Great Use of Music in Movies
by Satantangoandcash | created - 15 Mar 2018 | updated - 4 weeks ago | PublicDiegetic or non-diegetic music, original music or not, anything goes here. Most of these are feature-length movies that are not Musicals, but some are, and there's at least one short cartoon here. Music is included here not just because of what it adds to the plot - sometimes the music is just a song I'd never heard or forgot about that I heard in a movie.
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1. Holy Motors (2012)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy
A man boards a limousine to be driven to his day's work: nine mysterious "appointments."
Director: Leos Carax | Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
Votes: 48,931
The walking band with accordions playing R. L. Burnside's "Let My Baby Ride." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR9ktdI4LFM
2. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,656 | Gross: $83.47M
The opening scene to The Doors' "The End"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntPHFVWDIqM
Helicopter's attack the beach - "Ride of the Valkyries," Richard Wagner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30QzJKCUekQ
3. Say Anything (1989)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor
Votes: 95,976 | Gross: $20.78M
Lloyd Dobler serenades a girl holding up a boombox playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." Very cheezy, but classic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Y8tFQ01OY
4. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,485 | Gross: $27.55M
Under the opening credits Rosie Perez dances to Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" which was written for the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=739XYgoA-x8
5. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,258,122 | Gross: $46.84M
This is a regular jukebox of a movie, with songs playing almost constantly instead of a scored soundtrack. The IMDB Soundtrack list shows 43 different pieces of music in the 2 and a half hour movie. The montage of whacked bad guys to the song "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos is short but effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6MJIjCJ20
Also great is the May, 11, 1980 section, when Henry is coked up stressed and paranoid because a helicopter is following him and he's trying to bounce around between selling guns and buying drugs and making pasta for his family. The editing is as frantic as Henry. The music starts with Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire" then changes manically from one strident song to another and another and eventually back to Nilsson again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij06kLDKJrw
The ending is also perfect, with Sid Vicious singing "My Way" as Henry Hill tells us how hard it was for him to leave The Life and live like an average nobody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MedC8kTa9XY
6. Casino (1995)
R | 178 min | Crime, Drama
In Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Votes: 564,320 | Gross: $42.44M
"Everybody went down" whacking sequence to The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4NUFTwAlQc
7. American Honey (2016)
R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi
Votes: 46,469 | Gross: $0.66M
There is a lot of great music use in this jukebox movie.
Final scene - bonfire party at a lake at night singing Rory's "God's Whisper."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quKKNfODzqc
The crew dances to Rihanna's "We Found Love" in a supermarket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuDZaqEk57o
8. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.
Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 131,586 | Gross: $0.79M
Rammstein "Fuhre mich" opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEdjGT-6FZM
9. Ex Machina (2014)
R | 108 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I.
Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno
Votes: 590,103 | Gross: $25.44M
Disco dance to Oliver Cheatham's "Get Down Saturday Night." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYPCNCGEK8
10. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 120,888 | Gross: $44.79M
Opening scene and credits - Joe Buck hits the road to Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lb5LdJ7cLc
11. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
R | 111 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman
Votes: 120,653
Getaway scene to "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt & Scruggs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YXCjPgktQM
12. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever.
Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne
Votes: 1,078,561 | Gross: $34.40M
End scene into credits to Beck's cover of "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rM0BPOgsCA
13. Training Day (2001)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger
Votes: 473,141 | Gross: $76.63M
"You're in the office, baby" car scene - Dr. Dre - "Still D.R.E." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIndSgK29WI
14. Avanti! (1972)
R | 144 min | Comedy, Romance
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews
Votes: 11,670 | Gross: $3.30M
Carlo Rustichelli's "Senza Fine"
15. Zoolander (2001)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell
Votes: 292,014 | Gross: $45.17M
Idiot male models drink orange mocha frappucinos and burn themselves alive at a gas station to Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mGVNySpCaA
16. Strange Days (1995)
R | 145 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore
Votes: 78,455 | Gross: $7.92M
Juliette Lewis sings "I Can't Hardly Wait" on a warehouse stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnlo7sLfa0
17. Rushmore (1998)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel
Votes: 198,050 | Gross: $17.11M
End scene at dance - "Ooh La La" - The Faces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELQOnEgzt-I Rally in gym - Cat Stevens - "Here Comes My Baby"
18. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller
Votes: 313,303 | Gross: $52.36M
Margot gets off the bus - Nico - "These Days."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5SRdYsscLc
Elliot Smith's "Needle in the Hay." Music to shave off your beard and kill yourself to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyBB7y8fDU
19. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman
Votes: 270,547 | Gross: $21.00M
End scene supermarket dance to "Let Her Dance" by the Bobby Fuller Four. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87SPViixL0k
20. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan
Votes: 217,035 | Gross: $11.90M
There is a lot of great borrowed music in this, including The Kink's "This Time Tomorrow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h92elR_0i_I
and Shankar Jaikishan's Title Music from Bombay Talkie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcVyNw-USA
21. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
R | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchett
Votes: 211,018 | Gross: $24.01M
Throughout the movie Seu Jorge sings several David Bowie songs in Portuguese while playing acoustic guitar, including "Rebel Rebel," "Life on Mars," and "Starman." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7yoT-XOGg8
22. The Meaning of Life (1983)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Musical
The comedy team takes a look at life in all of its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Votes: 125,358 | Gross: $14.93M
The Catholic religion is explained in a single musical interlude "Every Sperm is Sacred." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVHjg3AqIQ
23. Life of Brian (1979)
R | 94 min | Comedy
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
Votes: 421,939 | Gross: $20.05M
The end scene - Eric Idle on a cross tells a hilltop full of other crucified men to cheer up, and sings "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
24. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Votes: 881,632 | Gross: $6.21M
There are several great uses of music in this movie. In one, Alex picks up two girls in a record store to Wendy Carlos' synthesized version of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, then he takes them back to his room where they have sex in extreme fast-motion to Rossini's William Tell Overture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9FWzFnp8D8
In a violent scene, after Alex and his thugs break into a house, Alex sings the incongruously cheerful "Singin' in the Rain" as he binds, gags, and beats up a man and a woman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XJivhjB4U
25. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
PG | 96 min | Comedy
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Director: Jared Hess | Stars: Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell
Votes: 237,894 | Gross: $44.54M
Napoleon's dance on the school stage to Jamiroquia's "Canned Heat" is unexpected and great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiAwpYIkRmU
26. Risky Business (1983)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
Director: Paul Brickman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Richard Masur
Votes: 99,897 | Gross: $63.50M
Tom Cruise dances in his briefs lip-synching to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UVsyVLLcE
27. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones
Votes: 386,680 | Gross: $70.14M
Ferris lip-synchs to The Beatles' "Twist and Shout" in a parade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ZtmBAA_NE
28. Pulp Fiction (1994)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
Votes: 2,221,673 | Gross: $107.93M
Uma Thurman turns on a reel-to-reel tape recorder in her house and dances to Urge Overkill's "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon" then ODs on heroin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiAUmsl6OHU
Uma Thurman and John Travolta take off their shoes and dance on stage to Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" in the Jack Rabbit Slim twist contest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSLMN6g_Od4
The opening scene of two lovers robbing a diner
is interrupted for the opening credits with "Misirlou" by Dick Dale and His Del-Tones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOoBomvuYnw
29. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
Votes: 1,194,714 | Gross: $70.10M
Japanese girl band The 5,6,7,8's play a cover version of "Woo Hoo" on stage as the camera wanders around a Japanese nightclub, returning to the stage, then leaving again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke6KUtcG9jY
30. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,585,311 | Gross: $120.54M
Shoshana prepares to burn down a movie theater full of Nazis as we hear David Bowie singing "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS1IG8hw73A&t=143s
31. Jackie Brown (1997)
R | 154 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
Votes: 375,239 | Gross: $39.67M
Airline stewardess Jackie Brown stands on an airport moving sidewalk then runs to her flight as Bobby Womack sings "Across 110th Street." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gs1_ndm3r4
32. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
R | 99 min | Crime, Thriller
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
Votes: 1,088,748 | Gross: $2.83M
A psychotic tortures a man with a straight razor to "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Steeler's Wheel, as it's played on a radio tuned to K Billy's Super Sounds of the 70s program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMg2Xw4_8s
33. The Graduate (1967)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, William Daniels
Votes: 288,531 | Gross: $104.95M
Ben Braddok and and his runaway bride Elaine Robinson sit at the back of a bus wondering what's next as the bus drives away and we listen to Simon and Garfunkle's "Sound of Silence." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pdNYXY3Zo
34. Chungking Express (1994)
PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong
Votes: 95,867 | Gross: $0.60M
"California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas plays again and again in this film for different reasons as we watch a late night deli girl fall in love with a policeman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH-0GKvIrM
35. 3-Iron (2004)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.
