Soundtrack: Robert Israel

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


The General

1926 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Clyde Bruckman

Cast Buster Keaton · Marion Mack · Glen Cavender · Jim Farley

Synopsis The General (1926) follows Johnnie Gray, a brave train engineer in the American Civil War, whose true love, Annabelle, doubts his loyalty when he's rejected by the Confederate Army. When Union spies steal his beloved locomotive, "The General," and kidnap...

8.3

28K votes

8.3

28K votes

The Electric House (S)

1922 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Buster Keaton · Edward F. Cline

Cast Buster Keaton · Virginia Fox · Joe Keaton · Myra Keaton

Synopsis Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home. He installs lots of fanciful gadgets. The one who should have received the degree gets even by rewiring all the gadgets to wreak havoc.

7.2

999 votes

7.2

999 votes

Hot Water

1924 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Sam Taylor · Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Josephine Crowell · Charles Stevenson

Synopsis Harold Lloyd plays Hubby who gets to marry the girl of his dreams (Jobyna Ralston). They have a very steady marriage until the worst thing happens, the in-laws arrive.

7.1

488 votes

7.1

488 votes

Judex

1916 · Movie · 300 min. · France

Direction Louis Feuillade

Cast René Cresté · Musidora · René Poyen · Edouard Mathé

Synopsis A twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.

7.1

115 votes

7.1

115 votes

The Unchanging Sea (S)

1910 · Movie · 14 min. · United States

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Arthur V. Johnson · Linda Arvidson · Gladys Egan · Mary Pickford

Synopsis In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on...

6.9

187 votes

6.9

187 votes

Chaplin Today: The Circus

2003 · Documentary · 26 min. · France

Direction François Ede

Cast Emir Kusturica

6.9

69 votes

6.9

69 votes

Phantom

1922 · Movie · 125 min. · Germany

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Alfred Abel · Grete Berger · Lil Dagover · Lya De Putti

Synopsis The story revolves around a man obsessed with an unattainable woman, and his attempts to substitute for his unfulfilled desires.

6.8

336 votes

6.8

336 votes

Dr. Jack

1922 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer · Sam Taylor

Cast Harold Lloyd · Mildred Davis · John T. Prince · C. Norman Hammond

Synopsis Country Doctor, Jack Jackson (Lloyd) is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl (Davis), who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and is sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. His old-fashioned methods do the trick and the quack is sent...

6.8

201 votes

6.8

201 votes

The Tramp

1915 · Movie · 31 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Ernest Van Pelt · Paddy McGuire

Synopsis Charlie is a tramp on the road. A hobo manages to exchange Charlie's sandwich for a brick so Charlie must eat grass. The same hobo molests a farmer's daughter; Charlie comes to aid with the help of the brick. When...

6.7

610 votes

6.7

610 votes

The Bank (S)

1915 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Carl Stockdale · Charles Inslee

Synopsis Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie...

6.6

395 votes

6.6

395 votes

La naissance de Charlot

2013 · Documentary · 63 min. · France

Direction Serge Bromberg · Eric Lange

6.6

188 votes

6.6

188 votes

A Sailor-Made Man

1921 · Movie · 46 min. · United States

Direction Fred C. Newmeyer

Cast Harold Lloyd · Mildred Davis · Noah Young · Dick Sutherland

Synopsis When The Girl's father insists that, before he will agree to The Boy's marrying his daughter, he must first prove that he can do something more worthwhile than act the playboy. He joins the navy. When his ship docks at...

6.5

203 votes

6.5

203 votes

Police

1916 · Movie · 34 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Edna Purviance · Wesley Ruggles · James T. Kelley

Synopsis Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house, but Edna, the house's owner, catches them and calls the police. Charlie, however, manages to charm his way...

6.5

373 votes

6.5

373 votes

The Matinee Idol

1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Bessie Love · Johnnie Walker · Ernest Hilliard · Lionel Belmore

Synopsis A Broadway matinee idol famous for his black-face portrayals anonymously joins an amateur acting troupe and falls in love with the leading lady.

6.5

76 votes

6.5

76 votes

Biography (TV Series)

1987 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Agnes Nixon · Peter Jones · Steven Smith · Morgan Neville

Synopsis First hosted by veteran actor Peter Graves, and later by Jack Perkins, this popular Arts and Entertainment Network series profiled the lives of notable figures in the history of entertainment, sports, arts, science, politics and warfare. The show is notable...

6.4

23 votes

6.4

23 votes

The Blackbird

1926 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Tod Browning

Cast Lon Chaney · Owen Moore · Renée Adorée · Doris Lloyd

Synopsis Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.

6.4

125 votes

6.4

125 votes

The Lost World

1925 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Harry O. Hoyt

Cast Bessie Love · Lewis Stone · Wallace Beery · Lloyd Hughes

Synopsis Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a diary given...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Racket

1928 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Thomas Meighan · Louis Wolheim · Marie Prevost · Pat Collins

Synopsis Captain McQuigg (Thomas Meighan), an honest Irish cop in Chicago, is targeted by a gunsel under the direction of bootlegger Nick Scarsi, but the gunman deliberately misses and Scarsi informs McQuiqq that it will behoove him to get along with...

6.3

88 votes

6.3

88 votes

Putting Pants on Philip (S)

1927 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

Direction Clyde Bruckman

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Charles A. Bachman · Dorothy Coburn

Synopsis Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Hardy), greets his nephew from Scotland (Laurel,) who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.

6.3

35 votes

6.3

35 votes