- In Five Easy Pieces, Bobby plays Fantasy in F Minor on a piano on the back of a truck. Later, he plays Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 for Catherine; when she praises the feeling in his performance, he says he only picked the song because it was easy, and he felt nothing while playing it.
- In Journey of the Heart, Tony plays Chopin pieces by ear on the piano.
- Dancing Trees: During Martha's recital, she plays the beginning of a Chopin piece, then plays the rest on an air piano, with orchestral music that only she can hear.
- In Turning Red, he is one of the composers Mei compares 4*Town to in her presentation.
- In The Amy Virus, Cyan has the Funeral March stuck in her head as she walks home to face her parents after getting a bad report card.
- Shtum: Before Jonah was born, Ben worked for an abusive boss who insisted that Ben be on-call 24/7. Ben assigned him the Funeral March as a ringtone so he could prepare himself to be yelled at. Now he feels his bowels weakening every time he hears the song.
- In I Think I Love You, Petra sees a Chopin prelude open on the stand of her dead father's piano. She plays a few notes, but finds it unexpectedly upsetting and stops.
- In The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War, Adam mentally plays a Chopin tune whose title he can't remember that his mama used to listen to when she was happy.
- In The Young Diana, Diana plays a Chopin prélude for Dimitrius and his mother.
Music
- "That's my people" by French Hardcore Hip-Hop band Suprême NTM samples Chopin's Prelude op. 28 #4, among other things.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022):
- The Night Market intro
is accompanied with Chopin's "Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64 No. 2". - "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil": Chopin's "Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1 in F Minor" is heard in two scenes: the first is the sexual encounter between Louis de Pointe du Lac and Jonah Macon at the bayou, and it continues in the next sequence where Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis talk in their coffin room (albeit softer to indicate that it's playing on a gramophone). Both Chopin and Lestat are of French descent, pianists and composers (so of course Lestat would love Chopin's music), and it's a clue to the audience that Lestat was present at the bayou and spying on Louis and Jonah.
- The Night Market intro
- On The Muppet Show, the Electric Mayhem did a cover of "Polonaise in A Flat Major" in their signature style. To quote Kermit: "You can't beat the classics; you can only destroy 'em."
- In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a cover of Waltz in C♯ minor, Op. 64, No. 2 is used as the background music during Peach's dance with TEC-XX.
- The opening sequence of SIGNALIS in between the prologue and Elster finding herself in the Sierpinski complex is set to the interlude part of the "Raindrop" Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15.
- The Hark! A Vagrant comic Chopin and Liszt focuses on his friendly rivalry with Franz Liszt.Chopin: Unrelated, we are both on the cover of Enormous Ego this week.Liszt: Only this week?
