History AwesomeMusic / Film

* Regardless of what you thought of ''Film/FinalDestination 5'', it's hard to deny that its [[https://youtu.be/QIWtPkYfl9Q opening theme]] is insanely epic, which isn't surprising when you realize that [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Brian]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Tyler]] composed the music for this one and ''Film/TheFinalDestination'' after Shirley Walker's untimely demise. Its DarkReprise [[https://youtu.be/coSO2mDQLO8 Infinite Finale]], which plays when [[spoiler: Sam and Molly die on Flight 180]], is awesome and [[TearJerker heartbreaking]].

* ''Film/GhostRider''. The cover of the song "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by the band Spiderbait in the ending credits (and also an instrumental of the same song while the two ride) is simply ''awesome''. [[https://youtu.be/Mxnu0q_6uPM Listen to it here.]]

* ''Film/Terrifier2'' has during the NightmareSequence [[https://youtu.be/o8pKyzU7o5E?t=50 the "Clown Cafe" song]], combining a catchy melody and ironic lyrics twisting the typical jingle to invoke the disgusting things Film/ArtTheClown does to his victims.

%%* The Tri Star Pictures [[https://youtu.be/0rEAFjb94M8 theme]].

%%* ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'' has [[Music/FleetwoodMac Lindsey Buckingham's]] "Holiday Road".

!!Films

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwd0PZBSVc Drumroll, please…]]

Some of these are awesome enough to be played in actual concerts! Of the orchestra kind! How cool is that? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_0g3tEcM0w Here's a short preview for what you will see and hear on this page.]]

* The Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwd0PZBSVc Fanfare]]. Perhaps the most famous 10 bars of music in film history.
%%* The Tri Star Pictures [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEAFjb94M8 theme]].

** From ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', the show-stoppingly delicious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hEh2NH6teY "Spanish Inquisition"]].
** Frankie Laine's [[TitleThemeTune title]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiF0M4uOhgI song]] for ''Film/BlazingSaddles''.
** The UrExample, the grandiose and hilarious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovCf9VRLnDY "Springtime for Hitler"]] from ''Film/TheProducers''.
%%* ''Music/TheWall''. Music/PinkFloyd. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB9YS9RNfQE?t=33s Comfortably Numb]]". "Goodbye Blue Sky" is the first of many dark turns the film takes.

** His work on the British independent film, ''Film/LocalHero'', exemplified by the main theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow5IdjNItc0 Going Home,]] which became Dire Straits' preferred finale for their concerts in their last decade as a band.

* Regardless of what you thought of ''Film/FinalDestination 5'', it's hard to deny that its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWtPkYfl9Q opening theme]] is insanely epic, which isn't surprising when you realize that [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Brian]] [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Tyler]] composed the music for this one and ''Film/TheFinalDestination'' after Shirley Walker's untimely demise. Its DarkReprise [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coSO2mDQLO8 Infinite Finale]], which plays when [[spoiler: Sam and Molly die on Flight 180]], is awesome and [[TearJerker heartbreaking]].
* ''Film/TheFinalDestination'' may be SoBadItsGood, but it has a heck of an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6H7n-jMuc opening theme]], along with other good Brian Tyler compositions:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuxH42JYDyU "The Raceway",]] which plays during the [[ArtisticLicensePhysics raceway]] [[ExplosiveStupidity premonition]] and almost comes close to saving it.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz2D7puuYO4 "The Final Destination Suite"]], a thirteen minute long tribute to the series played over the credits.

** The series has a very tense, recognizable, and charming score usually from Creator/JohnPowell, most fans know the theme of these movies to be the single from Music/{{Moby}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBB2bPwKWVg Extreme Ways]]. While not explicitly about Jason Bourne himself, the song has become iconic with the character, and has been present during the end credits all five films. It was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6SV-5rm2Ig redone]] during ''Film/TheBourneUltimatum''.
** ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'' may not exactly be a fan favorite, but admit it, you loved how they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rMV-rWaU-c added an entire symphony for the song at the end]].
** Fitting the tradition, the fifth film ''Film/JasonBourne'' also remixed the iconic single which comes across like it took an element from all previous renditions and combined it into one. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftm1hiXgYsA The result]] is nothing short of badass.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg "Anvil of Crom"]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMhRvEmG6s "Riddle of Steel."]] With so little dialogue, John Milius asked him to write a [[Music/RichardWagner Wagnerian]] {{opera}}tic score that would carry the whole movie, including the nearly-wordless first ''half-hour''. "Riddle of Steel"'s later middle section was slightly reworked into no less than three trailers for ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', ''Ocarina of Time 3D'', and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'').
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk "Klendathu Drop"]] from ''Film/StarshipTroopers''. It was the ''perfect'' piece for the accompanying scene.
** ''Franchise/RoboCop'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1_38445vA main theme]] with its epic chants, which only really comes in about half-way through [[Film/RoboCop1987 the first film]].
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPsL2WVhFCc Hymn to Red October]]".

* ''Film/CloudAtlas'' has some amazing music. For example, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zgrCPEb78 Credits Theme.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c3ULgi1nHU Showtime Pt. 2 (It's Only The End Of The World)]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qeT2pTbZrs Nightvision]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYP2KSZ4Q8w Strobe (Adagio in D Minor)]], and [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f49jvIjIgSA Big Daddy Dies]]]] lead into each other amazingly: an atmospheric, tense song, a minute or so of slow buildup, then 2 minutes of pulse-pounding awesome... slowing down into a horrible, heartwrenching TearJerker.
*** FridgeBrilliance kicks in when you realize that [[spoiler: Big Daddy Dies is an altered version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZcbgyFbv0 Big Daddy Kills]], his ''[[CurbStompBattle fight music]]'']].
*** [[spoiler: "Big Daddy Kills"]] is actually a version of John Murphy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYYEDXaGo0 "In The House - In a Heartbeat"]] from the movie ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. Oddly the original is likely the song used in the film, not the one "covered" on the released score.
** As far as music that wasn't created specifically for the movie goes, you have "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnzL9Rsoxw Omen]]" by Music/TheProdigy, accompanying Kick Ass' first SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in the parking lot.

*** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAzESJ62irI This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us]]" by Sparks. So freakin' epic.
*** When [[spoiler: Hit-Girl runs along a hallway in D'Amico's shooting all of his mooks to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAQXg0IdfI "Bad Reputation"]] by Music/JoanJett and the Blackhearts.]]
*** More epic music for Hit-Girl, how about a re-done verison of a theme song children's show while [[spoiler:kicking the ever-living hell out of a bunch of thugs and impaling the lot of them?]] Ladies and gentlemen, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqdAhBreGrY The Banana Splits as done by The Dickies]].
** The epic credits song, Mika is awesome enough, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm9d5wAXW5c Kick Ass]] just cranks his epicness to 11!
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDKiT3icMYM "To Be A Hero", the heart-stirring theme song]] of the ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'' franchise (starring Jet Li), based on the traditional Chinese Ballad "Jiang Jun Ling" ("General's Orders"). Unfortunately, every single kungfu clip on Youtube uses this song. In Hong Kong, this song is pretty much ''the'' default theme song to anything related to Chinese martial arts. It's that iconic.
* Randy Edelman is so good at making awesome music that even though he hadn't won any Oscars, his music was being used at the Oscar ceremonies. Some of his famous works include the ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v5H4M086GM theme]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sE9h7cAwU8 another track]] was even used in the trailer for Disney film ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}''), and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHthbtSbGLM Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story]] among others.

** He also composed the main [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4p7O_dvks theme]] for ''Film/TheIndianInTheCupboard''.
* ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' finale [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_M_LAMaf0w "Promontory"]] makes the ''(dialogue-free)'' last 10 minutes of the film breathtaking. It's also a DarkReprise of two other pieces in the soundtrack, "The Gael" and "Main Theme", both of which are Awesome Music from the beginning and middle of the film; composed by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman so you get two major composers for the price of one. The more lyrical music for the film (including the theme) is by Jones solo; Edelman does the more synth-overlaid cues. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjZ6oV48Aqw Fort Battle]]"; "[[ChaseScene Elk Hunt]]"; "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJYvAr7ClU The Courier]]"; and "IWillFindYou" by Clannad, which is played over the SternChase montage towards the end of the film. You may be noticing an energetic theme here...

%%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ZPy-7BzSw How The West Was Won]]'', by Alfred Newman.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DtQD5BQ_A Master Exploder]] from the same movie. So epically awesome it will ''blow your mind''. Extra fun trying to play it in Rock Band 2 and realizing just how hard it is.

