by Entertainment Weekly


 

1. A Hard Day's Night (1964) - The Beatles

 

 


 

 


 

 

2. The Sound of Music (1965) - Rodgers and Hammerstein

 

 

 



 

3. Saturday Night Fever (1977) - Bee Gees/Various

 

 

 



 

4. West Side Story (1961) - L. Bernstein/S. Sondheim

 

 

 



 

5. The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Harold Arlen/Cast

 

 



 

6. Superfly (1972) - Curtis Mayfield

 

 



 

 

7. The Graduate (1967) - Simon & Garfunkel

 

 



 

8. The Godfather (1972) - Nino Rota

 

 

 



 

9. Purple Rain (1984) - Prince

 

 

 

 

 

10.  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Various

 

 

 



 

11. Oklahoma! (1955) - Rodgers and Hammerstein

 

 

 


 

12. The Harder They Come (1973) - Various

 

 

 



 

13.  Psycho (1960) - Bernard Herrmann

 

 

 



 

14.  Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Frank Churchill/Larry Morey

 

 

 

 


15. American Graffiti (1973) - Various

 

 

 



16.  Vertigo (1958) - Bernard Herrmann


17. Trainspotting (1996) - Various


18.  My Fair Lady (1964) - Various


19.  Gone With the Wind (1939) - Max Steiner


20. Mary Poppins (1964) - Richard and Robert Sherman



21. Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) - Ennio Morricone


22. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) - Bob Dylan


23. Pinocchio (1940) - Leigh Harline and Ned Washington


24. Goldfinger (1964) - John Barry


25.  Singin' In the Rain (1952) - Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown


26.  Star Wars (1977) - John Williams


27. Grease (1978) - Various


28.  Pulp Fiction (1994) - Various


29. Doctor Zhivago (1965) - Maurice Jarre


30. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) - Richard O'Brien


31.  Easy Rider (1969) - Various


32.  Ben-Hur (1959) - Miklos Rozsa


33. Help! (1965) - The Beatles


34.  Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - Franz Waxman


35. Performance (1970) - Jack Nitzsche


36. The Band Wagon (1953) - Arthur Schwartz and Howard Deitz


37.  Chinatown (1974) - Jerry Goldsmith


38. Cabaret (1972) - John Kander and Fred Ebb


39.  King Kong (1933) - Max Steiner


40. Shaft (1971) - Isaac Hayes


41.  Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Maurice Jarre


42. Carousel (1956) - Rodgers and Hammerstein


43. The Pink Panther (1964) - Henry Mancini


44. Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - Duke Ellington


45. Let It Be (1970) - The Beatles


46.  Fantasia (1940) - Various


47. The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Elmer Bernstein


48.  Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) - Hugh Martin and Ralph Blaine


49.  The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Erich Wolfgang Korngold


50. Oliver! (1968) - Lionel Bart


51. The Sting (1973) - Marvin Hamlisch


52. Funny Girl (1968) - Walter Scharf and Julie Styne


53.  Jaws (1975) - John Williams


54. Woodstock (1970) - Various


55. The Music Man (1962) - Meredith Willson


56. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) - Various


57. Amadeus (1984) - Various


58. The King and I (1956) - Rodgers and Hammerstein


59. Beat Street (1984) - Various


60. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) - Elmer Bernstein


61. The Mission (1986) - Ennio Morricone


62. Pretty in Pink (1986) - Various


63.  Taxi Driver (1976) - Bernard Herrmann


64. The Last Waltz (1978) - The Band


65. Jailhouse Rock (1957) - Leiber and Stoller/Elvis Presley


66. Singles (1992) - Various


67. Manhattan (1979) - George Gershwin


68. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999) - Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman


69. Magnolia (1999) - Aimee Mann


70. Spartacus (1960) - Alex North


71. Pump Up the Volume (1971) - Various


72. Ragtime (1981) - Randy Newman


73. Tommy (1975) - Pete Townshend/Various


74. The Moderns (1988) - Mark Isham


75. Repo Man (1984) - Various


76. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Walter Carlos


77. The Sweet Hereafter (1997) - Mychael Danna


78. Out of Africa (1985) - John Barry


79. Stop Making Sense (1984) - Talking Heads


80. Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Howard Ashman and Alan Menken


81. Local Hero (1983) - Mark Knopfler


82. Do the Right Thing (1989) - Branford Marsalis/Public Enemy


83. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Tan Dun


84. Rushmore (1998) - Various


85. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1984) - Ryuichi Sakamoto


86. This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Spinal Tap


87. The Long Riders (1980) - Ry Cooder


88. Waiting to Exhale (1995) - Babyface/Whitney Houston


89. Jackie Brown (1997) - Various


90.  To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - Elmer Bernstein


91. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell


92. The Piano (1993) - Michael Nyman


93. The Virgin Suicides (2000) - Air


94. Planet of the Apes (1968) - Jerry Goldsmith


95. Good Will Hunting (1997) - Danny Elfman/Elliot Smith


96. Above the Rim (1994) - Various


97.  Nashville (1975) - Various


98. Beetlejuice (1988) - Danny Elfman


99. One From the Heart (1982) - Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle


100. Blue Velvet (1986) - Angelo Badalamenti