Soundtrack: Dimitri Tiomkin

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


Jeopardy

1953 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Ralph Meeker · Lee Aaker

Plot The Stilwins are on vacation to an isolated beach in Mexico. Walking on a deserted jetty, Doug Stilwin gets his leg trapped under one of the logs. All attempts to...

6.6

353 votes

6.6

353 votes

The Fall of the Roman Empire

1964 · Movie · 188 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast Sophia Loren · Stephen Boyd · Christopher Plummer · Alec Guinness

Plot Marcus Aurelius Antonius, philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son,...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

The Old Man and the Sea

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Felipe Pazos · Harry Bellaver · Don Diamond

Plot An old Cuban fisherman goes out to get fish, something he has not done well at for the last three months. He catches a huge one which is devoured by...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Blowing Wild

1953 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Ruth Roman · Anthony Quinn

Plot Jeff Dawson (Gary Cooper) is a hapless oil speculator in South America whose misadventures reunite him with an old friend, Ward 'Paco' Conway (Anthony Quinn). Unfortunately for Jeff, Paco's wife...

6.6

316 votes

6.6

316 votes

His Majesty O'Keefe

1954 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Joan Rice · André Morell · Abraham Sofaer

Plot Burt Lancaster plays David O'Keefe, a daring American sea captain whose mutinous crew dumps him unceremoniously into the ocean. The trusty mariner manages to stay alive and lands ashore on...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Why We Fight 2: The Nazis Strike

1943 · Documentary · 41 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Plot In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany's diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn...

6.6

91 votes

6.6

91 votes

Dillinger

1945 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Edmund Lowe · Anne Jeffreys · Eduardo Ciannelli

Plot The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy...

6.6

296 votes

6.6

296 votes

The Well

1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Leo C. Popkin · Russell Rouse

Cast Richard Rober · Gwendolyn Laster · Maidie Norman · George Hamilton

Plot In a racially mixed American town, a 5-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police...

6.6

52 votes

6.6

52 votes

The War Wagon

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast John Wayne · Kirk Douglas · Howard Keel · Robert Walker Jr.

Plot Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Jackson makes a deal with Lomax, the man who shot...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

The Battle of China

1944 · Documentary · 65 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Plot The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.

6.6

35 votes

6.6

35 votes

The Alamo

1960 · Movie · 161 min. · United States

Direction John Wayne

Cast John Wayne · Richard Widmark · Laurence Harvey · Ken Curtis

Plot THE ALAMO is John's Wayne's patriotic, pro-American recounting of the famous siege at a Texas fort. For 13 days in 1836, a group of Americans, led by Sam Houston, fought...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

Spawn of the North

1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

6.5

145 votes

6.5

145 votes

Alice in Wonderland

1933 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Norman Z. McLeod

Cast Charlotte Henry · Leon Errol · Louise Fazenda · Ford Sterling

Plot On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening...

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

The Long Night

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Henry Fonda · Vincent Price · Barbara Bel Geddes · Ann Dvorak

Plot Henry Fonda is Joe Adams, a man pinned inside his third floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious magician Vincent price. Joe's fractured memories are told in an intricate web...

6.3

328 votes

6.3

328 votes

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gary Cooper · Charles Bickford · Ralph Bellamy · Rod Steiger

Plot The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. In spite of an impressive performance during the First World War, the commanders of...

6.3

476 votes

6.3

476 votes

My Six Convicts

1952 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

Angel On My Shoulder

1946 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Paul Muni · Anne Baxter · Claude Rains · George Cleveland

Plot In this comedy, Paul Muni plays a recently murdered gangster who finds himself roasting in Hell. Muni can't believe that he's in for All Eternity and keeps trying to "bust...

6.2

430 votes

6.2

430 votes

Tchaikovsky

1969 · Movie · 157 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Igor Talankin

Cast Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Antonina Shuranova · Kirill Lavrov · Vladislav Strzhelchik

Plot Biography of the Russian composer Peter Tchaikovski.

6.2

36 votes

6.2

36 votes

Guilty Bystander

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Lerner

Cast Zachary Scott · Faye Emerson · Mary Boland · Sam Levene

Plot An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.

6.2

32 votes

6.2

32 votes

Night Passage

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction James Neilson

Cast James Stewart · Audie Murphy · Dan Duryea · Dianne Foster

Plot The workers on the railroad haven't been paid in months --- that's because Whitey and his gang, including fast-shooting, dangerous, but likeable Utica Kid, keep holding up the train for...

6.2

568 votes

6.2

568 votes