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by EveLangElCoup • Created 12 years ago • Modified 6 months ago
My favourite soundtracks and/or music composed for film. The list is very much incomplete since I started keeping track of this quite late as well as the fact that I only update it when I remember I have this list, so there are many outstanding scores I've forgotten to add.
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  • Frances Barber in A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

    1. A Zed & Two Noughts

    19851h 55mNot Rated
    7.2 (7.9K)
    Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
    DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsBrian DeaconEric DeaconAndréa Ferréol
    The best coalescence of film and sound.

    Score by Michael Nyman
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

    2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    19662h 58mR90Metascore
    8.8 (856K)
    A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
    DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van Cleef
    Score by Ennio Morricone
  • Evgeniy Evstigneev and Natalya Klimova in The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)

    3. The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin

    19651h 36m
    6.5 (340)
    A talented inventor who created the machine of unprecedented destructive power is obsessed with world domination. In his manic quest he commits one crime after another, without assuming the dreadful consequences would be for him.
    DirectorAleksandr GintsburgStarsEvgeniy EvstigneevVsevolod SafonovMikhail Astangov
    Score by Mieczysław Weinberg
  • The Naked Island (1960)

    4. The Naked Island

    19601h 36mNot Rated
    8.0 (6.5K)
    A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
    DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsNobuko OtowaTaiji TonoyamaShinji Tanaka
    Score by Hikaru Hayashi
  • Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

    5. Goodbye Uncle Tom

    19712h 3mUnrated
    6.5 (2K)
    Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South to film the slave trade.
    DirectorsGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiSusan HampshireDick Gregory
    Score by Riz Ortolani
  • Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya (1975)

    6. Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya

    19752h 47m
    7.3 (747)
    In December 1825, distinguished members of the Russian military, most of whom were quite affluent and of noble lineage, took it upon themselves to stir revolution against the autocratic and tyrannical Czar Nikolai I in the wake of his not honoring (or even acknowledging) the drafting of a constitution for the Russian people. The revolution failed miserably and the conspirators (known as the Decembrists) were weeded out by the czar himself. One by one, each of the conspirators confess and are systematically exiled to the harsh winters of Siberia, slated to work and wither in a prison/mine. The wives of the conspirators are faced with the prospect of leaving the bosom of wealth and family (including their own children) to be with their husbands in the brutal Siberian locale. If they agree to this, they face having their illustrious social stations stripped away and certain disdain from everyone around them. Among these remarkable women is a princess exiled from France who falls in love with a man soon to be exiled. The film is the story of their unfathomable sacrifice and their dogged desire to be reunited with the men they love, despite the conditions and the circumstances.
    DirectorVladimir MotylStarsIrina KupchenkoAleksey BatalovNatalya Bondarchuk
    Score by Isaak Shvarts and Bulat Okudzhava
  • Christl Ehlers in People on Sunday (1930)

    7. People on Sunday

    19301h 13mNot Rated
    7.3 (3.7K)
    Two men and two women enjoy a pleasant Sunday at the beach amid the unending toil of the working week.
    DirectorsRobert SiodmakEdgar G. UlmerRochus GlieseStarsErwin SplettstößerBrigitte BorchertWolfgang von Waltershausen
    The modern soundtrack composed for the Criterion release.

    By The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
  • Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)

    8. Hedgehog in the Fog

    197511mShort
    8.1 (8.5K)
    A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
    DirectorYuri NorsteinStarsVyacheslav NevinnyyMariya VinogradovaAleksey Batalov
    Score by Meyerovich
  • Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)

    9. Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

    19712h 17m
    7.6 (2.4K)
    An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.
    DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsEimei SasakiMasahiro SaitoYukiko Kobayashi
    Ichirô Araki + Kuni Kawachi + J.A. Seazer + Itsuro Shimoda
  • The Secret Formula (1965)

    10. The Secret Formula

    196542mShort
    7.7 (377)
    An irreverent essay, unified only by the author's unique voice, full of surreal moments and provocative scenarios related to intellectual debates about the Mexican national character.
    DirectorRubén GámezStarsJosé CastilloManuel GaitánPilar Islas
    Gloria, RV 589: Et in terra pax hominibus" by Hermann Scherchen and Orchestre de l'Opéra d'Etat de Vienne

    Music was composed by Vivaldi
  • Microcosmos (1996)

    11. Microcosmos

    19961h 20mNot Rated87Metascore
    7.9 (12K)
    A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
    DirectorsClaude NuridsanyMarie PérennouStarsKristin Scott ThomasJacques Perrin
    Score by Bruno Coulais
  • The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)

