7 Classical Music Films/TV Series on Netflix & Prime
If you’ve got Netflix or Amazon Prime, you have access to these movies and TV series themed around classical music (last updated on 6th January 2025). If you enjoy our content - cool! Please consider supporting us on Ko-fi, where anyone who feels like it can bung us a few quid with no strings attached. Thank you.
Tár (2024)
7.4/10 IMDb, 91% Rotten Tomatoes
Film (Netflix)
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Maestro (2023)
6.5/10 IMDb, 78% Rotten Tomatoes
Film (Netflix)
This love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
Falling for Figaro (2021)
6.3/10 IMDb, 70% Rotten Tomatoes
Film (Netflix)
A brilliant young fund manager leaves her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer. She meets a fellow opera student while in training, and what begins as a rivalry develops into something more. Featuring Joanna Lumley, Danielle Macdonald and Hugh Skinner.
Mozart in the Jungle (2014-2018)
8.2/10 IMDb, 94% Rotten Tomatoes
TV series (Amazon Prime)
Sex and the City meets Game of Thrones in this comedic drama intertwining love, money, ambition and music. A brash new conductor, Rodrigo, stirs up the New York Symphony as young oboist Hailey hopes for her big chance.
Unorthodox (2020)
8.1/10 IMDb, 94% Rotten Tomatoes
TV mini-series (Netflix)
The emotional story of a young Orthodox Jewish woman who flees her arranged marriage and religious community to start a new life abroad, based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 memoir. Keeping this vague so as not to give away spoilers, but part of the story is set in a music conservatoire.
Nocturne (2020)
5.7 IMDb
Film (Amazon Prime)
An American supernatural horror film by Amazon Studios. Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.
Forest of Piano (2018)
7.2/10 IMDb
TV series (Netflix)
Young Kai Ichinose lives in the red light district but sneaks away at night to play a piano in the forest. Shuhei Amamiya is the son of a professional pianist who transfers to Kai's elementary school, where he is bullied by classmates. When Shuhei is dared to play the mysterious piano in the forest he meets Kai, who is seemingly the only person who is capable of getting sound out of the thought-to-be-broken instrument. Kai's ability earns him the respect of Shuhei and his music teacher -- a former master pianist -- who try to convince Kai to take piano lessons, which he resists.
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