Movies you love for the music

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**What movies/shows do you enjoy as much for the music as for anything else? **

I don’t mean musicals, but maybe musical movies. I have a couple examples of ones that I adore, and am looking for more, so anything that springs to mind for you would be great. :slight_smile: The music doesn’t have to be great, btw, and if it’s a movie ABOUT music, the story doesn’t need to be true, either. I am well aware that the two ‘historical’ ones I’m going to mention are corny/speculation/untrue, but I like them just the same.

-Tous le matins du monde - I love cello, and the music in this movie, combined with the scenery, takes me far, far away and I love it.

-Immortal Beloved Historically accurate or not, I don’t care. I will always love the music even MORE because of this movie, and love Gary Oldman forever for doing such a great job.

-Battlestar Galactica The music for the <newer> television series is really amazing; I have a whole lot of it on rotation along with all the ‘regular’ music I tend to crank.

-Amadeus I have to mention this one, even though it’s a little corny, because it’s one of the first historical-fiction type movies I ever saw, and it really put more meaning into the music I heard ever after.

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Just about anything scored by the late John Barry.
For example, *Moonraker *may be one of the worst Bond movies, but Barry’s score is just beautiful.

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The Fargo soundtrack really enhances the experience of watching it.

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Forrest Gump has the soundtrack to my life in it.

ETA: Fantastic era for popular music.

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Black Snake Moan and
Oh Brother Where Art Thou.

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Round Midnight

Get Shorty

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Thanks to Randall Poster, Wes Anderson movies have pretty great soundtracks.

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Amadeus. Turned me on to classical music.

Almost anything by Quentin Tarantino.

I love the score to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, consider it their finest, actually.

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**Streets Of Fire

Eddie and the Cruisers

Sunset Heat**
Oddly enough, these all have something else in common.

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Blow and Goodfellas

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I used to think that I loved Excalibur; now I realize that it is really, really cheesy, but I love Wagner’s Siegfried’s Funeral March.

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Then it should go without saying you love the music from the 1989 Batman. :wink:

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I used the ‘Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs’ from the scene where the older Lully is conducting as my wedding march.

I adore the film and soundtrack.

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The otherwise mediocre (okay bad) Dungeons and Dragons movie. Great, soaring score.

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Once Upon a Time in the West or almost anything else with music by Ennio Morricone.

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Sweet and Lowdown, a rare Woody Allen movie that doens’t suffer from him being in front of the camera.

Dick, I grew up in that musical era

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Goes without sayin’

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The We Bought A Zoo soundtrack done by Jon Thor Birgisson, or also known by stage and musical name Jonsi, is absolutely beautiful. Every scene is enhanced perfectly and almost magically with his music. It defiantly makes Scarlett Johansson have even more of a somewhat angelic guise, and it makes the haunting absence of Matt Damon’s deceased wife even more touching.
Also, the soundtrack to the movie In Time with Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake is really nice as well.

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Local Hero
Harold and Maude
Pirate Radio
Midnight in Paris

Woodstock and Nashville are musicals, right?

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I actually watched Midnight in Paris and not only loved the movie, but loved the music Woody Allen picked. Cole Porter, and Sidney Bechet; loved 'em!