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