Soundtrack: Michael Convertino

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


Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

1995 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Gary Fleder

Cast Andy García · Christopher Walken · Christopher Lloyd · Gabrielle Anwar

Plot Retired gangster Jimmy the Saint has been living the quiet life in Denver until, out of the blue, he is summoned to visit his ex-boss, The Man With The Plan....

6.7

10K votes

6.7

10K votes

Frankenweenie (S)

1984 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Barret Oliver · Shelley Duvall · Daniel Stern · Joseph Maher

Plot When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he...

6.7

6K votes

6.7

6K votes

The Hidden

1987 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Jack Sholder

Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Michael Nouri · Claudia Christian · Clarence Felder

Plot The police are hunting a man, who has committed several crimes, mostly auto theft. They eventually captured but not after a long chase and only after he crashes his car...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Children of a Lesser God

1986 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Randa Haines

Cast William Hurt · Marlee Matlin · Piper Laurie · Philip Bosco

Plot James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

The Doctor

1991 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Randa Haines

Cast William Hurt · Elizabeth Perkins · Mandy Patinkin · Christine Lahti

Plot A doctor finds out the hard way that there's more to medicine than skill in the operating theater in this emotional drama. Jack McKee (William Hurt) is a gifted but...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Waterdance

1992 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Neal Jimenez · Michael Steinberg

Cast Eric Stoltz · Helen Hunt · Wesley Snipes · William Forsythe

Plot An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies...

6.2

60 votes

6.2

60 votes

Mother Night

1996 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Keith Gordon

Cast Nick Nolte · Sheryl Lee · Alan Arkin · John Goodman

Plot An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role...

6.2

219 votes

6.2

219 votes

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

1993 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Randa Haines

Cast Robert Duvall · Richard Harris · Shirley MacLaine · Sandra Bullock

Plot Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park...

6.1

131 votes

6.1

131 votes

A Home of Our Own

1993 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Tony Bill

Cast Kathy Bates · Edward Furlong · Clarissa Lassig · Sarah Schaub

Plot The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have...

5.9

584 votes

5.9

584 votes

The Last of the High Kings (Summer Fling)

1996 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Keating

Cast Catherine O'Hara · Jared Leto · Christina Ricci · Gabriel Byrne

Plot It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just...

5.9

218 votes

5.9

218 votes

Queen of Hearts

1989 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Vittorio Duse · Joseph Long · Anita Zagaria · Eileen Way

Plot Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a café in an Italian neighborhood. One day...

5.8

38 votes

5.8

38 votes

We Don't Live Here Anymore

2004 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction John Curran

Cast Mark Ruffalo · Naomi Watts · Laura Dern · Peter Krause

Plot Based on two works by Andre Dubus, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE is a sexy and provocative drama about married life and its discontents. Keenly observed, the film charts the...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

Where's Marlowe?

1999 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Pyne

Cast Miguel Ferrer · Mos Def · John Livingston · Allison Dean

Plot Miguel Ferrer (still probably best known as the weaselly, overambitious executive in RoboCop and as an FBI agent in Twin Peaks) stars as Joe Boone, the subject of a documentary...

5.6

23 votes

5.6

23 votes

Bull Durham

1988 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Ron Shelton

Cast Kevin Costner · Susan Sarandon · Tim Robbins · Trey Wilson

Plot A romantic love story set in the dirt and grit of minor league baseball. Sarandan is a groupie for the Carolina Durham Bulls who chooses a protege each season to...

5.5

4K votes

5.5

4K votes

Guarding Tess

1994 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Hugh Wilson

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Nicolas Cage · Austin Pendleton · Edward Albert

Plot Doug (Cage) is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle (MacLaine), widow of a former U.S. President, and close personal friend of...

5.2

3K votes

5.2

3K votes

Bodies, Rest & Motion

1993 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Michael Steinberg

Cast Phoebe Cates · Tim Roth · Eric Stoltz · Bridget Fonda

Plot Nick is a feckless television salesman who gets fired and impulsively decides that he and his girlfriend, Beth, will move to Butte, MT, which he's read is "the city of...

5.1

97 votes

5.1

97 votes

Wake Wood

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · Ireland

Direction David Keating

Cast Aidan Gillen · Eva Birthistle · Timothy Spall · Ella Connolly

Plot The rural Irish village of Wake Wood preserves a tradition enabling the dead to be brought back for three days, one year after their death, for a final farewell. But...

5.1

367 votes

5.1

367 votes

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)

1986 · Movie · 46 min. · United States

Direction Tim Burton

Cast Robert Carradine · Shelley Duvall · James Earl Jones · Leonard Nimoy

Plot In director Tim Burton's (Big Fish/Beetlejuice/Batman) retelling of this classic tale, Aladdin (Lizzie McGuire's Robert Carradine) is a bit on the lazy side-so when a Magician (Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy)...

4.9

595 votes

4.9

595 votes

Liberty Stands Still

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · Canada

Direction Kari Skogland

Cast Wesley Snipes · Linda Fiorentino · Oliver Platt · Martin Cummins

Plot Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino), the wife and business partner of wealthy weapons manufacturer Victor Wallace (Oliver Platt), is on her way to her regular assignation with her boyfriend, Russell (Martin...

4.8

2K votes

4.8

2K votes

Tales from the Crypt: Judy, You're Not Yourself Today (TV)

1990 · Movie · 28 min. · United States

Direction Randa Haines

Cast Frances Bay · Carol Kane · Brian Kerwin · John Kassir

Plot Judy is a middle class housewife who is regularly stressed out by her gun toting husband Donald's reckless behavior. One day an elderly cosmetic saleswoman comes knocking at the couples...

4.7

74 votes

4.7

74 votes