Music from the Movies

Recommended Scores and Soundtracks

(IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)

“How to Train Your Dragon” - John Powell

“Ratatouille” - Michael Giacchino

“The Lion King” - Hans Zimmer

“The Village” (Favorite track: ‘The Gravel Road’) - James Newton Howard

“Pearl Harbor” - Hans Zimmer


“Amelie” - Various Artists

“The Age of Innocence” - Elmer Bernstein

“Days of Wine and Roses” - Henry Mancini


“Baccano!” -Yoshimori Makoto

“Black Swan” - Clint Mansell

“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” - Mark Mothersbaugh

“The Dark Knight” - Hans Zimmer

“Monsters, Inc.” -Randy Newman

“The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” -Alexandre Desplat (Anything by him is great, though.)

“Hachi: A Dog’s Tale” - Jan A. P. Kaczmarek

“Up” - Michael Giacchino

“Spirited Away” - Joe Hisaishi

“Dragonheart” - Randy Edelman

“Corpse Bride” - Danny Elfman

“Saving Private Ryan” - John Williams

“Pleasantville” - Randy Newman

“The Terminal” - John Williams

“As Good as it Gets” - Hans Zimmer

“Gladiator” - Hans Zimmer

“Madagascar 2” - Hans Zimmer

“End of Days” - John Debney

Music from The Lord of the Rings films, especially the individual tracks:

“Concerning Hobbits” (from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’)

“The Breaking of the Fellowship” (from ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’)

“Samwise The Brave” (‘The Two Towers’)

-Howard Shore