* Also from Howard Shore: ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhye_Ta4L2M theme]]. And ''Film/TheFly1986'' theme; decades later Shore wrote an almost completely original score for an opera adapted from that film, the world premiere staging of which was conducted by ''Placido Domingo''!
* The ''Film/QueenOfTheDamned'' movie would not be a tenth as good without the soundtrack, which was done by Johnathan Davis of Music/{{Korn}}. Although he only sings in the movie as Lestat's voice, he wrote all the songs which were performed by several rock musicians, such as [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Benington]] and Music/MarilynManson. The best songs are Forsaken, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28T9628Eok System]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teLIzTKINq0 Redeemer]].
* ''Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook'' has the dance-off scene where Pat and Tiffany dance to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOz3p6k5O2g Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing"]], then proceed to rock out to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXmM The White Stripes' "Fell in Love with Girl"]].

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnoNPhbE4k4 "To the Spaceport"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRg-fHEDS1M "The Launch"]] from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet''.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73stacxHNk "I Do Believe in Fairies"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbg6g8xlbjo "Flying"]] from the live action ''Film/PeterPan''.

* Richard Kelly faced a problem when scoring the final sequence of ''Film/DonnieDarko'', a montage of characters visibly shaken by a disturbance in the space-time continuum: there was a song with haunting, bittersweet lyrics which summed up the entire film wonderfully, but musically...well...it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjTgOX5Cgaw sounded like this]]. After bringing in Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PUFJmsCZLE there was no longer a problem]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6nKP10j4s Under the Milky Way by the Church]] goes so unbelievably perfect with the party scene.

* ''Every single song'' in the 1972 film adaptation of ''Film/SeventeenSeventySix''! A special note goes out to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ch3EyB5P90 "The Lees of Old Virginia"]], in all its hammy glory.
* Without Music/PhilipGlass's scores, the "Qatsi trilogy" (''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PirH8PADDgQ Koyaanisqatsi]]'', ''[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ng3k_powaqqatsi-godfrey-reggio-trailer_ads Powaqqatsi]]'', and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PxT3MtTedw Naqoyqatsi]]'') would be a mildly interesting series of images, at best. With them (complete with [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Hopi Chanting]]), they're masterpieces.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005''. Earth just exploded. Pan up into the nothingness of space. The Guide sweeps across the screen. "Journey of the Sorcerer" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOMGIbY-9s starts playing]]. The opening music of the movie (So Long and Thanks for All the Fish) was already an ear catcher, but it was made infinitely more awesome when Neil Hannon reprises it in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXek9_IGWZA credits]].
* At the end of ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'', all the villagers start [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEOQqnHMSMc singing]] "Sumer is Icumen In", led by the mighty basso of Creator/ChristopherLee, while they [[spoiler: burninate Sgt. Howie]]. But what's ''really'' awesome is when Sgt. Howie drowns them all out by reprising his earlier musical version of the 23rd Psalm.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUjKm_nuZQ8 "I put my hand on her knee/She says to me do you want to see...?"]] How can a song be so erotic and so sad at the same time? Most of the musical numbers qualify, mind you.
* The soundtrack for ''Film/TrinityAndBeyond'' is unbelievably epic and horrifying at the same time. The most jaw-droppingly amazing songs, however, have to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVWXBhuVXI Hiroshima and Nagasaki Requiem]] and its reprise [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gfcI4AMffc China Gets The Bomb]].

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'': [[SoundtrackDissonance "We'll Meet Again"]], and Laurie Johnson's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_d7wa0cxDU "Bomb Run Theme"]]. The tune sung by the chorus is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", which is ironic considering what's happening at the time...
* ''Film/{{Zulu}}'' has a great main theme but the awesome is when to respond to the Zulus' war chants the redcoats start singing 'Men of Harlech'. Found, in all its glory, at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZbUS0MaY4 this finely crafted link]].
* "Music/RideOfTheValkyries" in ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjWDCX1Bdw#t=3m0s (starts at 3:15 here.)]] And of course, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPNlng6uI The End]], by Music/TheDoors.
* ''Music/AlsoSprachZarathustra'', the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' opening theme. And by a different Strauss, the "Blue Danube" Waltz is awesome in its own right, but when played over futuristic space stations and spaceships travelling to the moon it cranks up another few notches of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0H2bx5Cgk awesome!]]

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbX7i1L2Uss Dana's Theme]]", composed by Elmer Bernstein, added a sense of class and yet otherworldness to the main female protagonist of the picture.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82LCKBdjywQ This.]] It works, but HOW?
* What was that other famous movie that opened the same weekend as ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''? ''Film/{{Gremlins}}!'' And that gave us the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_9G22Ipj-U "Gremlin Rag"]].
* Music/NeilYoung's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-S9lrnLZ8 Opening Credits "Freight Train" Theme]] for ''Film/DeadMan'' by Creator/JimJarmusch (w/ Creator/JohnnyDepp).
* Rodrigo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uoY9e5YVY "Concierto De Aranjuez]], originally written for classical guitar, is brilliant of itself - but when rearranged for flugelhorn and full silver band in ''Film/BrassedOff'' and set against the failing negotiations to save the mine, becomes something even more transcendent. Also the famous "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjMWOzeuRiw William Tell Overture]]" in the finale.
* Klaus Badelt's work for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0h8meiXsRA this scene]] from ''The Time Machine''.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3KN_bLjzpM Hello Zepp]]", a.k.a. "The Shithole Theme," the main theme of the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' films.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmIKcP7Nbc Tubular Bells]], probably best known as the creepy song from ''Film/TheExorcist''. Although, if you actually manage to listen to the entirety of its roughly 48 MINUTE runtime, it turns out to be a bunch of Moments of Awesome played one after the other.

* The ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTGyeGgMpk8 theme]]. So awesome you can hear the [=DeLorean=] shifting up gears and acceleration as the full piece proceeds. Put ''this'' one in your CD player and find an accommodating freeway somewhere.

* From the 1984 cult noir film ''Film/StreetsOfFire'', the opening song, sung by the main damsel in distress Ellen Aim, is one of Jim Steinman's best songs ever: "Nowhere Fast". Topped only by "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ujk5g_E2s Tonight is What It Means to be Young]]". An epic conclusion to an otherwise forgettable movie.
* Fans of George Romero's zombie films generally consider John Harrison's score for ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'' to be the best of the series. Like the songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi3SSmU70oE "Breakdown"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPysSu1Ag18 "Escape Invasion"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-0Cz73wwQ The opening]] to ''Olympia'' set to the music from ''Alexander''.
* Creator/KevinSmith's ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'' features a very moving use of the unpublished Live song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bG1ZBaniv0 "Hold Me Up"]], which inexplicably was ''not'' included on the soundtrack.
* ''Film/MenInBlack'' already had a great Music/DannyElfman score, and Music/WillSmith stepped up and provided [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiBLgEx6svA a very fun rap theme]] backed by the bassline of "Forget Me Nots". It worked so well that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVRCd6J2NA his contribution]] to [[Film/MenInBlackII the sequel]] couldn't live up to it.
* The Dust Brothers provided an energetic electronic score for ''Film/FightClub'', highlighted by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1C7NILSiV4 the opening credits]]. It also makes excellent use of Music/ThePixies' 'Where is My Mind' in the final scene.

** Say what you will about the [[Film/MissionImpossibleIII third installment]], but a permanent point in its favor is that it has the Mission Impossible theme redone by Creator/MichaelGiacchino. The fourth. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lji6KZp0Y5A Light the Fuse]]" is just perfect.
** Lalo Schifrin also composed the insanely cool [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLn77Bk6ccE title theme]] for the ''Film/RushHour'' series. He wins. While we're in ''Rush Hour'', "War". (What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!)
** And while we're on Lalo Schifrin... ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3qeRAKUjgE Enter The Dragon]]''. With backup vocals by ''Bruce Lee''. Then there's the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRsKgyqTjE live version]], where he and a ''gigantic'' orchestra raise this theme from "utterly awesome" to "Godlike uber-awesome".
** Lalo Schifrin's ''Film/DirtyHarry'' score is excellent. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp8DGoaDZ5k Particularly Scorpio's theme.]] Later in the series, the title theme of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tcqJNKjVXA Magnum Force]]'' was so nice that Creator/{{Valve}} used it as the theme music of [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Meet the Sniper]].

* ''Film/TheGodfather''. Music/NinoRota's gonna make youse guys sleep with da fishes if youse don't listen to some of his excellent [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aV9X2d-f5g music]].
** Slash from Music/GunsNRoses performed a version of it on electric guitar. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCplsXu1HRk Badass.]]
** Nino Rota's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH80HYvYE2g passionate score]] for Creator/FrancoZeffirelli's ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet1968''! Here's the love theme on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z0__7sfNm0 violin]], and arranged by Henry Mancini for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDQ12kNfmNY piano]]. It inspired John Williams's "Across the Stars" from the ''Star Wars'' prequels.

