, France. Young girl from bonds with young visiting pianist Clara, then falls in love with older piano factory worker. The complex feelings that she develops for both Clara and Jean allows her to understand what she really wants from life.
Legend of 1900, The (2000), Drama, Giuseppe Tornatore/ Child prodigy lives entire life on oceanliner, has piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton
Les Uns et les Autres, aka. Bolero(1981), Drama, France, Claude Lelouche/ Robert Houssein, Geraldine Chaplin, 3 generations of musicians through WW2 to 1960s [DVD]
Letter from an unknown Woman (1949), Drama, Max Ophüls/ Joan Fontaine, Louis Jordan, former concert pianist on eve of fatal duel reads letter from his opponent's wife, a woman who had been adoring him (unbeknown to him) since her childhood, flashbacks [VHS]
Lisztomania (1975) Ken Russell dir., Roger Daltrey plays Liszt, Ringo Starr as the pope – dancing on piano, sleeping on piano, foot stool, piano on train, Pope sitting at a piano)
Lives of Others, The (2006)/ Sebastian Koch (the writer) melts the heart of the Stasi surveillance officer by playing “Sonata for Good Man” on the piano
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The
Lost Horizon (1937) Ronald Coleman – very brief moment playing a few notes on a piano (?)
Lost Moment, The
Lottery, The
Love on a Diet (2001), Honk Kong/Japan, Comedy, Johnny To Ka-Fai Wai/ fat girl falls for young pianist, must lose weight to attract him
Love Story (1944), UK, Drama, Leslie Arliss/ Stewart Granger, Margaret Lockwood, concert pianist is dying of heart disease, decides to enjoy the time left, falls in love with ex pilot who has troubles of his own [VHS only in UK]
Love Walked In
Love Walked In (1997), Thriller, Dennis Leary, bar pianist gets involved in a caper
Loves of Liszt, The (Szerelmi Alamok) (1970), Hungary
Lucy's Piano
Lwów
Mad Love (1935), Peter Lorre, Remake of the 1924 silent movie Hands of Orlac.
Madame Sousatzka (1988) Shirley MacLean is a domineering piano teacher
Mädchen in Uniform
Man who Knew Too Much, The (1956) Hitchcock/ Jimmy Stewart, Doris Day playing and singing Que Sera Sera as loud as she can while her husband is looking for their kidnapped son.
Man who Wasn’t There, The (2001) Coen Brothers/ Billy Bob Thornton, Scarlet Joanson is a piano student
Map of the Human heart (1993) Canada, Inuit boy taken to Catholic orphanage, meets metis girl, follows her through the world, a scene in the orphanage with piano? Is she a pianist?
Medium, The
Meglio gioventù, La
Memphis Belle (1990) Harry Conick Jr. plays “Danny Boy”
Mephisto Waltz, The (1971), Horror, Paul Wendkos/ Alan Alda, Jaqueline Bisset, Bradrford Dilman, Kurd Jurgens, old dying pianist makes deal with the devil to get body of young man with good hands [VHS]
Merci Pour le Chocolat (aka Nightcap) (2000) France, Thriller, Claude Chabrol/ Heiress of Chocolate factory is about to remarry a concert pianist she married briefly 18 years earlier. Illegitimate children show up and complicate matters
Mia signora, La
Mickey Steps Out
Mifunes sidste sang
Mighty Joe Young (1949) + remake (1998), giant gorilla is transported from Africa to Hollywood, wreaking havoc, ape smashes a piano in the 49 version, not sure about the remake.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Mitici, I
Mitt sanna jag (1995)
Mon Amie Max (1994) Canada, Drama, Michel Brault/ Genevieve Boujold, ex-concert pianist who was forced to give up her baby for adoption and quit her career returns to find her son with the help of another concert pianist [N/A]
Money Buys Happiness
Monkey Business (193?) / Marx Brothers
Monte Carlo Baby (1951), France, Comedy, Jean Boyer & Lester Fuller/ Audrey Hepburn, Searching for a movie star and her concert pianist husband's missing son, early Hepburn movie, two versions, French & English, two casts, led to her role in Roman Holiday [N/A] see - Nous irons à Monte Carlo (1952) also [N/A]
Moonlight Sonata (1937), UK Drama, Lothar Mendes/ Ignaz Paderewski plays himself as a survivor of airplane crash, guest of a baronness [VHS]
Mott Music
Moving Day
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
Mr. Holland’s Opus – Richard Dreyfus, does he play the piano?