Director: Kim Ki-duk | Stars: Lee Seung-yun, Jae Hee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Joo Jin-mo
Votes: 58,293 | Gross: $0.24M
A young man who breaks into people's houses to do their laundry starts out by playing a CD of the beautiful Natasha Atlas song "Gafsa." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5vxwikYZGM
36. Boogie Nights (1997)
R | 155 min | Drama
Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán
Votes: 282,184 | Gross: $26.40M
Todd's planned robbery turns into multiple murders accompanied by "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZRzeUrVy1o
37. Magnolia (1999)
R | 188 min | Drama
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Votes: 328,623 | Gross: $22.46M
Diegetic music mixes with nondiegetic music as various people in different locations sing along with Aimee Mann's "Wise Up."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNmKghTvj0E
Final scene - Aimee Mann - "Save Me."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdajEccNZSM
38. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 316,123 | Gross: $18.10M
Elio plays part of J. S. Bach's "Cappricio on the Departure of His Beloved Brother" on the piano several different ways to tease and seduce Oliver before he finally plays it the way Oliver wants to hear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRfoIKjwHvQ
Dancing outdoors to The Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHSqt1qTuh0
39. Talk to Her (2002)
R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Rosario Flores, Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
Votes: 117,527 | Gross: $9.36M
All of the music in this masterpiece is sublime, but my favorite is Caetano Veloso singing "Cucurrucucu Paloma" on the back porch at night. The song about a sad dying bird is used ostensibly to induce Marco to cry and start a conversation with Lydia about his crying, but it's obvious that Almodovar also just wanted to share the song, the way we insist on introducing a great song to a friend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-OkHNVF-Y
40. Fight Club (1999)
R | 139 min | Drama
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Votes: 2,325,541 | Gross: $37.03M
Everything blows up and end credits - The Pixies - "Where is My Mind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1d5VvCa8Fo
41. Baby Driver (2017)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González
Votes: 611,560 | Gross: $107.83M
There are many great uses of music in this film, including the robbery getaway to "Neat Neat Neat by The Damned." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woCVu9lVA0k
42. Easy Rider (1969)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza
Votes: 116,986 | Gross: $41.73M
Opening drug deal to Steppenwolf's - "The Pusher" / "Born to Be Wild" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1cDECkN2xg
43. Performance (1970)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama
A violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.
Directors: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Stars: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton
Votes: 11,329 | Gross: $0.19M
Mick Jagger sings "Memo From Turner." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qgmVb4-kU
44. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
Votes: 21,097 | Gross: $0.95M
The shootout then "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjR7_U2u3sM
45. Wayne's World (1992)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Music
Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere
Votes: 170,987 | Gross: $121.70M
The singalong in the car to Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thyJOnasHVE
46. Super Fly (1972)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris
Votes: 8,606
We hear Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" as drug dealer Priest drives through NYC and enters a bar where Mayfield and his band are playing the song live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZoA-X7K5FM
47. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 606,276 | Gross: $1.02M
Ingrid Bergman comes into Rick's club without Bogart knowing asks the piano player Sam to play "As Time Goes By" and Rick/Bogart loses his temper because he told Sam never to play the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ruUJSgtzY
In Rick's Club one night, German soldiers sing a patriotic song so anti-Nazi activist Victor Laszlo directs the club's band to play the French anthem "La Marseillaise." The club's patrons all stand up and sing along forcing the Germans to stop. This moment of hope and rebellion causes the club to be shut down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
48. Trainspotting (1996)
R | 93 min | Drama
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
Votes: 725,965 | Gross: $16.50M
Great music throughout.
Choose Life - Who needs reasons when you've got heroin? to "Lust For Life" by Iggy Pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOz5Qm2EHQE
Heroin fix and trip to the ER - Lou Reed - "Perfect Day."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uBkJSbQO0
49. Deliverance (1972)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 119,325 | Gross: $7.06M
"Dueling Banjos" - guitar and banjo duet at the gas station at the beginning of the movie. Variations on the theme are then played throughout the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsC4kf6x_Q0
50. Ricki and the Flash (2015)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer, Sebastian Stan
Votes: 24,828 | Gross: $26.82M
Ricki (Meryl Streep) demonstrates music's power to unite people when she sings Bruce Springsteen's "My Love Will Not Let You Down" at the wedding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbqjzCpeGw
51. End of Watch (2012)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.
Director: David Ayer | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick, America Ferrera
Votes: 269,205 | Gross: $41.00M
Jake Gyllenhall and Anna Kendrick in a car singing along to Cam'ron's - "Hey Ma." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFrmNqFPgbo
52. Mughal-E-Azam (1960)
Not Rated | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
A 16th century prince falls in love with a court dancer and battles with his emperor father.
