Soundtrack: Muir Mathieson

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


This Happy Breed

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills

Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...

6.9

639 votes

6.9

639 votes

The L-Shaped Room

1962 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bryan Forbes

Cast Leslie Caron · Tom Bell · Bernard Lee · Brock Peters

Plot Jane (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting...

6.7

140 votes

6.7

140 votes

Circus of Horrors

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Sidney Hayers

Cast Anton Diffring · Erika Remberg · Yvonne Monlaur · Donald Pleasence

Plot In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a...

5.8

89 votes

5.8

89 votes

Once More, With Feeling!

1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

5.3

71 votes

5.3

71 votes

Call Me Bwana

1963 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Bob Hope · Anita Ekberg · Edie Adams · Lionel Jeffries

Plot A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off course and lands in Africa where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders the great African Authority Matthew Merriwether (Bob...

4.6

31 votes

4.6

31 votes

What a Carve Up! / No Place Like Homicide!

1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast Sid James · Kenneth Connor · Shirley Eaton · Donald Pleasence

Plot Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long the guests...

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Tread Softly Stranger

1958 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Diana Dors · George Baker · Terence Morgan · Patrick Allen

Plot An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death.

Not rated

Not rated

Steel

1945 · Documentary · 35 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald H. Riley

Cast John Laurie

Plot A Technicolor masterpiece, 'Steel' explores the manufacture of steel and the workings of a foundry. 'The backbone of Britain's industrial power lies in her great Steel Industry. In the blast...

Not rated

Not rated

The Private Life of the Gannets (S)

1934 · Documentary · 10 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Julian Huxley

Plot A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, (a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best...

Not rated

Not rated

Crooks Anonymous

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Leslie Phillips · Stanley Baxter · Julie Christie · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Plot Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent girlfriend Babette, holds...

Not rated

Not rated

Waterfront

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Robert Newton · Kathleen Harrison · Avis Scott · Susan Shaw

Plot A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter,...

Not rated

Not rated

Calamity the Cow

1967 · Movie · 59 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Eastman

Cast John Moulder-Brown · Elizabeth Dear · Stephen Brown · Phil Collins

Plot Farmer Grant's children get him to buy a cow from another farmer. The children work hard to make the cow fit and healthy enough for the show ring. But at...

Not rated

Not rated

Hide and Seek

1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Ian Carmichael · Curd Jürgens · Janet Munro · George Pravda

Plot A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they...

Not rated

Not rated

The Heart of Britain (S)

1941 · Documentary · 9 min. · United Kingdom

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Power on the Land (S)

1943 · Documentary · 15 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Keene

Plot 'Power on the Land' demonstrates how advances in technology and machinery have helped modernise agriculture. 'British agriculture is the most mechanised in the world. Root crops are picked by machinery;...

Not rated

Not rated

Hunted in Holland

1961 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Derek Williams

Cast Sean Scully · Jacques Verbrugge · Sandra Spurr · Walter Randall

Plot Tim (Sean Scully) comes over to Amsterdam to visit his penfriend Piet (Jacques Verbrugge). An Englishman operating as a tourist guide is a diamond-smuggler and the boys along with Piet's...

Not rated

Not rated

Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe)

1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tim Whelan · Arthur B. Woods

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · Valerie Hobson · George Curzon

Plot When enemy agents steal plans for an experimental plane, the test pilot fights to clear his name.

Not rated

Not rated