It's All About The Song
by aimless-46 | created - 2 months ago | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicFilms and shows that are now associated with one specific song or musical scene, even if another song(s) was intended by the producers. The only requirement being that I really like the song and "hopefully" the film although that is not always the case.
And you can watch all of them and kill an afternoon by copying and pasting in the links.
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1. Pleasantville (1998)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves transported to a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that colorless, complacent world.
Director: Gary Ross | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy
Votes: 136,304 | Gross: $40.57M
The inspiration for this list is Fiona Apple's cover of "Across the Universe", utilizing the film's diner set.
View at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmlnO1EwCT4
1998 - Fiona Apple: Across the Universe (1998) - Fiona
2. Cabaret (1972)
PG | 124 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.
Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey
Votes: 59,383 | Gross: $42.77M
Tomorrow Belongs To Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IOXZx9PNA
The branch of the linden is leafy and Green,
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
3. Less Than Zero (1987)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Director: Marek Kanievska | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey Jr., James Spader
Votes: 22,117 | Gross: $12.40M
A Hazy Shade of Winter - The Bangles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk
4. Real Genius (1985)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An uptight teenage prodigy enters a top engineering college, but feels awkward among the freewheeling students. When a professor aims to turn their laser project into a military weapon, he and his offbeat roommate plot to ruin the plan.
Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Val Kilmer, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades, Andres Aybar
Votes: 37,740 | Gross: $13.00M
View at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1FMJdqqLiM&t=125s
1985 - Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985) -
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5. Muriel's Wedding (1994)
R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Director: P.J. Hogan | Stars: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Sophie Lee
Votes: 41,724 | Gross: $15.19M
Dancing Queen - Bridal Shop Scene
View at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWurGQxUhd8
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZhfvnkoN4E
6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama
Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.
Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd
Votes: 547,907 | Gross: $17.74M
David Bowie - "Heroes" | The Tunnel scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FDSXSG5RM&t=6s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_oLiPNZ5ks
7. Paths of Glory (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
After a failed attack on a German position, a general orders three soldiers, chosen at random, court-martialed for cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Votes: 212,214
Christine Kubrick - Der Treue Husar (The Faithful Hussar)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGmuICb8a7Y&t=26s
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTKv6KFejI
8. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 234,311 | Gross: $100.32M
Stephen Warbeck's score plays during the entire film but is especially good over the closing credits.
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces. And all the helpless souls within her drowned. All save one. A lady. Whose soul is greater than the ocean, and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace. Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story. For she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be Viola.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0r3Ga23tD4&t=470s
9. Fly Away Home (1996)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney
Votes: 27,114 | Gross: $24.51M
10000 miles - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Best ever synergy between a song and a feature film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GjUD8ybBJk
10. Frozen (I) (2013)
PG | 102 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Fearless optimist Anna teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee | Stars: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad
Votes: 663,681 | Gross: $400.74M
Idina Menzel - Let It Go
Probably the only one on this list where the song was so good that they completely reworked what was intended to be the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU&list=PLyORnIW1xT6zC14Z45V6c00JFwRBWdh8P&index=2
11. St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
A group of friends, just out of college, struggle with adulthood.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Emilio Estevez
Votes: 46,379 | Gross: $37.80M
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7vNdAb5e4
12. The Breakfast Club (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy
Votes: 436,423 | Gross: $45.88M
Simple Minds, "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gLVqjIvokc&t=108s
13. To Sir, with Love (1967)
Approved | 105 min | Drama
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Director: James Clavell | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall
Votes: 20,414 | Gross: $42.43M
Lulu, Title Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV1qmmMwc9M
14. Uptown Girls (2003)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A grown-up woman who kept her childish instincts and behavior starts working as the nanny of an 8-year-old girl who actually acts like an adult. But everything ends right-side up.
Director: Boaz Yakin | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Heather Locklear, Jesse Spencer
Votes: 43,147 | Gross: $36.92M
Chantal Kreviazuk- Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2YWiZIg1Q8
15. Thirteen (2003)
R | 100 min | Drama
A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens
Votes: 97,996 | Gross: $4.60M
Explain it to me-Liz Phhair (Thirteen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEOGovkxkSw
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqwrOsAXhmo
Head underwater
Keeps getting harder
Give 'em your medicine
Fame injection
Tell him to jump higher
Tell him to run farther
Make him measure up
Decades longer than you
16. 13 Going on 30 (2004)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Unpopular schoolgirl Jenna Rink makes an unusual wish on her birthday. Miraculously, her wish comes true and the 13-year-old Jenna wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman.
Director: Gary Winick | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, Judy Greer, Andy Serkis
Votes: 216,786 | Gross: $57.23M
THRILLER DANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu-yPdBSJB8
17. Zulu (1964)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama, History, War
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth
Votes: 42,742
Men of Harlech - widely used as a regimental march, especially by British Army and Commonwealth regiments historically associated with Wales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEU5zHgcTc
Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming,
Can't you see their spearpoints gleaming?
