What are some of the best songs heard in a movie you saw?

Truth - Alex Ebert

"The Covenant"

From The Princess Bride:

Honor (Main Theme) - The Pacific, Hans Zimmer

Technically this is a miniseries but I very much like the work of Hans Zimmer. I think most of his work is done with war movies, i.e. "The Thin Red Line."

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Technically this is a miniseries but I very much like the work of Hans Zimmer. I think most of his work is done with war movies, i.e. "The Thin Red Line."

He does everything. Hans is like the German John Williams nowadays. He did a lot of the DC superhero movies, a lot of Christopher Nolan's movies (e.g. Interstellar and Inception), the recent Dune I & II. Even did the last Bond movie. And still finds time to tour with his own orchestra performing his works in major concert venues.

Speaking of the last Bond movie, while Zimmer did the score, the theme was by Billie Eilish and her brother Finn O'Connell and it's one of my favourite Eilish songs.

Moon River - Audrey Hepburn

"Breakfast at Tiffany's"

Throwing in a song from a musical might be cheating a bit, but someone mentioned Les Miz already and The Greatest Showman was actually a movie musical, not an adapted stage musical. And it has some amazing music in it from the songwriting team of Pasek and Paul, who also wrote the songs for the stage musical Dear Evan Hansen.

In the story, the song "Never Enough" is sung by the legendary 19th century Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale". The character was played by Rebecca Ferguson but the singing was by Loren Allred. Here Allred gives a live performance accompanied by David Foster.

And the song that first twigged me to the movie was the powerful "This is Me" performed by Keala Settle.

There are many great blues and soul songs throughout the Blues Brothers. It's hard to choose one over another but here is Everybody Needs Somebody To Love.

Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

"Breakfast Club"

I mentioned the Vietnam TV series "Tour of Duty" in another thread. It gets the credit for hooking me on this Rolling Stones classic, which it used as its theme song.

Where Is My Mind - Pixies

"Fight Club"

From Ghostbusters: Afterlife, A Ghost Never Leaves A Haunted House, by the incredibly talented, McKenna Grace

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

"Rocky III"