Preludes to Ecstasy

Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affai

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Preludes

Commissioned by the Toronto International Film Festival to mark the event's 25th anniversary in September 2000, the "Preludes" program consisted of ten short films by Canadian directors which were inspired in some way by

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

Documentary covering three years in the life of composer Arvo Pärt.

Below the Trees

A young woman inherits her grandmother's rural estate but soon meets an unsettling neighbor with malevolent intentions.

Preludes

Based on the recorded hypnotherapy sessions of 19th century composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, Preludes sees the musician struggle to create music. Penning symphonies in his teens and engaged at an early age, Sergei is then h

Wherever She Goes

Film biography of Eileen Joyce, the celebrated Australian pianist, concentrating on her childhood in the Tasmanian bush and the Kalgoorlie goldfields. Opening and closing scenes showed the pianist herself performing at a

Interlude

The intermission.

Lovers Without Love

This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.

Les Preludes

An imagist “musical” set to Liszt’s Les Preludes that incorporates manipulated color, multiple exposures, and seemingly unrelated images, with references to Les Chants de Maldoror, an early Surrealist novel by Comte de L

Preludio a una Siesta

Preludes: The Other Scores of God

The indigent musicians documented end up being just the thread to address schizophrenia, finding that all the musicians who are portrayed here suffer the mental disorder, to a lesser or greater degree.

Preludes

A short film inspired by four short preludes by Frédéric Chopin and the 19th-century paintings of Polish artists Leon Wyczółkowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Jan Stanisławski, and Władysław Podkowiński. The central motif is th

Bach: 48 Preludes and Fugues: The Well Tempered Clavier

Some 250 years after the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, four noted classical pianists tackle the composer's "The Well-Tempered Clavier," a collection of keyboard pieces often referred to as the "Old Testament of piano l

Preludes in Magical Time

Directed by Sara Petty.

Super Predator: Preludes of the Black Fish

Contemporary blaxploitation film about the parallels between the predator-prey relationship of a black man facing the prejudicial bounds of society. The embodiment of the black fish takes the shape of the black man who i

Wagner - Preludes & Overtures Solti Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Libido Dominandi

While worshipping a mysterious camgirl, an unhinged porn addict is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Sixtynine

Tuula's husband Jukka takes care of all domestic chores. Tuula seems to have no idea that her husband spends his evenings working as a major league ice hockey referee. She also finds out about his extra-marital affair wi

The Medic

The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficul