Looking for movies with good score/musical background.
 

I don't like movies. I love them. Score and acting are my priority in choosing a movie to watch. (Off course genre too). My favorites are those scores that makes you feel down/dark.

About score, I'm not solely looking for unique score or those hmm I can't explain it, If compared to a novel, I'm not solely looking for a Shakespeare type of novel. What I'm seeking for are those perfectly fit with the whole movie, or can influence your emotion regardless of what's your currently mood is. They make the movie stronger.

Example of score in movie I like that I think is perfect for the movie are;
-Inception
-The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises
-12 Years a Slave
-Requiem for a Dream
-Silver Linings Playbook
-All is Lost
-Gravity
-Jurassic Park (who doesnt)
-The Imitation Game
-LofR and HP series

Particular genre:
First priority: Thriller (not horror)
2nd: Drama
3rd: Scifi
4rt: Biopic
5th: Survival (please not horror esp. zombie)

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Conan the Barbarian (the '81 version).

The score is better than the film but the two combined make it one of my favorites.

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Go watch Leone's westerns, especially Once Upon a Time in the West. Sountrack/image relation can't get much better than that!

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Moon
Total Recall (the first one, not that Colin Farrell abortion)
Gladiator
American Beauty
Meet Joe Black

Anything Hans Zimmer, Clint Mansell, Jerry Goldsmith or Philip Newman, basically, and you can't really go far wrong. :)

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Also, if you're able to, get hold of some 'Two Steps From Hell' scores. They do loads of incidental soundtrack stuff, which is usually great. For something a bit more chilled out, Ludovico Einaudi is someone that you're maybe heard but never realised who it was.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydZbVoCbn0
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9rF8-zUQAEA37o.jpg

I've just got hold of the Blu-ray of Monsters (2010), which I've already seen, and that has a fantastic, moody score, by Jon Hopkins.

Some more of my favourite scores in recent years:

Dredd
Tron: Legacy
X-Men: First Class

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Robocop had it's score done by the same orchestra that did Conan the Barbarian (original).
Trivia: Did you know the "Rider's of Doom" theme from Conan the Barbarian was used in the advertising commercials for the N64 Zelda Ocarina of Time?

I'm going to also mention Heat (1995) because the music in that is incredible.

:)
My son was prime age for that game when it came out. I gave him a copy of the Conan soundtrack and he still loves it to this day (at 24 yo).

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You should try Whats Eating Gilbert Grape and Point Break 90s version. Both have good background music.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Amazing soundtrack done by a long time David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti. Very dark and jazzy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grlk...CnD0n4or5PvOFu

City of Lost Children
Another amazing masterpiece that fits the movie perfectly. Very child-like and hypnotic but dark and ominous at times as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRF78AGvIoQ

Donnie Darko
Plenty of amazing score songs but also quite a few 1980s hits. A very cool soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlnuRtgqEx8

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Thomas Newman is a favorite if mine - his "American Beauty" score in particular, as well as "Salton Sea". Bernie Hermann's stuff for Hitch if you're in an Old School mood, especially "Vertigo". Goldsmiths's "Planet of the Apes" is a 12-tone experiment that just works. Horner's "Braveheart" has some nice thematic stuff (and is much better than his "Titanic" score, IMO). Agree strongly on Reznor's "Social Network", something to check out...

I love the score in Sunshine (And most films by Danny Boyle in general). Especially the scene near the end as he ejects from one ship to the other- gives me chills every time. And Peggy Sussed by Underworld in the end credits is killer (and very hard to find anywhere but youtube)

I also love the tone set by The National songs in Warrior. I don't know if you're supposed to cry in an MMA film, but the fight at the end with About Today playing always brings tears to my eyes.

