Soundtrack: Benjamin Frankel

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


Night and the City

1950 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Richard Widmark · Gene Tierney · Googie Withers · Hugh Marlowe

Plot Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One day, when he encounters the most famous Greco-Roman wrestler in the world, Gregorius, at...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Give Us This Day

1949 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Sam Wanamaker · Lea Padovani · Kathleen Ryan · Charles Goldner

Plot Geremio, a young Italian immigrant to New York City, works as a bricklayer and is courting an Italian girl, Annunziata, by mail. He lies to her that he owns his...

7.6

27 votes

7.6

27 votes

The Night of the Iguana

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Richard Burton · Deborah Kerr · Ava Gardner · Sue Lyon

Plot When defrocked American minister Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon is expelled from his Virginia church, he travels to Mexico in search of his destiny and sanity. There he becomes a tour...

7.5

6K votes

7.5

6K votes

The Man in the White Suit

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Cecil Parker · Patric Doonan

Plot The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material,...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Footsteps in the Fog

1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Stewart Granger · Jean Simmons · Bill Travers · Finlay Currie

Plot To his Victorian London friends, Stephen Lowry is a heartbroken widower. Only his housemaid Lily knows that far from dying of gastroenteritis his wife was slowly poisoned by her husband...

7.0

783 votes

7.0

783 votes

The Years Between

1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

6.8

24 votes

6.8

24 votes

Dear Murderer

1947 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur Crabtree

Cast Eric Portman · Greta Gynt · Dennis Price · Jack Warner

Plot When successful business man Lee Warren suspects his wife is having an affair, he sets out find her lover, kill him, and make it look like suicide. Complications set in,...

6.6

60 votes

6.6

60 votes

The Importance of Being Earnest

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Michael Redgrave · Richard Wattis · Michel Dennison · Walter Hudd

Plot Jack Worthing lives in the country with his pretty ward Cecily Cardew. But in the city, he goes by the name of Earnest and is in love with Gwendolyn Fairfax....

6.6

541 votes

6.6

541 votes

The Seventh Veil

1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast James Mason · Ann Todd · Herbert Lom · Hugh McDermott

Plot A childhood trauma has left pianist Francesca Cunningham deeply disturbed and suicidal. Many hazy thoughts cloud her mind -- memories of abuse, memories of submission to her seemingly overbearing mentor,...

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6.5

156 votes

6.5

156 votes

The Prisoner

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins · Raymond Huntley · Wilfrid Lawson

Plot The Prisoner is based on the real-life travails of Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who after suffering under Nazi persecution was imprisoned by the new Communist regime for remaining loyal to his...

6.5

213 votes

6.5

213 votes

Libel

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Olivia de Havilland · Paul Massie · Robert Morley

Plot A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interviews with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

So Long at the Fair

1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher · Antony Darnborough

Cast Jean Simmons · Dirk Bogarde · David Tomlinson · Marcel Poncin

Plot A young British woman (Jean Simmons) attends the 1889 Paris Exposition with her brother, only to find him mysteriously missing the morning after their arrival. When the hotel staff insists...

6.5

572 votes

6.5

572 votes

Battle of the Bulge

1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews

Plot This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front....

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Simon and Laura

1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Muriel Box

Cast Peter Finch · Kay Kendall · Muriel Pavlow · Hubert Gregg

Plot In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses...

6.4

27 votes

6.4

27 votes

The End of the Affair

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Deborah Kerr · Van Johnson · John Mills · Michael Goodliffe

Plot In wartorn London Maurice Bendrix falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles. They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love...

6.3

256 votes

6.3

256 votes

The Curse of the Werewolf

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast Oliver Reed · Yvonne Romain · Catherine Feller · Clifford Evans

Plot A servant girl is raped by a beggar in a castle dungeon and gives birth to a son. The boy looks normal but as he matures he begins displaying some...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Sleeping Car to Trieste

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Paddy Carstairs

Cast Jean Kent · Albert Lieven · Derrick De Marney · Paul Dupuis

Plot Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals it from the others and boards the Orient Express. He ends up...

6.2

56 votes

6.2

56 votes

Daybreak

1948 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Compton Bennett

Cast Ann Todd · Eric Portman · Maxwell Reed · Edward Rigby

Plot A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's...

6.2

22 votes

6.2

22 votes

A Kid for Two Farthings

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Celia Johnson · Diana Dors · David Kossoff · Joe Robinson

Plot In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes

The Clouded Yellow

1951 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Trevor Howard · Jean Simmons · Kenneth More · Barry Jones

Plot When Secret Service agent David Somers is fired, he takes a quiet job with the Fentons at their country estate - cataloging butterflies, hence the title insect. David grows fond...

6.0

125 votes

6.0

125 votes