Muppet Movie, The (1979) Rolph the Dog scenes
Murder in A-Flat
Music & Lyrics (2007) with Hugh Grant as a washed up Rock composer
Music Box, The (1932), Laurel & Hardy piano movers, try to move a player piano up a steep flight of stairs (see- Swiss Miss)
Music for Millions (1947) Iturbi with his orchestra on some dumb pregnancy story
Music of the Spirits
My Name Is Wallace
My Piano (Horobicheu-reul wihayeo) (2006) S. Korea/ Soupy melodrama, single woman who once wanted to become a famous pianist like Horowitz ends up teaching children discovers a young boy, a musical genius, but it does not turn out well. But the boy carries a secret that will change her life.
Mystery of Chopin, The – the Strange Case of Delphina Potocka” (1999) – Russian movie? terrible
Nanny, The
Never Again (2001), Jill Clayburgh, middle aged couple falls in love in gay bar, he is a jazz pianist
Newcomers, The
Ngon na ma dak lin na
Night at the Opera, A (1935) / Marx Brothers
Night Has Eyes, The (1942) James Mason (English thriller)
Night Is My Future (Musik i Mörker) a 1948 Ingmar Bergman film about blind pianist
Night Song (1948), socialite falls for blind night club pianist, believes in his greatness as composer [N/A]
Nit-Witty Kitty
No easy Way (1996), Drama, Jeffrey Fine/ concert pianist with HIV loses job, finds love
No Escape
Nog eens
Northern Exposure Season 3 # 14 – the episode where Maggie’s house burns down, and they catapult a piano into the sky
Nuit de décembre
Olsenbanden Junior på rocker'n
Once (2007) – singer/song writer team make a movie
Onibi (2005 or 1997?) Rokuro Mochizuki/ Japanese Ykuza mobster tries to reform himself, but a pianist he falls in love with turns him back to crime
Opry House, The
Orphans' Benefit
Orquesta tipica
Other Love, The (1947), UK, Drama, André De Toth/ David Niven, Barbara Stanwick, seriously ill concert pianist in a sanatorium has relationship with doctor, but against his advise goes to live it up in Monte Carlo (story by Eric Maria Remarque) [VHS in UK only]
Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick, The
Pagan Moon
Page Turner, The
Page Turner, The (2007) French, Young pianist is mistreated in a contest by a famous pianist. Years later she enters the aging pianist’s household as a maid and becomes her page turner, all in order to exact revenge.
Parent Trap, The (1961) Hailey Mills
Parting Glances (1986) – Gay performance artists at farewell party leaving for Africa?
Passion (1999) / Richard Roxburgh, Biopic on Chopin
Peacemaker, The (1997) George Clooney, Action, the bad guy gives a student piano lesson
Peacock Alley
Pennies from Heaven (1981) Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters
Perfect Pitch, A
Phantom Broadcast, The
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Brian De Palma, horror, wronged pianist haunts concert hall
Pianist, The (1991), Canada, Romance, Claude Gagnon/ Two sisters have life long infatuation with a childhood neighbor, a Japanese concert pianist. Ten years later they discover secrets from their past
Pianist, The (1998) A Catalan drama starring Serge Reggiani and Laurent Terzieff that follows the contrasting lives of two pianist friends set during the Spanish Civil War.
