Garden State- arguably just a really really long music video, but it is so good, and makes for a great standalone mix tape too

Another thought.

Plunkett & Macleane.

Drive.

Class.

Nobody’s mentioned The Matrix!?! It’s brilliant!

The lobby gunfight with the Propellerheads is just perfect!

Atomic Blonde has a fantastic 80’s soundtrack.

Some great suggestions, but

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The Business.

Bizarrely not ruined by the inclusion of Danny Dyer, great 80’s soundtrack.

Or Sexy Beast.

Some great suggestions, but

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I’ve never seen it so just looked it up, it’s a no from me

The Big Lebowski however is class

Final one…..24hr Party People.

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the threads not over til someone mentions American Graffiti:-)

soundtrack as part of the sound design. The music is in the protagonist’s world not ours

Good call on american graffiti

Good call on american graffiti

Certainly is. Popsicle?

Also +1 for Easy Rider.

+1 for Garden State. It’s probably a bit marmite but I thought it was a great movie too and very chilled soundtrack.

Dead Mans Shoes (most Shane Meadows films really)
Drive
High Fidelity
Kill bill

The Life Aquatic.

Couple of others that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Cruel Intentions
Miami Vice

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Also, Driver

Sucker Punch.

The Magnificent 7 ( the real one, obviously)

Pretty much anything by scored by Sergio Leone, but special mentions for Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and The Mission.

The Graduate

Babylon

Do The Right Thing

The Harder They Come

Guys and Dolls (bit of a cheat as it’s a musical, but still)

Rude Boy

Rockers

To Live And Die In LA – Wang Chung’s finest moment…. especially the fake money printing scene.

Errrrrr

American Werewolf in London

Not only a great soundtrack but adds to the comedy value of the film.

Dazed and Confused.

+ more 1s for The Life Aquatic, Withnail And I, and Easy Rider

Also, The Graduate.

And the BBC recently showed Small Axe which was part of a series I think, and it had a totally awesome soundtrack.

Assault on Precinct 13, John Carpenter, I can’t believe it’s not been mentioned yet.

Also worth a mention is Training Day.

Lost In Translation.

Any Shane Meadows.

Shockingly I’m going for Akira, second The Good the Bad and the Ugly et al though.

I was told to say Dirty Dancing but most of mine have been mentioned:
Trainspotting
The Crow

The Crow

+1, the only time I’ve watched a film and actively bought the soundtrack.

Surprised no-one has dare mention Xanadu 😂

zinaru sed>

the holy mountain

This is also rather good.

Some great suggestions, but

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I’ve never seen it so just looked it up, it’s a no from me

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It’s a decent film, worth watching anyway. But you can’t look at the soundtrack and judge based on the songs, it’s the way the songs are choreographed into the film that makes it brilliant.

Lots of my favourites listed above but to add; Gross Point Blank, Purple Rain and Labyrinth.

Northern Soul
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Northern-Soul-The-Soundtrack/release/6096923

Glad to see I got beaten to

The Crow (+1 for buying the soundtrack)
Donnie Darko
The Matrix (lovely touch with RATM’s Wake Up for the closing credits)
Apocalypse Now

No love for 2001 so far?

Also most of the 90’s ‘Nam films conjured up a decent score.

Metallica’s Through The Never I like but really it was just a live set with a half baked creepy plot around a missing satchel so not sure it should count.

Now here’s a controversial one …

Cars (the Pixar thing). I know Lightning is a bit of a dork and Sally could clearly do much better but my kids loved it and it’s just got some lovely feelgood soft rock in it. I’d happily go for a can of oil with Mater. You just know you’d wake up groggy in a pitlane somewhere on another continent after a night out with him, Guido and Luigi.

Forest Gump
Tommy
Quadraphenia
Deadpool 1&2

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Labyrinth.

Labyrinth soundtrack: Magic Dance, and, um… all that other stuff that nobody remembers. But Magic Dance!

Last of the Mohicans.

Yes, definitely yes, the soundtrack, like the film is so brilliant.
But I checked the whole thread and though Vietnam films have had a general reference, nobody nominated Platoon! (I had to restrain myself to only put in one exclamation mark). Any sound track with “White Rabbit” on it will take the win for me.

Lost Boys. Loved that soundtrack back in the day.

Pi

And Requiem for a Dream.
Who would have thought Vestan Pance could turn their hand to film scores!

The Big Chill – all very mainstream but every song a gem

Easy Rider – just brilliant

I went through a big Lalo Schifrin phase a while back, my favourite being Bullitt.

Regarding blaxpliotation soundtracks, I find some of the popular ones (Shaft, Superfly etc.) to each have several cracking songs, but few to be great from start to finish. My favourite in this genre is Savage, by Don Julian. Avoid if you can’t abide jazz flute. A lovely album filled with jazz/soul/funk/Latin grooves.

Not seen the film, but the tagline is solid gold