** His SignatureSong in film (in TV, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcflCzZlLcQ it's]] ''Series/PeterGunn''), the smooth and jazzy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp6z3s1Gig0 Theme of]] ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther''.
** The indecently sexy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ymAoUptXE theme]] for the movie ''Arabesque''.
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BfUDyvdTSE "Moon River"]], made for Creator/AudreyHepburn in ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys'', and covered by lots of people ever since.
%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjGDjwxRwpI theme of]] ''Film/{{Charade}}''.
%%** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rwUOut0CqA theme]] from ''Film/{{Lifeforce}}'', that Naked Space Vampire Movie, proves that Mancini can do epic SF fanfare too.
* The ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' theme. Also NightmareFuel Music. In many ways Carpenter's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSLaYJboPE theme]] to ''Film/TheFog1980'' is even better. But Carpenter's best is probably the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTxBc_-XxmI main theme]] to ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4EW7ln3tkk Tarawa]] from ''Snow Falling On Cedars''. Just... wow.
%%* The theme from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYjnMfgzgcM The Great Escape]]''.

* Jerome Moross's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQTH3a0mjR8 ''The Big Country'' theme]] predates ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960'' by a few years, and is officially the first real Western film score.
* Music/ErichWolfgangKorngold's theme for ''King's Row,'' which should [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V47enEvsafQ sound familiar.]] Apparently, when John Williams was writing the ''Star Wars'' soundtrack, George Lucas specifically asked him to emulate this.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAMMgOtxISo The opening theme]] of ''Film/CaptainBlood'' has never been topped for sheer joyous, swashbuckling panache and awesomeness.
** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Qd97qEgFw Love Scene]]" from ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'' and the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4KCPnj06PE Reunion]]" music from ''Film/TheSeaHawk''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjgTFd6XAg8 Evey Reborn.]]
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'' with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syo6tLeZfHw Lucia di Lammermoor/The Diva Dance]].
** While the original performance by Inva Mula has contradictory sources as to whether it was digitally manipulated (it appears to be); but the semi-professional singer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0 Laura Workman]] was able to do the piece for real.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUhT0htcn-o Mercury]] is strange, short, and incredibly beautiful and relaxing.
** It's all about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRDty052c2c Cappa's Jump]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM4MjulCbhc Freezing Inside: Mace]] His death was the hardest to watch.
* Music/{{Queen}}'s theme for ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf9rEPoc8Q Viewable here.]]

** The battle between the Hawkmen and War Rocket Ajax is four-and-a-half minutes of entirely uninterrupted awesome, even discounting the presence of Creator/BrianBlessed and his signature '''DIIIVVVEEE!!!''': The triumphant, rollicking synths and rumble-tumble drums of the first theme (starting at :52 in the following clip) segue into an all-out CMOA around 2:25 as Queen just goes for it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTHypbLlkE Ready?]]

* ''Film/LoveActually'' has the triumphant-in-the-face-of-adversity [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzZbSLpYanE PM's Love Theme]]. And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7-3ozEhIk pretty awesome cover of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" by then 10-year-old Olivia Olson.]] She actually had to not sing as good as she could for the movie because the producers were worried that if she sang at full strength, the audience might not think it was actually her singing. For reference, here's how she sounds on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyeCwlAjRjk ''Love Actually'' soundtrack.]]
* Music/KennyLoggins' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPYF2p-cGx8 Danger Zone]] from ''Film/TopGun''.
** And the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTJmXrgsFg Top Gun Anthem]] is even more awesome.

* Jan A.P. Kaczmarek's Oscar-winning [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXK25IyOv9Q theme]] from Finding Neverland.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4qHRhlJlc "Jai Ho"]] from ''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It's easy to hear (and see) why.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwM0UKQnm9o "Mausam & Escape"]] reeks of epic.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4pnMYC_4EA Aaj Ki Raat]], an astonishingly trippy remix of a ''disco tune'' almost sounds like ''[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' music.
** Really, any work by A. R. Rahman would count as CMOA. The man is ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IDXGeUuKh8 prolific]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt2O2KVV-6M Some]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNWs6V2WuFk of the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTF9wpICQ80 work]] he did in India is ''[gasp]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOYN9qNXmAw as]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8scTzoLIm0 good]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q88Q6gB1UOY as]] Slumdog, though not always as showy or...techno-sounding. Even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56xwbBDg2Iw his debut]] became a classic.

* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': "Play 'La Marseillaise.' ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-E2H1ChJM Play it.]]''" Prefigured five years earlier by the rousing performance of 'La Marseillaise' in ''Film/TheGrandIllusion''. Here the Germans celebrate the taking of Fort Douaumont during the Battle of Verdun, ringing the church bells and singing 'The Watch on the Rhine' (sung by Major Strasser and his henchmen in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', even though this song was no longer the 'hit' it had been during the Franco-German War of 1870/71 and, to a lesser extent, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI), but the Allied officers in the POW camp decide to put on their variety show anyhow. Then that show is interrupted by the news that the French have retaken Douaumont, and the performers just on stage - a group of British officers in drag - lead the audience in 'La Marseillaise' to the fury of the camp commandant and his officers, who are sitting in the front row. (Marcel Dalio, one of the stars of ''Film/TheGrandIllusion'', had a bit part in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' as one of Rick's employees).
* Some highlights from ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera'' include ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQghEWUFR0 Zydrate Anatomy]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EOSNU57P5Y Chromaggia]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQo5BJbDOo Seventeen,]]'' and '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazjFa2_7Vw 'We Started This Op'ra Shit]]''.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH0XlEehE-k Let the Monster Rise]]". Anthony Stewart Head holds his last note like nobody's business.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7bH6Pip3b4 21st Century Cure]]", on the grounds of Terrance Zdunich's amazing low note on "concrete be''loooooow...''"
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rARRopvuQ Legal Assassin]]" does a great job of portraying Nathan's inner conflict while sounding awesome.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3USff2ITpc Gold]]" gives Paul Sorvino a chance to show off his pipes.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ4M-kzMACw I Didn't Know I'd Love You So Much]]" is tender and tearjerking.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E "Lux Aeterna"]], made for ''Film/RequiemForADream'', was subsequently recut for the trailers to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tnZRs4tNE The Two Towers]]'' and ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'', as well as adapted for electric guitar to be used in ''Smokin' Aces''. This is because it is ''awesome''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZuQ_r3ROY "Death is the Road to Awe"]], from the soundtrack of ''Film/TheFountain'', is at least equally amazing. Builds up till about 7:41 and then - well, it's the score to an ''[[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun exploding sun]]''. It's epic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MlWBawjT9c "Xibalba" / "Tree of Life"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDpqDpIsfs "Stay With Me"]] are pretty epic too.
** The reception to ''Film/SmokinAces'' might have been... mixed, to say the very least. However, no one can deny the ''awesome'' that is Mansell's score, most particularly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa33P9A5iHs Dead Reckoning]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAEQuE-ygjA This little piece of insanity,]] the main theme of ''Film/{{Pi}}''.
** Appropriately for the film, the soundtrack of ''Film/BlackSwan'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByOnVvhZ6JY a million different ways]] to play the music from ''Theatre/SwanLake''.
** Many of the soundtracks from ''Film/{{Noah}}'' are impressive, but the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuoblUlptRs The Judgement of Man]] stands out the most, being awe-inspiring yet chilling.
** And from a director that is not Aronofsky, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtCpttsZiys Welcome to Lunar Industries]] from ''Film/{{Moon}}''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PD1NQtHE_M theme to StarGate]] is so awesome that trailers can't help but [[RecycledTrailerMusic use it to make ''their'' movies look awesome]].
* The use of Music/BrianEno's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkH2Rz9c_8#t=1m18s "Ending (An Ascent)"]] at the end of ''Film/Traffic2000'' was pretty inspired, especially considering the final scene is of Javier [[spoiler: finally getting to watch kids play baseball at night]].
* The live action adaptation of ''Film/TwentiethCenturyBoys'' already has one in the first film, with the classical Golden Age superhero inspired theme for Kenji and the rest of the gang joining together again. When we finally get to hear the whole thing as they prepare for the climactic battle against Friend's giant robot, it makes what was already an incredibly emotional scene in the manga even more of a {{Tearjerker}}, SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, and SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome all rolled into one. Starts at 2:30 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWhE3buLIvQ here]].
* The resurrection scene in ''Casshern'' is elevated to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXyPqkPMnjg ridiculous levels of epic]] thanks to Sagisu Shiro. And then the choir kicks in at 4:22, and it's elevated even higher. The song "Requiem" from the Back Horn was quite epic as well, if not for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emYqURahUKI awesome ass kicking]] that goes along with it. When Casshern gets pissed, EVERYTHING pays.
* The entire [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlmzQXgB9g shootout]] scene from ''Film/InBruges'' had absolutely wonderful music.