See their warrior pennants streaming,
To this battle field!
Men of Harlech stand ye steady,
It can not be ever said ye
For the battle were not ready,
Welshmen never yield!
From the hills rebounding,
Let this war cry sounding,
Summon all at Cambria's call,
The mighty force surrounding!
Men of Harlech on to glory,
This will ever be your story,
Keep these burning words before ye,
Welshmen will not yield!
18. The Big Lebowski (1998)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 860,181 | Gross: $17.50M
Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zandt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNlUhW0azKI
19. Flashdance (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Music, Romance
An 18-year-old female amateur dancer who performs nightly at a dancing bar, and works as a welder during the day, dreams of joining the Pittsburgh ballet school.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson
Votes: 59,522 | Gross: $94.90M
Irene Cara, "Flashdance... What A Feeling"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILWSp0m9G2U
20. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 156,904 | Gross: $20.16M
Limahl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHytjEj7B9g&t=114s
21. Billy Jack (1971)
GP | 114 min | Action, Drama
Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.
Director: Tom Laughlin | Stars: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Victor Izay
Votes: 6,596 | Gross: $98.00M
Coven - One Tin Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1QVYjwa2M8
22. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
R | 113 min | Drama
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 120,734 | Gross: $44.79M
"EVERYBODY'S TALKIN'" - NILSSON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lb5LdJ7cLc
23. Battle of the Bulge (1965)
Not Rated | 167 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews
Votes: 17,797 | Gross: $11.12M
Panzerlied (Tankmen's Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzCjrZ4lF5I
24. Nashville (1975)
R | 160 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Keith Carradine, Karen Black, Ronee Blakley, Shelley Duvall
Votes: 28,555 | Gross: $14.82M
Barbara Harris - It Don't Worry Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYyDusJYJo
25. Annie (1982)
PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking
Votes: 49,492 | Gross: $57.06M
“It’s The Hard Knock Life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH6MstVxehQ
26. Father Goose (1964)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Votes: 12,319 | Gross: $12.50M
Pass Me By by Digby Wolfe - Father Goose Opening Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9lfSR6vRc&t=38s
27. The Way We Were (1973)
PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance
During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Votes: 27,471
Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT0IXTXAnmo
Although clichéd and blatantly manipulative, you can't help feeling an emotional rush hearing it.
28. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
Votes: 428,552 | Gross: $2.08M
Judy Garland -Somewhere Over the Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSZxmZmBfnU&t=2s
It's all about her octave leap on "Some WHERE", a cathartic rise to introduce a refrain that is emotionally, and melodically, expansive"
29. Lightyear (2022)
PG | 105 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.
Director: Angus MacLane | Stars: Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Peter Sohn, Taika Waititi
Votes: 123,796 | Gross: $118.31M
David Bowie - "Starman"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRJ1IUVgreY&t=1s
30. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Approved | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach
Votes: 102,512 | Gross: $4.91M
The Magnificent Seven • Main Theme • Elmer Bernstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yulmgTcGLZw
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q8-qZxe_y0
31. Alice in Wonderland (I) (2010)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway
Votes: 440,972 | Gross: $334.19M
Avril Lavigne "Alice"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHi1gifyLdU
Trippin' out, Spinnin' around
I'm underground, I fell down
Yeah, I fell down
I'm freakin' out, so where am I now?
Upside down and I can't stop it now
It can't stop me now,
Ohhh
I,
I'll get by
I,
I'll survive
When the world's crashin' down
When I fall and hit the ground
I will turn myself around
Don't you try to stop me
I,
I won't cry
I found myself (Myself) in Wonderland
Get back on (Back on) my feet (My feet) again (Again)
Is this real? (Is this real?)
Is it pretend? (Is it pretend?)
I'll take (I'll take) a stand (A stand) until (Until) the end
32. Godspell (1973)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
An adaption of the musical, in a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew.
Director: David Greene | Stars: Victor Garber, Lynne Thigpen, Katie Hanley, David Haskell
Votes: 3,724 | Gross: $1.20M
Finale - "Long Live God" - "Prepare Ye" - "Day By Day"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndOBdlL6Uwg
Another great ending.
33. Empire Records (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Twenty-four hours in the lives of the young employees at Empire Records when they all grow up and become young adults thanks to each other and the manager. They all face the store joining a chain store with strict rules.
Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Debi Mazar, Maxwell Caulfield, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 61,844 | Gross: $0.30M
The Martinis "Free"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=UibpRNs8OMU&t=89s
34. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 710,028 | Gross: $83.47M
The Ride of the Valkyries from "Die Walküre"
Richard Wagner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePTpg_qJ5Gs
35. Electric Dreams (1984)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Director: Steve Barron | Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort
Votes: 10,016 | Gross: $2.19M
AKA "Minuet" from "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach" (1722)
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranged and Produced by Giorgio Moroder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc8yjOrGUhQ&list=RDfc8yjOrGUhQ&start_radio=1
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