Soundtrack: Gabriel Yared

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


The Lives of Others

2006 · Movie · 137 min. · Germany

Direction Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Martina Gedeck · Sebastian Koch · Ulrich Tukur

Synopsis East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly doesn't always think loyal to the party line. One...

8.0

74K votes

8.0

74K votes

Born in Syria

2016 · Documentary · 85 min. · Spain

Direction Hernán Zin

Synopsis The Syrian Civil War has obliged four million children to abandon their homes. 'Born in Syria' tells the story of those children through seven stories of suffering and despair, but also of overcoming, innocence, courage and hope.

7.2

354 votes

7.2

354 votes

Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution

2008 · Documentary · 112 min. · France

Direction Jean-Paul Jaud

Synopsis For the first time ever, our children are growing up less healthy than we are. As the rate of cancer, infertility and other illnesses linked to environmental factors climbs upward each year, we must ask ourselves: why is this happening?

7.2

60 votes

7.2

60 votes

A Royal Affair

2012 · Movie · 137 min. · Denmark

Direction Nikolaj Arcel

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Alicia Vikander · Mikkel Boe Følsgaard · Trine Dyrholm

Synopsis A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with his physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

7.1

7K votes

7.1

7K votes

Le Hérisson

2009 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Mona Achache

Cast Josiane Balasko · Garance Le Guillermic · Togo Igawa · Anne Brochet

Synopsis This is the story of an unexpected encounter among some of the dwellers at number 2 of the Rue Eugène Manuel in Paris: Paloma Josse, an eleven-year-old hugely clever girl who has a secret plan; Madame Michel, the discreet and...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

The English Patient

1996 · Movie · 162 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Kristin Scott Thomas · Juliette Binoche · Willem Dafoe

Synopsis At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

7.1

69K votes

7.1

69K votes

Betty Blue

1986 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast Jean-Hugues Anglade · Béatrice Dalle · Consuelo De Haviland · Gérard Darmon

Synopsis Laid-back handyman Zorg spends his time doing odd jobs on beach-front chalets, making chilli and harbouring dreams of becoming a writer. His life is turned upside down with the arrival or the beautiful but volatile Betty. They begin a romance...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Azur and Asmar

2006 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Synopsis Azure is a blond boy with blue eyes, Asmar has dark hair and dark eyes. As kids, they fought and loved each other as brothers do. As grown ups, they mercilessly become rival in the quest for the djinn's fairy,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

Scarlet

2022 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Pietro Marcello

Cast Raphaël Thierry · Juliette Jouan · Louis Garrel · Noémie Lvovsky

Synopsis Juliette grew up alone with her father Raphaël in the north of France. He is a veteran of the First World War. The girl, passionate about singing and music, meets a magician one summer who promises her that some scarlet...

6.8

827 votes

6.8

827 votes

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Matt Damon · Gwyneth Paltrow · Jude Law · Cate Blanchett

Synopsis Set in Italy in the late 1950s, Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves the life led by Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to bring his errant playboy son back home to America, Dickie...

6.8

29K votes

6.8

29K votes

Camille Claudel

1988 · Movie · 170 min. · France

Direction Bruno Nuytten

Cast Isabelle Adjani · Gérard Depardieu · Alain Cuny · Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after...

6.7

840 votes

6.7

840 votes

Slow Motion

1980 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jacques Dutronc · Nathalie Baye · Roland Amstutz

Synopsis The story has three parts. Denise Rimbaud (Baye) represents the imagination; she's a film editor who drops her frustrating work to find some fresh air in the Alps. Paul Godard (Dutronc) is the fearful-dependent side of most of us: he's...

6.7

467 votes

6.7

467 votes

The Prophet

2014 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Allers · Gaëtan Brizzi · Paul Brizzi · Joan C. Gratz

Synopsis Inspired by the beloved classic, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a young, mischievous girl and an imprisoned poet. Interwoven with Gibran’s lyrical and inspiring words on topics such as the true nature as...

6.7

255 votes

6.7

255 votes

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Jill Scott · Lucian Msamati · Anika Noni Rose · Idris Elba

Synopsis Based on the best-selling novel series by Alexander McCall Smith, "Detective Agency" chronicles the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, the proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in Botswana. As a child, Precious learns from her father a great love for...

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6.6

74 votes

6.6

74 votes

Map of the Human Heart

1993 · Movie · 109 min. · New Zealand

Direction Vincent Ward

Cast Jason Scott Lee · Anne Parillaud · Patrick Bergin · John Cusack

Synopsis In 1931, a chartist lands a plane in the Arctic to map unrecorded regions. He takes an Eskimo boy with tuberculosis back to civilisation where he is healed and indoctrinated in a Catholic foster home. The Eskimo meets a "half-breed"...

6.6

281 votes

6.6

281 votes

Light Years (Gandahar)

1988 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction René Laloux

Synopsis An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.

6.6

501 votes

6.6

501 votes

Cold Mountain

2003 · Movie · 155 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Jude Law · Nicole Kidman · Renée Zellweger · Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis In the final days of the Civil War, Inman (Jude Law), a wounded Confederate soldier, begins a long journey home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada (Nicole Kidman). Along the way, Inman sees the...

6.6

42K votes

6.6

42K votes

Dilili in Paris

2018 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Michel Ocelot

Synopsis The story follows a young girl named Dilili who arrives as a stowaway from New Caledonia and gets caught up in a mystery plot that will take her through the upper reaches and lower depths of Paris.

6.5

325 votes

6.5

325 votes

Disorder

1986 · Movie · 91 min. · France

Direction Olivier Assayas

Cast Wadeck Stanczak · Ann-Gisel Glass · Lucas Belvaux · Rémi Martin

Synopsis After serving his apprenticeship as a screenwriter for director André Techiné, former movie critic Olivier Assayas wrote and directed this film. In the story, a penniless girl and two similarly impoverished boys with ambitions of becoming a successful rock group...

6.5

41 votes

6.5

41 votes

Dangerous Moves

1984 · Movie · 110 min. · Switzerland

Direction Richard Dembo

Cast Michel Piccoli · Alexandre Arbatt · Liv Ullmann · Leslie Caron

Synopsis The story of two very different men competing in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who holds the title, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.

6.5

371 votes

6.5

371 votes