* Kenneth Branagh's ''Film/{{Henry V|1989}}'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1GDRx-F1C0 "Non Nobis Domine."]] It's a bit of SoundtrackDissonance with the soft single voice starting the song and the voices that join it to finish in triumph as a bloodied Henry walks the muddy battlefield with a dead boy (a young Christian Bale) on his shoulder. It's still a great piece of music for a great film. [[TheOner The fact that the scene is a single shot is pretty awesome too.]] Trivia: the single voice that begins "Non Nobis Domine" is the composer Patrick Doyle.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-dR8HD45qs The music for the St. Crispin's Day speech is also magnificent.]]

* Again in a Kenneth Branagh film: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIACPr5XEQM the music for the opening titles]] of ''Film/MuchAdoAboutNothing1993''.
* The beats from the final fight in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kD8Q0gVPc Jackie Chans Georgeous]] will mesmerise you. Part of why it's one of the most glorious fight scenes ever.
** Right after the sheer awesomeness of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdF7kwQwQLc The Punisher being beaten to pulp]] to the sound of Verdi's 'La donna e mobile'.
* ''Cinema Paradiso''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYWFv4dqTU0 main theme]] is nothing short of amazingly beautiful. Bonus points for a nostalgic feel.
* Music/TrevorRabin's HANDS-DOWN greatest work (it's a travesty the entire score hasn't been released) is the music for ''Film/RememberTheTitans''. The only official release of music from the score (found in the last track of the CD) combines all the movie's main pieces into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU0mu-qmy-U seven-and-a-half minutes of music]] that alternately makes you want to sprint up Mt. Everest, beat the living daylights out of opponents, cry, and, well, outrun a football team to win the state championship.
** The ''Film/DeepBlueSea'' score is probably Rabin's finest achievement. In "Anarchy" he takes all of the pieces from the movie and puts them together similarly. But even more specifically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW9JcfS5KzY#t=0m19s the point when the music climaxes]] is easily the most badass music ever made. Period.

** Yet more awesomeness: his score for ''Film/Armageddon1998'', particularly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1D_BJrxf5k Evacuation]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tcredG0BRg Launch]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGF-AeSMGQ Long Distance Goodbye/Landing]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsqCl2vO9xA "It's not. Going to stop. 'Til you wise up."]] ''Magnolia'' was partly based on Aimee Mann songs, and one is actually sung by the characters in a key (and iconic) scene. It was also hilariously [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVelG87-1xs parodied]] by Music/FlightOfTheConchords.

* Arthur Benjamin's ''Storm Clouds {{Cantata}}'' with words by D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, as used in the climactic Albert Hall sequence of both versions of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'', where it effectively becomes a silent film for several minutes, no dialogue, only music. Music/BernardHerrmann, given the option to compose his own piece for the 1956 remake, stated that the original piece was perfect for the scene, and only expanded it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-BR0DPO48U Have a listen.]]
* ''Film/ThePassionOfJoanOfArc''. Yes it's a silent movie, but Richard Einhorn released a definitive score, "Voices of Light" in 1994. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3Ah9joyEI Have a listen]] to a bit, [[http://www.richardeinhorn.com/VOL/vol.libretto.pdf read the libretto]].

** Whatever its issues, the film has an epic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm5VP3of-dA main theme]]. Especially when it's reprised to scenes of Fremen mounting giant {{SandWorm}}s into battle!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gFN6LD_WMI "Paul Meets Chani"]] by Brian Eno is truly haunting. It definitely makes you think of a desert fortress on some lost planet. ''Tell me of your homeworld Usul''...

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1NFfnOpGXU The Arrival Of Lady Jessica]]" (click "Prelisten Track").
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNY0D4z5FJ4 The Jihad]]". Also, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5nT58fBGpw Summon the Worms]]" In context, Fremen leader Stilgar has just declared war, followed by a scene where the Fremen tribes are riding off to war on sandworms.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znJdaWzoRYw Inama Nushif]]".
%%** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_JumibKcp8 Theme for House Atreides]]".

* ''Film/PublicEnemies'' slots nicely into SoOkayItsAverage, but Otis Taylor's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhiO8rT_LnA music]] on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwISBR3tMtk soundtrack]] is grade A ''awesome''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2osa8o8L-E Hail Holy Queen & Oh Maria.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqp89bkFe8k I Will Follow Him.]]

* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'s'' main theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3WwM6l1J0 "La Valse D'Amélie"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyCRJmerW1Q "Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi"]], which was also used in ''Film/GoodByeLenin''. La Valse D'Amélie is so popular Music/YannTiersen performs them at most of his concerts.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8eA9BuuyjY theme]] from ''Film/{{Fargo}}''.
* Ladies and gentlemen, Masaru Satō, composer of some of Creator/AkiraKurosawa's greatest films, including ''Film/TheHiddenFortress'' (a major influence on [[Franchise/StarWars a little film you may have heard of]]), ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgswymaBuDk Yojimbo]]'' (a version of the protagonist's Swaggering Brass Theme of Awesome starts at the 2:00 mark) and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5wNT08Ur1k Sanjuro]]''.

* Simon and Garfunkel's contributions to ''Film/TheGraduate''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxWkCHt8owc All]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKwbEsXBmKA of]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Wa_flgSUE them.]]
* ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' had an great retro soundtrack, but the awesome point was hit during the kickboxing fight scene to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNpaaPHENE Mirror in the Bathroom by The English Beat.]]

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEO-3CZzTA0 end credits]] music is good too.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv3Tt0fFJkU Serenity theme]]. When we first see the ship the music starts out so soft and melancholic and then turns into this energetic and cheerful ode to freedom... Awesome!

* The Disney movie ''Film/HocusPocus'' is nothing particularly special, but in one sequence [[LargeHam Bette Midler]] does a performance of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jKBCyIgxqo I Put a Spell on You]]" that has to be heard to be believed. As does Sarah Jessica Parker singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKlsUrfbiE0 Come Little Children]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTJeT2i9QU "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"]] and its immediate follow-up, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hdiUuSgIc "Sweet Home Chicago"]] are the [[TheElevenOClockNumber eleven o'clock numbers]] to ''end'' all eleven o'clock numbers.

* ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' had its faults. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01LyMe2YI4 "How Blue Can You Get"]] featuring B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Music/TravisTritt, Paul Schaffer, Koko Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Steve Winwood, Isaac Hayes, Charlie Musselwhite, Clarence Clemons, Lou Rawls, and ''every major living blues performer from the past 50 years'', is not one of them.
* From the movie ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' comes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nRGC720Qak Ever Ever After.]]
** The affectionate parody of Disney Classics, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li3sWY5bRZE Happy Working Song.]]
** The Central Park dancefest, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meza9j5oLYA That's How You Know.]]
** The genuinely emotional song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHnZ_vtyJ6E So Close.]]
** The over-the-top villainy of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1MGCGjOmi4 Narissa Arrives.]]
* Georgi Sviridov's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm8kpZoX32k waltz]] from the Russian movie ''The Blizzard''. It's way more famous than the movie itself. The same goes for his fast-paced, aggressively awesome orchestral tune for the film ''Time Forward'', which even ended up becoming the ident of the Soviet Union's ''Vremya'' news.
* Eugen Doga's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSHQgpeCbQ wedding waltz]] from ''A Hunting Accident'' is so popular it's often played at real weddings.
* The Soviet-French film ''Teheran 43'' has the beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swPkQfXelt8 Une vie d'amour]].
* Charles Aznavour's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27J3i4xGDA0 Et pourtant]] is a classic now though the movie it was written for, ''Cherchez l'idole'', seems to be completely forgotten.
* Creator/BobFosse's ''Film/AllThatJazz'' gives us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6SXjdCRkvE this climactic cover of "Bye Bye Love"]].
* The both upbeat and haunting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snnwjoToN-8 theme]] from ''Film/DasBoot''. Good movie, too.
* Although most of ''The Passion of the Christ'' is extremely sad, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSn6WnvJrBU "Resurrection" ending theme]] can just blow you away.
* Say what you will about its overuse in film trailers, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBjkqNWr7hs Craig Armstrong's "Escape"]] from ''Film/PlunkettAndMacleane'' more than deserves its awesome status, particularly with the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome truly awesome]] BigDamnHeroes moment that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVukR3SflAc#t=2m10s it's used for]] in the movie.
* The thunderous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqeaJf-4bn8 "O Verona"]] from the Baz Luhrmann ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' movie, as well as its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzasIBrO4k reprise]] later in the movie. The all-male choir Only Men Aloud has covered this awesome track.

* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jehCpeVB50g Axel F]]" from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' is incredibly catchy. Even though it is two decades old, it was featured on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and also used in a scene in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, it topped musical charts in 1985, and remixes of it topped European musical charts in 2003! Also awesome are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb6e2iBsRjc "The Heat is On"]], the opening theme of the first movie, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nllSQP4ADk "Shakedown"]], the opening theme from [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopII the first sequel]].

