The Mystery of Dr Martinu

The Son's Room

2001 · ★ 7.1

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Sanctuary

Priya, an exceptional yet obsessive pianist at Berklee School of Music, struggles to meet the demands of her professor’s unorthodox senior showcase assignment: to compose a piece that encapsulates her greatest fear.

August Rush

2007 · ★ 7.4

Evan, a musically gifted orphan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater. After discovering his talent, the Wizard gives Evan the name "August Rush" and devises a plan to profit from his talent. Little does Evan know that his parents, Lyla and Louis, are searching for him too.

Once

2007 · ★ 7.4

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to collaborate, and the songs that they compose reflect the story of their blossoming love.

No Songs of Love

2005 · ★ 5.7

As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he decides to shoot a documentary about the band's next tour. When Ellen joins the project, everybody's emotions boil over, although they are observed all the time.

House of Ricordi

1954 · ★ 6.3

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

Pikoo

1981 · ★ 5.1

A day in the life of a six-year-old child in Calcutta, who lives shut up in the family home, insulated from the city by a park. The father is away at work. The grandfather is alone in his room, ill and confined to his bed. The mother receives her lover.

Night Without Sleep

1952 · ★ 5.8

Upon awaking in the morning, a man finds his thoughts clouded by the possibility that he committed a murder.

Donde mueren las palabras

1946 · ★ 6.3

An old timbal performer in a puppet theater has a secret past.

About the Looking for and the Finding of Love

2005 · ★ 4.7

Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep themselves away from death.

Secret Beyond the Door

1947 · ★ 6.5

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

Children of Pleasure

1930 · ★ 5.5

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.