    12. The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    19712h 5m
    7.6 (4.4K)
    A conscientious factory worker becomes embroiled in political activism after accidentally cutting off his finger while working a machine.
    DirectorElio PetriStarsGian Maria VolontèMariangela MelatoGino Pernice
    Score by Ennio Morricone
  • Robin Williams, Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried, Linda Larkin, Douglas Seale, Scott Weinger, and Frank Welker in Aladdin (1992)

    13. Aladdin

    19921h 30mG86Metascore
    8.0 (487K)
    A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
    DirectorsRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsScott WeingerRobin WilliamsLinda Larkin
    Music composed by Alan Menken
    Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Time Rice
  • Ming-Na Wen, Lea Salonga, and Frank Welker in Mulan (1998)

    14. Mulan

    19981h 27mG72Metascore
    7.7 (333K)
    To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
    DirectorsTony BancroftBarry CookStarsMing-Na WenEddie MurphyBD Wong
    Music composed by Mathew Wilder
    Lyrics by David Zippel
  • Eine murul (1987)

    15. Eine murul

    198725mShort
    7.0 (343)
    Several episodes, each focusing on a different figure. Towards the end they all come together to replicate the famous painting by Édouard Manet that provides the title.
    DirectorPriit PärnStarsMaile HiietKarl KalkunMaria Klenskaja
    Composed by Olav Ehala
  • Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore in The End of the Affair (1999)

    16. The End of the Affair

    19991h 42mR65Metascore
    7.0 (25K)
    A desperate man tries to find out why his beloved left him years ago.
    DirectorNeil JordanStarsRalph FiennesJulianne MooreStephen Rea
    Score by Michael Nyman
  • Alain Delon and Annie Girardot in Shock Treatment (1973)

    17. Shock Treatment

    19731h 31m
    6.1 (2K)
    A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.
    DirectorAlain JessuaStarsAlain DelonAnnie GirardotRobert Hirsch
    Score by Alain Jessua & René Koering
  • Behold Thy Son (1957)

    18. Behold Thy Son

    19571h 44m
    7.1 (123)
    This is the story of Kiyoshi Yoshida, who feels estranged from both parents after his father returns from war. How the boy adapts to life with the virtual stranger his father has become is the film's focus.
    DirectorHeinosuke GoshoStarsChikage AwashimaYûnosuke ItôKinuyo Tanaka
    Score by Yasushi Akutagawa
  • Wolves, Pigs and People (1964)

    19. Wolves, Pigs and People

    19641h 35m
    7.4 (290)
    A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang.
    DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsKen TakakuraKin'ya KitaôjiShinjirô Ebara
    Score by Isao Tomita.
  • Good-for-Nothing (1960)

    20. Good-for-Nothing

    19601h 28m
    6.8 (432)
    A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.
    DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMasahiko TsugawaHizuru TakachihoYûsuke Kawazu
    Score by Chûji Kinoshita
  • Claude Mann and Delphine Seyrig in India Song (1975)

    21. India Song

    19752hNot Rated
    6.1 (2.8K)
    Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. She takes many lovers as systems of oppression decay around her.
    DirectorMarguerite DurasStarsDelphine SeyrigMichael LonsdaleMathieu Carrière
    Score by Carlos D'Alessio
  • The Reading Machine (1977)

    22. The Reading Machine

    197721mShort
    6.3 (64)
    A surreal experimental short about man's relationship with books.
    DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsCatherineTayori HinatsuToshihiko Hino
    Composed by J.A. Seazer
  • Donkey in a Brahmin Village (1977)

    23. Donkey in a Brahmin Village

    19771h 30m
    7.0 (189)
    A donkey strays into a village dominated by the upper caste Brahmins.
    DirectorJohn AbrahamStarsS. GopalKrishnarajSri Lalitha
    Score by M.B. Srinivasan
  • Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe in Swiss Army Man (2016)

    24. Swiss Army Man

    20161h 37mR64Metascore
    6.9 (138K)
    A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
    DirectorsDaniel KwanDaniel ScheinertStarsPaul DanoDaniel RadcliffeMary Elizabeth Winstead
    Score by Andy Hull & Robert McDowell
  • Samsara (2001)

    25. Samsara

    20012h 18mR
    7.7 (8.4K)
    A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...
    DirectorPan NalinStarsShawn KuChristy ChungNeelesha Barthel
    Score by Cyril Morin

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