Pianist, The (2002) France/Poland, Drama, Roman Polanski/ Adrien Brody, A Polish Jewish concert pianist struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II
Piano di rotta
Piano Dreams: The Movie
Piano Man (1996) Korean crime caper
Piano Man’s Daughter, The (2003) Family drama based on a Timothy Findley novel
Piano Piano Kid (1990) Turkish
Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together
Piano Rhythm
Piano Tale, A
Piano Teacher, The (La Pianiste) (2001) France, Drama, Michael Haneke/ Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, piano student of a respected aging piano teacher who still lives with her mother, falls in love with her only to discover her secret sexual double life of perversion and dominance Isabelle Hupert actually plays!
Piano Tooners
Piano Tuner of Earthquakes, The (2005) (Quay brothers)
Piano Tuner, The (2007)
Piano, The (2000) New Zealand, Jane Campion/ Holly Hunter,
Piano-The melody of a Young Girl’s Heart, parts 1,2,3 (2005) Animee, Japan/ Coming of age, young piano student loses interest when she falls in love with a guy [3 DVDs]
Piccolo
Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) / with Angela Lansbury, Dorian Gray plays a Prelude by Chopin
Picture Show Man, The
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Pizzicato Pussycat
Planet of Junior Brown, The
Playboy: Erotic Fantasies (1992)
Player
Player, The / Jack Lemon playing the piano at a party
Playing Mona Lisa (2000), Comedy, Matthew Huffman/ Alicia Witt, Elliot Gould, young pianist.looking for love in all the wrong places. messes up career
Pon
Ponce y la guitarra
Popular Science
Poseidon (2006) – scene of a boy gets trapped on a piano on the ceiling…!
Poussières d'amour - Abfallprodukte der Liebe
Power of One, The
Pretty Woman ( ) / Richard Gere plays the piano
Pride and Prejudice (1940) Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson
Pride and Prejudice (1995) Colin Firth, Jennifer Eile
Pride and Prejudice (2005) Keira Knightly
Producers, The (1968) Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder – Springtime for Hitler actor plays the piano as he sings. Also a remake (2006) with Matthew Broederick and Uma Thurman may also have a piano (??)
Q
Quartet (1948), four short films based on (and introduced by) Somerset Maughan. The second “The Alien Corn” with Dirk Bogarde, about an English father opposing his son’s musical ambitions.
Ragtime
Ragtime (1981), Milos Forman/ black pianist
Rain (2007) / Faye Dunaway, Young pianist gets involved in a gang, finds real mother
Ray (2004) (Ray Charles)
Rear Window
Red Hot (1993) USA, Paul Haggis/ Donald Sutherland, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Soviet rock piano threatened by KGB
Rendez-vous à Bray
Return of the Jedi ( ) / Cy Snootles plays a “space piano”
Rêves d'amour
Rhapsody (1954)John Ericson is a concert pianist (GI)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945) Robert Alda plays Gershwin
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946), short, Bugs Bunny
Rhythm on the River (1941), Musical, Bing Crosby, Mary martin, Oscar Levant
Riot in Rhythm
Road to Perdition (2002) Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Father and son play a piano duet in a bar
Rockabilly Baby
Rockstar
Romance de fieras
Romance on the High Seas
Room and Bored
Room With a View ( ) / Helena Bonham Carter plays Mozart Sonata A minor K. 310, other piano moments too!
Rope (Hitchcock/ Jimmy Stewart) Murderer plays Poulenc during party for victim’s friends
Rose on Washington Square
Rubber Ghost: Rubber Melody
Rushing Roulette
Saajan Bina Suhagan
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
Salsa (2000), Spain, classical pianist switches to salsa for love [N/A]
Saving Private Ryan (1998) scene of destruction of piano, playing on broken piano?
