Classics from the Silver Screen: Classical Music in Movies

Welcome to Classics from the Silver Screen, an index of classical and opera music used in feature films. Entries are sorted by movie title and composer, and the navigation index is in the left-hand margin. Now in its seventh year, Classics from the Silver Screen currently contains over 170 composers, 930 movie titles and 1700 individual classical and opera entries.

New and Updated Entries

July 7th, 2004 More updates of movies, from the really old (1930) to the really new (2004)!
*July 7th, 2004* Along Came Polly Caddyshack Chasing Liberty Cousins Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The Fourth Protocol Murder! In Love and War Irma la Douce 976-EVIL Prizzi's Honor Second Skin Spider-Man 2 Thirteen Days	*May 25th, 2004* The Alamo Big Fish Catch That Kid Cheaper by the Dozen Duplex Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Fighting Temptations How To Deal The Ladykillers Looking for Alibrandi Matchstick Men Miracle Mona Lisa Smile Paycheck The Punisher Raiders of the Lost Ark The School of Rock Spaceballs Starsky & Hutch Under the Tuscan Sun Uptown Girls You Got Served

As I cannot watch all the movies ever made or identify all the music, there will be pieces which I have missed. I have thus concentrated on listing more recent or well-known films.

Some entries have icons next to them, which you can click to buy the book

, movie

or soundtrack

. The classical works listed under each entry do not always appear on the soundtrack, so check carefully before you buy.

All references are checked against The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (M Kennedy) and The Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions (J Chwialkowski). For more classical music resources, you can visit ClassicalNet. If you are searching for obscure or non-English films, you can also try the Internet Movie Database.

I am always open to suggestions and contributions for anything that I might have missed. Just drop me a line at benjamin@inkpot.com. Do read the FAQ first, though, if you have a question.

Thanks to our Contributors

A special mention to the following for contributions "above and beyond":

A Ang, K Kun, Jeannie L, D Rees, P Schowb

as well as a big thank you to those who have sent in suggestions, additions and corrections :

R Aloysius, C Beck, C Brandão, J van Broekhoven, K Bronislawski, G Brown, J Chan, P Dodd, J Dunphy, J Farley, J Freedman, S Grathwohl, J Kielb, E J Koops, M Kuiper, D Mok, K C Liu, D Phelka, T Plebuch, S Shellman, J Smith, S Soeteman, H Stephen Wright, B Yoon.

Feedback, remarks, comments, suggestions ? Write me at benjamin@inkpot.com.

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Code and database development © 2003-2004 Art Cohen