Soundtrack: Henry Mancini

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


Experiment in Terror

1962 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Glenn Ford · Lee Remick · Stefanie Powers · Roy Poole

Synopsis Glenn Ford stars as FBI agent John Ripley in Blake Edwards's only foray into the thriller genre. When bank teller Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick) is confronted in the garage of her San Francisco home by a mysterious man (Ross Martin)...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Glass Menagerie

1987 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Paul Newman

Cast Joanne Woodward · John Malkovich · Karen Allen · James Naughton

Synopsis Paul Newman directed this moving adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie. Joanne Woodward stars as aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, whose domineering parenting has driven her shy, timid daughter Laura (Karen Allen) inward and has made her...

6.8

494 votes

6.8

494 votes

The Molly Maguires

1970 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Sean Connery · Richard Harris · Samantha Eggar · Frank Finlay

Synopsis An expensive box-office flop when released in 1970, The Molly Maguires can now be appreciated as a compelling drama with potent political undertones. The talent involved is first-rate all the way: In addition to the volatile teaming of Sean Connery...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Night Visitor

1971 · Movie · 98 min. · Sweden

Direction Laslo Benedek

Cast Max von Sydow · Trevor Howard · Liv Ullmann · Per Oscarsson

Synopsis Gothic thriller set in Scandinavia about a man imprisoned for a murder he did not commit. Placed in an escape-proof asylum this madman or genius devises brilliant means to visit vengeance upon his tormentors.

6.7

603 votes

6.7

603 votes

A Shot in the Dark

1964 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Elke Sommer · Herbert Lom · George Sanders

Synopsis The second in the series of films involving bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau has the the inept detective trying to clear a maid accused of murdering her lover--even though all clues point to her. -Peter Sellers returns as the world's...

Max

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

What Did you Do in the War, Daddy?

1966 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast James Coburn · Aldo Ray · Dick Shawn · Sergio Fantoni

Synopsis A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance,...

6.6

960 votes

6.6

960 votes

6.6

2K votes

The Great Mouse Detective

1986 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction John Musker · Ron Clements · Burny Mattinson · David Michener

Synopsis It pits legendary mouse super sleuth, Basil, against Professor Ratigan, the world's greatest criminal mind. With the help of Dawson and a sweet little mouse named Olivia, Basil must outwit the ruthless rodent to save all of Mousedom. Features the...

6.5

7K votes

6.5

7K votes

Ripley's Believe It or Not! (TV Series)

1982 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Lyon · William Kronick · John Peyser · Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Jack Palance · Holly Palance · Marie Osmond · Cathie Shirriff

Synopsis Based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Ripley, this show looked at the people, places and events that made up the stranger side of human history. Subjects have included Nikola Tesla, The Bermuda Triangle, The Elephant Man, and Mad...

6.5

47 votes

6.5

47 votes

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Peter Falk · Anne Baxter · Kevin McCarthy · Frank Converse

Synopsis A faded movie actress commits murder. Lt. Columbo, one of her biggest fans, is on the case.

6.4

315 votes

6.4

315 votes

Back Roads

1981 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Sally Field · Tommy Lee Jones · David Keith · Miriam Colon

Synopsis A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

6.4

26 votes

6.4

26 votes

Without a Clue

1988 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thom Eberhardt

Cast Ben Kingsley · Michael Caine · Jeffrey Jones · Lysette Anthony

Synopsis The outrageous comedy about the world's greatest detective and his bumbling partner...Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behing the operation. Watson scripts all of Holmes' solutions, having...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Visions of Eight

1973 · Documentary · 110 min. · United States

Direction Jim Clark · Milos Forman · Kon Ichikawa · Claude Lelouch

Synopsis This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa,...

6.3

22 votes

6.3

22 votes

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1976 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Herbert Lom · Lesley-Anne Down · Burt Kwouk

Synopsis In the fourth film of the long-running series, bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers) long-suffering boss, Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), finally has been driven to a nervous breakdown by the detective and has been hospitalized in an asylum. Meanwhile, the hapless...

Max

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Remington Steele (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gleason · Robert Butler · Seymour Robbie · Don Weis

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Stephanie Zimbalist · Doris Roberts · James Read

Synopsis Remington Steele (TV Series) (1982) follows Laura Holt, a brilliant private investigator who creates a fictional male boss, "Remington Steele," to attract clients in a male-dominated industry. Her plan backfires when a charming, mysterious man with a shady past assumes...

6.3

20K votes

6.3

20K votes

The Return of the Pink Panther

1975 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Peter Sellers · Christopher Plummer · Catherine Schell · Herbert Lom

Synopsis RETURN is the third installment in the popular Pink Panther series and a reunion for director Blake Edwards and comedian Peter Sellers, who had not made a Panther film since A SHOT IN THE DARK a decade earlier. This time...

Max

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Sometimes a Great Notion

1970 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Paul Newman

Cast Paul Newman · Henry Fonda · Lee Remick · Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis Hank Stamper (Paul Newman) and his father, Henry Stamper (Henry Fonda) own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other...

6.3

842 votes

6.3

842 votes

Silver Streak

1976 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Gene Wilder · Jill Clayburgh · Richard Pryor · Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis A cross-country express train is the setting for this very engaging mystery-comedy. Wilder plays an editor who gets involved in a murder plot.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Saskatchewan

1954 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.2

588 votes

6.2

588 votes

The Great Impostor

1961 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Tony Curtis · Edmond O'Brien · Karl Malden · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis Based on a true story, a bright young man who hasn't the patience for the normal way of advancement finds that people rarely question you if your papers are in order. He becomes a marine, a monk, a surgeon onboard...

6.2

184 votes

6.2

184 votes