* The VillainSong [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8W2fkhfFPc "Choose Your Poison"]] from ''The Return of Captain Invincible'' gets bonus points for being sung by none other than ''Creator/ChristopherLee''.
* ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkmvwCpcZlM They Call the Wind Maria]].
* ''Film/{{Oldboy 2003}}'' has a lyrical and creepy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4rXH5Aqa4 theme]], epecially if you picture Oh Dae-Su as he walks, smiling when the suicidal guy hits the ground behind him. And the words in his head: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone." AWESOME!

* From ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'', we have the songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEhZN0BtbLk Decimation Proclamation]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoxxsllQCqQ Requiem Overture]], and the end credits, which combine both.

* 1969's ''Film/BattleOfBritain'' was scored mostly by fairly standard martial music -- a bombastic march for the Germans, and a heroic theme for the British. Then they reached the final air battle, turned off the sound effects, and let William Walton's music take over. No machine-guns, no explosions, no dialogue, just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43zVRey2XEs amazingly, hauntingly awesome music]] as two air forces fight tooth and nail in the skies of southern England.

** On the subject of Ron Goodwin, the composer for ''Film/BattleOfBritain'', the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKGhG0W0LQ theme]] from ''Film/WhereEaglesDare''.
** Goodwin also wrote the music for the [[Film/MissMarple four Miss Marple movies starring Margaret Rutherford]] and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgS26ZhqZs rollicking theme]] for ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines''.
** His epic ''633 Squadron'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAG11eworFU theme.]]
* The famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32Adi8nmzA Dambusters March]], which has arguably become more famous than the movie it is from. It's even more awesome because (according to the composer's son), the piece was not actually written for the film, but as a stand-alone, Elgarian style march, as the march's composer Eric Coates disliked writing film music.

* ''Film/OfficeSpace'' "DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster!" Especially with Peter's stone cold indifference in that scene, as well as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcpw8rHVgkY Still]]" by Geto Boys, the music in the copier scene.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnw-wnVd_bo "Vocalise"]] from ''Film/TheNinthGate'' is exquisitely haunting, and easily the best part of the soundtrack.
* Another from Creator/MichaelGiacchino: The soundtrack of the ''Film/SpeedRacer'' film was amazing at all times, but the piece entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4Ef3AzqjA Reboot]], which plays as Speed goes from dead last to first place after jump-starting his car, is just beautiful. Quite a few of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG8GOnvNIyY other]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M6RHmGWEqA pieces]] are worth a listen.
* Andrew Lloyd Webber's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ3UbHpc32A Overture]] from ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004''.
* ''Film/{{Mongol}}'' is packed with an immense amount of awesome songs, featuring legitimate throat singing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4CIh_Lx8SY Does this not shriek bad-assitude?]] What about with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN6cJ1lmyZo METAL?]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z2qNiU8XWY Sacrifice]]" by Music/{{Motorhead}}, from ''Film/TromeoAndJuliet''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X438QOR7gYU The main theme]] from ''Film/OutOfAfrica''.
* ''Film/HudsonHawk'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGXPEKychuU Would you like to swing on a star...]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_hCJMVaAk "A Man of Determination"]] from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina''.
* Ilan Eshkeri and his ''Film/{{Stardust}}'' score. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVjC0GZjsOo Septimus]]'' in particular is excellent (so much so that it was used on ''Series/TopGear'' during the diesel BMW race when the Stig was at the wheel), but there's also a short bit of music similar to that which plays as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8Q-hWCVBs Septimus and Lamia use the runes to search for Yvaine]] and which - woes! - isn't included in the official soundtrack. Other standouts from that soundtrack include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5exhwAvO3-M "Shooting Star"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L-Bk28Ra6Q "Coronation"]].

* From ''Mr. and Mrs. Smith'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-clu4saU0 El Tango de los Assassinos.]]
* Kenji Kawai's masterpieces from the Kung-Fu movie ''Ip Man'', one of the best and most memorable being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJO9CqweUd8 "Battle for Righteousness".]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiSqidAQPtw Bricklin - Walk Away?]] It's the music that the report begins to and it gets better if you listen to the whole song.

* ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFfcfUx-skE 'Cause what you got is what we need, and all we do is dirty deeds...]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSS9kCwAl2U The opening theme]] from ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_TbgMUx9OA "It's our secret of survival in a very nasty world!"]]

* From ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqXjr46CZVw "The Orange Man"]] makes your hair stand on end.
* Amazingly, ''Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London'' spawns a pretty epic cover of Edwin Starr's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Wygjx2dzc "War"]], especially combined with the fight going on behind it. It's still chill-inducing even over 10 years later. 'War! Hurrghh! Was is is gut for?' MADE. OF. WIN.
* From ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g63GNjWdf0Q this]].
* The original ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma1957''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OfXcjLchz0 opening song]] is pretty awesome too.
* '''[[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie MOOOOOOORTAAAAAAAAL]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-0JjObevMM KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!]]''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRlvrtdS0c "Control"]], which underscores the fight between Liu Kang and Reptile is also blood-pumping and awesome.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyKYLWJE9KA The main title theme]] from ''Film/CutthroatIsland''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdlz6QzyAVA Barbra Streisand's finale]] at the end of ''Film/FunnyGirl''. Her amazing vocal power and emotion in that scene was most certainly a key factor for her to win the Oscar for best performing actress-the only Oscar ever that was a tie.

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6EBZOmCJBo The Clap]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlZqtqWPJzM Bangers, Beans and Mash]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvzKJDtYB04 Going Up]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfIv_NCX9jg Gang of Lust]]
%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPhi-kr6cA and Furry Walls]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UDkFRwtsU Drive Faster]] from the movie ''Film/{{Transporter 3}}'', especially from 1:06 onwards. (Thanks, ''WebAnimation/TheGModIdiotBox''!)
* "The Boys are Back in Town" by Music/ThinLizzy playing over the end credits of ''Film/TheExpendables''. The Extended Cut [[HeroicSacrifice excises the song to make room]] for Shinedown's "Diamond Eyes", a song that Creator/SylvesterStallone commissioned for this very movie. What it loses in classic cool it gains threefold in ''sheer badass''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hez6tDpiWDA Boom-lay, boom-lay, BOOM!]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1NqMLeGpmQ "Feeding Time"]] from ''BeethovensSecond'', composed by Randy Edelman.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXxiF7HdzV4 "Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint"]] by A.R. Rahman / Punjabi MC over the closing credits of ''Film/InsideMan''.
* A very early CMOA - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXr0m7SaGvs "Battle on the Ice"]] from ''Film/AlexanderNevsky'', scored by Prokofiev. Inspired many a dramatic battle theme, and may have even introduced OminousLatinChanting to cinema audiences.
* ''Film/CampRock 2''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzbTIw2H91k "I Wouldn't Change A Thing"]] is just awesome.

* ''Film/{{Holes}}.'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6yhtffOtjw "If Only, If Only."]] For pure fun, you really can't beat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJushnYJvQs Dig It.]] Now, if only it didn't get stuck in your head like there's no tomorrow...

%%* From ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSF21mYLnNI The Winner Is]], which appears in an awesome ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2'' trailer (made awesome by the song's presence).
* ''Film/Suspiria1977'' has a truly epic theme by Music/{{Goblin}}. The full version is six minutes of CreepyAwesome. Listen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvUaGlbTya4 here.]]
* The moment from ''Film/AlmostFamous'' where they all sing [[Music/EltonJohn "Tiny Dancer"]] on the bus. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn3tel9FWU It's the highlight of the film.]]
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--AiPGAqSY The Natural]], one of Randy Newman's finest pieces.
* ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' has the criticism on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBfWz2bSOQ its]] CreativeClosingCredits enhanced by some Music/RageAgainstTheMachine in the background. Although it eventually becomes hilarious once the music changes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVRCd6J2NA "Pimps Don't Cry"]]...

** From the [[Film/TheMuppets2011 2011 movie]] we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBe7_lE9lE "Life's a Happy Song"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWWTW1P8rQ Man or Muppet]] which is an AwardBaitSong [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic done right]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WWdOjxoQro "Shiver My Timbers]] from ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q39f4YzK6sU The theme]] from ''Yor: Hunter from the Future''.
* It's the mid-1980s. Some bright spark decides to adapt the ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' series for cinema. It's not a financial success, so sadly no follow-ups are made. But it has more than its fair share of awesome moments...and Craig Safan composes a bitchin' good, none-more-80s top-notch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8VeH3JykPo action hero theme]] for ''Film/RemoWilliamsTheAdventureBegins''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6vuZL_gS7w "Battle of Kerak"]] from Creator/RidleyScott's ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'', another Harry Gregson-Williams piece; medieval and operatic, it's the most energetic and diverse theme on the soundtrack, with a helping of MoodWhiplash... along with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjE0BZwShEU Arabic end credits]], "Ibelin/Light of Life" also by Gregson-Williams.
* Bizarre, but Georgio Moroder's [[{{Zeerust}} uber-80's]] 1984 [[{{Macekre}} soundtrack]] to the classic silent film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' contains several pieces of Awesome, e.g. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuUqdkO47w "Cage of Freedom"]] which accompanies TheReveal of the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Tower of Babel]] skyscraper. This in turn inspired at least one enterprising Netizen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG8NRPPQOrk to recut]] the Metropolis trailer to the "[[SpiritualSuccessor Bladerunner theme]]" by Vangelis.
* ''Film/MasterAndCommander'''s soundtrack has some of the most exceptional quality records of the existing songs it 'covers' like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w58Gg1T504U La Musica Notturna Delle Strade]] and portion of Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3, as well as some amazing battle scores.

