Soundtracks that you listen all the way through and it's all great.


Hey! sometimes the soundtrack is so good that you don't care about the movie anymore. The music behind soundtracks can be compilation of various artists rock, jazz or mixed styles or created by one composer. Electronic music soundtracks, orchestral neo-classical and other styles I will list my favorites here in this discussion:

1. Gladiator -- an awesome neo-classical movie score with voice of Lisa Gerrard on double-CD. near 2 hours of pure joyful music uninterrupted by movie. At the same time the role of Commodus was brilliant as well as Lucilla

2. Shining -- great movie and state of the art soundtrack done by Wendy Carlos.

3. Dark City -- great electronic score by Trevor Jones

4. Pulp Fiction -- various

5. Kill Bill
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In addition to several of those already mentioned:

"The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" -- directed by Jacques Demy; music by Michel Legrand.

"Marry Me!  Marry Me!" -- directed by Claude Berri; music by Emil Stern.

Both are 1960s French films.  "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" is pretty much unique among non-operatic films in that all of its dialogue is sung, not spoken, and it is also exceptional in terms of its use of color.

Also:

"2001:  A Space Odyssey"
"My Fair Lady"
"West Side Story"

Regards,
-- Al
  
The Alien Trilogy
Where the river runs black
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Ben Hur
The princess bride
Vertigo
Intersteller
The Mission
The Grifters
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile

Alan

Zabriskie Point

Cat People

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Paris, Texas (and pretty much everything Ry Cooder in the '80s)

Blue Velvet

Anything Bernard Herrmann


Eclectic and in no particular order:  Amadeus, Clockwork Orange, Fiddlier on the Roof (Broadway version w/Zero Mostel), White Christmas.
Dances with Wolves - not such a great movie, but great soundtrack

Phantom of the Opera (more play than movie soundtrack, cheating?)

Dazed and Confused

+1 on "The Commitments" & "The Last Waltz"

I’ll add:

"Streets Of Fire"
"Magical Mystery Tour"
"A Hard Day’s Night"
"Saturday Night Fever"
"Help"
"Purple Rain"
Hi Fidelity
The Commitments
The Last Waltz (sorta cheating, right?)

Cheers,
Spencer
1. The Insider -- more Lisa Gerrard and even some Massive Attack

2. Trainspotting

3. American Beauty

4. Rainman