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