The Graduate and *Gandhi *are the first two films I think about liking the soundtracks.
The Big Lebowski has a weird eclectic sountrack that appeals to me.
George Harrison’s soundtrack in Wonderwall is rather cool.
Certainly, I also like some of the films already mentioned in this thread topic.
The opening and closing song for **Kelley’s Heroes ** is cheesy, lame, and kind of dumb, but it fits so well in the movies that I find myself humming along. The tank attack scene is also cool. The music seems pretty low key thru out most of the pic, but I think they did a good job of it all.
That said, another Eastwood movie with music I enjoyed was Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
also Play Misty For Me
and Unforgiven
and of course, the Dollars trilogy already mentioned.
Tron: Legacy a.k.a. Two Hour Daft Punk Music Video
ETA: Fear of a Black Hat, the Spinal Tap of rap
Thank you. I saw this movie years ago in a French class, hadn’t thought about it in forever, and just yesterday it came to mind when I started thinking about the 7-string cellos (before seeing this thread). What a nice coincidence.
Superfly, for Curtis Mayfield, and
The Virgin Suicides, for Air.
Don’t know Songcatcher, but I saw Matewan three times in two days when it opened. Yes.
The Natural
Silverado
When I saw the thread title I immediately thought of The Rock (1996, directed by Michael Bay, original music by Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer). Every time I watch that movie I’m struck by how much I love the score.
No fans of The Last Waltz? Truly a good music movie. In fact that is the point of the movie.
O Brother where art thou, for the music I listened to as a child, Amadeus as a paen to classical music and Ray for jazz/blues, Walk the Line for the Johnny Cash fans (of which I’m one).
Now I’ve got “I’m Just a Human” in my head. Thank you for that, my day needed a little pick-me-up. 
Stanley Kubrick’s films, ever since Dr. Strangelove, have been particularly good in their musical choices, and I love the music in them. I’m particularly fond of Walter/Wendy Carlos’ music in A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.
I don’t know that I have an answer to the question in the OP; for the following I probably like the movie just a bit more than the music, but I can’t imagine any of them without it.
The Thin Blue Line - haunting and mesmerizing
Sweet Smell of Success - pulses with New York City energy
Blue - heartbreaking and tragic
Rude Boy, for the live concert songs by The Clash.
The DVD even has a “Just Play the Songs” option on the menu.
90 posts and still no mention of:
Miyazaki’s “Mononoke Hime” (Joe Hisaishi soundtrack)
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”
Crash (Mark Isham soundtrack)
Not really a ‘movie’ but the “Victory at Sea” soundtrack by Richard Rogers sure hit the note for me.
Well, I just can’t let this go unanswered!
Broadway Danny Rose; Annie Hall; Manhattan; Love and Death; Sleeper, Play It Again, Sam; Hannah and Her Sisters; for these and maybe a few others, I can’t imagine anyone else in the respective roles, and no one who could have done them better. Eh, to each his own, of course.
Wow, this thread is like music porn. I might have to put on some soft lighting to read it.
Love Actually would not have been the same movie without the score.
The main title of Insomnia was brilliant.
The main title of North by Northwest? Eargasm!
2001 springs to mind. Odd thing is that as a kid I didn’t seem to absorb the Ligeti music - you know, the aahaaaaahhh-aaaahhh! voices during the Monolith scenes. 'cause I distinctly remember seeing the film as a teenager and thinking “hang on, these scenes have music in them that wasn’t there before”. I assume that I simply hadn’t learned to parse dissonant voices and sound effects as music, and just dismissed them as background sound. But the music’s an integral part of the film. Try watching it with Robbie William’s “Angels” instead, playing on a loop for two hours. I tell you, the film isn’t nearly as effective with that musical backdrop. Although, oddly, the whole thing seems to sync up with the lyrics.
Crocodile Dundee? Don’t really love it, but I remember that the music seemed much more epic than the film, as if it had been written for a historical blockbuster. John Carpenter always gave his films a good soundtrack, and I remember taping the music from Escape from New York and Assault on Precinct 13 when I was young. Educating Rita is another one of those films with a soundtrack that seems larger than the film. “I’ll blind him, I’LL BLIND HIM!” Sorry, I’m still thinking about Watership Down.
In Bruges
And I eschew you
And I say “SCREW YOU!”
And I hope you’re blue too
:::drum biddy drum biddy drum drum drum:::
We’re all bloody worthless [succumbs to neck pinch paralysis]
One song high light from a movie listed upthread
Does Phantom of the Opera count? I know it was technically on Broadway first, but…
The Man From Snowy River
The Right Stuff. It took me ages to find the soundtrack but its worth it