* ''Film/TheThomasCrownAffair1968'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fVPagHR88E this little gem.]]

* ''Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7Cu3H33HY Festival by Sigur Ros]]. While awesome on its own, the song's awesomeness is amplified by the thousands in context of the scene that it's in. [[EarnYourHappyEnding You know which]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJH0eBtnbcs "Welcome Home"]] by Music/KingDiamond, from ''Film/ClerksII''.
* For some strange reason the soundtrack of the Ewan [=McGregor=] movie ''The Serpent's Kiss'' never was released. It's a shame, since it featured rare gems like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDBpQGnjuE this one.]]

* [[Film/{{UHF}} Don't change your channel!]] [[Music/WeirdAlYankovic Don't touch that dial!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGIa8xOmjg We got it all]] on UH! F!

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cObUe6OAW9A opening theme]] to ''Film/CecilBDemented'', by Music/{{Moby}}. Awesomely distorted. And from the same film, Basil and Zoe Poledouris's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyuaHpPtbAw "Dying To Meet You".]]
* Nick Glennie-Smith's score to ''Film/WeWereSoldiers''. It is an incredible soundtrack that really fits the story. But the part that sticks out the most is the piece that plays during the end credits. It is entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtXNh9oxbSY Mansions of the Lord]], and it is so unbelievably beautiful.
* The Eurythmics ConceptAlbum / Soundtrack to ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. The whole album oozes despair and paranoia - completely fitting to the subject matter. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyHm6bU0Vzg "Doubleplusgood"]] is as high-energy and paranoid as a cocaine binge. "Room 101" is horror in soundtrack form. Samples from all the tracks [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhqAH_k8QWY here]].
* In ''Film/GoodByeLenin'', the national anthem of former East Germany is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59vv2xFPVtY used]] awesomely in a rousing (if fake) news broadcast.

* The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm-XUwbZDxQ Jungle Dance]]" from the original ''Film/KingKong1933''. So awesome, they re-used it as the [[SourceMusic in-world music]] in the theatre scene.

* Music/RizOrtolani's main [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1Vt6r-sj8 theme]] to ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' is utterly beautiful in spite of its gruesome subject matter. A fantastic textbook case of SoundtrackDissonance.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBctuRQj45w Prawnkus]]" from ''Film/{{District 9}}''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLO7IxKwruc Mean Green Mother]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM Dentist]] from ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors''.
* Patrick Doyle's score for ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' ought to be included here. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wjw94XUf94 Check it.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPn4d651zM Sweet Dreams]] running through the opening sequence of ''Film/SuckerPunch''. Both haunting and simply breathtaking. Sung by Lead Actress Creator/EmilyBrowning herself no less.
** From the trailer we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B95fjp9QnhQ "The Crablouse"]] by Music/LordsOfAcid.
** Another trailer features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG8fugqFn9Q "Panic Switch"]] by Music/SilversunPickups.
** An amazing cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZMrp8yDM78 "Where Is My Mind"]] by Music/ThePixies performed by Yoav and Emily Browning.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4sZlyOc58k "I Want It All/We Will Rock You"]] mash up.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsL6dECQ38 "Tomorrow Never Knows"]] cover.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IiLS1JtnRY "Asleep"]] cover by Emily Browning is beautiful.
** Emiliana Torrini's version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMBXcX9mmRc "White Rabbit"]] combines psychedelia and pure badassery to make one epic cover.

%%** ''Film/{{Snatch}}'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl0AzVf74yI Diamond]]" by Klint over the montage introducing all the main characters, "Disco Science" by Mirwais in the hare chase, and Music/{{Oasis}}' "Fuckin' in the Bushes" during Mickey's last fight.
%%** The soundtrack for ''Film/RocknRolla'' had among other Music/TheClash's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8LBHemGpjk "Bank Robber"]] and The Subways' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLZvJ_rtZO8 Rock and Roll Queen]]" (the latter is even highlighted in the trailer).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR-Y9iWZurI Wong Chia Chi's Theme]] by Alexandre Desplat in Ang Lee's ''Film/LustCaution''. It's such a sublime and beautiful score, you ''will'' want to cry.
* ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHdDM3Dv8s YEAH! YEAH! OH YEAH!]]

* ''Film/GhostRider''. The cover of the song "Ghost Riders in the Sky" by the band Spiderbait in the ending credits (and also an instrumental of the same song while the two ride) is simply ''awesome''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxnu0q_6uPM Listen to it here.]]
* The ''Film/JoshuuSasori'' series has two haunting, highly emotionally charged, slightly surreal and all-round [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwyKliodLZY incredible]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kMe1iK7cDo songs]] across the four first films. The fourth film is named after the more famous one. Both are beautifully sung by Meiko Kaji, the main actress, who is also a respected enka singer in her own right, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeWsnH2a4XA is known for]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uICNm-KJ_GY doing songs]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZOuVky-lPM for her films]].
* Trevor Jones's score for ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'' is ''made'' of awesome, particularly the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMAs60rL8dM seven-minute plus end credits]].
* Tan Dun has done some very impressive work. Prime examples: the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSkoyVjULXY Overture]] to ''Hero'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSWwoarIIQ 'For the World']]. See also the quiet heartbreak of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0-btqkYNY 'Gone with Leaves']], and feel the Wuxia badassitude of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMe0AYSBZI two assassins storming the King of Qin's palace.]] By themselves.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-EBMkr72U "What Are We Made Of"]] from ''The Adventures Of Pinocchio'', composed by the one and only [[Music/{{Queen}} Brian May]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd8iVPm-ROU "Darkest Side Of The Night"]] from ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIIIJasonTakesManhattan.''

* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdKqbboCXSI main/Arthur theme]] is stock music. Nonetheless, it's so bombastic it would have worked well in a straighter treatment of the Arthurian mythos.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjf5Wiwhcqc From the Kungfu Master TV series]]. It gets better if you actually understand what it's saying.
** ''Film/IpMan''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29QPa7Ebtj4 theme song]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqAlyLZhPss and its sequel]].
** ''Film/ShaolinSoccer''[='=]s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7e2FxHXuJo opening.]]
* Christopher Young's entire score for the original ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' film is dark, foreboding, mysterious, and imposing. Awards must be given for his "Resurrection" track, which played during Frank's fleshy resurrection as a skinless monstrosity back into the earth from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpveZRy2Cw world of the cenobites]].
* ''Film/TheElusiveAvengers'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRA9B_4EtGc the Chase Song]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax'''s theme song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zguqSx-QN6Q Perpetuum Mobile]]", is not only a memorable track, but it also counts as Heartwarming Music.
* The music from ''Film/TheArtist'' is integral to this beautiful silent film, from its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skvwSqNI6BE wonderfully melodramatic opening]] to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAzQjB6I8KY swingtastic climax]], all scored by Ludovic Bource.

* The song that plays over the start of the end credits for ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' is the absolutely '''epic''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtBbOcdFxo Breath of Life]] by Florence + The Machine.
* In the French film ''Le Concert'', the main orchestra is going to play Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, and they haven't rehearsed at all. The start is a bit wobbly due to the lack of rehearsing, but after Anne-Marie begins her solo, the orchestra manages to reach spontaneous harmony. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTUfpkIq3cI See the concert here (all speaking in Spanish)]].
* From ''{{Film/Millions}}'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se7eDjG_oeQ House Building]]", which combines a serene, beautiful, heavenly choir with something truly badass.
* ''Film/SilentHillRevelation3D'' has some music based off of tracks from the original games. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvBYMV1-aJg "Vincent Condemned"]] is a pretty awesome and heavy piece of music that sounds like one half ''[[Film/TheTerminator Terminator]]'' theme, with the other half being "Memory of the Waters" from ''VideoGame/SilentHill3''.
* Several performances from ''Film/VelvetGoldmine'' could qualify, but a particular standout is Ewan [=McGregor's=] rendition of Iggy Pop's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDdH9Pqwq8 "Gimme Danger."]] Sadly, it was not included on the soundtrack. The instrumental section in the middle featuring two different lead guitar solos being played simultaneously is an incredible trip!
%%* The ''On Golden Pond'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTo4szOe8A theme]] by Dave Grusin.