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverley Hills - the teenage boy who always
Scent of Green Papaya, The (1993), France/Vientam, Drama, Anh Hung Tran/ Vientamese peasant girl becomes servant to a pianist with fiancee, they falls in love
Schindler’s List ( ) / Scene in apartment – Jew playing piano, German soldier shoots him (see also The Pianist)
School of Rock, The (2003), comedy, teacher in school is a rock musician, influences kids (c/o Peter Chin)
Scrapbook
Se frem til en tryg tid
Secret Heart, The (1946), Drama, Robert Z. Leonard/ Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, Lionel Barrimore, obsessed brilliant pianist commits suicide, widow raises step children, 10 years later daughter falls for mom's ex lover [N/A]
Senrei
Sense and sensibility (1995) Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant
September Affair (1950), Drama, William Dieterle/ Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton, Jessica Tandy, industrialist falls for a pianist, they are mistakenly reported dead in a crash, start new life together but can't make it work [VHS]
Seventh Nocturne, The
Seventh Veil, The
Seventh Veil, The (1946), UK, Drama, Compton Bennett/ James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, faded concert pianist recalls childhood with a domineering guardian to psychiatrist, after failed suicide attempt. The misery of a child prodigy [VHS]
Shengming ru ge
Shine (1996) Australia, Drama, Scott Hicks/ Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he recovers and returns to the piano through the love of a woman
Shoot the Piano Player (Truffault) (1960), Drama, Charles Aznavour
Sincerely Yours (1955), Liberace
Singin' in the Rain
Site Specific: Roma 04
Skin Deep
Skyline Serenade
Sleepy Time Down South
Slutspel
So Big
So Little Time
So You Want to Be a Muscle Man
So You Want to Buy a Used Car
So You Want to Play the Piano
Song of Love (1947), Katherine Hepburn plays Clara Schumann, Paul Henried plays Schumann
Song of Russia (1943) Robert taylor a conductor in Russia, there is a peasant who is also a pianist
Song of Scheherazade
Song to Remember, A (1945) Cornel Wilde plays Chopin
Song Without End (1960) Dirk Bogard, Liszt - Chopin
Sos Laribiancos - I dimenticati
Spell of the Poppy, The
Splendor in the Grass (1961) Elia kazan/ Natalie Wood, Warren Beaty, Romance, piano & sex - opening scene/ later(?) (Katherine Duncanson)
Stage Door (1937) Katherine Hepburn, Norma Drury plays Olga a pianist?
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Stars in Stripes
Stolen Face, A (1952), UK, Horror, Terence Fisher/ Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, plastic surgeon has a fling with a concert pianist who leaves him. As a substitute, he carves up a criminal-on-the-run's face to resemble his lost love. Trouble ensues when the pianist returns [N/A]
Stormy Weather (1943) Lena Horne, musical about black entertainers after WW1, may have some piano
Strand von Trouville, Der
Stride
Sueños en la mitad del mundo
Summer of Tomorrows
Summer Solstice
Sun Valley Serenade (1941), Musical, Glenn Miller (acts), band pianist falls for skating diva [VHS]
Super Snooper, The
Superman Returns (2006) - Kevin Spacey as the villain, has a Steinway and plays on it
Surprises de l'amour, Les
Swing Cat's Jamboree
Swiss Miss (1938) Laurel & Hardy, working in a hotel in the Alps, paino scene- moving a piano on a rope bridge above a chasm, and being attacked by a gorilla. This is the second Laurel Hardy piano moving film. The first is The Music Box (1932)
Symphonie diagonale
Synco-Smooth Swing
Szerelmi álmok - Liszt
Talented Mr. Ripley, The
Tall Guy, The (1986), Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson (first movie), Rowan Etkinson, romantic comedy about entertainers falling in love in London (c/o Katherine Duncanson)
Teen Devian
Telephone Call for Genevieve Snow, A
Tell-Tale Heart, The
Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The
Tête à tête
That Uncertain Feeling (1941), Comedy, Ernst Lubitsch/ Melvin Douglas, Merle Oberon, confused wife falls for pianist, husband regains her
