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Any Sergio Leone movie with an Ennio Morricone score!
anything by John Williams
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Mission
Just Ennio Morricone
Ok 633 Squadron can go in there as well
Classic ..
Big Country - a stirring Western starring Gregory Peck
Somewhere in Time - Music based on Rachmaninov's Rhapsody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XKGhG0W0LQ
Where Eagles Dare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqONgYHYo88
Best ever TV theme. World at War
I agree.
In combination with the opening sequence it used to chill me. It set the tone for a serious and sober portrayal of horror and pain - with no escape. No romanticism. No false patriotism. Just a grim and relentless catalogue of human folly, evil and ordinary heroism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwUmsjbKsrU
Ice Station Zebra
Probably my favourite titles/theme tune on tv.
Arena.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOy31m4IWrA
Surprised there's been no mention of The Dambusters yet...
Jurassic Park
Psycho
I'd say with Psycho while the use of music does contribute a huge amount to the unsettling feel of the movie it seems to me more incidental music rather than a "theme tune" per se, although it has been a long time since I watched it. I think it was only using string instruments if I remember correctly?
Here's the top 25 movie themes, according to the American Film Institute:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27...of_Film_Scores
As for TV themes, I was always partial to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1HnDGTAK8
Jaws, Superman, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter.
Hear a couple of bars of any of those (or in some cases a couple of notes) and you instantly know which film it is. And each of those films would have been significantly less without those scores.
All the work of the same man - John Williams