Director: K. Asif | Stars: Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar, Durga Khote
Votes: 8,831 | Gross: $0.16M
The Emperor orders Anarkali to dance and sing a song renouncing her love for his son, but she defies him singing "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" (Why should we be afraid, if we have loved?) telling him love is not a crime and she is not afraid to die for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Au_J6jHKE0
53. Donnie Darko (2001)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
Votes: 850,411 | Gross: $1.48M
Ending montage - "Mad World" sung by Gary Jules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42OhzVWzc0
54. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,536 | Gross: $0.03M
A serial killer whistles the theme to Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and is caught because of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkjHyTUkw5A
55. Magic Mike XXL (2015)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
Director: Gregory Jacobs | Stars: Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer, Adam Rodriguez
Votes: 61,356 | Gross: $66.01M
Making the gas station store clerk smile by dancing to "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HEwo37W06Q
56. Moonlight (I) (2016)
R | 111 min | Drama
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes, Alex R. Hibbert
Votes: 332,031 | Gross: $27.85M
Barbara Lewis singing "Hello Stranger" on the diner jukebox. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eD76nuPAC0
57. Captain Fantastic (2016)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama
In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.
Director: Matt Ross | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso
Votes: 235,198 | Gross: $5.88M
The Family sings "Sweet Child of Mine" at the mother's funeral.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PyecG4Tt2k
We hear "Rebel Girl" by Bikini Kill when the father fakes a heart attack to distract supermarket employees so his children can steal food.
58. Dil Se.. (1998)
Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance
A radio broadcaster's intense attraction to a mysterious woman opens the door to a tidal wave of powerful emotions and desires.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity G Zinta, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 31,167
The "Chaiyya Chaiya" song and dance on top of a moving train is one of the greats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmrmVs10X8
59. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 489,400 | Gross: $44.59M
"Just Like Honey" by The Jesus and Mary Chain plays over the ending farewell scene and driving through Tokyo into the credits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOpXt30kZCw
Scarlett Johannson sings The Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket" wearing a pink wig to begin a flirtation with Bill Murray in a Karaoke club. Murray counters with Roxy Music's "More Than This." The singing sucks, but this is all about chemistry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqbcYGTfLg
60. The Great Beauty (2013)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso
Votes: 97,434 | Gross: $2.85M
This movie is full of great, unusual music used in interesting ways. The entire first 13 minutes uses several different pieces of music, beginning with David Lang and the Torino Vocal Ensemble's beautiful choral work "I Lie" which we hear then see a small group of women singing it on the balccony of Roman monument in front of a foreign tour group. The music stops as one of the tourists drops dead, then it begins again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u47Wxit0nvk
The ethereal choral music is interrupted when we hear a woman scream then there is an abrupt contrast in music when we hear Bob Sinclar's loud bouncy dance remix of a 1976 song by Italian singer Rafaella Carra "Far L'Amore" and see a crowd of high society people dancing wildly on a rooftop at night at a birthday party. The dance music is interrupted a few times by a mariachi band and some ambient electronic music. The party DJ then seques into "La Colita" by El Gato DJ and everyone does a silly line dance to the song until the music slows down along with the picture as the main subject of the film gradually becomes highlighted in the middle of the slow-motion dancers and introduces himself in a voice over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYaY2tCm2sQ
"The Beatitudes" by Kronos Quartet, is heard during a slow hypnotic boat ride up the Tiber river in a beautiful ending credits scene that you will want to watch until the very end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kJQmMaozs
61. Dazed and Confused (1993)
R | 103 min | Comedy
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 199,732 | Gross: $7.99M
Lots of great music in this movie, including "Low Rider" by War. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6XIGZ51VMo
62. Blue Velvet (1986)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Votes: 215,819 | Gross: $8.55M
Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet" plays during the opening sequence heart attack and descent into the insect world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwuzI8Y0uW0&t=22s
A man lip syncs to Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" until Dennis Hopper forces everyone to leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ntFAqhK5M
63. Tokyo Sonata (2008)
PG-13 | 120 min | Drama
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki
Votes: 11,819 | Gross: $0.28M
The boy plays Debussy's Claire de Lune so well at his audition that everybody is stunned into silence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIzn0QaBzxM
64. Almost Famous (2000)
R | 122 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
Votes: 293,543 | Gross: $32.53M
The band members are not getting along until one by one they and their followers on a tour bus sing along to Elton John's "Tiny Dancer."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwIQBgcYLrI
65. Mean Streets (1973)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic lover, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
Votes: 119,718 | Gross: $3.13M
Opening credits to the Ronettes "Be My Baby."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KMxLvsvLI
Pool hall fight scene to The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6fbGBYi84
66. Der blaue Engel (1930)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An elderly professor's ordered life spins dangerously out of control when he falls for a nightclub singer.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti
Votes: 16,302 | Gross: $0.08M
Marlene Dietrich in top hat, stockings, and garter belt, sits on a barrel and sings "Ich bi von kpf bis fuß." In the inferior English language version she sings "Falling in Love Again" sitting on a chair turned backwards. English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYXg7LlzyO8
67. Gilda (1946)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino discovers his employer's new wife is his former lover.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 35,291
Gilda (Rita Hayworth) sings "Put the Blame on Mame" in the nightclub. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-LO9Ay6v_M
68. The Hunger (1983)
R | 97 min | Drama, Horror
A love triangle develops between a beautiful yet dangerous vampire (Catherine Deneuve), her cellist companion (David Bowie), and a gerontologist (Susan Sarandon).
