Soundtrack: Dimitri Tiomkin
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Dimitri Tiomkin. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
The Westerner
1940 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gary Cooper · Walter Brennan · Doris Davenport · Fred Stone
Plot "Cole Harden just doesn't look like a horse thief", Jane-Ellen Matthews tells Judge Roy Bean as she steps up to the bar. Cole says he can't take it with him...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Champion
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart
Plot An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies....
7.3
2K votes
7.3
2K votes
The Big Sky
1952 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Kirk Douglas · Dewey Martin · Steven Geray · Elizabeth Threatt
Plot Jim Deakins is a frontiersman and Indian trader who is making a perilous journey with a group of other men up the Missouri River to get a large haul of...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Dark Mirror
1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Robert Siodmak
Cast Olivia de Havilland · Lew Ayres · Thomas Mitchell · Richard Long
Plot A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Michael Gordon
Cast José Ferrer · Mala Powers · William Prince · Morris Carnovsky
Plot France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Town Without Pity
1961 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast Kirk Douglas · Barbara Rutting · Christine Kaufmann · E.G. Marshall
Plot Major Steve Garrett (Kirk Douglas) is given one of the biggest challenges of his career: defending four American GIs who gang raped a young German girl (Christine Kaufmann) while stationed...
7.1
686 votes
7.1
686 votes
The Thing from Another World
1951 · Movie · 87 min. · United States
Direction Christian Nyby · Howard Hawks
Cast Margaret Sheridan · Kenneth Tobey · Robert Cornthwaite · Douglas Spencer
Plot Scientist at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back...
7.0
8K votes
7.0
8K votes
Mad Love (The Hands of Orlac)
1935 · Movie · 66 min. · United States
Direction Karl Freund
Cast Peter Lorre · Frances Drake · Colin Clive · Ted Healy
Plot An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist's hands with the hands of a knife murderer which still have the urge to throw knives.
7.0
565 votes
7.0
565 votes
Friendly Persuasion
1956 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction William Wyler
Cast Gary Cooper · Dorothy McGuire · Marjorie Main · Anthony Perkins
Plot The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religous sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
The Unforgiven
1960 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon
Plot The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
7.0
3K votes
7.0
3K votes
55 Days at Peking
1963 · Movie · 154 min. · United States
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · David Niven · Robert Helpmann
Plot Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival...
7.0
15K votes
7.0
15K votes
36 Hours
1965 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction George Seaton
Cast James Garner · Eva Marie Saint · Rod Taylor · Werner Peters
Plot In this psychological war-drama an Army Major -from the American intelligence- is captured by the Germans during World War II -on the eve of the D-Day-. The Nazis attempt to...
6.9
513 votes
6.9
513 votes
Land of the Pharaohs
1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Howard Hawks
Cast Jack Hawkins · Joan Collins · Dewey Martin · Alex Minotis
Plot In ancient Egypt the Pharaoh Khufu (Jack Hawkins) is obsessed with acquiring gold and plans to take it all with him into the "second life". To this end he enlists...
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
D.O.A.
1949 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Rudolph Maté
Cast Edmond O'Brien · Pamela Britton · Luther Adler · Beverly Garland
Plot Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
The Battle of Russia
1943 · Documentary · 83 min. · United States
Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak
Plot Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
6.9
139 votes
6.9
139 votes
The Men
1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Marlon Brando · Teresa Wright · Everett Sloane · Jack Webb
Plot Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of...
6.8
880 votes
6.8
880 votes
Let There Be Light
1946 · Documentary · 58 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Plot The final entry in a trilogy of films produced for the U.S. government by John Huston. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and...
6.8
237 votes
6.8
237 votes
Wild Is the Wind
1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction George Cukor
Cast Anna Magnani · Anthony Quinn · Anthony Franciosa · Joseph Calleia
Plot A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love...
6.7
201 votes
6.7
201 votes
The Steel Trap
1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Andrew L. Stone
Cast Joseph Cotten · Teresa Wright · Jonathan Hale · Walter Sande
Plot A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank,...
6.7
74 votes
6.7
74 votes
The Sundowners
1960 · Movie · 133 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum · Peter Ustinov · Glynis Johns
Plot In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm....
6.7
744 votes
6.7
744 votes