Soundtrack: Bernard Herrmann

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Psycho

1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles

Plot Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to...

8.4

106K votes

8.4

106K votes

North by Northwest

1959 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Martin Landau

Plot Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a...

8.3

68K votes

8.3

68K votes

Vertigo

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Henry Jones · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old...

8.2

69K votes

8.2

69K votes

Citizen Kane

1941 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Joseph Cotten · Everett Sloane · George Coulouris

Plot The story charts the rise and fall of a newpaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolate him in his castle-like refuge. The last word he utters before his death...

8.2

77K votes

8.2

77K votes

Taxi Driver

1976 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Cybill Shepherd · Jodie Foster · Albert Brooks

Plot For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle...

8.1

117K votes

8.1

117K votes

The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

The Birds

1963 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tippi Hedren · Rod Taylor · Jessica Tandy · Suzanne Pleshette

Plot Spoiled socialite and notorious practical joker Melanie Daniels is shopping in a San Francisco pet store when she meets Mitch Brenner. Mitch is looking to buy a pair of love...

7.8

54K votes

7.8

54K votes

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best

Plot At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the...

7.7

6K votes

7.7

6K votes

The Magnificent Ambersons

1942 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Tim Holt · Joseph Cotten · Dolores Costello · Agnes Moorehead

Plot The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

5 Fingers

1952 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast James Mason · Danielle Darrieux · Michael Rennie · Walter Hampden

Plot Based on a true story involving espionage in neutral WWII Turkey. The refined and impeccably spoken James Mason plays the traitorous Ulysses Diello, personal valet for the British ambassador to...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

Cape Fear

1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Robert Mitchum · Polly Bergen · Lori Martin

Plot Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now...

7.5

8K votes

7.5

8K votes

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Doris Day · Brenda De Banzie · Bernard Miles

Plot Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet the mysterious Louis Bernard on a bus. The next day...

7.5

17K votes

7.5

17K votes

The Twilight Zone: Living Doll (TV)

1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Telly Savalas · Mary LaRoche · Tracy Stratford · June Foray

Plot A frustrated father does battle with his stepdaughter's talking doll, whose vocabulary includes such phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".

7.4

133 votes

7.4

133 votes

The Twilight Zone: Eye of the Beholder (TV)

1960 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Heyes

Cast Maxine Stuart · William D. Gordon · Jennifer Howard · George Keymas

Plot Janet Tyler is in hospital having undergone treatment to make her look normal. It's her 11th trip to the hospital for treatment and she is desperate to look like everyone...

7.4

189 votes

7.4

189 votes

Marnie

1964 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Tippi Hedren · Sean Connery · Diane Baker · Martin Gabel

Plot Marnie Edgar is an ice-cold habitual thief. She uses her looks to gain the confidence of her employers, robs them, and changes her identity. Her only loves are her horse...

7.4

16K votes

7.4

16K votes

Fahrenheit 451

1966 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Julie Christie · Oskar Werner · Cyril Cusack · Anton Diffring

Plot In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

7.3

19K votes

7.3

19K votes

The Wrong Man

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Henry Fonda · Vera Miles · Anthony Quayle · Harold J. Stone

Plot Manny Ballestero (Henry Fonda) is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to...

7.3

7K votes

7.3

7K votes

Cape Fear

1991 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Jessica Lange · Nick Nolte · Juliette Lewis

Plot Max Cady is a psychopath just released from prison for rape. He is out seeking revenge from his lawyer Sam Bowden who he believes deliberately held back important information about...

7.3

55K votes

7.3

55K votes

Jane Eyre

1943 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Orson Welles · Joan Fontaine · Margaret O'Brien · Peggy Ann Garner

Plot A Love Story Every Woman Would Die a Thousand Deaths to Live! Small plain and poor Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

A Hatful of Rain

1957 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Anthony Franciosa · Eva Marie Saint · Don Murray · Lloyd Nolan

Plot A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

7.2

320 votes

7.2

320 votes