Movies like Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano (1996)
The best movies like Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano (1996) are The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), Fingers (1978) and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964). If Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Legend of 1900 (1998)8.2/10 from 2,524 votes
- NewestFuori (2025)Released 2025
- In ItalianThe Terrace (1980)Also in Italian
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFingers (1978)
A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiss Me, Stupid (1964)
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMusic of the Heart (1999)
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music away from the concert hall as well. He soon leaves his wife so the two can go off together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Terrace (1980)
A terrace in Rome is a recurrent gathering place for a group of friends from the intellectual upper-class. Their lives unfold and intertwine, as they struggle with aging, disappointment and disillusion, until they are left with the realization that their generation, and everything it stood for, is coming to an end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Legend of 1900 (1998)
Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Piano Lesson (2024)
A brother and sister's battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisRome in Love (2019)
An unknown actress lands the role of a lifetime in Rome. Paired with an American journalist writing a profile, she will discover surprises about love and life in the eternal city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToto and the Kings of Rome (1952)
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCabrini (2024)
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCrime at the Chinese Restaurant (1981)
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBen-Hur (1959)
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Life Ahead (2020)
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Emperor's Club (2002)
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFuori (2025)
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza commits a desperate theft that costs her her reputation and social position. Incarcerated in Italy’s largest female prison, she finds herself living alongside thieves, junkies, sex workers and revolutionaries. After her release, she continues to meet with these women and over the course of a sweltering summer, a life-changing relationship flowers – a relationship that will reawaken her the desire to live and to write.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIndignation (2016)
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Book of Daniel (2013)
Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel proves himself a trusted Advisor and is placed among the king's wise men. Threatened by death at every turn Daniel never ceases to serve the king until he is forced to choose between serving the king or honoring God. With his life at stake, Daniel has nothing but his faith to stand between him and the lions' den.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShine (1996)
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBesieged (1998)
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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What are the best movies like Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano?
The closest matches to Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano are The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), Fingers (1978) and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano?
Start with The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953), the closest match to Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano.
What is the highest-rated movie like Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano?
The Legend of 1900 (1998), rated 8.2/10 by 2,524 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano?
Fuori (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano?
Yes: The Terrace (1980), The Legend of 1900 (1998) and Toto and the Kings of Rome (1952).
How are movies similar to Selen Videomagazine 4: Lezioni sul piano chosen?
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