Soundtrack: Laurence Rosenthal

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


The Miracle Worker

1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Anne Bancroft · Patty Duke · Andrew Prine · Inga Swenson

Plot Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,...

7.7

5K votes

7.7

5K votes

Becket

1964 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Richard Burton · Peter O'Toole · John Gielgud · Donald Wolfit

Plot King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Requiem for a Heavyweight

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Jackie Gleason · Mickey Rooney · Julie Harris

Plot Mountain Rivera is at the end of his boxing career after a knockout by Cassius Clay in the seventh round. His left eye is one punch from permanent trauma, his...

7.4

504 votes

7.4

504 votes

Peter the Great (TV Miniseries)

1986 · Series · 371 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · Lawrence Schiller

Cast Maximilian Schell · Vanessa Redgrave · Omar Sharif · Trevor Howard

Plot It tells the story of Peter I, who becomes infected with a love for western culture and travels to Europe for academic studies. Upon his return to Russia, the maverick...

7.2

69 votes

7.2

69 votes

A Raisin in the Sun

1961 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Sidney Poitier · Claudia McNeil · Ruby Dee · Diana Sands

Plot Walter Lee Younger (Sidney Poitier) is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an...

7.0

233 votes

7.0

233 votes

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Brook

Cast Grégoire Aslan · Mikica Dimitrijevic · Martin Benson · Colin Blakely

Plot The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

6.9

233 votes

6.9

233 votes

Inherit the Wind (TV)

1999 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Jack Lemmon · George C. Scott · David Wells · Beau Bridges

Plot Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

6.7

129 votes

6.7

129 votes

Clash of the Titans

1981 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Harry Hamlin · Laurence Olivier · Judi Bowker · Claire Bloom

Plot The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various...

6.6

8K votes

6.6

8K votes

Brotherhood of the Rose (TV Series)

1989 · Series · 240 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky

Cast Peter Strauss · Robert Mitchum · Connie Sellecca · David Morse

Plot Romulus and Remus are two CIA agents, their direct instructor is John Elliott. They both were picked up at an orphanage by Elliott at the age of about eight, raised...

6.5

23 votes

6.5

23 votes

My Name Is Bill W. (TV)

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast James Woods · JoBeth Williams · James Garner · Gary Sinise

Plot Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to...

6.3

42 votes

6.3

42 votes

Rooster Cogburn

1975 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Millar

Cast John Wayne · Katharine Hepburn · Anthony Zerbe · Richard Jordan

Plot A small village in the Indian Nation that is run by a Minister Goodnight and his daughter Eula is overrun by a band of drunken thugs. They kill and rape...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Who'll Stop the Rain

1978 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast Nick Nolte · Tuesday Weld · Michael Moriarty · Anthony Zerbe

Plot Severely disappointed with the US government after the Vietnam conflict, John decides that the best way to make money is to smuggle heroin from South-east Asia into the States. He...

6.2

327 votes

6.2

327 votes

Man of La Mancha

1972 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Peter O'Toole · Sophia Loren · James Coco · Harry Andrews

Plot In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment...

6.1

569 votes

6.1

569 votes

Mussolini: The Untold Story (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Series · 410 min. · United States

Direction William A. Graham

Cast George C. Scott · Lee Grant · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · Raul Julia

Plot This seven hour mini-series is based on the memories of Vittorio Mussolini, the oldest son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The film opens in 1922 as Mussolini gathers his power...

6.1

70 votes

6.1

70 votes

The Man Who Captured Eichmann (TV)

1996 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction William A. Graham

Cast Robert Duvall · Arliss Howard · Jeffrey Tambor · Jack Laufer

Plot After an Israeli discovers the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi who organized the delivery of millions of Jews to Hitler's concentration camps, he and other Israeli Mossad agents devise...

6.0

133 votes

6.0

133 votes

The Comedians

1967 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Richard Burton · Elizabeth Taylor · Alec Guinness · Peter Ustinov

Plot Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism....

6.0

255 votes

6.0

255 votes

A Gunfight

1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Lamont Johnson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Johnny Cash · Jane Alexander · Karen Black

Plot Will and Abe, knowing each other only by reputation, meet for the first time and their mere presence in the same town makes townspeople speculate on the result of a...

6.0

714 votes

6.0

714 votes

The Return of a Man Called Horse

1976 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Irvin Kershner

Cast Richard Harris · Gale Sondergaard · Geoffrey Lewis · William Lucking

Plot The English gentleman known as Horse, returns to the American west to save his adopted Indian tribe from extinction. In the 1840s, trappers with government backing push the Yellow Hands...

5.8

1K votes

5.8

1K votes

The Bourne Identity (TV Miniseries)

1988 · Series · 185 min. · United States

Direction Roger Young

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Jaclyn Smith · Anthony Quayle · Donald Moffat

Plot TV miniseries. A man is washed ashore the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious...

5.8

468 votes

5.8

468 votes

Hotel Paradiso

1966 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Alec Guinness · Robert Morley · Peggy Mount

Plot Chaos results when a mild mannered man tries to have an affair with his neighbor's wife.

5.7

89 votes

5.7

89 votes