Looking for movies with good score/musical background.
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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.
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
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
Last edited by ChunkyMonkey; 04-27-24 at 01:51 PM.
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