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Under the Skin has a beautiful score by Mica Levi, I can't listen to the soundtrack without instantly being pulled back into the emotions felt when watching the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7rY10hY8Cw

Drive has a great OST consisting of a few awesome pre-existing tunes from artists Kavinsky, Desire, College, as well as an original score by Cliff Martinez (which I'm not so bothered about).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

Oldboy also has an amazing score, by Jo Yeong-Wook. Once you have seen the film, I don't believe it possible not to hear the soundtrack without having your mood and perspective altered to that which was held during the watching experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbKjV5OChA

Thrillers:
The girl with the dragon tattoo (2011)
The Double (2013)

Scifi:
Arrival (2016)

I guess Mad Max: Fury Road counts as survivial.

I've mentioned this before, but background music is something that I rarely take notice of during a movie, so if I mention that the movie has an outstanding soundtrack, that's a HUGE compliment. When it comes to movies with great musical scores, these are some of the titles that come to mind off the top of my head:

Titanic
Hannah and Her Sisters (Most Woody Allen movies have incredible music)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Gone with the Wind
The Road to Perdition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Psycho (1960)
Now Voyager
Sunset Boulevard
Sweet Smell of Success
On Golden Pond
Driving Miss Daisy
The Godfather

Yeah, that's a good one.

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Road to Perdition
Dune
Skyfall
Oppenheimer
Gladiator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Blade Runner 2049

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How about ...

The Wandering Earth
Monster Hunter

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The Big Boss - Peter Thomas
Police Story - Micheal Lai

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Thief soundtrack by Tangerine Dream

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There are lots of great motion picture scores. While I could list many which I would rate higher as musical compositions, I don't believe that any score is such a perfect complement to what appears on the screen as what Bernard Herrmann ‎composed for The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947). A faithful re-recording is available online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAiN9R1RAlI

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Here is a list of movies that have soundtracks that are memorable to me and which were not already mentioned. They are a mix of many different genres, but even the horror movies aren't terribly frightening. I excluded musicals, movies about music, and animated films since that would have more than doubled the list. Some of these movies are phenomenal and others would probably be forgettable but for the music.

The 13th Warrior
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
After the Fox
Apocalypse Now
American Graffiti
Amistad
Arthur
Baby Driver
Beethoven
Beetlejuice
The Black Hole (1979)
The Boondock Saints
The Breakfast Club
The Cannonball Run
Casablanca
Chariots of Fire
Christine
A Clockwork Orange
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cobra
Cocoon
Convoy
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Crow
Dances With Wolves
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Delta Force
Desperado
Dirty Dancing
Easy Rider
Eddie & the Cruisers
Empire of the Sun
E.T.
Excalibur (1981)
Faraway So Close
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Final Countdown
First Blood
Flash Gordon
Flashdance
Footloose
Game of Death
Ghostbusters
The Golden Child
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Great Escape
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hero (2002)
Highlander
Hud
The Hunt for Red October
I Walk the Line (1970)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Indiana Jones
Iron Eagle
The Italian Job (1969)
Jaws
James Bond (multiple movies, especially the older ones, Connery through Dalton)
Kagemusha
Kill Bill
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Kung Fu Hustle
Labyrinth
The Last Dragon
The Last Emperor
Lawrence of Arabia
Les Miserables (1998)
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Mannequin
The Matrix
Mission Impossible
Maximum Overdrive
The Mission (1986)
Moonrunners
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
The Neverending Story
Night of the Comet
An Officer and a Gentleman
Patriot Games
The Peacemaker
The Pink Panther (the older ones with Peter Sellers)
Pirates of the Caribbean
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Pretty Woman
The Quiet Man
The Power of One
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Ran
Reality Bites
The Replacement Killers
Rio Grande
Risky Business
Road House (1989)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Rock
Say Anything
Sheena
Smokey and the Bandit
St. Elmo's Fire
Star Trek (multiple movies)
Star Wars (multiple movies)
Straight Talk
Streets of Fire
Superman (1978)
Top Gun
Tron (1982)
True Grit (1969)
Two-Lane Blacktop
The Untouchables
Vantage Point (1971)
The Warriors
Who's That Girl
The Wraith
Young Guns