Film composers and their best scores

By: Frank W

A work in progress.

Hadaka no Shima (The Naked Island, 1960) score by Hayashi Hikaru

Hayasaka Fumio

Bernard Herrmann

Toshiro Mayuzumi

Nino Rota

Sato Masaru

Eduard Artemyev

Takemitsu Toru

Georges Delerue

Maurice Jarre

Ennio Morricone

Howard Shore

Zbigniew Preisner

Goblin

Peer Raben

Philip Glass

Sakamoto Ryuichi

Angelo Badalamenti

Tan Dun

Hisaishi Joe

Michael Nyman

Jon Brion

Terence Blanchard

Thomas Newman

Umebayashi Shigeru

Carter Burwell

Alberto Iglesias

Eleni Karaindrou

Ravi Shankar

Goran Bregovic

Ry Cooder

Hanns Eisler

• 01
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 02
  Akitsu Springs
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 03
  Violence at Noon
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 04
  Death by Hanging
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 05
  Blind Beast
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 06
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 07
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 08
  Seven Samurai
  Akira Kurosawa
• 09
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 10
  Repast
  Mikio Naruse
• 11
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 12
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 13
  North by Northwest
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 14
  Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 15
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 16
  Conflagration
  Kon Ichikawa
• 17
  Good Morning
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 18
  When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  Mikio Naruse
• 19
  Tokyo Olympiad
  Kon Ichikawa
• 20
  Street of Shame
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 21
  La strada
  Federico Fellini
• 22
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 23
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 24
  The Leopard
  Luchino Visconti
• 25
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 26
  Crazed Fruit
  Kô Nakahira
• 27
  The Lower Depths
  Akira Kurosawa
• 28
  Yojimbo
  Akira Kurosawa
• 29
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 30
  The Sword of Doom
  Kihachi Okamoto
• 31
  Solaris
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 32
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 33
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 34
  Siberiade
  Andrei Konchalovsky
• 35
  Oblomov
  Nikita Mikhalkov
• 36
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 37
  Kwaidan
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 38
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 39
  Ran
  Akira Kurosawa
• 40
  Black Rain
  Shôhei Imamura
• 41
  Hiroshima, mon amour
  Alain Resnais
• 42
  Shoot the Piano Player
  François Truffaut
• 43
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 44
  Contempt
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 45
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 46
  Eyes Without a Face
  Georges Franju
• 47
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 48
  Lawrence of Arabia
  David Lean
• 49
  The Tin Drum
  Volker Schlöndorff
• 50
  Jacob's Ladder
  Adrian Lyne
• 51
  A Fistful of Dollars
  Sergio Leone
• 52
  The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo
• 53
  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  Sergio Leone
• 54
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 55
  Once Upon a Time in America
  Sergio Leone
• 56
  Videodrome
  David Cronenberg
• 57
  Dead Ringers
  David Cronenberg
• 58
  Crash
  David Cronenberg
• 59
  The Silence of the Lambs
  Jonathan Demme
• 60
  The Cell
  Tarsem Singh
• 61
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 62
  The Double Life of Véronique
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 63
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 64
  Three Colors: White
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 65
  Three Colors: Red
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 66
  Dawn of the Dead
  George A. Romero
• 67
  Deep Red
  Dario Argento
• 68
  Suspiria
  Dario Argento
• 69
  Phenomena
  Dario Argento
• 70
  Sleepless
  Dario Argento
• 71
  Love Is Colder Than Death
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 72
  The Marriage of Maria Braun
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 73
  Berlin Alexanderplatz
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 74
  Veronika Voss
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 75
  Querelle
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 76
  Koyaanisqatsi
  Godfrey Reggio
• 77
  Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  Paul Schrader
• 78
  The Thin Blue Line
  Errol Morris
• 79
  Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation
  Godfrey Reggio
• 80
  Candyman
  Bernard Rose
• 81
  Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 82
  The Last Emperor
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 83
  Little Buddha
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 84
  Tony Takitani
  Jun Ichikawa
• 85
  Taboo
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 86
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 87
  Twin Peaks
  David Lynch
• 88
  Lost Highway
  David Lynch
• 89
  Mulholland Drive
  David Lynch
• 90
  The Beach
  Danny Boyle
• 91
  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  Ang Lee
• 92
  Hero
  Zhang Yimou
• 93
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 94
  Fireworks
  Takeshi Kitano
• 95
  Kikujiro
  Takeshi Kitano
• 96
  Princess Mononoke
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 97
  Spirited Away
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 98
  The Draughtsman's Contract
  Peter Greenaway
• 99
  Ravenous
  Antonia Bird
• 100
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 101
  Gattaca
  Andrew Niccol
• 102
  Man with a movie camera
  Dziga Vertov
• 103
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 104
  Hard Eight
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 105
  Punch-Drunk Love
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 106
  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  Michel Gondry
• 107
  Synecdoche, New York
  Charlie Kaufman
• 108
  Malcolm X
  Spike Lee
• 109
  Summer of Sam
  Spike Lee
• 110
  When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
  Spike Lee
• 111
  The Player
  Robert Altman
• 112
  The Shawshank Redemption
  Frank Darabont
• 113
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 114
  Jarhead
  Sam Mendes
• 115
  Little Children
  Todd Field
• 116
  Yumeji
  Seijun Suzuki
• 117
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 118
  2046
  Wong Kar-wai
• 119
  House of Flying Daggers
  Zhang Yimou
• 120
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 121
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 122
  Fargo
  Joel Coen
• 123
  Being John Malkovich
  Spike Jonze
• 124
  No Country for Old Men
  Ethan Coen
• 125
  Adaptation.
  Spike Jonze
• 126
  All About My Mother
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 127
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 128
  Bad Education
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 129
  The Constant Gardener
  Fernando Meirelles
• 130
  Volver
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 131
  Voyage to Cythera
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 132
  Ulysses' Gaze
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 133
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 134
  Time of the Gypsies
  Emir Kusturica
• 135
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 136
  Aparajito
  Satyajit Ray
• 137
  The World of Apu
  Satyajit Ray
• 138
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough
• 139
  Arizona Dream
  Emir Kusturica
• 140
  Underground
  Emir Kusturica
• 141
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 142
  New Earth
  Joris Ivens
• 143
  Night and Fog
  Alain Resnais