%%* Dario Marianelli. ''Film/{{Atonement}}''. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVuRWdu_Ifg Elegy for Dunkirk]]". ''Wow.''
%%* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'': The theme song, "Oblivion", by Music/{{M83}} and Susanne Sundfør. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDx8gFJnYLc The]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAC07HIGRJM whole]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbVULmCCVcM soundtrack]] definitely fits here.
%%* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZhNp1jHI04#t=34s The Joes' Leitmotif]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpuhWD4mjUY The credits theme]] of ''Film/PacificRim''. It's yet another electrical guitar-fest from ''Film/IronMan'' composer Music/RaminDjawadi, and like the movie itself it is AWESOME.

** Jessie J's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25a0dBMwYq0 "Hero".]]

* The theme from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBdzigXa5jE Homeward Bound]]''.
* ''Film/BeastsOfTheSouthernWild'' is somewhat sparse with its music, but when it does come in we get beautiful pieces such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L60DP18zpIA this]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CInQYmQCDnw this.]]
* ''Film/MerryChristmasMrLawrence'' has its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqPO9DvI9uw theme music]]. Much like the film, it is both simultaneously sad and heart-wrenching as well as uplifting and beautiful.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOQwYIr2Zg&t=3m50s ending credit music]] to the little known film ''Pass the Ammo''. It's a catchy criticism of Televangelism done in the style of Gospel.
* The soundtrack for the original ''Emmanuelle'' film was done by the legendary Pierre Bachelet and includes such great songs as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpJ77J-jn70 Emmanuelle in the Mirror]]" (warning: the link contains the soundtrack's mildly NSFW cover art), which perfectly encapsulates the quiet unhappiness that drives the title character throughout the film, and the trippy "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOxAJwZyiV4 Emmanuelle Swims]]".
* In ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', Music/LanaDelRey's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ44x0GnKh4 "Once Upon A Dream"]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMj4KRDHU0M "The Chronicle,"]] by Cuzzy Capone.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVnhI6meKb0 "This Bright Flash"]] by M83.
* The film adaptation of ''Literature/TheHundredYearOldManWhoClimbedOutTheWindowAndDisappeared'', scored by Matti Bye, has a lot of [[http://moviescoremedia.com/the-hundred-year-old-man-who-climbed-out-the-window-and-disappeared-matti-bye/ great music]], most of it epic with a little hint of whimsy. Most of it isn't available on Website/YouTube, with the exception of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20gHWNwje1I the main theme]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTqXEQ2l-Y "Everything is Awesome!!!"]]

** From Music/MarkMothersbaugh's score, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncVv-MW7E00 "Saloons & Wagons"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZ7K-LrZzc "Emmet's Plan"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLhLQ_gudAg "Wyldstyle Leads"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSPT3di7uU "My Secret Weapon"]].

** Even the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM4rVv5vDnE "Double Dare" fanfare]] makes an appearance. Hell, let's just say the entire soundtrack and leave it there.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8706Kx_H_g "Jag in a Jungle"]] by Brite Futures, used as the theme for Cloud Cuckooland.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8vuu0ZbvX8 "Field Test"]] scene with Murphy against the Omnicorp drones and Mattox makes use of the rock instrumental [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAgvTsVcQgQ "Hocus Pocus"]] by Dutch progressive rock band Focus, with great effect.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssntEu8Uwxo I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)]], during the credits.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNv2PVEtmgI credits music]] of ''Film/AsAboveSoBelow'', a very slick, well-fitting French rap piece (Hypsoline, by La Femme).

* The film ''Film/OneNightWithTheKing'', based on the Biblical Literature/BookOfEsther, got mixed reviews -- but its soundtrack is so damn good that it has an undisputed five-star rating on Amazon. Highlights include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJu0d02nrlE "For Such a Time as This"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Fyj9ldzcg "Unsummoned Before the King"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a28m3wS0Y_8 "A Season of Feasting"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAPGw8nqMgg "Esther's Petition"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRMPNFYKQRg "Kingdom of Love"]].

* "Prologue: Into the Woods" is amazing in the stage version of ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'', but [[Film/IntoTheWoods the film version]] is really something special. Especially at the very end, where all the different voices and lyrics come together and flawlessly harmonize and flow with each other... it's enough to drive you to tears, and for fans of the stage show, this was the first major sign that all their worries about the adaptation were for naught, and that this was going to be a good movie. Also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WQESlOeco "Hello, Little Girl"]] combines EvilIsSexy with OneSceneWonder for a seductive VillainSong. Who knew Creator/JohnnyDepp could sing so well?
* Although this tends to fall under RecycledTrailerMusic ([[AwesomeMusic/MovieTrailers but still a good movie trailer song]]), probably the most awesome usage of the Zack Hemsey song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhv_yFMuwxs "Vengeance"]] was in the final battle of ''Film/TheEqualizer'', when [[spoiler: [=McCall=] gruesomely dispatches Teddy and his men at the Home Mart that was taken over by them,]] as well as the Music/{{Moby}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNwTbPA-iA New Dawn Fades]], and the ending theme, the Music/{{Eminem}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0zo3vbqJOE Guts Over Fear]].
* The first ''Film/{{Blade}}'' film had a techno-based soundtrack. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9lIxTFO078 "Confusion (1995 Pump Panel Remix)"]] by Music/NewOrder is the most noteworthy example (interestingly, it's one of the few songs in the movie that made it to the soundtrack album, which mostly kept to hip-hop songs not in the movie).

%%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHs5FXN3nag Mr.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXScGeEvgYg Magorium's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpLaBimc40 Wonder]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwIpWDmuZNQ Emporium]]''.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f59ZtVeTr0 Get Ready For It]]" by Take That. Definitely ''not'' what you'd expect for a gory spy action thriller, but perfectly fitting as the theme for stereotypical LowerClassLout Eggsy becoming his generation's James Bond expy.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GolFACY_K4Y Another Body]]", an instrumental composed by Music/ElP played over the end credits.

* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'' had Music/TinaTurner in the cast, and sure enough, she goes all-in to deliver a memorable credits song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwRPXmcggdY We Don't Need Another Hero]]".

** Immortan Joe constantly (i.e. ''for practically the entire film'') pumps up his forces with ThePowerOfRock... As has ''never'' been seen before! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8lebbgyopg "Blood Bag"]] is a good example. And then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifk7F2OPiEU "Claw Trucks"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQBnlWAMq_Q "Chapter Doof"]] which play in the FinalBattle.
** Not included in the soundtrack album but still epic, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORPOeyrJez4 "Dies Irae"]] from [[Music/GiuseppeVerdi Verdi]]'s ''Requiem'', heard in the trailer and during the Bullet Farmer's rampage definitely qualifies. It was also sampled in some of the tracks, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaL6NxTvWRM "Brothers in Arms"]].
** On the TearJerker side, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX31F1vvhnU "Many Mothers"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQqrLzeuB4 "Valhalla Awaits"]] from the extended soundtrack, both of which will bring you to your knees, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdvJrB5nhWY "My Name Is Max"]].
** And finally there's the triumphant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuxMCnhzB20 "Let Them Up"]] used in the finale.
** The [[AlternativeForeignThemeSong Japanese version]] has Music/ManWithAMission's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ke29SEAR5U "Out of Control"]].

** The [[MasochismTango tango]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vm4TYFzUH0 scene]] in ''Addams Family Values'', where both the waltz theme from the first movie AND the theme music from the TV series are strung together to make a thoroughly incredibly piece of Latin dance music. The fact that Morticia gets spun about fast enough to become a blur, not to mention literally setting fire to the dance floor, makes it all the better. Ending, naturally enough, with a symbolic [[spoiler: popping of every last champagne cork in the building]].
* In ''Film/TheLastWitchHunter'', there's Ciara's cover of Rolling Stones' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPWxymohWs "Paint It Black"]], a really climactic and hypnotic piece of music used in most of the trailers.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC10r9wTap8 title music]] from ''Film/FiveWeeksInABalloon'' perfectly encapsulates the feeling of lighthearted, whimsical adventure central to the film.
%%* ''Film/TheRevenant'': The haunting score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bryce Dessner and Alva Noto, especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4oEhmvaC4I main theme]] and its variations.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MWI4DfiCG8 "Go Go Power Rangers" theme song]] was somehow made ''more'' awesome, courtesy of the Power Rangers Orchestra.

** Likewise, the film score by Graeme Revell, ''especially'' the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H7UjJ62e-8 "Great Power" leifmotif]].