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young
Votes: 29,063 | Gross: $5.98M
Bauhaus sings "Bela Lugosi's Dead" over the opening credits in the best opening to a vampire movie ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-o39BJ0Aww
69. Ghost (1990)
PG-13 | 127 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
Director: Jerry Zucker | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn
Votes: 236,086 | Gross: $217.63M
A spiritualist lets a ghost take possession of her body so he can feel the touch of his former wife as they dance to the Righteous Brothers singing "Unchained Melody."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FdGaamBXVg
Previously when he was alive we heard the song playing on their jukebox as we watched them get aroused by a pile of wet clay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj195VJWJIE
70. Rocky (1976)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 628,729 | Gross: $117.24M
The training montage to Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27F46WPVJBs
71. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah
Votes: 236,510 | Gross: $40.14M
Will Ferrell picks up a guitar and sings Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World." Then we hear the original version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h6Mb7zrXx0
72. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 340,342 | Gross: $73.71M
The ghosts make everybody at a dinner party dance to "Day-O" by Harry Belafonte. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXVHITd1N4
73. Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 192,227
Audrey Hepburn strums a guitar and sings "Moon River" on the fire escape. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uirBWk-qd9A
74. American Psycho (2000)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.
Director: Mary Harron | Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
Votes: 716,242 | Gross: $15.07M
sycho Patrick Bateman plays a cd of "Hip To Be Square" by Huey Lewis and the News while killing a man with an axe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruw9fsh3PNY
75. Mulholland Drive (2001)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 384,048 | Gross: $7.22M
In Club Silencio, Rebekah del Rio sings "Llorando," a Spanish version of the Roy Orbison song "Crying," and the audience are all crying, even after the song keeps going on after the singer passes out and is carried away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHmgPI4meR0
76. Platoon (1986)
R | 120 min | Drama, War
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
Votes: 439,724 | Gross: $138.53M
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings plays as soldiers in a helicopter watch their Seargent chased and killed in slow motion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEv3zzKyiFQ
77. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Votes: 878,077 | Gross: $141.32M
A. R. Rahman's "Jai Ho" played during the dance in the train station at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU9uRDnbT0M The train scene to M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiWFn20P8oE
78. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
PG | 104 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Votes: 216,962 | Gross: $156.45M
Jessica Rabbit sings "Why Don't You Do Right." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy5THitqPBw
79. High Fidelity (2000)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black
Votes: 189,827 | Gross: $27.29M
Jack Black surprises his boss by singing a great version of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" at a record release party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzl_l5gC5is
80. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark
Votes: 40,676 | Gross: $2.44M
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put a Spell on You."
81. Fallen Angels (1995)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Charlie Yeung
Votes: 50,928
Recurring use of a cappella version of "Only You" by Yaz sung by The Flying Pickets.
