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Eraserhead, Side B

The album has been seen as presaging the dark ambient music genre, and its presentation of background noise and non-musical cues has been described by Pitchfork's Mark Richardson as "a sound track (two words) in the literal sense". -wikipedia

The mood and tone of Eraserhead and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia's post-industrial history. Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger; describing it both as a "sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place" and "beautiful, if you see it the right way."[8][9][1] Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack; including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods. The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example, was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.[10] Lynch and Splet worked "9 hours a day for 63 days" to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film. Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for Eraserhead as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack. -wikipedia

American Beauty.

It's the most autumn sounding OST I know, super moody.

Stranger Than Fiction, soundtrack by Spoon

Rogue One. First time I saw it I was sure no one could hold a candle to John Williams. Then I watched it again and the way Michael Giacchino uses a half-step to underline the theme of hope gives me chills just remembering it.

This is an old one, but:

The Mission, scored by Ennio Morricone.

Into The Wild

Tombstone and Almost Famous for me

• Yellow Submarine (I think a lot of people either forget this movie exists, or write it off as a kids movie. You're missing out on a movie that could be considered as revolutionary to animation as the Beatles were to music.)
• Back to the Future
• The Muppet Movie
• School of Rock
• Bladerunner
• The Matrix

There's probably other's, but that's what immediately comes to mind.

I don't know that I could pick one, but Joe Hisashi's Studio Ghibli sound tracks are done of my favourites

Lots of good ones here, I'll add some that haven't been mentioned: Sahara, Rango, both Sherlock Holmes movies, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the JJ Abrams Star Trek's, The Incredibles, Godzilla 2014, The Road to El Dorado

Godzilla 1998

Varsity Blues

I was just watching Tenet last night and the music kind of took me out of it sometimes because I was like, “Fuck, that music sounds awesome”, though not sure how well it will stand on its own, I’ve not tried that yet.

The blade runner soundtrack is my go to relax soundtrack. Have listened to it thousands of times by now.

Conan the Barbarian

Resident evil

Dred 2012

Redline

Desparado https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0112851/

Amazing soundtrack!

The wackness - iconic 90s hip hop songs

28 days later - introduced me to post rock vibes

Pretty in Pink - Pure 80s.

Batman Forever

interstellar, interstella5555, gladiator

Shrek 2, unironically

Also Sucker Punch and Tron Legacy

• Schindler's List
• Requiem for a Dream
• Independence Day

The Decline of Western Civilization

Swingers has a great oldies/crooner soundtrack.

Yeah American Psycho does have a good soundtrack. Eyes Without a Face is great.

My vote is for Interstellar or some of the other Hans Zimmer ones

Bohemian Rhapsody

Easy rider

Oh just my thing.

• Summer Wars
• Kikojiros Summer
• Dunkirk
• Inception
• Desert Rose

I have a lot of these on my shortlist. More series and even way more videogames

Judgement Night - some of the greatest hip-hop & metal crossover songs ever made.

The Scream 3 soundtrack is one of my favorites and was my introduction to System of a Down.

Monsoon Wedding

Lord of the Rings

Atomic Blonde

I'm not seeing Oppenheimer mentioned , perhaps I'm in the minority here.

When I think of exquisite sound design, two of my favorite movies spring to mind: Stalker (1979) and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

The former has such a subtle soundtrack that it's almost like it's not there, but without it so much of the atmosphere of a movie that is heavily atmospheric would be lost.

The latter is just a perfect western with a perfect western soundtrack. The theme is well known, but L'estasi Dell'oro gives me chills every time it starts playing.

The Fifth Element is probably the only soundtrack I have ever bought. The diva's aria is AMAZING!