* The Bollywood film ''Ghatak: Lethal'' has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGDhDuXNLs Koi Jaye To Le Aaye]]", a high-energy dance number.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7rmOAHoEc The main theme]] of ''Film/{{Steel}}''. Say what you want about the rest of the movie, the main theme is an epic and triumphant anthem greatly suited to Steel, even if we're talking about the comics. If the movie had done better, the main theme might have been remembered as one of the great superhero themes of cinema, up there with the John Williams Superman theme and the Danny Elfman Batman theme.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EDefQTWxA8 The End Titles theme]] from the 1981 Creator/MichaelMann film ''Film/{{Thief}}'', titled "Confrontation" on the soundtrack, performed by Craig Safan. It features an awesome Music/PinkFloyd-like guitar playing throughout the song.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cY3_SIlsoI main theme]] for the Indian movie ''Singham.'' Considering the title character and the dance during the opening credits, it still comes off as a sort of ''Rocky'' theme for India.

** First, to get you in the mood to watch a 50-year-old Creator/KeanuReeves kick some ass, here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg2aqd621Fc Story of Wick]]. The inclusion of an actual candle being lit marks the song building up just like John's emotions as of late.
** What better to underscore the relationship between Marcus and John, and how the [[spoiler:former will betray Viggo for John's sake]]? Why, just let Music/MarilynManson do it for you, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNTjM3_0N80 Killing Strangers]].
** John makes a badass entrance to the Red Circle's dance floor as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pv0u7uMn-g LED Spirals]] plays, one of four contributions to the soundtrack by Le Castle Vania. It's followed by the shootout itself, set to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNXsO6j0n4s Shots Fired]]. An energetic dance beat fits John's fast, precise GunFu style.
** One from [[Film/JohnWickChapter2 the sequel]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2EU5VOzLQ John Wick Mode]] accompanies the Rome Catacombs shootout. Mixing cues from LED Spirals with its own musical progression, it really fits the increased tension and pace of the gunplay for the sequel.

* Music/WangChung's uber-[[TheEighties 80s]] score to Creator/WilliamFriedkin's ''Film/ToLiveAndDieInLA'' is epic as hell, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf4x36XKhsM the theme song]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upgCCAUI6TI "City of Angels"]].
* 1981's ''Film/{{Arthur|1981}}'' is one of the great RomanticComedy films, and it ''cannot'' be discussed without bringing up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnBPHWk5FQ8 "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"]], performed and co-written by Christopher Cross and one of the best Soft Rock songs ever. Warm piano, sweeping strings, tender verses (particularly the second), a glorious saxophone solo, the singularly wonderful lyric "When you get caught between the moon and New York City"...it's all the heart and fun of Creator/DudleyMoore's most beloved character distilled into less than four minutes.

* ''Film/{{Kikujiro}}'' has the beautiful, soulful "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIrU-iD7gmE Riverside]]" that plays toward the finale, courtesy of Music/JoeHisaishi. (Certain Netizens may know it better for its [[https://wiki.ytmnd.com/No_Class memetic status]] or appearance in ''WebVideo/AMVHell 4'', where the very fact that it's such a beautiful track is used ironically.)
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsUWBNxc2Lo main theme]] of ''Film/IlyaMuromets'' fits the epic tone of the movie, as does the song played to cure Ilya of his paralysis. Other themes, like those played during the CorpseLand scene and the battles, are also a good match for the mood.

* Christopher Young is an expert in horror scores, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIFzdwrzek the chilling violins of]] ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4aydQSu7-E and]] ''Film/{{Species}}'' helping said movies' creepy atmosphere.
* ''Film/{{Moonfall}}'' might be an astoundingly dumb disaster movie, but at least it ends in a sweet ethereal pop track with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0JVT43Ngs "One More Time"]].
* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo'' has the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJn-Jl2ZeQU eponymous song]] by the fictional OneHitWonder band the "Oneders", which is a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles-esque]] pop rock tune that genuinely sounds like a hit from TheSixties.

* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. Earth just exploded. Pan up into the nothingness of space. The Guide sweeps across the screen. "Journey of the Sorcerer" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOMGIbY-9s starts playing]]. The opening music of the movie (So Long and Thanks for All the Fish) was already an ear catcher, but it was made infinitely more awesome when Neil Hannon reprises it in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXek9_IGWZA credits]].

* The title music of ''Film/AClockworkOrange'' is an electronic synth-y version of Henry Purcell's "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" by Wendy Carlos.[[note]] At the time, still known as Walter Carlos.[[/note]] It is absolutely MAJESTIC and adds an eerie atmosphere to the opening scene.

** From the [[Film/TheMuppets 2011 movie]] we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBe7_lE9lE "Life's a Happy Song"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWWTW1P8rQ Man or Muppet]] which is an AwardBaitSong [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic done right]].

** Yet more awesomeness: his score for ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'', particularly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1D_BJrxf5k Evacuation]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tcredG0BRg Launch]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGF-AeSMGQ Long Distance Goodbye/Landing]].

* The use of Brian Eno's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkH2Rz9c_8#t=1m18s "Ending (An Ascent)"]] at the end of ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' was pretty inspired, especially considering the final scene is of Javier [[spoiler: finally getting to watch kids play baseball at night]].

** ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' had its faults. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01LyMe2YI4 "How Blue Can You Get"]] featuring B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Music/TravisTritt, Paul Schaffer, Koko Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Steve Winwood, Isaac Hayes, Charlie Musselwhite, Clarence Clemons, Lou Rawls, and ''every major living blues performer from the past 50 years'', is not one of them.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UDkFRwtsU Drive Faster]] from the movie ''Film/{{Transporter 3}}'', especially from 1:06 onwards. (Thanks, ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox''!)

* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jehCpeVB50g Axel F]]" from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' is incredibly catchy. Even though it is two decades old, it was featured on an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and also used in a scene in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens''. According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, it topped musical charts in 1985, and remixes of it topped European musical charts in 2003! Also awesome are [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb6e2iBsRjc "The Heat is On"]], the opening theme of the first movie, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nllSQP4ADk "Shakedown"]], the opening theme from [[Film/BeverlyHillsCopII the first sequel]].

%%* ''Film/Fury2014: Along with a few instances in the score, the Waffen-SS battalion's marching song, "In Feindesland." It's a real SS marching song, but looking it up is not necessarily encouraged unless you want to deal with the kind of people who put SS marching songs up on the internet.

%%* ''Film/{{Fury}}: Along with a few instances in the score, the Waffen-SS battalion's marching song, "In Feindesland." It's a real SS marching song, but looking it up is not necessarily encouraged unless you want to deal with the kind of people who put SS marching songs up on the internet.

* ''Film/{{That Thing You Do}}'' has the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJn-Jl2ZeQU&feature=youtu.be eponymous song]] by the fictional [[Main/{{OneHitWonder}} one-hit wonder]] band the "Oneders", which is a [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles-esque]] pop rock tune that genuinely sounds like a hit from [[Main/TheSixties the '60s]].

* Arthur Benjamin's ''Storm Clouds Cantata'' with words by D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, as used in the climactic Albert Hall sequence of both versions of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'', where it effectively becomes a silent film for several minutes, no dialogue, only music. Music/BernardHerrmann, given the option to compose his own piece for the 1956 remake, stated that the original piece was perfect for the scene, and only expanded it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-BR0DPO48U Have a listen.]]

* The main [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1Vt6r-sj8 theme]] to ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' is utterly beautiful in spite of its gruesome subject matter. A fantastic textbook case of SoundtrackDissonance.

* ''Film/{{Tron}}''. The Wendy Carlos music is brilliant (the fact that the real-world music is mainly orchestral while the computer-world music is mainly electronic, was a brilliant touch), but the two Music/{{Journey}} tracks are also great.

* "The Boys are Back in Town" by Music/ThinLizzy playing over the end credits of ''Film/TheExpendables''.
** The Extended Cut [[HeroicSacrifice excises the song to make room]] for Shinedown's "Diamond Eyes", a song that Creator/SylvesterStallone commissioned for this very movie. What it loses in classic cool it gains threefold in ''sheer badass''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hez6tDpiWDA Boom-lay, boom-lay, BOOM!]]

* "The Boys are Back in Town" by Music/ThinLizzy playing over the end credits of ''Film/TheExpendables''. The Extended Cut [[HeroicSacrifice excises the song to make room]] for Shinedown's "Diamond Eyes." What it loses in classic cool it gains threefold in ''sheer badass''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hez6tDpiWDA Boom-lay, boom-lay, BOOM!]]

* ''AwesomeMusic/CastAway''

* The resurrection scene in ''Casshern'' is elevated to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXyPqkPMnjg ridiculous levels of epic]] thanks to Sagisu Shiro. And then the choir kicks in at 4:22, and it's elevated [[UpToEleven even higher.]] The song "Requiem" from the Back Horn was quite epic as well, if not for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emYqURahUKI awesome ass kicking]] that goes along with it. When Casshern gets pissed, EVERYTHING pays.

** Masaki Endō based his cover on ''this'' version of the song, taking it ''past'' UpToEleven.