82. Swing Time (1936)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Roguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the bucks.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick
Votes: 14,589
This is a musical, sure, but in a realistic scene Fred Astaire sits at a piano and sings "The Way You Look Tonight" as Ginger Rodgers washes her hair and falls in love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIW_Ah0wg-w
83. Band of Outsiders (1964)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two crooks with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies convince a languages student to help them commit a robbery.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Anna Karina, Claude Brasseur, Danièle Girard, Louisa Colpeyn
Votes: 27,069 | Gross: $0.04M
Anna Karina and two guys dance and clap in a cafe to music that the director cuts in and out for a voice-over just to annoy us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1MKUJN7vUk
84. Paris, Texas (1984)
R | 145 min | Drama
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry
Votes: 119,133 | Gross: $2.18M
Ry Cooder's sparse atmospheric slide guitar music soundtrack is a perfect match for the wide open landscapes of the film's opening and elsewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YMCWR8jzpU
85. Pump Up the Volume (1990)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.
Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero, Andy Romano
Votes: 31,178 | Gross: $11.54M
"Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen.
86. Down by Law (1986)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi
Votes: 55,315 | Gross: $1.44M
When the film begins we hear Tom Waits singing "Jockey Full of Bourbon" and see a series of tracking shots to the left of houses in and around New Orleans. The music stops when we are inside a house and see John Lurie in bed with a woman. He gets out then gets back in and when the woman opens her eyes the music begins again and we see a series of tracking shots of New Orleans but to the right this time. The music stops again when we are inside another house and see Tom Waits. When he gets in bed with a woman and she opens her eyes, the music starts again and we see another series of tracking shots, this time to the left again ,until the music ends and the opening credits appear. This introduces two of the main characters who end up going in two different directions at the end of the film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54YhQZN5Uq8
87. Snatch (2000)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones
Votes: 911,303 | Gross: $30.33M
A gypsy unexpectedly knocks a guy out and we hear "Golden Brown" by the Stranglers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag_HToYi_Uc
88. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
TV-MA | 83 min | Animation, Action, Crime
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Directors: Mizuho Nishikubo, Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka, Kôichi Yamadera
Votes: 156,994 | Gross: $0.52M
The opening credits music pulls you right into the world of the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsIQ_kA77b4
89. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
In a magically realistic version of Toronto, a young man must defeat his new girlfriend's seven evil exes one by one in order to win her heart.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick
Votes: 465,554 | Gross: $31.49M
There is lots of great music in this film, much of it by Beck, including the opening scene and credits "We Are Sex Bob-Omb" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQVm18Q_Io and "Garbage Truck" which the band plays in a hurry to distract his girlfriends who are sitting together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kf08NTAvJw
90. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy
A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers
Votes: 257,271 | Gross: $53.88M
Opening credits scene - Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWOhXEWk1K0
91. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 719,982 | Gross: $56.95M
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss used in the opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-QFj59PON4
and in The Dawn of Man scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrHRWGsCfN0
The "Space Waltz" scene to "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyjOjT8d8RI
92. Mo' Better Blues (1990)
R | 130 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito
Votes: 13,670 | Gross: $16.15M
End wedding and montage - "A Love Supreme" by John Coltrane. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyc53ozni0
93. Manhattan (1979)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
Votes: 147,327 | Gross: $45.70M
The opening, with "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaj2P-dSi8
94. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Approved | 101 min | Crime, Drama
A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Margaret Hayes
Votes: 9,887
Opening credits, opening scene - "Rock Around the Clock," Bill Haley and the Comets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyis76UeUsQ
95. Beau Travail (1999)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, War
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet
Votes: 14,591 | Gross: $0.25M
The ending dance scene - "Rhythm of the Night," Corona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucULigdiOj4
Also, the opening credits dance club scene - "Simarik" performed by Tarkan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zUJCJNHXww
96. Badlands (1973)
PG | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri
Votes: 78,431
"Gassenhauer" by Carl Orff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7rf0LxRT-U
97. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 598,709 | Gross: $33.08M
Donovan - "Hurdy Gurdy Man." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub6wGZu5Xng
98. Morvern Callar (2002)
R | 97 min | Drama
After her beloved boyfriend's suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can't run away from forever.
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire, Paul Popplewell
Votes: 11,050 | Gross: $0.27M
Morvern goes to work in the supermarket (after her husband's suicide on Christmas morning - listening to the mix tape he made for her) - “Some Velvet Morning,” Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1l0YXayBrU
99. The Killing Fields (1984)
R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands
Votes: 59,240 | Gross: $34.70M
Final scene - “Imagine” by John Lennon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbK3VTClzpw
100. The Big Lebowski (1998)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 860,755 | Gross: $17.50M
The Dude dreams - "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by the First Edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92bykaeV4o
Jesus is introduced in a bowling alley accompanied by a Flamenco guitar version of The Eagles' "Hotel California" performed by The Gipsy Kings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoU2XwXLFrA
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