Sad Or Haunting Film Themes... Your Top Five?

Terry Cloth · **Posted:** Thu Aug 22, 2013 10:04 pm

Off the top of my head I'd have to say one of the saddest is Herrmann's Road and Finale from F451. the theme from Schindler's List always makes me cry, as does Hymn for the Fallen from SPR. The Roger Williams-performed theme from Somewhere in Time tears me to pieces, and I can NOT listen to Adventure on Earth.... EVER AGAIN(Talking about the last 6 or so minutes of that piece).
I know there's TONS of Goldsmith, and two of them just popped in my head, both of which I can not listen to, because they will put me into a depression(seriously).... "When You've Gone Away" from Babe, and "The Old City" from David Lev..... I'd have to go with the song from Babe as the saddest Goldsmith... at least until I can think of some more.

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JGOnline · **Posted:** Fri Aug 23, 2013 12:51 am

Quite Isolation - Seconds. Goldsmith
Opening to Carlito's Way. Patrick Doyle
D-Fens theme. Falling Down. JNH
Suicide. Dead Ringers. Howard Shore
Never Let Me Go. Near on the whole score. Rachel Portman

Alan · **Posted:** Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:15 am

Lonely Indian - Rio Conchos - Jerry Goldsmith

Alone In Cannes - An Almost Perfect Affair - Georges Delerue

Athos Story - The Four Musketeers - Lalo Shifrin

An Offertory Chant - The Last Valley - John Barry

The Glade Part 2 - The Last Of The Mohicans - Trevor Jones.

Nicolai P. Zwar · **Posted:** Sat Sep 07, 2013 5:23 pm

Steven Lloyd · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:43 pm

Peter Greenhill · **Posted:** Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:43 pm

Old Friends -Monte Walsh (Barry)
I'm Better at Hello(Karen's Theme) Out Of Africa (Barry)
I Cannot See My Love-QBV11 (Goldsmith)
The Boys Leave- Islands In The Stream (Goldsmith)
Dawn Discovery- Dirty Harry (Schfrin)

JeffM · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:50 am

Lokutus · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:21 pm

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:08 am

There's a track on the recording of Miklos Rozsa's Providence entitled Leaves that I would consider haunting. The entire recording actually. Marion And Sam from Bernard Herrmann's Psycho has such a haunting and strange sense of doom. Janet Leigh down to her bra and bloomers dressing after unmarried sex with John Gavin in 1960 and having that weird conversation before parting and seeing each other for the last time.

RM Eastman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:51 pm **Posts:** 361

"To kill a Mocking Bird" Elmer Bernstein= Main title, Boo theme

"Babe" Jerry Goldsmith

"The Spirit of St Louis" Franz Waxman= Flight music

"Gone with the Wind" Max Steiner= Melanie's theme

"Diane" Miklos Rozsa= Love Theme

There really is hundred's more to list!

WorkingWithKnives · **Posted:** Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:49 pm

A Patch Of Blue (A favorite Goldsmith). The Funeral Music from Franz Waxman's Bride Of Frankenstein. Ennio Morricone's Once Upon A Time In The West.

CocoNut Joe · **Posted:** Tue Nov 05, 2013 6:52 pm

this was the one that came to my mind, maybe not the best but the first that i come to think about that is both sad and haunting (love the narration over the music too)
"In the roar of the engine he lost it all"

Stovepipe46 · **Joined:** Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:56 am **Posts:** 37

Here's my five for your consideration,

Elegy for Lady Caroline Lamb (Richard Rodney Bennett)
"Moonfire" from 55 Day at Peking (Dimitri Tiomkin)
Resurrection from The Fall of the Roman Empire (Dimitri Tiomkin)
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Georges Delarue)
Finale from The Advenures of Sherlock Holmes (Miklos Rozsa)

And one last one

Finale from Diane (Miklos Rozsa)

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