That’s Black Entetainment 1,2,3 (2006) Not sure if there is any piano, just fishing…
That’s Entertainment, part II (1976) Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire host a compilation of musical moments, includes a popup piano, and Judy Garland and Gene Kelly duet (?). Check also That’s Entertainment, parts 1 and 3 (1974, 1994)
Think Before You Pink
Three Daring Daughters (1948), Musical? Jose Iturbi, Jeanette MacDonald, exhausted mother falls for pianist on cruise while daughters try to reunite her with their father [VHS]
Tic Code, The (1999), young boy wants to be jazz pianist, meets sax guy, both have Tourette's Syndrome
Tin Pan Alley Cats
To Have and Have Not ( ) / Humphrey Bogart, Hoagy Carmichael plays the piano
To See Paris and Die (1992), Russia, stage mother pushes son to be concert pianist [VHS]
Tôkyô densetsu: ugomeku machi no kyôki
Tonari no shibafu
Too Young to Kiss (1951), Comedy, Robert Z. Leonard/ June Allyson, Van Johnson, Gig Young, Talented pianist tries to fool impresario by pretending she is a 12 year old child prodigy, to get a gig in concert tour [N/A]
Tops in the Big Top
Torasuchii beru: Shopan no yume
Torch Song (1953), Joan Crawford, Gig Young, James Todd, Arrogant Broadway star falls for blind pianist [VHS]
Track 29 (1988) Nicholas Roeg, Gary Oldman, scene where martin (Oldman) sings and plays the piano for Linda (Theresa Russell)
Tres minutos
Trespasses
Twilight Highway
Twin Dragons (1992), Jackie Chan, twins separated at birth, one concert pianist, the other a hood
Two Chips and a Miss
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944), Musical, Jose Iturbi, Gracie Allen plays the index finger concerto[VHS]
Two Gophers from Texas
Two-Gun Gussie
Tycho's Nova
Umulige time, Den
Un chien andalou
Under the Piano (1995) Stefan Scaini/ Amanda Plummer, Megan Follows and Teresa Stratas (as a fading opera diva) autistic girl, plays piano
Unforgiven, The (1960), Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn (Lilian Gish plays piano to scare away Indians)
Unleashed / Jet Li (2005) Morgan Freeman plays a blind piano tuner who help restore an abused kid through music
Unsinkable Molly Brown, The
Vagas Para Moças de Fino Trato
Valahol Europaban (Somewhere in Europe) (1947) Hungarian film
Vec vidjeno
Veðramót
Veneno para las hadas
Vengeance of the Deep (aka Lovers and Luggers) (1937), Australia, Adventure, concert pianist goes diving for pearls in south sea [N/A]
Vildfåglar
Vis de Ianuarie (1978), Romania/ with Marcel Iures (from The Peacemaker) as Franz Liszt
Vitus (2006), Swiss movie about a child prodigy genius pushed by a stage mother whose grandfather (Bruno Ganz) secretly helps him pretend that he is “normal”.
Voice in the Wind, A (1944), Drama, Arthur Ripley/ Czech concert pianist separated from his lover and tortured by Nazis, ends up in Guadelup, amnesiac, can't recognize his lover who is dying in a friend's house. She is drawn by his playing in a bar but collapses before he can recognize her, the pianist is murdered by some ruffians who suspect him of burning their boat [N/A]
Vukovar (The way home) (1994) Serbian film?
Waga ai no uta - Taki Rentaro monogatari
Way Home, The – see Vukovar
While I Live
While the Widow Is Away
Who framed Roger Rabbit (cartoon) (1988) lots of piano playing
Whoopee Party, The
With a Song in my Heart (1952) Susan Hayward, Robert Wagner, David Wayne is a pianist husband of a famous singer (biopic) – scenes: brace to piano, also sit on piano
Wolf's Pardon, The
Woodsman, Spare That Tree
World of Henry Orient, The (1964) Comedy, George Roy Hill/ Peter Sellers, Angela Lansbury, two adolescent sisters stalk a concert virtuoso visiting New York, while he tries to seduce a married woman
Wrong Again
Wrong Box, The (1966) John Mills, Ralph Richardson, Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Victorian comedy, big inheritance, brothers killing each other. Moore plays the piano? [VHS]
Yi Yi ( ) China / actor playing Moonlight Sonata
Your Face

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