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

Plot Johnny Gray is the engineer for the Western and Atlantic Flyer, and his engine is named "The General." There are two loves in Johnny's life, "The General" and Annabelle Lee....

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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

Charlie Chaplin: A tramp's life (TV)

1997 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

7.1

110 votes

7.1

110 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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,...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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