The Red Violin(1998)
Submitted by Curt Wiederhoeft
The Red Violin
The violin is red because the violinmaker varnished it with the blood of his wife [the 17th-century woman who gets her fortune told throughout the film]. She’d died earlier in the day during childbirth.
P.S. — Charles Morritz (Samuel L. Jackson) steals the violin at the end of the film.